colatkinson

2 yıl öncediscuss

Your version of glibc is too old. Mint 19 is based off Ubuntu 18.04, which ships glibc 2.27, whereas this binary seems to require symbol versions first shipped in glibc 2.34.

You'll have to compile from source, or update your distro to a maintained version. Ubuntu 22.04 ships glibc 2.35, and so Mint 21 should work.

Mostly commenting because while this isn't really a tech support channel, being able to identify glibc version mismatch errors comes up extremely often, even in this day and age.

colatkinson

2 yıl öncediscuss

The old Tappan Zee was basically a perfect encapsulation of "dumb midcentury infrastructure decisions."

1. Built to last only 50 years to save on materials (as the other commenter noted).

2. Built over literally the widest possible part of the Hudson because the governor got in a pissing contest with the Port Authority and wanted all the tolls to go to the state, which wouldn't have been the case had it been built like 2 miles south where the river is narrower.

3. Designed with zero redundancy, such that a "critical fracture could make the bridge fail completely because its supports couldn’t transfer the structure’s load to other supports." [0]

So yeah if we're being real, 50 years was quite optimistic.

The new Tappan Zee is apparently supposed to last 100 years, though given the incidents with substandard materials being used, as well as ever-increasing traffic, who knows.

That said, driving over a bridge 10 years past its planned EOL and being able to look down directly to the water through gaps in the concrete was always a nice feature though -- who needs coffee when you've got that to get your heart rate up!

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tappan_Zee_Bridge_(1955%E2%80%...

colatkinson

2 yıl öncediscuss

God yeah it's like a hypothetical version of the AirTrain that isn't a huge pain. Last time I flew out of JFK from Manhattan IIRC the easiest way was to do the E or LIRR from Penn to the AirTrain anyway, so might as well streamline the whole shebang.

colatkinson

2 yıl öncediscuss

Adding on to the other comment, multiprocessing is also kinda broken on Linux/Mac.

1. Because global objects are refcounted, CoW effectively isn't a thing on Linux. They did add a way to avoid this [0], but you have to manually call it once your main imports are done.

2. On Mac, turns out a lot of the system libs aren't actually fork-safe [1]. Since these get imported inadvertently all the time, Python on Mac actually uses `spawn` [2] -- so it's roughly as slow as on Windows.

I haven't worked in Python in a couple years, but handling concurrency while supporting the major OSes was a goddamn mess and a half.

[0]: https://docs.python.org/3.12/library/gc.html#gc.freeze

[1]: https://bugs.python.org/issue33725

[2]: https://docs.python.org/3.12/library/multiprocessing.html#co...

colatkinson

2 yıl öncediscuss

If you don't mind I'm super curious as to what approach you ended up taking. Did you use rules_foreign_cc to build the ninja files they generate? Or generating BUILD files directly? Or something completely different? Sounds like a really cool project!

colatkinson

2 yıl öncediscuss

This is a super common setup in my part of NYC (minus the elevator). It seems to work fairly well, especially since it makes it viable to have lots of buildings in a row with minimal wasted space between them.

It's definitely not the densest design possible, but it certainly seemed to let them fit a lot of fairly spacious 1-2 BRs in not a lot of space back in the early 20th c., and the height can scale up pretty well (though the elevator probably becomes at least a soft requirement above 4-5 floors).

colatkinson

3 yıl öncediscuss

For anyone else who immediately thought, "I've gotta try that!" and hit compilation errors: there appears to be a more maintained fork at [0].

And if you're on a 64-bit system, you'll want to make sure it finds the 32-bit libc and libm binaries (see [1]). On Arch, the following worked for me:

    ./build/movcc -L/usr/lib32 test.c

[0]: https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator

[1]: https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator/issues/39

colatkinson

3 yıl öncediscuss

Not sure if you're aware, but ransomware insurance is already a significant industry, and the contracts usually stipulate that the client company undergoes some type of regular auditing.

From what I've heard, insurance companies are actually kinda souring on the business because it's incredibly bad from an actuarial perspective: many of those targeted are SMBs (i.e. they're not paying the kind of premiums that would make it worthwhile), but even for large corps as time passes the odds of a ransom event approach 1. I mean, can anyone think of a large non-tech enterprise that doesn't have that doesn't have that one load-bearing Windows Server 2008 machine in a closet?

