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by dcrazy 4mo ago
It’s such a bad idea that every OS except Linux implements it? On macOS it’s posix_spawn, on Windows it’s NtCreateProcess.
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
NT was designed to be platform-agnostic, and its original target was the DEC Alpha. Its process model owes nothing to pre-386 CPUs. The WinAPI CreateProcess function is a layer atop NtCreateProcess, so that is where the pre-386 heritage liv
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
Don’t pretty much all OSes implement process startup in userspace? On macOS, the kernel creates a process with an image of dyld and points it at dyld_start, which actually takes care of parsing the Mach-O header. I assumed ld.so does the sa
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
I don’t think they implied Romex? Conduit is mandatory in multi-family construction here in San Francisco, but they just use armored cable, not romex in conduit.
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
Again, NtCreateProcess does not implement fork(). The fundamental characteristic of fork is that the child is an exact replica of the parent, down to the instruction pointer. Windows does not have a way to create a process object with such
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
NtCreateProcess doesn’t accept an image file parameter.
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
NtCreateProcess does not implement a forking model. It is analogous to posix_spawn.
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
No, I was saying that you can assign different loopback addresses to different interfaces even if the interfaces have been assigned the same routable IP address. This lets you distinguish them. On my Mac, however, loopback addresses are onl
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
I support workers being compensated for their value; what I dislike are protectionism and ossification. I am fortunate that software has paid me well to work on problems I am enthusiastic about solving. I understand that a lot of people on
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
Okay that makes way more sense. It seems especially applicable to web frontend, where everything seems to have been developed out in the open.
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
> I am stating that we collectively exist in a professional caste and that will go away or lose influence if you let it do so. Other professional castes do this exact same brain exercise and that is why they have protections in place. I
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
Please re-read the specific comment I replied to. It was someone expressing indignation that a software engineer would accept “high-quality” PRs from a non-software engineer, accusing the poster of lacking “class consciousness.”
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
I’m not strawmanning anything. I’m pointing out what I believe to be ridiculous gatekeeping. Software engineering isn’t some holy magic that must be kept from the masses. I can go on YouTube and get step-by-step instructions on how to safel
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
I’m confused, when has “everything” been a bazaar, and when did that cease to be?
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
Man, you must hate those handymen who put up YouTube videos showing how to do basic home maintenance. A truly class-conscious handyman would insist that the homeowner hire them to replace a light switch.
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
Case in point, when I SSH from my laptop to my desktop using mDNS hostnames, I see “Last connection from: fe80::<something>”.
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
How is it not a design goal? Why else would this syntax have been invented?
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
What do you mean “receiving host?” 127/8 is reserved for loopback. If you bind a socket to an interface with an address in that range, you can only use it to communicate with yourself. The sending and receiving hosts are the same.
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
> In 2016, scientists published two studies regarding human embryos developing for thirteen days within an ecto-uterine environment. > […] > A 14-day rule prevents human embryos from being kept in artificial wombs longer than 14 da
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
Since human fetuses are usually encapsulated within the womb of an adult woman, they’re far more insulated from arbitrary chemical environments than bee larvae. But of course we know of many cases where chemicals make it through the mother’
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
There is no problem with allocating one 127.0.0.0/8 to every interface on your host, because 127.0.0.0/8 is only ever accessible to the host itself. So even if you have multi-homed a single routable IPv4 address to 2 NICs on your
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
The IPv6 feature isn’t link-local addresses, it’s being able to specify the interface to bind to as part of the address specification. This lets you demand that your IPv6-based tool use your wired Ethernet connection, for example.
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
By previously working at NXP, Microchip, Texas Instruments, Apple, NVIDIA, AMD, SiFive, or any of the other many fabless companies?
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
The only MacBook sold with a mechanical trackpad in the past eight years is the MacBook Neo.
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
Anti-money laundering laws are a deterrent. If you know moving around $10,000 will be reported to FinCEN, as will any discovered pattern of structuring transactions below $10,000, then you are forced to pursue riskier ways of moving your mo
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
Every HN thread is full of people who think webmasters should just pay through the nose to handle bot traffic to preserve the sacred rights of turbonerds to visit their website using Lynx on their toaster.
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
The goal of Cloudflare’s fingerprinting is to detect whether a user agent appears to be a legitimate human. It’s not to identify human users across websites.
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
I thought Behind the Candelabra was a direct to HBO release. Edit: yes, it was direct to HBO. So maybe Damon was just using it as an example because he knew the production cost off the top of his head.
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
That’s how you wind up with only kids of millionaires at your Taylor Swift concert.
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by dcrazy 4mo ago
Because it doesn’t solve the problem of residential botnets.

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