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Now do a test with a file size of exactly 1 non-NULL byte and report back. If the 1-byte file gets replicated across multiple disks, corrupt one of the chunks and report back.
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"However, it doesn’t write files whole – it breaks each into 64 MB chunks and distributes them across its drives." And what happens when the file is <= 64 MB? Does it run on illumos / SmartOS?
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An engineer gathers requirements through a formally defined process and writes a formal engineering specification which translates those requirements into actionable norms. For example: "server operating temperature shall be between -4
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It would be a good first step measure. There is lots to clean up in the IT industry.
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You need to be a senior programmer: that means 20 - 35 years of experience. Provided you have that kind of experience you will easily be able to command that kind of a salary, although only in Western Europe and the United States. Writing f
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He does and he is correct.
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"Principal engineer"? Do you actually have an engineering degree? Have you formal education in engineering? What is system engineering? It's not just you; the entire IT industry is suffering from systemic curriculum vitae blo
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Summary: "computers are hard, getting the software written correctly even harder". Yeah, that's right! If you're struggling with this, it time to seriously consider another profession. Barrier to entry being low is reall
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Socialism is not against private capital or capitalism and never had anything to do with planned economy; that's communism, where everything is supposed to belong to the collective and the collective plans the economy. Most people can
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I constantly write full-blown applications and engines in AWK: small, with minimal memory requirements and runs like a bandit. Truly one of the most ingenious and practical programming languages ever made, and with AWKA it can be compiled i
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"You really don’t want to piss off the French." That's right and don't anyone ever forget it. They stand up to short-sighted self interests and have a long tradition of going out to the streets to protect their rights. A
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Because thankfully, Sun Microsystems sued Microsoft and won. When everyone else was cowering in fear of Microsoft and abandoning UNIX®️ for Windows™️ NT™️, Sun Microsystems was the only company who had the gumption to openly oppose the
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"Even in the midst of almost unimaginable material comforts made possible only by markets and entrepreneurs—both derided by socialists—" what ignorant nonsense is this? Socialism is about having guaranteed healthcare, pensions, wo
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This is great for the public, but extremely bad for individual privacy. In this case, the need of the few rightly outweighs the desire of many.
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You really should learn how to use pushd and popd in your shell.
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Operating system packaging; UNIX system administration; database administration; network administration.
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So they would like you to please use their own DNS servers... no thanks, I'll just keep using my own, on-premise, private DNS infrastructure at home. Private infrastructure for the win.
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That is because that is currently the reality. The buses are dirty and with exceptions here and there, mostly poor or the working poor ride them. The system is currently inefficient and focused purely on profit. Since there is usually a mon
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Then you know little of wolves: they would only hunt a moose in a large pack. And yes, they are very shy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YybY5sEeZUU
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There is one major reason why this isn't practical in the United States yet: Europe has a well developed, often tax payer or state subsidised public transport network. Americans don't have that at scale: they must use their cars t
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That was a big risk you took. You have guts for standing up to the hype machinery.
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And people still wrangle with this... how can it be easier to struggle like this than learn how to use SmartOS and Triton? Kubernetes is a solution to severe OS virtualization deficiency in Linux, most notably orchestration. You, know, the
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No, but I do try to eat at least one piece of fruit per day, whatever I get my hands on. I mainly remember because this was my passion. I also constantly meditate on everything.
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My memory is very long. And I do not forget.
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Either from Heirloom tools, or by running any freeware, open source operating system which is built from the illumos source code, like SmartOS. illumos code base is the most direct, canonical descendant of AT&T UNIX System V 4.0. If you
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The package manager I always wanted (and still want) is SGI IRIX 6.5 inst(1M), not npm or anything built on top of it.
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Finding a bug in GNU tar is not hard... just ask Jörg Schilling. One of the first things I do when I download source code is decompress it and then de-archive it with GNU tar, then promptly re-archive it wit a real, AT&T UNIX System V 4
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LD_PRELOAD in combination with LD_LIBRARY_PATH is meant to be used by a programmer debugging and testing his or her own shared object library, not for using software in production.
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As far as I can tell, this hardware doesn't bring anything revolutionary in terms of capability. The hardware should stand on its own merit, like for example the Commodore Amiga did, or the SGI hardware did, not on the merit of some ar
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So basically a full circle on running single binary executable processes, a multitude of them, as was done on a UNIX system back in the '90's, only with more complexity (this effort is an attempt to reduce that complexity, which i

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