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dillonb··on Hackers at convention to ferret out election system bugs
There's no such thing as a fully secure system.
dillonb··on GitLab Web IDE
But does it have Vim keybindings?
dillonb··on Weed will soon clobber beer sales, Wall Street says
Not only are the labels shifted by more than 50 percentage points, the scales are slightly different too, meaning not even the slope of the lines can be compared.

"How to lie while telling the truth, with figures"

dillonb··on Scala Native v0.1
Interesting, I guess I understood that wrong. Looks like no "easy" interop, but it's there if you really need it and don't mind the extra work.

I've been playing with this and trying to convert a ~20 line helper script that I use at work (and would really like to benefit from no JVM warmup time), and I've already run into missing core library functions like parallel collections and regexes.

This thing will be really great when it's ready, but it's not even close yet.

dillonb··on Scala Native v0.1
Yup.
dillonb··on Scala Native v0.1
It looks like it can!

http://www.scala-native.org/en/latest/user/interop.html

>Scala Native provides an interop layer that makes it easy to interact with foreign native code. This includes C and other languages that can expose APIs via C ABI (e.g. C++, D, Rust etc.)

dillonb··on Scala Native v0.1
Well, this is just targeting a different VM, LLVM instead of the JVM. You get easy interop with all LLVM languages with this, including C.
dillonb··on Backing up a Linux system to Usenet
The encryption tools you are using are written by people, and can have bugs. Being careless and blindly trusting them can get you into trouble.
dillonb··on Backing up a Linux system to Usenet
Absolutely, but having another layer blocking access to your data is definitely a good thing. It's a good idea to encrypt your files yourself before uploading them to a public cloud.
dillonb··on Backing up a Linux system to Usenet
Saying "nobody cares" about your data is not a good security policy.
dillonb··on Backing up a Linux system to Usenet
While interesting, this seems like a bad idea. You're uploading your backups, no matter how encrypted, to a place where they will be publicly available to download.