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by kevinoid 7y ago
Although this is true on Linux, it's worth noting that this behavior doesn't match the specified behavior of posix_madvise.[1] It was also a subject of Bryan Cantril's hilarious "A crime against common sense" Surge
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by kevinoid 7y ago
Then you may be happy to learn that OpenAPI documents can be written in YAML (since OpenAPI 2.0).
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by kevinoid 7y ago
> Parsing commands should be the responsibility of the shell and all the program should do is check for the existence of flags and values. I would love to see more consistency in command line parsing, and I think argument splitting has h
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by kevinoid 7y ago
From the article: Havre, MT is using this approach and has been able to put off a $1MM upgrade to its wastewater plant (in addition to saving $16k to date on alum). Bozeman, MT but is not currently using the process, as you noted.
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by kevinoid 7y ago
> OpenWRT 19.07 adds wpa3 support Neat! Note that it is not enabled by default and requires installing the -openssl or -wolfssl variant of the hostapd, wpa_supplicant, or wpad package[1] and may require recreating the wireless config fi
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by kevinoid 7y ago
I can't speak to why it was originally defined, but since the Referer [sic] header has existed for decades, many sites depend on it to function. The Smart Referer extension whitelist[1] and bug tracker[2] have several examples. 1. h
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by kevinoid 7y ago
It is. Personally, I find the format far too verbose for casual use and have to process the output to make it concise enough: iwlist wlan0 scan | awk -F: ' BEGIN { printf "%-40s | %3s | %5s | %4s\n", "SSID&quo
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by kevinoid 7y ago
Could anyone familiar with this project comment on how it compares to kboot and petitboot? http://kboot.sourceforge.net/ https://github.com/open-power/petitboot
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by kevinoid 7y ago
For EFI systems, the kernel includes a boot stub which allows it to be booted directly by the firmware without an additional bootloader. AFAIK it's not possible to boot directly via BIOS/MBR. https://www.kernel.org&#x2
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by kevinoid 7y ago
Using jitter as an entropy source also came up in the recent discussions around Linux getrandom(2) blocking: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21152552 https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/zircon/jit
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by kevinoid 7y ago
I was curious as well. According to the author, "All the diagrams were hand-crafted in PowerPoint." https://github.com/MaiZure/coreutils-8.3/issues/1#issuecomme...
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by kevinoid 7y ago
If you are interested in all the gory details, take a look at the TC-39 proposal (especially the Goals section) and associated GitHub issues: https://tc39.es/Function-prototype-toString-revision/ https://git
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by kevinoid 7y ago
I've had much better luck using aMLC and pSLC cards than generic TLC ones. I would expect "industrial" MLC/SLC to be even better. There was an enlightening discussion on HN about them at https://news.ycombina
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by kevinoid 7y ago
First, I would like to challenge the assumption that Debian primarily uses SVN for packaging. We can get a rough idea from the use of Vcs-$name package metadata in the testing distribution: </var/lib/apt/lists&#x
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by kevinoid 8y ago
These are some interesting insights into the economic incentives on the deployment side. I'm looking forward to reading the report. It is also interesting to consider the incentives (or lack thereof) for IPv6 peering. The fact that H
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by kevinoid 8y ago
> It appears that bash `printf` wraps coreutils printf "with ARGUMENTs converted to proper type first," according to the manual. I guess that's how the "%509s" specifier is able to work without any args. Actually
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by kevinoid 8y ago
There are some good recommendations in here! Does anyone know of a way to check for, or enforce, these recommendations? The only CMake linters I could find seem to focus on whitespace and naming issues.
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by kevinoid 8y ago
I am not aware of any specifications which would prevent using mail hosts on toplevel domains. However, dotless domain names are currently prohibited by the ICANN Board New gTLD Program Committee,[1] so actually creating one may be a chall
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by kevinoid 8y ago
Same here. It's available on the Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20180726150520/https://www.lessw... Note that I had to disable JavaScript to prevent it from hiding the content and di
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by kevinoid 8y ago
Interesting approach. I'm curious to try it out. After playing around with vm.overcommit_ratio, different swap sizes, earlyoom[1], and a few other variables, I still haven't found a happy medium between high memory utilization an
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by kevinoid 8y ago
> there's broad agreement that people with more life experience are often better placed to offer help. Broad agreement among whom? As with MDs, I would expect several complex trade-offs. Particularly between the value of medical (
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by kevinoid 8y ago
I played around with that a little, but it seemed like once you start trying to auto-generate SQL from objects you are basically writing a simple ORM. So you either spend time writing queries, spend time building an ORM, spend time fixing
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by kevinoid 8y ago
That's a fair criticism. There are a lot of tradeoffs in language choice. For this project the choice was out of my hands, but in retrospect I don't think Node was necessarily a bad choice. Node worked well for a lot of things
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by kevinoid 8y ago
Sure, but I found that I was wasting a lot of time writing dead-simple SQL queries and object mapping that could have been better spent writing application code (and was after switching to MongoDB).
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by kevinoid 8y ago
That's great to hear! But given that the first release of knex wasn't until May of 2013, it wouldn't have been an option for me.
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by kevinoid 8y ago
Partly it is. I had issues with both sequelize and any-db. However, since not using them resulted in a lot of bespoke SQL and object mapping, I found MongoDB preferable to SQL without these libraries as well.
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by kevinoid 8y ago
My example is a bit dated, but may be illustrative: I chose PostgreSQL over MongoDB for a MEAN webapp (making it PEAN?) project started in 2013 and regretted it. I was constantly struggling with the poor support for SQL in Node at the tim
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by kevinoid 8y ago
I can't speak for nodesocket, but I noticed the $SYMBOL convention become popular to denote a ticker symbol when Twitter started treating $SYMBOL as a hashtag (often called a "cashtag") a few years ago. https://twi
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by kevinoid 9y ago
Does anyone know what the threat model is for LibreOffice? For Microsoft Office, VBA Macros are allowed to execute arbitrary code. I assume it's the same for LibreOffice Basic. For files without macros (like this exploit) what are th
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by kevinoid 9y ago
Yes. The advisory is at https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/security/advisories/cve...

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