I was even more surprised to see that the RFC draft had original text from the author dating back to 2015. https://github.com/ableyjoe/draft-jabley-dnsop-ordered-answe...

We used to say at work that the best way to get promoted was to be the programmer that introduced the bug into production and then fix it. Crazy if true here...

What you're suggesting seems like a spectacular leap. I do not think it is very likely that the unnamed employee at Cloudflare that was micro-optimising code in the DNS resolver is also the author of this RFC, Joe Abley (the current Director of Engineering at the company, and formerly Director of DNS Operations at ICANN).

Scan and Go is included with Walmart Plus.

Thanks Brendan for all your work on performance analysis and BPF. I cite your work often to team mates. Your work is an invaluable resource. Seeing responses on Hacker News like this is why I keep coming back here.

Is ASLR a capable solution to those weaknesses? ASLR is supported by the operating system. Though a system administrator would have to turn it on by following these instructions: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.4.0/com...

ASLR is a stopgap that's difficult to consistently apply to a legacy system, since there's so many ways to accidentally leak address information.

I work in Bentonville for Walmart Labs. Glassdoor salaries are probably accurate for Software Engineers if that’s what interests you. I grew up in the area so family is my primary driver in location at the moment. If you like a more rural setting with an interesting art/culture vibe it can be a fantastic place.

In applying Hanlon's Razor[0], I think the conversation went:

A: Are our customers accounts insured?

B: Yes, through SIPC, which is like FDIC for brokerages.

A: Great! Let's create this product.

No more questions were asked.

[0] http://catb.org/jargon/html/H/Hanlons-Razor.html

I would hope that wasn't the case and that they actually consulted all this with specialized lawyers.

You just don't launch a financial product of this nature, out of your ass like that. If that was the case then Robinhood customers have legitimate reasons to be concerned about the safety of their funds and securities. (For the record, I'm on of those Robinhood customers).

> You just don't launch a financial product of this nature, out of your ass like that.

… not without prominently mentioning the block chain, at least.

Even if they did consult specialized lawyers, you don't really know if it works until there's an adjudication.

Unless they worked with the SIPC up-front to ensure that these funds would be covered, and that the SIPC actually, you know, has the means to cover them, then the only way account holders are going to find out if their are protected or not is in the aftermath of a crisis, after a long and drawn out lawsuit.

When I saw the headline, I thought about signing up but hadn't gotten around to reading the fine print.

Glad I didn't waste my time.

Very cool. Unfortunately it's no longer supported in Long mode (x86-64). :-(

I used to do a lot of BCD in embedded POS stuff. No one will miss it. You can do anything you can do in BCD with regular integers if you have any understanding of integer arithmetic. Yeah, it is going to take a little more time to convert to/from decimal digits you can display/input but processors these days have fast integer division so that doesn't matter.

A current issue is that a lot of programmers are bad at integer arithmetic. It isn't really taught in school.