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by afr0ck 5y ago
Libraries are shared by programs and refrences to library routines are automatically resolved at program load time.
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by afr0ck 5y ago
Why do people implicitly assume that micro kernels are the best OS design? In fact, micro kernels have a lot of issues and limit the possibilities of what an OS can do! One of the most important issues is they prevents resource sharing in a
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by afr0ck 5y ago
Not always true [1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_conquest_of_Algeria
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by afr0ck 5y ago
AI and Quantum Computing comes into mind for the next era of inventions.
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by afr0ck 5y ago
Amazing story! All of this, I wasn't even born (just to point out how old you are xD). As a late millennial, this is the first time ever I hear about this CPU.
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by afr0ck 5y ago
cool but smthng is telling me I've seen smthng exactly like this before.
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by afr0ck 5y ago
I do not see any impressive innovation in its design and the OS doesn't introduce any new concepts or paradigms, which makes it, in essence, no different from regular monolithic operating systems, implementing POSIX API with regular sy
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by afr0ck 5y ago
I like the fact that the French didn't like American presence on their sole and had offensive feelings towards that, while at the same time, they were forcefully present all over Africa with totalitarian and oppressive military adminis
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by afr0ck 5y ago
What's the purpose of supporting other character sets in a language's syntax? Good luck finding contributors from all over the world for a software written in Turkish characters. I mean for hobbyists or very special purpose cases
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by afr0ck 5y ago
If C lets you shoot yourself in the foot, it doesn't mean that you should do it! If you cast something then you need to take a moment to think about it first and check if it makes sense and whether it is really needed.
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by afr0ck 6y ago
How is it possible that you have a PhD in filesystems but you don't know how to write an acceptable patch for the Linux kernel? That's what I call a scam PhD.
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by afr0ck 6y ago
In many countries of Africa (e.g.; Algeria, but north Africa in general), Huawei has a huge market share and they commercialize models that are well aligned with the consumer's budget in that region, given that they can't easily a
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by afr0ck 6y ago
Plan 9 provides a generic framework for writing server-client programs based on the 9p message-oriented protocol; nothing more nothing less! In Linux, there is no such widely generic equivalent. Every server-client application does that in
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by afr0ck 6y ago
I really enjoyed the writing even though it took me some time to correctly understand some passages (I am not a native speaker). I feel sorry for Burrows's case, he seems to be a great militant against oligarchy and oppression as well
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by afr0ck 6y ago
You should really reconsider your assumptions about server scaling and AWS business in general. AWS builds truely complex and ahead-of-time distributed systems that humans could never build before because of lack of knowledge and concentrat