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by bcrl 3y ago
You appear to be viewing software licensing as a zero sum game. How has Hetzner's use of open source virtualization software harmed the original author of QEMU, Fabrice Bellard? Back in the early days of QEMU, there were bugs. Lots
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by bcrl 3y ago
WTF? Hetzner has built a platform to deliver services to their customers. They have built a business that takes care of putting in physical infrastructure by constructing buildings to house servers, deliver network connectivity, cooling a
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by bcrl 3y ago
Software licensing has almost nothing to do with monopolies you mentioned. Google's monopoly comes from the position of power it has entrenched itself in by controlling search and using that control to make its advertising platform ub
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by bcrl 3y ago
Last I checked, all those organizations were contributing many changes every release to the Linux kernel to improve performance, fix bugs and add features.
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by bcrl 3y ago
Let me know when a "source available" project achieves the same widespread acceptance and success as the thousands of open source projects like the Linux kernel, gcc and everything else that have given the industry the ability to
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by bcrl 3y ago
Don't forget Ultra Wide Band (another project that set fire to a pile of money used for hardware and software development), and the jettisoning of StrongARM. I have a hard time believing that Intel will succeed at being a foundry this
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by bcrl 3y ago
Paula being the only chip that had absolutely zero changes from the Amiga 1000 to the 4000. That fact alone is a sad example of Commodore's mismanagement of the platform. Well, except for the CIA which traces its lineage even further
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by bcrl 3y ago
Performance of Firefox has steadily gotten worse lately. My bank's website has massive lag when scrolling (1 second to redraw? Great!), but it works perfectly fine in Chrome. Firefox also gets into a state where screen updates in Str
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by bcrl 3y ago
I worked on ISDN drivers and firmware at a job back in the late 1990s. One of the optimizations I implemented eliminated a memory copy by the 68302 which improved ping times from ~30ms to ~16ms. The good old 68000 is not exactly the faste
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by bcrl 3y ago
But there are oodles of other things that I would consider buying! They'd do better with random ideas for Christmas gifts for family members, which would be nice given that it is the season...
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by bcrl 3y ago
I just wish I could convince Google that I will never buy certain products that they force feed me ads on continuously. No, I will never buy a Chromebook, so please stop putting that ad everywhere. No, I am not going to switch to an And
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by bcrl 3y ago
That is pretty close to what those of us building robust storage systems in the real world have to do. At a previous employer, we had test suites that exercised all kinds of corner cases by triggering failover and system reboots in the mid
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by bcrl 3y ago
Externalities make everything cheaper than it should be.
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by bcrl 3y ago
I want to see the source code changes made to implement MCAS.
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by bcrl 3y ago
That one seems like a huge lie. They stopped building a bunch of subsidized builds locally at the end of August. All signs point to this being driven by financial considerations. Bell loves keeping their dividend high, and higher costs f
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by bcrl 3y ago
Starlink has not brought an end to the subsidies. The Ontario government is in the process of rolling out subsidies of >$5000 per home under the AHSIP (Accelerated High Speed Internet Program). It should have increased competition (it
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by bcrl 3y ago
I run a fibre ISP in Ontario. Where I live and operate we have rocks, hills and trees. WISPs are not a realistic option to service many of the customers we serve.
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by bcrl 3y ago
The Behind the Bastards podcast on this issue was quite enlightening. I do wonder if the podcast was part of the reason why this lawsuit happened. You can find part 1 over here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast&#
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by bcrl 3y ago
Exim's main advantage seems to be that it has far more CVEs than postfix.
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by bcrl 3y ago
I had a test case with ext4 where it would take 80 seconds to write out an 8MB file on a 16TB filesystem. ext4 does not handle free space fragmentation very well as it still relies on block group bitmaps. Oh the legacy baggage it carries.
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by bcrl 3y ago
I use hardware that collects RTK corrected GPS coordinates for pole line engineering, and even with RTK you can get some pretty wild errors. One building in a small town with a metal roof and metal siding caused the reported location of th
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by bcrl 3y ago
Intel NICs have had similar problems. One of my circa 2010 servers had the NIC lock up in such a way that passthru traffic to the IPMI was blocked preventing remote management access. I drove 3.5 hours to the data center to power cycle th
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by bcrl 3y ago
Streaming is pretty much, by definition, not latency sensitive. Getting a video stream to display in a browser or on a TV requires transferring a lot more data than saving 1 or 2 round trips can achieve. Personally, the bigger impact on us
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by bcrl 3y ago
And Bitkeeper (that many of the concepts in git and mercurial came from) was better than SVN and CVS.
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by bcrl 3y ago
Cars have gotten larger because of changes in recent years to emissions laws: larger cars are permitted to have greater emissions. Naturally, this results in auto manufacturers building larger cars that are easier to make compliant to emis
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by bcrl 3y ago
A good percentage of drivers simply do not pay attention to what they're doing or bother to look where they are going. This morning I was out helping my crew put up 4 spans of drop fibre along a busy highway. For each span we would b
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by bcrl 3y ago
Aeroplan stole 300,000 points from me. Never again. I'll stick to cash back cards that give me my rewards every month in a form I can use.
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by bcrl 3y ago
Back in the 1980s and 1990s Motorola would send you all the manuals for free if you called them up and asked (as would Intel). I took advantage of that and still have them sitting on my bookshelf.
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by bcrl 3y ago
Latency is not the only cost of an excessive number of threads: context switches are expensive! Every context switch is a waste of CPU cycles that could be better spent doing actual work for your application. Furthermore, the cost of cont
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by bcrl 3y ago
My understanding is that the hardware turned out to use way more power than expected. The whole premise of the design was that the extra registers between logic stages were "free". In the real world, pipelining has a significant

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