xnormal

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by xnormal 4y ago
Either continue with the current system or decide to fork time off Earth rotation entirely. The language about the "one minute" difference is rolling that can down the road cowardly and rightfully criticized by the author. The pro
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by xnormal 4y ago
I guess GitHub and similar providers could scan incoming commits for these in order to shield users who do not upgrade. We all know there will still be millions of those for years to come.
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by xnormal 4y ago
BRCA sucks. My sister died from ovarian cancer. She was positive and refused preventive removal. I need to get checked. And if I am a carrier, my daughters will need to get checked, too.
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by xnormal 4y ago
I believe “this person” is Cloudflare’s CTO
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by xnormal 4y ago
> The best you can do as a maintainer is to be mindful of the original problem that the solution was architected for, and extend the thing without crossing certain boundaries and assumptions. Speaking of boundaries and assumptions, one o
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by xnormal 5y ago
Drunken white elephants of style
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by xnormal 5y ago
I used something similar to Duff’s device to implement coroutines in C++ (pre-C++20). With some macros and using lambda function the result almost feels like part of the language. No UB. Static analysis will keep you from doing things like
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by xnormal 5y ago
I wrote a tool that lets me use keys in my ssh-agent for google cloud. This way, a vm can run with minimal privileges but when I ssh in I get gcloud cmdline with full control. It is very easy to connect to the agent and ask it to sign somet
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by xnormal 5y ago
The QuickEd external message editor for QuickBBS was perfectly usable at 1200 baud. During screen repaint it gave priority to updating the current line so it was responsive and went back to repainting the screen as soon as you stopped typin
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by xnormal 5y ago
> Pledge/unveil are manifestly more successful, being used pervasively (though not really by programs which do not primarily target openbsd). Because of their simplicity, they are easily added as a patch to a ported application. The
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by xnormal 5y ago
Academics can sometimes learn a lot from industry. The ScyllaDB database and its underlying SeaStar library essentially implement a userspace OS that handles the hardware very differently than a typical modern OS with phenomenal improvement
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by xnormal 5y ago
Implementing the minimal “bootstrap” HID interface can be done without most of the abstraction layers. It’s effectively hard-wired and barely parsing of any descriptors or anything.
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by xnormal 5y ago
A well-written library can effectively expose a simpler hardware device with minimal assumptions
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by xnormal 5y ago
Nice, but there are already some de-facto standards for this. In Python I use “raise NotImplementedError”. Many IDEs and static analyzers catch TODO/FIXME in comments which works for all languages.
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by xnormal 5y ago
Note that the graph is logarithmic. Meson’s rise is truly meteoric.
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by xnormal 5y ago
Low concentration HF is frequently uses in artistic glass etching. With reasonable precautions it’s not more dangerous than cleaning your drain with caustic soda. Just don’t be stupid.
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by xnormal 5y ago
Is there any way to start workers that would be guaranteed to be co-located with a specific durable object? This way they would have ultrafast access to the state it manages but not subject to the single-thread limitation.
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by xnormal 8y ago
Any chance of something similar for CSV? (full RFC-4180 including quotes, escaping etc). Terabytes of "big data" get passed around as CSV.