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by diegocg 4y ago
> How did VCs give billions in funding to someone without insisting on an adult in the room? Don't know how the whole VC thing works but I suspect that the people who took the decision weren't risking their own money, and they
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Memory Safety Approaches Speed Up and Slow Down Development Velocity(verdagon.dev)
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by diegocg 4y ago
Journaling filesystems do not get lots of corruption "easily"
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by diegocg 4y ago
No, they have plans for a new different RAID implementation as part of the "extent tree v2" thing AFAIK
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by diegocg 4y ago
How is Rust or any other language supposed to help with this? Unless there is a serious design problem in the current go codebase, removing GC overhead will not by itself solve the problem of some software having to run all the time
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by diegocg 4y ago
RSS is not dead because it covers an use case for which there is no replacement. The attempt to kill RSS didn't consist in creating a better RSS, it consisted in walled gardens. The use case of providing structured updates for a web si
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by diegocg 4y ago
Nothing. People have been able to compile other languages into java bytecode for decades already. That didn't turn java into the one true runtime to rule them all, and webassembly will not be any different. I wish browser makers would
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by diegocg 4y ago
Regulations aren't some random worthless bullshit imposed by bureaucrats. They are the consequence of nuclear accidents. Dreaming of a world without regulations in the nuclear sector is just as stupid as a world without regulations in
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by diegocg 4y ago
And someone lost their life savings so that you could have that.
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by diegocg 5y ago
No, it is not. ZFS scrub only checks that the checksums is valid. A scrub will not check in detail for what this post calls "structural error" (it only will find errors when doing normal walk of structures, which is not very detai
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by diegocg 5y ago
It's surprising the large amount of people I have found who are incapable of conceiving the notion of what this post calls "structural error" in modern file systems such as ZFS. They have this idea that checksums and scrubbin
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by diegocg 5y ago
I can't wait until people finds exploits to get those features for free
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by diegocg 5y ago
> developers who gets stuff done are constantly writing new code in C all the time. The amount of new C projects being created is falling at a fast rate. C isn't going anywhere, but it's certainly losing rapidly its prominence
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by diegocg 5y ago
> Future plans for the project include making it the C backend of Zig's translate-c feature and making it an optional C frontend for the self-hosted Zig compiler.
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by diegocg 5y ago
So, basically: (mostly) dead protocols. That is precisely why they don't need to change. Protocols that are used widely are those who have no option but to change in order to adapt to real world problems
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by diegocg 5y ago
Idempotent is a perfectly fine word. There is absolutely no reason why CS shouldn't have it's own jargon. I found the description very descriptive.
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by diegocg 5y ago
A bunch of very large bash scripts that were entirely different in each distro, had tons of races and were much slower to boot (one of the reasons why systemd became so popular and there was popular pressure to switch to it is that it would
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by diegocg 5y ago
I don't want to maintain my own mail server, but I definitely want to run my own server. The irony is that modern internet infrastructure makes decentralisation _more_ feasible, but software lags behind. Why can't I buy some devic
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by diegocg 5y ago
They became a meme in the cryptocurrency world https://youtu.be/KV5QlSgq7lg
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by diegocg 5y ago
Google (at least the search engine). As more and more content is created inside closed services, Google will become less valuable.
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by diegocg 5y ago
Google was still useful for things that are non-marketable. But in the last year or so, I have started to realize how awfully bad has gotten even at that. Case in point: Open source mailing list archives. For various reasons, some times I h
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by diegocg 5y ago
Kakoune is vi done right. I'm surprised it isn't used more often
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by diegocg 5y ago
IPv6 has already won. Google and Facebook report 50% or higher IPv6 traffic in the united states. There is absolutely no chance of a replacement at this point
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by diegocg 5y ago
In Facebook stats, the USA percentage is even higher (59%)
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by diegocg 5y ago
So what you are saying is that the internet should be built on a model where people can upload children pornography or propaganda from state actors and nobody can do anything to stop it? Thanks I pass. I'm also curious about how to pro
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by diegocg 5y ago
And your suggested replacement is...? You seem to have missed the point of the article. Email is a necessity - there is no alternative.
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by diegocg 5y ago
Quite interesting problem. It is indeed a contradiction to make a service use all the CPUs on a system, and, at the same time have an upper limit over how much CPU utilisation they can do. The thread pool size negotiation seems a necessary
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by diegocg 5y ago
They can put it on the standard library or the core language or wherever they want, but they absolutely need to provide good string handling. And regardless of where they put the code, this is something that needs to be done by the core tea
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by diegocg 5y ago
This is starting to remind me of the coronavirus
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by diegocg 5y ago
Go is a very opinionated language that lacks many features on purpose. If you want complex languages Go is definitely not a good choice.

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