Posts by two00lbwaster 60 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Aug 2010
Part of the issue with that is that Rust is not just about addressing memory safety. A subset of C would probably be a new language too, and anyway, they only just moved for C89 to C11 a little while back so hope long would it take before a version of C with memory safety would grace the light of day
> Uh huh. I think if you ask Linux kernel developers, you might get a disagreement there.
I think the problem there is not that the call to C has any cost the cost is to the Linux C devs. The Rust devs are effectively asking that anywhere that they want to operate be at a public consumption level rather than a private level of code quality.
If you write a public api you need to document it and follow certain practices around versioning it and not breaking it's functionality without a version change. In a private API it's a free for all more often than not because you can just change all the places where you broke stuff when you changed the implementation and you don't have to give any guarantees around your changes.
So, as you can see, introducing Rust means that the C devs now have non-C consumers, which now means that their code is potentially needing to conform to more public abi practices than private (unless they want to learn Rust and handle it themselves still). As far as I can tell, the Rust devs aren't saying that the Linux C devs need to learn Rust, but if they don't then they need to properly document their interfaces and changes so that a Rust dev can make the Rust changes on their end and get everything passing CI checks.
This feels like what used to be the friction between backend Web app devs and when frontend frameworks started to come about. The backend devs were like we can do all this without this fronted Javascript crap but eventually they just had to get along and patterns were developed that made everyone relatively happy (the benefit was that you could offload lots of computation time to your millions+ user's devices rather than paying additional hosting costs running it on the back ends).
I think that Rust similarly has at least a place where memory safety can have the most impact in the Linux kernel without having to rewrite everything in Rust upfront. This may require some arm twisting of the Linux C devs to say tough, you're going to have to work with these guys (you don't need to learn rust to do that, much like backend Web devs normally don't need to know Javascript) and you're going to have to find a way which is of the least impact to both of you.
> "HMRC has one of the largest and most complex IT estates in Europe with over 600 systems, 800 terabytes of data, 1,000 IT changes a month, and a 24/7 IT operation. It serves 45 million citizens and more than 5 million business taxpayers."
Is it just me that is wholly unimpressed by these metrics and think that this should be a single to low double digit millions per year contract?
> dunno, man. A world with loads of schoolkids who understand computers and aren't intimidated by them sounds pretty good to me.
Hmmm these days it just gets you a bunch of facile, cachet seeking vanity whores.
Which is why you should give them raspberry pis and make them build it and get it up and running themselves.
This shouldn't be the case we should be picking holes in the EU regulations and making them more stringent (and tell Europe you need to meet our regulations), but that's not what our governments seem to want to do with their new found freedoms (why make things better for everyone when you can make them worse for most and better for a few).
Very little transparency is probably a sign that the source is at least in some way correct.
Disparaging them and saying that they're not to be trusted sounds like a pretty desperate statement of someone under a lot of stress hoping to recover and brush it under the rug. The kind of behaviour that GDPR was hoping to prevent.
Yeah, I do not understand that weird behaviour. I can't fully recall from using a mac for a few months a couple of years back, I expect that this was one of the things that I found a way to change pretty quickly, but the experience has made asking about hardware choice a key part of my interview questions. In fact if they make it part of the job ad I'm very quick to move on.
I'm sure that they would be bemused and overwhelmed by my having multiple 4k screens with at least 5 apps open and visible all at the same time, all the time. That and having a proper UK English keyboard layout with a mouse with scroll wheel and back and forward buttons.
I could do with a couple more 4K screens really, it would reduce the amount of Workspace switching that I have to do but you start running into severe limitations around how many monitors your system can support
Some companies just don't look into this stuff. There job fails with an oom error and so they double the memory rather than spending dev time to sort out the code. I've seen pod allocated 10s of GBs of memory which us MBs to single digit GBs except for a few seconds at the end of the job for only some jobs where it uses 10s of GB. That leads to huge instances with one or two of these pods on them yet they're using a few GBs of RAM.
I also saw the same with requests but I got a change through to remove CPU limits which led to better utilisation. I also started to introduce more stringent measurement based values for memory and CPU on the non-prod clusters. None of this required much data a few months worth at most; though it's a constant thing you need to do as you gain customers and as part of performance testing of releases and post release. I just don't think that smaller companies do this.
