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by pebers 9y ago
Possibly, but a pretty obvious retort is that it's necessarily complex; there is nothing else to do all the things that it does. Whereas for BIOS and EFI the argument would be that they should do as little as possible to hand over to t
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by pebers 9y ago
Maven doesn't specify hard version numbers - the default meaning of "1.0" is >= 1.0, and some packages specify dependencies without a version at all. It's quite possible to get updates of transitive dependencies witho
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by pebers 9y ago
How do you know that you haven't re-allocated the same memory to something else? You won't get a segfault in that case.
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by pebers 9y ago
They can ship a downscaled version of the data for older devices. Standard algorithms like Douglas-Peucker are simple to implement and the quality is bound to be good enough (certainly better than the alternative, which here is nothing at a
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by pebers 9y ago
That graph doesn't show an obvious uptick after the big red "WAR" dot. It's growing fast but seemingly was before just as much. What's it supposed to prove?
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by pebers 9y ago
Possibly range? At that scale the max representable duration is about 16.5 years (assuming they're 64 bits, IIUC the standard mandates that as a minimum) which could be limiting - although that seems unlikely to be a concern in the fra
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by pebers 9y ago
Having spent some time working on build tools at my current company, I agree with some of those, and have repeated some others. That's pretty deliberate though, software is designed to meet a set of needs and for ours assumptions like
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by pebers 9y ago
They can choose from a small set of laptops, but (nearly) all development work is done on Linux desktops.
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by pebers 9y ago
You can increase that connection timeout, although there's an upper limit of an hour or so which it will eventually exceed.
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by pebers 9y ago
On the face of it, the title is incorrect; lots of other countries have had laws against gender discrimination for a long time (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Pay_Act_1970 ). The article doesn't really gi
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by pebers 9y ago
You can't load a native library from inside the .jar file. Typically things that need them extract them to a temporary location and load them from there - there's no standard interface to `dlopen` or similar that lets you load dir
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by pebers 9y ago
I figure that "top 1000" is a lot of books, and there've only been 60 or so Hugo awards, so it seems not unlikely it's in there. I'd also rate winning the Hugo as likely to be better than half a chance of being in t
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by pebers 9y ago
It won the Hugo award in 2015, which makes a pretty strong case that in fact it is in the top 1000.
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by pebers 9y ago
Thought Machine | London | ONSITE | Engineering - Backend or Infrastructure Thought Machine is building the future foundation of the banking industry. The technology underlying banking today is ageing, expensive, insecure, and outdated - we
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by pebers 9y ago
Are there any prior examples of sending multiple status codes in one response? I didn't think you could, but there's not much discussion of it in the draft (a little in section 3 only) which makes me think it's not seen as co
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by pebers 9y ago
It's a bit idealistic to think people can "just" use fat binaries; sure, Go mostly handles that (not completely; by default most nontrivial Go apps are dynamic, which you can fix but not that easily) but that's not exa
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by pebers 9y ago
They aren't changing to Kubernetes internally. It's more of an open-source reimplementation (and modernisation) of Borg, because they don't think it's practical to open-source Borg itself.
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by pebers 9y ago
The Android team used to get access to higher specced machines than the standard engineer, because building Android in its entirety took a long time. At the time you could see them on stuff but could only apply if on one of the approved tea
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by pebers 9y ago
Weight. On warships an allowance is often given to an increased weight of paint over the ship's life, which can be significant enough to affect calculations. For an aircraft that's obviously less acceptable.
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by pebers 9y ago
But that 200KB isn't a standalone executable. The Go example would be a lot smaller if it just distributed some unlinked object code with no runtime.
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by pebers 9y ago
This is nonsense. The probabilistic theory suggested might apply well to the examples they gave of Broadway plays and world leaders in power, which both have natural limits on their timespans, but it's not at all obvious that applies w
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by pebers 9y ago
Most Go binaries aren't over 100MB unless they have a bunch of data packed in them. 10-15MB seems more usual to me unless it's a particularly large project.
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by pebers 9y ago
All true in general, I imagine probably less relevant for Scylla though which is presumably tuned for running in a more dedicated setup.
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by pebers 9y ago
It's not actually a built-in tool any more: https://beta.golang.org/doc/go1.8#tool_yacc For posterity, it's moved to https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/tools/cmd/goyacc
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by pebers 9y ago
If there are enough customers that really want a headphone jack and everyone else was ditching them, it'd be a point of differentiation and hence worth those few cents for some manufacturer to offer one. I suspect that won't happe
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by pebers 9y ago
Nuclear is a source of energy, fossil fuels are both a source and a compact & relatively lightweight means of packaging it. Purely electric-powered cars have only relatively recently become viable for general use, and it's still no
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by pebers 9y ago
The improvement is good, of course, but isn't the whole thing a bit of a straw man? The previous version taking 55 seconds on a Pi 3 seems utterly unacceptable to me, it's actually a pretty capable processor, and even a 15 second
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by pebers 9y ago
Apart from the pop-culture references others have mentioned, the top Google search result is a fairly well-known fashion brand ( https://www.jaeger.co.uk ), I don't think anyone is that bothered by it. I'd guess the rea
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by pebers 9y ago
No, because at the least all three have different executable formats (PE, Mach-O and ELF respectively). I suppose it might end up being possible to ship some sort of HTML + WASM bundle that they all know how to interpret if it became common
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by pebers 9y ago
Really? I've seen it in heaps of places in London - adding 12.5% "gratuity" is common at many places where you'd pay ~£15+ pp.

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