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by gwu78 10y ago
Dumb question: Why did they name this "Subsystem for Linux"? (Old name was Interix, subsystem for UNIX-based applications , or "SUA".) Does marketing/users believe there is a distinction between Linux as a kernel
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by gwu78 10y ago
I should have guessed. I use their libc6 package for q)k) under /emul/linux and in the past the live.debian.org images occasionally but that is about as much as I know about Debian. Apologies for my ignorance.
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by gwu78 10y ago
The Debian wiki page appears to be about reproducible builds for packages . The NetBSD wiki entry is about progress on reproducible builds for tools, kernel and userland . As for packages, reproducible builds under pkgsrc is still a WIP.
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by gwu78 10y ago
Your comment is lucid and makes good sense. Why readers are downvoting it shall remain a mystery.
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by gwu78 10y ago
I am too lazy to look it up on the mailing lists but a while back I recall ESR contacted certain BSD projects trying to convince them to change to Git. I mistook it for the occasional incoherent spam that slips through the filters.
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by gwu78 10y ago
".. it needs a central server." There is a PDF by the original author that explains the difference from "VPNs". A reachable IP address and a TAP device are the only requirements. For example, two edges can also be supern
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by gwu78 10y ago
Why did you stop using it?
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by gwu78 10y ago
"... setup and security and resource problems of SNI..." As a user who really dislikes SNI, I would like to see someone write more about these problems.
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by gwu78 10y ago
While HN is discussing XNU sycalls, anyone know why the most fundamental of syscalls, execve, according to NeXT/Apple's post-UNIX wisdom needs to have an extra "char *apple[]" argument vector? Not to imply that it is &qu
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by gwu78 10y ago
"Pretty much everything I consume online is plain text..." Yes. My kernel, userland, third party software and configuration choices, the entire way in which I use the computer, are optimized for consuming plain text.@1 As a conseq
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by gwu78 10y ago
With all due respect for your comment, that is not how I see it. I adjusted my "workflow" to what was available for the past decades: HTTP/1.1 pipelining. It has worked for me with no problems. And I am sharing this experi
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by gwu78 10y ago
Let me clarify a few things about my usage. I like the responses to received be in order , and groups of say 100 responses to separated by a header (these can act as delimiters for my text filters as I import into my databases). I have n
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by gwu78 10y ago
HTTP/1.1 pipelining works beautifully for requesting web pages or other files in bulk from a single domain. I would imagine "bots" like Googlebot make use of it. I have been using it daily for 15 years with no problems. I ma
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by gwu78 10y ago
"If you like writing..." For me it is the opposite. I like not having to type any more than necessary. I like writing as little code as possible. I also like being able to read through a program listing without having to wade thr
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by gwu78 10y ago
Easy way to do file descriptor passing ("Bernstein chaining") with any UNIX programs, not just ones written by djb: http://skarnet.org/software/execline/pipeline.html Execline resembles a "program l
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by gwu78 10y ago
Not sure about GNU, but BSD build systems depend on AWK for building installation media. crunchgen, a compiled C program, has to call AWK. Anyone out there do AWK-less builds? Why did I need to learn a little AWK? Because I could work out h
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by gwu78 10y ago
You should write up that piece on "cheap" global anycast. Let me make a wrong guess to give you motivation: you had to physcially visit IXP's across the globe to set IP's on network interfaces of computers you rented the
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by gwu78 10y ago
amphtml links on non-google domains, e.g., newspapers, etc., are great for text only browsers. If I didn't know this was for mobile browsers I would think it was a gift to blind users who do not use GUIs. amphtml links also provide an
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by gwu78 10y ago
"I think the real issue here is everybody cares about usability but nobody actually cares about users..." Could this also apply to the WhatsApp "backdoor" thread from yesterday?
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by gwu78 10y ago
From anywhere: Local cache on 127.0.0.1: ~0msec Local nameserver on 127.0.0.1: ~0msec /etc/hosts: ~0msec
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by gwu78 10y ago
It sounds like you are saying this project's true motivating objective is to advance the author's personal beliefs about "UX" and to see wide adoption of this philosophy as embodied in some particular software. That
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by gwu78 10y ago
What Lisp did you use?
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by gwu78 10y ago
"... generally infinite willingness to accept web apps..." Interesting. I stay in textmode. Hence I do not need an emulator. If I need graphics I access the files over VLAN from another computer designed for mindless consumption
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JSON and bencode
1 points by gwu78 10y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: What are the *technical* reasons you favor JSON over bencode?
4 points by gwu78 10y ago|2 comments
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by gwu78 10y ago
radare2
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by gwu78 10y ago
assembly apl (k4) forth (bootloader) snobol (spitbol) C (small subset) sh (Almquist-like) sed (not GNU) nawk (do not use added functions such as strftime) execlineb
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by gwu78 10y ago
No Javascript required, but pages are in JSON instead of HTML. http://c2.com/wiki/remodel/pages/[page_title] e.g. http://c2.com/wiki/remodel/pages/AntiPatternsCatalog What is b
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by gwu78 10y ago
I use k4 daily. It is is great for someone who do does not touchtype.
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by gwu78 10y ago
Speaking of DNS, one of the sdf nameservers you are using is very slow or non-responsive: ns-a.sdf.org It reminds me of ns.cnet.com

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