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by unilynx 7y ago
It's certainly more robust, but a lot of overhead for what should be a very uncommon situation. In eg an application server, requests themselves may be independent, but still share a lot of cached data - and as long as locking overhead
452.
by unilynx 7y ago
An exception-safe C++ program can do the same through a std::bad_alloc exception. If the out-of-memory was caused by something simple like accidentally loading 2G of data because of some odd data in an network request or a user selected fil
453.
by unilynx 7y ago
They forgot to mention the kernel gets the top half of the address space, leaving 2^47 for the process. And then it mostly adds up.
454.
by unilynx 7y ago
That doesnt actually go to Firefox the browser. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10648693
455.
by unilynx 7y ago
They're not very explicit, but their FAQ indicates that they are buffering random data and they sometimes even turn the generators off. Which would suggest that they're not repeating the same random data to multiple users Interest
456.
by unilynx 7y ago
Well fortunately they’re .org. But next time, consider example.com/net/org.
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The History of Random.org (2009)(random.org)
176 points by unilynx 7y ago|60 comments
458.
by unilynx 7y ago
But the database is often the hardest thing to scale. Scaling up transcoding is childs play by comparison.
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by unilynx 7y ago
Might Square be doing this just to prevent their customers from mistakingly including AGPL in their frontend? "we know we're not liable, but the customer might get into trouble, let's make it easy to understand what can and c
460.
by unilynx 7y ago
Its not like the rest of the terminal is friendly to newbies. An online ‘jsfiddle’ like environment suitable for newbies (with a bit of inline syntax hints without turning into a full IDE) would be more useful to get people to start playing
461.
by unilynx 7y ago
G suite was broken for me 20 minutes ago (in Europe) but is working now. Perhaps things are starting to come back?
462.
by unilynx 7y ago
Also, digitalocean has a hard droplet (VMs) limit that requires a ticket to raise. You would expect them to be okay with you staying in that limit.. (And you cant just start 10 hugely expensive VMs either, the larger sizes are initially loc
463.
by unilynx 7y ago
They’re working on that and were sending out surveys a couple of weeks ago whether customers would be interested. They had a slightly higher minimum amount in mind for premier support You already get bumped to a higher tier of support once
464.
by unilynx 7y ago
But did it break its storage guarantees? Sounds to me like freezing the storage if the redundancy can no longer be guaranteed due to a bad battery may be the only way to keep the promise.
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by unilynx 7y ago
We had plenty of sites in the 90s breaking due to using POST on almost every navigation, or embedding a sessionid in the URL that would break the site when being bookmarked/shared You could build even worse horrors using <form targe
466.
by unilynx 7y ago
_if_ you can ensure that you can re-execute deletion requests if the data needs to be restored.
467.
by unilynx 7y ago
Or they'll block payment processors from transferring money from EU customers to you It's hard to imagine what a startup would be doing that makes them interesting enough for the EU to notice and want to levy fines, yet be complet
468.
by unilynx 7y ago
> Note: yes, I know there can be regulatory requirements for EV in some jurisdictions, but let's not confuse that with it actually doing anything useful That exactly. Similarly confused about customers who think OV certificates are
469.
by unilynx 7y ago
As the article says, people will drive at the speeds that feel safe... in the Netherlands, more and more roads are redesigned for that. Bumps, parked spots, narrowings and removal of (dividing) lines/road markings are used to bring the
470.
by unilynx 7y ago
Private repositories. You may not want their contents to become public
471.
by unilynx 7y ago
Like va_list in vprintf ?
472.
by unilynx 7y ago
Here's to hoping Docker for Windows will rebase on WSL2 and make the same jump in quality as Docker for Mac did when they dropped virtualbox
473.
by unilynx 7y ago
If it offends, you should be reading it as ‘The Featured Article’
474.
by unilynx 8y ago
iOS won’t let apps do that. But apps can record their own screen.
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by unilynx 8y ago
They generally reduce their assist and completely cut out at 28 to 30km/hour, so to actually cycle 30km/hour takes as much effort as it would on a normal bicycle. Most Dutch cycle at about 25km/hour (whether or not electric)
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Apple to unlock iPhone NFC to read secure data from passports(nfcworld.com)
7 points by unilynx 8y ago|2 comments
477.
by unilynx 8y ago
that's already solved with navigator.sendBeacon - no need to stop unloading the page to make sure the ping gets through
478.
by unilynx 8y ago
And now my 16GB machine suddenly has 17,2GB of memory, divided by the OS not into 4KB pages,but almost-but-not-quite 4,1KB pages. For some parts powers of 2 will still work best, and the dividing line will probably always be arbitrary.
479.
by unilynx 8y ago
Why should DMARC (unless combined with a whitelist) be a non-spam signal ? Spammers would quickly learn to set up the proper DNS records.
480.
by unilynx 8y ago
Inertia (the mass of already existing unsandboxed software) probably makes securing the (Windows) PC platform a lost cause. If Windows had proper filesystem sandboxing enforced on applications, ransomware would disappear overnight

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