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751.
by thwarted 10y ago
That perl code that Time:HiRes to measure the time it takes to start perl via system(), which includes the time it takes to fork a shell and parse the command and then fork to spawn perl. `time perl -e '1;'` is more representativ
752.
by thwarted 10y ago
Infrastructure that works has very little drama. Without drama, you're not in anyone's sphere of attention, and being outside that, there's no reason to be sexy.
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by thwarted 10y ago
Taking the position that linux needs to be unfucked is saying that it was/is fucked, and that systemd is the Savior that will unfuck it. Many people don't beleive that. But that they don't beleive linux is fucked doesn'
754.
by thwarted 10y ago
And this is where I'm most uncomfortable with so many of the ways systemd wants things to be done. So much of what systemd provides could have been done with minimal changes to init and by offering better alternatives than what was
755.
by thwarted 10y ago
The difference is that pre-systemd, there is no safe way to guarantee that all processes are reaped on logout if some of the processes are written maliciously to try and avoid being reaped. And this is a red herring. If the process is ma
756.
by thwarted 10y ago
This wording, which appears frequently in defense of whatever changes systemd forces on the Linux ecosystem as a whole, implies that systemd is some kind of savior providing features that are neither offered nor considered anywhere else. As
757.
by thwarted 10y ago
Not to mention that, with a new interface to keep things running after logout, nothing is going to stop something else misusing that, either purposely or accidentally, to remain running, and we end up right back where we started. Interest
758.
by thwarted 10y ago
In the Compiler Design class I took 20 years ago, we used the dragon book, which I found to be pretty accessible for someone who already knows how to program (at least in an academic setting). The only production (non-educational) compiler
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by thwarted 10y ago
And no content. I get a web server directory listing, with no entries. The content only seems to be served via http.
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by thwarted 10y ago
There are competing interests at play Those competing interests feed into the supply and demand curve. Those who don't want new development, for reasons of neighborhood character, density, whathaveyou, increase demand for not buildi
761.
by thwarted 10y ago
Maybe many developers are familiar with it because it is text and thus accessible. Technical excellence matters not if no one is using it. Although I think that accessibility to humans is a major contributor to technical excellence.
762.
by thwarted 10y ago
Is just something I and the other contribs try to do with love, without pretending we are going to save the world. I wish this vision was a bit more common So much open source is the result of, as is traditionally said, developers scratch
763.
by thwarted 11y ago
and anyway most of the arguments against it are the same copy pasted critics from day one The age of an argument doesn't negate the argument, especially if it has not been effectively addressed since it was first proposed. Those argu
764.
by thwarted 11y ago
This episode has one of my most memorable Riker lines: If he had gotten off the planet instead of me, don't you think he would have made the same choices that I made? I always felt this line showed how disconnected Riker was about th
765.
by thwarted 11y ago
Are you saying HTTP/2 're-implementing multiple connections on top of a single TCP stream' is a bad thing? Not necessarily; I'm saying that it is another layer of multiplexing on to of a layer of single connections, th
766.
by thwarted 11y ago
The alternative would be using multiple connections, or reimplementing your own version on top of HTTP/2. HTTP/2 is re-implementing multiple connections on top of a single TCP stream. It's turtles all the way down. The ab
767.
by thwarted 11y ago
But for whom is it more efficient? The capital owners or the non-capital owners? What happens when the non-capital owners are of no use to the capital owners? That's the problem with trying to excuse the abuses that are permitted with
768.
by thwarted 11y ago
Lol. This sort of statement is often made by people who don't want UBI. "Its just communism/socialism/etc." No its not. Its penance for an otherwise ruthless and unrepentant capitalism which has successfully underm
769.
by thwarted 11y ago
I assumed you were talking about those with VC funding and in the bay area when you referred to "startup environments". And that's exactly who I'm ragging on: SV startups who hire a fleet of inexperienced fresh grads be
770.
by thwarted 11y ago
If you want to help ensure success, having an expert team with experience on day #1 is going to have more positive influence than having a few, or a fleet, of inexperienced people banging on it.
771.
by thwarted 11y ago
As technologists, we think this issue is so straightforward that you must either be evil or a complete idiot if you support this law I don't think it is either. More likely it is the "something must be done, this is something&qu
772.
by thwarted 11y ago
So could I have social engineered a 10 year old MTGO account? Yes. But without it, I would have been locked out. I was NOT going to remember some stupid passcode kid me set on a game account. And apparently I am the nacho King. What are
773.
by thwarted 11y ago
No one sane is asking for exact estimates … It's not a deceptive or inefficient practice, it's managing uncertainty. Part of the issue is that the asking for estimates ends up getting turned into exacting time requirements as an
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by thwarted 11y ago
And/or get rid of the insanely narrow fixed-width centered column and let the user resize it along with the window. So many programming blogs put code samples in a fixed-width unresizable column.
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by thwarted 11y ago
"More eyeballs == Secure code" is a massive simplification to get a tweet/soundbite, and a terrible one because it makes implicit so much about what this actually means. "More eyeballs" is meant to be in contrast to
776.
by thwarted 11y ago
(e.g., how stealth works, how the engines on the SR-71 worked, the details of the Navy's version of GPS) None of these are "ideas", they are implementations/executions of ideas. They are the result of trial and error
777.
by thwarted 11y ago
Do you think the President, or any of the candidates, know much of anything about technology? Do you think they understand the intricacies of encryption? Would they even be able to name standard cypher suites? No, because that's not p
778.
by thwarted 11y ago
Things like personal notes, journals, communications all used to be accessible to the government through warrants. Now that information is all locked away behind encryption. This is a huge shift in the way governments fight crime. They on
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by thwarted 11y ago
He used phrasing like "widely thought by experts to be impossible" (13m2s) a few times through this piece. Which cryptographers and cryptography experts think, in 2016, that a crypto system could be created that is, baring bugs,
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by thwarted 11y ago
They lack the expertise, and their top level advisors do as well. I wonder how often those advisers are chosen based on being yes-men rather than for being actual experts in the/a subject area.

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