machine_coffee

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by machine_coffee 2y ago
Also surprised an async completion was writing to the stack. You should normally pass a heap buffer to these functions and keep it alive e.g for the lifetime of the object being watched.
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by machine_coffee 2y ago
I think they went even further and 3d printed their thumbprint and unlocked their phone with it, if I remember correctly.
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by machine_coffee 2y ago
Lol, author's thought process mirrored mine as I read the article, as I was reading I was thinking, 'doesn't kqueue support that?... and then a section on kqueue. Then I was thinking to myself, so how does the Linux implement
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by machine_coffee 2y ago
This is the best response so far. Session churn creates lots of db activity but lots of it is of low business value. Better to offload to a separate process. Also session data is often Blobs which db's don't process as efficiently
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by machine_coffee 2y ago
Oh Man, I think I have a candidate for the Apology Homepage.
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by machine_coffee 2y ago
Ah Tom Baker, also a gem. Was also interested to hear one of the background clips mentioning how the greenhouse effect was 'really starting to bite', and this was in 1990.
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by machine_coffee 2y ago
At last an explanation that makes a bit of sense to me. >Hopefully they own up to this, and explain what they're going to do to prevent another global-impact process failure They probably needn't bother, every competent sysadmi
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by machine_coffee 2y ago
>Crowdstrike runs on MacOS and Linux workstations too. This is what chills me to the bone, there's loads of these installations worldwide on heterogeneous OSs but with very little oversight of the code. Companies have basically roll
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by machine_coffee 2y ago
Perfect timing for this article after Putin's Russia just forced Apple to drop as many VPNs as possible from the App store in ru. The aim obviously being to have an easier time surveilling the populace whilst also denying them access
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by machine_coffee 2y ago
>"they have no reason to surveil boring ordinary individuals." Tell that to Parsons, Winston Smith's loyal to the Party neighbour who's betrayed by his own child. If surveillance is allowed to become pervasive enough,
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by machine_coffee 2y ago
Dvorak also got pretty irate at the 'idle' task on Windows consuming so much CPU, as reported by Task Manager. Ah, simpler days.
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by machine_coffee 2y ago
You just have to keep rubbing it in! Poor CmdTaco, after all these years, still can't get a break.
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by machine_coffee 2y ago
Something crashes, it's _never_ a compiler bug ... April 16 Oh, it actually is a compiler bug! Can confidently say I've never experienced one in my career, but at some level of abstraction I guess it's less rare to find them.
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by machine_coffee 2y ago
Wouldn't say so. An iterative model which has been up-front loaded with a firm architecture, feature elaboration, a rough development and testing plan, resources allocated and some basic milestones to hit so that upper mgmt. can get an
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by machine_coffee 2y ago
I wonder how well they hold up in strong storms, or if they can be folded away for safety.
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by machine_coffee 3y ago
We have a separate service that we pay for to recycle our plastic, and do exactly that; separate out all plastic and put in these bags - and yes, agreed, the amount of plastic is sometimes unbelievable. Last night I cooked 2 packets of fres
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by machine_coffee 3y ago
I'm also amused to see that 40 years later that they have "Copy Macintosh HD" on the Edit menu - like it's a floppy disk you can just copy to drive B :)
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by machine_coffee 3y ago
Who and where? Russian propagandist, on Russian tv. You just have to wait for some horrendous act of indiscriminate killing by Russia to occur in Ukraine and they come out to justify or glorify the horror. I don’t particularly blame them fo
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by machine_coffee 3y ago
Could be their moral compass has been warped by Russian propagandists who find the death of civilians in the Ukraine ‘SMO’ to be a cause of great celebration.