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    Comment #48710926

    Doesn‘t he hack the ship and confuse the Unix epoch with the moon landing?

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    Comment #44283825

    Ignoring time zones, the Boris Johnson approach to time zones.

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    Comment #43075704

    > using the JDBC™ protocol JDBC is not a protocol, JDBC is an API, hence the need for a different JDBC driver per RDBMS. I doubt the author is a developer, I see this misunderstand…

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    Comment #39025731

    You forgot that the deployment also got more complicated.

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    Comment #36942180

    You can’t expect part time open source contributors to work for free for you. Instead volunteer to take over maintenance by reviewing PRs and traiging user bug reports.

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    Comment #35429774

    That or ASM devices. To my knowledge io_submit and io_getevents only really work with raw partitions anyway.

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    Comment #35418710

    > - Temp files. O_TMPFILE should do this. > - Unit files. O_TMPFILE together with renameat2 and RENAME_EXCHANGE should do this.

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    Comment #32229380

    It’s my general impression that software is not one of Intel´s strengths.

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    Comment #31119117

    Looks like you’re correct and I was wrong.

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    Comment #31119108

    > I don't think there 17.0.3 ever will be available from openjdk.java.net https://adoptopenjdk.net/upstream.html These are the official upstream builds by the updates project built…

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    Comment #31103047

    I believe Oracle 11 is affected.

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    Comment #30847386

    > now because I don't know why they disabled it when it was there E-cores (Gracemont) don't support AVX-512, only P-cores (Golden Cove) support AVX-512

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    Comment #30311428

    memfd_secret is probably what you want

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    Comment #29762825

    No. The JAR could be inside a WAR inside an EAR.

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    Comment #29697413

    Did I misunderstand the approach or is it sort of risky as it uses escaping instead of bind parameters to create the query to be explained, potentially opening itself to SQLi?

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    Comment #29612279

    Note that they are on JDK 14.0.2. An old, unsupported version of Java which doesn't get any security patches anymore. Being on a non-LTS version of Java forces them to upgrade to a…

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    Comment #28821905

    Getting Java through apt-get gives you more or less the worst quality builds https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk8u-dev/2019-May/0... You get mystery bits that haven't been …

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    Comment #27415928

    Why did it take projects and Google so long to migrate?

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    Comment #27415923

    > The GIL. How does the the GIL prevent interleaving? My understanding is that if an "operation" takes several steps, eg. reading from a dict then IO or a C extension and finally w…

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    Comment #27415894

    > For example, in CPython multiple threads can append to a list without a lock or insert items into a dict without a lock, and the data structure will never become corrupted. How i…

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    Comment #27415871

    > Currently Python only allows certain thread interleavings, because those are the points where the GIL is released. How is this currently avoided? My understanding is that anythin…

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    Comment #27415811

    Where is the connection to locking and the GIL?

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    Comment #27382323

    > Multithreaded Python currently does not How do you prevent interleaving of different threads then? > and must remain that way to maintain compatibility. Why? Python 3 broke a who…

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    Comment #27382290

    Why? Which different semantics cause a problem?

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    Comment #27380153

    Why? Java has no GIL and runs faster than Python.