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by ploxiln 10y ago
I'm pretty sure the plan is to put this one in a museum. Later variants are supposed to be easier and more reliable to re-fly.
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by ploxiln 10y ago
Try not to forget that Trump got 46% of the popular vote, to Hillary's 48%. And don't fool yourself, those numbers are comparable.
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by ploxiln 10y ago
Very complicated systems, like computer hardware and software systems, particularly services and distributed systems, do have this un-intuitive property of amplifying competence differences. healthcare.gov is one visible and notable example
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by ploxiln 10y ago
What it changes is the discussion of solutions. Is this a societal problem, or a problem just for the computer technology industry? Where do we attempt to apply fixes? Are we adding a bunch of strange work-arounds far from the root of the p
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by ploxiln 10y ago
I think the best summary I can link to is here: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.security.policy/... Though it doesn't mention the 30000 certs or 127 certs, it does say: (long quote from Ryan
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by ploxiln 10y ago
I think this is it. I think it needs to be worded: "There are 30,000 certificates which no one knows for sure the validity of, and thus need to be revalidated." The 127 merely proved that misissuance was quite possible, and did ha
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by ploxiln 10y ago
That's a common misconception about the GPL. You can use GPL software for yourself with no restrictions. The license requirements come when you redistribute the software. By the way, you can't redistribute copies of Windows ar
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by ploxiln 10y ago
The big problem vim has in this particular test case is the XML. Vim syntax highlighting of XML is significantly slower than other syntaxes. I disable it for XML in my vimrc. A large C or json file would be a good test case to add. (Also, a
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by ploxiln 10y ago
Or a few other cases of large files, e.g. huge c files (like the sqlite3 amalgamation). Vim's xml syntax highlighting in particular is very slow, but other C-like languages are fine.
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by ploxiln 10y ago
Well that's downright reasonable. Bravo, 1966 federal lawmakers.
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by ploxiln 10y ago
Wow, fixed in 2016. As I recall, this was marked "wontfix" in 2013: https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-stud... It's been _possible_ using the NT Unicode APIs since Windows 2000: htt
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by ploxiln 10y ago
Since I'm a "performance guy" I use vim ... which has been 64-bit compatible since last century. Sure, Visual Studio is a much much bigger challenge to make compatible. But come on, they've had over a decade during which
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by ploxiln 10y ago
I've worked in California. The standard employment contracts usually do include all the clauses, but then add something like "if any of these clauses is not considered legal in this jurisdiction, they are considered not to apply a
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by ploxiln 10y ago
If you think about Makefile syntax being an earlier member of the same family as Python, the major difference is that tab may have been a more ubiquitous indent convention at the time (but I really don't know). I still prefer to indent
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by ploxiln 10y ago
I think this is one good concrete example of why the npm style of private dependencies for each lib is not the greatest thing ever, while the non-recursive style in python (or C) is overall more manageable (if you are actually managing your
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by ploxiln 10y ago
To explain the other answer a bit more: TLS upgrades have always been opt-in. The problem is that you have to be very clever where you put that option, or some (expensive and popular and dumb) webservers and middleboxes will just freak out
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by ploxiln 10y ago
I didn't claim that Linus came up with the design from scratch, nor that git was less experimental than monotone in 2005. Just that no one used monotone, so git was not a reduction in safety/assurance compared to any in-use SCM. A
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by ploxiln 10y ago
But even with IOCP, Windows IIS implements request handling as a kernel module to accelerate it, and yet still isn't faster than nginx on linux with many cpu cores. https://www.rootusers.com/wp-content/uploads&#x2F
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by ploxiln 10y ago
Thus my qualification "well known". I was aware of monotone and Darcs ... but never used them, or knew anyone who did, or anyone who seriously considered it. I have no idea if Darcs is "cryptographically secure". But bot
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by ploxiln 10y ago
You're saying Linus's statements are "hugely misleading", but it's just that you wish git were designed to be used differently. So, your argument is "horseshit". Linus could have designed a cryptographic
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by ploxiln 10y ago
If anyone is really interested in more assurance of git commit contents, there's "git-evtag", which does a sha-512 hash over the full contents of a commit, including all trees and blob contents. https://github.com&
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by ploxiln 10y ago
Is there any other way to convert from short-ish names to dat addresses, currently or planned? (If short names always depend on some content hosted at https://same-domain.tld , what's the point?)
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by ploxiln 10y ago
Or, alternatively, it wants to take money out of the pot currently reserved for people best able to game the existing complex and flawed systems, and distribute it everyone fairly, including those who need it (some small number of whom curr
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by ploxiln 10y ago
Apple and Google make exceptions for their blessed push-notification services - just those services get reliable long-lived connections (and also have re-connection of course). Other applications, even with processes using some official API
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by ploxiln 10y ago
There's always some limit. At $PREVIOUS_JOB I think it was at least 48 hours, probably over 72 hours, of replication log retention (usually measured in GiB though). So it's surprising that in GitLab's case it must have been l
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by ploxiln 10y ago
Clustering and automatic fail-over and recovery is not always a great idea. It sounds like you want it implemented so you "don't have to worry about it", but fail-over and recovery systems are a lot more complicated and troub
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by ploxiln 10y ago
No need to "target 3 decades ago", just be reasonable. > Popular themes for many different kinds of blogging software and CMSs contain anti-optimizations so blatant that any programmer, even someone with no front-end experience
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by ploxiln 10y ago
I notice it in my browser's memory usage.
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by ploxiln 10y ago
It's the first time I've posted it, and I think it's more appropriate for this story than others in recent memory. I'm also pretty sure I haven't seen it on the many VSCode stories (and I have "showdead" e
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by ploxiln 10y ago
I agree. But the reason they felt forced to do this is because even "reputable" software companies were auto-injecting unnecessary extensions as a side-effect of installing their popular software. Companies like Adobe and Microsof

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