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Racket's web framework has a feature to serialize continuations and restore them, which I instantly thought of the first time I saw durable execution.

Are you not satisfied by boots which lasted 20 years?

If you're not lucky enough to be among the privileged, moving to Europe is impossible unless you have inherited citizenship (which is itself another kind of privilege).

I recently moved from the US to Berlin. I plan to return to the US.

Pros of Berlin:

- Good transport

- Bikeable

- Safe

- Cheaper than the big coastal cities in the US, with lower rent.

- Good clubbing (not my thing)

Cons of Berlin:

- Healthcare is inconvenient. Doctor's offices won't pick up the phone, and won't leave you on hold. You just have to go in person. Providers all work in small doctor-owned practices, and you get a referral runaround with huge wait times.

- The food in Germany is terrible. The quality of produce and other ingredients is very bad, and the restaurants are nothing special. One notable bright spot is the availability of vegetarian and vegan food. Also falafel and doner.

- The salaries are shockingly low. Really ask yourself if all the comforts of Europe are worth cutting your salary in 2 or 3, and that's before...

- Taxes. The top tax rate here is in the low-40s, comparable to the US, but unlike the US, the top tax bracket starts below $65k.

- Europe has an impending demographic crisis, and the social safety net they fund by plundering your paycheck probably won't be there for you when you retire.

- Stores in general suck. They have fewer, and worse products.

- Everyone still smokes here.

If you define the reals axiomatically, you still need an existence proof. Which will involve addition and multiplication algorithms.

There aren't many people with the expertise to produce the vaccine, and they're all already working on the existing production lines. The lead times are just inherently long here; takes months to start up a production line.

Sounds no worse than people dying, and their children inheriting their assets with a stepped-up cost basis.

The racket web framework has an option to serialize the entire continuation for he client to send back to you. Pretty intense.

dril was doxed a couple of years ago. You can google around for his real name, which is not Richard Kyanka.

I would like it quite a lot if it worked properly, but there are some pretty brutal bugs. I have some amount of faith that they'll be fixed, though.

More architected (i.e. program-visible) registers require more bits to encode.

Wouldn't you need, in addition to patching the interrupt vector, to make sure there is no existing code running in the kernel when you restore the sensitive registers? This makes the nginx use case seem kind of unrealistic.

The most pleasant thing about this is how the lisp machine's instruction set turned out to be a good bytecode for interpretation. Calling it "microcode" seems risible today, but I don't know if it was as ridiculous in 1993.

I agree. At the very least, there should be some dialogue on whether the trade off is worth it. I lean towards yes, most people think we can get the privacy back without giving up the advantages. I'm not sure how, but I'd be interested.

Journalists seem to think they're practicing literature. I don't know where they got that idea.

You don't have to care about memory safety, but if you don't you probably shouldn't speak for "systems programmers" as a whole. Systems need to be safe.

The smaller companies would have even less inclined to ignore a market of a billion people.

I am betraying my ignorance with this question, but: On the last page, the authors claim that SQL queries are commonly constructed by concatenating strings. Was this still, in fact, common in 2017? If it was, that's very scary.

Tesla is barely profitable. Bob's red mill is filling a tiny niche. The price of a yacht wouldn't pay that many people's wages either.

It wouldn't be worth dealing with these people even if they were developing a good technology, but XUL???

The macOS messages app fills a lot of this void for me, if you have an iPhone.

Most of his arguments simply do not apply to the relevant use case and attacks. The only one that does, the claim that the seed is recoverable, is not an argument at all but a vague, unsubstantiated claim.

Maybe the link could be updated to point to this instead?

The small key performance is very nice. It would be good to have more written about this new hash function, and less misinformed rant about siphash.

Those are a bunch of different ideas. It's the word "duality" that is insane(ly overloaded).

n.b. there would be a difference even without vectorization

Mazel tov. There are also people who went to "Principal" without being able to program at all.

The only reason I was able to learn any math in college is because you don't need a computer to do it, so you can avoid the distractions. A browser, the source of all the distractions, seems like a really bad place to learn math.

Good desktops need more than good kernel code.

I keep my phone plugged in on the other side of my (~7 person, locking) office. That works rather well.