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by stringy 5y ago
My biggest concern would be lock-in to the license, not lock-in to an old Python version. The nominal cost to get up-to-date right now doesn't guarantee me perpetual updates, right? I'm also suspect of the misleading presentation
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by stringy 12y ago
The resolution does mention there will be documentation on switching to sysv after an installation, so I assume this option will have to be officially supported; it sounds to me as though systemd is simply a default, not a requirement.
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by stringy 12y ago
I find it telling that the recommendations for mitigating these sorts of vulnerabilities include adding some slop to the end of allocations (which I believe will only prove to make off-by-one errors "acceptable" when they are clea
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by stringy 12y ago
The fish[1] shell also has process substitution (without requiring additional syntax) in the form of psub (which is implemented simply as a fish function; see `type psub` from a fish shell): bash$ wc <(grep script /usr/shar
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by stringy 12y ago
Well put! Rust shines in that these sorts of abstractions (channels being just one example) which must be builtin in other languages can be expressed as library types in Rust. It is a distinct strength, not a weakness as this article seems
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by stringy 12y ago
According to RFC 1034[1] hyphens can only be interior to a label; it appears many tools simply follow these recommendations strictly. The exact wording is: "They must start with a letter, end with a letter or digit, and have as interio