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by bch 7y ago
Took me a few reads to parse that title. How about something like “A Kernel Engineer from Microsoft Answers: “What Do You Think About ReactOS?””
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by bch 7y ago
Welcome aboard! I hope you enjoy it. Give it a few weeks to sink in if you feel at odds, and keep #netbsd on irc.freenode.net in mind. Probably worth even just lurking on #netbsd in the absence of any problems or questions. Good luck!
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by bch 7y ago
Like I mentioned above, I’m of the NetBSD camp. Adopts things like SMP and PAM (, dtrace, zfs, ...) where OpenBSD “drags its feet” or outright rejects (for reasons), but (ime) is less baffling and brittle than FreeBSD (pkgsrc vs ports (thou
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by bch 7y ago
I think Jony Ive lifted an entire industry and perhaps a generation to “good design” (and brought a lot more attention to Dieter Rams[0][1][2]). That we’re here talking about it (for the 3rd(?) time on HN front page) is a testament to that.
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by bch 7y ago
Successful industrial design must necessarily be engineer-able or its just wishful thinking, no?
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by bch 7y ago
> I wonder, does Rust run on it? I mostly do C, C++, Rust and Python development. Basically the only things I need besides those are Emacs, Firefox, and a tiling window manager. You sound like me. These days I’m C and Tcl w [ex]ctags a
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by bch 7y ago
If I may pass on Free and Open (for now), I guess it’s fair to say Net has historically placed a lot of importance on what looks to be “running on lots of different hardware”. I’m not a core dev nor spokesperson, but I (would like to?) thin
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by bch 7y ago
It’s a fantastic Unix-like general purpose operating system. It is (and has been for ~17 years) my default OS (primarily on thinkpads and VMs). Personally I find the development and priorities on-point, and the fit and finish excellent. On
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by bch 7y ago
That old version is written by the ‘A’[0], ‘W’[1], and ‘K’[2] that are the eponymous inventors of awk, and the book is at least occasionally cited as basically a masterpiece.[3] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_
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by bch 7y ago
> There are a lot of people who walk kind of like you. What's more, it's easy not to walk kind of like you -- just take one shoe off. Of course, you'll always walk like you-with-one-shoe-off in that case, so the cameras wi
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by bch 7y ago
nvi nipped this in the bud from inception: modelines, modeline [off] Read the first and last few lines of each file for ex commands. This option will never be implemented. [0] [0] https://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi
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by bch 7y ago
Years ago I heard the same from a Postgres-contractor friend who said amazons ready-to-go (now RDS, but iirc, back then just MySQL; I don’t recall the service brand name - maybe also RDS) SQL service was welcome, because it sucked. Its not
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by bch 7y ago
Upvoted. I hope GP elucidates.
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by bch 7y ago
This sounds like an application (or variation) of the apartment threading model[0]. Given the problem and it’s desrciption/characteristic (Global Interpretter Lock), this sounds like an elegant approach. [0] https://docs.m
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by bch 7y ago
See too: Lael Wilcox.[0] [0] https://youtu.be/qqigzj97Vpo
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by bch 7y ago
> “I don’t understand your question” That’s actually specific and more precise, which is the point. It also shifts the burden of fault to the machine, rather than, with the alternative, wondering if it’s holding out on you. This is akin
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by bch 7y ago
This[0] (from Alistair Crooks (NetBSD), who constantly amazes me) might fit the bill? [0] http://netpgp.com/
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by bch 7y ago
> ...on the tail of wanting to ban plastic everywhere. One-time use plastic bags and more recently drinking straws[0], not all plastic everywhere. The world can’t run without plastic. Your own link says the recycleable (fwiw) balls have
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by bch 7y ago
> The argument is although they appear to offer you value up front, they cost you much more down the road. I always enjoyed this[0][1] take on that sentiment. “Although it may seem trite to say it, Object/Relational Mapping is the V
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by bch 7y ago
If you write your own Makefiles you know what they do. They’re not that hard to grok and even hand-rolled Makefile use is (IMO) underrated.
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by bch 7y ago
> Not knowing any better, I did a good lather. When I started feeling a tingle in my critical region [...] “a breath mint for your balls.”[0] [0] https://gizmodo.com/lessons-learned-from-a-year-living-in-a-...
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by bch 7y ago
In the meantime: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombeavers
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by bch 7y ago
> However, the fact that Linus Torvalds, who is in charge of a critical piece of our infrastructure made of 15 million lines of code (the Linux kernel), does not use a debugger tells us something about debuggers. It tells us more about L
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by bch 7y ago
> ...I’d imagine that wildfires aren’t exactly helpful either. Without knowing what specific ecosystem you’re talking about, sometimes the seemingly destructive fire is beneficial[0] to an ecosystem. [0] https://www.fire.ca.go
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by bch 7y ago
And/or sweat...?
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by bch 8y ago
> Same reason purses don't NEED logos all over them. In a way, they do. [0] [0] https://youtu.be/gLUzgWAEGjY
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by bch 8y ago
related early paper: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa0810119
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by bch 8y ago
Nice, but I think I can raise you. That talk mostly seemed pretty predictable (though I incorrectly guessed gfx via sixels[0], not a(nother) terminal emulator). If your interest was piqued with that parent video though, prepare to have yo
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by bch 8y ago
Friendly reply - > Unlimited yanking from kill rings vi has named buffers, which aren’t the same thing you’re talking about, but definitely more than a single clipboard > Macro recording and playback vi can “execute a buffer” which ar
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by bch 8y ago
It is - a simplistic throw away I came up with as I typed, and still more valuable than “don’t ask me”. I’m just bemoaning that after 25 years he’s still an antihero.

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