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by zvrba 7y ago
In-depth analysis of QUIC, but to me the most important take-aways were this: 1. "QUIC now represents a substantial fraction (estimatedat 7%) of all Internet traffic" 2. "We found that when competing with TCP flows, QUIC is u
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Taking a long look at QUIC [pdf](conferences.sigcomm.org)
1 points by zvrba 7y ago|1 comments
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> Do you think they would have taken it had they known what was in it? No, they wouldn't. Like in your case, it contained some grade transcripts, PhD diploma (of sentimental value; no the university doesn't reissue them), and a
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by zvrba 7y ago
Yes, the safe was provisioned for bolting and came with parts... Due to its weight I truly believed nobody would bother with carrying a box of 40kg with unknown contents. On the other hand, people assume that safes contain valuables (jewelr
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by zvrba 7y ago
Now that I have Norwegian passport, I'm indeed in the police database; when I applied for a new passport I only had to deliver the old one. But with important stuff like this, I don't fully trust IT systems. Extreme solar flare, s
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Ironically, there are companies offering long-term storage cubicles. I wonder how that's different from bank deposit boxes from the government's POV.
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by zvrba 7y ago
In Norway I used to have a deposit box to safe-guard important papers, like birth certificate, "statsborgerbrevet" (confirmation of citizenship), old passport (as proof of previous citizenship), etc. Then the bank shut down the op
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by zvrba 7y ago
> thus any assumption there is something outside of consciousness is just that I've also watched the video you linked to. His argument is indeed strong, but the scientist was rather weak. They (seemed to) agree that experience is me
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> Wouldn't it be easier to just use Linux? A couple of years ago (when Skylake was new CPU) I tried dual-booting Linux with the then-current version of Arch and it crashed (completely froze) when using integrated intel graphics. Twe
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> I sure hope they are not required to be always on, because my experience with Opel's collision detection has been that it's more likely to cause accidents than avert them. A couple of years ago I rented some Toyota which had
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by zvrba 7y ago
> Can someone explain why a monolithic Registry is a good idea, compared to something like macOS's .plists? Why monolithic may be good: because it's global and baked into the system. An application doesn't have to search f
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by zvrba 7y ago
I think there are only two safe options if your intention is to avoid being assassinated: 1) don't tell anyone, 2) publish it anonymously. If you want to be able to prove to somebody that you're the author, sign the paper and keep
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by zvrba 7y ago
Nice historical perspective: > Say your database program gets a WM_COMMAND message, which it interprets to mean, "Go sort this database of 300,000 records," and dutifully conducts this 45-minute operation;
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by zvrba 7y ago
That's a blind, dogmatic position. Inheritance is a tool, as everything else.
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by zvrba 7y ago
> but a few years ago I started doing everything all-public This is a recipe for disaster as soon as inheritance is in the picture.
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ACIDRain: Concurrency-Related Attacks on Database-Backed Web Applications (2017) [pdf](bailis.org)
139 points by zvrba 7y ago|37 comments
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> If "everything should be const unless it has to be mutable" is a reasonable position to take For a language like C++ I don't think that's a reasonable position. "Good" class design is about a class encapsu
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by zvrba 7y ago
> Other than following the style of the project you're working on is there any reason to use a reference ever over say a const pointer? One reason is to use overloaded operators. With pointers, adding two matrices which are argument
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by zvrba 7y ago
IIRC, these algorithms are based on merging, i.e., reading sequentially as much as possible. Therefore I wonder...
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by zvrba 7y ago
Depends on your goals. For example, when writing a real-world application today, the standard library provides you with a "good enough" sorting and searching algorithms and dictionary structures. The whole 600+ pages of volume 3 a
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by zvrba 7y ago
> even if you're actually using the computer at the time. ?? Windows 10 pops up a "schedule updates" dialog when there's an update to install. And when the time comes, I can still postpone it.
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by zvrba 7y ago
> There isn't anything the Windows kernel can do that the Linux or a BSD kernel can't which is my point. Oh there is. Like pervasive ACLs on all kernel objects, e.g., processes. User-ids (SIDs) based on a distributed authority
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by zvrba 7y ago
> you can drag the "next statement" pointer backwards to rerun pieces of your code. Works also in C++, though not very well when the debugger stops on an exception.
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Or you can use a database that supports something like SQL server's FILESTREAM [1]: "FILESTREAM enables SQL Server-based applications to store unstructured data, such as documents and images, on the file system. Applications can l
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by zvrba 8y ago
Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6rWqJhDv7M I myself lean to the Aristotelian definition: count of change. After all, all our clocks are built on this definition. If there were a lone particle traveling in
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by zvrba 8y ago
Itanium emulated x86 as well, and didn't go too well either.
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by zvrba 8y ago
> |auto| with a factory function sucks because you have to look up the return type. It's funny how we never hear Ocaml or Haskell programmers complaining about type inference.
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by zvrba 8y ago
> Windows pretty much can't do it. Win32 API cannot do it. The underlying NT kernel can.
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> The only problem I have with it is it is still really Windows only, hopefully that will improve with .Net Core 3. I'm developing a C# application on Windows (netcore 2.1) and it deploys and runs on OSX without a glitch.
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by zvrba 8y ago
> Perhaps they wanted the service killable, but for it to always restart? Then you use a DACL than gives only PROCESS_TERMINATE permission [1] to the desired group (Administrators, Users, …). If killed, service control manager will figur

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