moosingin3space

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by moosingin3space 8y ago
Serious question: how is this similar to TockOS, other than being written in Rust? TockOS doesn't use an MMU since it's designed for single-address-space applications on microcontrollers.
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by moosingin3space 8y ago
I'd like to comment here that issue trackers are tools for maintainers , not for users. A maintainer doesn't owe you any response to issues, nor do they owe you any way to report them. The maintainer has the right to stop working
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by moosingin3space 8y ago
This is part of what Rust does very well - playing nicely with others! Check out Helix (Ruby), Milksnake or rust-cpython (Python), Rustler (Erlang), Neon (Node.js), or cbindgen (C/C++) for tools that can automate the boilerplate.
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by moosingin3space 8y ago
Why is it such a bad thing for a browser to act as an OS?
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by moosingin3space 8y ago
I see. I'm excited about nebulet and would be interested in participating in the design process for the IPC layer -- is there a place that discussion is taking place?
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by moosingin3space 8y ago
How has the work on Nebulet's IPC layer progressed? In theory, a kernel-mode wasm interpreter could make IPC as fast as calling a function in a shared library through a vtable. Of course, this has to be mediated properly to avoid letti
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by moosingin3space 8y ago
I think "unsafe" was a good name. Rails ERB templates use the `html_safe` name for something that the author knows to be HTML-safe, which is confusingly-named, implying that using `html_safe` makes something HTML-safe.
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by moosingin3space 8y ago
It seems like this would be easiest to do with a cgroup memory limit and supervisor process. In systemd or kubernetes, this should be pretty easy, IIRC.
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by moosingin3space 8y ago
This is an effect of free speech: a merchant is not obligated to engage in business with customers they do not approve of, unless it runs afoul of the law. The law does not grant Alex Jones protected status to spread bullshit. Freedom of sp
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by moosingin3space 8y ago
I'll admit to not being particularly well-acquainted with VR, but a few observations: 1) This is being used as a target for Servo. Even if it ends up being useless (I won't pretend to be able to predict the future), the investigat
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by moosingin3space 8y ago
Rust seems to follow Stroustrup's Rule very well as a community. Might explain why I like it so much.
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by moosingin3space 8y ago
Additionally, NaCl/libsodium is actually designed as a misuse-resistant API to perform real-world tasks, unlike GPG, where the API is "call this binary and use its crappy out-of-band signaling mechanism to figure out if anything w
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by moosingin3space 8y ago
Unfortunately, even the maintainers of dpkg/apt, who rely on GPG extensively, don't manage to plug all holes: https://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2018/02/21/attacks-against-... Personally, I'
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by moosingin3space 8y ago
> careful detailed stuff > if you want to make a mess of things in your application you can do so without bringing down the whole system You don't need an exclusive community to make that work. We as an industry have tools: fuzze
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by moosingin3space 8y ago
I think that when a company reaches a certain size and stability level, as long as the CEO is competent and understands how to balance external and internal issues, the particular CEO doesn't matter that much. The real power over produ
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by moosingin3space 8y ago
Why do so many people on this forum seem to believe that being polite inherently implies lying to each other? I just want to understand this line of thinking. My workplace is extremely polite to each other AND we don't lie to each othe
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by moosingin3space 8y ago
> Often he's saying what we're thinking This line of thinking is a fantastic way to create a non-inclusive group.
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by moosingin3space 8y ago
Where exactly is this conspiracy to make the kernel worse through ulterior motives coming from? Literally every large company relies on the kernel working well today, so "corporations" or "shills" aren't rational or
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by moosingin3space 8y ago
Reading this demonstrates perfectly well why "direct" and "brutal" are not at all synonymous. Direct communication wouldn't have required Popov to "extract the technical complaints from them".
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by moosingin3space 8y ago
> Linus Torvalds is uniquely qualified Gotta stop you right there. Hero worship should not be considered a good thing in our industry. The kernel subsystem maintainers, who actually review the code prior to getting it merged, are the one
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by moosingin3space 8y ago
"The existence of an exploit" is an argument in favor of defense-in-depth techniques, as an exploit in one layer does not result in full-system compromise.
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by moosingin3space 8y ago
Not to mention the infamous `privacy.resistFingerprinting` option, which leads to a lot of random breakage and confused users. It's not ready for non-Tor Browser users yet, or else it would be default!
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by moosingin3space 8y ago
Despite these bugs, I still feel confident in Rust's ability to provide strong memory-safety guarantees. Two reasons: 1. The Rust team is on top of releasing fixes for these bugs. Additionally, the new borrow checker has detected all o
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by moosingin3space 8y ago
Linus Torvalds is "extremely confident in his C skills". Doesn't stop hundreds of CVEs per year targeted at the kernel. Sick of the C Apologism Task Force's idea that "if only rockstar programmers wrote code we woul
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by moosingin3space 8y ago
The answer to this question is simple: Swift does not have a comparative advantage in any area of development other than Apple-device-only apps. It may be a nice language, but the cross-platform Swift ecosystem is firmly entrenched in squar
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by moosingin3space 8y ago
If you're programming in Rust, you can just use `gfx-rs`'s HAL[1]. This is designed to be a Vulkan-like API that works on top of Vulkan, Metal, D3D12, or OpenGL. If you aren't in Rust, just use Vulkan. There are high-performa
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by moosingin3space 8y ago
This seems to partially explain why Go programmers prefer pure-Go libraries.
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by moosingin3space 8y ago
ABI would still be a complication here, as different languages have different ways of calling into each other, different name mangling rules, etc.
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by moosingin3space 8y ago
In some cases, it's even possible to link statically against musl libc. Granted, this is easiest to do with an Alpine Linux VM or container.
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by moosingin3space 8y ago
Really? In my experience, that's been tooling on top of Docker that makes that sort of declarative networking easy.

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