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by barnacled 6y ago
They have to be same as the maximum addressable bit, i.e. in the case of 48 bit virtual address size the 48th bit. This is actually kind of a cute way of dividing kernel and userland space as you just set the upper bit to 1 for kernel addre
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by barnacled 6y ago
Indeed, and as you say, sensibly speaking you are hardly likely to hit those limits in any likely (esp. home) setup. The actual meaningful limit is usually the CPU physical one as home CPUs very often have stringent memory limits (often 32
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by barnacled 6y ago
In practice the actual available usable address space for userland is 64 TiB due to user/kernel split and the kernel maintaining a virtual mapping of the entire physical address space (minus I/O ranges) [0]. However newer incoming
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by barnacled 6y ago
For anybody who's interested I also wrote up a whole bunch of notes on this at https://github.com/lorenzo-stoakes/linux-vm-notes and superceded by far more recent https://github.com/lorenzo-stoakes
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by barnacled 6y ago
This really seems like a kinesis advantage but split which is cool. I own an advantage 2 and it has really helped with RSI. Personally I prefer a single unit so it's ideal for me! It makes such a difference to have everything comfortab
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by barnacled 6y ago
Great response - I very much agree that from the employee's point of view you are always trading off a number of factors and they are by far not all about money. My main contention really was with the assertion that you don't see
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by barnacled 6y ago
I honestly think this is a completely wrong-headed way of looking at things. You are paid what you're paid not because the company is determining what is 'fair' given all of your circumstances, but rather the minimum they fee
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by barnacled 6y ago
One thing I've noticed in my career is that those who possess a certain kind of 'wow' factor are the ones who are categorised as the 'stars' and thus progress quickly through the technical ranks. I've tended to
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by barnacled 6y ago
yep, I literally got married on the 18th and tier 4 was brought in on the 19th. Much of the rest of the country was in tier 3 and the xmas days were rolled back from 5 to 1 with only xmas day itself permitted, only in lower tier areas and w
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by barnacled 6y ago
>Interactive face to face help, or an open IDE they can run code on uninterrupted. I've tried both. I've tried leaving them to it entirely, I've tried leaving them to it then if they get stuck helping both from a lesser to
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by barnacled 6y ago
You're just making assumptions again. I have witnessed a huge range of anxiety levels from candidates and when you get used to interviewing it is pretty clear what comes down to anxiety and what comes down to simply not being able to p
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by barnacled 6y ago
No you're assuming that this is what happened because it contradicts your assertion. Your opinion flies in the face of my extensive experience and that of the majority of people, you may want to start considering whether it is you who
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by barnacled 6y ago
Not for much of the country, including London. Source: living in (what was at the time) a tier 4 area The issue is the new strain, clearly. Cases were growing even during the November lockdown.
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by barnacled 6y ago
It really depends on the place and nearly always applies only to experience specifically in the exact role you are in. I have 15yrs experience and moved sideways a few times and I am in effect treated as if I were new in my current role. So
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by barnacled 6y ago
I am not sure whether you have an incredibly good filtering system or have got incredibly lucky. I have interviewed similar numbers and have been repeatedly complimented on my ability to put people at ease, but have encountered exactly what
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by barnacled 6y ago
Some cynical lessons from 15 years in: 1. Politics is everything - how you are perceived is politics, whether you get assigned the projects you want is politics, career progression whether technical or managerial is entirely politics. You w
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by barnacled 6y ago
There is a corollary to this - having a career of sideways moves and simply not progressing even in ways that are positive and to your liking because each move effectively puts you back to zero and companies taking advantage of the 'fl
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by barnacled 6y ago
you can still get tripped up on SQL (accidentally doing a table scan etc.) but there is explicit tooling to help you analyse that - e.g. looking at the execution plan. Haskell I can't comment on, though I can totally see that happening
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by barnacled 6y ago
I used prolog in anger when I first started at a startup some years ago (why that was is another story) and while I found it interesting, it was really quite an ineffective experience for me. Firstly, by being so declarative if was very eas
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by barnacled 6y ago
You have repeatedly misrepresented me, spread misinformation and defended a state that organ harvests political prisoners and runs concentration camps. You're either a troll, very naive, a patriot to the point of delusion or in the emp
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by barnacled 6y ago
err, no? This kind of (typically self-loathing) moral equivalence really bothers me. It's so entitled to think that govts leading countries like the UK and US which are nice to live in and have so many incredible freedoms and benefits
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by barnacled 6y ago
yeah I'm not unreasonable about the pandemic situation, and of course it's feasible it occurred through no fault of their own in the first place, however it is clear that they were WELL aware after SARS1 that wet markets/trad
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by barnacled 6y ago
I do find the sensitivity on that phrasing hilarious given the absolute hysteria around US/UK politics and some of the phrasing used there. I won't make specific examples to avoid partisanship but it is just mind boggling. would &
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by barnacled 6y ago
It's a conspiracy theory that wet markets and traditional Chinese medicine (in which raw animal parts are mixed together etc.) are huge pandemic vectors? And that re-opening the markets and putting absolutely no controls whatsoever on
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by barnacled 6y ago
That's a good point to make, however it appears that the conviction rate in Japan comes down more to plea bargaining and only the most blatant cases being allowed to proceed forward [0]. I agree that kind of thing can erode the argumen
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by barnacled 6y ago
Yeah in China the education system is hugely geared up to indoctrinate. I studied at university with many Chinese people, know people who have lived there and of course have read a lot about it. It is no surprise!
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by barnacled 6y ago
Oh god... I didn't say it was deliberate!!!! The argument is that they were profoundly negligent. As for the lab side of things, the argument is that it was an accidental release (as happened multiple times with SARS 1). My point is wh
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by barnacled 6y ago
Yeah sure, I mean when people say 'Iran' did X or 'Venezuela' did Y those are fully representative govts that the people can overturn at any point. Oh wait. Why aren't you saying نظام‎ instead of Iran? Why not &#x27
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by barnacled 6y ago
I really get extremely tired of this kind of thing. Obviously I mean the CCP when I say 'China'. Why does nobody say this when people criticise other countries? In nearly all parlance talking about countries you reference those co
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by barnacled 6y ago
The fact this fully-referenced post got insta-downvoted to -1 says it all about HN.

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