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  1. …be thinking about this. 1. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint#Sources_of_ide... 2. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/48207 3. https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/8119
    comment by svnpenn · 2022-09-13 · in Planning Go 1.20 cryptography work
  2. We do speed tests hence we saw the issue. See https://github.com/golang/go/issues/47840 Yeah I agree this is a edge case, 99,99% of Caddy users don't push so much data ;) But Caddy can't be used as a big files download server for instance,…
    comment by kgersen · 2022-09-08 · in Caddyhttp: Enable HTTP/3 by Default
  3. …C to the edge. PS. Go might someday compile for cosmopolitan if someone writes a port for it: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/51900
    comment by mholt · 2022-09-08 · in Caddyhttp: Enable HTTP/3 by Default
  4. It's important to read the caveats: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/cmd/link/intern... , the most important of which is: // The third case is handled by looking to see if any of: // - reflect.Value.Method or MethodByName is…
    comment by jrockway · 2022-09-06 · in Vulnerability Management for Go
  5. Please support our runtime proposal https://github.com/golang/go/issues/51900 We're trying to add Cosmopolitan to Go's list of supported runtimes!
    comment by jart · 2022-08-30 · in How fat does a fat binary need to be? (2021)
  6. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/issues/140 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/51900 & from what I gather, APE is tightly-bound to x86_64, & depends on an embedded emulator for other architectures: > All we have to do embed an ARM…
    comment by georgia_peach · 2022-08-30 · in How fat does a fat binary need to be? (2021)
  7. …programming language refuse to support it: https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com/issues/1015 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/54683
    comment by svnpenn · 2022-08-29 · in A handy guide to financial support for open source
  8. …matter a huge amount for the ad hoc `dsq` use, having them available is better than not. [0]: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/19574
    comment by mhio · 2022-08-23 · in SQLite has pretty limited builtin functions
  9. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16606 https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/25495/3/src/syscal...
    comment by int_19h · 2022-08-23 · in A general overview of what happens before main() (2019)
  10. …was made to randomize that so people didn't rely on that and get stung when their maps got larger: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/6719
    comment by c2h5oh · 2022-08-21 · in Gojq: Pure Go Implementation of Jq
  11. Often, it's just sporadic bugs in the big integer implementation, for example: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/13515 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/13907 Peter Gutmann mentions in the cryptlib documentation that the extra check…
    comment by fweimer · 2022-08-12 · in Open to a fault: On the passive compromise of TLS keys via transient errors [pdf]
  12. …works for both the package itself and its documentation :). EDIT: well now for me it redirects to: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/43036 so… whatever is happening here might not be on purpose, actually.
    comment by p4bl0 · 2022-08-07 · in Ivy – An interpreter for an APL-like language
  13. …in the "\u" notation. We discussed this issue on an old thread, and Rob filed a Github issue https://github.com/golang/go/issues/52062 , and it was fixed within hours. So the following line in the release note is us! >Quote and related…
    comment by Zamicol · 2022-08-03 · in Go 1.19 Released
  14. https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/PATENTS Seems to be significantly more equitable than the React license that people were originally concerned about. That one terminated your rights to use React if you sued Facebook for patent…
    comment by teraflop · 2022-08-02 · in Go 1.19 Released
  15. …have this issue again. Some discussion of the issue and the fix implemented start around here: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/12914#issuecomment-26993...
    comment by pbnjay · 2022-07-25 · in It’s time to leave the leap second in the past
  16. …key (PSK) mode. Looks like there is ongoing work to add TLS-PSK to Go's standard library: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/6379#issuecomment-117006...
    comment by losfair · 2022-07-24 · in Show HN: Kvass, a personal key-value store
  17. …packages' terminal path element exactly matches the package name (even sometimes if it does e.g. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/29041 ). These do get addressed over time but also seems to break in a new way at least a couple times a…
    comment by morelisp · 2022-07-18 · in Learning Go as a Python Developer: The Good and the Bad
  18. …depends on how well WebAssembly can transform these constructs into actual machine code. [0] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/18892#issuecomment-30931...
