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by jmmv 2y ago
None of the two were at play when I wrote this. Try again.
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by jmmv 2y ago
Yes, these were my reviews. But this is from the point of view of the reviewee. I’m telling the story of what this person felt and later told me.
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by jmmv 2y ago
I did not ask. This is feedback that the reviewee gave me years after we both left Google.
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Usable DOS-based live USB media, for distraction-free writing(github.com)
3 points by jmmv 2y ago|0 comments
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by jmmv 2y ago
> It's not like someone at Google will ever read your blog and offer you a job; if you want to work at Google, learn how to pass their interview process. My blog literally had that effect from Google, many years ago -- although obvi
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by jmmv 2y ago
About a year ago, I experimented with this. I was collecting links throughout the month and then posted an article with all the links accompanied by a “personal comment” for each. I kept up with that for about 5 months and then abandoned th
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by jmmv 2y ago
I didn't know about Yocto, but reading through its documentation, it looks far more complex than NetBSD's build.sh. And then, I read: > If the machine you want to use Yocto Project on to build an image (Build Host) is not a nat
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by jmmv 2y ago
Came here to say this: I’ve found that using SQLite for tests is a good sweet spot, and maintaining dual DB implementations ensures my business logic remains generic. But there is no replacement for running the tests agains the real databas
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Revisiting the NetBSD Build System(blogsystem5.substack.com)
4 points by jmmv 2y ago|0 comments
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Synology DS923 vs. FreeBSD with ZFS(blogsystem5.substack.com)
18 points by jmmv 2y ago|11 comments
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by jmmv 2y ago
In that specific case, it was our own installation of a VPN client and a custom definition of its launchd configuration. I don’t remember the exact details anymore. I’d expect the system-provided services to be correctly configured by Apple
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by jmmv 2y ago
A number of years ago, I was working on the port of Bazel to macOS. One of the issues we faced internally at Google was that some of our users reported that Bazel builds randomly killed their Internet connection and that they performed poor
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by jmmv 2y ago
That's good, but you need to know what you are looking for. If I click on that link now, I see a bunch of repeated submissions, and due to the nature of this publication, the articles are of very varied topics. So a random person won&#
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by jmmv 2y ago
I intentionally wrote it that way because these articles are only loosely related to the one discussed here, not a "series I thought through upfront". Yeah, not a fan _of_ _the_ _pattern_, but I wanted to give it a try and see how
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by jmmv 2y ago
Original author here. Thanks for sharing! I see various comments below along the lines of “oh, the article is missing so and so”. OK… then please see the other articles in this series! I think they cover most of what you are mentioning :-)
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by jmmv 2y ago
You should read the very first article I wrote in this “series” then, linked to from the opening paragraph: https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/from-0-to-1-mb-in-dos (previously discussed in https://news.ycom
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by jmmv 2y ago
I'm doing that a lot at work actually because I have blogged extensively about Bazel before (and other related build topics) and many of those posts are coming handy to answer questions that people have at this "new" place. I
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by jmmv 2y ago
The article describes the author's walk through various companies (Sun, Joyent, Oxide) and how his blogging evolved with (and thanks to!) them. Not quite what I expected, particularly the points about how Sun truly encouraged blogging,
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by jmmv 2y ago
You make it sound like the whole article is about vulnerabilities in a macOS beta version, but what you quoted applies to just two of them. … clarifying in case someone else reads it the same way.
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by jmmv 2y ago
Setting up a VPN between exclusively two machines would do the trick mostly . Note, however, that if a malicious user compromised the client, they'd still get unfettered access to the whole file system of the server -- whereas with NF
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by jmmv 2y ago
Original author here. I wrote this article because I have set up NFSv4 with Kerberos twice so far and, both times, I ended up with a functional system but… very frustrated by how difficult and fragile everything seems. That said, I still ha
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Demystifying Secure NFS(blogsystem5.substack.com)
5 points by jmmv 2y ago|4 comments
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by jmmv 2y ago
> Technically you could override the syscall function itself maybe? But then you can just write assembly code to issue the system call.
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by jmmv 2y ago
Buck 2 was part of the "Build Meetup", not BazelCon, which is a more-frequent event that has room for more than just Bazel (although it's still pretty focused on Bazel-related topics and similar build systems). More details a
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by jmmv 2y ago
> I think this looks incredible. Like how does one create a compatible abi _for all of linux_??? Wow! FWIW that’s what the Linux compatibility layer in the BSDs does and also what WSL 1 did ( https://jmmv.dev/2020/11&
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by jmmv 2y ago
I also use Hugo and upgrades scare me because it’s really hard to tell whether something has subtly broken or not. Also, the documentation is inscrutable. But it’s fast and already in place, so hey, I keep using it. Anyhow, regarding this:
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by jmmv 2y ago
Heh, not quite! Void Linux was started by the _other_ NetBSD developer from Spain: xtraeme.
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Evolving a Codebase at Google Scale(laurent.le-brun.eu)
2 points by jmmv 2y ago|0 comments
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by jmmv 2y ago
Oh, good point. Somehow I missed that when looking at the contents. Will need to check again why.
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by jmmv 2y ago
Original author here. Actually, this was on Debian testing, so maybe x32 was disabled not that long ago? A 20% penalty sounds insane, but I can very well believe it. What benchmarks did you run?

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