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901.
by orra 6y ago
> I don't really buy that dynamic linking all the things is such a boon to security. Agreed. It's really not a panacea. When you upgrade a library, you probably want to restart the running applications that depend upon this. Dy
902.
by orra 6y ago
> This is true, and it says nothing about that point of view being neutral. In fact, quite the opposite. Maybe I should have said 'legitimate'. Basically, I disagree with your prior indignation.
903.
by orra 6y ago
This is progress: previously you were pretending the term "infect" is neutral. People are entitled to opinions, but we're entitled to call out negative ones.
904.
by orra 6y ago
A term can be technically accurate, but biased because of its connotations. "Infect" has incredibly negative connotations. Why not say cross pollinate? Recently in the UK we have pundits talking about migrants as "infection v
905.
by orra 6y ago
Interest rates for savers are record low. That's the opportunity cost for the savers. And a central bank of a sovereign country can arbitrarily increase liquidity, pushing down the non-risk part of the interest rate. But interest rates
906.
by orra 6y ago
Sure, yes. But OTOH I'm not sure the distinction you make is meaningful. If there was no risk, the cost to borrow would tend towards zero. Any liquidity issues could be addressed by the central bank, again at low interest if no risk.
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by orra 6y ago
Azure Data Studio is slick, but disappointingly it's not open source. (It's source available with a proprietary license). BeeKeeper Studio has hence caught my attention. There are is also an open source database extensions for VSC
908.
by orra 6y ago
Indeed. Lenders conveniently forget the reason they can charge interest is because there's a risk they won't be paid back. Yet when these private investments go back, they always go to the government to be subsidised with a bailou
909.
by orra 6y ago
Then that's quite some impressive, uh, decompression.
910.
by orra 6y ago
Not by themselves, but maybe they didn't use an optimiser before. Or used a far better optimiser now. Or tweaked the logo, and now it's more amenable.to optimisation.
911.
by orra 6y ago
That's good. But I don't think the major cloud providers make it very obviously, either way. And when something's not clear, often the answer isn't good.
912.
by orra 6y ago
Privileged? Maybe not. But in general, Docker is not a security boundary, but people treat it like one.
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by orra 6y ago
Cloud hosting... if you're on the same physical node as a malicious actor, then ouch.
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by orra 6y ago
I think you're being a bit melodramatic. It's a request, not a demand. And this project's maintainer is being more upfront than other projects.
915.
by orra 6y ago
Yeah, it's an absurd complaint. I mean, I like copyleft licensing. But it's perfectly reasonable (albeit possibly naïve) to request commercial donations on a non-copyleft project.
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by orra 6y ago
TBH I'm not sure which particular snarky site you mean!
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by orra 6y ago
> A lot of the fun is in the hallway conversations etc though, so would still recommend attending if you can at some point in the future I look forward to it; next year is plausible, now that we're manufacturing vaccines.
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by orra 6y ago
Yeah, I have always found it interesting to read some fosdem slides, and catch a talk or two (with sped up playback) from the video archive. I always meant to actually attend. Now I can, easily, online. So no excuses.
919.
by orra 6y ago
In case anybody mistakenly thinks doing so is 'cheating', you're the author of both libraries! This is absurd, but in a good way.
920.
by orra 6y ago
Indeed, exhaustive pattern matching is sweet. What is the noddy explanation of how it is achieved, I wonder?
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by orra 6y ago
Argh, you're right. I badly skimmed over the JCVI document.
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by orra 6y ago
This is nonsense. It's not about national pride. The UK authorised Pfizer first. We knew back in December how effective just one dose[1] of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is, at stopping death. See figure 2 on page 28. [1] https:&#x2F
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by orra 6y ago
> Countries that have a supply of Pfizer/Moderna I'm very excited that RNA vaccines are now a reality. But the logistics for these RNA vaccines is much more difficult. Specialist freezers are required. Meaning it takes longer t
924.
by orra 6y ago
Indeed. These are some of the best vaccines ever invented[1]. Look at the two charts[2] in this paper from the UK's JCVI. They show the number of severe incidents (severe COVID or death). The linear or exponential growth curves are for
925.
by orra 6y ago
:-). F# tooling (e.g IDE support) is infuriatingly not as good as C#. Yet at the same time, the tooling is pretty decent, especially for a functional language.
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by orra 6y ago
Cough : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/tools/fsharp-... Should be a bit easier!
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by orra 6y ago
Worth remembering these vaccines are even more successful at stopping death and hospitalisation, than the headline efficacy figures. The headline figures count any COVID as a failure.
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by orra 6y ago
You're not wrong that win32 is very verbose. > A loop is required for correctness for most (but not all) Win32 calls that return dynamic data... A very good point, one very rarely mentioned. Of course, the win32 windowing and common
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by orra 6y ago
> So the question is, can a non-Windows builder get these files, and then convince this crate to look for them wherever it placed them? Yes, there's actually a prebuilt Windows.Win32.winmd file in the repo, underneath .windows/
930.
by orra 6y ago
Fair enough, and gotcha. Thanks.

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