    comment by slimsag · 2022-07-13 · in Tell HN: We are trying to get tail calls into the WebAssembly standard
  19. …mentioned in one of the generics discussions (issue on GitHub). The rationale can be found here: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/48918
    comment by kgeist · 2022-07-09 · in Go generics are not bad
  20. (2013) Things have changed a little since then: https://github.com/golang/go/commits/master/src/runtime/netp... Nothing that changes the general model, that I can find anyway.
    comment by phnofive · 2022-06-23 · in The Go netpoller (2013)
  21. …it’s at least fewer characters of rote! I’m looking forward to generics improving this too. (e.g. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/47619#issuecomment-91542... )
    comment by LVB · 2022-06-14 · in Why I Don't Like Golang (2016)
  22. I just leave this here: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/49383 After such public disregard to the communnity and contributors as a whole, the talk about good or bad has no meaning until they learn the basics. For example how to work…
    comment by ridof · 2022-06-14 · in Why I Don't Like Golang (2016)
  23. …in particular is very pernicious. There's an open issue to change this behavior in the language: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/20733 . 2. Yep. I've seen this problem in our codebase. I've grown to just be very deliberate with data…
    comment by smasher164 · 2022-06-10 · in Data Race Patterns in Go
  24. This does not appear to be true[1][2]. [1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/24415 [2] https://go.dev/play/p/nXLs0hd8Uj3
    comment by rektide · 2022-06-08 · in Why JSON Isn’t A Good Configuration Language (2018)
  25. …lift the hood at all, unfortunately. Luckily for us the runtime is extensively commented, e.g. https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/runtime/proc.go
    comment by jeffbee · 2022-06-05 · in Goroutines Under the Hood (2020)
  26. …[2] https://groups.google.com/g/golang-dev/c/kC7YZsHTw4Y/m/u0_d9... [3] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/21498#issuecomment-11322... [4] https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/53060
    comment by tete · 2022-05-26 · in Google has been DDoSing Sourcehut for over a year
  27. drew articulated it very well why google's offer doesn't help at all. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/44577#issuecomment-85693... A full git clone just to DDOS a hoster to check if the user-experience is still first-class, and filling…
    comment by rurban · 2022-05-26 · in Google has been DDoSing Sourcehut for over a year
  28. …would cite more "boring technical reasons" when asked. ---------------------------------------- [1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/44577#issuecomment-11378...
    comment by quadrifoliate · 2022-05-26 · in Google has been DDoSing Sourcehut for over a year
  29. From https://github.com/golang/go/issues/44577#issuecomment-11378... > Anyone who's receiving too much traffic from proxy.golang.org can request that they be excluded from the refresh traffic, as we did for git.lubar.me. Nobody asked for…
    comment by theamk · 2022-05-25 · in Google has been DDoSing Sourcehut for over a year
  30. They offered to turn off refreshing of his domain it appears on Jun 8, 2021: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/44577#issuecomment-85692...
