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by cm3 10y ago
I agree that lets-ASM has been wrong in most cases. However misguided in many cases it may be, in this context it's serving a more pressing problem than the lets-ASM mentality because there is a real security problem with most code tha
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by cm3 10y ago
Compromising for speed and ignoring reliability and security concerns. I'd say it's human nature just like in many situations most people have a hard time being patient. Time and again the better but less fancy or less performant
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by cm3 10y ago
https://github.com/google/font-rs
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by cm3 10y ago
You're right.
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by cm3 10y ago
Weather is like many things a very personal matter. Some like it dry, some like it cold, others like it wet. Unfortunately, there seems to be this overwhelming agreement that warm (even humid) is good and anything else is bad. I haven'
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by cm3 10y ago
2 or maybe 4 years would be reasonable to earn back (some or all of) the investment, and allow others to improve upon and maybe even patent the new invention. As it stands, whole industries are held back due to 20 years for patents.
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by cm3 10y ago
Avoiding patents of other protocols seems to have been one of the goals, but then Thomas has patented SRP itself. https://www.google.com/patents/US6539479 which is set to expire in two years minus 15 days (Jul 14, 1998
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by cm3 10y ago
Why is it that we didn't improve HTTP Digest Auth but let everyone implement their own mechanism, where the number of those using a challenge response protocol is not worth a mention? Do we have to wait until 2018 before https:/&
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by cm3 10y ago
It was rough but it worked out for Rust. BTW, there have been at least two other ML on BEAM attempts before. One experimental in the open and another unpublished one.
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by cm3 10y ago
Because of the kernel/userspace model of Linux and missing efficient microkernel structure which would lend itself more fittingly to an efficient network tunnel. We're using monolithic kernels because they've attracted the mo
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by cm3 10y ago
You know Hillary is a bad idea when Trump is a more considerate choice in terms of security policies and also not being bound to campaign funders' priorities, despite his otherwise out-of-this-world views on important topics. Trump sai
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by cm3 10y ago
Sorry, wasn't trying to bash Texas. Maybe I should have said "Dallas oil dynasty". I haven't seen, read or viewed anything from or with Marc after he left Netscape, so I can't comment on what he's doing these d
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by cm3 10y ago
That's a fair point, and I'm sure Apple didn't integrate DTrace without checking the legal ramifications.
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by cm3 10y ago
Burnout comes in various forms and intensities, but what's most important is that at least the first one will not be recognized as such. You have the symptoms but it's not like the flu or a headache, so you have no idea that you&#
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by cm3 10y ago
Speaking of SMP, it's also sad that whenever an x86 or ARM or whatever CPU with more than 4 cores is announced, what's the first thing tech media and most people say? "Who can make use of more than 4 cores anyway?" or &q
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by cm3 10y ago
The Wired article from way back about Massalin is still something I remember well, after all those years. http://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffmassalin/
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by cm3 10y ago
And he's father-in-law to Marc Andreessen, making it all look like some Texas oil family.
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by cm3 10y ago
While you have a point, you're assuming that everybody is at liberty to live where they want to while making a living the best way they can. I too wish it was the case, but not everybody can work remotely (or even has the desire to), o
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by cm3 10y ago
Did you skip mailing the FCC/CPUC because you didn't want to piss off the landlord? I mean, you may have gotten on their naughty list either way, and it's important for the FCC to get more such complaints to take action.
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by cm3 10y ago
On latest Linux kernel from SSD to USB or USB to USB with it's easy to lock up the copying application or even whole machine while data is flushed. It's less of an issue with deadline or bfq i/o schedulers, but it's stil
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by cm3 10y ago
Granted, BeOS is a single-user OS, but no, there's nothing comparable mainstream.
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by cm3 10y ago
I agree with most of that, but I don't understand why you think DTrace is less invasive than another filesystem. They could have shipped ZFS all along and only now declared it stable, if they wanted to. They also could have integrated
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by cm3 10y ago
Unfortunately our industry's mainstream systems for the most part have badly done half-hearted implementations of past innovations. What's most disheartening is that for example stuff like low-latency audio isn't reliably ava
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by cm3 10y ago
As a developer I'd wish companies would treat Europe more like United States of Europe and generally accept remote positions in order to have a broader pool of talent and allow employees to economically make the most out of their salar
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by cm3 10y ago
Apple will _not_ remove the existing filesystems, and neither will they automatically migrate an existing HFS volume to APFS without first asking, especially not during an OS update. There are many filesystems in the kernel, and compared to
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by cm3 10y ago
I understand what you're saying, but I also find it funny that Apple would try to avoid patents. If you're saying that Apple is happy to patent stuff but not so much when it comes to using patents by others, maybe you're righ
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by cm3 10y ago
How so? If anything, ignoring ZFS's cache subsystem, a filesystem is another module in a pluggable system if many fileystems. DTrace on the other hand to be most effective requires adding probes all over the kernel.
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by cm3 10y ago
I don't believe Dominic and the team were in NIH-mode. There are most likely other factors which due to Apple's secrecy, and this not being a public project like Linux or Firefox, we may or may not learn. Though, with the informat
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by cm3 10y ago
The metadata use across applications was great and exactly what others tried to mainstream (WinFS et al). You could search quickly for media files, emails, etc. and save the queries for fast access later on. mbox vs maildir, etc. Edit: And
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by cm3 10y ago
We can speculate on the management decision, but from an engineering point of view Dominic Giampaolo said that he didn't dive into btrfs, ZFS, or HAMMER in order to not get potentially bad influence. At least that's how I read his

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