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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
"header only" is C-speak for "up and running in 15 seconds" more or less. One major concern with integrating a new dependency in C land is how much of a pain in the ass it makes your build, especially considering a large
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
I'm not sure where I stated they have no credibility, only that the situation was deeply humorous
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
Forgive me for chuckling at law enforcement in by far the world's largest exporter of consumer malware for treating a single comedy deepfakes app with so much paranoia and suspicion. How did that common saying go that was bandied aro
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
Their inter-AZ pricing is certainly no accident. I'm betting for a large chunk of custs it nets them something on a par with egress
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
In a similar vein, '0' is INADDR_ANY, which in connect() usually means the local machine (except Windows?). So for webapp development, http://0:3333 is about as convenient a URL you can get, except it doesn't work
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
Could a trick along the lines of the Apple SMC copyrighted phrase be used to poison a protocol against a cloud provider? Release your client and server under a license like AGPL, with an attached file not under AGPL that both components req
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
I had a quick peak at the web server log, it's tiny. The typical legitimate egress from this network is likely somewhere well under 1gb/day, yet somehow these people managed to upload at least 2TB without being noticed In a well-m
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
Speaking as a developer, I've had my ass handed to me by competent security folk on several occasions. Unfortunately in the software industry, security must regularly be an additional ingredient that can be purchased and mixed in, beca
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
I wouldn't say that, but they do suffer from something the IT industry as a whole suffers from: there is/was a need, and by fulfilling that need, they find themselves in a quandary where they're committed to something that mu
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
Possible case, furthered tempered by "infosec industry source". :) It is their job to sell fear
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
A long history of terrorist attacks, e.g. bombing the hotel the prime minister was sleeping in at the time (1984). More recently there have been many van attacks mostly by Muslim extremists, and that's what the barriers are about
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
At their core these systems are basically specialized column stores, they have complete different read/write patterns to something like ES. The basic query unit for example is always going to be the scan, I'm not even aware of any
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
For anyone with a modicum of C spending any amount of time in the sudo codebase, this isn't much surprise. It's the scariest piece of organically grown security-sensitive code I'm aware of still in popular use. It's jam-
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
How many times did you repeat the test? 98% you had a youtube video playing in the background or some full text indexer was running or similar. As for the 2%, I find it hard to believe constantly flushing caches and rejigging page tables on
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
This post touches briefly on ujson. I found it a long time ago, and while I can't vouch for the quality of its implementation, it's very popular and seems to work just fine. Any time I've encountered a bottleneck due to parsi
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
I'm 35 (I think!), the last time I received a cheque in the UK was 2001
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
Repatriation is paid for by the travel industry, the government have nothing to do with it
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
Pretty certain parent commenter is fully aware of what they're doing. :) It's a masterpiece (at least, I hope they're fully aware!)
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
Presumably it works by mapping that file underneath a regular memory allocator, that means extremely small and random IO patterns. I think "must" is appropriate as a real backing file would likely mean a slowdown of 1-2 orders of
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
> Could there possibly be an innocent explanation where the channel through PRC somehow happens to be less saturated or otherwise faster? AIUI these aren't empirical measurements of routes actual traffic takes, but reconstructions f
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
I guess with a metal antennae you have a permanently reflective surface, AIUI once one of these are disabled they become basically radio-transparent again, which means less of a blip on radar
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
I'm someone who used to crack up if he hadn't had a cigarette in 3 hours. Replacing cigarette with vape isn't some natural effort, but it is far from hard to do either. The nervous compulsion to have a cigarette is satisfied
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
A series of loaded questions does not convince anyone :) With large accounts all of these tools start to break down, by that point it's much easier to work from the command line than, say, navigating GCloud's single global view of
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
Since starting to use Google Cloud for bits and pieces I've come to appreciate the AWS UI approach much more than previously. All those little spartan pockets of UI means nothing gets overengineered, the tools feel more like a quick In
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
I had the displeasure of touring the building from the article, and can say categorically that place is a modern day shithole, replete with random inner doors in the property padlocked shut from the "residents". It's basicall
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
Command Prompt Here was a mandatory install, forgot all about it!
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
There is an entire ecosystem of tooling that will shit itself and wake up half the company if you assign a public IP address in the wrong VPC Stuff like this is pain in the ass, it was a major problem
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
This has been a /major/ sore point for Lambda use, amazing they fixed it, and always great to see they've documented the intense engineering requirements involved to make it happen. AWS is a beautiful mix of business and tech
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
Cool story, just a tiny nitpick.. > The malware also has wormable properties Malware doesn't have wormable properties, the bug being exploited to implement the worm is the thing that is 'wormable' in industry parlance. I t
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by slovenlyrobot 7y ago
It's exactly the same deal on OS X. There is no stable system call interface that is not the C library, and it's one of the main reasons they don't allow static linking there either

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