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by nickcw 6y ago
Nice article! Back in the day I wrote 10s of thousands of lines of Z80 assembler - it was my first actual paid job after university. You got to know each register - they have their own character - need a loop - well you need B and DJNZ, nee
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by nickcw 6y ago
Great idea! I'm not sure we should be writing new network connected daemons in C though.
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by nickcw 6y ago
I'd argue that all security is security by obscurity, it is just a question of how many attacker-seconds it takes to break. Obscurity means keeping something private that if the attacker knew they could access your service. Traditional
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by nickcw 6y ago
What I'd really like is a multiprocess safe embeddable database written in pure Go. So a database which is safe to read and write from separate processes. Unfortunately I don't think this one is multiprocess safe.
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by nickcw 6y ago
If you need a min-max heap (or double ended heap) in Go here is one I've used: https://github.com/aalpar/deheap Very useful when you need it!
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by nickcw 6y ago
Keep that stuff away from my filesystem is my first thought on the matter! Having had a fair amount of experience dealing with case sensitive, case insensitive and HFS+ (argh!) file systems in rclone, all I can say is that it is really hard
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Mysterious metadata monster swamped Google’s blobs and crashed its cloud(theregister.com)
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by nickcw 6y ago
That is what I'm using too
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by nickcw 6y ago
I moved from KeepPassX to XC recently. It has the same features but the user interface is so much better. The android app is great too. I use rclone to sync my keepass file to Google Drive which means it is always up to date on my phone too
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Recent global warming trends are inconsistent with high climate sensitivity(phys.org)
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by nickcw 6y ago
This isn't wildly impressive. Looking at the wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history you can see a new Android is released every year around August. So what Samsung seem to be saying i
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by nickcw 6y ago
The problem with wikis in organizations is that they are a bit too unstructured. When a company is small they are great, but they accumulate cruft, the people who wrote the pages leave, they get disorganized, no one knows where to put pages
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by nickcw 6y ago
Thanks for explaining this! I have that domain blocked at the firewall so all I see is guce.advertising.com refused to connect. I wondered what it was about and how a techcrunch link could go straight to guce.advertising.com
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by nickcw 6y ago
What's the best way to get a supported scanner on Linux? Buy a scanner, put it in a box for a year, then it will work fine!
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by nickcw 6y ago
I had a lot of problems with this in rclone. Rclone has backends which connect to cloud providers. These all implement a common interface. So far so good. However some cloud providers can implement optional features, say a server side copy
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by nickcw 6y ago
Is the source of Frinklang available? I couldn't see it in a few minutes of searching.
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by nickcw 6y ago
I use LibreOffice because it runs on my machine - MS Office doesn't. If MS made a Linux version I'd probably get that. LibreOffice is at its best if you make the docs and edit them just in LibreOffice. It's great at making st
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Chrome and Firefox are getting support for the new AVIF image format(zdnet.com)
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by nickcw 6y ago
I spent a lot of time reading Knuth's books, especially Seminumerical Algorithms when I was implementing multi precision arithmetic for various architectures. What amazing pieces of work they are. That was back in the time when you cou
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by nickcw 6y ago
Love the service - I've just signed up to give it a go. I also use the "send to kindle" chrome extension which takes the web page page you are looking at and sends it to your kindle. I find it really useful for long reads I n
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by nickcw 6y ago
Nice tool - I'll be putting that in my toolkit. I love the way she straces the tool to find out how it works - a true hacker at work :-)
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Experimenting with Error Handling via Generics in Go(deedlefake.com)
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by nickcw 6y ago
Has there been an announcement from Apple to say they will virtualize Docker to run x86 images or is it just speculation? I would have thought running arm64 Docker images would be the best way forward.
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by nickcw 6y ago
This is a nicely written article about getting C++ to parse a 64 bit integer represented as an ASCII string as fast as possible. It starts with the library version, moves onto a custom version, then unrolls, then does clever tricks then fin
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by nickcw 6y ago
I thought this was the most interesting paragraph. > What Can't Be Translated? > Rosetta can translate most Intel-based apps, including apps that contain just-in-time (JIT) compilers. I guess translation of JIT compiled stuff imp
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by nickcw 6y ago
When I was at school I was in the combined cadet force, and being interested in electronics I gravitated to Signals as it was known. On exercises it was our job to provide communications and quite often we would lay miles of copper wires in
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by nickcw 6y ago
You can seek with S3 using the Range header. The latencies are poor though!
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by nickcw 6y ago
There is loads of great maths stuff on YouTube. For some reason this is my favourite channel: black pen red pen. The author solves unusual algebra or calculus problems. I find it quite relaxing! https://www.youtube.com/user&
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by nickcw 6y ago
I just finished that. Great book!
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by nickcw 6y ago
It is interesting that the speed of lstat on macOS is the driver behind this problem. According to the article it is 10x slower than Linux. I wonder if anyone has tried attacking that end of the problem? Faster lstat on macOS would benefit

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