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541.
by ris 7y ago
Thankyou!
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by ris 7y ago
The thing I find craziest about PDF/A is it isn't really a format in itself, just a vague promise not to use certain features in the ensuing file. Whether any reader holds the file to that promise is something I'm quite doubt
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by ris 7y ago
Yeah I've been doing this for years developing in KDE's kate, which, being a KDE application using the kio system, can operate on files transparently across a number of protocols. The faff my colleagues used to make with their Sub
544.
by ris 7y ago
I actually see the just-a-git-project aspect of the Nix/Guix distribution maintenance a massive win on transparency grounds. I agree that I'd like to see a bit more dedicated "ownership" of key components, but I see that
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by ris 7y ago
But is a browser-based audio environment ever going to have the low latency and robustness requirements for something like live performance?
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by ris 7y ago
But it was possible to see this trouble coming from way back. Docker, Inc. took on over $150m of VC investment up to the end of 2015. One hundred and fifty million dollars. How do you possibly plan to show a return on such an investment
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by ris 7y ago
Sometimes I feel like all I do is plug Nix. But NixOS has a neat feature where any (?) NixOS configuration can trivially instead be built as a "vm", which will assemble an initrd for the described system along with a script which
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by ris 7y ago
> without Homebrew, Macports (oh hey, BSD ports!), or pkgsrc (oh hey, BSD ports again!) The only thing that makes macos at all usable for me is Nix.
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by ris 7y ago
There's also Kata containers, also originally an Intel project https://katacontainers.io/
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by ris 8y ago
Came up with something along these lines at my last place - not actually the hardest thing to do as long as you've got a robust & convenient locking system available to you. In my case I abused the common db instance that all the c
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by ris 8y ago
Yet more hardware junking up the world for people who can't configure software. Got to wonder how rigorously people who install umpteen of these sorts of devices around their home maintain them.
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by ris 8y ago
I thought AWS Xray was the non-transferrable skill that you were supposed to pour your time into and amalgamate into your project to solve this problem. Always space for one more I guess!
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by ris 8y ago
I thought about this, but I think in the general case it's not always obvious whether the lesser of two evils is to risk getting false positives (by being too "robust to wording changes") or false negatives by being too stric
554.
by ris 8y ago
Unfortunately sometimes software or APIs don't give codified error messages or exceptions and the _only way_ to detect the cause of the error programmatically is to scrape the error message, as horrible as it is.
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by ris 8y ago
This company's "patent program" is everything that's wrong with the patent system. Patents are (well, were) intended to protect critical parts of work, not to be farmed for building up a war chest.
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by ris 8y ago
Nix is not "your own dependency management system"
557.
by ris 8y ago
You're confusing static typing with strong typing. Python is strongly-typed, but not statically typed. Python's optional typing could also be used to get rid of a lot of your assertions.
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by ris 8y ago
What you're actually saying here is "Using Go I'm going to leave the application with unmaintained versions of its libraries", which is a bit of an alarm-bells statement from a security point of view. It's perfectly
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by ris 8y ago
> Linux and Docker! Yes, you’ll have the same deterministic and secure result Nope, not at all. Dockerfiles are not deterministic. Most of the ways I see Dockerfiles written are highly non-deterministic. Docker also requires root acces
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by ris 8y ago
So... USB4 will be hideously insecure by default?
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by ris 8y ago
Great writeup of a situation I've been in before. The path that the query planner traces through the space of all possible query plans is not always a smooth curve. That's the best way I have of explaining it. Interestingly, the
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by ris 8y ago
Microservices are an anti-pattern.
563.
by ris 8y ago
Hmmm. The more money companies raise, the less honesty we tend to see from them.
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by ris 8y ago
The source being where?
565.
by ris 8y ago
This is an advertisement.
566.
by ris 8y ago
No source, no thanks.
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by ris 8y ago
> all dicts are effectively OrderedDicts in PyPy, but your code will break in CPython if you rely on that implementation detail Actually since CPython 3.6 (or maybe it's 3.5?) the same is true in CPython too, though I'd persona
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by ris 8y ago
This approach is basically like building a tiny version of numba http://numba.pydata.org/ .
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by ris 8y ago
I think each of your stated benefits ought to be prefixed with "In a perfect world...". In the real world people don't make perfect decisions about things, and even where they do, requirements often change. Particularly t
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by ris 8y ago
This is so close to my experience it's eerie, down to the X-series thinkpad and KDE. I downright dread each major OS upgrade and the KDE that comes with it - they only ever get slower and more unreliable. I will almost certainly make t

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