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by zerokernel 9y ago
HTTP-as-an-ABI
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by zerokernel 9y ago
That's why high assurance systems (like L4/seL4) minimize privileged code to a tiny fraction of what you find in a regular system, which absolutely makes sense and provably improves security . Apart from the obvious advantages, m
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by zerokernel 9y ago
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/BTrees
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by zerokernel 9y ago
Panics can of course result in exploitable system behaviour.
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by zerokernel 9y ago
I don't think cryptocurrencies are protecting anyone from any problem.
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by zerokernel 9y ago
Honestly I don't quite know how or why engineers keep working in a "all of this is fundamentally broken always has been and never will be fixed" domain, on a motivational basis.
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Network Latencies and Speed of Light(fgiesen.wordpress.com)
127 points by zerokernel 9y ago|47 comments
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by zerokernel 9y ago
> Byte-by-byte parsing is a valid way to do parsing but not the only way. Byte-by-byte parsers tend to be slow and -- arguably, more importantly -- overly complex and rigid. It is, for example, usually very hard to do "random access
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by zerokernel 9y ago
> but that's only because no one actually cares about these architectures. This. Optimizing performance on BE is a waste of everyone's time and resources.
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by zerokernel 9y ago
I'll just throw in here that faking contracts and certificates has been a huge business in the last ~1200 years or so in Europe. Many cities who claimed to have been founded a thousand years ago (or whatever) had to cede those claims s
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by zerokernel 9y ago
option=value, option:value, option/value and even option\value (without dashes). Not joking.
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by zerokernel 9y ago
> It would not be easy to do this in a technical manner -> Homomorphic encryption is an active field of research. Legal is most likely the better solution. Probably.
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by zerokernel 9y ago
We'll just outlaw that. Compare: Jaywalking, avenues.
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by zerokernel 9y ago
I didn't expect anything interesting to come up as replies, but here we are - thanks for those insights.
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by zerokernel 9y ago
A piece of well-built criticism can be a great tool in corporate politics. It can completely destroy the chances of some proposal/project/person to succeed. Ideally without appearing to be personally oppossed. As usual, most peopl
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by zerokernel 9y ago
Don't confuse arcane and complex. Although PGP is a 90s crypto standard, so it's more than likely a nightmare to implement.
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by zerokernel 9y ago
C++ has a long and successful history of application development, regardless of project size (from 0 to >100 MLOC; from 1 guy sitting in his attic to thousands of engineers). Much like Java it isn't "hip". Instead people l
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by zerokernel 9y ago
> The native Gmail? Then get a conversations view. Thunderbird has had a ML/usenet-like conversations view forever.
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by zerokernel 9y ago
> NUL is not a character Somehow NUL is still an assigned character in the ASCII code table. Strange, hmmm?
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by zerokernel 9y ago
And various undefined behaviours (signed overflow etc.) colluding against the programmer to the effect that compilers sometimes delete range-checking code. Integer promotion rules are not simple, either. Integer width rules, far from simple
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by zerokernel 9y ago
I would claim that there is still a difference between P-strings and, say, ASN.1 DER (which, at heart, is still TLV).
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by zerokernel 9y ago
> Both provided links are dead HTTP works, HTTPS does not.
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by zerokernel 9y ago
That's pretty much the "reader mode" available in some browsers, no?
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by zerokernel 9y ago
> * Media query - So what, user agent gives this away mostly anyways I was earnestly surprised how much data macOS and Android devices tend to put into the user agent. Not only the exact patch level of the browser, but also the OS patch
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by zerokernel 9y ago
Whether there is any click depends very much on the switch.
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by zerokernel 9y ago
https://www.cherry.de/cid/corded_keyboards_CHERRY_STRAIT_30_... https://www.cherry.de/cid/corded_keyboards_STRAIT_Corded_Key... https://www.cherry.de/cid/corded_keyboards_STRA
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by zerokernel 9y ago
Military procurement seems to be something working very poorly in many places. Not sure if the German military is really much worse than others, when looking at things like the F-35.
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by zerokernel 9y ago
Even dedicated supercomputer processors (e.g. A2, SW26010, VIIIfx) use virtual memory. In fact, most GPUs nowadays include an MMU as well, something they historically never had. (SC applications tend to be huge fans of using enormous page s