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by saywatnow 10y ago
DNS lookup stalls as motivating concurrency .. messy, complicated code with known bugs .. seriously? It's not that hard to call getaddrinfo() in a thread and feed results back (atomically) over a pipe. No shared memory or mutexes nee
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by saywatnow 10y ago
Unfortunately, no. At least not with anything resembling R6RS scheme. upvar/uplevel give you dynamic access to the calling context, which is at odds with scheme's insistence that compilation must be possible, including the erasu
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by saywatnow 10y ago
> Scheme > the rest of my userland One of the reasons I eventually got fed up with Scheme is that interfacing it with the rest of my userland was really quite hard. IO, subprocesses, networking just weren't as smooth as Unix wan
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by saywatnow 10y ago
Your loss. I agree that the way it's sold as "EASY" (caps appropriate) is a bit ridiculous, but SELinux does add a stong layer of protection from vulnerabilities in one service leading to total server pwnage. Ignore the rhe
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by saywatnow 10y ago
What this is, is another accidental slide down the slope towards centralisation of the web. Yes, it's easy for a techie to add a letsencrypt cert, but browsing with https-by-default I still hit a lot of sites that lack https - mostl
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by saywatnow 10y ago
Related: > A Novel Method for Representing Hierarchies in a Relational Database Using Bignums and SQLite Stephen Huntley, Tcl conference 2011. https://s3.amazonaws.com/pub.xhuntley.net/Huntley_Tcl2011.pd...
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by saywatnow 10y ago
also, the photo is taken inside the back of a truck. Hence the webbing and blankets. Just how credulous are people?
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by saywatnow 10y ago
> With a quick Google image search for “ballot boxes,” he landed on a shot of a balding fellow standing behind black plastic boxes that helpfully had “Ballot Box” labels. Do ballot boxes actually look like that? Is it a coincidence that