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fidget

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    Comment #14691654

    Yeah, we really should rewrite the kernel.

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    Comment #14601331

    That's GRSecurity for you

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    Comment #14565238

    Man, I've got some horrible news about your CPU.

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    Comment #14493201

    There are other bad things about ssh. Tofu sucks balls and ssh users are far too comfortable with it.

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    Comment #14339827

    Doesn't particularly make a difference, given that this issue is about users not upgrading (for whatever reason) their windows XP installations. Would the exploit having being disc…

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    Comment #14289954

    His arms and influence is also changed the way I view conflict between states.

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    Comment #14259644

    It's not strongly coupled beyond requiring that the wrapper implement a `Cause() error` method. I don't really think that could ever be considered strong coupling

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    Comment #14222013

    So short it

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    Comment #14191752

    Please let me know where you work, so I can avoid any product potentially produced by you.

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    Comment #14109572

    Are you suggesting that you had a concurrency bug that was solvable without changing your entire storage layer? Heresy..

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    Comment #14109490

    No one does, you estimate each task to have a different number of points, which modify the task's contribution to the burndown graph. I guess the idea is that points should correla…

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    Comment #13997422

    Isn't anycast ip usually used for that instead?

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    Comment #13844802

    Right, which is why I said those blackbox methods were pretty rubbish. You step through it with a debugger.

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    Comment #13844768

    Unannounced side channels seems like by far the easiest thing to deal with there; send a 2mb file, observe network patterns, raise an eyebrow if 2mb gets sent over a channel that y…

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    Comment #13827951

    Phew lad. You're a bit far gone aren't you.

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    Comment #13796055

    >I think you're giving too much importance to something quite insignificant here, his race and background. How about his entire socialisation?

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    Comment #13762293

    The GCS being referred to by the GP is Google Cloud Storage, not Cloud Sequel. You really do need failover set up though. That's true for basically any MySQL installation, managed …

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    Comment #13759669

    They have a minimum of 1 year deprecation policy in their terms of service.

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    Comment #13759247

    Functions are going beta this week

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    Comment #13730651

    Helps a ton if you're terminating SSL at the edge, due to the number of roundtrips you need before the server can even start generating that first byte.

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    Comment #13679139

    Well that seems eminently reasonable

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    Comment #13519626

    The end to end principle says no, you need application level checksums anyway

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    Comment #13460674

    It was before the vote to renew, and was not disclosed to people making that vote.

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    Comment #13447861

    Well that seems like an easily applied solution to the problem of GC in javascript.

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    Comment #13084708

    8 IPs per instance, max :/