jfindley

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by jfindley 5y ago
A database like mongodb is a very different animal from a http cache. The mongodb authors likely read this article (it's from 2006) when they were designing the first version of their database, and due to their almost complete unfamili
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by jfindley 5y ago
Yes - this was written in 2006 and that joke really hasn't aged well at all. Dang maybe worth sticking a (2006) on the end of this?
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by jfindley 6y ago
"Its [salt] main use is deicing our roads ..." I thought this sounded surprising, salt is used for lots of things, and it'd be surprising if road use was the main one. So I went to look, found a bunch of sources, including [1
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by jfindley 6y ago
I'm not certain that claiming deep knowledge of the subject and handwaving about literary devices is a terribly useful response when you write an article suggesting decline while completely ignoring a bunch of significant more recent d
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by jfindley 6y ago
Few years ago I spoke to some ILM people about their VDI setup, which at the time was cobbled together out of mesos and a bunch of xorg hacks to get VDI server scheduling working on a pool of remote machines with GPUs (I think they might ev
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by jfindley 6y ago
It's definitely a vulnerability, but to be a little more grounded in reality, to exploit this you need to somehow convince your victim to go to your website which contains the document you're trying to get access to. So for this t
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by jfindley 6y ago
I think the inverse is more accurate. Services like spotify have very significantly reduced music piracy. If a reasonably priced legal alternative exists, people will tend to use it. Piracy only thrives at large scale when content is too di
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by jfindley 6y ago
I believe this is due to the font it uses[0], which is a really fantastic font for text-heavy websites if you're happy to pay the $1500 asking price. 0: https://commercialtype.com/catalog/graphik
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by jfindley 6y ago
I think there's a bit of a distinction between patches that add functionality not accepted by upstream (as here) vs the more typical distro patches which do things like replace bundled libs with shared ones, fix locations for things li
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by jfindley 6y ago
I'm interested to hear more about why changing syntax is such a huge deal in this particular space. Computer security evolves over time, and we have to cope with APIs and workflows which change to keep pace. Nothing supports SSLv1 anym
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by jfindley 6y ago
"[...] without providing an alternative" is a rather strong position. There are multiple alternatives - for many users the underlying protocol changing to sftp will allow them to just keep working as they always did, and they won&
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by jfindley 6y ago
34Mbps mean, across a population of ~67 million, suggests that there are substantial amounts of people getting much less than that. The data is broken down in more detail here[0], and while this isn't limited to just FTTC connections i
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by jfindley 6y ago
Likely because the parent said "Most of the population are wired for fibre" which is wildly misleading. FTTC would not fit most people's definition of being "wired for fibre". Describing 80Mbps for FTTC as realistic
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by jfindley 6y ago
You appear to be using the term access to fibre a bit loosely. The vast majority[0] of the UK only has access to a product called "fibre to the cabinet" (FTTC), which is a poor substitute for what would pass for a fibre connection
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by jfindley 6y ago
Thanks for the comment, yes I should have phrased that very differently. What I was trying to say is that the kernel CSPRNG (exact mechanism depends on version) mixes together a bunch of things that aren't truly random from an informat
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by jfindley 6y ago
Cryptography doesn't depend on random numbers for its random seed. It depends on unpredictable numbers. These are not the same thing. As long as no-one can predict what the next number will be it doesn't matter how "random&q
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by jfindley 6y ago
Do you have a source? A link in a different thread paints a somewhat different picture. If they can achieve stable ~20ms latency though, that would indeed be excellent.
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by jfindley 6y ago
Consistent 30ms would be pretty excellent, and make it useful for many things. Consistent 50ms, similarly. It starts to get a bit more of an issue at 80ms or 100ms, but my worry is more that jitter may be huge, and 30-100ms is a huge jitt
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by jfindley 6y ago
I don't think putting quotes around the word gamers helps you get your point across particularly effectively - it sounds like you don't really think it's important enough of a usecase to be worthy of much consideration. Many
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by jfindley 6y ago
What are the limits in terms of wave handling? How well does it stack up to a large rib in rough seas?
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by jfindley 6y ago
Well engineered ICE cars are the opposite of unresponsive. Gear shifts are in the order of 100ms. Turbocharged engines require some revs to get moving, but good engines rev so fast that unless you have no idea what you're doing this
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by jfindley 6y ago
I believe that it's more that enabling that scaling would likely come with tradeoffs that would have negative impacts on the more common usecases.
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by jfindley 6y ago
Whilst that's true, there's also a question of degree. Revit, which is the source of complaint here, takes long enough to open your file you might as well go make a sandwich while it does so. The developers only found out that CPU
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by jfindley 6y ago
I think a more charitable reading of the GP might be to assume they were talking about needing consent from everyone on the list before including a mail sig containing "--hugs, <person>". I've seen a bunch of that sort
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by jfindley 6y ago
Even if we ignore all that, and treat everything as a point mass, it's still believable, I think. The earths radius is very approximately 6.4km. So 1km out from the ice sheet, we have 1 (1/6.4^2) (earth) vs 10^-5 (1/1^2) (ice
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by jfindley 6y ago
That's not universally true. Android makes significant use of binary diffs for patching to reduce OTA upgrade sizes, for example. However they're not appropriate for all situations, and there's a bunch of legitimate reasons A
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by jfindley 6y ago
I get that privacy is important, but I'm struggling to understand why I'm supposed to care about a company logging data on the temperature of the beef I'm cooking. If they want to badly enough to secretly add telemetry code a
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by jfindley 6y ago
I was initially surprised at their benchmark results, until I read more closely and noticed that they were benchmarking on a cloud VM. I wish people wouldn't do this for this form of test - it adds so many variables it's hard to t
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by jfindley 6y ago
This sort of thing gets mentioned a lot, but in practice doesn't work. The amount of money spent on welfare benefits[0], plus the cost of the administration, ends up several orders of magnitude less money than UBI wage x Population siz
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by jfindley 6y ago
Yes, I agree. Lots(most?) of channels on freenode are explicitly not publicly logged anywhere, and the freenode staff are pretty helpful at helping chanops enforce this. None of the channels I help run have any public logs available.

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