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by spc476 9y ago
I read the paper, and it appears to describe a scenario where users don't even own the computer---they just rent time on a computer run by somebody else (known today as the "cloud"). Also, it seems to describe a silo of appl
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by spc476 9y ago
Yeah, I think Microsoft did this in the 90s. Something something OLE [1] something something. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Linking_and_Embedding
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by spc476 9y ago
I doubt it. The stack pointer is modified upon function entry, exit, and per function call (parameters pushed onto the stack, popped off afterwards). You could try to add code to every function to check of the stack pointer is between two
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by spc476 9y ago
I would accept that (maybe with a follow up question if the code generated by flex and bison is re-entrant; I know that the older lex and yacc aren't). I also would accept "I would first look for an existing library that can pars
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by spc476 9y ago
Where I work, I deal with call processing (the stuff that happens when a call is made between two phones). If I were doing an interview, I might ask "We now have to deal with SIP, which means dealing with SIP messages, which are text
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by spc476 9y ago
As a pundit I read says, "when those in charge start acting like it's a crisis, I'll believe in the crisis." When you see government officials and Hollywood high-rollers flying in private chartered airplanes to exotic lo
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by spc476 9y ago
Back in college I did a few things that today, might have netted me a visit by the Net Cops [1], but since I knew the sysadmins of the systems in question, I never got into trouble. A friend of mine though, who wasn't friends with the
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by spc476 9y ago
I have a Lua module I wrote that allow me to do stuff like: process.limits.soft.cpu = "4m" -- limit to 4 minutes of CPU time process.limits.soft.core = 0 -- and no core file Yes, ultimately, it ends up in setrlimit(),
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by spc476 9y ago
Yes. My girlfriend has a bellsouth.net email address (it's our ISP). Recently, Tumblr announced that anyone with an email address belonging to AT&T (and yes, bellsouth.net is owned by AT&T) will no longer be able to use said
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by spc476 9y ago
If you can get DOES> working, you really understand how Forth works. I have a toy Forth implementation where I got DOES> working, and I still have a hard time understanding how I got it working.
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by spc476 9y ago
It's what you get used to. I'm used to x86 being "dst,src". It never bothered me that on the Motorola 68000 it went "src,dst" as, it was what it was. Intel defined it one way, Motorola another way [1]. My gr
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by spc476 9y ago
You might very well be using the software my company produced. I'm not sure how the database is constructed, but there is a query we make that returns the type of call, it's reputation (on a -4 to +4 scale---low score is bad), th
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by spc476 9y ago
A few seconds actually. There's quite a bit of features that need to be checked along the path (said as someone working in the telecom industry providing name information).
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by spc476 9y ago
I can confirm. At work I have to deal with call processing [1], and the time guard [2] is 15 seconds on the originating side [3] for CDMA [4]. [1] We provide enhanced caller ID---a name in addition to the phone number. Our new product wil
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by spc476 9y ago
I found this YouTube channel--- https://www.youtube.com/user/greeningofgavin/videos---that goes rather deep into the cheese making process. The host makes cheese---all types of cheese, at home. It's pretty i
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by spc476 9y ago
They would care when their laptop shuts down. [1] [1] I was running a test today when the program being tested ran into a very tight loop and the fan really kicked in. I was curious if it would finish and let it run for several minutes u
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by spc476 9y ago
If you really need to use LuaJIT, then you best stick with Lua 5.1. Otherwise, use Lua 5.3---it supports 64-bit integers (unlike Lua 5.1/5.2, which only use floating point) and if you are doing any parsing of binary data, string.pack(
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by spc476 9y ago
I'm using it at work to parse SIP messages (with LPeg) for one of our customers (one of the cellphone carriers). Between LPeg for parsing, and coroutines in Lua, the code is pretty easy to read and follow.
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by spc476 9y ago
Then there's a major earthquake and your GPS co-ordinates change.
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by spc476 9y ago
I recently did a similar thing [1]. The major difference I did was to store the registers on the stack instead of a separate structure. The stack is the thread structure. I also have a version for x86-32 bit and x86-64 bit (and they wor
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by spc476 9y ago
This was attempted back in the late 80s/early 90s with RPC (from Sun) and CORBA (not sure who is responsible for that monstrosity). This time around it's what ... 0MQ and Protobufs?
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by spc476 9y ago
The SGI computers come to mind. Completely blew everything out of the water through the mid 90s, then couldn't compete once high end graphic cards were available for the PC.
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by spc476 9y ago
A bit high, as it is a captive audience.
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by spc476 9y ago
Had to pay, but there was an actual menu to order from, unlike an airplane with one (or no) meals.
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by spc476 9y ago
My girlfriend, who worked for US Customs, has a story about the sugar industry here in South Florida. Sugar harvesting is done in the winter and the companies, for quality reasons, prefer to have the cane hand harvested. The companies woul
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by spc476 9y ago
The one time I took a train (Amtrak) I found it was nearly impossible to work due to the swaying of the train. The other down side was the return train was a few hours late (Amtrak does not own the track where I was traveling). On the plus
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by spc476 9y ago
Wow ... weird to think I'm running one of the 370 gopher servers left in the world: gopher://gopher.conman.org/
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by spc476 9y ago
Concur. On my one round trip with Amtrack [1] the train back was a few hours late. As my friend (who I traveled back with and is a train aficionado) said: "At best, a train is on time." [1] http://boston.conman.org&#x
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by spc476 9y ago
Certainly roomier than a train, and some of the train cars are gorgeous . I had a chance to ride in the Georgia 300 [1][2] and man, that's the only way to travel. [1] http://boston.conman.org/2015/08/05.4
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by spc476 9y ago
CBOR [1] allows the semantic tagging of data values and makes a distinction between binary blobs (a collection of 8-bit values) and text (which is defined as UTF-8). [1] RFC-7049. Also checkout http://cbor.io/

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