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by snaky 8y ago
The particular inetd was just an example, but even for use with exact inetd from 1986, there are many solutions in modern operating systems to restrict any process, like SELinux, AppArmor, Seccomp and capabilities, LXC unprivileged containe
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by snaky 8y ago
Or maybe not. https://www.pymnts.com/news/security-and-risk/2018/consumers...
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by snaky 8y ago
So it might be a wrong step in right direction - as the majority of regulations usually are.
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by snaky 8y ago
> there is no network addressability of serverless functions Didn't inetd (4.3BSD, June 1986) solve the problem?
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by snaky 8y ago
> Joel Moses has been credited with coining the phrase in the 1970s > APL is like a beautiful diamond – flawless, beautifully symmetrical. But you can't add anything to it. If you try to glue on another diamond, you don't ge
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by snaky 8y ago
They aren't hacked yet when they make decision about buying the router, and anyway they cannot differentiate based on security promises marketed to them by vendors.
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Michael Stonebraker: “My 10 Fears about the Future of the DBMS Field”(youtube.com)
3 points by snaky 8y ago|0 comments
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by snaky 8y ago
Consumers care about speed and don't care about security, so it's reasonable choice by vendors.
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Serverless Computing: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back(arxiv.org)
465 points by snaky 8y ago|222 comments
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by snaky 8y ago
All you need to know choosing home routers - could you install OpenWRT on it, or not.
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by snaky 8y ago
That's not about copyright actually. The license is a contract, and you decide to sign it or not - by deciding to use the software or not. The contract in theory may include any restrictions you can imagine. There are in practice some
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by snaky 8y ago
> I cannot, however, tell you that you can’t put the book on the same bookshelf as that of my rival, or that you can’t read the book while flying a particular airline I dislike, or that you aren’t allowed to read the book and also work f
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by snaky 8y ago
> if you write them a cheque, they'll cash it That's why all the great scientists are working in the Fintech industry. (No, they are not)
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by snaky 8y ago
My impression is it's rather low-level verification and modelling language comparing to the platforms like Kami ( https://deepspec.org/entry/Project/Kami )
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by snaky 8y ago
And the probability to find the corner case ('input = 0') for the simplest expression ('value = 1 / input') this way is not quite astounding.
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by snaky 8y ago
Especially considering you could generate faster C code than written by hand. With Proofs, Without Compromises http://adam.chlipala.net/papers/FiatCryptoSP19/FiatCryptoSP1...
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by snaky 8y ago
Well, it's still better than "Google One 2.3 Tab S3 Plus 10.1 (EU ver), with stylus"
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by snaky 8y ago
> Chinese leadership realizes it's only one real recession away from existential threat. That's true for at least 30 years now.
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by snaky 8y ago
> Also known as "authoritarianism", and the security community seems to be full of it. This, exactly. Maybe that's déformation professionnelle of a kind.
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by snaky 8y ago
'ML' is really confusing nowadays. Especially with such words as 'compiler' and 'optimizer'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML_(programming_language)
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by snaky 8y ago
> the great advantage of being open source In a name only, like Chromium and many other FAANG projects.
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by snaky 8y ago
> the next frontier for cloud providers is in custom silicon for specific workloads Sure, the cloud is a classical mainframe, and mainframes are famous for using specialized hardware for pretty much everything.
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by snaky 8y ago
https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/px61-nvme Substract VAT from the price, add HDD for WAL, and setup PostgreSQL on a couple of them.
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Google’s China Problem Is America’s China Problem(bloomberg.com)
1 points by snaky 8y ago|0 comments
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by snaky 8y ago
Delphi was much more productive, but VB6 was more broadly present on US enterprise market.
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by snaky 8y ago
OneNote (PC version). https://onenote.uservoice.com/forums/327186-onenote-for-wind...
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by snaky 8y ago
> High-performance lightweight desktop email clients https://www.ritlabs.com/en/products/thebat/features.php "Continuously improving since 1998"
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by snaky 8y ago
> there could be a million reasons why Yes, but 990,000 of them would be capacitors. Check capacity and ESR, replace bad ones - done.
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by snaky 8y ago
It depends on how you define 'advances', https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18629063
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by snaky 8y ago
Eastern European engineers are not.

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