nullwasamistake

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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
Docker is the Myspace of container engines. It's stupidly unreliable, at least on MacOs. I've resorted to running system prune every week or so to keep it from getting totally out of control. Reminds me of NPM and rm-rfing node_mo
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
Eh, he didn't use NIO. BufferedReader is an ancient Java relic. Like reading from STDIN in c, it's not made to be fast, it's there for convenience and backwards compatibility. Read a file using something like Vert.X, which is
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
For some of us the cure has been around for a long time. I've got a buddy that's been taking finasteride for many years, hasn't lost any hair since. Apparently it's like 80% effective at stopping hairloss in it's tr
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
Yes. Google has been doing this for years, they serve a degraded version of YouTube as well. Get an add-on to change your user-agent to latest chrome
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
This is interesting coming from MS! I've used a lot of VM/GC languages and IMO C# is the best of them all. All the things people complain the most about, like type erasure in Java, or lack of generics in Go, are done right in C#.
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
They're still keeping performance optimizations out of CE (free) version. Unheard of for a language runtime and quite crappy
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
In Java at least, you can write your own Charset implementation then the language will support it normally. This uses the byte raw access I'm ranting about to work
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
I had to convert some strings to Base85 some years ago to integrate with an ancient system. There's no way to support all the different character sets out there "out of the box". Unless you want a crippled language you need t
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
> Again, no. You need to be able to decode byte sequences that have particular encodings into strings of characters. You keep reiterating this, but it's not feasible. To avoid exposing the raw values, the language would need to supp
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
Another option, now that MS open sourced .NET core, is to use C# They learned from Java's terrible sins. Features include value types (you can even use them as generic params!) And no type Erasure. Besides massive improvements the lang
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
You need raw values for serialization over the wire and to files. And for any kind of compression. And for searching (it's hard to build indexes in Unicode because of uneven symbol widths). You could convert to a different character fo
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
It's basically unusable, as is Twitter. It's to get you to download the app.
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
Depends on the license. If it's permissive I'll pop open the code to see if it's any good. Maybe 50/50 it's good enough. From scratch only if I'm doing something truly unique. New algorithm/protocol. Unpop
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
Your site is public, what do you expect? It's not abuse to load public websites. T&C is meaningless for public sites. Equivalent to real life sign hanging in a shop "whoever reads this is bound to the following conditions&quot
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
In general, Kotlin is 5-10x faster than JS and uses 1/2 the memory. The speed difference depends on what you're doing, but I would guess it's rare to find situations where Kotlin is less than twice as fast
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
I really like rust, the design is great. I'm glad they cleaned up OOP and ditched nasty C++ stuff like templates. However, I went through the book recently and I'm quite annoyed that much of the syntax differs needlessly from C li
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
I agree. The language design is great, but they purposely use weird conventions everywhere. And by weird, I mean foreign to C++ programmers which is 90% of their user base. They should have done what java did. Copy C++ syntax, only change i
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
> are there launch failure scenarios that involve complete loss of crew but successful orbit? Explosive decompression. Not sure if shuttle crews wore pressure suits. Happened on a Russian mission once, during reentry. They opened the cap
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
Yeah, they get some points for admitting WAF rule updates bypass canary deployments so that they can be applied ASAP. But still. Recursion attacks against Regex are extremely well known. The only reason I can fathom for not having an execut
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
The main problem is that their Regex library doesn't have a recrusion limit. I'm honestly amazed they've been able to scale Lua scripts to the point they can use it as a global WAF. Knowing this, it may be easy to create atta
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
It's normal. I get email on other devices but we're expected to use company hardware for real "work". I wouldn't put company stuff on my own PC even if they demanded it. Corporate laptops are usually filled with off
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
It's fairly easy to use Class Data Storage and include an archive in Java 12 where startup time is important. This reduces start time significantly. JVM starts really quick (~100ms on my machine) and doesn't use much resources as
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
I'm mostly referring to those that say the JVM is too "resource heavy" then go on to use JS/Python/Ruby instead, which have much higher runtime overhead. In my experience many dev think the scripting language herita
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
Or you can just use a more memory efficient language like Java. Python and JS use tons of memory compared to strongly typed VM languages like C#, Go, Java. People lament Java memory usage but Python/Node use several times more
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
Building it into the language has the advantage of enabling fiber code in all libraries. I think rust is making a huge mistake here. The reason it's even possible to retrofit fibers into old Java code is because all the threading and a
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
Java is attempting to avoid this complexity using Fibers like Go. It also makes most old school threaded code compatible without a bunch of work. Rust was originally going to use fiber threading. The reasons they didn't are lost to me
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
I have noticed this as well. The US govt is trying to send a message by declassifying this stuff, it's just hard to infer what that is. Maybe it's to let foreign adversaries "know that we know" that they're watching
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
WAF are basically all HTTP proxies. If you app has a non-broken HTTP implementation they're useless.
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
WAF is brittle and breaks more than it fixes IMO. It's just regex against URL's in 99% of cases. If you think you need one, you need to fix the app code, there will be more vulnerabilities it doesn't block
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by nullwasamistake 7y ago
Yes. Needing any of these to secure your application means the app code is broken. Every WAF I've used breaks URL's randomly because they're just pattern matching against known attacks to a definitely broken system. Any prope

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