Hacker News: nequo

SELinux Coloring Book (2020) [pdf]

nequo — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 01:04:17 +0000

Article URL: https://people.redhat.com/duffy/selinux/selinux-coloring-book_A4-Stapled.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41452475

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by nequo in "The Insecurity of Debian"

nequo — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 22:26:51 +0000

> the developer who should know the application better than the systems administrator

On the other hand, the administrator knows their system better than the developer. There could be certain network connections or file paths that you want to block on one system but not on another.

New comment by nequo in "Intel: New Core Ultra Processors Deliver Breakthrough Performance"

nequo — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 03:58:07 +0000

To be fair, it brought not only cringe, also autocomplete on steroids. The architecture is good at applications that need pattern recognition.

New comment by nequo in "Open Mathematics Depository"

nequo — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 00:34:53 +0000

You could probably build a mirror with `wget -r` without writing a crawler.

Pre-Pooping Your Pants with Rust (2015)

nequo — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 04:28:57 +0000

Article URL: https://cglab.ca/~abeinges/blah/everyone-poops/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41422582

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Undefined behavior in C is a reading error (2021)

nequo — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 02:30:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.yodaiken.com/2021/05/19/undefined-behavior-in-c-is-a-reading-error/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41422150

Points: 25

# Comments: 67

New comment by nequo in "Orphaning bcachefs-tools in Debian"

nequo — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 14:23:16 +0000

> If you include boost (which, admittedly, is a heavy dependency, but still a single one)

Then in principle, we could curate a set of useful Rust crates, treat the set as a single dependency, and be on the same page as C++ with Boost.

New comment by nequo in "Rust's Ugly Syntax (2023)"

nequo — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 01:33:37 +0000

I don't think that you violated any guidelines. I think that the downvotes for your parent comment are only an expression of disagreement with what you propose. If I can suggest, don't take it personally.

Turning `'` into `lifetime` would make Rust code that needs explicit lifetimes extremely verbose. That would make code harder to keep on the same line, for no added benefit in expressiveness.

Allowing both `'` and `lifetime` in the syntax would make the language more confusing to anyone who is learning it, and it opens up unproductive debates about syntax in code bases if two authors have conflicting preferences.

Wayland Maker – A Wayland Compositor Inspired by Window Maker

nequo — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 01:16:00 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/phkaeser/wlmaker

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41413392

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nequo in "Why You Should Learn Linux (As a Developer)"

nequo — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 21:22:55 +0000

Is AutoHotkey like Emacs keybindings and hooks but for the whole OS?

New comment by nequo in "Why You Should Learn Linux (As a Developer)"

nequo — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 21:17:47 +0000

Coreboot helps with it but not for all hardware.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coreboot

New comment by nequo in "Rust in Linux Revisited"

nequo — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 03:55:50 +0000

The problem is that neither Linus nor the other prominent maintainers will live forever. C was the right choice in 1991 but today the landscape is different enough that its shortcomings, for the younger generations, are painful to ignore.

So saying yes to Rust, or to some other language that is not filled with foot guns and could also work in the kernel space, is not only a matter of kindness but a matter of long-term strategy for the kernel.

New comment by nequo in "6G revolution begins: Researchers achieve record-breaking data speeds"

nequo — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 17:53:43 +0000

That will be a long wait. It’s been decommissioned in the US and many other countries have either also done it or are in the process:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3G#Phase-out

New comment by nequo in "Rust's Ugly Syntax (2023)"

nequo — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 15:17:47 +0000

Is it harder to understand than when to put lambda: in Python code?

Rust's Ugly Syntax (2023)

nequo — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 04:15:54 +0000

Article URL: https://matklad.github.io/2023/01/26/rusts-ugly-syntax.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41397679

Points: 161

# Comments: 165

New innovations in credit cards (1985) [video]

nequo — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 03:35:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TBD8HTssRA

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41397526

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by nequo in "Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team"

nequo — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 03:46:05 +0000

Thank you, I’ve been looking for an explanation of this. So Mono is useful to Wine because its users care more about licensing and running legacy software: Mono is free software and an acceptable runtime for pre-.NET 5.0 stuff.

New comment by nequo in "Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team"

nequo — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 03:36:23 +0000

I’m a Unix person and I know nothing about Windows Server. How has PowerShell made it less competitive?

New comment by nequo in "U.S. Ambassador says Canadians are consuming 'unhealthy' amount of American news"

nequo — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 19:24:10 +0000

In what way is it wild? How is the Canadian version different than what you get in the US?

New comment by nequo in "DOJ sues realpage for algorithmic pricing scheme that harms renters"

nequo — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 00:31:28 +0000

Or: it’s called human “resources” not human “beings” for a reason.