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by sorbits 6y ago
Do I understand correctly that the attacker forks a repository with GitHub Actions enabled, modifies the action, submits a PR, which makes GitHub run the altered action? If so, I wonder if there is a legit need for running modified GitHub
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by sorbits 6y ago
On the Commodore 64 the OS was a REPL and ? was shorthand for PRINT, therefore you could type `? 2+2` and you would get the result printed. This felt so intuitive to me that ever since, I’ve ensured my machines had ? do calculations in the
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by sorbits 6y ago
Another point is that there is a psychological difference between sitting behind the wheel in a vehicle knowing that around 10 in 100,000 people get themselves killed each year, and then sitting in a machine that kills 10 out of 100,000 peo
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by sorbits 6y ago
Apple’s reputation system seems limited to iMessages, not regular text messages. At least I only get the option to “report as junk” for iMessages (that are sent by people not in my contacts).
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by sorbits 6y ago
As you can only report messages you receive, and you probably need to report them many times before it has an effect, you are limited to hurting people you are in frequent contact with. So seems a little self destructive.
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by sorbits 6y ago
> Is there anything today that feels like a underground scene that's "happening", that is acting as a technological vanguard, that is full of mystique, but that hasn't gone mainstream yet? The demo scene felt like ab
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by sorbits 6y ago
> So you own it, and assumedly have exclusive rights to sell it, but it's also very easy to copy and distribute And this is also questionable. I mean, anyone can make a perfect copy and sell it. They cannot get that sale recorded
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by sorbits 6y ago
> BTC might still be a terrible system for international transactions but it's still 168 times faster than the one that exists now. It is 168 times faster than what you currently use . There are services like TransferWise who spe
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by sorbits 6y ago
> And settlement happens in seconds to a couple minutes That is incorrect. On average it takes 10 minutes to mine a block, but you have to submit the transaction to be included in the block, so > 10 minutes before it appears on the
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by sorbits 6y ago
Normally the government leverages its power to keep its currency stable. If a country fails at that, the residents tend to switch to another country’s currency, for example USD is widely accepted in countries with unstable currencies, and t
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by sorbits 6y ago
> All this in an application that has no exported functions This is not strictly true: On macOS/iOS the OS/frameworks/plug-ins may call your methods, likewise with support for services, input managers, distributed object
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by sorbits 6y ago
> That Splitwise entry isn't a bank transaction until maybe weeks later when I get a Venmo payment from a roommate covering several Splitwise requests, and for my budget I want to match up the $100 charge at the grocery store with
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by sorbits 6y ago
> Does your operating system have all its files directly placed in "/"? The various directories all share the same disk storage. I would argue that creating multiple accounts in your bank is akin to creating multiple dis
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by sorbits 6y ago
> I tell about UPI to my friends in Western countries, When they tell how easy and seamless Apple Pay has made their payments, they're often surprised that such system exists here […] Western countries in your statement is probabl
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by sorbits 6y ago
To me it sounds like they basically just lied to the maintainers of the BoxOfficeMojo list, because it’s a list of revenue, and their movie did not create any revenue at all, even though they rented a cinema and did five screenings, nobody
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by sorbits 6y ago
But you already understand makefiles, so try using both What is it that ok files can do that Makefiles don’t? I don’t buy your complexity argument, a Makefile can be as simple as: 1: ./build.sh Now you can run “make 1” and
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by sorbits 6y ago
It’s lighter-weight. Not as cryptic. Can also hook it up to your makefile targets, make them easier to access. The only additional “weight” in the Makefile would be the name of the target, where you leave it out and have it default to 1,
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by sorbits 6y ago
For the last one, worth mentioning CDPATH: CDPATH The search path for the cd command. This is a colon-separated list of directories in which the shell looks for destination directories specified by the cd command. A sample value is ".
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by sorbits 7y ago
> That's the theory yes, but I was asking about real life. Did those early microkernel systems actually deliver? According to Wikipedia “[MINIX] can also withstand driver crashes. In many cases it can automatically restart drivers
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by sorbits 7y ago
> […] showed greater reliability than competing commercial microkernels What is your basis for this claim? I am only aware of QNX as a commercial microkernel (and real-time OS) and that is widely used in cars, medical devices, etc. wit
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by sorbits 7y ago
> Did this advantage play out in practice? If your filesystem module goes down then every module that talks to the file system module needs to gracefully handle the failure or it will still effectively crash the system. If the file sys
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by sorbits 7y ago
The advantage of microkernels is that they can be extended with “untrusted” code like hardware drivers or file systems. This runs in user space and thus any bugs in such code will not crash the kernel process. So I agree with you that Linus
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by sorbits 8y ago
The project lead seems to be about ensuring the community thrives and #2 on that list is about documentation. As alluded to in my grandparent, what I was looking for was a venue to submit my open-ended thoughts about how to transition Jekyl
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by sorbits 8y ago
Proposing my code be used as the basis of Jekyll 4.0 would be a bit controversial and require a long discussion about pros and cons, a possible migration strategy for problematic plugins etc. Call me old fashioned, but opening an issue on G
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by sorbits 8y ago
The Jekyll code base would need major refactoring to allow for the lazy evaluation when using `serve` (and it would break some plugins) and likewise for the parallel builds because this is done with `fork` (as Ruby doesn’t have proper concu
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by sorbits 8y ago
As I already had content with templates in liquid and custom plugins written in ruby, migrating to Hugo would definitely have taken longer than doing the initial proof-of-concept, and despite the performance, I am happier working with Jekyl
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Creating a Faster Jekyll(sigpipe.macromates.com)
33 points by sorbits 8y ago|17 comments
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by sorbits 8y ago
What tools are you talking about? The “problem” with ruby is that you basically don’t know if code is valid unless you execute it, whereas a statically typed language will enforce a lot of things during compilation and simply not allow the
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by sorbits 8y ago
I use the following to maintain a journal: http://jrnl.sh/
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by sorbits 9y ago
Thanks for the clarifications. As for #1, what I do not understand is how a `Walkfile` allows me to use a content hash change to trigger a rebuild. Your documentation says that a file list should be returned for `deps`, so how does the `Wal

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