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by inkyoto 1y ago
> You could do it like Java's Object.identityHashCode() and allocate durable IDs only on demand The two real issues here are 1) inode numbers are no longer sequentially allocated as back in the 1970-80's, and 2) an inode number
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by inkyoto 1y ago
> FWIW, I still think the US perception of the UK "surveillance state" is largely misplaced and is based on poor journalism about simple numbers of cameras that has never been adequately put into context . Whilst the UK is not
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by inkyoto 1y ago
Yes. The Cantonese culture as well as the language are very much alive and kicking in Gwongdung and in Gwongsai – the homeland of the Cantonese culture. Both are part of mainland China. The wider area, that also includes Hong Kong and Macau
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by inkyoto 1y ago
Guaranteed sustained write throughput is a distinguished feature of the mainframe storage. Whilst cloud platforms are the new mainframe (so to speak), and they have all made great strides in improving the SLA guarantees, storage is still
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by inkyoto 1y ago
> My employer has hired recently and the flood of resumes after posting for a relatively low level position was nuts . I am utterly perplexed with the current situation on the job market, which seems to be a global phenomenon that is no
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by inkyoto 1y ago
That depends on how one defines «properly». Finnish, with its nearly 20 noun cases and vowel harmony, has made a spellchecker a computationally unsolvable problem.
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by inkyoto 1y ago
Only in New South Wales Australian English. Not understood interstate.
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by inkyoto 1y ago
I can't readily find the original reference where I read it, but one source[0] does allude that it was a real possibility: « At the time, the 386 team felt that they were treated as the "stepchild" while the P7 [80960] projec
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by inkyoto 1y ago
I was actually commenting on the need to support aspect being a myth. x86 is not a legacy, it is a legacy of legacies as the x86 ISA ascends all the way to 8008 via 8080 at least as a spiritual predecessor even if it can't directly exe
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by inkyoto 1y ago
> bnpl makes its money off charging merchants a few points higher service fees than cards Restaurant food is a low to very low profit margin business that takes years to break even – with a good strategy and management . Charging the me
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by inkyoto 1y ago
> In fact, I actually think need to continue supporting the legacy x86 ISA was a massive advantage to Intel . I think this is a myth that Intel (or somebody else) has invented in an attempt to save face. Legacy x86 instructions could
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by inkyoto 1y ago
> […] they promoted the myth that ISA has no impact on performance […] Once instructions get past the instruction decoder, they have not been x86 since Pentium Pro on the server and Pentium II on the desktop. AMD has made great strides
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by inkyoto 1y ago
> I would FAR prefer recording who took a screenshot than blocking it as a presenter. It would be surprising if Teams does not already capture that kind of event in its user activity event trail[0]. The amount of privacy-invasive captu
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by inkyoto 1y ago
> So far as killing HP PA-Risc, SGI MIPS, DEC Alpha, and seriously hurting the chance for adoption of Sparc, and POWER outside of their respective parents (did I miss any)? I would argue that it was bound to happen one way or another e
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by inkyoto 1y ago
Firstly and most importantly, a cash register needs a power outlet. It is highly contestable that every single Western supermarket out there has a diesel generator down in the back / storage room that will kick in in an instant if a po
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by inkyoto 2y ago
> Each of those components executes in parallel, with the intermediate results streaming between them. You get a similar effect with coroutines. Processes run in parallel, but they process the data in a strict sequential order: «grep»
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by inkyoto 2y ago
> Where analytics and ML does come into play is deciding which things out of their enormous catalogue they push to individual users at any one time […] Except they don't. Only Netflix has a vague reminiscence of ML/analytics-dr
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by inkyoto 2y ago
FreeBSD jails are advanced chroot++. Albeit they do set a precedent for a predessor of true containers, they have: 1. Minimal kernel isolation. 2. Optional network stack isolation via VNET (but not used by default). 3. Rudimentary
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by inkyoto 2y ago
Whilst I do agree with most of your insights and the narrative of historic events, I also believe that BSD core teams were a major contributing factor to the demise of BSD's (however unpopular such an opinion might be). The first mista
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by inkyoto 2y ago
The AT&T lawsuits are a moot point, as they were all settled in the early 1990s. They are the sole reason why FreeBSD and NetBSD even came into existence – by forking the 4.4BSD-Lite codebase after the disputed code had been eliminated
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by inkyoto 2y ago
It is irrelevant what FreeBSD supports today. FreeBSD started demoting non-Intel platforms around 2008-2010, with FreeBSD 11 released in 2016 only supporting x86. The first non-Intel architecture support was reinstated in April 2021, with t
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by inkyoto 2y ago
Yes, they did, but… it was more of a proof of concept and a promise rather than a production quality release. They also had the OS X Server product line at the time (no more), which ZFS would have been the best fit for at the time, and they
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by inkyoto 2y ago
> As things now stand, FreeBSD represents many of the benefits of Darwin and the open source nature of Linux. No. FreeBSD has committed the original sin of UNIX by deliberately dropping support for all non-Intel architectures, intending
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by inkyoto 2y ago
The last release being «Version 6.4.0 released 2022 12 30», links from 2007 and 2012 do not lend much assurance that the project is still alive in 2025 – compared to other similar projects. Also note that HAMMER (the previous design) and HA
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by inkyoto 2y ago
Supporting ZFS in a UNIX kernel requires excessively extensive modifications to the design and implementation of the VMM, namely: 1. Integration of the kernel's VM with ZFS's adaptive replacement cache which runs in user space
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by inkyoto 2y ago
Sadly, that is not entirely correct. Whilst all three BSDs (386BSD, FreeBSD, and NetBSD; there was no OpenBSD in the beginning) did inherit the legacy Mach 2.5-style design, it did not live on in FreeBSD, whose core team started pretty quic
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by inkyoto 2y ago
I concur RE: «::». For deep levels of nesting, the level of noise that «::» causes becomes excessive. When Rust was in its infancy, I maintained a local fork for a while where I modified the parser to use the Ada syntax («'», a single
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by inkyoto 2y ago
You are painting an unnecessarily rosy and overly romanticised picture of the actual history. > In the 1990s-2000s, Myanmar had rudimentary internet via satellite links and state-controlled gateways. Satellite internet did not exist in t
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by inkyoto 2y ago
Burma/Myanmar has been largely ruled by the junta since 1962, with brief periods of semi-stability in between, and it has largely been isolated from the rest the world. Up until mid-2000's, the entire country was reliant on a sing
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by inkyoto 2y ago
That is true and correct, except that Linux does not have raw devices, and O_DIRECT on a file is not a complete replacement for the raw devices (the buffer cache still gets involved as well as the file system).

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