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Before the AI craze, there were plans to allow guests to cleave off an AWS-managed enclave and expose IMDS to only that enclave [0]. No creds would ever be visible to the guest. Th…

Difficulty is relative and practice makes perfect. People love to compare difficulty of processes, metals, positions etc. They’re all hard without practice. They’re all easy with a…

Coinbase unironically suggests using PKI to protect oneself. It’s unbelievable self-satire. https://www.coinbase.com/blog/celer-bridge-incident-analysis

Neat! This is the direction I’d hoped to see gvisor go in. What’s the reasoning for building from scratch and not piggybacking off gvisor?

I think if you come from the JVM / CLR world, you are so protected by the runtime’s patching up of references that it might not even occur to you that a (raw) pointer to a data str…

Presumably not including chickens... broilers only live for 33 days on average

Recommend watching this. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PorfLSr3DDI

Have you ever set up a high-occupancy building in a structure that isn’t rectilinear? It’s a space efficiency nightmare to fit naturally rectangular fixtures and appliances to roun…

Microsoft shares source code with lots of partners. It would be asinine to admit that source code leaks, accidental or otherwise, would compromise their security. If they did that,…

>> Why are compilers ones behind the curve? I suspect it’s because there aren’t a lot of high quality libraries you can integrate into the backend of compiler tools that don’t run …

Hi Eric, presumably the companies will trade on a limit order book, like other exchanges. This mechanism of price formation allows rapid price movements up or down. What’s to stop …

Corsair Link is horrible. If you use Linux you should check out ckb-next which is really nice.

It’s quite easy to make any JetBrains IDE stall if it’s resource constrained. It needs a lot of memory and a _lot_ of file descriptors.

>> I'm a programmer. I learned it from the internet. Same is true of Paul Le Roux [1]. I think if you're criminally inclined you'll find a way. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pa…

I'm going to answer the question, rather than tell OP they should just use git. It might be worthwhile to check out Perforce [1]. Downsides: proprietary, expensive. Upside: you can…

32 comments so far and no mention of the word budget. There's a great analogy between software engineering and construction. Does your organization build skyscrapers and gorge-span…

Today I dug up some old Perl scripts I wrote about 11 years ago. I cobbled together a program to find duplicate mp3 files, where the sound is the same but the metadata may differ. …

It’s useful in pure (abstract) math for linking similar proofs. If you can spot some subjective link between proofs (e.g a proof in algebra and a proof in number theory that use es…

Well, if the database has the number of tables, triggers, stored procedures, etc that SAP or Oracle’s ERP has then this seems less unreasonable. We’re talking thousands

I've just introduced a new engineer to a project in a language he hasn't used before. All of these points ring true! I want to suggest C# on .NET Core as a pleasant, fast language …

I have implemented FIX for a living for a few years. It’s fragmented beyond belief. You can have different standards for different parts of the same brokerage. You have to do separ…

I have experience working on civil investigations of financial crime. It takes a very long time to prosecute white collar crime of all kinds. Especially insider trading. The most e…