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by hrjet 13y ago
Aren't you assuming that the benchmark is targeted at all web-apps? They are just creating a benchmark. If an app you design doesn't need to scale, then you can ignore the benchmark. To the rest who are building apps that need to
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by hrjet 13y ago
How many would talk about a catastrophic failure that was caused because of their stupidity. Many wouldn't.
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by hrjet 13y ago
Even simpler would be: function install_my_software() { ... } install_my_software() If the script is partially downloaded, it won't have any effect.
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by hrjet 13y ago
Individuals need not voluntarily adapt for the good of the species, and that's not what I am suggesting. I am suggesting an emergent phenomenon that leans towards behavioral diversity within a species. An example: Ant colonies exhibit
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by hrjet 13y ago
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
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by hrjet 13y ago
Your example is practical, and something I might even like to use. In theory, each user could run their own Usernet server and that could be called P2P. But if the default configuration is to use a shared server, it doesn't sound P2P t
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by hrjet 13y ago
LibreMail (drawing from LibreOffice)
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by hrjet 13y ago
About lack of golden reference: Illustrative but extreme example is Bitcoin. There is no golden transaction history. What emerges through consensus from your peers is accepted as the transaction history. If there are network outages and sil
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by hrjet 13y ago
Downsides of peer-to-peer (speaking in general): * No golden reference for content. * Updates are slower / content may not be fresh * Peers may not be online at the same time that you are online.
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by hrjet 13y ago
In this particular case, the title makes sense. According to them, the newly found planetary system is very similar to our solar system. Hence the title "Second Solar System detected".
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by hrjet 13y ago
This is very much true in my own experience. I have an incredibly sensitive nose especially to alarming things. I once woke up from my sleep due to a LPG gas leak in a different floor, and alerted them of the leak! People who were awake had
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by hrjet 13y ago
Is there a way to increase the privileged port range from 1024 in linux? If it's set to a high enough number, say 1024*1024, that would solve both problems (we could use a large port number for ssh and not allow non-root users to hijac
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by hrjet 13y ago
Ironical yes, but the reason generics is hampered in Java is backward-compatiblity, which was not Martin's decision from what I read.
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by hrjet 13y ago
As a way to demonstrate to a lay user the insidious relationships on the web, it is pretty cool. However, this doesn't seem like a good way to collect good quality crowd-sourced data. It can be easily poisoned, and there are simpler al
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by hrjet 13y ago
This. I am reminded of Isaac Asimov's three robot rules. I am also led to wonder, who will be implicated if an accident happens? What if the auto-driving car has a bug? Or if it was infected with a virus or hacked? What if the driver d
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by hrjet 13y ago
There is yet another category of people who find it difficult to summon both types of will powers. Takes a bow
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by hrjet 13y ago
I don't run Windows either but I read articles in which Microsoft plans to sell their anti-virus service, for example [1]. Moreover, even if these are presently free, in the context of this thread we should consider the experience of u
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by hrjet 13y ago
Another reason for being wary of Microsoft: Their OSes and applications have an auto-run policy (run stuff automatically when a CD is inserted, or scripts in Excel, etc). It is clearly a way to allow viruses into the system, and then make
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by hrjet 13y ago
Same could be said about individuals. Citizens are bound to follow the laws of the land.
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by hrjet 13y ago
The irony here is that they are announcing a tool to subvert restrictions in other countries, but they are following their own countries restrictions to the letter.
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by hrjet 13y ago
Indeed, but the situation has changed now. Sun, just before it got acquired by Oracle, had open sourced the last remaining puzzle: the Java compatibility test suite. Which allows anyone to run the test suite, claim and validate that their s
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by hrjet 13y ago
I am not able to wrap my head around this. If I have to run a database, say postgresql, how do I run it? Inside the ZeroVM or outside? To run the DB I would need to give it file system access? Now if there is a security hole in postgresql,
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by hrjet 13y ago
I heard similar stories from a friend working for a big telco. The other day he was describing a strange bug which was triggering in the field of a large telco. It was strange because it used to get triggered after exactly 85 days of deploy
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by hrjet 13y ago
Most of Java is open-source now. I wonder why the dependence on Oracle is so high. If Apache or a similar foundation would fork(+) and adopt it, it will benefit the Java eco-system tremendously. + Fork if legally required.
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by hrjet 13y ago
"It basically sounds like you weren't using the low-level features of Rust, which are important for our use cases but not important for everyone's." But even in a system level program, how often do you need low level fea
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by hrjet 13y ago
Which means every tax payer should have access to it?
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by hrjet 13y ago
I wouldn't call that a superficial difference. Sending a malicious public key from a central server is easier than injecting a public key into a network stream. The former requires just a single entity to be compromised. The latter req
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by hrjet 13y ago
What worries me, and I realized this only after trying TogetherJS, is that Websockets don't require a special permission in browsers! So any website with JS enabled is now going to be able to do peer-to-peer? Could this be a can of wor
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by hrjet 13y ago
But "power users" who want to host small data centers on their $30/month residential plan, or are seeding terrabytes of Torrent data each month, or are trying to resell that connection -- it can't happen today._
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by hrjet 13y ago
But they are not just doing this for publicly shared posts. Even posts which are shared privately will appear besides the ad when a person whom you have shared the post with is viewing the ad. That by itself is not a problem. However, to cu

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