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by dmpk2k 10y ago
Alas, there isn't really anything there about what he has been saying, just someone else saying he's a terrible person. Well, okay, but I'd like to make my own mind up about whether someone is hateful or not. The best I can t
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by dmpk2k 10y ago
I've only seen a little from Milo, and what I saw didn't seem hateful. So I'd appreciate someone giving examples.
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by dmpk2k 10y ago
It's disappointing that you don't want to actually make the world a better place Self-righteous much? This is embarrassing.
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by dmpk2k 10y ago
Given that Node.js has always been MIT licensed, that's impossible. That's one reason why it had a liberal license; just listen to Cantrill's Oracle rants sometime to get a better idea.
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by dmpk2k 10y ago
Joyent funded most of node.js' development since 2010. Once node became popular and competing companies appeared, with the commensurate agitation and political fallout, Joyent became less involved with it.
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by dmpk2k 10y ago
What is the library ecosystem like? This is ultimately what limits all other Scheme implementations.
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by dmpk2k 10y ago
Yes, the moment GCC landed those Cilk extensions, I started using them. The Cilk5 paper was seminal, and modern Cilk incorporates some support for SIMD, so I was delighted when GCC 5 arrived. I don't know what the status for Clang is,
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by dmpk2k 10y ago
You don't need to do any of that last link for GCC 5.0+, which supports the Cilk extensions out of the box.
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by dmpk2k 10y ago
SmartOS has the LX brand; in other words, SmartOS can look like a Linux kernel if it wants to. I've used Ubuntu on SmartOS, and it worked flawlessly.
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by dmpk2k 10y ago
Yes, that's true. I was being a bit unfair.
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by dmpk2k 10y ago
My experience with Joyent's Triton stack has been both simple and positive. Much of the stuff in Section 10 either doesn't apply to the Triton stack (e.g. their implementation of the Docker server doesn't leave sockets lying
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by dmpk2k 11y ago
Julia is getting plenty of attention. It's pretty obvious at this point that Julia is destined to eventually be a major player in some fields. The main problem facing the language is maturity. That will come with time. Until it has ful
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by dmpk2k 11y ago
While I kind of agree, I think it's a bit sad how socially sterile some work environments are. God forbid we occasionally say how we really feel.
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by dmpk2k 11y ago
For a long time Opera was one of the fastest and least resource-intensive browsers there was, but paired with a slow Javascript implementation. At the time, Javascript speed wasn't important for non-showcase webpages. Good for benchmar
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by dmpk2k 11y ago
I've seen L2ARC (and SLOGs too) die before, and ZFS kept on working. Just expect a hit on performance if your workload leans heavily on the L2ARC. Also, in my experience, L2ARC is a lot less useful than a lot of people think; doing som
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by dmpk2k 11y ago
You're probably thinking of dedup, a ZFS feature that is off by default. Dedup is only useful in certain specialised situations, so leave it off unless you have evidence it'll result in substantial space savings (and you're w
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by dmpk2k 11y ago
Unfortunately, that raises the question: what is over-subscription? Unless you're prepared to have many potentially-idle cores around, due to 1-1 bindings with an unknown, erratic, or uncontrollable workload, we're suddenly in a p
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by dmpk2k 11y ago
Citations please. This is the second time I'm asking. If there are bulletproof STM implementations, there should be some papers which back that up (preferably not academic toys). What throughtput and latency profiles did the STM impl
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by dmpk2k 11y ago
I'm not sure about virtualised kernels on hypervisors working well. Under the right conditions they can probably be made to, but I've seen cases where apps that could scale reasonably well to 32 cores on a bare-metal OS having dif
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by dmpk2k 11y ago
I comment on the things I know about. Strange indeed.
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by dmpk2k 11y ago
I think Bryan Cantrill is referring to both STM and M:N in the context of high performance applications (aka, the norm for him, since he's a kernel engineer). In that sense, both of them do have problems. Circa 2000, Solaris, Linux,
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by dmpk2k 11y ago
Unrelatedly, but calling SmartOS "yet another implementation of containerization" is a bit like calling a Bugatti Veyron "yet another implementation of a car". Technically true, but implicitly missing the point. SmartOS
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by dmpk2k 11y ago
On a tangent: I think it's rather sad that many nerds aren't prepared to try a different UNIX, when we're talking the lifeblood of their business: data. ZFS is the only filesystem it's reasonable to trust critical data
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by dmpk2k 11y ago
I could never figure out if it was me doing something, the C bindings we were using or if Prolog just has a mind of its own DTrace, my friend. If DTrace didn't point you in the right direction with a one-liner, I would have been surp
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by dmpk2k 11y ago
In that sort of environment, I wouldn't be surprised if your app's internal cache ended up paged out anyway...
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by dmpk2k 11y ago
Its power consumption is ridiculously low; IIRC, at full utilization, it can be powered by a solar panel the size of your hand.
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by dmpk2k 11y ago
I'm not clear on the question. The containers don't run a different kernel. They're just regular processes, in an fancy evolution of a chroot jail. If you want to run something like Windows or FreeBSD, then you break out QEMU
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by dmpk2k 11y ago
Container is a chroot jail on steroids. VM is a QEMU process (also in a container).
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by dmpk2k 11y ago
Whoops, it seems I edited my post from out from under you; sorry. You also have my apologies for the earlier good-faith comment. Sadly, I don't have the hours necessary to debate this, because that's where this is going (legal ana
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by dmpk2k 11y ago
I have no idea what you're referring to. I mean PRISM, the surveillance program: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program) (unless that's what you mean by "manages FISA court orders&quot

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