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Re:I'm funding Ladybird because I can't fund Firefox on Sunday July 07, 2024 @08:33PM (#40901645)
AIUI, Servo has been a failure because Rust is not very good at this problem domain. Browsers have to deal with circular references and this is easily handled in C++.

Hopefully someone who knows more will explain this better

Quarterly fees are ~$15k

The domain for my work project was over $400k. Buying a gTLD would have been way cheaper, but wouldn't have managed to get us the cool domain we have.

edit: on the other hand, we're hostage to a country who could ruin everything. I guess someone above my pay grade rolled the dice

Yes, take two heat pumps in series and run one as AC and another as heat and you'll get far more than 1.5 gallons of drinking water out of arid air than this
Re:MTV news website goes dark, archives pulled offline on Monday June 24, 2024 @10:33PM (#40783770)
Words have meanings other than what the government says they are
Re:Apple found in breach of EU competition rules on Monday June 24, 2024 @09:10PM (#40783166)
But they will ride high in a pile of money until the curtain is drawn back. It's worth it to them
Re:Apple found in breach of EU competition rules on Monday June 24, 2024 @08:10AM (#40775070)
> If Apple feels these rules are so just and fair and indispuitably correct, why does it go to such measures to hide them from its consumers?

Because if would harm shareholder value. You don't need a more complicated explanation about the whole situation.

Re:Elixir Gotchas on Sunday June 23, 2024 @08:25PM (#40771765)
you can also use access methods on structs in 1.17 so you don't need the Access.key hack with get_in
It does a great job picking up voices though
Re:C can be memory safe on Thursday June 20, 2024 @07:55PM (#40744777)
We still emulate a typewriter that communicates over telegraph in our modern *nix OSes. Good luck removing that and keeping everything built upon it
I think we all agree that their lives are more valuable than whatever the cost of the recovery mission would be to bring them home safely, but isn't it disheartening that the only reason we could agree to spend that much money to save so few lives is because of the spectacle of it all?
Re:Recycling Plastic Is a Dangerous Waste of Time on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @08:32AM (#40727647)
Doesn't have to. Same story. It's going to be possible but not economical.
Boeing has competition in the USA?
"Confirmed the possibility" -- it was known when they invented this.

https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/112632040031740747

Re:Recycling Plastic Is a Dangerous Waste of Time on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @12:15AM (#40714018)
But it won't. None of them have worked and the industry knows it.

https://climateintegrity.org/plastics-fraud

There is definitive proof. They over-drive the LEDs which is why they die so quickly. If they were under-driven they last much much longer. It's the heat that kills them IIRC.
This is true but people will react negatively to this data regardless. The US does have this advantage, but you can also argue that the tradeoff is our food quality is much worse than other western countries.
Re:Engineer's solar panels are breaking efficiency records on Saturday June 15, 2024 @11:30PM (#40694482)
Plumbers and electricians will put liens on your home too
yeah Putin's totally gonna throw some Firefox contributors out a window because of a checks notes browser extension
I have some bad news for you... it's everywhere

https://www.fractracker.org/waste/

Re:Exploring Gleam, a type-safe language on the BEAM on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @07:12PM (#40652738)
Complex Rust types are absolutely supported with Rustler. And with one command I can have Elixir pull a Rust crate and do 80% of the work setting it up for me to be able to use it in a project.

https://github.com/rusterlium/rustler

Re:Exploring Gleam, a type-safe language on the BEAM on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @01:09PM (#40648838)
Elixir is one of the most productive languages there is right now.

Run into something slow? Replace that small bit with a Rust NIF and move on with your life.

Re:Exploring Gleam, a type-safe language on the BEAM on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @08:14AM (#40645308)
"Make it work, then make it beautiful, then if you really, really have to, make it fast. 90 percent of the time, if you make it beautiful, it will already be fast. So really, just make it beautiful!"

– Joe Armstrong

Re:Embrace IPv6 before its too late on Monday June 10, 2024 @04:17PM (#40638410)
Nobody blocks entire /24s because of one bad address

The only way to guarantee your server is secure is to never connect it to a network.

Yes, the courts will lean on legal dictionaries such as Black's Law Dictionary and Ballentine's Law Dictionary.

reasonable. Not extreme. Not arbitrary, capricious, or confiscatory. Public Service Com, v Haverneyer, 296 US 506, 80 L Ed 357, 56 S Ct 360.

"What is reasonable depends upon a variety of considerations and circumstances. It is an elastic term which is of uncertain value in a definition." Sussex Land & Live Stock Co. v Midwest Refining Co. (CA8 Wyo) 294 F 597, 34 ALR 249, 257.

Re:What Is PID 0? on Sunday June 09, 2024 @07:43PM (#40628555)
On FreeBSD there's a sysctl to control it and there's a kernel module you can configure to allow specific UIDs/GIDs to see everything so you can still allow your monitoring tools to do their job without being root, for example. It's a standard config in places I've worked
Re:Embrace IPv6 before its too late on Sunday June 09, 2024 @03:57PM (#40627098)
So now everyone should acquire as many IPv6 addresses as possible so they can spread their services over many /64s so if their server gets compromised and put on a blacklist somewhere they can just burn that /64 and move on to another?
Re:Embrace IPv6 before its too late on Sunday June 09, 2024 @09:32AM (#40624320)
A lot of sites out there are still not supporting IPv6 because ... you'll never guess, but dealing with DDoS on IPv6 where your attackers can rotate through addresses quickly is not easy. Amazon Cloudfront and Cloudflare have recently failed to block simple IPv6 attacks for us lately which would not have happened if we only ran IPv4
> At what point do they just merge with HN?

Maybe they don't want to volunteer their time and resources to drive traffic to a venture capitalist's website disguised as a hacker community

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