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by effie 6y ago
You won't hear much about the VM escapes in those clouds because there is strong incentive for almost everyone to be quiet about them and patch as soon as possible so there "isn't a story". Some researchers do want to ma
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by effie 6y ago
That's a prediction. Evidence is so far inconclusive.
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by effie 6y ago
> If light were a wave that carried energy, this wouldn’t explain why an equal amount of energy has a different effect depending on its wavelength. Not by itself but the accompanying theory - classical EM theory - does explain why differ
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by effie 6y ago
No, it is levels of security, not a white/black issue. For some customers and providers, containered processes are enough isolation. For many small businesses, even shared hosting with chroot is enough. Generally speaking, Xen or Firec
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by effie 6y ago
They will always be targeted, smeared and used for purposes such as pushing a narrative, or setting a frightening example. This is the case everywhere throughout the world, this is the method of state power. "At least we are better tha
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by effie 6y ago
> "...with an open, freewheeling atmosphere more like a university department than a company." This gave me a pause. Which university department has "open, freewheeling atmosphere"?
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by effie 6y ago
Single beam of electrons diffracts like single beam of light, but otherwise electrons behave very differently than light: two electron beams interfere with each other, while two light beams do not.
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by effie 6y ago
You are reading too much into my comment. I only asserted there is no need for "magical explanations". Of course fields are not a trivial idea.
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by effie 6y ago
What are your thoughts on VMware? It seems they are too in decline...
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by effie 6y ago
But society is tolerant of intolerance and I believe it has to be tolerant, if we are to be a free society, as opposed to engineered society controlled by elites. For example, Western society tolerates to some extent (and it should) bigot
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by effie 6y ago
But it has influence. Since the warning about GDPR is made only in cases which impact data of EU citizens, the EU position seems reasonable.
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by effie 6y ago
That is not true. Casimir force is due to EM interaction between the objects (retarded London forces). EM field is not "nothing", it is a thing that is everywhere and has properties.
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by effie 6y ago
I think it is systemd's job to make sure it works for its users, even though that requires working around HW bugs. If RDRAND is so problematic and can be not used, why use it at all? Just abstain from using it, simplify the logic and s
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by effie 6y ago
RDRAND, Linux and systemd is so weird grotesque neverending story. Standard Linux distributions still fail to boot on mainstream hardware several years after it was discovered that userspace requiring super random numbers from kernel to boo
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by effie 6y ago
How is using UUIDs making software more predictable than using sequence numbers?
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by effie 6y ago
Jack Dorsey doesn't control Twitter now.
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by effie 6y ago
That page count and breadth of topics are repelling. Is there something original or exceptionally interesting in there?
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by effie 6y ago
Can someone explain what does this claim "x is y years old" even mean? Isn't time coordinate (of creation of x) dependent on the reference frame of the observer? Which frame is used here?
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by effie 6y ago
If extended with given quantity "how far from the south pole", that question actually has definite answer for any observer not on any of the two poles. The only observer for whom there is no answer is the one on the south or the n
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by effie 6y ago
Time is most definitely not a side effect of measuring entropy. Time elapsed is defined by number of periods of some (natural or artificial) periodic phenomenon. Orbiting of the Sun, or pendulum swinging, or clock hands motion, or electric
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by effie 6y ago
There have been some interesting observations on HN and elsewhere, that Canonical for a long time didn't know what it is doing, starting and cancelling projects, but in last years it is lowering interest in desktop and is more focused
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by effie 6y ago
But it is still a task , isn't it? So, now you move to Ubuntu, then if things get south, you move to Debian. Or, you could move to Debian or other less risky distribution now and likely save some time and energy. On the other hand, ma
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by effie 6y ago
> suit farm I love new language gems. Thanks!
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by effie 6y ago
I'm wary of doing that, because in near future, Microsoft is likely to take over Canonical. You don't put all eggs into one basket. Always plan for escape, always have a plan B. Preferably one not relying on crystal-balling whims
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by effie 6y ago
Exactly, young devs here are completely out of touch with operations. Of course ideally something like standard 1TB HDD+32GB RAM system would be upgraded to newer OS and apps version by a central tool in 2hours, but we don't such FM te
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by effie 6y ago
How many simultaneously running machines can you keep updating with this method? If you run non-trivial workloads for hundreds of customers, this becomes high maintenance system already with two machines. It takes ages to upgrade all applic
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by effie 6y ago
I think it is mostly about running servers (standard services that don't change much) for 10 years (and more). You don't need 10 year LTS distribution for building a product. You take whatever version of OS distribution you like,
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by effie 6y ago
"don't touch it if it's not broken" is not a philosophy, it is a slogan. Some people say it, because it is preferable to them to run old unpatched vulnerable systems rather than spend resources on upgrades. That's j
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by effie 6y ago
Jonathan Blow is an interesting guy with good ideas on technology, but occasionally he can do also good comedy.
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Jonathan Blow on how an operating system should work(youtube.com)
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