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721.
by lambda 10y ago
This seems needlessly negative; and you seem to be inferring a lot about what Linus wants without him having said anything. The one thing he's asked about so far on this patch series is how it handles resource exhaustion/denial-of
722.
by lambda 10y ago
Twitter's working fine for me. This attack is affecting different people differently; as a DDOS, attacking a distributed system (DNS) with a lot of redundancy, it's possible for some people to be affected badly while others not af
723.
Dirty COW and clean commit messages(lwn.net)
2 points by lambda 10y ago|0 comments
724.
by lambda 10y ago
Very few people can read and understand C without being a language lawyer an knowing tons of esoteric magic. There are many things in C which look perfectly reasonable but which actually result in undefined behavior, and you cannot reason a
725.
by lambda 10y ago
The existing patent agreements are a contributor agreement, not part of the license. So, they restrict people from contributing, but don't actually provide any guaranteed protection for downstream users, as far as I can tell. However,
726.
by lambda 10y ago
Every one of the cases I have had to debug in which someone had deleted the localhost entry was someone who had entries for blocking Adobe's licensing servers.
727.
by lambda 10y ago
LLVM wants to switch from a BSD-style license to Apache 2.0, with a few exceptions, one allowing use with GPLv2 code, another allowing the bits of compiler-rt and other components that get built into binaries to be redistributed without res
728.
by lambda 10y ago
The staging area is a lot more useful than what you can do with an interactive commit, since it persists between operations. You can use it to accumulate changes that are "done" while you continue to experiment with some other cha
729.
by lambda 10y ago
I have had a number of customers who have broken our applications, which have daemons listening on localhost, by editing their /etc/hosts files and removing the localhost entry. I guess various people edit /etc/hosts to
730.
by lambda 10y ago
No, absolutely not. If people choose that for a local domain, that breaks mDNS.
731.
by lambda 10y ago
Several of the Uber/Lyft drivers I've talked to are actually former small business owners; they owned bakeries and pizza shops, and are now retiring from that by driving for Uber or Lyft, which over much better and more flexible h
732.
by lambda 10y ago
Why would programs want to "depend on the invariant that the size of a cache line will stay constant"? That's a minor detail that most applications don't care about. In this case, it probably mattered because when JITing
733.
by lambda 10y ago
But then you would never be able to take advantage of the power/performance tradeoff that big.LITTLE gives you; of being able to migrate you to a big core when you need it, but save power by migrating you to the little core when you&#x
734.
by lambda 10y ago
Right now, I have a MBP retina with 512 GB of SSD, 16 GB of RAM. I could upgrade to one with the ability to drive a 4K monitor and 1TB SSD, but that's pretty much the only noticeable improvement. Sure, the CPU and GPU will probably be
735.
by lambda 10y ago
So, I think you are over-generalizing from a particular piece of anecdotal evidence. You, yourself, have spent a lot of time online and been exposed to a lot of nasty behavior, and you don't find that a lot of rude comments bother you.
736.
by lambda 10y ago
If it's a gateway to a paid service (music stores, Uber, Lyft, etc), it generally won't have ads. If it's free, but not a gateway to a paid service, I check to see if source is available; if source is available, it generally
737.
by lambda 10y ago
Huh. I've just never installed any ad-based applications. If there's a no-ad paid version for a buck or two I'll buy it, otherwise, I just don't use it.
738.
by lambda 10y ago
This is great! I was actually looking recently to see if there was any definitive guide to best practices in single and multifactor authentication, and this is a pretty good description. Would be nice if there were a separate guide on actua
739.
by lambda 10y ago
Hmm. I wonder why one of the followup mitigations is not to move to a non-backtracking regex engine by default. Most of what you want to do with a regex can be done with an NFA or DFA based engine. That which can't be done with an NFA
740.
by lambda 10y ago
There's a fundamental difference. Radio broadcasts are generally considered public performances, and generally handled under blanket licenses with ASCAP, BMI, and the like. There is also a separate blanket licensing scheme for digital
741.
by lambda 10y ago
They didn't ask people for their evaluations before the test; they asked after the test, and after it had been scored, to see where people thought their score ranked relative to the rest of the people who had taken the test. So, people
742.
by lambda 10y ago
According to Mozilla's most recently released financial reports ( https://static.mozilla.com/moco/en-US/pdf/Mozilla_Audited_Fi... ), they spent $197 million on software development in 2013, and $213 millio
743.
by lambda 10y ago
Yeah, I've worked next to a lunch place that describes itself as "plant inspired" rather than "vegan." It turns out that everything they serve is vegan, and they'll confirm it if you ask, but by taking the word
744.
by lambda 10y ago
No, it's not recommended for coding; it's a display font, to be used for headlines, titles, and the like, things where you want a little bit of stylistic flair. Here's the description from the link: About Space Mono is
745.
by lambda 10y ago
Link for the lazy: https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1168
746.
by lambda 10y ago
I'm a user with 150k rep on SO. I'm not a casual user. However, I have been discouraged from using the site in recent years due to too many disagreements over closing and downvoting questions when actually just getting a little bi
747.
by lambda 10y ago
Yeah, I just use plain old QWERTY, but I love reading these things to see how other people approach their own pain points.
748.
by lambda 10y ago
Also note the White Keyboard Layout, which was released recently as a reaction to the Workman layout due to some concerns about the optimizaiton parameters. https://github.com/mw8/white_keyboard_layout He defined a som
749.
by lambda 10y ago
As it says, at this point it's getting pretty subjective, and so you'll need a blinded subjective test to really judge which one is better: The improvement in quality compared to the previous status update is quite obvious.
750.
by lambda 10y ago
But PIR, which runs the .ORG registry, does operate in the US, and thus US law applies to them.

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