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by ComputerGuru 8mo ago
People thinking C++ libraries magically solve this ABI issue is the other side of the coin. I’ve filed numerous bugs against packages precompiled libraries but misusing the C abi so that (owned) objects cross the abi barrier and end up caus
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by ComputerGuru 8mo ago
Wrote an entire crate to clean up that mess (and provide traditional autoconf-ish features for build.rs): https://crates.io/crates/rsconf
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by ComputerGuru 8mo ago
Windows (sanely) doesn’t do fork. Shared memory obviously exists, though and they do mention in the post (missed it first time around) that they try to share Adblock resources.
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by ComputerGuru 9mo ago
> so if many people share the same endpoints then eavesdropper can't tell which site you were visiting. Which is why it is so important/useful to Cloudflare but of much lower utility to most nginx users.
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by ComputerGuru 9mo ago
Is that 45 MiB per-tab? People are laughing it off, but since each tab is a process these days..
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by ComputerGuru 9mo ago
Pg18 is an absolutely fantastic release. Everyone flaks about the async IO worker support, but there’s so much more. Builtin Unicode locales, unique indexes/constraints/fks that can be added in unvalidated state, generated virtual
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by ComputerGuru 9mo ago
Full writeup of the Gaza video archive takedown, if you aren't up to date on it: https://neosmart.net/blog/namecheap-com-revokes-domain-hosti... In that case, it was the registrar (not the TLD owner) that put the
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by ComputerGuru 9mo ago
Location: Chicago, Illinois Seeking: Contract, part-time, or full-time employment Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Not immediately Technologies: Rust, C, C++, C#, postgres (as well as SQLite and MySQL), ML (and AI), open source, embedded, s
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by ComputerGuru 9mo ago
I’m primarily a ZFS-on-FreeBSD kind of guy but I repeatedly had need of doing ZFS-on-Linux recently and after a couple of times wrote it up for others. There are a lot of these guides, the difference is that this one tries to be idiomatic,
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by ComputerGuru 9mo ago
iPhone 13 regular here, same problem. I reported it repeatedly during the iOS 26 betas but they don’t give a damn.
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Namecheap takes down domain hosting video archives of Israeli war crimes(neosmart.net)
32 points by ComputerGuru 9mo ago|1 comments
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by ComputerGuru 9mo ago
Nice find. (I don’t see what this being reported during the Christmas holidays has to do with not revealing the disclosure and patch timeline, a “note that delays should be attributed to Christmas” would have sufficed.)
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by ComputerGuru 9mo ago
Do browsers use a custom dictionary for zstd (I don’t think so since I can precompress zstd content server-side)? Brotli was designed for html compression so despite/while being a relatively inferior algorithm, its stock dictionary is
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by ComputerGuru 9mo ago
Awesome work. Minor bug/suggestion: right-aligned text inputs (eg the username input on the “me” page) aren’t ideal since they are often obscured by input helpers (autocomplete or form fill helper icons).
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by ComputerGuru 9mo ago
Unfortunately even the videos that do contain helpful imagery are still dominated by huge sections of low entropy. For example, one of the most useful applications of video over text is appliance or automotive repair, but the ideal format w
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by ComputerGuru 9mo ago
I’m still rocking a plasma tv which sidesteps the matter altogether :) Best tv tech to date, though OLED improvements in the past year mean we might see good panels hitting the market in a few years. The race to produce the brightest panels
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by ComputerGuru 9mo ago
The biggest selling point to using Postgres over qdrant or whatever is that you can put all the data in the same db and use joins and ctes, foreign keys and other constraints, lower latency, get rid of effectively n+1 cases, and ensure data
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by ComputerGuru 9mo ago
I guess I’m confused why an actual add instruction is emitted rather than whatever overloaded operation takes place when the + symbol (or overloaded add vtable entry) is called (like it would in other OOP languages).
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by ComputerGuru 9mo ago
I don’t get why XeLaTeX didn’t automatically obviate all the others by now to begin with, at least for any greenfield applications. (I use tectonic now but had been using XeLaTeX for more than a decade before.)
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by ComputerGuru 9mo ago
Non-ruby dev here. Can someone explain the side exit thing for me? > This meant that the code we were running had to continue to have the same preconditions (expected types, no method redefinitions, etc) or the JIT would safely abort. No
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by ComputerGuru 9mo ago
The obvious solution is an ssh-agent integration that caches the touch-derived key for up to N hours or until the workstation is locked (as a proxy for user-is-away event), AND integrates with secure desktop (à la UAC) to securely show a so
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by ComputerGuru 9mo ago
GitHub dropped http authentication so this only works for public repos (not that the UX or security of http auth for git is nice). Can git be configured to use different keys for push and pull? (You can obviously use different upstreams, bu
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by ComputerGuru 9mo ago
Devil’s advocate: How do they map that data to a user when you are buying through a maze of resellers?
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by ComputerGuru 9mo ago
If Python is your baseline, LuaJit is certainly going to be overkill. But to answer your question: when and where latency matters. Web apps, text editors, etc.
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by ComputerGuru 9mo ago
The greybeards would do it with imagemagick, vips, or even ffmpeg. Gives you full control over the quality and you can script it, parallelize it, and more.
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by ComputerGuru 9mo ago
Not exactly the topic of discussion but also not not on topic: just wanted to sing praise for chrony which has performed better than the traditional os-native NTP clients in our testing on a myriad of real and virtualized hardware.
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by ComputerGuru 9mo ago
Pedantically, a monotonic function need not have a constant first derivative. To take it further, in mathematics it is accepted for a monatomic function to have a countable number of discontinuities, but of course in the context of a digita
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by ComputerGuru 9mo ago
SHA1 as a MAC for AES encryption is different from SHA-1 as a hash algorithm and remains secure, though there are of course better alternatives.
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by ComputerGuru 9mo ago
Jeff forgot to mention that in his post!
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by ComputerGuru 9mo ago
That’s what happened in TFA.

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