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wavesquid

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About wavesquid

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Github: https://github.com/james-callahan

Twitter: https://twitter.com/wavesquid

"Home": Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49077867

    The meson build is across multiple files, you should add together: meson.build meson_options.txt doc/meson.build egl/meson.build src/meson.build tests/meson.build cursor/meson.buil…

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    Comment #46831923

    Is that low or high?

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    Comment #46297573

    I can't load the page (Firefox mobile on android)

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    Comment #46104863

    Historically? 1. Because TLS certificates were not free 2. Because firewall was "enough" in most people's minds 3. Because TLS was the most CPU intensive part of serving a static s…

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    Comment #45912933

    The answer today is more than one node (instance/kernel running)

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    Comment #44551606

    E.g. the Qantas business rewards website was broken in Firefox, along with Qantas hotels

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    Comment #44352033

    > splice() is the fastest and most efficient way to transfer data through pipes (on Linux), especially for large volumes. It bypasses memory allocations in userspace (as opposed to…

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    Comment #41385848

    > are suppression files ever actually used due to an actual false positive, There used to be one in LuaJIT because it had an optimized string comparison that compared outside of th…

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    Comment #38787917

    I think you can see it up at a building on E 47th: https://imgur.com/a/9dsKmGP

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    Comment #38347314

    I believe systemd has a way to subscribe to timezone changes.

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    Comment #37895770

    For most merchants/terminals, only amex cards tend to send level 3 data.

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    Comment #37567037

    The trouble is, as far as I know, that the ME cannot be deactivated. Even if you are a really sensitive network. Your option is to find some of the few Intel chips without it, or f…

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    Comment #37566313

    I've had precisely the opposite happen: the NVIDIA driver had always been janky, either preventing standby,or not playing nice with my kernel, or some other weird incompatibility, …

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    Comment #37047271

    Often if you send 3 large useful PRS to a corporate open source product you will find an email in your inbox asking to connect. Send a couple more high quality PRs and you can like…

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    Comment #35174484

    ECR pull through caching is only possible for other ECR repos or quay.io. you cannot use it for Docker hub.

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    Comment #33269411

    With the important corollary that you need to check for the errornous condition both early and late. Otherwise people start e.g. checking in the frontend and don't enforce it in th…

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    Comment #33170609

    It depends what you're calling "not a very big one". On our farm we have a 5000 litre galvanised high tank for house-water.

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    Comment #32720998

    I think you could get pretty far with avoiding pain and avoiding boredom. The avoiding boredom can be seen in humans studies like https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.125083…

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    Comment #32671454

    > Requiring that I have to be root to set CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE every time I replace my web server executable sucks. There should be no need for that if you use ambient capabilities…

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    Comment #32518562

    > An economist walks by a twenty dollar bill on the sidewalk but decides not to pick it up, because if it were really there someone would have picked it up already I think many far…

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    Comment #31975428

    For smoke and acceptance tests you can use the sister project argo-rollouts: https://argoproj.github.io/argo-rollouts/ But that's going past an MVP/startup toolset.

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    Comment #31905329

    Try gdb-dashboard: https://github.com/cyrus-and/gdb-dashboard

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    Comment #31857323

    No need to limit to single-threaded: as long as we reserve enough space in the TLS area it's possible to work with multiple threads. Zig has future plans to require recursive funct…

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    Comment #30838533

    Most containers.

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    Comment #30680907

    They were in some countries.