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Awesome! The one thing that turns me off a little is `ModTime`. I generally avoid incorporating modification times into my build (generally I force them to 1970), but a hash for th…

https://golang.org/x/crypto/nacl for the Gophers among us (it provides only box/secret_box, though)

https://medium.com/@sdboyer/so-you-want-to-write-a-package-m... would be a good start

I'm assuming you mean vdevs — you can resize zvols (virtual block devices) just fine. (and you can even grow disk-type vdevs, though they'll be somewhat unbalanced)

SSLmate ( https://sslmate.com/ ) actually makes things similarly simple — I've been using them for a few months now.

You can't prove the hash function is correct, no. But you can prove the hash function is implemented equivalently to its definition. That's what the article is about.

MaidSafe ( http://maidsafe.net ) and Skylight ( https://skylight.io ) are both written in Rust, Maidsafe having recently moved to it from C++.

It's worth noting that KVM doesn't allow remapping the APIC base address at all: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/49d7c6559bf2ab4f1d56b...

I haven't been back home (Amsterdam) for most of this year, but I find that surprising — I usually have trouble coming up with more than three ice cream parlours off the top of my …

This article wasn't written by Steve Klabnik — merely "reprinted". > Recently, it was brought up on Proggit that Chris Smith's "What to Know Before Debating Type Systems" was no lo…

By all means not an official statement, but Isaac is quite committed to making sure that the long-term safety of the npm registry doesn't rely on the future benevolence of npm Inc.…

I'd argue that they all derive from, and are quite similar to Portage's USE flags.

Awesome to finally see Gun on here, Mark! What still worries me is the reliance on external storage services, although a good local storage service could be built for Gun. Other th…

Also among them: https://github.com/facebook/rebound-js https://github.com/facebook/rebound

I'm writing an HTTP reverse proxy in Rust, and my main gripe so far is that I have to roll my own async I/O. Binding node's HTTP parsers over is going well, but also takes a bunch …

These days, I find using MD5 absolutely inexcusable. SHA-1 is available pretty much everywhere, SHA-2 algorithms are quite readily available too. BLAKE2 ( https://blake2.net ) is s…

I think you'd be quite happy in Rust, if you substitute trait methods for multimethods too.

Most of these slides are about patterns that are provided for as functions by the language, or are otherwise obsoleted by the more powerful abstraction features of FP languages. Th…

I'll miss Ezra and his outgoing spirit. Goodbye, old friend.

I'm guessing that mitigating this at the Rust level isn't doable, because its memory model has the same properties with regards to zeroing. To change that, LLVM support would be ne…

The key can be generated on the smartcard, and it's not possible to transfer it out of the smartcard by design. (anything that calls itself a smartcard but allows this isn't a smar…

What you're describing is called a smartcard, and readily available on the market. I keep my PGP key on one.

I'd say that many of the issues surrounding accidentally using mutable state are fairly moot in Clojure. Blocking still remains an issue, though there's core.async/thread for go bl…

The flawed assumption is "and therefore 21 million Bitcoin addresses". Generate an RSA keypair, and give out the hash of the public key (encoded in a Bitcoin-specific way). Anyone …

Hawala has fascinated me to no end, as essentially an anarchistic peer-to-peer web-of-trust banking system. It has existed for a long time, and keeps functioning even where traditi…