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by Annatar 8y ago
That doesn’t change or invalidate what I wrote: to discriminate against still means to distinguish. Simply grouping humans is already going too far in discriminating against them, no matter the conotation.
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by Annatar 8y ago
As long as someone finds it necessary to discriminate between any humans (for example “Afroamerican”, “Asian”, “Hispanic”, “White”), instead of treating them all as humans, you will not get rid of discrimination, because by definition, to s
963.
by Annatar 8y ago
Those were the days indeed.
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by Annatar 8y ago
They are still not cost efficient when compared to traditional hard disks, so they are usually used for intent logging and de-staging to conventional disks. The pricing is nowhere near competitive in USD/GB or in total capacity for SSD
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by Annatar 8y ago
Because that forces the end user, who might not know anything about the programming language one’s application is written in to wrestle with the low level implementation details. In the words of Keith Wesolowski, the programmer assumes that
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by Annatar 8y ago
Per definition, highly available means no interruption of service. Failover does not meet this criterion since there is an interruption.
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by Annatar 8y ago
Correct.
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by Annatar 8y ago
“the slave which accepts synchronous writes from the master and may be promoted to the master” That is failover, not high availability, since there is downtime, however short. High availability means zero downtime, like with Vertica.
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by Annatar 8y ago
High availability requires a database cluster which provides synchronous multimaster replication. What they have is failover, not high avilability.
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by Annatar 8y ago
The first thing I implement at a new company is configuration management using OS packaging.
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by Annatar 8y ago
Why can't everyone use plain simple shell syntax for setting values and then source the configuration file?
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by Annatar 8y ago
I most certainly was tab-indenting, since Solaris 2.5.1 in 1993.
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by Annatar 8y ago
The web was made on a NeXT workstation for any device, on any operating system. Sir Tim Berners-Lee would likely be extremely grumpy if he read your comment.
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by Annatar 8y ago
Your read is correct; they want the world to know how smart they are, but are going about it in the wrong way. As it turns out, those who “fetishize” complexity know deep down that they aren’t smart enough to make those things simple, becau
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by Annatar 8y ago
It’s a 1980’s British computer manufactured into the early 1990’s, was fairly popular in France.
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by Annatar 8y ago
No head, no tail... what are the specifications?
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by Annatar 8y ago
I couldn't care less about NixOS, as I'm a UNIX (IRIX, Solaris, illumos/SmartOS, HP-UX) guy and always will be. I run Solaris 10 and SmartOS on my infrastructure, before that I ran IRIX and HP-UX as well on it.
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by Annatar 8y ago
Yes. Any extra instructions will slow things down. The number of times the code runs will be the amplifying factor.
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by Annatar 8y ago
What is preventing an attacker from overwriting the last xor and cmp instruction sequence with nop instructions?
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by Annatar 8y ago
I’m sorry you believe that, but it’s simply not true, especially since UNIX is designed to be driven by a combination of binary code and shell executables. Perl is a mess whose syntax borders on hieroglyphic once poured into software. That
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by Annatar 8y ago
I’ve been using Solaris since 1993. I still use it today.
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by Annatar 8y ago
What exactly did I write above, that made you so angry? I’m baffled.
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by Annatar 8y ago
Only SMF uses XML and SQLite behind the scenes. While that is a poor choice of configuration format, SMF is considered the Golden standard which all others try to re-invent and re-implement (not invented here syndrome), because SMF has been
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by Annatar 8y ago
It's a lot of engineering to roll out one's own compilers, especially if one wants to do it correctly. They are relying on specific hacks in the GCC compilers' backends in order for their rpmbuild back-end tools not to bust.
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by Annatar 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17067854 ...if after reading that you still have specific questions, ask. You don't need a credit card, if you don't want to run it on Joyent's servers, you can run Triton
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by Annatar 8y ago
Well, one is forced to work with that inferior tooling and is not allowed to change it. This is excruciatingly painful and generates a lot of resent when one knows that there is far superior tooling available, gratis, with much higher quali
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by Annatar 8y ago
HP-UX was hard to get started on building software, but once one builds up a base of common libraries, it gets easier and easier, just like it did on Solaris. hp's engineers never broke backward compatibility. The OS is lightning fast
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by Annatar 8y ago
I'm principally against abstracting package management across platforms, because experience has taught me that the software management subsystem of the target platform is the best system for that platform. I see no point in this abstra
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by Annatar 8y ago
The thing is, all of that is like stone tools are to spaceships when compared with SmartOS and Triton.
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by Annatar 8y ago
You've never used a traditional UNIX if you think redhat's engineering is solid, have you?

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