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Incorrect translation, Allahu Akbar means “the god is the greatest” Allah is not a name that came with Islam but existed before, it just means deity. the Al prefix is the definite …

Hi HN, I just wanted to share what I have been working on for the past few months: A firmware analyzer for embedded Linux systems that helps uncovering security issues running enti…

Sorry to disagree, but no, they are not dozens of different languages. The challenge with Arabic is that it has a rather large vocabulary, and different regions use slightly differ…

Yes Arabic from 1000 years ago is very much understandable today[1]. [1] https://fluentarabic.net/arabic-unchanged-1000-years/

Not Linux syscalls, they are a stable interface as far as the Linux kernel is concerned.

`gen_server` is an abstraction over the a client sending a `request` that a server services to produce a `response` to be sent to the client. The `gen_server` implementation takes …

Why do things have to be comparable? Why did you cherry pick infant mortality? Yes reducing infants mortality is one of the things where we improved.

The most dangerous thing about Capitalism is imho its universal equivalence, its ability to make us covert everything into a monetary value. In other words, it’s just like a progra…

REINDEX INDEX CONCURRENTLY[1] [1]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-reindex.html

Yes, but you don’t end up with different glyphs. Arabic script has letter shaping, that means a letter can have up to 4 shapes based on its position within the word. If you chop of…

The underlying problem is lack of isolation, and this is an area where the Erlang process model shines: processes are fully isolated and you can send a signal externally to termina…

No global GC. Each erlang process does its own GC, and the GC only happens when the process runs out of space (ie. the heap and stack meet). You can for example configure a process…

GC determinism is one of the things you get. Another one is non cooperative asynchronous termination.

Vala is very much used among other things by Frida. I have been involved with Vala in it’s early day and some hardcore GObject/C users never quite liked the C code that Vala genera…

> I don’t have an example of fully non-cooperative cancellation available off the top of my head. That would be Erlang.

The UUID spec update has not been finalized yet. It would be quite unfortunate to end up with a UUID v7 in PostgreSQL that’s not quite the standardized one because the patch got me…

You might want to check out the Swedish Doro phones: https://www.doro.com/en-us

It's quite unfortunate that this article mixes up what's necessary for podman quadlets with coreOS concepts. With quadlets, the only thing required is to drop a `.container` file i…

ISO8601 is a standard managed by ISO, you can buy a digital or printed copy of the standard from here: https://www.iso.org/standard/70907.html RFC 3339 is managed by the IETF, and …

Faster doesn’t mean more responsive, in fact very often an increase in throughput leads to an increase in latency.