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tempay commented on Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem blog.cloudflare.com/18-no... · Posted by u/eastdakota
Yea, Rust is safe but it’s not magic. However Nginx doesn’t panic on malformed config. It exits with hopefully a helpful error code and message. The question is then could the cloudflare code have exited cleanly in a way that made recovery easier instead of just straight panicking.
Would expect with a message meet that criteria of exiting with a more helpful error message? From the postmortem it seems to me like they just didn’t know it even was panicing
tempay commented on GHC now runs in the browser discourse.haskell.org/t/g... · Posted by u/kaycebasques
This is the same process used to port GHC to new architectures, like ARM. It is not easy to do, I don't know how many people can actually do it. But its possible and has been done multiple times.
Is it? Typically compilers rely on cross-compilation for this.
tempay commented on GHC now runs in the browser discourse.haskell.org/t/g... · Posted by u/kaycebasques
It would be more plausibly practical if GHC could now target wasm, but this announcement is actually about being able to run the compiler itself in the browser.
It can target wasm, the point of the post is that it’s now mature enough to be able to build itself for wasm and run in a browser.
How precisely does it "suffer" though? It's basically a way to disseminate results but carries no journalistic prestige in itself. It's a fun place to look now and then for new results, but just reading the "front page" of a category has always been a Caveat Emptor situation.
This isn’t the case in some other fields.
As far as I get it, conda is still around because uv is focused on python while conda handles things written in other languages. Unless uv gets much more universal than expected, conda is here to stay.
There is also pixi (which uses uv for the python side of things) which feels like uv for conda.
> All the information a client needs to validate a Merkle Tree Certificate can be disseminated out-of-band.
The post didn't discuss it but naively this feels like it becomes a privacy issue?
tempay commented on A bug that taught me more about PyTorch than years of using it elanapearl.github.io/blog... · Posted by u/bblcla
I thought that the effect of these compiler flags was widely known in numerical computing. It allows e.g., reordering of floating point computations and in general disregards IEEE 754. As such, these results are expected, I’d think.
Widely know amongst very niche groups, most of whom have either been burnt by the issue or heard about someone who has and have it ingrained in their mind out of fear of debugging such a thing.
I’d bet the majority of ML people are unaware, including those doing lower level stuff.
tempay commented on NFS at 40 – Remembering the Sun Microsystems Network File System nfs40.online/... · Posted by u/signa11
> What I learned though was that NFS was great until it wasn't. If the server hung, all work stopped.
Sheds a tear for AFS (Andrew File System).
We had a nice, distributed file system that even had solid security and didn't fail in these silly ways--everybody ignored it.
I'm still in a place where AFS is chugging along for many years after it's much exaggarated demise.
It never ceases to amaze me how well it does what it does and how well it handles being misused.
I feel like this question has been valid for almost as long as I can remember (e.g. the Mr. Robot extension incident). I find myself struggling to tell if Mozilla is an inherently flawed company or if it's just inherent to trying to survive in such a space.