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Funny to see this. I once considered x86 emulation plus emulation of a number of Linux system calls in JS as a way to get Go programs running in the browser. In contrast to the sub…

Great idea! I have always felt that the Wireshark Lua bindings are not ready-to-use enough. They feel like the ugly stepchild of Wireshark. In the last dissector I wrote, which was…

As other comments tell you, software breakpoints are used with flash parts such as the AVRs. You can write flash from they outside.

Yes. And these software breakpoints are written into flash. This is why they're very slow - and why they wear down your flash. The situation is kinda OK when you don't often change…

ACID sure is a way to deal with data change faster than once a day. Once you stop passing paper slips and order forms through your company, you can get accurate, up to date informa…

> This is quite arguable. Before the Computer Era, all businesses, including the whole financial sector did just fine without ACID. Can you elaborate a bit? I believe that in the p…

Do you propose having another syntax for getting the zero-length slice just past the last element? The [2:] syntax giving you {} is a pretty natural progression from [0:] giving yo…

The submission links to a blog post on how the data was retrieved: http://255.wf/2016-09-18-mass-analyzing-a-chunk-of-the-inter... > For this little experiment, I’ve setup a single…

> Customization is what distinguishes platforms from applications. What does this even mean?

Unix history certainly has aspects of the "grandfather's axe". Few users of unixoid systems today are running original 70ies Unix code. But Unix is not just code. The concepts intr…

Thank you. I was thinking of scale as a measure of order of magnitude and then it didn't make sense.

The article makes a number of good points. The first three points in the "Learning" section resonated very well with me. Then there's stuff I just don't understand. For example: > …

Sorry, I haven't been dogmatic about listing all the puns. Where is your dog now?

> But after decades of dogged effort, he and his fellow scientists are still arguing about the answers. > Other canine genetics experts think that Larson’s barking up the wrong tre…

> Not only is it [linearly written code with async/await] easier to read (as the chaining example was), but now the error handling behavior is the exact same as regular synchronous…