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by rom-antics 4y ago
What is the threat model you're worried about? If an attacker can write data to your disk or authenticate to your cluster, aren't you already screwed?
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by rom-antics 4y ago
iirc there was a proposal to have Zig used `funcptr.()` syntax (with a dot) for indirect calls, but it was rejected.
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by rom-antics 4y ago
I can buy that dereferencing null is a special case, but why is 0x2 special? Is 0x20 also special? What about 0x20000? Are the invalid non-null pointer values listed in a reference somewhere? If 0x2 is an invalid pointer, what do I do if my
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by rom-antics 4y ago
Even then I still think it's clearer to put a `let` in the outer scope instead of putting a `var` in one of the inner scopes.
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by rom-antics 4y ago
> I'm not sure if it has the option to limit writes, like puppy? From https://easyos.org/about/how-and-why-easyos-is-different.htm... : > Flash drive will last "forever" > The default mode is to
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by rom-antics 4y ago
https://easyos.org/about/how-and-why-easyos-is-different.htm... > In a traditional "full" installation, the filesystem occupies an entire partition, with the usual /etc, /bin, /usr, /pr
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Wine Wayland Driver(gitlab.winehq.org)
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by rom-antics 4y ago
> bun's binary is around 90 MB right now This made me curious, so I checked out bun's repo and it's 217k lines of Zig (ignoring the other languages). Can you share what Zig's build times are like for a project that si
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by rom-antics 4y ago
I don't think HN is deny by default. Most emojis are stripped, but some still get through. I don't know why 🆔 would be whitelisted
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by rom-antics 4y ago
Edge cases like this will just get more common as unicode keeps getting more complex. There was a fun slide in this talk[1] that suggests unicode might be turing complete due to its case folding rules. I miss when Unicode was just a simple
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by rom-antics 4y ago
Right, it's just a binary. And if I'm installing an app, say Audacity, I would never go to GitHub and download the raw binary, because then I'd have to write the desktop file by hand, and also the app would never get updated
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by rom-antics 4y ago
I wanted to like AppImage, but it just didn't seem integrated well enough. Flatpak gives you: - Installation (no manually moving files from ~/Downloads) - Launcher integration (no writing .desktop files by hand) - Auto updating As
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by rom-antics 4y ago
A trillion ain't what it used to be. That's 2.5% of the market cap of the S&P 500. The stock market fluctuates by 2.5% all the time.
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by rom-antics 4y ago
Linux also started out as a toy project. https://fossbytes.com/linus-torvaldss-famous-email-first-lin...
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by rom-antics 4y ago
The point of that section was that those commands work the same everywhere. You can type both cd and Set-Location on both Linux and Windows and it will work.
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by rom-antics 4y ago
Seems unlikely. The paper is about performing certain computations in the analog domain, trading precision for power efficiency. Hashing requires lossless computation.
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by rom-antics 4y ago
I would at least get someone to write a letter. That much isn't expensive and there's always a chance they'll give in at the first sign of legal trouble. If that doesn't work though, and the amount isn't worth a leg
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by rom-antics 4y ago
If you did the work and they withheld payment, that's damages. Lawyer up.
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by rom-antics 4y ago
> Isn't there a legal concept that you can break the law to prevent a further harm? Like speeding on the way to the hospital. Nit: this is a popular myth, but no, you're not allowed to do this. An officer can use discretion and
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by rom-antics 4y ago
At a strategic level, surely the website is bad in order to drive people to the mobile apps. Simple enough. But I wonder how this result was actually accomplished - are there Reddit developers deliberately adding JS bloat so scrolling is ch
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by rom-antics 4y ago
> added trust of Microsoft What trust is left? Trust that they'll sell your data to loan companies? https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-edge-buy-now-pay-la...
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by rom-antics 4y ago
https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/childsexualabuse/fast... > Someone known and trusted by the child or child’s family members, perpetrates 91% of child sexual abuse. Don't believe everything you see o
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by rom-antics 4y ago
The people you're paying are the reason you have to fill out those forms in the first place. This is like saying you're happy to pay the mafia their protection money because it makes you feel safe.
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by rom-antics 4y ago
If I understand you, if the URI database outlives the URI itself, the URIs in the database would still be useless, right? If somebody buys uber.com, it does not matter if we preserve "uber.com/xmas-sale", since the uber.com d
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by rom-antics 4y ago
> printed URLs True, but I still think users would trust "uber.com/xmas-sale" over "tinyurl.com/FgL82" or whatever. It's not that much extra typing. > Also, why is Twitter’s URL shortener exempt from
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by rom-antics 4y ago
The article says that such a URL database should never be used in the first place. You don't have to pay anybody to preserve the history of your data, if you just maintain control of your data in the first place. It's just 30 more
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by rom-antics 4y ago
> GCs do various resource clean up that mean certain bugs are not exploitable. Rust does not have that. All of the work Python does at runtime with a GC, Rust does at compile time with the borrow checker. GC is orthogonal to the idea of
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by rom-antics 4y ago
You can cherry pick stats like that about any language: https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/28/python_pypi_security/ > About half of Python libraries in PyPI may have security issues Pretty bad, right
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by rom-antics 4y ago
$ git clone git@github.com:django/django.git $ cd django/ $ rg ctypes|wc -l 112 Looks like ctypes are used in gdal/geos, core/locks, the orcale db driver, and the test runner (but just c_int??). (And I&#x27
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by rom-antics 4y ago
We're talking about URL shorteners here. If you have a 20 character URL, which points at a blockchain, which points at a 50 character URL - just store the original 50 character URL and skip the blockchain. The only real use case for UR

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