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by shockinglytrue 6y ago
Given the frequency and consistency of narrative with which it appears in the press, at this stage I'm convinced it's an empty UAV used entirely for some marketing purpose
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by shockinglytrue 6y ago
The press around the X-37B continues to perplex, it's particularly disappointing to see this "super secret but let's talk about it constantly" article using the word "very" 3 times. I think it was drilled into
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by shockinglytrue 6y ago
IIRC it doesn't use ANS for every compression level, can't remember much more than that, though
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by shockinglytrue 6y ago
It's been a few years, but I seem to remember there simply was no way to detect end of non-compressed content lacking a length header without first reading the TOC except substring search. This would quickly get very messy when the non
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by shockinglytrue 6y ago
Well, we're not discussing creating zip files where seeking is an option, we're discussing streaming in the context of the attached link which uses it concretely in terms of writing to a network.
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by shockinglytrue 6y ago
> Kind of a shame someone has to specifically implement a low memory usage library. That implies other implementations went the lazy route. Streaming and seeking are antithetical, an implementation gets to pick one, and I imagine for mos
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by shockinglytrue 6y ago
Certain fields in the ZIP local file header require random access at write time. Although deflate is self-delimiting, for non-compressed items you must either know the size of item upfront, seek after learning the size, or force all readers
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by shockinglytrue 6y ago
If performance doesn't matter, why bother attempt such a complex change at all?
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by shockinglytrue 6y ago
There really was no hope of this without ditching reference counting, and consequently a much more destablizing change to the C API which was all but entirely unharmed during the 3.x transition. There have been several attempts to bring new
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by shockinglytrue 6y ago
What constitutes a real application? There is some obsession with preserving client-side state as if the user could not live without it, and yet in almost every case where significant engineering has been put in to (essentially) reimplement
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by shockinglytrue 6y ago
I wouldn't presume to speak for everyone, but in my case particularly e.g. when making the leap back to PC away from macs, I poured over maybe 100 of this kind of review before settling on a final choice If people weren't reading
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by shockinglytrue 6y ago
> tolerable cross platform toolkit ..for the 90s. There was very little about XUL that would survive today other than its layout model Ignoring that XUL has a single implementation and for the most part a single application suite actuall
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by shockinglytrue 6y ago
I'm having trouble understanding what point is being made. Netflix entire business is shipping bulk data, I imagine the cost of transcoding and media management to be a rounding error in that grand scheme. Netflix appears to support wh
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by shockinglytrue 6y ago
Try running any service with an average egress exceeding 10 Mbit/s then tell me cloud still makes sense. By the time you reach 1 Gbit/s the very idea of it is enough to elicit a primitive biological defensive response. We don&#x27
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by shockinglytrue 6y ago
This is why like me, you're not a cryptographer. AES256 is a cipher, its one component of a cryptosystem. Analysing cryptosystems is a complex area that does not involve vetting software for buzzwords. I can take AES256 and make it out
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by shockinglytrue 6y ago
Serverless isn't a cure all, Ansible has had numerous code exec bugs due to e.g. interpreting strings coming back from remote machines or third party APIs as templates. Some of these bugs aren't even that old
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by shockinglytrue 6y ago
ansible-vault is homebrew crypto
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by shockinglytrue 6y ago
Attributing this just to Salt is deeply unfair. Ansible has had many similar issues over time, also homebrew encryption etc.
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by shockinglytrue 6y ago
CloudFlare's free plan can and does end at any moment, I wouldn't rely on it for any serious application
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by shockinglytrue 6y ago
You're cute :) Unfortunately the Firefox codebase itself is the only marketing tool at work here. I still use Firefox for everything else, not least due to the fact it isn't trying to swindle every last private detail out of me, b
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by shockinglytrue 6y ago
I'm a diehard Firefox fan, but I will be honest: its JS and rendering performance is garbage compared to Chrome. I play games and use complex web apps (GCloud, Office 365) exclusively in Chromium
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by shockinglytrue 6y ago
Take a look at the Russell 2000 for a wider gauge of where money is flowing. Small businesses are still getting trashed
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Google search promotes decade-old (+166%) AWS bandwidth pricing(archive.is)
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by shockinglytrue 6y ago
It claims to fix MongoDB
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by shockinglytrue 6y ago
Much better link: https://github.com/hse-project/hse PR is insane hot air referring to another hot air product (can you even buy their 3D Xpoint devices yet?)
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by shockinglytrue 6y ago
Snaps (and Flatpak) are the app store pipe dream all over again, about 11.. 12? years too late. If anything treat them as early indicators of the future financials of these distros, if attempting this all over again is central to their futu
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by shockinglytrue 6y ago
I think any xoogler will agree https://sites.google.com/site/testsitehacking/-36k-google-ap... is far more impressive. It seems fairly safe to assume someone has already snapped this guy up. I can't recall th