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by ahepp 9mo ago
I've never read Peter Thiel's books, but isn't that kinda a part of his playbook? Monopolies, but driving progress? "Competition is for losers"? I never fully understood it because it seems like then you're jus
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by ahepp 9mo ago
I've been interested to hear more about use cases for these "hybrid" MCUs, can you share a bit about why you chose that over something like a Cortex-A running linux, or an SoC with -A and -M cores?
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by ahepp 9mo ago
Setting aside any concept of who's "right" or "wrong", if I got an email like this from the MD of a customer, I'd share it with my team, we'd all laugh a bit, take a deep breath, and find a way to de-escal
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by ahepp 9mo ago
It’s a very nice thing to do, but from what I have read it is very much not open sourcing anything. Maybe that distinction is too arcane for general technology audiences, but I don’t really think it is?
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by ahepp 9mo ago
I would imagine there's a "sue the person who has money" factor at play, but I think there are also some legitimate questions about what role LLM companies have to protect vulnerable populations from accessing their services
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by ahepp 9mo ago
> Immutable caching Cache-Control:max-age=31536000, immutable Why brag about how it's not static content, if you're just going to tell the browser to cache it until the end of time anyways?
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by ahepp 9mo ago
> the “warmup” time for a unikernel is subsecond whereas the warmup time for, say, containers is… let’s just call it longer than the warmup time for the water i am heating to make some pourover coffee after i finish my silly post. to dis
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by ahepp 9mo ago
I think there's merit to your criticisms of the way docker is used, but it also seems like it provides substantial benefits for application developers. They don't need to beg OS maintainers to update the package, and they don&#x27
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by ahepp 9mo ago
> other architectural concepts such as the complete lack of an interactive userland is far more beneficial when you consider what an attacker actually wants to do after landing on your box What does that have to do with unikernel vs more
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by ahepp 9mo ago
I assume they meant using an OCI image for the rootfs of a firecracker VM, not running a container inside a firecracker VM. Still difficult to see how the unikernel could be slower, but I doubt the difference would be huge? Don't have
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by ahepp 9mo ago
Did you notice a substantial difference in those factors between more traditional micro VMs that use OCI images (like Firecracker) and unikernels?
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by ahepp 9mo ago
If we’re talking about cold boot times, wouldn’t the relevant metric for unikernels be the hypervisor’s boot time?
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by ahepp 9mo ago
What drove you to choose that over something like containers?
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by ahepp 9mo ago
Presumably to avoid the cost of context switches or copying between kernel/user address spaces? Looks to be the opposite of userspace networking like DPDK: kernel space application programming.
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by ahepp 9mo ago
see a lot of horses around lately?
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by ahepp 9mo ago
Mocking is testing how an interface is used, rather than testing an implementation. That's why it requires some kind of library support. Otherwise you'd just on the hook for providing your own simple implementations of your depend
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by ahepp 10mo ago
what behavior would you like to see when primary memory is under extreme pressure?
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by ahepp 10mo ago
I don't know. I guess the flip side applies too? Lots of people arguing either side, when it feels like it shouldn't be that difficult to provide some objective data.
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by ahepp 10mo ago
You've done this? I would love to read more about it
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by ahepp 10mo ago
It seems like this would be a really interesting field to research. Does AI assisted coding result in fewer bugs, or more bugs, vs an unassisted human? I've been thinking about this as I do AoC with Copilot enabled. It's been nice
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by ahepp 10mo ago
Do we know whether the part was made out of spec, or whether the spec specified inappropriate materials?
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by ahepp 10mo ago
So when we say "they abandoned posix compatibility", are we saying "They abandoned the POSIX filesystem storage backend"? I believe that's true, I used to use minio on a FreeBSD server but after an update I had to s
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by ahepp 10mo ago
Yeah, that's why I said maybe I'm misunderstanding OP. If that's what OP meant by "monetization" then sure, monetization is great. Companies pay their employees to work on Linux because it's valuable to them. I
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by ahepp 10mo ago
> open source projects eventually need a path to monetization I guess I'm curious if I'm understanding what you mean here, because it seems like there's a huge number of counterexamples. GNU coreutils. The linux kernel. Fr
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by ahepp 10mo ago
It makes sense that some of the criticisms wouldn't apply if you're not storing the files 1:1. What about NFS or traditional filesystems on iSCSI block devices? I assume you're not using those because managing/scaling&#x
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by ahepp 10mo ago
What is the use case for implementing a POSIX filesystem on top of an object store? I remember reading this article a few years ago, which happens to be by the minio folks: https://blog.min.io/filesystem-on-object-store-is-a
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by ahepp 10mo ago
As long as I'm not the one who gets sued over this, I think it would be wonderful to have some case law on what constitutes an AGPL derivative work. It could be a great thing for free software, since people seem to be too scared to tou
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by ahepp 10mo ago
What would go in to POSIX compatibility for a product like this which would make it complicated? Because the kind of stuff that stands out to me is the use of Linux specific syscalls like epoll/io_uring vs trad POSIX stuff like poll. T
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by ahepp 10mo ago
Wait, what's the consensus on this? Are they saying that using object storage over a standard network API which they didn't even create, makes your application a derivative work of the object store? Or just that the users would ne
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by ahepp 11mo ago
It's doing the same thing https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-imager/blob/5aeb98e976326...

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