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871.
by bborud 5y ago
Anything that can't have a gc probaly can't use a regular memory allocator either (since they aren't necessarily easy to predict). So you would be left with static allocation and stack variables.
872.
by bborud 5y ago
When you say OS, do you mean kernel or kernel and the daemons?
873.
by bborud 5y ago
I would argue that the area the term might apply to has widened over the years, so there is more room for languages that don't do things that require more explicit management of resources like memory. Also, given the number of times pe
874.
by bborud 5y ago
Let’s start at the beginning. What is a «systems language» and for what is it typically used?
875.
by bborud 5y ago
I really hope people will show restraint.
876.
by bborud 5y ago
That's something I've never understood: why do hot hatches not sell in the US?
877.
by bborud 5y ago
That's probably true. Except lately. Good luck finding a cheap 4C or Giulia QV here. The ergonomics: guilty as charged. Alfas are built for people who have the anatomy of an orangutan. I am not kidding. You need short legs and fre
878.
by bborud 5y ago
I've done this for 20 years now and part delivery times are identical to dealer network here. They also tend to offer you more choices when it comes to parts (cheap, standard, upgraded etc).
879.
by bborud 5y ago
Yeah, like the Porsche "surprised whale" Cayenne, or those Mercedes two-seaters that look like they are made from two different cars...neither of which can have looked very good to begin with.
880.
by bborud 5y ago
You mean the Renault 5 or the Megane? I happen to like both. I've driven the Megane on two of the coolest tracks in the world and the spicy versions are a hoot and a half. However, the Renault 5 Turbo 2, now that is a thing I desire
881.
by bborud 5y ago
At least it has personality! :)
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by bborud 5y ago
Modern Alfas are about as reliable as german cars these days, so reliability issues are more myth than fact. That being said, German cars aren't as reliable as Japanese cars. The real problem isn't reliability but shitty dealer ne
883.
by bborud 5y ago
The Duetto is the Spider's pretty little sister. It is unreasonably beautiful for something that you used to be able to buy for not a lot of money.
884.
by bborud 5y ago
I heartily agree modern cars look horrible. My daily driver looks horrible and it is by many considered to be "great design" (an Alfa Giulietta QV). However, I grew up with SAABs. I hated the things. :-) When I was a kid it was
885.
by bborud 5y ago
That assumes a willingness to learn enough about Docker to understand how you configure your container to do what you want. That can, in some organizations, be too much to ask of researchers. That's the core of the problem.
886.
by bborud 5y ago
I like the font. I'd pay $75 for a license if it works for editing code. The problem is that it typically takes a week or so of use to determine if it would work for me. I'm not going to pay $75 for something that I won't kn
887.
by bborud 5y ago
Or, as some people recommend, skip directly to V2 as the first version.
888.
by bborud 5y ago
Funny you should ask. Yes, it can be when you use third party software and people have version number hangups.
889.
by bborud 5y ago
You don't; except in a very limited sense if you use tools that check your passwords regularly against password leaks. But that still doesn't mean forced regular password rotation makes you safer. Changing your password is in itse
890.
by bborud 5y ago
> Then just use 0.y.z versions and be done with it? Yeah, that would work, except a lot of people read 0.x.y versions as "alpha quality". Regardless of the actual code quality.
891.
by bborud 5y ago
> these folks often otherwise don't use git enough for their code. Or at all. This is actually a fairly common problem among certain types of research scientists who think software engineering is "peasant work". I remembe
892.
by bborud 5y ago
If something is a pain in the ass to document, it is probably not very clear. Hugo has a bit too much implicit magic that feels unnecessary. It wouldn't have killed us users if things were a bit more explicit. Every time I restructure
893.
by bborud 5y ago
Locale in library functions in general is an example of solving problems at the wrong abstraction level. It also breaks the fundamental idea of how shell tools are meant to be usable in unix. If they don't have stable outputs, then the
894.
by bborud 5y ago
The easiest way to do this is to use the inode for naming the link.
895.
by bborud 5y ago
I think it could be solved outside the OS, but the challenge is that you would need to define some common APIs and get them into the standard libraries of programming languages. You would need a service API so that you can plug in the tagg
896.
by bborud 5y ago
That supposes that you have a decent filesystem like ZFS and know how to configure it. I run ZFS and I can't even remember how to add a disk and increase the size of a storage pool without referring to the manual page or do a web sear
897.
by bborud 5y ago
I don't think the filesystem is the right place to solve these types of problems. I also think if you try to make the kind of filesystems that solve these problems you'll invariably end up with entirely new problems you really don
898.
by bborud 5y ago
Directories of links. And yes, even with a layer on top of the FS to provide an abstraction (as an API, for instance) so you can build shells and applications, a tag + search based system would quite possibly be tedious to use. I also don&#
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by bborud 5y ago
What this boils down to is that he thinks a flat namespace (tags) offers advantages over hierarchical namespaces (tree). They really don't. Once your tag space grows you will start to struggle with naming, and path-like structures (n
900.
by bborud 5y ago
actually it'd be "NO...No...no...no...(no)" go ahead, downvote me, I know HN hates humor, but I couldn't help myself :-)

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