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The module cache in Go 1.11 can sometimes cause various errors, primarily if there were previously network issues or multiple go commands executing in parallel, where the workaroun…

I think the initial vgo discussion and versioned Go modules proposal effectively said "developers expect semver; semver is helpful; Go is officially adopting and requiring semver".…

Makes sense. I guess the way I would summarize it is I believe the end-to-end Go system is 100% compliant with semver 2.0 spec. (And that is true to my knowledge even though there …

Hi Steve, I've looked at this relatively carefully, and I believe that Go does 100% follow the semver spec (modulo any bugs in the implementation). However, while that happens to b…

That's from sqlite. (Awesome tech, awesome license). Related snippet from the "Distinctive Features Of SQLite" page[1] from the sqlite project: The source code files for other SQL …

One of the requirements listed [1] as being needed for exposure to this for the provider is: Users have the ability to upload certificates for arbitrary names without proving domai…

I would guess they are fairly focused on it at this point. They are releasing microcode update mitigations for the CPUs of today, and at least state they will be improving things i…

As far as I can tell, one bit of news to me at least in this Intel whitepaper from today is that the microcode update to mitigate “variant #2” would be needed for Broadwell+, rathe…

People had been waiting on more details of the Intel microcode update, for example from kernel mailing list yesterday mid-day: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/4/696

If interested, you can see their work-in-progress main.rs in the related code revision[0], which includes their Rust code calling down to the C function Py_Initialize() to spin up …

The submitted article was to the hg wiki. I also included some quotes from the related code revision in Phabricator: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D1581

python has a concept of "extending" and also "embedding". It looks like they are looking at embedding[0], which enables you use the normal CPython interpreter from within another p…

... and now looks like the HN headline was improved to be more representative of the content compared to the earlier headline.

Initial reaction to headline was it sounded like (a) no more python, and (b) this is a decided future direction. Instead, it sounds like this is a proof-of-concept for flipping the…

TF;DV ("Too Flakey; Didn't View") version: After an intro ad, Stonebreaker gives the semi-common "3 V's" definition of big data of "volume, velocity, variety" popularized by META/G…

Fair point, but worth noting that compared to the migration plan discussed at ng-conf in March, this is now an improved plan. For example, from the post just published: Wasn't the …

Agreed, the auto import is awesome.

This is kind of awesome. "Sys admin" type usage definitely drives adoption/popularity/usage of a language (e.g., see perl; and people like doing sysadmin stuff with ruby). I would …