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New comment by reftel in "Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise"

reftel — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 21:13:42 +0000

It appears you are correct. What an odd limitation!

New comment by reftel in "Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise"

reftel — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 19:40:45 +0000

Then I suggest you have another look =) https://inside.java/2021/02/03/jep380-unix-domain-sockets-ch...

New comment by reftel in "I Will Fucking Haymaker You If You Mention Agile Again"

reftel — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 04:41:40 +0000

Ok, so you don’t like standup meetings. If you’re actually doing agile, then you’re in luck, because the whole point is that the team is considered competent to pick their own process. In the next retrospective, get the others in the team to agree to skip them, and you’re done. Good luck with that if you’re in some Taylorist org. Now, of course, there’s also the case of getting the worst of two worlds, with Scrum handed down from on high. In that case I’d recommend just getting out.

New comment by reftel in "Ask HN: Is anyone using PyPy for real work?"

reftel — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 12:25:33 +0000

I use it at work for a script that parses and analyzes some log files in an unusual format. Wrote a naive parser with a parsing combinator library. It was too slow to be usable with CPython. Tried PyPy and got a 50x speed increase (yes, 50 times faster). Very happy with the results, actually =)

New comment by reftel in "Ask HN:What's the oldest unresolved, and significant software bug you know of?"

reftel — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 12:50:21 +0000

Selects via index occasionally does not find data when using serializable transaction isolation on Oracle, since about 25 years (see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11826368/oracle-select-i... )