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by cperciva 2y ago
And does ^T map to SIGUSR1? That's the other thing which makes it so useful in BSD.
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by cperciva 2y ago
I map SIGQUIT to ^Q because that's the easiest to remember.
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by cperciva 2y ago
The article doesn't mention the most useful of all signals: SIGINFO, aka "please print to stderr your current status". Very useful for tools like dd and tar. Probably because Linux doesn't implement it. Worst mistake L
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by cperciva 2y ago
The 2004 law allows for the counting of pancreata used for islet cell transplantation or research .
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by cperciva 2y ago
While I don't doubt that there's a lot of fudging going on here, the author is a bit off in thinking that the only research use of pancreata is in transplanting islet cells into patients. In particular, there has been a lot of re
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by cperciva 2y ago
Right, which is why I try to make it very clear to everyone that there's no point torturing me. The problem is if someone thinks you have information which you don't in fact have; if they know you don't have the informatio
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by cperciva 2y ago
The right algorithm for this problem starts with a linear time suffix sort.
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by cperciva 2y ago
Not sure how your code is identifying "open source", but you missed including FreeBSD on the list.
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by cperciva 2y ago
I am confident that if I sent a message like that, the top application security and cryptography experts in the world would collectively descend on the Tarsnap source code to figure out what changed.
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by cperciva 2y ago
Surely some three letters organization probably could pull that off, but it add risk to their operation that the operation could be leaked. This is basically a point I've made in a few of my talks about security and cryptography: The
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by cperciva 2y ago
I could be coerced into adding a back door in future versions of Tarsnap, yes. But I can't be coerced into adding a backdoor into past versions of Tarsnap, because I don't have a time machine.
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by cperciva 2y ago
Reversing ordinary client software is table stakes, sure. I'm not so sure about reversing client software which has a deliberately hidden backdoor. (You can hide a backdoor in source code too, of course, but I think it's easie
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by cperciva 2y ago
Indeed. Two of the more common questions I get with Tarsnap are Q. How do I know that Tarsnap is secure? A. Read the source code. Q. Ok, but you're really smart, what's stopping you from putting in a backdoor and hi
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by cperciva 2y ago
I assume that the Precautionary Principle is harmful and will refuse to accept it until it has been proven safe.
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by cperciva 2y ago
FreeBSD 13.4. I should have the release out in early September.
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by cperciva 2y ago
Two stories: 1. Shortly after I started working on Tarsnap, I was introduced to a "serial entrepreneur" who expressed an interest in getting patents on Tarsnap's technology and licensing it out to other companies. I wasn&#x2
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by cperciva 2y ago
My definitions are basically: Junior developers need supervision because left to their own devices they'll screw things up horribly; normal developers can produce good code independently; and Senior developers are able to catch the mis
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by cperciva 2y ago
Ok, so at Google L3-L5 are junior developers, L6/L7 are developers, and L8+ is senior developers?
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by cperciva 2y ago
Principal Engineer is L7 at a Amazon. So if that's the same as a Google L6 I guess the scales are a bit different. As for L10, that's Distinguished Engineer. I think if they're managers they're also called VPs? I&#x27
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by cperciva 2y ago
L6 ICs are pretty rare - it already is a top tier of seniority in engineering Is Google really different from other companies? I talk to a lot of Amazonians (AWS Hero, FreeBSD/EC2 maintainer) and my general impression is that develo
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by cperciva 2y ago
In Canada it was translated into "one hockey stick".
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by cperciva 2y ago
He's lucky that he could smell it! About 1/3 of the population lack the gene -- including my grandfather, who discovered this when performing an industrial reaction with cyanides and being alerted by someone at the other end of
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by cperciva 2y ago
[I]ts odor is variously described as "foul", "unpleasant", "metallic", "disagreeable", and (wait for it) "characteristic", which is an adjective that shows up often in the literature with r
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by cperciva 2y ago
equally exhausted France lost 4.3% of its population. The USA lost 0.1% of its population. I wouldn't call that equally exhausted.
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by cperciva 2y ago
There is no such thing as "Meta's News Ban". This is the federal government's ban on non-fee-paying websites sharing links to news stories.
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by cperciva 2y ago
Coney Island was an island when it got its name, though. A closer analogy might be Vancouver's False Creek, which as the name suggests is not a creek (it's a tidal inlet).
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by cperciva 2y ago
Not that strange. Adult-onset T1D is just as common as Juvenile-onset; it just happens to often get misdiagnosed as T2D. Both T1D and RA are autoimmune, so it's not surprising they showed up around the same time. He was probably infe
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by cperciva 2y ago
Speed kills, but slowness eats lives in another way. Which is worse, having a 1% chance of dying in a car accident, or spending an extra hour/day stuck in traffic? I think I might take the first option; it delivers a higher expected n
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by cperciva 2y ago
My favourite example of this is that the number of condoms used in the USA, according to surveys, is dramatically higher than the number of condoms sold in the USA.
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by cperciva 2y ago
AWS is way too bandwagonny these days. Back when it was all engineers they built things on the basis of "this is cool technology". These days marketing runs large parts of AWS and plans are decided more on the basis of "thi

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