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by zbentley 9mo ago
Yeah no…many things are synchronous. I think you’re tilted about the fact that many things are “synchronous*” and that there can be important nuance hidden within the asterisk, but plenty of stuff is synchronous by default. TCP connect(3) i
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by zbentley 9mo ago
To all the folks saying “durable execution frameworks solve this”—you’re right, but a lot of what’s described in the article isn’t quite the same as durable execution a la temporal. The approach described (transactional outboxes for side
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by zbentley 9mo ago
I don’t think you and GP disagree. Trivial PRs can be > perfect for first contributions, especially to get through the myriad of bots requesting you to sign/review stuff At the same time as they > can often end up taking more tim
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by zbentley 9mo ago
Could you expand on that?
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by zbentley 9mo ago
In addition to AI-specific data, the existing volume and consumption patterns for non-AI pornography can be extrapolated to AI, I think, with high confidence.
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by zbentley 9mo ago
Isn’t the rust rewrite deployed as part of some fairly significant Linux distros these days? That’s hearsay that I haven’t dug into, so I may well be wrong.
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by zbentley 9mo ago
> why not tax the military? Narrowly: because they're a utility funded by taxes, not an independent entity benefiting from tax-funded infrastructure. Having a military for defense/power projection/whatnot is one of the inf
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by zbentley 9mo ago
In daemontools' happy path, you're 100% right. However, the happy path is very, very narrow. It breaks down as soon as you have to deal with: - Set(e)uid daemons or any background service that needs to run as a different user than
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by zbentley 9mo ago
I wrote a lot of daemontools wrappers and non-shell forking daemons. Doing this is really, really error prone and fragile. Why the hell should I have to learn about double forking and PIDfe validation (and process groups and pty-or-not and
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by zbentley 9mo ago
Yeah, it’s miserable; xterm shouldn’t require Xorg. It should be agnostic to display system and not force the X monoculture on everyone. Classic Microsoft gestapo tactics: shoehorn Xorg dependencies into tons of unrelated apps and thus curt
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by zbentley 9mo ago
Okay, so aggressive taxation should then have its (proven) benefits weighed against the (dubious) benefits of having 30% of your millionaires change their legal residence to be elsewhere. I think taxes still handily win with room to spare.
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by zbentley 9mo ago
Couldn’t it just as easily be equivalent to saying “you grew this year, so contribute some money back to society for enabling you to have the educated hiring base/financial infrastructure/physical infrastructure that enabled you t
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by zbentley 9mo ago
> Now the government wants to tax them on the company value? I’m genuinely baffled at the incredulous tone here. Yes, that is exactly what should happen: laws, subsidies, and incentives enable a company to grow and flourish. Then, as the
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by zbentley 9mo ago
Holy shit that's a huge release. Massive thanks to the team! Really excited to try the RPC APIs out.
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by zbentley 9mo ago
What do you do when the code you downloaded refers to symbols exported by libraries not already on your system? How do you figure out where those symbols should come from? What if it expects version-specific behavior and you’ve already inst
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by zbentley 9mo ago
I mean … it clearly isn’t working well if problems like “what is the libssl distribution called in a given Linux distro’s package manager?” and “installing a MySQL driver in four of the five most popular programming languages in the world r
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by zbentley 9mo ago
Same with my M1. I haven’t noticed anything struggling, even with tons of expensive apps running. Tahoe slowed it down to shit (and I’m not just talking about electron-gate), but Tahoe slowed everyone down to shit. Local models are slowis
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by zbentley 9mo ago
I've heard this many times, and while there might be data out there in support of it, I've never seen that, and my anecdotal experience is more complicated. In the most security-forward roles I've worked in, the vast, vast
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by zbentley 9mo ago
> mass media fails to call the lies That can't be all it is: this and other recent, uncontroversially atrocious (when taken out of political context) actions taken by the Trump administration were very widely reported as lies/u
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by zbentley 9mo ago
I like nmap and use it often. The linked tool seems to be doing different or additional things vs nmap. What makes you think it’s not learning from/remembering nmap?
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by zbentley 9mo ago
Training data from junior programmers or introductory programming teaching material. No matter how carefully one labels data, the combination of programming’s subjectivity (damaging human labeling and reinforcement’s effectiveness at filter
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by zbentley 9mo ago
> Validating that your compiler didn’t introduce a timing side channel into a crypto algo is harder than validating that the crypto algo has no memory safety bugs. Genuine question from a novice in this area: assuming that your critical
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by zbentley 9mo ago
I don't know. I vouched for it (as I did for GP to start this thread) just now. It's from a sockpuppet-rhyming username with 0 feedback. I hope I'm not enabling some bad behavior that they're being marked dead for elsewh
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by zbentley 9mo ago
This is an interesting idea--that in a reimagined OS, programs could have their output connected to all sorts of sinks (terminal, file, GUI, web content) without carrying baggage related to those sinks' behaviors. I think the core ques
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by zbentley 9mo ago
Ah, I see now, thanks. I think "people who want a UNIX" are pretty rare. Most of the folks who say things that rhyme with that at FOSDEM (as you mentioned in an adjacent thread) are, I'd bet, more likely to be "people wh
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by zbentley 9mo ago
Eh, I don't think you need to get that extreme. A combination of careful use of a given high-level-language with expert awareness of compiler behavior, and the presence of tests that detect some of the nasty timing behaviors that get c
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by zbentley 9mo ago
You sure you're replying to the right post? I wasn't really engaging with the "is it UNIX or not" debates elsewhere in the parent threads; just talking about why security bypass wasn't mentioned in TFA.
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by zbentley 9mo ago
What does Preview do that's hard to match? Genuine question. I've been a Mac user for decades and on balance think it's quite good, but Preview is one of the most deeply frustrating, buggy, and unintuitive pieces of software
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by zbentley 9mo ago
> I also do sysadmin stuff from macOS MacOS is fine as a client/dispatch node for SSH/Ansible/Terraform/whatnot; I think they meant that you cannot sysadmin MacOS itself as a target with many of the same tools/te
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by zbentley 9mo ago
I suspect that Oakley could have explained that, but the thesis stands even without the asterisk, and explaining it would have an issue: This is going to piss off some Linux folks, but when communicating from a big pulpit about how to bypas

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