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The state of the kernel Rust experiment

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Cline Officially Supports JetBrains

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Junie Is Now Available in CLion

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Cline for JetBrains

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Bringing restartable sequences out of the niche

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1 points·by howtofly·hace 11 meses·0 comments

Conventions for Extensible System Calls(2020)

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Asterinas: A new Linux-compatible kernel project

lwn.net
224 points·by howtofly·el año pasado·75 comments

We Built Cline to Never Hold You Hostage

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Cory Doctorow on how we lost the internet

lwn.net
154 points·by howtofly·el año pasado·129 comments

A change in maintenance for the kernel's DMA-mapping layer

lwn.net
19 points·by howtofly·el año pasado·2 comments

Complex Buggy Pthread_rwlock_t in Glibc

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howtofly
·hace 8 meses·discuss
All this hassle can be avoided by using `cleanup` compiler attribute.

Manage classical C resources by auto-cleanup variables and do error-handling the normal way. If everything is OK, pass the ownership of these resources from auto-cleanup variables to C++ ctor.

Note this approach plays nicely with C++ exception, and will enter C standard in the form of `defer`.
howtofly
·hace 9 meses·discuss
Note that these books were written when design pattern was still a buzzword.
howtofly
·hace 11 meses·discuss
The real issue is determining how much non-renewable resource consumption is justified for these "valuable" things? Note that we are always inclined to value ourselves too much.

I agree the things you mentioned are valuable in the very common sense and I deliberately assign them no value to the avoid the above issue.
howtofly
·hace 11 meses·discuss
IIRC, all latency-driven congestion control algorithms suffer from violent rtt variance, which happens frequently in wireless networks. How does BBR perform under such circumstances?
howtofly
·hace 11 meses·discuss
It's all about human technology, which enables massive resource consumption.

I should really say humans never truly produce anything in the realm of technology industry.
howtofly
·hace 11 meses·discuss
> The future may reduce the economic prosperity and push humanity to switch to some different economic system (maybe a better system).

Humans never truly produce anything; they only generate various forms of waste (resulting from consumption). Human technology merely enables the extraction of natural resources across magnitudes, without actually creating any resources. Given its enormous energy consumption, I strongly doubt that AI will contribute to a better economic system.
howtofly
·el año pasado·discuss
I just checked it for Rust:

"18 17 change Rust page Rust 0.97% -0.20%"
howtofly
·el año pasado·discuss
Should users trust the signaling server? IIRC, the signaling server can easily intervene SDP offer/answer so that it can intercept user files or instruct users to send files wherever it wants.
howtofly
·el año pasado·discuss
My understanding is that the signaling server could be used as the perfect place to perform MITM attack. The README does not mention how berb addresses this concern at all.
howtofly
·el año pasado·discuss
> If I work on a repo, all I have to do is enter my dev distrobox, SSH in from my IDE, and work within that environment - no devcontainer or flake.nix required.

With Ubuntu 24.04 and vagrant virtual machines, you could have even less hassle than with Bluefin.
howtofly
·el año pasado·discuss
Serious software development is rarely an individual endeavor; most issues should be resolved through collaboration. In other words, they should be addressed through management. What the author needs to overcome, in my view, is essentially a form of extreme individualism.
howtofly
·el año pasado·discuss
I should mention that Drepper's old implementation and thus uclibc/uclibc-ng's implementations are much simpler and do not have this bug. The musl libc does not have this issue because it puts an upper limit on the number of user-space spins in one try. Unlimited spin should NEVER appear in user space!

I cannot believe that such a highly-reproducible bug is left untouched for nearly a year.

PS: All versions of glibc since 2.25 are affected.
howtofly
·hace 2 años·discuss
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howtofly
·hace 2 años·discuss
> Python doesn't have a language package manager, you're free to use pip or poetry or uv or whatever, but it does have PEP 517/518, which allow all Python package managers to interact with a common package ecosystem which encompasses polyglot codebases.

This is a long-standing pain point. LWN has a series of reports covering this, one of which is: https://lwn.net/Articles/920832/
howtofly
·hace 2 años·discuss
> I wonder what makes our experiences so different? Do you unit test a lot? Particularly with TDD? I am guessing that this practice means I just don't get to see a lot of the bugs that a debugger would help me with.

Debugger helps a lot when performing TDD. You will enjoy setting a breakpoint to check whether a line is hit as expected by a test case.
howtofly
·hace 2 años·discuss
I've used classic eclipse-cdt for over a decade until it cannot keep up with post-C++14 standards. It seems that it recently regains activity with the introduction of https://github.com/ghentschke/eclipse-cdt-lsp
howtofly
·hace 2 años·discuss
> For anything quasi-realtime, I can certainly hunt down and squash everything systemd is running at the wrong time, but in practice it's much easier to install something else, ensure no processes are running other than the ones I care about, and move those concerns to userspace.

Should these issues be fixed by CPU/IO schedulers? Are there any systemd realtime tasks involved?
howtofly
·hace 2 años·discuss
I really hope that there will be joint-force between CMake and Conan package manager.
howtofly
·hace 6 años·discuss
Can't agree more. As a longtime user of Eclipse CDT on Ubuntu Desktop, I've not seen the kind of bugs mentioned in the article for more than five years.