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by tgma 1y ago
> I wasn't getting paid to fix their code, I have no interest in helping Google for free, and don't want to help Google. Extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence. Software can be buggy, for sure, but as you yourself ack
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by tgma 1y ago
> I have personally found several fuckups in gRPC and protobuf code resulting in application crashes or risks of remote code execution . Would be great if you report such remote code executions to the authors/Google. I am sure they
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by tgma 1y ago
Take over and change? They were adding functionality: embrace and extend . It wasn't like most reasonable people wouldn't agree it was lowercase "javascript". Seems pretty similar to what's happening today.
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by tgma 1y ago
I mean I get Oracle hate and stuff, but remember the great and lovely Sun Microsystems used all tricks in the bag against Microsoft with respect to Java late 90s/early 2000s. So, is "X abuses IP law" hatred is out of principl
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by tgma 1y ago
https://packages.grpc.io is an XML page styled with XSLT updated by a bash script in CI
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by tgma 1y ago
I hope this ends up superseding Cython
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by tgma 1y ago
TLS is one of the best success stories of widely applied security with great UX. It would be nowhere as successful with that attitude.
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by tgma 1y ago
> Absent device trees, AOSP as of the Android 16 release is a subset of the utility of Android 15. If one sees the use of AOSP as mainly relying on the now absent functionality, then declaring "AOSP is dead" is not unreasonable
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by tgma 1y ago
> Pretty much no large companies except AWS (thank you Byron Cook!) use them at a large scale. I don't think that's true at all. I suppose that depends on what you mean by formal methods and in what context you're concerne
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by tgma 1y ago
Mm... AppStore and Gatekeeper?
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by tgma 1y ago
I'm glad this will kill the Docker Desktop clone business on Mac. Friend company got hit by using one of the free ones and got rug pulled by them.
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by tgma 1y ago
Not sure what result you are referring to but in my experience, many of the academic research papers use “students” as test subjects. This is especially fucked up when you want to get Software Engineering results. Outside Google et al whe
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by tgma 1y ago
I bet most of them are just dumb and video based as they work on both Android and iOS.
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by tgma 1y ago
Obviously -- that is not my question though. I was curious if that data is exposed via API or within the image for front camera as well, so a third party app can do it.
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by tgma 1y ago
Can method 4 be used by a security application to do liveness detection?
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by tgma 1y ago
The point was GC cost in general, not which Java/JVM implementation you choose. Try comparing two Androids with the same chipset at 4GB vs 8GB RAM. Anyhow, that was just an anecdotal unscientific experiment to give you some idea--obvio
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by tgma 1y ago
IBM is a huge and quite balkanized company and I don't think there was ever a centralized push towards Swift outside some excited parties. With that, I would note that circa 2018 there was a DRAM shortage in the industry and people sta
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by tgma 1y ago
No one gets promoted fixing bugs. Rewriting an entire system is a great way to achieve that.
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by tgma 1y ago
Your comment is definitely true. However, if you study GC performance academic papers over the past three for four decades, they pretty much conclude GC overhead, amortized, can be on par with manual alloc/free[1], but usually the unwr
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by tgma 1y ago
Which other sufficiently popular modern language that's more efficient than Java lacks a tracing GC? Rust and Swift are pretty much the only two choices and Rust is arguably much more pain in the ass for the average joe enterprise code
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by tgma 1y ago
Right. The 7-day week cycle is also completely arbitrary, perhaps the most arbitrary of all time duration units, but having something of that nature has proven useful. The 7-day week originated in ancient Mesopotamia, particularly Babylon,
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by tgma 1y ago
I don’t buy it at all. If you are that used to conversions, you probably remember the direct offsets by heart. I know I do for the three or four time zones I care about. That said the whole conversion thing is not an immaterial burden unles
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by tgma 1y ago
Not really familiar with their internal affairs but as a retailer they have been nothing but great in my experience as the customer. In the end, any large company will at some point be accused of certain things, rightly or wrongly, and I am
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by tgma 1y ago
Why does it matter for your normalized baseline to be UTC? Why not your local time and convert everything into that in your head. The reference time zone seems arbitrary and your primary residence's local time makes the most sense IMO.
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by tgma 1y ago
Fry's had an interesting vibe and felt you time traveled to the 90s, but my gosh they were so weird. They searched your bag on the way out. Microcenter is a godsend although it'll be hard to beat B&H with Payboo card.
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by tgma 1y ago
I felt the same. They feel super corporate with all that bloat and the DEI stuff they shove down your project throat, it does seem to be an arm of Google et al.
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by tgma 1y ago
Some people go to camping now and then to hunt their own food and feel connected to nature and feel that friction. They just won't want it every day. Just like they don't tend to generate the underlying uninspired assembly themsel
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by tgma 1y ago
What you described is pretty much exactly how modern provable cryptography field works today. Reduction to assumptions about certain primitives and constructing the boundaries of security given such assumptions. E.g. "Assuming AES bloc
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by tgma 1y ago
Evidently during the donation process CNCF requires them to give them the trademarks so they own it.
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by tgma 1y ago
A better question would be what is the point of CNCF? Why would you voluntarily sign away your trademarks to some random third party without gaining something?

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