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by Annatar 6y ago
Because every once in a while, the content of a post here is so absurd that I just have to react.
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I already know all of this; there was no need to lecture me. I did it on purpose.
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That is ironic because this entire web site consists of what appears to be like-minded people constantly patting each other on the back because they're so awesome; meanwhile they leave a lot to be desired, and the person you're cr
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by Annatar 6y ago
This was in no way meant to be a critique on SQLite; SQLite is a phenomenal, high quality software and it is extremely useful. Why, I often use it myself and it's my first go-to database for solving all kinds of problems, or even just
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by Annatar 6y ago
I'll take that! Now, before yinz flip out, you asked a question, and I will give you my honest answer. The way I see it. No fluff. This was supposed to be the site where the creme de la creme, the best of the best, Silicon Valley stalw
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by Annatar 6y ago
FACEPALM It's not "EST", it's EST5EDT because the string "EST" shows up in other time zone designations. Learn time zones, then come back.
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by Annatar 6y ago
"And being live streamed without consent is the right way?" A public servant or officer of the public, paid for by public funds, must not have any expectation of privacy while performing her or his job.
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by Annatar 6y ago
Professional engineer here, by education and trade. The computer game "Civilization" by Sid Meier provides a succinct definition of what engineering is: engineering is an application of scientific theories and methodology to solvi
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by Annatar 6y ago
Far from it. Has nothing to do with that.
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by Annatar 6y ago
That won't work in automated provisioning of "bare metal". It needs to happen automatically during mass-provisioning of systems.
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by Annatar 6y ago
Every hard disk has bad blocks and reserve space of good blocks to allocate from when one of these bad blocks is written upon. Also the drive's firmware has an internal list of known bad blocks discovered while a low level format was p
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by Annatar 6y ago
That's nonsense: the trenches don't revolve around webshit and advertisers, but solving real problems of an average company, day to day problems.
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by Annatar 6y ago
You mean the Silicon Valley bubble of reality distortion. It's become so far disconnected from the information technology industry that it's rapidly becoming irrelevant. Outside, in the trenches, one won't find much Rust. Or
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by Annatar 6y ago
No pardon - Slackware "packages" were .tar tape archives. The entire "OS" was hacked together out of parts, whereas Peter system engineers Tribblix. No pardon.
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Tribblix is unlike Slackware - it uses AT&T SVR4 packaging with zap which is akin to yum on top, whereas Slackware used tape archives. Yes, tape archives for backing up to tape. That says it all.
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by Annatar 6y ago
Asserting that Solaris has weirdness is an insult, because Solaris is the AT&T System V Release 4.0 reference implementation. Solaris is also the reference implementation for libc functions like malloc, threading, realtime kernel implem
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by Annatar 6y ago
No, it's a judgment on GNU, GNU/Linux and the horrid incompetence of contemporary information technology industry.
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by Annatar 6y ago
It goes without saying that it has to be escaped in most shells, but that is the traditional option for help on UNIX®️. You would be well advised to educate yourself on the history of UNIX®️ before coming up with "what are you smoking?
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by Annatar 6y ago
Bolt - 95 cents knowing where to put the bolt - 95 bucks per hour.
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Traditional UNIX®️ options for help are -? and -h. --long-options are a horrid GNU-ism and shunned by clean UNIX®️ compliant programs, because such programs come with detailed, professionally written manual pages which contain extensive SYN
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by Annatar 6y ago
These are all GNU/Linuxisms and are nowhere to be found in a real UNIX®️ like illumos, Solaris, HP-UX or IRIX64. This is also a good example of why having GNU/Linux as one's first OS instead of a real UNIX®️ is so toxic.
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by Annatar 6y ago
The Github issue is for (then) ZFS on Linux, not ZFS on Solaris: whoever can read is at a distinct advantage . The second link is an opinion from some researcher at Pasteur institute in France. Both are bogus, but thank you for playing.
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by Annatar 6y ago
They have both Linux and FreeBSD, yet FreeBSD is the one they still use for streaming. A Linux-biased and centric shop like Netflix would ditch FreeBSD the first chance they had if it weren't better at it than Linux.
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by Annatar 6y ago
The burden of proof is on you, since you're the one clearly advocating for Linux here.
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If FreeBSD performed better out of the box without needing as much or no tuning at all, then it's the better tool for the job, specifically their job.
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Solaris regularly beats Linux in performance on the same hardware, and the subsystems which are "slower" aren't really: they just don't lie and trade safety for performance, like Linux does. Linux is fake performance at
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Brendan's "convincing" argument can be summed up as "Linux is better in all areas" and listing some relatively new technologies like BPF but which are horrid to program much less understand, and he lists no technica
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by Annatar 7y ago
"HN" dearly needs such books, about assembler coding for all kinds of hardware.
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by Annatar 7y ago
I have single handedly designed entire data centers, irrespective of which impression you might get from my responses, which are admittedly terse because I'm usually on a mobile phone tap-tapping them out, and that starts to severely p
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by Annatar 7y ago
SSH in and get caught messing with the system manually - get fired. Keeps everyone honest. The environment is close to 90,000 systems. We service the hardware because it is configured redundantly, for example the / filesystem is always

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