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by fefe23 5y ago
“What inspires us the most are the people that love and use Firefox.” Firefox design team What on earth possesses people to publish a statement like this? Who do they think needed to hear this sentence? Backed by Mozilla
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by fefe23 5y ago
What are you talking about? I have been using bpf in seccomp for non-root for years. Maybe your distro patched that out. The stock kernel allows bpf for non-root.
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by fefe23 5y ago
Intel Xeons have huge price differences at the top tier for relatively minor performance differences. So if you get 4% for free here, that could mean hundreds of dollars savings compared to having to buy the next tier hardware. Multiplied b
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by fefe23 5y ago
I have to say: This is a beautiful eulogy. We should all strive in life to get a eulogy this beautiful when we die.
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by fefe23 5y ago
You may have misread the situation. I have known him for decades, and I have never seen him take advantage of another person. Not ever. Not even once. If he said he forgot to bring money, then he probably did. Let us raise a cup to his name
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by fefe23 5y ago
Reminds me of the Tuskegee Symphilis Study. Sure we infected you with Syphilis without asking for permission first, but we did it for science!
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by fefe23 6y ago
Saying "free software has failed" is like saying "communism has failed". What the author really means is that the FSF's achievements have not satisfied his expectation. However, expectations are subjective and perso
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by fefe23 6y ago
I find it pretty funny that the article opens with "so we don't need all that SFINAE junk anymore" and then proceeds to spend pages upon pages explaining the other junk we need in its place :-) I know, apples to oranges, the
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by fefe23 6y ago
The blog post resonates with me. From the outside (not actually writing Rust code yet) it looks like Rust saw C++ metastasize from an overcomplex big language into an even more overcomplex huge language, and then said HOLD MY BEER! Encourag
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by fefe23 6y ago
Thunderbold is generally not available on AMD systems. Several reasons. a) Intel wants licensing cash for allowing you to use it b) It does not actually add that much to USB. You want to attach monitors? Non-Thunderbolt USB can do that. You
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by fefe23 6y ago
Oh how I'd love to see their list of profound statements and the pseudo profound bullshit!
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by fefe23 6y ago
I'm guessing the web site has telemetry and analytics and can show the conversion rate going down. If the web site sells something, you could even put a dollar amount on the damage. I'm probably misunderstanding your argument here
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by fefe23 6y ago
Can someone explain to my why Google isn't being drowned in a torrent of lawsuits? We are getting stories like this on a weekly basis now. Google is clearly causing measurable harm to your company and you. And apparently to thousands b
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by fefe23 6y ago
Came here to say that. Also note that with libstdc++ that bug is actually a use-after-free bug, which has grave security implications on top of being a regular old bug.
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by fefe23 6y ago
A scandal of selling backdoored crypto to foreign governments? To be honest, I can't think of a single one. Oh wait, the NSA backdoored that random number generator. So, uh, ... I can think of two countries that had a scandal like that
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by fefe23 6y ago
I love the Swiss, I really do, but their reputation has been in tatters since the Crypto AG fiasco. Crypto AG basically sold backdoored crypto hardware to foreign governments, at the behest of CIA and BND (German foreign intelligence agency
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by fefe23 6y ago
PSA: This site is basically an ad. And not one about Elasticsearch at that. I don't understand what all the noise is about. The new license does not make ES closed source, as far as I can tell. They re-license under the MongoDB server
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by fefe23 6y ago
I feel that if you have to go to Stackoverflow after reading Knuth, maybe you didn't actually read the Knuth? Just skimmed it?<p>Not trying to piss on the OP here, but the idea with the Knuth books is that you spend time with the
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by fefe23 6y ago
This is great advice. Reminds me of another great advice for group communication: Assume zero knowledge and infinite intelligence. It is basically the same advice, just seen from the other direction, I think.
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by fefe23 6y ago
Like for everybody else here apparently, this page was useless to me. It didn't make clear what it is about, and after I wasted 20 minutes reading through it, I was no closer to the message than before. Basically it's a lot of nam
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by fefe23 6y ago
I would love to have a way to bootstrap LLVM. This looks promising but I'm guessing a C++ frontend is much more challenging than writing this backend. gcc used to be the missing link, but they switched to C++ and now you can't boo
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by fefe23 6y ago
It looks like the benefit is some kind of block or file deduplication. @OP: Can you please explain why you keep 50 gigs of perl around? :-) I use compressed read-only file systems all the time to save space on my travel laptop. I have one s
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by fefe23 6y ago
I don't think io_uring and ebpf will revolutionize programming on Linux. In fact I hope they don't. The most important aspect of a program is correctness, not speed. Writing asynchronous code is much harder to get right. Sure, I s
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by fefe23 6y ago
This reads like what they actually mean is "I don't think we could rewrite this in C++". That is a common sentiment. So much work went into this! We don't understand how we got here in the first place. It's so big!
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by fefe23 6y ago
I think it is good if everybody implements their own string library. It builds character and you learn something from it. It is a rite of passage. However, don't add to the pile of dependency hell that is already plaguing many open sou
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by fefe23 6y ago
The marketing for this chip is vague and confusing because the chip does absolutely nothing for you. This chip is not here to protect you from compromised or malicious IoT devices, or to protect you from compromised or malicious cloud servi
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by fefe23 6y ago
If you mean malloc() by that: malloc will return aligned memory so that you can store all data types, i.e. it is 64-bit aligned at least (so you can store double) but probably has even higher granularity. It's the downside of malloc no
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by fefe23 6y ago
Two questions. uint64_t is 8 bytes, not 16. Why are you overreading up to 15? How did you conclude that the test hurt performance? I have researched this for over a decade and my conclusion is that the bounds check is for all intents and pu
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by fefe23 6y ago
People keep wondering why and how he kept his optimism. Can you imagine how much worse his last 30 years would have been without it?
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by fefe23 6y ago
George Monbiot is a well-known leftist book author and commentator in the UK, who regularly writes for the Guardian. I find this analysis interesting and on point but wonder why he wrote it on Twitter as a series of tweets instead of as an

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