nathan7

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by nathan7 10y ago
Awesome! The one thing that turns me off a little is `ModTime`. I generally avoid incorporating modification times into my build (generally I force them to 1970), but a hash for the ETag would be very welcome.
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by nathan7 10y ago
https://golang.org/x/crypto/nacl for the Gophers among us (it provides only box/secret_box, though)
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by nathan7 10y ago
https://medium.com/@sdboyer/so-you-want-to-write-a-package-m... would be a good start
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by nathan7 11y ago
I'm assuming you mean vdevs — you can resize zvols (virtual block devices) just fine. (and you can even grow disk-type vdevs, though they'll be somewhat unbalanced)
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by nathan7 11y ago
SSLmate ( https://sslmate.com/ ) actually makes things similarly simple — I've been using them for a few months now.
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by nathan7 11y ago
You can't prove the hash function is correct, no. But you can prove the hash function is implemented equivalently to its definition. That's what the article is about.
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by nathan7 11y ago
MaidSafe ( http://maidsafe.net ) and Skylight ( https://skylight.io ) are both written in Rust, Maidsafe having recently moved to it from C++.
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by nathan7 11y ago
It's worth noting that KVM doesn't allow remapping the APIC base address at all: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/49d7c6559bf2ab4f1d56b...
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by nathan7 11y ago
I haven't been back home (Amsterdam) for most of this year, but I find that surprising — I usually have trouble coming up with more than three ice cream parlours off the top of my head. Where's all this great ice cream I've b
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by nathan7 11y ago
This article wasn't written by Steve Klabnik — merely "reprinted". > Recently, it was brought up on Proggit that Chris Smith's "What to Know Before Debating Type Systems" was no longer online. This is a real
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by nathan7 11y ago
By all means not an official statement, but Isaac is quite committed to making sure that the long-term safety of the npm registry doesn't rely on the future benevolence of npm Inc.
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by nathan7 12y ago
I'd argue that they all derive from, and are quite similar to Portage's USE flags.
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by nathan7 12y ago
Awesome to finally see Gun on here, Mark! What still worries me is the reliance on external storage services, although a good local storage service could be built for Gun. Other than that, I'm glad to finally see docs!
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by nathan7 12y ago
Also among them: https://github.com/facebook/rebound-js https://github.com/facebook/rebound
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by nathan7 12y ago
I'm writing an HTTP reverse proxy in Rust, and my main gripe so far is that I have to roll my own async I/O. Binding node's HTTP parsers over is going well, but also takes a bunch of effort. Safe-by-design and close to the me
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by nathan7 12y ago
These days, I find using MD5 absolutely inexcusable. SHA-1 is available pretty much everywhere, SHA-2 algorithms are quite readily available too. BLAKE2 ( https://blake2.net ) is slightly faster than MD5, and significantly more se
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by nathan7 12y ago
I think you'd be quite happy in Rust, if you substitute trait methods for multimethods too.
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by nathan7 12y ago
Most of these slides are about patterns that are provided for as functions by the language, or are otherwise obsoleted by the more powerful abstraction features of FP languages. The writers of this presentation are very much aware of the sm
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by nathan7 12y ago
I'll miss Ezra and his outgoing spirit. Goodbye, old friend.
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by nathan7 12y ago
I'm guessing that mitigating this at the Rust level isn't doable, because its memory model has the same properties with regards to zeroing. To change that, LLVM support would be needed. This does make me wonder — how do you integr
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by nathan7 12y ago
The key can be generated on the smartcard, and it's not possible to transfer it out of the smartcard by design. (anything that calls itself a smartcard but allows this isn't a smartcard )
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by nathan7 12y ago
What you're describing is called a smartcard, and readily available on the market. I keep my PGP key on one.
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by nathan7 12y ago
I'd say that many of the issues surrounding accidentally using mutable state are fairly moot in Clojure. Blocking still remains an issue, though there's core.async/thread for go blocks that block so that they're executed
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by nathan7 12y ago
The flawed assumption is "and therefore 21 million Bitcoin addresses". Generate an RSA keypair, and give out the hash of the public key (encoded in a Bitcoin-specific way). Anyone can send you Bitcoins there now.
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by nathan7 12y ago
Hawala has fascinated me to no end, as essentially an anarchistic peer-to-peer web-of-trust banking system. It has existed for a long time, and keeps functioning even where traditional banking systems have broken down. As cool as Bitcoin is
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by nathan7 12y ago
The visualisation means next to nothing for proving it's good . But the visualisation seems to show patterns, which says plenty.
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by nathan7 12y ago
Accepted, but they seem to be on either side of a dividing line — I'm doing my best to straddle it, but I'm still held back by a wall of language that is too often entirely impenetrable to me. I'm a very functionally-minded p
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by nathan7 12y ago
The best guess I've come up with is that anyone who is sufficiently mathematically inclined becomes a mathematician. I'm curious if anyone has any points/counterpoints in that direction.
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by nathan7 13y ago
There's no node involved in the registry itself. This is purely CouchDB.
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by nathan7 13y ago
npm is pretty much the prime use-case for CouchDB. REST API out of the box, replication is a core feature and not just a scaling feature (multi-master, MVCC) and the validation/access control is pretty much made for it. The npm registr

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