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If the servers in question happen to be on the list of supported hardware, quite possibly. (I don't know of any up-to-date online list, but running `source setup` in the root of th…

"The wise man speaks because he has something to say. The fool speaks because he has to say something." (See also: comments by idlewords, pkw2017.)

Really? If you're going to do that, it seems like you might as well just merge all those users into a single account anyway, considering how trivial it would be for any one of them…

Until I can, as an unprivileged user, watch my own process's syscalls with dtruss, it's not an alternative to strace. Requiring root is a major hindrance.

Also (more specifically to one of the given examples), enabling `-A` on all your ssh invocations likewise seems like a pretty bad idea.

> When using little-endian, you imagine that the bits are in little-endian order, to be consistent with the bytes, and then everything is nice and consistent. But isn't that kind o…

According to their documented "Current Limitations" ( https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/content/docum... ): > Case Sensitivity: Filenames are currently case-sensitive …

Fails to mention what is in my opinion the most devious, subtle potential pitfall with `set -e`: assigning (or even just a bare evaluation of) an arithmetic zero. `foo=0` won't do …

While this is a legitimate complaint, it also applies (though in fewer ways) to C. How do you parse this? (x)(y); Is that a call of function (or function pointer) `x` with argument…

I don't think the problems with that advice are singular. Perhaps the most ultimately-relevant is that looping exactly N times without a "ceremonial" counter is really only very ra…

Perhaps I should clarify -- I am (happily) not involved in web development, and from the developer's side browsers may very well be in pretty good shape these days (I wouldn't real…

> For example, "back in the day" browsers sucked, like really bad. I'm reminded of Mitch Hedberg: "I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to too."

If I'm reading N1256 right (not sure how far back it actually dates, but that's a C standard draft dated 2007), section 6.7.2.3 also explicitly allows a trailing comma in that cont…

> So why the quad i7, 32GB RAM, and 480GB SSD? It's right there in your quote: > ...a web browser...

I'm reminded of an excellent quote from Bertrand Russell: "Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise."

Why are they using MIPS as a metric for comparing integer CPU performance? When you're looking at two different compiler backends targeting two (very) different ISAs, it seems pret…

See other reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10363281

Realistically it's not going to be that simple though. The filesystem proper (e.g. ZFS) may verify checksums when pulling in data from a storage device, but then it's going to sit …

I think a reasonable argument could be made that if it's in the filesystem it's not end-to-end.

> I don't get what the word "libre" has with the "great free software nomenclature war" or why that would make people avoid LibreOffice. Personally, I avoid "office suites" in gene…

Is that really the definitive metric though? Seems like you'd want to compare overall program-text size between equivalent binaries for x86[-64] and $otherarch (i.e. x86 may be abl…

Neat...and on a somewhat similar note (bash enable -f hacks), some bash FUSE bindings I wrote a few years back: https://github.com/zevweiss/booze I initially wrote it basically jus…

Looks neat, though I can't help but wonder if you'd be better off with DRBD (run it disconnected by default, then just connect and let it sync naturally when you feel like it).

I haven't actually used it myself and am certainly willing to believe it's immature, but how do you mean it has "little in common with RCU"? Comparing personnel between that librar…

Yes, this essentially just a form of RCU. Note however that RCU isn't just for the kernel anymore though: http://urcu.so/