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by nialv7 7y ago
3.5 floppy and CD-ROM are replaced by something that does everything its predecessor does and better. Whereas bluetooth headphones are not 1:1 replacement of analog headphones. e.g. they have a battery, their audio quality is worse.
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by nialv7 7y ago
> in one declarative file Which is not always up to date, and exposes all the available options. I found myself often need to dig into nixpkgs and add missing options myself during the time I was trying out NixOS. And believe me, that wa
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by nialv7 7y ago
Turning off overcommitting can break certain applications that relies on it. For example, the address sanitize allocates huge address spaces as shadow memory. I do not think overcommitting is the problem. I believe the problem is Linux won&
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by nialv7 7y ago
a.k.a Make Linux Unsafe Again.
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by nialv7 7y ago
I've heard that is problem is caused by Linux's overcommitting strategy. Basically, initial memory allocation never fails (unless you set special flags), but no memory is actually allocated on the spot. Memory is only allocated wh
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by nialv7 7y ago
This is just C being generally bad at any feature detection. This is why the "./configure" exists, and you check for the existence of headers and functions there.
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by nialv7 7y ago
seL4 probably isn't the best target for an attack. Attacking the underlying hardware, or the application running on top of seL4 is going to be easier, as both of them is going to be more complex and likely to not be formally verified.
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by nialv7 7y ago
Tizen is still a thing though, just not in the smart phone space. Tons of smart TVs are shipped with Tizen. Last smart watch that uses Tizen is shipped in 2018.
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by nialv7 7y ago
There is a federated alternative to Reddit in the works: https://github.com/dessalines/lemmy Previous discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19686972
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by nialv7 7y ago
This is what always happens with SNSs, isn't it? The company starts small, and user-centric. People likes the website, a community starts to grow. And then, the company starts to find ways to be profitable. But at this point, most peop
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by nialv7 7y ago
If they really want to encourage reuse of their devices, why would they incentivize the users to turn their devices into unusable trash by giving them credits for doing that? > but I also think that's where good recycling programs m
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by nialv7 7y ago
1) data races are different from race conditions. and data races are what this sanitizer detects. 2) data races are undefined behavior in C, but: 3) they don't necessarily translate to bugs in practice. for example: https://
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by nialv7 7y ago
No, but it's becoming less relevant now. Certain things thought to require bp rewrite (e.g. vdev removal) are now implemented without it.
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by nialv7 7y ago
How does that help? Surely the attacker is a real person too.
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by nialv7 7y ago
> “Never transfer my Number” flag what if you actually want to transfer your number?
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by nialv7 7y ago
The reason radio is robust against disaster is because it's peer-to-peer, not because it's analogue. So, a like-to-like alternative is probably a encrypted local mesh network.
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by nialv7 7y ago
usr stands for Unix System Resources, not user.
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by nialv7 7y ago
The fact that some other country also did this terrible thing doesn't make doing it less terrible.
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by nialv7 7y ago
If you are the only one using your program, then that's probably fine. I cannot count how many times I have to patch other people's makefile so their code won't fail to compile because of some -Werror introduced in a newer ve
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by nialv7 7y ago
This is an example of why you shouldn't use blanket warning options like -Wall in combination with -Werror. Otherwise your program might fail to compile just because the dev randomly thought of some new things to warn about.
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by nialv7 7y ago
Even if it doesn't change anything, they at least stood up and fought.
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by nialv7 7y ago
> We still have WebKit and Firefox and (sooner or later), more of Servo at least. Do remember though, Mozilla's income is heavily dependent on Google. If we want a browser engine that can remain completely free, we really need a eng
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by nialv7 7y ago
I think this sort of things should be done by some html minifier, not by a human. Because the omission rules are not trivial, and removing these tags doesn't really help readability.
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by nialv7 7y ago
Maybe they are talking about the numerical stability of the algorithms?
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by nialv7 7y ago
Do things this way creates a single point of failure (the weather satellite), which is one of the thing cryptocurrencies try to avoid.
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by nialv7 8y ago
"Oh, you don't like the AMP url? OK, how about, we solve this problem, BY MAKING YOUR BROWSER LIE TO YOU. How does that sound?" - Google, probably. If you look back, Google has made multiple attempts at "improving"
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by nialv7 8y ago
You are probably using Simple Tab Group
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by nialv7 8y ago
> What I have a problem with is, these sorts of leaks allow American elections to become a target of nation-state attacks. Let's look at it this way, assuming those leaks were really backed by nation states, they will have a way to
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by nialv7 8y ago
Gmail "solved" the spam problem not by making email centralized, they did it by making a good spam filter.
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by nialv7 8y ago
The problem is not that they don't lock down. The problem is nowadays no one has the ability to go through and vet every single version updates of every dependencies they use.

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