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by zimbatm 8y ago
The modern world is also powered by technologies invented because of various wars. Duct tape / super glue / rockets / radars which led to the microwave over / .. Wasn't the Internet initially a distributed communica
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Terraform code is easily 10x as verbose as normal code, and it involves a lot of copy-and-paste.
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It's usually the choice that society as a large is making: do we prefer Freedom or Safety? For example after 9/11 American exchanged a lot of freedom for more safety. It's a choice we all have to make.
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> If we do Open Source Hiri, there is nothing to stop someone from forking it and selling it for less /offering it for free. We die. And I do worry about my bank balance. The author is fearful of not making money if his code is open
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The question is how hard it is to detect tampering. My linux distribution builds firefox from source and signs the build. The builds are also checked to be reproducible. Raising the bar is a good thing.
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It allows to have some guarantees around the evaluation. The Nix expression language enforces things like not allowing arbitrary network access during evaluation. This is hard to do in a general-purpose language where network and file acces
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The difference is that the lazy evaluation needs to be baked in. There are many scenarios in the nixpkgs code-base where lazy evaluation is used on a not-package level. For example the NixOS module system depends heavily on it. I haven&#x27
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A few correction on the otherwise good article: * Nix 2.0 includes the repl. Just run `nix repl` * The URL literal returns a string * It would be good to explain how the `<...>` notation resolves paths from the NIX_PATH. For example `
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the program is available over here: https://nixcon2018.org/#program
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NixCon 2018 live stream(youtube.com)
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I'm a bit concerned by the addition of Garbage Collection to WASM. Is there a way to implement those without favouring some type of language? It seems to me that GC tuning and memory models are very language-specific. A purely-function
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The argument was based on the premise that the insurer would drop anyone that would cost more than they pay. In that system everyone who pays the insurance would be better off putting the money aside as they wouldn't have to pay for th
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Assuming the future is known, there is no risk and therefor need to take an insurance. It's better to keep the money and remove the insurance admin overhead. Call me cynical but in practice I think that kind of asymmetric information i
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Even with an open source edition it's hard to link strongly the source code to the resulting APK. How do you know that the generated APK hasn't been built with extra "features"? For each release, independent people would
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On Linux it's a bit more DYI. Look at `unshare()` and cgroups to limit resources. For example your process scheduler could fork, create a new mount namespace with unshare() , bind-mount the temporary workdir to a known location, drop p
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It replaces the SMS 2FA with a Google prompt app on the phone for Gmail verification. So it doesn't make the SIM more secure but the SIM get hacked it doesn't allow the attacker to gain access to Gmail.
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Before anything, just after waking up. 7min is not enough to deplete the body of energy.
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That's an interesting implication. If they distribute the same cert so widely geographically, any host country could technically request it for "lawful intercepts".
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For the past month I started doing 7 minutes of cardio every morning with a ridiculous YouTube video[1]. Just 7 minutes! It improves my mood level, energy for the whole day, I have better core strength, makes me want to move more overall. I
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Layer 3 implies that there is some system that tracks user to reward content creator according. How is this not a tracking system? Without knowing the implementation details it looks like Brave is (1) removing all the competition, (2) excep
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It's possible to play a 20 INT character if the rest of the cast is adjusted accordingly. I have a theory that a lot of highly successful people have either a partner or a team that is willing to do the grunt work. They basically have&
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How much of the new languages are supported by a new fresh wave of engineers that want to learn things? To become a good engineer I had to go through implementing my own container types, play with my own little databases and network librari
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There are a lot of things that can go wrong with K8s but there is always a way to fix them. For example a common mistake it to forget to allocate limits on pods, which then brings the worker node to capacity. I think the failure scenario is
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Nix and Docker integration is almost optimal now, no other tooling provides that type of functionality
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And finally, Perl - 30 years
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N26 has a website as well. The N26 app look like it's a web view.
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Most of the evil on this world is caused by too many levels of abstraction.
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Not necessarily. If you tax residence is outside of the UK it will generate more paperwork for the bank and they might decide to close your account. Especially the new banks might not have the infrastructure required to handle that. This is
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You can do that with Revolut. I am not seeing that option in Monzo.
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HashiCorp Vault also supports that scenario: https://github.com/hashicorp/vault-ssh-helper . The main downside is that if the Vault instance is down, nothing can be SSHed into.

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