MacOS is an overly opinionated bug infested shitshow too. And I say that as a long time Linux user who has had to put up with some horror shows with Linux and Nvidia for many years.
What kind of OS resets your desktop setup on every screen lock?
Moving infrastructure might be easy. Google's forwarding rules come in two types, regional forwarding rules and global forwarding rules (anycast). The latter would be reasonably easy to set up a new backend to the LB in another region, that's what they're designed for to serve from the closest region to the client. But your persistent data is now going to be in another region incurring latency and financial penalties, or you need to move your persistent data too and incur downtime.
With the former regional forwarding rules you're screwed, you'll need to build another LB with another IP address and update your DNS as well as the former mentioned practical issues.
You've fallen into the trap of understanding the word only with its modern context. Rape has long meant to despoil, to take by force (that's where our more limited modern usage of it comes from). As such it's perfectly appropriate and it is exactly how I have used it to describe default opt out policies as opposed to opt in.
Here's a dictionary definition with the archaic version mentioned https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rape
I guess that the only downside of using apk over pkg is that packages from apk are likely to take a massive dump in your /etc, /bin, /usr/bin and other directories, whereas I like how FreeBSD, generally, sticks to putting package manager installed software in sane locations, rather than the base OS locations.
Linuxland doesn't really observe any distinction between base OS and subsequently installed software; probably because of the author's description of it being lots of individual parts flying in close formation so what does it matter if you start adding more and more parts to the formation right?
I just go for tab groups rather than trying to squeeze out more space by going vertical. I'm still pissed about session manager. Multiple times Firefox has eaten my data and the fucktards at Mozilla don't see fit to implement the feature set required for add-on makers to do their job for them (and they have zero interest in writing any more code to support that doesn't result in feature parity with Chrome), so we have a shitty restore process that almost never works and almost always results in lost data or we have to use an add-on that does the job well enough that you don't lose data but is pretty poor compared to what we had before 57 (bare in mind I'm not saying that native session management was any good before 57, just that we didn't need it because we had an add-on which was how it always should have been natively in the first place).
I'm a big fan of explorerpatcher since I got a new 12th gen Intel laptop I had to be on Windows 11 (for Windows anyway) for the CPU support but the new taskbar was obnoxious. I actually have been reviving the quick launch bar manually through every version of Windows since 7 got rid of it as the default so this was quite important to me to restore some familiarity and usability to the OS.
My main complaint with it is that if I can't remap the shortcut then I have to use the top bar (or similarly, if you want to use the Dock for some reason) which can be a long way away when you have a lot of or high resolution screens with maybe an odd layout. It's not about that you can't have multiple screens or set them up as you like, it's about the usability there after which a daily pain for me (I didn't get to choose the hardware/OS and I have not enjoyed the experience these last few months.) I'm sure you must have experienced this having 5 screens, maybe you put up with ctrl+f2 and navigating with the keyboard though.
Except the steaming pile of excretion just doesn't want to work with DP alt. with PD most of the time (and yet Windows and Ubuntu have worked perfectly and without complaint with the same displays). Also the OS is just plain crap for multiple display usage so it doesn't really just work there either.
At least on GKE it was actually fairly simple to spin up a private cluster and also simple to administer it and get workload info via the interface. The problems can arise when the cluster needs access to 3rd party APIs off cluster as you then need Cloud NAT, I think it was, and that has rate limiting in it as to how many outbound connections you can make per server (of maybe 1000 every 2 minutes or so) so its not any good for very chatty applications IME.
Slowness is relative and poor programming can create exceptionally slow code. Multi ms hops to a DB on another server, after already spent multi ms searching a cache only to miss, then waiting for the DB to curn out a result and send it back to you is probably always going to be slower than the python code that you're executing.
https://www.arewee10syet.com/
Yeah, have a look at all broken addons, the ones not tested but listed, and then notice that this page only lists 880 addons out of 1000s.
Also look at the number of users that are using the broken addons who will either lose functionality or be stuck unable to benefit from the E10 changes.
Will any of those users be told when their addons are disabled as incompatible? Not if the move to signed addons is any example of how Mozilla treat their user base.
I've had a quick check:
* I've got 5/20 addons which are known to work
* I've got 6/20 addons which are known not to work
* I've got 3/20 addons which haven't been tested
* I've got 6/20 addons which aren't even listed
Out of the 6 plugins which are broken, I use 5 of them every day and will be disabling E10 until they all work; Ghostery, Downthemall, Lastpass, Session Manager and X-notifier.
