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Comment GSA and NTIA (Score 1) 117

The GSA should be held accountable for the solarwinds123 fiasco. They have sat on their hands for years spending billions (trillions?) and not really taking their supply chain seriously. Also worthy of mention is the NTIA's Software Transparency initiative:
  https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ntia.doc.gov%2FSoftw...

Comment take a look at the RSA trade show floor map (Score 1) 62

You can get a pdf of the south expo floor plan here:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rsaconference.com%2F...

Exabeam booth was #555

So the adjacent booths may be part of the RSA coronavirus cluster:
Unisys, Thycotic, KnowBe4, Signal Sciences, Siemplify, were all within about 15 to 25 feet of the Exabeam booth.

Knowing whether the infection spread from that both is now just a waiting game.

Comment Re:Lies! (Score 1) 341

> But the experience is so tedious and cumbersome that you're better off using C++ anyway.

Or use D and help us make D better. It's like a C++ with more powerful abstractions (do you like the auto keyword? it started in D) and similar performance to C++.

Comment Re:Lies! (Score 1) 341

IMHExperience, Java is much faster than C++ when it does heap object instantiation.

C++ new and the underlying malloc are just not as good as Java new.

However, if you can allocate your objects in the stack (or avoid using new/malloc in some other way), C++ really shines, and Java simply can't compete.

About everything else that's not memory allocation, yes, C++ seems to be a bit faster than Java, for the normal interpreted vs compiled reasons.

Comment why is this release announcement buried? (Score 5, Insightful) 124

Apparently, I'll never understand Slashdot. The latest junk from Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Oracle, et al. make the front page, but one of the highest quality open source releases gets buried. (It's almost like people self-medicate their marketing these days, but separate issue.)

I got 6 years of uptime once off of NetBSD on sparc. This stuff is gold. It's platinum. It's so stable, you have to worry about making sure you get around to patching your apps because the OS just never dies... stick this on solid state storage with the new NAND support, and you don't even have to worry about spinning disk fails. As a network device OS, this will be an awesome high-uptime packet sensor or embedded packet router.

Bravo NetBSD! Keep up the good work. This is top headline stuff.

Comment Dwight Schrute? (Score 1) 312

More like Logan's Run. I have been Michael's number two guy for about 5 years. And we make a great team. We're like one of those classic famous teams. He's like Mozart and I'm like... Mozart's friend. No. I'm like Butch Cassidy and Michael is like... Mozart. You try and hurt Mozart? You're gonna get a bullet in your head courtesy of Butch Cassidy. - Dwight Schrute

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