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by thedance 7y ago
Unsupervised Static Asset Server Converts Probably Simple HTTP Requests to 404 Errors.
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by thedance 7y ago
All this seems to me a series of very strong arguments for doing the crypto in your application.
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by thedance 7y ago
This is an argument against area denial doctrine, not an argument against chemical weapons as agents of area denial.
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by thedance 7y ago
What is the primary source on this? None of Alphabet's mouthpieces contain this information. I glanced at Google's own blog, various YouTube blogs, several official Twitter accounts, and SEC filings in EDGAR. I search PR Newswi
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by thedance 7y ago
5 minutes to compile the 4500 regexps? Seems like a major tradeoff.
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by thedance 7y ago
Why aren't chemical weapons (for example VX) effective area denial weapons? They seem damned good for the purpose.
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by thedance 7y ago
When you say that Tupperware is 5 years behind Borg, what do you mean? It would take 5 years to add current Borg features? It lacks features Borg had 5 years ago? Or it would take 5 years to reach parity with Borg as launched, i.e. it&#x
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by thedance 7y ago
Username checks out, except that LaserDisc didn't have Macrovision. Growing up we had a store-brand Montgomery Ward VCR with manual gain controls (video and audio). Great for copying tapes from Blockbuster.
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by thedance 7y ago
This is also true for Google, though. Cloud is a low-margin business compared to everything else Google sells, and the bigger cloud becomes the worse Google's quarterly reports look.
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by thedance 7y ago
You're right, this is the one that started it all. Sorry for being so jaded; I've been through two distinct efforts of "Spanner, but without thinking" in my recent career.
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by thedance 7y ago
This is really the key point, and the main thing that many people overlook. The purpose of TrueTime in Spanner is not gained by absolute accuracy. It's gained by knowing the clock uncertainty across all participants and affirmatively e
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by thedance 7y ago
The latest entry in the surprising crowded genre: How can we copy Spanner, but without all that pesky correctness?
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by thedance 7y ago
https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/production-...
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by thedance 7y ago
Well, let's try to imagine if BNS pooped out a corrupt update. Would every BNS client just silently pass on it, or would they all instantly suicide? I'm honestly not sure it's the former.
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by thedance 7y ago
Hey looks like we both worked there! Break everything and be paralyzed, that was our motto.
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by thedance 7y ago
Or is it just that the Zoom web experience is really poor? Google Meet and BlueJeans web UIs are great.
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by thedance 7y ago
What if your binary, or one of its libraries, is not built with LLVM?
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by thedance 7y ago
One thing I really wanted to be able to do with Propeller was a post-link optimization of a Go program. Go's compiler is both fast and terrible. If you glance at the text, opportunities for simple optimizations abound. Unfortunately th
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by thedance 7y ago
I think it's a demonstrated fact that nobody cares about the out-of-the-box distro performance, because recompiling Ubuntu for your actual CPU (or anything newer than Opteron) gives large speedups on every program. Doing whole-distro P
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by thedance 7y ago
The bugs are mostly, in my experience, just cumulative jank resulting from excessive Android uptimes. Android, being about on-par with Windows 95 in terms of software quality, needs a daily reboot to keep itself running.
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by thedance 7y ago
You can control android auto with physical buttons. It’s really up to the car makers. In my car I rarely need the touchscreen. I use a pixel 3a in a Honda Clarity.
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by thedance 7y ago
Rust standard library is dramatically more useful than C’s. C doesn’t offer any kind of collections in its libraries. Every C project just grows its own differently broken hash maps and linked lists.
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by thedance 7y ago
We obviously have very different perspectives on this issue. I think given Google's architecture, where a host handles millions of flows and they are all individually keyed, just the key management nightmare alone would be enough to di
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by thedance 7y ago
10tb sounds like a big scary number but when you think about it that's only 100 100gb ports. It should be no surprise to you that a company making their own switches and NICs, where every RPC is individually authenticated and possibly
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by thedance 7y ago
Well, of course. Practically all of the primitives in openssl boringssl etc are coded in assembly.
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by thedance 7y ago
Reduce it how? By deploying expensive, unreliable, and hard-to-manage vendor crypto garbage? That is undoubtedly not a trade that a Google would make.
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by thedance 7y ago
Because C programmers are 1000x more common than Rust programmers. Edit: "only" 50x according to TIOBE.
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by thedance 7y ago
None of the big clouds use hardware network encryption. All of the resources in your network are at the leaves, so you might as well use their CPUs to do it. I think Google published that crypto and compression in their internal RPC stack
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by thedance 7y ago
The only criteria for English should be abilities at least as good as the worst teaching assistant in the undergraduate college. This is the lowest possible standard of English language proficiency. """ WHEN Mark W. Eichin s
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by thedance 7y ago
"As for the children of prominent campus donors, [former MIT director of undergraduate admissions] Crowley said a college's development office might reach out to the dean of admissions to say, "Hey, just so you know, Lisa&#x2

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