dom0

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1501.
by dom0 10y ago
I have to agree here. Security in itself is highly asymmetrical, because any single flaw can prove fatal, even with the latest and greatest defense-in-depth techniques. Not to forget the many, many instances where security systems activel
1502.
by dom0 10y ago
> Now imagine them selling this data to the highest bidders. A bit of a moot point, because Google not selling it is their business model. What Google might start selling pretty soon are predictions about people (and in some way th
1503.
by dom0 10y ago
Yes, the old unit focusing macro designs can look rather weird and somewhat unstable when fully "racked out". With internal focusing this has been "fixed", although they still need a lot of displacement of the focusing g
1504.
by dom0 10y ago
Don't need C updates for that, a GCC upgrade is quite sufficient! :(
1505.
by dom0 10y ago
For most macro uses yes, the longer focal lenses where and are preferred due to working distance. The shorter macros where developed specifically for reproduction use (photographing records, books, paintings and the like), where the larger
1506.
by dom0 10y ago
For some SLR systems 50 mm (or more often 51.6 mm) isn't actually all that easy (in the 60s), eg. Nikon with a comparatively large flange back distance. We still see some artifacts of this today, e.g. the classic short reproduction mac
1507.
by dom0 10y ago
> I suspect the best/healthiest ecosystem is probably somewhere in between that of Ruby and JavaScript. Rails may have ultimately hurt Ruby by its dominance, just as the current volatility in JavaScript tools seems to drive some peo
1508.
by dom0 10y ago
> about efforts to bring a fuse alternative for windows in You mean dokany? 'cause that one is one quite stable project.
1509.
by dom0 10y ago
Wasteful use of the hardware, which could easily do routing and network storage and some services for a smaller office.
1510.
by dom0 10y ago
That sucks :(
1511.
by dom0 10y ago
When it comes to external dependencies there are mostly two ways this is dealt with: - Often there is a backend-like structure, and you got a dummy backend of sorts. Django's mail sending is a typical example of this: https:/&#x2
1512.
by dom0 10y ago
Every OS has flags for this. Windows' CreateFile has a _TEMPORARY flag and most unixes have something like O_TMPFILE. These avoids flushing them to disk, even on a background writer timeout (Linux/Windows). Further, on many *nix s
1513.
by dom0 10y ago
Every OS has flags for this. Windows' CreateFile has a _TEMPORARY flag and most unixes have something like O_TMPFILE.
1514.
by dom0 10y ago
Borg backup ( https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/ ) Borg is a cross-platform (linux - osx - bsd) backup tool with deduplication, encryption and compression. It's written in Python (>95 %) with some Cython and C for low
1515.
by dom0 10y ago
This is because using Mocks in a language like Python is a bit awkward and unnatural in itself... if you look at the way tests are usually written, there is just little need for it. That's also the reason why only recently unittest.moc
1516.
by dom0 10y ago
> So he's essentially using the OS's disk cache as his cache, and tracking the disk files substituting for manual memory allocation. And that's often not the worst idea, because, when done correctly, this stuff never hits
1517.
by dom0 10y ago
The progress displays for pushing and fetching are a bit verbose in my opinion, but otherwise I mostly agree.
1518.
by dom0 10y ago
big news
1519.
by dom0 10y ago
I wouldn't consider Docker a deployment system (at all).
1520.
by dom0 10y ago
borg-high-five there's a borg community repo somewhere, if you want to share your qubes-scripts or a guide.
1521.
by dom0 10y ago
That's not quite how it works. The separation used by the AF is completely fixed by the distance between the (at least two) microlens+aperture+sensor systems that make up an phase AF sensor. The microlens/aperture system of the AF
1522.
by dom0 10y ago
There's a whole industry built around embedded Linux. Just FYI.
1523.
by dom0 10y ago
> Qt only emulates Windows controls, but wxWidgets uses the actual Windows controls via Microsoft Win32 API. This is not correct. Many controls use the native implementation of the underlying platform.
1524.
by dom0 10y ago
> The native apps also have more awareness of when a user is active since they can read into activity outside the window frame. Maybe I'd rather not have that...