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by i336_ 10y ago
Hmm, interesting. I am wondering about one thing though. > there's simply not a lot of computation involved Wow, 26 instructions. Here's my worst-case scenario: you have 8 concurrent threads (a current reality on POWER8), and
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by i336_ 10y ago
Oh okay. Would be interesting to look into the compression they use... I wonder if it's open.
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by i336_ 10y ago
That line pulled me up short too. What an interesting analyses of the scene. I always got the impression Linux was looked down on early on (learned about Linux very late), and there you go.
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by i336_ 10y ago
(FWIW, deleted_soon's comment may be a small nudge at the fact that OP's link is to a comment reply on the 500-mile-email story.)
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by i336_ 10y ago
I see, interesting. For what it's worth that's pretty cool. I never even thought of the idea of a verifiable system boot log... It's almost sad systemd has some good points. Heh. I vaguely recall a video that noted where Torv
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by i336_ 10y ago
That's true, yep. But another commentator noted how Wayland doesn't provide X11-standard functionality ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13346877 ). I fear that X11 will eventually be installed (and possibly ev
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by i336_ 10y ago
Another commentator noted that X will just become a Wayland client when things even out. I suspect that things won't necessarily work out that cleanly/elegantly, and eventually X11 will installed on fewer and fewer devices. Whatev
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by i336_ 10y ago
QNX is such a mixed story of technical ingenuity and frustration. The OS was cautiously courting a "shared source" model where you could agree to a fairly permissive (but not categorically pure-open-source) license and get acces
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by i336_ 10y ago
Unfortunately there's currently nothing out there that generally meets all of the points you've touched on. There are some projects that tick one or two boxes, but not all of them. Dillo parses a ridiculously tiny subset of HTML a
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by i336_ 10y ago
The Web is two things. First, it's the promise that a certain runtime with a specific minimum set of capabilities is available almost anywhere. Secondly, it's a staggeringly-huge installed base of stuff written for that runtime.
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by i336_ 10y ago
TIL. Thanks for this, been wanting to keep my finger on the pulse of Windows development, but am quite distant at the moment (no Windows hardware).
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by i336_ 10y ago
Scans mental dictionary for interesting things from 2009 Nothing found What are you referring to?
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by i336_ 10y ago
> Their DNS "client" implementation was a tour the force of NIH wrongs, including screamers like not implementing security functionality that had been commonplace in other implementations for a decade or more. :( > Damn i
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by i336_ 10y ago
(NB - I wasn't dissing Fedora. I was just registering how far back these issues went.)
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by i336_ 10y ago
I read (unfortunately unsure where) that microkernels do have one fundamental issue: having servers do All The Things and then just making a kernel to dispatch calls to those servers horribly falls down if the messaging/dispatch imple
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by i336_ 10y ago
Ah. Yikes. Thanks for the info, I'd always wondered. Kinda sad none of them spent the extra effort on building a differential update protocol of some kind - but then the processor inside would probably need to be 250MHz+...
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by i336_ 10y ago
That is a very good point, and I'd like to hear the arguments for why such capabilities wouldn't be added into the kernel. They'd probably go along the lines of saying that there are already millions of lines of code in there
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by i336_ 10y ago
Right. Wow, Fedora 7 was a little while back. The problem with systemd's NTP and DHCP and whatnot is that they use their own systemd-specific APIs. Not using the APIs means that you don't talk to those components. And the thing is
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by i336_ 10y ago
Hrm. Okay, let me have a go. If I had to use one word to describe systemd's integration and adoption into the Linux ecosystem it would have to be "hostile" - the label has unfortunately been applicable in both directions. Mos
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by i336_ 10y ago
Huh. That interesting, and kinda sad. TIL about this aspect of the bigger picture. I'm a bit behind on where Windows is at in the grand scheme of things nowadays.
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by i336_ 10y ago
Ah, I see. Defining one's argument concretely and concisely is the basis of debating effectively, whereas I've just resorted to anecdote and ranting here. Woops. Thanks very much for that feedback, I'll keep it in mind.
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by i336_ 10y ago
Curious why this was downvoted (it's currently at -1). Happy to hear any explanation or view.
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by i336_ 10y ago
Theoretically, it has the CPU, and the USB port is 2.0, so you could manage a USB 2.0->VGA converter. I've heard such converters are the hardware equivalent of running the unaccelerated VESA driver due to the low bandwidth though. I
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by i336_ 10y ago
If you're right, that's a big sigh of relief from me. The guy mentions how "Lennart Poettering would love it!" as the h2, and also describes X11 as "legacy". With these in mind I feared he was serious about the
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by i336_ 10y ago
I'm surprised nobody else had anything to say about this. I personally found it incredibly insightful.
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by i336_ 10y ago
AFAIK Forth is a stack-based language, so most VMs are stack-based. I might be wrong. In any case I'm very interested to learn about what register-based Forth VMs are out there!
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by i336_ 10y ago
I'm still figuring all of this out, thanks for the headsup. I realize Facebook don't have anything particularly interesting, but now I understand just how standard this is, huh. Thanks again.
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by i336_ 10y ago
Here's a crazy but interesting suggestion: > Backup > ...Even with RAID overhead it should be possible to have 480TB of usable storage (66%). Quoting https://code.facebook.com/posts/1433093613662262/
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by i336_ 10y ago
First of all, massive kudos for the Stack Exchange-like technical transparency. Definitely consider a massive upgrade album like http://blog.serverfault.com/2015/03/05/how-we-upgrade-a-live... and http:&#x2F
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by i336_ 10y ago
Ah, I've had the same kinds of finger-"autocorrect" issues myself. Thanks! I've been trying to find more info about Mike, he seems to be a really private/mysterious type. What he writes about is definitely interesti

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