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901.
by bonzini 3y ago
Sometimes customers come up with feature requests that are reasonable in the surface but would cost millions to implement and maintain. In that case, workarounds are one way to resolve the issue. > Even if it’s just a patch for that one
902.
by bonzini 3y ago
> Lucky they're not the ones accepting patches. If upstream adopts it they'd have to disable support in their build, which seems unlikely. Upstream libvirt would probably be Red Hat employees. :) It would not be disabled in the
903.
by bonzini 3y ago
> Whether or not that happens regularly, I'm not really sure. All older machines (e.g. PowerPC Macs) mapped the I/O ports to an area of the "regular" address space. They probably still do it for legacy reasons. I thi
904.
by bonzini 3y ago
Because it's used mostly for commands, so each device used very few ports. 128 bytes is already a pretty large size for the I/O port area of a PCI device, and a lot of them fit in 64k.
905.
by bonzini 3y ago
No, that's not enough to renege on the business contract. It's someone who installs 10 RHEL instances that generate an insane number of tickets, because the issues with the other 10,000 CentOS systems are redirected to those 10 RH
906.
by bonzini 3y ago
But is it valid for any third party, i.e. does it allow a Red Hat customer to use 3c?
907.
by bonzini 3y ago
The probe would have reoriented itself towards the Earth in October, it does so twice a year. It seems that they just used a different, more powerful transmitter than usual.
908.
by bonzini 3y ago
Red Hat is not using that option. In fact GPLv3 restricts that option to physical products, which RHEL is not. By distributing the packages via SRPMs, Red Hat has a single method that complies with GPLv2, GPLv3 and also with the attribution
909.
by bonzini 3y ago
The problem with httpd and PHP is due to issues with modularity in CentOS Stream 8. This is fixed in 9.
910.
by bonzini 3y ago
Thanks for doing it preemptively! ;)
911.
by bonzini 3y ago
With the context of the previous and subsequent sentences he's saying that "freeloaders" are a subset of those that don't contribute: "the people who sign a business agreement with IBM/Red Hat and then do not
912.
by bonzini 3y ago
In practice you will need some extra state, for example the RISC-V program counter and the x86 stack, so it's not really possible to map registers 1:1. Also some instructions on x86 need extra registers, or they can only refer to fixed
913.
by bonzini 3y ago
"banks (usually American ones) will happily accept transactions that have incorrect full name, invalid CVV / CVC, wrong expiration date, only partial billing address provided, with incorrect ZIP code. All of the above is still not
914.
by bonzini 3y ago
Switzerland would like to have a talk on who's more risk free...
915.
by bonzini 3y ago
My son was doing additions and subtractions on his fingers until he had to learn multiplication tables. Until that point it hadn't clicked with him that you could also memorize the results! When forced to memorize multiplication result
916.
by bonzini 3y ago
Retracting is extremely rare in computer science, which is why instead many conferences have started "stamping" papers that have artifacts which provide reproducible results.
917.
by bonzini 3y ago
Well those people just think the paradox of tolerance makes a sad but good point.
918.
by bonzini 3y ago
And again, this is anything but a universal value. Hate speech is not protected everywhere even in the absence of crimes, and many people over the world agree that it shouldn't.
919.
by bonzini 3y ago
In large parts of the world people might not agree that everyone deserves free speech. Sorry for the early Godwin, but for example Nazi apology is not protected in Germany and I suspect most Germans agree that it shouldn't. Personally
920.
by bonzini 3y ago
> freedom of speech doesn't only apply to people I like or accept That is not the case in large parts of the world. WikiLeaks might be a better example.
921.
by bonzini 3y ago
The important thing is getting even mildly drunk, even once only, before you are confident driving. 5 years as in the US are way too much as you will confidently drive drunk without understanding the effect. In other countries you will prob
922.
by bonzini 3y ago
The question is why were the $AD and $AE instructions encoded in the PLA with don't-care bits (causing both of them to fire for an xxxxxx11 pattern such as $AF, instead of none)?
923.
by bonzini 3y ago
Subversion is basically CVS done right. The problem is that CVS was a dead end that didn't scale to a distributed development model. Git goes back to the local RCS model and adds atomic commits to that model. That's how it climbed
924.
by bonzini 3y ago
At levels comparable to Facebook's E7/E8 they absolutely do. Most tech companies do not have an IC ladder that reaches that level. https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Amazon,Google,Facebook&track...
925.
by bonzini 3y ago
It has in the sense that people allocate strings much more than using fixed-size, stack-allocated arrays. Modern C uses things like glib's GString, which (in addition to keeping the NUL terminator) track the length and can resize the u
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by bonzini 3y ago
Those are known as pseudo-SLC, they are common in industrial applications.
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by bonzini 3y ago
See here for an article that describes how it's done --> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36763935
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What it takes to keep an enterprise 'Frankenkernel' alive(theregister.com)
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by bonzini 3y ago
Red Hat doesn't change as little as possible, at least 30% of the changes to Linux make it to RHEL. Most of the RHEL kernel is a few months behind upstream despite the old version. The next minor release of RHEL, to be released in Nove
930.
by bonzini 3y ago
The idea is that you deploy from scratch all the infrastructure every 6 months, first to testing and then to production.

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