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For one, SeaweedFS states that it is not POSIX-compliant.

^\ is actually sigquit, which is a bit different from sigkill, since programs can catch QUIT and perform some cleanup.

This isn't an issue with the language, it's an issue with the common implementation of the language. It will be remedied by either fixing CPython, or by switching to a different implementation.

(If neither happens, then I guess it isn't really a problem.)

Very cool. Are there similar documents available for any other games that we would be familiar with?

I imagine it could be a pretty interesting exercise to read over a handful of these from different teams.

> and yet not a single word about ZFS?

ZFS is not included in the Linux kernel. Much of this work was about building the infrastructure to be able to perform this kind of test.

Trying to do it for file systems that aren't included in Linux is a lot of effort for much less gain.

For the curious, the last entry on the list is the single unicode character:

U+1F595 REVERSED HAND WITH MIDDLE FINGER EXTENDED

Well, that's what we thought before the ShellShock vulnerability ended up being a major security worry due to all of the places that bash scripts end up being used.

I can understand the "I", but what's the "O" part of this?

Has anyone seen stats published on how big of an infrastructure Spotify runs?

Or how it compares to Netflix, which runs on AWS?

> It seems to me that the real issue is that "rm -rf" should by default not recurse into mounted filesystems, but should at most try to unmount them.

There is a --one-file-system argument that skips directories not on the same filesystem. You could add this layer of protection by adding it to an alias in your shell.

Surely it's the latter. Driverless cars that rely on Internet access would not be feasible, for obvious reasons.

Driverless cars will likely eventually communicate via some peer-to-peer wireless technology, but I would assume that would use a different set of protocols than our mobile phones do.

Distributions manage the namespace of executables. Well, they're supposed to anyway... that's much of the complaint here about Linux Mint.

In Fedora (and most distros), programs with an executable name overlapping another program will be renamed to a unique name as part of the distro packaging. (Putting aside programs intentionally named the same thing because they provide the same function, which are managed differently via "alternatives".)

This puts some implicit pressure on creators of software to not reuse names that are already in use, which seems to work for the most part.

No, there are now fully integrated system update tools that handle this smoothly.

It's not exactly unprecedented. GCC supports mmix, which hardware doesn't even exist for. (An educational platform from TAOCP.)

https://gcc.gnu.org/backends.html

As a programmer who works in a building with one of these -- I've often been quite sure I could code a more efficient system.

It would be pretty fun if someone were to make a version that supported this. :)

Pick a Python 3 feature and let us know how you would implement it in Python 2.

Yes. Lots of people. You basically have to if you want to support both Python2 and Python3. (And in some spaces, you really do want to support both.)

I've seen a friend ask vague questions trying to determine what kind of population lived in an apartment complex she was interested in renting from, and quickly get blanket responses not wanting to answer such questions, with references to the Fair Housing Act.

I don't recall all of the exact details, but, to your general question, I think the answer is at least "yeah, sometimes".

Well, part of "real world usage" should also include whether any sensible user would want to use that feature, or if people turn it off because it looks funny.

From their short description of "motion lighting", it isn't obvious to me why this is a feature in the first place.

What do you use as alternatives, and for what categories of shopping?

I figured it out via Google, but, as an FYI, that glyph looks nothing like an Apple logo on my device.

I believe all devices on Verizon's LTE have been supporting IPv6 for some time now.

The textarea in the article isn't really readable -- all of the comments wrap awkwardly with the narrow page layout.

I'm left to guess at what you mean by this exactly, but, .gitignore only helps with things that are agreed to be ignored by everyone. Files that are more specific to a particular developer or workflow don't always fit in there well.

But, I'm not sure that's what this new capability helps with anyway.

So, please elaborate.

> United offered coupons to passengers worth $200 or $400.

I'd be pretty surprised to see that now. On my last long United flight, which was 6-7 hours overseas, my in-flight entertainment system was broken, and they gave me a $25 voucher. I was not impressed.

What argument are you trying to make by throwing in the phrase "security through obscurity"?

This work is different from the kind of things that phrase usually refers to.

" “[Testers] know exactly what our protocols are. They can create and devise and conceal items that … not even the best terrorists would be able to do,” Pistole told lawmakers at a House hearing. "

Unfortunately this would break the idea of Linux distributions listing optional add-ons as dependencies of a package to make things easier for the user.

Would this be better than using very large windows in TCP? (I'm really not sure.)

Offloading the expensive ordering up to a higher layer protocol to do the same thing is not something that strikes me as an obvious win.

What ever happened to SCTP, anyway?