So to an extent, this seemingly represents the industry collectively declaring that even massive monthly insurance premiums are insufficient for companies to get their security posture together, and so they're trying to cut it off at the source by making ransomware as an endeavor unprofitable.

colatkinson

3 yıl öncediscuss

Yeah to be honest I think approvingly quoting the author of "The Fascist Manifesto" probably well exceeds the cutoff for "dogwhistle." At this point the only thing left is for a16z to start a youth brigade and invade Ethiopia.

colatkinson

3 yıl öncediscuss

Mastodon link for those so inclined: https://ioc.exchange/@matthew_d_green/111091979256440306

colatkinson

3 yıl öncediscuss

Reference counting is a type of GC [0]. Just not a very good one in many cases.

I think it's a fair assumption to say that the author is aware of what Arcs are and how they work. I believe their point is more so that because of how async works in Rust, users have to reach for Arc over normal RAII far more often than in sync code. So at a certain point, if you have a program where 90% of objects are refcounted, you might as well use a tracing GC and not have the overhead of many small heap allocations/frees plus atomic ops.

Perhaps there are in fact ways around Arc-ing things for the author's use cases. But in my (limited) experience with Rust async I've definitely run into things like this, and plenty of example code out there seems to do the same thing [1].

For what it's worth, I've definitely wondered whether a real tracing GC (e.g. [2]) could meaningfully speed up many common async applications like HTTP servers. I'd assume that other async use cases like embedded state machines would likely have pretty different performance characteristics, though.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_collection_(computer_s...

[1] https://tokio.rs/tokio/tutorial/shared-state

[2] https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2015/09/01/designing-a-gc...

colatkinson

3 yıl öncediscuss

Mastodon for sure supports fetching individual posts over ActivityPub. For example:

    curl -L -H 'accept: application/activity+json' 'https://mastodon.social/users/Gargron/statuses/18614983'

It does have a bunch of stuff that isn't federated though, such as Like counts/collections. And of course it only implements the server-to-server (S2S) part of AP, not the client-to-server (C2S) part.

colatkinson

3 yıl öncediscuss

Ehh Indian Point (the NY plant) wasn't really a concern with regards to natural disasters. We get some occasional (very minor) earthquakes and a hurricane once in a decade or so, but I doubt the latter would do much vs many tons of reinforced concrete.

The plant definitely had issues -- some due to age (construction started in 1956!), some due to mismanagement, and some due to dumb regulations [0]. My chem class went there on a field trip in high school, and the guy giving the tour definitely gave off "engineer who has been overruled by management in very dumb ways" vibes while explaining that their waste silos were almost full because they weren't allowed to transport the spent rods across state lines so that they could be recycled back into fissile materials.

As an aside, the control rooms had a real "retro-futurism" look. Lots of manual dials and brightly-colored plastics [1]. Gene Roddenberry eat your heart out, etc.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Point_Energy_Center#Saf...

[1]: https://www.lohud.com/story/opinion/2016/02/12/indian-point-...

colatkinson

3 yıl öncediscuss

The issue isn't the states though, it's the fact that it's still scheduled (and thus completely illegal) at the federal level. So those states that have legalized it are in a bit of a gray area: the past few presidents have basically said they won't enforce anything, but that's not exactly the most stable legal foundation on which to build. Especially if you're, say, a multi-billion dollar payment processor.

If the popular consensus is that this is something that should be left up to the states, then federal legislation to that effect should be passed. The status quo is clearly farcical.

That said, my state has technically issued licenses for exactly two (2) dispensaries, and yet there's one on every corner. All of which accept card. So I have my doubts as to whether this is anything other than CYA by Mastercard.

colatkinson

7 yıl öncediscuss

This looks incredible. Gives me vibes of old school Runescape, mixed with Minecraft. Plus the performance as you've detailed it sounds like quite a feat! Also very cool to see a project that supports old hardware--I remember being a kid with hand-me-down computers struggling to play even some Flash games.

Gonna give this a play tonight. Rock on, dude!

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