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by anyfoo 2y ago
It happens all the time? Who said it didn’t? I don’t understand your very premise: Why does a monolithic kernel imply “central control” when developing, and a microkernel not? How does one or the other change the “politics” of the kernel? C
602.
by anyfoo 2y ago
Your "userspace filesystem implementation" is still entirely dependent on the giant VFS layer of the kernel. The situation is similar for networking. And a large portion of human I/O still depends on a very large kernel surfa
603.
by anyfoo 2y ago
Again, absolute nonsense. Microkernels were designed for entirely different reasons than microservices. There are hard technical reasons for and against them, and most, if not all, microkernel OSes are still distributed in a rather monolith
604.
by anyfoo 2y ago
And what prevents a microkernel from having the exact same owners as a monolithic kernel, working on the exact same things? This isn't web development, where "microservices" came up as a way to distribute complex software acr
605.
by anyfoo 2y ago
Nonsense. The same set of people working on a monolithic kernel could work on a microkernel instead. It’s a purely technical decision. What you say is akin to saying that you don’t want to divide the storage in your basement into multiple c
606.
by anyfoo 2y ago
Making a monolithic kernel slightly smaller does not make it a microkernel. And those userspace fs and tun drivers still build upon VFS and an entire network stack as part of the monolithic kernel.
607.
by anyfoo 2y ago
That’s my point.
608.
by anyfoo 2y ago
By that measure, a passenger bus is a modern sports car, because you can lower its suspension to be close to the road at the push of a button…
609.
by anyfoo 2y ago
I’m using my phone, which would then be face down anyway, but I’m more worried about the mic being on inadvertently. It’s easier to accidentally unmute and not notice that.
610.
by anyfoo 2y ago
I agree with what you've said before, but I still usually wait for the meeting to be over when working from home. The fear of accidentally unmuting, or not having muted correctly to begin with, is too high. It's an expected value
611.
by anyfoo 2y ago
Though I feel that I can usually tell whether some product's internals and engineering, and not just what it's meant to represent from the outside, have been a "labor of love" as well, or whether it's been cobbled t
612.
by anyfoo 2y ago
When I was young, I discovered the joy of writing TSR programs in assembly. TSR stands for "terminate and stay resident", basically background programs in DOS. It's somewhat similar to what you would call a "daemon"
613.
by anyfoo 2y ago
They might have intentionally obfuscated it, maybe to conceal how many disks they produced ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem ). Just XOR'ing the real serial number with a secret key that has exact
614.
by anyfoo 2y ago
> These days a great modern equivalent is the excellent HxD Hex Editor written by Maël Hörz. If you are on macOS, check out Hex Fiend: https://hexfiend.com I'd pay for it if it wasn't free (and BSD licensed, to boot
615.
by anyfoo 2y ago
In my experience, you can do both. I recently made a tool where I had great fun making the internals as “elegant” as possible. What other people perceive though is only the usefulness of the tool. I would have had significantly less fun wit
616.
by anyfoo 2y ago
What’s the problem with nerd sniping? It’s fun, and something useful may come out of it. I’d like to say that I’m at a stage in my life where I don’t need to “forcefully progress” anymore, but truthfully that was never actually the case. I
617.
by anyfoo 2y ago
Nobody who ever took a taxi in Germany would say that.
618.
by anyfoo 2y ago
> > coffee with the left hand > Still possible with the keyboard While drinking it? When using the mouse, I’m often relaxed, sometimes for example having my forearm lying in front of the keyboard. > > with only one hand (incl
619.
by anyfoo 2y ago
What do you mean, cannot change its magnitude easily? I can just pluck it harder or softer? Do you mean frequency response? And the bandwidth of a resonant circuit depends on its Q. Hence my question about a wet string’s Q, which might well
620.
by anyfoo 2y ago
I guess if you are lucky, the added capacitance might rotate the impedance (on a smith chart) into a better range?
621.
by anyfoo 2y ago
When I still lived in Munich, I had M-Net since pretty much their inception. ADSL first, later fiber. It was always great, and on the very few occasions that I had problems, I usually directly got a technician on the line who knew exactly w
622.
by anyfoo 2y ago
Ah yeah, if it was just flat cable instead of twisted pair or coax, coiling the cable could have made a massive difference in the characteristics. Interesting that coiling worked better...
623.
by anyfoo 2y ago
What an awesome project! Was the bandwidth that narrow at the resonant frequency? Intuitively, I wouldn't have expected that "wet string" has a high Q. :) If I had been your student, I would have had great fun with it.
624.
by anyfoo 2y ago
Honestly? Only three finger drag. But just earlier I was holding coffee with the left hand, while using the trackpad to the right hand, and was glad I had three finger draw. I like doing "basic" mouse operations with only one hand
625.
by anyfoo 2y ago
> and now mobility problems Meant to write “no mobility problems”, but too late to edit now.
626.
by anyfoo 2y ago
Not for me, no. But sounds like something accessibility options may also provide, and I can see how it may be better for a lot of people.
627.
by anyfoo 2y ago
Neat. And I think that proves my point…
628.
by anyfoo 2y ago
I have better than 20/20 vision (yes, really) and now mobility problems, but there are some macOS accessibility features that I love. One is Zoom: I hold down two modifier keys and scroll, and can instantly zoom in to any part of the s
629.
by anyfoo 2y ago
“Pushing for people to understand extensions” only does so much. So many file types are turing complete, and whatever runs them has access to a varying set of resources. That may be intentional, unintentional, by design, or through vulnerab
630.
by anyfoo 2y ago
> Fewer, but some, inspect files to deduce their type. I don’t know. That’s extremely error-prone, often easy to fool, and in some cases hardly possible in the first place. I think the only thing that’s really feasible is filtering out k

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