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by cturner 10y ago
But it's not significant in the domain this thread is focused on. In order to lose signal to an rival in this scenario, the delay between your Order A hitting Exchange A and your Order B hitting Exchange B would need to be sufficient t
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by cturner 10y ago
I'm interested in this idea: can we imagine a world where people are so engaged that individuals just take care of problems like graffiti without there needing to be a council for it. What would it take to produce that spirit between p
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by cturner 10y ago
"It's pretty clear that this object has been placed by a rigid authority with strong opinions on the right and wrong way to use their bench." Should benches even be fixed in place? That is an expression of authority also. Wha
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by cturner 10y ago
This might not work for you, but the way I get battery indicator is to incorporate it into my tmux console. I always run a tmux on the first workspace, and can go there for time and battery. Each device is different, but here's battery
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by cturner 10y ago
Omnigraffle annoyance: it can't load from and save to graphviz dot notation (or even a subset of it). All of the functionality is in the software, but not exposed to the user, and I assume it's a conscious decision by them to lock
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by cturner 10y ago
Devops started as a message that developers were responsible for the solution they were building, not just for throwing builds over to deployment. The phrase turned into HR code for firefighters who hack scripts on production. When it'
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by cturner 10y ago
"on Unix its not the _only_ way" Options were more limited in early unix. Use of signals as an adhoc IPC mechanism predates BSD sockets api (1983). Poll has something to do with SysV, so would have been later. There may have been
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by cturner 10y ago
That's over a LAN. But what about over the distances earlier in the thread - the earlier example was a line across a significant bit of continental US. [More interesting still would be Sydney to London.]
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by cturner 10y ago
There is a potential path. Someone builds a killer app that uses a 9p mechanism to deliver content, or else a better experience for an existing app. With this done, a browser decides to implement drawterm as a browser mode. Once you had tha
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by cturner 10y ago
Thanks for the corrections. There are many reasons to dislike X, but sounds like speed isn't one.
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by cturner 10y ago
Couple of options: Raspberry Pi, or virtualisation. 9front say to avoid virtualbox, but it works. Here's a tutorial, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5XAhsHyqow
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by cturner 10y ago
More on Raspberry Pi port in case others are interested. Raspberry Pi port is interesting, because it allows us to run plan9 on native hardware (access keyboard, mouse, video and probably audio - haven't checked). It doesn't matte
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by cturner 10y ago
"it's ORMs that are only good for fairly simple data models" That's not true. Maybe you haven't used a powerful ORM, but with a good ORM you can scrape a fair bit of bad architecture under the rug. "SQL is good
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by cturner 10y ago
"Whenever I read .. that they would rather write SQL" If they do write SQL. There are ways to structure complex domains that don't involve relational databases. Having said that, the alternatives presented in this article are
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by cturner 10y ago
Sure. I should have been clearer in what I wrote. From your earlier post, "put it in the tunnels inside a mountain then blow all entrances up". With the geology, you want a place where you can firmly reason about what's going
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by cturner 10y ago
The primary requirements for waste disposal are geological stability and political expediency. These factors are hard and determine the site. Ability-to-mark doesn't influence the site choice.
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by cturner 10y ago
"If the vendor reps were any indication, Cisco didn't believe there would ever be competition for their product" Familiar feeling. The explanation: there is no long-term horizon. All they care about is near-term bonus, and th
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by cturner 10y ago
I strongly agree in general, but there are risks to acting on your urge even if you turn out to be right: > is definitely overvalued at $80B" Stocks move in bizarre ways, particularly tech stocks. If you short a stock and tim
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by cturner 10y ago
Thanks. I removed this because I felt it was unfair on Windows. Windows has strange things in it, but then Raymond Chen will write a post clearly explaining it, and they are strong on backwards compatibility. Everything you say is true. But
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by cturner 10y ago
One of the primary use cases of tmux/screen is to act as a base for Process Groups so that this does not happen. There was a case for the init system doing this when unix was young. But changing it now breaks convention, and compat wit
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by cturner 10y ago
Taiwan hasn't followed the simplification. Could you be looking at dual printed classical/simplified Chinese?
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by cturner 10y ago
You make a good point. There's lots of accomplished musicians who never learn to read. And some "full-stack" musicians like yourself who start with tabs or similar, and who come to writing earlier than reading. I think severa
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by cturner 10y ago
> Whereas with music there are centuries-old pieces that > are still perfectly usable and probably better than > what a composer would produce as a replacement. As I see it, reverence for traditional composers com
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by cturner 10y ago
Could it be that the future will value the ability to read code highly, where where writing it will be a specialisation? Consider the discipline of western music. Many accomplished people learn to read music, but fewer to write it. Particul
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by cturner 10y ago
You can't touch the sides in cave diving. It generates silt which destroys visibility.
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by cturner 10y ago
Separate to the build-quality problems of the Collins class, Australia has struggled to crew the ships. Some reports say that the Collins class has 60 people on board. These recent articles have had me thinking - I doubt you need so many pe
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by cturner 11y ago
This doesn't work as a solution to the problem in focus here. Consider: could you implement a chat app that worked as effectively as the ssh one if you used lynx as the client? No, because interaction with lynx is synchronous. The orig
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by cturner 11y ago
Part of the appeal of the ssh chat server from the article is that you can connect to the server using an existing console tool. It's not necessary to have a purpose-built client. So I've been trying to think: how could you get th
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by cturner 11y ago
In the article, it shows a chat server as an example. Imagine the same app implemented using HTTPS. Would openssl s_client be effective as a client? [I suspect not, as HTTPS != SSL, but perhaps my naive question will prompt suggestion of a
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by cturner 11y ago
When I was reading I was thinking - if you like that kind of grammar just use Ada. And then later down he specifically mentions Ada. So - why not just use that? With Ada, it is straightforward to create the kind of tight, fast code you&#x27

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