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by drbawb 8y ago
What I believe is going on is that for small updates it's issuing a lot of IO to create a restore point; meanwhile for large updates it's essentially issuing 16-30GB of IO to do a complete reinstall of Windows. I base this assumpt
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by drbawb 8y ago
Thank you so much for posting that video. I watched it a long time ago and have been wanting to revisit it, but was never able to find it again.
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by drbawb 8y ago
As someone who has spent a lot of time on this problem: you don't want to store tags as attributes/resource forks/streams/etc in a traditional filesystem. The single most important characteristic for a tag-based organiza
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by drbawb 8y ago
I thought much the same thing. ZFS scratches most of these itches. (Sharing common blocks, it metadata is self-verifying, it's able to serialize a minimal set of changes between two snapshots, etc.) Just ship the filesystem images as,
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by drbawb 8y ago
I don't think that's overly cynical at all. Proprietary chargers has been the norm for years now. Many Dells and HP machines I have owned will accept power from 3rd party chargers, but refuse to charge the battery. Typically the w
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by drbawb 8y ago
Honestly I don't think Diesel error messages are too bad, they're just extremely verbose to a fault. It'd be nice if it could filter out a lot of the duplicate information, or maybe just print spans. Usually when I get a Di
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by drbawb 8y ago
The author is setting up NAT w/ the iptables rule in the POSTROUTING chain that does `-j MASQUERADE`. With that rule in place, combined with `allowed-ips 0.0.0.0/0` on the wireguard client, the client can tunnel all their IP traff
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by drbawb 8y ago
While I can understand the distaste for "dialog overload" the alternative being proposed here is that my service is broken for my users, or they go into `about:config`. My average user doesn't know, or care, what `about:confi
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by drbawb 8y ago
I respect your opinion but sadly my service just does not work any other way. You don't go to a theater and choose when the projectionist starts the film, or when the actors start playing, or when the musicians start their concert: the
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by drbawb 8y ago
>You want something to play when you click the play icon on the video. My users explicitly do not want that, it's why I built my service, to answer a need which was not met: the lack of a virtual space to have a shared theater-like
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by drbawb 8y ago
>We tested ask by default and it turned out more users wanted them blocked. I was one of those users, as I have Nightly installed. I hope you don't seriously think me clicking "no" on the majority of those popups in any wa
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by drbawb 8y ago
Block by default, and not ask by default? That seems unfortunate to me, and will definitely break one of my services for Firefox users. I have a site which coordinates watching videos amongst a party of people. To the browser heuristics it
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by drbawb 8y ago
This post also fails to take into account people's exposure to fiction. My vocabulary may be limited, but many of my passphrases use nouns/concepts/slang that are drawn from video games, novels, movies, etc. Some of these wor
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by drbawb 8y ago
It's sometimes useful to run "arbitrary" code in the context of the kernel. For a concrete example look at the Berkley Packet Filter[1]. In it's original usecase it allows packet filter expressions to get compiled into a
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by drbawb 8y ago
For a great primer on ZFS (on Linux) in general there's this website[1] by Aaron Toponce that is very well laid out. Specifically see the section on snapshots & clones, as well as sending/receiving. Also don't forget that
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by drbawb 8y ago
You could always do what I did, and drag Windows along kicking & screaming into the future. I setup Linux on a ZFS root, carved out a zvol formatted w/ NTFS, and installed Windows on top of that in a VM. I get the benefit of being
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by drbawb 8y ago
That'd be great, if I didn't have to turn it off. System Restore is so slow as to be borderline unusable. (In my experience creating the restore point accounts for the majority of time Windows spends doing updates, on a true CoW f
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by drbawb 8y ago
Tangential to this when are operating systems going to ship w/ CoW filesystems by default? Accidental deletion of critical directories has been a solved problem for years now. I take instant snapshots of my home directory on ZFS every
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by drbawb 8y ago
I can't reply directly to Multicomp, but: https://i.imgur.com/KksKcLk.png demonstrates your point on my machine. That's pretty funny, actually.
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by drbawb 8y ago
I ditched Windows as soon as I saw that "Windows is a service . . ." notification show up in the bottom right after an update, boy did that make me livid. (You can ask my roommates, I actually shouted at my computer; it had just s
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by drbawb 8y ago
I'm totally fine w/ there being a disclaimer on bootloader unlocking, e.g: "Warning! Some security features of your device may not work properly w/ secure boot disabled. Visit foo.com/secure-boot to learn more.&quot
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by drbawb 8y ago
I agree, I personally read this as very threatening. In general I find that Microsoft's messaging has lost touch w/ reality. Remember when MS used to say "please?" -- ever notice how nowadays instead of asking you they
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by drbawb 8y ago
>Your standard Windows 10 options are Pro . . . Oh how quaint. Do you have a Ryzen CPU? If so you're leaving performance on the table, because core complexes are internally implemented as NUMA nodes. Windows 10 Pro does not ship wit
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by drbawb 8y ago
>How have the added convenience features added to Windows 10 that do make it more accessible like a phone, equate to a reduction in your ability to work on it? Because they've implemented those features in a managed runtime that is
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by drbawb 8y ago
Agh! Chunks is what I was looking for! I was trying to whip up an example[1] and was positive I had used a pair-wise iterator before. The best I came up w/ was zipping two iterators of the hi/lo bytes. -- I feel the parent's
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by drbawb 8y ago
Please consider listening to Bryan Cantrill's thoughts[1] on using Rust to, as you say, "get things done." -- In the presentation he explicitly calls out how learning Rust by trying to bang out a "trivial" data stru
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by drbawb 8y ago
>One thing I found is SCP/SFTP is a really slow transfer protocol Just FYI, SFTP is an OK protocol hampered by really poor implementations. Daniel Stenberg (author of `curl`) has a really good write-up about why this is the case.[1]
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by drbawb 8y ago
I think their support is a bit divorced from whatever the engineering reality is. I asked their support / sales staff about IPv6 and they said it was "only available w/ their business class service." I ended up buying my
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by drbawb 8y ago
What drives IPv6 adoption for me is that I have to pay monthly fees for even small IPv4 allocations, whereas my DC gave me a IPv6 /48 allocation for free without even batting an eye. My residential ISP's DHCPv6 server will happily
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by drbawb 8y ago
OK, which one of you hooligans runs this NTP server[1] that plays some loud obnoxious dubstep track? [1]: https://i.imgur.com/cEukhNu.jpg

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