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Tar doesn't use any sort of index like zip does, so to extract the specified file the server side would need to parse through possibly the entire file just to see if the requested …

I think the observation being made was that this is at the scary intersection of consumer IoT non-security and major infrastructure.

Or only run Linux? * * (any source available OS)

This is a great resource. There were also some other useful links in the comments last time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17054419

I haven't used hg enough to have an opinion on it, despite several attempts... Problem is I learn bottom up, and I just haven't been able to "think in mercurial" the way I can "thi…

Alternatively... how large would the whale population need to be to counter the carbon footprint of such tourism?

If you're using rebase there's the `--committer-date-is-author-date` and `--ignore-date` flags. One uses the author date for both and the other uses the commit date for both. Witho…

Thank you for humoring me. I had to sleep on it, but I can see it now. Seems like it would require a really bad design or more likely bad actors (remotes leaving dead sockets open)…

Are those really the only options? I'm trying to wrap my head around how using a fixed size thread pool for I/O automatically implies deadlocks but I just can't. Unless the threads…

GAN, Generative Adversarial Network: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_adversarial_network

I suspect "Western-style dates" was meant to refer to the Gregorian calendar rather than the format used to represent a date on that calendar. ISO-8601 only really applies to the G…

I really liked that 2/3 of the post is a walk through the solutions using existing tools before getting to the project. I also like how it combines a "big data" format (parquet) wi…

It's about pineapples.

Seconded. The only person I know who sleeps like this is also the highest functioning person I know.

I really wanted something like this when embedding serial numbers and keys in ROMs. At the time I was mostly working in C and PHP, so I was imagining something closer to a template…

More like encouraging the creators of IKEA furniture assembly instructions to read lots of other instructions so that they can get better at writing instructions. An analogy for im…

One of the benefits listed in the manifesto (and often touted elsewhere) is that you are not limited to a specific region when hiring. Unfortunately, what this means for candidates…

I've been full-time remote for just shy of 5 years and timezones is definitely an issue. Up to 4 hour difference is sustainable indefinitely, 8 hours can be with the right people (…

But compared to the rate of change in technology, it's practically written in stone!

I asked someone when I saw them doing similar things. They adopted the style after reading Google's style guide for shell scripts. Not sure if that's where this author got it from,…

You can use forward slashes for paths on Windows in your Makefile. They are actually required if you want to use wildcards.

There's something about the verbose text-only UI that just screams "written by a lawyer". The copy is not even objectively that wordy, it just feels like it started as legalese and…

I like the idea behind the Super Falcon model: fixed positive buoyancy with an inverted wing design. Like a plane, but with gravity replaced by buoyancy and the Y axis inverted so …

IANAL, but... People should be aware that Atom (the editor) uses React internally, so it's possible you face similar legal exposure without even shipping anything just because you …

As a full-time remote person (at IBM, ironically), I personally hate using the phone - however, video/voice call via Slack or similar is totally fine. As far as I'm concerned, a de…