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by cturner 4y ago
Has any OS offered introspection so that you could determine such things at runtime?
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Interface Script http://songseed.org/post/20200607.aa.interface_script.html (n-dimension csv)
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by cturner 4y ago
When we engage in complex work, it is important to keep our options open so we can direct our best effort to the hardest problems. It is rarely clear what the hard problems will be when new to a domain. Only as scale kicks in. We are consta
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by cturner 4y ago
Driver compatibility with redhat. Niche hardware like stack bypass network cards, packet capture cards, fpga cards will tend to have drivers issued for redhat, but not always for anything else. By using rocky/alma, you improve your odd
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by cturner 4y ago
The concept of property evolved independently in every civilisation that grew beyond a small tribe and predates the nation-state. It exists to deal with the dynamics of scarce goods. If person a is using your wheelbarrow, then person b cann
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by cturner 4y ago
Not a direct answer, but an advantage of Israeli armour is that they only need to deploy locally. This means less penalty for armour than US systems which are designed to be carried in air transports for foreign deployment, or Russian units
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In this note you speculate optimistically in several places - "give it a few years", "I don't know what the long-term consequences of that will be", "I hope". Right now, we have what we have. The demonstra
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by cturner 4y ago
Pumped storage depends on geography, and it is not viable in most places. Hence, your claim that it is cheaper than nuclear is unreasonable. > minus its free catastrophe insurance Many more people have died from dam collapses in the last
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by cturner 4y ago
Accommodating the cheat, the journey could have been more elaborate: enter at Monument, walk underground to Bank, short hop on central line to Liverpool Street, then the rest of the journey.
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In general, solar is not in the same category of energy generation as nuclear because it can't carry the base load of the energy grid, because it is so inconsistent. We do not currently have a general-purpose battery for solar and wind
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by cturner 4y ago
There is a comment against that video by user jem780 that claims to quote an Australian academic to counter the argument that there are inadequate uranium reserves. When I was watching the video, that argument reminded me of the Peak Oil ca
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Revolutions use angry young men as fuel. China's young men population is proportionally small. Further, due to the legacy of the four-grandparent-policy and Confucian respect-for-elders tradition, the young that exist have high family
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by cturner 5y ago
If there is anyone here with access to it, please could you try using it to generate some tight pixel art of simple concepts and post the results? I am thinking - chair, coffee, boat, control panel, wedding ring, lamp, pit. I am curious whe
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by cturner 5y ago
This is not correct - "Consider what the logic of the Eurodollar system implies. Global financial markets and the global economy rely on the common standard of the USD for pricing, accounting, trading, and deal making. Imagine a world
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by cturner 5y ago
A bank deposit is a debt, right?
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by cturner 5y ago
"Beyond bootstrap, the company itself (revenue streams, assets, etc.) is the capital." Thanks for this correction.
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A difficulty with marxism is that it is thoroughly old fashioned about bucketing people into categories. In a feudal society you were born into a life where you were a serf, or a craftsman, or an aristocrat. Marxism massages the labels but
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by cturner 5y ago
The purpose of the shell is to allow users to interact with the grid. You can't do this in a conventional OS shell. Example: if you are using /bin/sh on linux-host-a and want to affect something running on linux-host-b, you c
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by cturner 5y ago
The paper presented declarative configuration as a contrast between the SSI approach and the k8s approach. I don't think it is. It is useful to have both the fitted arrangements and operator interaction. In addition to giving operators
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by cturner 5y ago
Question about drivers. If you had DMA-oriented/kernel-bypass network cards or wanted to resource-manage GPUs, would a type 1 hypervisor be able to support this?
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""" One could imagine a very imperative “cluster operating system,” like the above, which exposed primitives like “allocate 5 CPUs worth of compute” or “create a new virtual network,” which in turn backed onto configuration c
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by cturner 5y ago
Some things that were high value to me, 1. Play through the first page of levels of TIS-100. This is a game you can buy on Steam. After spending a few hours working on problems in this, I felt a hard-to-describe mental shift that removed th
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by cturner 5y ago
> Every deadline can be met if employees are "eager to > please" and will work unlimited overtime hours for free. No amount of pressure or willpower can get software done if the team is badly aligned, working on th
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by cturner 5y ago
FeRAM may be viable for long-term rom, ram, and persistent storage. The usage contract should ensure it is recharged periodically. A plug-board could allow the user to manually populate the roms from paper if it lost charge.
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"implies non-blocking fds" I don't think the open and close calls respect non-blocking on linux when operating on files (specifically files, not sockets - for sockets the return is always quick as far as I know). From man ope
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"You only need a mitigation if it ends up blocking long enough to be a problem in reasonable setups." That criteria is established here - the OP is about an issue affecting paying end-users! Premature optimisation is not relevant
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The purpose of economics is to explain complex interaction between systems. Analogy is a powerful communication tool. Such phrases allow us to communicate and reason about systems. The concepts raise the standard of policy development. Cons
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Solving integration problems well is often harder than implementing functionality.
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If you have queries about flows from a US broker to market makers, you can look for the 606 and 607 reports on their website. e.g. https://robinhood.com/us/en/about/legal/ "you need to handle that c
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"Cryptocurrency proponents often cite Citadel interfering in Gamestop trading as an example of the opaque, centralized (and bulldozery) manipulation that they are fighting against." This has an air of mob justice to it. If enough

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