mrighele

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by mrighele 3y ago
I own one, and I found 8GB to be a bit limiting. If you work with something like emacs or vim probably you're fine, but if you try to run Xcode or you program in Java, good luck.
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Proprietary app makes more sense for them - you get the money in advance - you don’t pay commission to CC network for every transaction - casual users will give you much more money than what they need to
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by mrighele 3y ago
“I wrote my thesis about Arm security features and exploit mitigations for Arm's internal use, [have] given internal presentations, keynoted their conference, advocated for them, visited them at their HQ in Cambridge – all without comp
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by mrighele 3y ago
My guess is that Nvidia will get into a partnership with some distro to use a patched kernel that removes the relevant parts. In fact I will expect that one ( cough Ubuntu cough ) may do it on their own just to get a bigger slice of peopl
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by mrighele 3y ago
It was done in the context of running FreeBSD under the Firecracker platform [1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33243529
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by mrighele 3y ago
> They rewrote, which is known to help too. Going from 30 to 15 instances is not bad but it's very likely that a Java-to-Java rewrite would have helped go down too. A java-to-java rewrite could have been as much if not more painful
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by mrighele 3y ago
[...] often involves a lot of drug addicts and negative outcomes for all involved. Sounds more like politics to me :-).
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by mrighele 3y ago
> I’m a developer, I can afford it. None of my friends can. Mom definitely can’t. The only thing that can work for your mom and your friend is, in my opinion, a pair of disks in mirror. When the space finished, buy another box with two o
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by mrighele 3y ago
> Clang is free to produce whatever output it wants because the behavior of that code is literally _undefined_. > They apply a large number of small transformations, each of these transformations is very reasonable One of those transf
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by mrighele 3y ago
What is complicated about throttling downloads, let’s say X times the bitrate of the video? I am sure Google’s engineers can implement something ever more complex
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by mrighele 3y ago
> he seems to be a very careful scumbag I would say that he is not. Going in person to a country that has been invaded and shilling for the invaders is not a very careful thing to do. Neither is getting out on bail and telling on social
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by mrighele 3y ago
Cases like Assange's or Snowden are famous because they are a rare event. And they are still alive. Had they done the same to Russia they would have been poisoned with novichok or polonium, or they would have fell from a window, or ...
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by mrighele 3y ago
I doubt that more than 1% of people using WhatsApp actually care about E2E encryption
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by mrighele 3y ago
> C and Javascript are very different languages with similar syntax I don't know specifically about Picolisp, but many lisps are as different between themselves as C and Javascript are. For example, Scheme is a functional language,
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by mrighele 3y ago
This post on Twitter (pardon, X) [1] by the same author goes back for longer (at least 1912). I guess he crossposted on both and somehow the Mastodon version got truncated. [1] https://twitter.com/paulisci/status/1
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by mrighele 3y ago
At least at the beginning not everybody had hardware that supported DMA for disk access (and those that had it, not always had it configured properly). That meant burning CPU cycles just for doing IO.
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by mrighele 3y ago
In some countries "online nefariousness" include things like trying to access gay communities, or looking information about abortion.
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by mrighele 3y ago
If you want the equivalent of if-expression in JS, I think it is much better to make a separate function with a number of returns. In this case the function is already there: function deriv(exp, variable) { if (is_number(exp)) {
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by mrighele 3y ago
> you have to rely on your OS packages (which includes all the kitchen sink stuff)
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I think it is not difficult to decide: sometimes you want to reference an entity with its current state, some other times you mean with the properties that it has at a specific point in time. For example if I don't pay yearly tax on m
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by mrighele 3y ago
Don't know about OP, but for me it doesn't have to be something "amazing and world changing", but it should be something that makes a positive impact on the society. For example I work in healthcare and I think that the
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by mrighele 3y ago
Snooping was just the mean, not the end. Nobody is asking to be able to do that, people ask to get the same result. When you add memory protection to a system you don't just say "you cannot have process communicate", you give
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by mrighele 3y ago
The issue is that Wayland developers decided that a working addition key was not a core feature of a calculator.
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by mrighele 3y ago
Ah good to know, although I am a bit wary of a license from Oracle that is not a standard open source one :-) (The FAQ says it is free also for commercial use, so I will investigate)
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by mrighele 3y ago
From what I understand, a Java SE Universal Subscription (which should be the one at 180$ /year per employee) gives you the right to use GraalVM Enterprise [1], which has a number of feature not available in the Community Edition [2].
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Ah yes, but I am not complaining about that, and I can understand that the author doesn't want to work anymore on the project. What I am complaining about is the assumption that people using open source software have to contribute to t
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by mrighele 3y ago
> working on open source software is and can be a "real" job. the only difference to closed source software is that the source code is open - nothing else (simplified). That is no small difference. In particular the business is
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by mrighele 3y ago
A type system can help with injection issues. For example you could say that user provided strings are different from literals or from those that you provide. You then allow the user to concatenate them together only by passing through func
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by mrighele 3y ago
> I can say with great certainty: Almost no one rebuilds their damn container anywhere near as often as the the gray-beard in the basement updates the Debian packages on the the server that runs the container. Most probably the gray-bear
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> In the meantime, your PHP app had 40 major security flaws I just did a "npx create-react-app text" and I got "74 vulnerabilities (69 moderate, 5 high)" 40 major security flaws in 10 years sounds almost like a bargai

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