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by inkyoto 5y ago
> You don't have to support MongoDB, but you can support apps that were only written with Mongo as backend? That's awesome. I can't imagine it's production-ready yet but it's a great idea. You have just described
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by inkyoto 5y ago
For as long as the mango in MangoDB is rendered as being pear shaped, they should do just fine.
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by inkyoto 5y ago
More on TLS and MITM. Even though our security unit deems TLS v1.2 and, until recently, v1.1 (!) to be secure and acceptable for the purpose of encrypting sensitive datasets in motion, I vehemently disagree with them and consider anything t
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by inkyoto 5y ago
> But if the 4G equipment doing the encrypting tunneling at both ends is potentially compromised how does that encryption help? The major attack vector for the compromised 4G equipment is the remote deactivation (or a wipeout or both) of
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by inkyoto 5y ago
> This becomes pretty farcical when you realise they are still allowed to use it for 4G (and indeed most 5G configurations bands 4G+5G signals together) No, it is not a purely political farce. There is a fundamental architectural differe
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by inkyoto 5y ago
> classifiers, but reading this, it sounds like they might be properly called genders too? No, not quite, classifiers do not introduce a notion of the noun class/gender, and the East/South East Asian languages that make an exte
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by inkyoto 5y ago
> 'which' is ensconced as standard practice in many shell scripts Ugh. Now that the UNIX universe has collapsed unto Linux, BSD's and very, very few other *X's, it is less of an issue, but «which», due to it having ne
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by inkyoto 5y ago
Not exactly a mistake, more of a compounding factor of market forces, who could execute and deliver (and who could not), and the rise of worse is better. The 80s was a time of research and experimentation, occasionally getting pretty wild.
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by inkyoto 5y ago
> I don't disagree that there are many use cases for which more memory has diminishing returns. But I would disagree that those encompass 99.99% of use cases. Not all problems are embarrassingly-parallel. In fact, most problems aren
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by inkyoto 5y ago
> it's just an incremental improvement, no more. It still follows the same philosophy as bash. It is actually the other way round, with bash being an incremental improvement over zsh. Starting from v3, bash has adopted many features
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by inkyoto 5y ago
> perceivable speedup in M1 Macs Perception is key here. Of course M1's are perceived as being faster because: - video camera encoding/decoding is offloaded to a dedicated processor; - disk encryption is offloaded to a dedicate
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by inkyoto 5y ago
> its obvious why x86 won - you could get the critical jobs done. It is a bit less obvious, in fact. Motorola never looked at 68k CPU's as a serious business, more like toying around with the CPU's all the time or looking at th
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by inkyoto 5y ago
C stack-oriented ABI calling conventions also started with PDP-11, for which the first portable C compiler was written, and the convention then tagged along to nearly every other architecture as the pcc was progressively ported to other pla
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by inkyoto 5y ago
Thank you, good sir. I admire the sheer simplicity of your proposed solution and the wisdom contained in it. Since my client is coming up on a SAP R/3 to S/4 transition, which is due to complete by 2027 (a real timeline), I have i
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by inkyoto 5y ago
After the PDP-11 architecture, yes.
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by inkyoto 5y ago
Spherical cows, naturally, dream of spherical potatoes in a vacuum whilst grazing next to spherical chickens.
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by inkyoto 5y ago
> Windows decided to go the "always JIT and just cache frequent code blocks" method though. In the end whichever you choose it doesn't seem to make a big difference. AOT (or, static binary translation before the applicatio
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by inkyoto 5y ago
> the exception should be able to tell you that you failed on the line _before_ the "log after". It is an extension of the «but it worked on my laptop» mentality. No, it won't work in a complex environment, specifically in
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by inkyoto 5y ago
> The M1's main trick to being so good at running x86 code is it's just so god damn fast for the power budget it doesn't matter if there is overhead for emulated code it's still going to be fast. M1 is fast and effici
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by inkyoto 5y ago
AIX introduced an extended COFF object and executable file format, XCOFF, that has eliminated the need to have both, static and shared, library files – the .a files were «both» at once and the linker switch had to be used to select between
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by inkyoto 5y ago
Why should anyone waste the precious space in a ultrportable laptop on the newfangled and time unproven technology which Ethernet is? I want my Token Ring port back to connect to my ring in a box with a Boy George connector – to celebrate t
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by inkyoto 5y ago
I fear that the term Cambrian Radiation might confuse I have surmised the OP actually meant Cambrian Radiance, not radiation. Autocomplete might have been complicit.
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by inkyoto 5y ago
the only thing missing is competent leadership I keep hearing this every now and then, but the incompetent leadership does not come from nowhere nor has conceived itself. The country leaders have been legitimately elected, which means the
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by inkyoto 5y ago
> […] 01894 > […] 01949 Is there a specific esoteric or cabbalistic reason to prefix the number of bygone summers with a zero? Both make for invalid octadecimals and have broken my builtin parser.
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by inkyoto 5y ago
> There is a sacrosanct line between "public" and "private," "mine" and "yours." That line cannot be crossed by Western governments without a warrant. This is a self-delusion, I am afraid. The line
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by inkyoto 5y ago
Architecture specific («post-compile» time pass) and chained fixups (link time pass) optimisations are orthogonal, and both can take place. Since a) Bitcode IR is, essentially, an object file; b) the destination platform version is known at
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by inkyoto 5y ago
> I love Ada, but sadly it probably missed its chance. There’s always the stories about how expensive the compilers were (and I think even now there’s some sort of weird license issues with GNAT and the Adacore tools) Not just Ada. There
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by inkyoto 5y ago
Yes, there is one for iOS: https://apps.apple.com/au/app/%E5%BB%A3%E6%9D%B1%E8%A9%B1%E8... It uses the British spelling of Cantonese that is still in use in HK for the personal and street name transliteration.
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by inkyoto 5y ago
In or from mainland China? No. I converse with native Cantonese speakers from Gwong Dung on a regular basis, and they have told me that teaching materials were not available on the mainland. I am either misinformed, or the situation with te
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by inkyoto 5y ago
> Spoken Cantonese and mandarin are mutually unintelligible, but in written form, at least without colloquialisms, they are basically the same language. They are not. Written Cantonese, in fact, uses the Mandarin grammar and the Mandarin

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