    comment by res0nat0r · 2022-05-25 · in Google has been DDoSing Sourcehut for over a year
  31. …in your mirroring server code. So yeah, I'd argue that the bad faith part is actually justified. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/44577#issuecomment-11378... > We did consider caching clones, but it has security implications and adds…
    comment by johnduhart · 2022-05-25 · in Google has been DDoSing Sourcehut for over a year
  32. I think the problem with the proposed solution ( https://github.com/golang/go/issues/44577#issuecomment-85720... ) is that the refresh is used to keep the cache from getting too stale. Would it be reasonable for golang modules on sourcehub…
    comment by 8organicbits · 2022-05-25 · in Google has been DDoSing Sourcehut for over a year
  33. …course they know it, and it is really just an arrogance of an 800lb gorilla toward "small-fish" - " https://github.com/golang/go/issues/44577#issuecomment-85692... - with a passive-aggressive blackmail of a cherry on top : >In the…
    comment by trhway · 2022-05-25 · in Google has been DDoSing Sourcehut for over a year
  34. …of full git clones even for packages that don't have users. Package with approx. zero users: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/44577#issuecomment-85107... Full clones: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/44577#issuecomment-78924... They…
    comment by 8organicbits · 2022-05-25 · in Google has been DDoSing Sourcehut for over a year
  35. …from our servers, since we need to have some caching on our end to prevent too frequent fetches. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/44577#issuecomment-85692... > "EFAIL" is an alarmist puff piece written by morons to slander PGP and…
    comment by FiloSottile · 2022-05-25 · in Google has been DDoSing Sourcehut for over a year
  36. Possibly, but he was actively participating in https://github.com/golang/go/issues/44577 up until the week it was fixed. If that's the root of the issue though, most of the article ("no one will get promoted for prioritizing that at…
    comment by joshuamorton · 2022-05-25 · in Google has been DDoSing Sourcehut for over a year
  37. From https://github.com/golang/go/issues/44577#issuecomment-85107... > Yesterday, GoModuleMirror downloaded 4 gigabytes of data from my server requesting a single module over 500 times (log attached). As far as I know, I am the only person…
    comment by 8organicbits · 2022-05-25 · in Google has been DDoSing Sourcehut for over a year
  38. …in that thread, and thankfully, Go gets a round function. (A non-buggy one … I think.) [1]: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/4594
    comment by deathanatos · 2022-05-23 · in Simple software things that are actually very complicated
  39. Go programmers, too. https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/CodeReviewComments#variabl...
    comment by SilasX · 2022-05-18 · in Formalising Gödel's incompleteness theorems, I
  40. …are just like managing a programming language and all its dependencies. It's congruent to if you pulled github.com/golang/go and only got the go compiler but none of the standard library.
    comment by kodah · 2022-05-16 · in Ansible 2.13
  41. …Go 1.18, because there is another fundamental problem which needs to be resolved firstly. ref: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/51259
    comment by tapirl · 2022-05-15 · in Golang Diaries: Generics
  42. …restrictions will be removed from future Go versions. ref: * https://go101.org/generics/101.html * https://github.com/golang/go/issues/50646#issuecomment-10237... * https://github.com/golang/go/issues/51257 *…
    comment by tapirl · 2022-05-15 · in Golang Diaries: Generics
  43. …2) The bigger issue, that interfaces cannot require their implementations to be comparable, is https://github.com/golang/go/issues/52614 and linked tickets.
    comment by morelisp · 2022-05-15 · in Golang Diaries: Generics
  44. …work-stealing queues. These do a bit more though, as they also allow batch stealing operations. [1] https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/runtime/proc.go... [2] https://tokio.rs/blog/2019-10-scheduler#a-better-run-queue
    comment by binarycoffee · 2022-05-15 · in A lock-free, concurrent, generic queue in 32 bits
  45. …not have package level immutables that aren’t PODs. FWIW here is a proposal to expand const in Go: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/21130
    comment by catlifeonmars · 2022-05-14 · in Safer Enums in Go
  46. …but for posterity: The real motivation was actually a performance improvement, as can be seen at https://github.com/golang/go/commit/55c458e05f35d0d5d539107d...
    comment by averell · 2022-05-04 · in Go will use pdqsort in next release
  47. …It's been discussed for some time now but not yet available in go. It may hit 1.19 maybe... ( https://github.com/golang/go/issues/46787 )
    comment by viraptor · 2022-05-02 · in I won free load testing
  48. …you've been following Go over the years, you'll know that there's basically _always_ open issues ( https://github.com/golang/go/issues/39063 ) in net & net/http about how Timeouts get mishandled and connections end up not being closed.…
    comment by busterarm · 2022-04-29 · in Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang
  49. …mature. The replace directive seems to solve the issues with forked projects in particular. [1] 1 - https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Modules#when-should-i-use-...
    comment by p2detar · 2022-04-26 · in Effective Go
  50. …see this in the initialisation of the map iterator, it's even labelled with a nice little comment: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/runtime/map.go#...
    comment by masklinn · 2022-04-21 · in Go will use pdqsort in next release