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by wahern 3y ago
der.lisp is only loading a PKCS1/DER-encoded private RSA key, which is a far cry from certificate parsing. (And certificate.lisp just loads a blob.) Granted, for a server which doesn't support mTLS you don't need to parse cer
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by wahern 3y ago
I think that answers it. And looking back at the specification in the SUSv5 draft, it seems this and analogous behavior has been codified--an OFD lock conflicts with a process-private lock and vice-versa. So there's only one reasonable
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by wahern 3y ago
For all the dangerous qualities of classic POSIX/SysV locks, they're in service of one key characteristic[1]: only a single process can hold a lock, which means you can easily identify and communicate with the lock-holding process
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by wahern 3y ago
Does anybody know how Linux NFS handles new OFD-owned file locks? Are they also mapped to classic POSIX locks? OFD-owned locks are a cross of BSD flock and POSIX fcntl/lockf locks. An original proposal is described at https:/&#x2
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by wahern 3y ago
Beetle mandibles looks close to the grip for using spoons or forks as tongs, which skillful waiters sometimes make use of at a restaurant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4-X7NZ2cFw That's a technique that will turn h
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by wahern 3y ago
> It seems like the consensus is this problem (on all architectures) is going to be solved in software, not hardware. Hardware-based shadow stacks and return address signing are already shipping and running on x86-64 and arm64 systems, r
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by wahern 3y ago
> The US + Allies lost because they didn't have the will to obliterate everything. The Soviet Union did that and also lost. The only way to win in Afghanistan is by fighting in Pakistan. And that means a full invasion, not a half-me
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by wahern 3y ago
> or add a syntax extension to carry that info over the wall. Isn't that why #line exists in the first place? A lot of online literature, including the clang and GCC manuals, are worded in a way that makes it seem like the purpose i
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by wahern 3y ago
A large portion of the workforce which recently completed Vogtle units 3 and 4 temporarily relocated to the site from around the country. Many people lived at RV camps opportunistically setup by farmers or others with large empty lots. Espe
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by wahern 3y ago
It's a complex function involving social and environment stressors which effect progression, and social and cultural context which effect manifestation, and there's also feedback between manifestation and progression. I think it&#
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by wahern 3y ago
> There's a really interesting line of research that suggests Schizophrenia is a spectrum, rather than a binary. I don't think it was ever considered binary. Rather, previously the variance was explained in terms of discrete su
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by wahern 3y ago
Sort of like sports recruiters.
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by wahern 3y ago
This is HN, so that's fair. I just don't think that food was the wealth bottle neck for which these people were optimizing, for better or worse. A starving college student might deliberately resolve themself to eat frank & bea
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by wahern 3y ago
I think the disconnect here is that in the U.S. "poor" encompasses a whole universe of relative incomes and experiences. I grew up poor as a kid, but for the most part never thought much about food. Some days maybe all I could scr
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by wahern 3y ago
> but you’ll have to spend a lot of time to (legally) procure your own test sources. As @api mentioned elsethread, you can just buy isotopes from United Nuclear: https://unitednuclear.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPa
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by wahern 4y ago
> -rdynamic isn't going to help libunwind, it's for glibc's built-in backtrace library which you simply shouldn't use. -rdynamic exports global symbols from the main binary so that they're available to satisfy de
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by wahern 4y ago
Your challenge piqued my curiosity. ;) SQLite sells support, licensing, and services using a small staff of engineers. See https://sqlite.org/prosupport.html The premium support contract is $120k/year, and it appears f
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by wahern 4y ago
Is there something SQLite would need to do to support an NFS-mounted filesystem that already supported proper locking (fcntl) and sync'ing (fsync)?
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by wahern 4y ago
> While cases of Jake Foot went through the roof Jake Foot was caused by a change of ingredients to Jamaica Ginger, which had been a popular cold remedy in America for over 100 years. It was caught almost immediately. And while Jamaica G
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by wahern 4y ago
Ironic, perhaps, but not paradoxical. Anti-smoking campaigners latched onto nicotine as the principal, evil chemical and sold that narrative relentlessly for decades. In parallel, other campaigners sold a narrative that the only reason mari
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by wahern 4y ago
> But as Prohibition demonstrated, we can't legislate away people's vices.It's extremely expensive and doesn't work. Death rates from cirrhosis of the liver were halved by Prohibition, and didn't return to pre-Pr
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by wahern 4y ago
People tend to do better in communities, but spiritualism doesn't provide community. Institutional religion provides community; that's the function of the institution. (It's not the only thing which provides community, but un
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by wahern 4y ago
Traditionally the age is considered to have come to an end with the Mongol Siege of Baghdad, wherein the invaders sacked the city. Baghdad was the center of learning, and the fact that scholars from all around the empire (including non-Arab
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by wahern 4y ago
> Imagine if, Islam was opposing to the idea of science, as the largest religion of that area (which not only included Iran, but many others), what would happen? We don't have to imagine. A shunning of empiricism and natural philoso
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by wahern 4y ago
I say hiss-storic but have always used "an" as the sound still fits the aural pattern rule in my head. It never even occurred to me that people would ever think it was wrong or pretentious to use "an". Though, I was alwa
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by wahern 4y ago
virtio-gpu is 2D. virgl is an extension mode for 3D rendering offload. TIL virtio is properly standardized: https://docs.oasis-open.org/virtio/virtio/v1.2/virtio-v1.2.h... The new OpenBSD driver seems to refl
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by wahern 4y ago
At least in the U.S., poor people buy used cars, while existing and proposed ICE bans effect new car sales. Any real economic effect will be delayed until after the ban, and in any event they'll still be buying used cars. I suppose use
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by wahern 4y ago
From an older post by someone (@spaceprison) who seems familiar with the rationale: > 9001 bytes was the absolute max they could give to customers and still be able to do packet shenanigans. https://news.ycombinator.com/i
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by wahern 4y ago
"test-to-failure" means that when you realize you may have made a mistake, you don't automatically scrap all your work to fix the mistake before continuing down the development path. You complete that prototype and test it be
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by wahern 4y ago
The Soekris net6501 was an Intel Atom with a Xilinx FPGA. Alas, Soekris closed for somewhat similar reasons several years ago, though a bad batch of chips from Intel which caused an RMA nightmare didn't help and may have been what push

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