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by corbet 6y ago
This is just another rev of the core scheduling patches; see the articles indexed at https://lwn.net/Kernel/Index/#Scheduler-Core_scheduling for a lot more information on how this works and why it's useful.
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by corbet 6y ago
Clickbait is not the LWN way and was certainly not the intent here; I'm sorry it came off that way to you. The OpenSSH 8.0 announcement says to move away from scp; that seemed like a pretty straightforward statement from the community
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by corbet 6y ago
If they were to give me access to the Linux system running on my Sonos devices, I'd be rather more inclined to buy the idea that Sonos is a supporter of open source. There are many things in need of fixing there, and their customers w
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by corbet 6y ago
This is the book that pulled me into the computing field...my 1970's self wanted to be Nick Haflinger, I guess...
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by corbet 6y ago
We (LWN) pay for articles too, and we don't even need to use our credit card :) If you would like to write for a highly technical and engaged audience, we'd love to hear from you; see https://lwn.net/op/Autho
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by corbet 6y ago
LWN editor here. We are always looking for writers who can create quality articles and aren't afraid of writing for readers who know more about the subject matter than they do (or anybody else does, for that matter). We're intere
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by corbet 6y ago
See also the article ( https://lwn.net/Articles/823292/ ) written about this idea.
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by corbet 6y ago
The context is currently a few lines down on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23789659
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by corbet 6y ago
So I sold my rental unit years ago...the landlord business just isn't as much fun as the brochure says it should be. But if I were still in it, and I had reasonable tenants, I would be doing everything I could to avoid evicting them.
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by corbet 7y ago
I've worked at home for many years. I also really enjoy cooking, and put a fair amount of effort into it. But that doesn't mean I don't like to go out to eat as well. I'm not going to be doing that for a while (Colora
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by corbet 7y ago
The kernel doesn't really have the one central blessed point of which you speak. Sure you can grab mainline releases from Linus's repository, but that's not where the development actually happens. It really is a distributed
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by corbet 7y ago
I do feel the need to point out that the kennel CoC isn't involved in this particular episode at all...
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by corbet 7y ago
It's hard to decide what we need to define and what we don't. In this case, I kind of opted for assuming that the readers know what BPF is, given that a fairly high percentage of our articles seem to be about BPF these days. Sti
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by corbet 7y ago
My Bolt has a camera rear-view mirror that can be turned on or left off in favor of the traditional mirror. We never use it. Turning the mirror into a screen means you have to focus on the screen rather than the distance when using it; th
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by corbet 7y ago
Does it still phone home every time you fire it up?
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by corbet 7y ago
Thanks for thinking of us! LWN is not making anybody rich, but we're on reasonably solid ground for now. Despite what some folks are saying, the Linux community is willing to support at least some of the things it values. Our bigges
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by corbet 7y ago
How confident are we that, for example, you don't get rated lower in a given city of you're a member of the wrong ethnic group? Has anybody ever looked at these ratings (for drivers too, I guess) with an eye toward determining wh
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by corbet 7y ago
We get group insurance (with BC/BS) through a local broker. One thing to have a look at: we found that the high-deductable plans were so much cheaper that we could put enough into everybody's HSA account to cover the deductible a
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by corbet 7y ago
If you appreciate this kind of reporting, please consider subscribing to LWN. Subscriber support is the only thing that allows us to do this kind of work.
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by corbet 7y ago
No video recording was done, so no.
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by corbet 7y ago
The Shockwave Rider is largely responsible for my late-70's self deciding to get into Computer Science. Yes, I wanted to be Nick Haflinger; what can I say, I was a teenager. Hearing Aid is not Facebook, but it's pretty amazing wh
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by corbet 7y ago
At LWN we try to pay generously, and would love even to bring on somebody full time. But we don't pay per word; we see that as being a lot like paying developers per line of code. Words are consumed to create an article, not create
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BPF: What's good, what's coming, and what's needed(lwn.net)
1 points by corbet 7y ago|0 comments
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by corbet 7y ago
Early in LWN's history our credit card acquirer decided that our transactions were "suspicious". They not only cut us off...they reached into our bank account and pulled back $30,000 from there. That was a lot of money to u
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by corbet 8y ago
No drive shafts, no clutches. I always thought it should be a motor for each wheel, but nobody seems to be doing that now. Both physical brakes and regenerative braking exist. (One real surprise with our new Bolt is that you can't do
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by corbet 8y ago
Remember all the early A320 crashes? Do you worry about stepping onto an A320 now? Unless the problem turns out to be far deeper, I suspect that this, too, shall pass.
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by corbet 8y ago
No G Suite, but the Linux Plumbers Conference ( https://linuxplumbersconf.org/2018/ ) is making use of it, though with some substantial modifications to make it more mobile friendly. I also wrote ( https://lwn
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by corbet 8y ago
I would expect the results to be no different - the article was talking about people who already have insurance. I've been through the incredible medical-bill maze that results from cancer treatment since then; it's just the same
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by corbet 8y ago
Fnord!
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by corbet 8y ago
I imagine that most of those applications are very much tied to the calendar — traffic lights and HVAC systems need to behave differently on different days. Trying to minimize the amount of broken code that's still running in 2038 is a

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