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by jhugo 5y ago
"Third-party" isn't really correct for regex: https://github.com/rust-lang/regex (note the org) Rust's stdlib is deliberately small in order to allow it to have very strong stability guarantees.
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by jhugo 5y ago
Talking about `unsafe` in this context seems like changing the discussion completely. All of the concerning things done in the JS supply-chain attacks can be done perfectly well in safe Rust. You don't need `unsafe` to exfiltrate secre
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by jhugo 5y ago
I guess my point was that "the Arab world" is diverse enough politically (and geographically) to not be able to be covered by a single newspaper. AJ gives you Qatar's perspective, but Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt have had stro
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by jhugo 5y ago
A fairly significant part of the Arab world would likely have a problem with Al Jazeera (funded by the Qatar state) being named as their sole newspaper of record.
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by jhugo 5y ago
Lots of banks already provide this service (spin up as many unique debit cards through an app as you want), at least in Europe and Asia where I've used it. It's often marketed as being specifically for this purpose, along with ext
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by jhugo 5y ago
This article is basically an ad for Parity, and doesn't contain any details on how those savings were actually achieved, any way to verify that the number is genuine, or any way to know whether the same savings could have been achieved
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by jhugo 5y ago
Interesting. I've always been confused by "accentless", and since I had only heard the term used by Americans, had always interpreted it the same uncharitable way as GP. Your interpretation makes much more sense. TIL!
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by jhugo 5y ago
I'm confused by your link. Nowhere on that page does it mention them accepting the Syrian Pound...?
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by jhugo 5y ago
Alibaba could already avoid that need for individual transactions by just holding balances in the different currencies, like e.g. Wise and many other retail forex providers do. They only need to deal with correspondent banks for balancing o
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by jhugo 5y ago
When did Binance start to accept the Syrian Pound? This is just the usual hand-waving that ignores all the inconvenient details.
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by jhugo 5y ago
The crypto part adds nothing to this process. There are already very efficient systems for exchanging one fiat currency for another without going through crypto.
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by jhugo 5y ago
Not really? I said they "might want to look at their overall system architecture". I didn't say "your system needs to be redesigned". Maybe it's the best it can be given their constraints. Hence the word "
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by jhugo 5y ago
Yeah, I agree. Your initial reply to me didn't mention legacy issues, just org size, and I was interpreting it more in the context of a large org building new systems the same unmaintainable way they always have because of inertia &#
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by jhugo 5y ago
I agree, there are many reasons why bad systems architecture might remain in place due to inertia, lack of resources, organisational politics, etc. I didn't chastise anyone.
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by jhugo 5y ago
In the context of a cluster, fault tolerance allows you to replace nodes without downtime. With automation a kernel update can then be a routine, low effort, low stress task. Honestly, a kernel update has to be a routine, low effort, low
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by jhugo 5y ago
Your tonne is different from my tonne I guess — and that's fine. I stand by what I said.
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by jhugo 5y ago
I mean non-geographic within the country. As far as I know, the US practice of assigning mobile numbers to 'area codes' is unique.
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by jhugo 5y ago
The existence of small and large companies with bad systems architecture isn't an argument for implementing more bad systems architecture. Small or large, it doesn't need to cost more to design stuff well.
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by jhugo 5y ago
If you had to spend the weekend updating kernels, you might want to look at your overall system architecture. Replacing a node with another one running a newer kernel shouldn't be a stressful or time-consuming task; it's part of t
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by jhugo 5y ago
Still down here.
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by jhugo 5y ago
Check out the Kiwix app, it can download the entirety of Wikipedia (and other wikis) to your device for offline reading.
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by jhugo 5y ago
If it helps, think of the sandbox as being at the border between "outside" and "inside", and the choice between JS and WASM being on the "inside". Changing the language/runtime within the sandbox doesn&#x2
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by jhugo 5y ago
Only in the US (or whole NANP?) Mobile numbers are non-geographic everywhere else that I know of.
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by jhugo 5y ago
> extortionately expensive compared to similar infrastructure projects in other countries Can you make a few comparisons to similar infrastructure projects in other countries to illustrate this point? Make sure those countries have simil
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by jhugo 5y ago
Keybase is fairly small, easily audited, and does few things well. Matrix is enormous, poorly audited (and difficult to audit due to the insane overcomplexity), has only a few clients with very bad UX (and unlikely to get a lot more clients
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by jhugo 5y ago
Not really? Most covid cases are mild, and the symptoms cross over with those caused by a lot of other pathogens. For people who didn't get tested and have mild symptoms, there's no particular reason to assume they had covid, but
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by jhugo 5y ago
I know quite a few people who believe that you can have long COVID without any initial symptoms, so it seems reasonable that there may be some people who got mild symptoms, believed it was COVID, and then have some ongoing symptoms that the
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by jhugo 5y ago
As I write this, yet again, I cannot push to or pull from GitHub repositories since about an hour now, and yet again the GitHub status page is all green. It's starting to seem like it never gets updated outside of US business hours.
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by jhugo 5y ago
Yup, same here. We had periods of more than 8 hours (during Asia daytime / US nighttime) where we couldn't push or pull, which were not mentioned on their status page at all.
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by jhugo 5y ago
Several of the recent outages were much longer (at least for us, here in Asia) than they admitted on their status page. In one case I started work, noticed I couldn't push to or pull from GitHub, that situation persisted all day, and a

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