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by vault_ 1y ago
> - A big queue of PR's for reviewers to review This is a feature. I would infinitely prefer 12 PRs that each take 5 minutes to review than 1 PR that takes an hour. Finding a few 5-15 minute chunks of time to make progress on the qu
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by vault_ 2y ago
Where this breaks down, as I've experienced at least, is that the product management side maintains basically zero awareness of the production constraints engineers are working within. If you've built out a painting production lin
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by vault_ 2y ago
Probably a result of the patent dispute over the feature: https://apnews.com/article/apple-watch-patent-dispute-sales-...
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by vault_ 3y ago
I didn't realize they were actually selling a 10 Gbps service tier as part of this branding. It's never been available in my market, so I assumed that they were advertising the uplink capability of the thing my modem was connected
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by vault_ 3y ago
Autoscaling seems like a downstream concern from the techniques being discussed here. Autoscaling tends to have a pretty high latency, so you still need a strategy for being overloaded while that extra capacity comes online. There's al
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by vault_ 3y ago
> Real products built today have a finite amount of demand, and global cloud capacity is larger than that. This isn't really true, and it's especially not true when specialized hardware comes into play. If you have a "web-
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by vault_ 3y ago
Yeah, I don't think circuit breakers are really the appropriate choice in most of the situations the article is describing. Rate limiting and backpressure seem like better options most of the time. The way I see it, circuit breakers ar
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by vault_ 3y ago
Nested replies are definitely better as a way of consuming a post and its comments once and then never thinking about it again. For an asynchronous discussion between several people they get unwieldy after a few rounds of replying. They als
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by vault_ 3y ago
> A doctor knows what his practice is worth and wants every cent he can get out of it - but the next generation of doctor is not going to be able to compete with debt financing what a PE cash-buyer can get. In my opinion, the physician i
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by vault_ 4y ago
It's not "general purpose computing" maintenance, but the service you're talking about does exist, though AFAIK mostly at the very high-end. It's typically for things like home theaters, whole-home audio systems, or
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by vault_ 4y ago
What's the confusion? The allegation is that choosing to build this represents, at best, incredibly poor judgment. The GitHub issue and GP post are good faith appeals to kindest possible interpretations of this work. To use your own ex
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by vault_ 4y ago
This isn't a fair analogy. There's a cost to adding new tools to a software environment, and an ongoing cost to maintaining that tool. Closer, IMO, is you're speccing out a new house with a builder and ask for a swimming pool
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by vault_ 4y ago
How does being able to point at a database prevent land being stolen in the absence of a trusted third party? It's not like the land itself can authenticate the farmer. For the database to have any weight, there'd need to be an au
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by vault_ 4y ago
Interesting concept! A couple quick things I noticed trying to use the site. First, you can't view product details without paying for a subscription. I wanted to look at the t-shirt to see basic details like sizes available, product me
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by vault_ 5y ago
That really depends on what you're working on and to what degree it's coupled to the system it's a part of. A form on a web application, or an API endpoint? Sure, rewriting it is probably trivial. A new process scheduler for
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by vault_ 8y ago
This post is from 2011 and the techniques it describes have been superseded by cgroups. One of the followup posts is specifically about them: http://osgtech.blogspot.com/2011/07/part-iii-bulletproof-pro...
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by vault_ 10y ago
A few questions/observations from reading over the docs and source code. There's not necessarily any significance to the order, or weight to the observations. With the recent NPM stuff fresh in my mind, it seems like you've g
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by vault_ 11y ago
I believe the difference is that Open vSwtich is intended to be used as a software switch similar to how a VM is intended to be a virtual server (and its intended use there would presumably be networking between VMs). While OpenSwitch is in
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by vault_ 11y ago
It seems like only methods can be decorated. Is there any hope for decorators on top-level functions in the future?
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CVE-2014-6271: Remote code execution through bash(seclists.org)
905 points by vault_ 12y ago|416 comments
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by vault_ 13y ago
The relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1252/
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by vault_ 13y ago
I've done this at my university, but in a slightly less obnoxious way. We have a grid computing environment set up (using Sun Grid Engine) that allows people to run bulk jobs across both dedicated clusters and in spare cycles on lab ma
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by vault_ 13y ago
It'd be interesting to look at how much of the 20-24 demographic is college students. In the US at least it's pretty normal for parents to pay for their children's phone bills while their in college[1]. Since about half of th
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by vault_ 13y ago
This is pretty cool. The google calendar event to create texts seems like a hack though (even more-so than the rest of it). Is there any reason this couldn't just use the SMS gateways that pretty much every carrier offers?
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by vault_ 13y ago
I was expecting a power strip: http://www.apc.com/
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by vault_ 13y ago
s/languages/language/ and they should be radio buttons ;-)
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by vault_ 13y ago
Which was swiped from the actual life of Salvador Dalí: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_dali#Politics_and_pers... ;)
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by vault_ 13y ago
It's pretty easy to fabricate a story to support whatever position you want: You get laid off and along comes unconditional basic income. Your $20K is covering your basic expenses pretty well, but you're bored out of your skull (y
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by vault_ 13y ago
While I agree that most graphing calculators are overpriced and too limited in functionality, I disagree that students should only be given problems that can be nicely worked out on pencil and paper. There were occasional problems I was giv
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by vault_ 13y ago
Chill out a bit. Classes are for more people than the self-taught know-it-all's in the room. Most of those people attend the class because they want to learn the "basic curriculum" and they probably aren't interested in

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