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by cturner 7y ago
DanielK posted good points already, this is another perspective. WSL1 shows off a character of the Windows kernel, Environment Subsystems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Windows_2000_architecture... (top right) Whe
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Thanks for these notes. It's neat that you have a hypothesis for the source of the problem that goes down to the types of locks.
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Did VMS TCP/IP support suffer due to poor effort from Digital, or as an inherent side-effect of the kernel design? Could poor TCP/IP performance have been a consequence of 'real asynchronous I/O support'? Berkeley s
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"Patents were (narrowly) created to _encourage_ the spread of knowledge" That may have been the language used, but it didn't reflect the reality even of that time. James Watt had a mate in Westminster, and patents were a nove
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Putting copyright matters aside, there is an issue of misrepresentation. A case that would be interesting would be one where Getty had represented that they were acting on behalf of an exclusive copyright holder, and where a third party had
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Classical works use colour in ways that are confusing to read. You either have to accept that it is describing a fantasy, or that the author's concept of colours is different than ours. I had wondered if there was any example from own
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For Init, desktop use-cases can be challenging. They can cover hot-swap networking, hot-swap hardware, sleep/restart. Scenario: a user is playing an audio stream that comes over the network. They put their computer to sleep. They resto
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I will try to explain - going back to XP may not take you back far enough. I recently read a history of early NT development, and then installed NT4 in a VM to play with, choosing a FAT disk. It is /extremely/ responsive. Much mor
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Their work life is an unending series of zero-sum games. One path to happiness is to set your life up to minimise your exposure to zero-sum games, this is unavailable to them.
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> What we really need is a less shitty version of SQL. My view is the opposite. The power of SQL perpetuates a low-quality software culture. The root issue is a dev culture that can't see past databases. A lot of software
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From a previous discussion in the spirit of your comment, songseed.org/dinghy There were some limitations with systems of that era that a design reboot should overcome: security, access to tcpip.
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Machines of that era were vulnerable to malware because they had no memory protection. The main vector is the floppy drive, rather than the network.
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I have found the situation with ECC ram to be confusing. Some motherboard options seem to accept the RAM, without getting the benefit of the checksum. Does anyone know which of the motherboard options give the full benefit of ECC?
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Mainstream OSs are good at what they do. I think we are talking about a different niche. If so, no need to think in terms of catch-up. Rather: work out the design values of this niche. Lots of ideas, but this thread is already deep. I have
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Interested. I have been stumbling around on this for years. Old comment, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6972431 I like your rule-of-thumb that you should not need a package manager. Muratori has a theory that USB has
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The macbook (not air) is a bit over ten percent lighter than the x1. I don't think it is worth it, for reasons you name, and run x1s myself. Still, Apple does offer the lightest ultrabook on the market, and it may derive from the nasty
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The olimex olinuxinos have sata options, and some beagleboards. Also, look out for boards with eMMC options. That is a fairly fast onboard disk.
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The precious commodity with our work is cognitive load. We can build tooling that reduces future cognitive load. As a result, we have access to multipliers. There is no analogy to this with the other fields.
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His writing changed after Spain. He saw the deliberate press distortions, and the Soviets installing listening equipment in the telephone exchanges. If anything, this gives him greater credibility. This is a review he wrote of /We&#x2F
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Maybe I am arguing the same point as you here, but I am uncomfortable that you are painting the justification criteria as being debatable in these situations. In particular, I think your criteria for justification is too low. The standard f
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Hayek, the End of Communism, and Me (2013)(cato.org)
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As you and neighbour inferred, I had not know of this. Thanks.
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Wikipedia describes GC as being automatic memory management. I don't think it is valid to describe the traditional (pre-2007) osx/objective-c model of manual reference counting as a form of garbage collection. Darwin itself is mos
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Smart Kobold is non-euclidean, and a compelling play. Fidel is worth a look also.
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I recommend the X1C. I had a first-edition. It was wonderful, and lasted me for five years. Last year I upgraded to X1C5. It is far lighter still, the keyboard is good, it is just a joy to interact with. (debian stable)
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Australia has about 25 million people and about five economic centres of more than a million people. The reserve bank has to set one rate. At times, it gives compromise rates that are a tradeoff between a mining boom on one side of the coun
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I don't think this is a strong argument. Physical cash is on the way out. You can do payments through mastercard/visa lines, and wired transfers are straightforward. FX conversions are straightforward when everyone has a phone. In
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The previous post is valid. Other examples, corporate actions (up to date and historic), identifiers for instruments as they appear on particular secondary markets (eg, what is the name if this security on aquis europe), current and histori
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You set aside your responsibilities, shift into a different mental pattern, and do that for a few hours. There are species of trout and salmon that are savvy at distinguishing between a piece of food and a hook disguised as one. Catching on
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Thanks. Yes, I was after an experience along the lines of python's inspect module, or Java reflection, but against native code shard objects. And feeling incredulous that it had not been standardised decades ago in major tool chains. A

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