A bunch that haven't been tested or aren't listed I'd be in the same boat if they broke, like tab groups, The Addon Bar (restored), external IP and Last tab close button.
I use Juice Defender (BETA) Ultimate on Andorid (I tried it for 'free' by getting the APKs elsewhere and then bought it off of the Play store because I was so impressed with it.)
I can create separate schedules for the weekends and weekdays. I can set the phone to go into flight mode on a schedule and also for it to turn the phone to a different alert setting, vibrate for example, during those schedules. The side benefit is that my phone battery lasts for 2-3 days now too.
The only thing missing at the moment is for Google to tie the alarm clock to the calendar so that I can get the phone to automatically use a different alarm setting if it's a bank/public holiday or I have a holiday scheduled into my calendar.
This really needs to be done as it would mean that my mainly useless memory won't lapse and forget to turn off / on the alarm at the beginning or end of the holidays!
"Most of you want to stay with the same old failed systems: Windows! Look at what a success that has been. Cheap? Have you ever worked in a shop that uses mainly Dell? I have, several times. The cost of the native hardware, with Windows or Suse or Redhat (or self installed Slackware or Suse) was not much lower, especially with the Gold support needed. Then, the failure rate was "awesome". I recall getting a batch of six higher spec. laptops. All were under repair within six months, two of them twice and not for user damage, just straight, hardware failure. The desk tops were scarcely better, though the servers, once one called in the engineer to fit the ordered parts rather than what arrived, were not so bad."
Just because you have had a piss poor experience with PC hardware and open source don't tar the rest of the industry with the same brush. The problem is with the planning and execution.
"We are aware that some customers using the latest version of the browser Firefox, version 4, may currently be experiencing difficulties accessing their account details online. We are in the process of rectifying this and would advise customers in the meantime to use a previous version of Firefox or Internet Explorer.
"This will not impact customers' online security..."
No one should be using IE at the moment due to the MHTML bug that allows drive by attacks that can compromise the system. Stupid, stupid people. Just because they have particularly stupid management when it comes to deploying a web service, and/or particularly stupid web developers doesn't mean that they should be giving poor advice that can lead to their customers having their bank accounts hijacked.
Walk away from Santander, and any other monkeys, that want your cash and can't write a proper website that works across browsers.
Laptop, main PC and the work PC. I need to build an IE8 VM now though; to go with my IE 6 and 7 VMs.
FF 4 will get 10 downloads from me (work PC, main PC, Laptopx2 (Windows and Ubuntu), Netbookx2 (Windows and Ubuntu), Windows VM, Ubuntu VMx2, work Mac Mini).
Guess FF4 wins this round again.
If your visitor statistics back up use of CSS3 and HTML 5 in your websites then I would say go for it. CSS 3 is especially easy to implement into sites in a progressively enhanced way, so we have started using it even though most users won't see the enhancements.
The company I work for shows a massive bias on our clients' sites to IE 6-8 users, and that won't change anytime soon, so even PNGs are a pain to work with.
MHTML bug owns all versions of IE and such attacks will be commonplace for the foreseeable future because of the tight integration with the OS.
Most Linux distros come with Firefox by default, so this is interesting for them.
Firefox didn't get hacked this year at PWN2OWN, along with long standing Chrome (not hacked as of yet).
Firefox 4 is a stepping stone for Firefox 5/6/7 this year which should bring tab isolation/sandboxing, 64bit version, more HTML 5 and CSS 3 features.
So, you now have access to the system through an account; next hack run is privilege escalation exploit.
Once you're in the system remotely you're in the system, regardless of the account you happen to have wheedled your way into.
Doesn't matter what system you're attacking, the exploit methodology is the same; get into the system, escalate privileges, control system.
I really don't understand this. I have never seen large amounts of memory used by Firefox, I only see a huge amount of memory usage with flash apps running (800MB for the plugin container.)
Do you all have so little memory that 100MBs make a difference between browsers?
There is malware out there that causes FF4 to crash but not FF3.6. You need to reformat your PC with a clean OS DVD and check performance again without installing anything other than FF4 and windows patches. Use an antivirus package, like a free one such as Avast 6, or a paid for one from a reputable vendor. Then install your programs one by one.
See: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=633445
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