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by cturner 9y ago
Sounds like they set non trivial challenges. But in the right conditions, the Atlantic is a doddle. Start late November in the Canary Islands. Point your ship at an island in the Caribbean. Sail with the trade winds behind you for twenty fi
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by cturner 9y ago
Would be good to have a low performance riscv motherboard with something like a PCI bus. Then, run an x86 daughter card. Early arm systems (acorn RISC pc) could house a 486 daughter card like this, and you could run Windows on it in a box.
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by cturner 9y ago
Each publishing house and newspaper has a home-grown pipeline to do something close to this. With work, you can get something that does most of what you want with a few stacks. You can cobble it together for markdown. Alternatively, there a
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by cturner 9y ago
The killer feature of Python3 is string representation. IO work in python2 (e.g. network programming) was made more complicated by the evolutionary mess of python2's string design. If you want to get strong at network programming witho
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by cturner 9y ago
Could it be a strange mindset of our time that we look to language ecosystems to provide this? What if we could manage dependencies without being locked into language? Conda goes some way. Think of something like virtualenv, but not specifi
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by cturner 9y ago
NYC has a long history of rent control, which is Venezuela style. It is not directly linked to immediate affordability (your point), but I make the point because NYC is not a strong example of a functional zoning culture.
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by cturner 9y ago
Free software does not extend from socialist thought. Stallman's initial realisation was a reaction to crony capitalism: he could not modify the printer due to IP rules. Essentially, a deal is done between government and big business (
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by cturner 9y ago
"transfer a series of values between applications that apply different types to those values and applications that don't" If we thought about it as an API mechanism, we would parse the strings and apply rules to sanitise or r
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My work as a prostitute led me to oppose decriminalisation(bbc.co.uk)
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by cturner 9y ago
It requires a modified setup, but you can set vim up to open multiple unsaved files in a single process. Not splits ir windows, but buffers. I have bindings set up to quickly do :bn and :bp and :bd. Your tmux usage sounds like mine, and if
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by cturner 9y ago
The chiclet keys are not consistent. I have a first-gen x1 carbon, and enjoy typing as much as on my mechanical keyboards. Last year I briefly had a T460S. The typing was shallower, and noticeably less fun. I never had an old style keyboard
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by cturner 9y ago
I have been thinking about another tradeoff recently. For lots of rapid access, you want your filesystem to behave like a character device, and to be able to async dispatch all operations (including open and close). For fewer accesses to la
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by cturner 9y ago
Not sure why you were downvoted. That's some seriously hairy stuff there. I reckon I'd move to building my app as a kernel module more readily than trying to make a robust async arrangement using that mechanism :) Call me demandin
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by cturner 9y ago
That is a major on-the-desktop constituency, though: company standard builds. If companies struggle to do it, that reflects badly on the system as a solution. There is a difference between something being technically feasible, vs a realised
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by cturner 9y ago
I quoted from this one, https://linux.die.net/man/2/readahead There is a second obstacle I have in mind, around the robustness of this. Imagine if we had an implementation of that which reliably returned quickly.
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by cturner 9y ago
From man page of readahead(2), "readahead() blocks until the specified data has been read." The other one claims async functionality. But says it is not reliable. An idea for how it could be implemented in linux: kernel would offe
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by cturner 9y ago
Mmap - I can't think of a scenario where it improves over read or write in the context discussed here: async access. Mmap is synchronous, and you can't do select/poll on it.
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by cturner 9y ago
"Voila - you only have y." Thanks. My mental model had a long-lived channel, but I follow your explanation.
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by cturner 9y ago
This is a flawed architecture. It will work at release, but it will be difficult to manoeuvre with, and they will grow to hate it. As your business changes, your data changes. Imagine if on day one, they had one author per article. On day 1
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by cturner 9y ago
Yesterday there was a post about a coming linux kernel feature, kernel TLS sockets. ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15164568 ) One of the justifications: it removes the need to copy data between kernel/user-space.
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by cturner 9y ago
What was cool about Solaris for old-timers? In particular, are there things that compare well against modern BSDs? My vague memories of it are that the userland showed signs of legacy (/usr/ucb), and I could never get the tools I
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by cturner 9y ago
Some of these are not particular strengths of Linux. For example, dtrace compares well to strace (this relates to the kernel up design from earlier post). But you make a good point towards strong hypervisor.
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by cturner 9y ago
What are the angles that make Linux so compelling to you? For example, I am a linux user since mid 90s. But recently I have been doing a lot of programming with an emphasis on IO. From what I am seeing both bsd (through kevent) and windows
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by cturner 9y ago
I use Free Pascal at times. In case there are any FP developers here: your build arrangements hamper my use. I tried installing earlier this week from source and could not get it going. My ideal would be a single configure/Makefile com
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by cturner 9y ago
Is part of this an experience of cygwin? Forking is slow under cygwin. If you can get to a recent Windows 10 with local admin rights, you can install windows-services for linux, and bash should perform well even on ten-year-old hardware. If
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by cturner 9y ago
I'm anglo-australian, I have had only good experiences with the staff, regular traveller over ten years. Some shocking queues and missed connections. US has a policy of putting you through customs even if you are doing an international
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by cturner 9y ago
Could this be an approach to defend the blog? Community project to take fresh images of the same houses, make the images available to the site under a liberal license.
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by cturner 9y ago
I found 'RHF SEC Rule 606 and 607 Disclosure' on their disclosures page. https://www.robinhood.com/legal/
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by cturner 10y ago
I've been down exactly the rabbit hole you're speculating about, and my firm conclusion is: python is not a shell replacement. [update: some other posters here are referring to xonsh. Maybe they succeeded where I failed, and pytho
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by cturner 10y ago
You wrote about preceptions in another part of the thread. But that's not what I replied to. The words are above, and it wasn't about perceptions. But on perceptions: naive perceptions don't justify a false statement. So why

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