kbolino

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901.
by kbolino 2y ago
Just responding to the one point about physical presence: post-COVID, is it not possible to appear virtually?
902.
by kbolino 2y ago
I think you assume this detail is widely known about the affair, but I didn't know about it. Here's an article from the time describing what happened: https://gizmodo.com/cloudflare-ceo-on-terminating-service-to...
903.
by kbolino 2y ago
I have a "smart" Samsung TV from 2015 and it definitely doesn't have Chromecast software, its hardware is too weak to handle modern streaming apps, and it stopped receiving updates from Samsung years ago anyway. The picture i
904.
by kbolino 2y ago
Go doesn't have any closed or sealed types. An "enum" is just a subtype and subtypes can't restrict the range of their values. It's possible to have something like a closed tagged union using an interface with an un
905.
by kbolino 2y ago
I don't think this DSL is finalized yet, but you can see on a linked issue what the build.zig to support @import of C looks like on nightly: const translate_c = b.addTranslateC(.{ .root_source_file = b.path("src&#x2F
906.
by kbolino 2y ago
@cImport works without build.zig and even with build.zig requires no special configuration (ignoring linking). As it is currently described, @import of C will require build.zig and specific configuration therein.
907.
by kbolino 2y ago
As far as I know, HTML5 has diverged from its origins enough that it's neither SGML nor XML. However, given the existence of XHTML5, it might be possible to parse an HTML5 DOM and re-serialize it as XHTML5, and thus it might be possibl
908.
by kbolino 2y ago
As I understand XSLT, it takes an XML document as input and an XML document describing the transformation, and produces an XML document as output. But most HTML in the wild today is not valid XML. There is XHTML as mentioned by a sibling co
909.
by kbolino 2y ago
XSLT is an XML transformation language, but HTML is not XML. Does XSLT work on regular HTML?
910.
by kbolino 2y ago
Each has its tradeoffs. I had a case that cropped up more than once where RabbitMQ kept on trucking even though the process for an important queue had crashed; had it propagated all the way to the server itself it may have been easier to di
911.
by kbolino 2y ago
Unless such measures are applied globally (and practical space travel remains unobtainable), or a country completely isolates itself economically, these geographically bounded measures just displace the externalities.
912.
by kbolino 2y ago
Both sides of a sleep/awake transition with conventional blocking system calls involve heavyweight context switches: the CPU protection level changes and the thread registers get saved out or loaded back in.
913.
by kbolino 2y ago
Neither an error nor a recovered-from panic will cause a Go program to crash; only an unrecovered panic does that. The bigger problem with Go in this regard is how easy it is to cause a panic thanks to nil.
914.
by kbolino 2y ago
The hardware now is just as concurrent/parallel as the software. High-end NVMe SSDs and server-grade NICs can do hundreds to thousands of things simultaneously. Even if one lane does get blocked, there are other lanes which are open.
915.
by kbolino 2y ago
> Haskell threads can be preempted externally - this allows you to ensure they never leak. Vs a goroutine that can just spin forever if it doesn't explicitly yield. Goroutines are preemptible by the runtime (since https:/&#x2F
916.
by kbolino 2y ago
This seems to be more about certain devices (consumer-grade GPUs) in certain settings (data centers), though I do question how enforceable it actually is. My guess is that it can only apply when you try to get discounts from bulk-ordering G
917.
by kbolino 2y ago
This "opponent assassination" hypothetical gets bandied about a lot but I have not seen any evidence that any court considers that to be an "official act". Official acts are constrained to legitimate exercises of constit
918.
by kbolino 2y ago
That's close. Both the excessively long lame duck period (2 months for Congress and 2.5 months for the President) and disunity between the President and the rest of the executive branch have also been fodder for crises in the past (Mar
919.
by kbolino 2y ago
What constitutional crisis has occurred that hasn't been resolved? Constitutional crises involve fundamental breaks in the working of government that bring two or more of its elements into direct conflict that can't be reconciled
920.
by kbolino 2y ago
We are stuck between a rock and a hard place politically. The real decisions should be coming from Congress not the courts. However, Congress is too disorganized and disconnected to answer the important questions, leaving the courts to eith
921.
by kbolino 2y ago
I'm not sure how much that really counts. According to [1], the time that Unix spent as a single-user operating system was intentionally very short-lived. Even the earliest version of the operating system that can be reconstructed toda
922.
by kbolino 2y ago
No, it's stranger than that: SCOTUS did not rule on copyrightability of APIs at all, but simply ruled that even if they are copyrightable, what Google did (completely reimplement Sun/Oracle's public API) was still fair use.
923.
by kbolino 2y ago
It is a niche, yes. However, that niche is about adding some customizability to certain parts of a program, where Lua would be overkill. Moreover, hardening Lua, which is doable but not trivial, may be beyond the ability, interest, or s
924.
by kbolino 2y ago
The point here is that you know (at maximum) how many instructions will be executed before running it, and so if it exceeds the limit, you can avoid running it altogether, instead of killing it midway through its execution, leaving things
925.
by kbolino 2y ago
The government can't keep its own data safe, as the OPM breach showed. Apart from some resignations, nobody faced any serious consequences for that either.
926.
by kbolino 2y ago
You are right on the technical lineage, but I was referring to how these products were (ultimately) presented commercially. The facts that they are both older than one might think and they were developed with specific goals from the start I
927.
by kbolino 2y ago
Yeah, I actually used NT 3.51 for some time. However it was the NT line that replaced the 9x line, at least from the consumer perspective.
928.
by kbolino 2y ago
Was any operating system actually able to go from single-user to multi-user so easily? Windows NT and OS X were totally rewritten from the ground up relative to their single-user predecessors Windows 9x and classic Mac OS.
929.
by kbolino 2y ago
The Autobahn has lower accident and fatality rates than U.S. interstates with similar levels of traffic and yet portions of it have no set speed limit at all. The question is not of speed but speed-related policies and their effect in pra
930.
by kbolino 2y ago
This assumes there is an OS-managed software mixer sitting in the middle of all audio streams between programs and devices. Historically, that wasn't the case, because it would introduce a lot of latency and jitter in the audio. I beli

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