epcoa

35 ms·

481.
by epcoa 3y ago
I think that second reference has a couple errors, and this has nothing to do with IP packets (datagrams). As js2 notes, the entire DNS message has to be prefixed with a 2 byte field (and they seem to have omitted that in their diagram at t
482.
by epcoa 3y ago
TCP itself doesn't have packets with a size field though, it has segments. If speaking informally and everyone is on the same page, maybe it's OK to say. But this might be a good place to be pedantic, since there is confusion. The
483.
by epcoa 3y ago
I’m not sure what part of “I get why this shit is useful” is unclear. The original comment made a statement about the guarantees static typing and the limitations of those guarantees, the response while making some tangentially valid points
484.
by epcoa 3y ago
Does it also plant a trojan in the DB for the next time the DBA attempts to change the schema? I get why this shit is useful but it really doesn’t respond to the parent comment - you’re still getting runtime checks.
485.
by epcoa 3y ago
“A couple year s ”… is that better？ I’ll even proclaim that years is an unqualified correct descriptor of 2 to 2.5 years. Especially when things are moving that quickly. Look, it’s not like Windows 95 came out and there were a bevy of gam
486.
by epcoa 3y ago
This is completely uncalled for. You should be ashamed. Ok so dump water. How about detergents with phosphates. Those were fine until they weren’t.
487.
by epcoa 3y ago
Ha, I was only referring to the CSS animations. That seemed at the time to be more pressing. But no disagreement.
488.
by epcoa 3y ago
Apple being gung-ho to push a technology to further nail Flash to the cross whether the actual reason, at least is consistent with their MO and not some great contribution to open standards.
489.
by epcoa 3y ago
As NeXTStep became obsolete SGI IRIX was considered for a successor but Carmack was not a fan and moved on to NT as you state (also calling early on that commercial Unix was fucked).
490.
by epcoa 3y ago
> Then id's follow-up, one of the most technically cutting edge games of its generation, was developed on Windows 95. If you’re implying Quake was developed on Windows 95, that’s false. Windows 95 and early DirectX sucked and was on
491.
by epcoa 3y ago
https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=kvm&sektion=3&n=1 The aforementioned tools use these interfaces. Emphasis on most of the sundry information for the live kernel now comes from sysctl, I note the (root
492.
by epcoa 3y ago
> Should we prohibit people selling soap? I mean, there's a good example there with phosphate compounds in detergents.
493.
by epcoa 3y ago
On the BSDs they sure don't, /proc (for its role referred to) and /sys are peculiar to Linux, /proc is not even mounted by default on FreeBSD, is deprecated and doesn't exist on OpenBSD. On OpenBSD/FreeBSD most
494.
by epcoa 3y ago
A 20TB drive can be had for $280 now. I do think in these discussions Blu-ray resilience tends to be overstated: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/s/LhUnX4i3L6 https://www.degruyter.com/doc
495.
by epcoa 3y ago
That’s not how it works because it is more flexible and sensible to do the translation of a physical key location to a logical function within the OS. While fancier keyboards do allow alternate key maps and macros, your basic standard keybo
496.
by epcoa 3y ago
Ok granted since last time I bought prices have shifted significantly, HDD prices up. A reputable (verbatim) brand of 25 BDXL is $250, and a Seagate 20TB $320 (tho $280 if you’re willing to go OEM). I did not mean to exaggerate, but this is
497.
by epcoa 3y ago
Ok I’ll concede that’s a graveyard of obscurity in the gcc tree, but some group of people thought each one of those were worth the effort at some point, possibly delusionally. Do you need shipping hardware even? MMIX has a backend. Itanium
498.
by epcoa 3y ago
> It is rumered that AWS S3 glacier is mostly optical storage, for example. Really? I heard that about a decade ago, the analysis barely made sense then but it seems even less sensible now. At Amazon scale tape is 0.5 cent/GB or le
499.
by epcoa 3y ago
They’re expensive as fuck though thanks to no investment in disc media. You can get them for what $12.50 a piece if you’re lucky and I’ve heard it’s only worse in Europe. That’s 12 times the cost of hard drives. Buy just 6 or 7 and store th
500.
by epcoa 3y ago
> Post Elon acquisition Eh? Trump was never there post Elon acquisition. I don’t think that timing makes sense. The tone of Twitter has been like this for years if not the beginning.
501.
by epcoa 3y ago
That it was a failure is well known. But fringe, as in obscure (which is what I think is salient in this context)? I think that is misleading - that it has an official gcc backend to remove is a sufficient counterargument. Funny you mentio
502.
by epcoa 3y ago
Yes absolutely right about the modern RISC archs. I should have just said AT&T not AT&T/GNU. The difference is that x86, VAX and SPARC were AT&T UNIX porting efforts prior to or alongside GNU, and GNU sort of chose to inher
503.
by epcoa 3y ago
> fringe ISAs Itanium fringe? You’re clueless and have no credibility. We’re talking about an = instead of a , … you’re needlessly bringing up “crazy ASTs”, so much for being argumentative. And defensive? You seem mixed up, I’m not the
504.
by epcoa 3y ago
Machine code doesn’t have mnemonics either. What’s your point? There are assembly syntaxes with equal signs (The Itanium though ultimately a failure was not obscure and there are a handful of DSP ISAs that use this syntax). Not my cup of te
505.
by epcoa 3y ago
That document is grossly unfinished and doesn’t even appear to specify syntax outside pseudo ops and a few other things. In a few places it refers to the output of objdump, which I think is close enough to saying “whatever gcc does”.
506.
by epcoa 3y ago
> and the x86 assembly syntax where the destination is the last register. ITYM AT&T :). The idea is that the basic grammar is common across architectures to help compiler backend authors. The historical reason for the ordering is bec
507.
by epcoa 3y ago
> there's no official grammar Most architectures have something. Sparc had one (I still have the manual), PPC, 68k. I would even say x86 does as well but you can’t force its adoption, what AT&T and GNU wants to do on their own c
508.
by epcoa 3y ago
Having written USB HID code for barcode scanners where this came up (thrilling I know). None of the major OSes support it including OS X. It’s sort of a homage to a historical artifact (that table dates to the early 90s) but useless because
509.
by epcoa 3y ago
A laptop with external keyboard is not exactly an edge case. In Windows the caps lock state is per session, not per keyboard and I believe this is the case with most Linux desktops, the Mac is an exception here. Even there, the other case y
510.
by epcoa 3y ago
These numbers are from the FBA themselves, I don’t see how it is in their interests to lie that way (they have anticonsumer reasons for not doing so, this is not a defense). I’m more inclined that you’re experiencing sampling bias. Infrastr

More ›