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by jclulow 2y ago
Note that the rack doesn't accept DC input, like lots of (e.g., NEBS certified) telco equipment. There's a bus bar, but it's enclosed within the rack itself. The rack takes single- or three-phase AC inputs to power the rect
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by jclulow 2y ago
Yes we're definitely building the next generation of equipment to fit into the existing racks!
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by jclulow 2y ago
Wild that one would pick the only platform with a rubbish VMs and CI story as the OS to use for building software!
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by jclulow 2y ago
Is that true? All of my Internet and mobile telephone service is post-paid with automatic billing. I know one can get prepaid plans from some providers, but how are you arriving at "usually"?
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by jclulow 2y ago
No honour among thieves, I guess!
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by jclulow 2y ago
> I very much resent the people who abuse the meds I need to function ... I resent the meth addicts ... it means I have to pee into a jar every three months to prove I'm not a meth addict who is abusing methylphenidate. It's im
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by jclulow 2y ago
> Let's ignore for now that this will surprise every C developer out there that have been doing if (NULL != ptr) free(ptr) for 50 years now. If you've been doing C for five decades, it's a shame not to have noticed that it
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by jclulow 2y ago
Cisco have sat on the steering committees for a lot of things where they had a proprietary initial version of something. It's not that unusual, and also, it's often frankly not actually that open; e.g., see the rent seeking racke
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by jclulow 2y ago
Alas, it's pretty clear that we won't!
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by jclulow 2y ago
That's generally what the Cache Directory Specification attempts to cover: https://bford.info/cachedir/ Lots of things like the Rust tool chain now create the CACHEDIR.TAG files so that backup tools can ignore tha
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by jclulow 2y ago
Setting the SPARC bits aside, I feel like the Ultra 20/24/27 machines were well-constructed 64-bit x86 machines with regular AMD and Intel processors and ECC memory and reasonable fans and so on. I don't remember how they we
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by jclulow 2y ago
I believe these days SSH is willing to forward a UNIX domain socket to a remote TCP port, or a local TCP port to a remote UNIX domain socket, or any combination of the two families really. You could use names locally, if your client tools
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by jclulow 2y ago
> notify the kernel you write something in the last page which is actually write-protected, so it triggers the kernel trap Right, that's a page fault; i.e., a context and privilege level switch. I can't imagine that's goi
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by jclulow 2y ago
This article, and indeed much of the discourse about the facility out in the wild, could really use some expansion on at least these two points: > The application submits several syscalls by writing their codes & arguments to a lock-
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by jclulow 2y ago
They also just totally fucked anybody making use of the Google Photos API to access their own data: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41604241 They're a trash company, and anything you get from them, even when you p
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by jclulow 2y ago
I'm not sure why anybody would respect that licence term, given the whole field rests on the rapacious misappropriation of other people's intellectual property.
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by jclulow 2y ago
Flames... Flames from the side of my face. This is an absolute user hostile "Go Fuck Yourself" by Google. There is now no way for a user to enumerate and incrementally back up their photos (read: access their own data). Your ap
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by jclulow 2y ago
This is not strictly accurate. ZFS records checksums of the records of data that make up the file storage. If you want an end to end file-level checksum (like a SHA-256 digest of the contents of the file) you still need to layer that on t
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by jclulow 2y ago
SMF is OSS. The CDDL is an OSI approved licence. I'm not aware of any reason one couldn't readily ship user mode CDDL software in a Linux distribution; you don't even have the usual (often specious) arguments about linking
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by jclulow 2y ago
We are trying to build a business here. The goal is to sell racks and racks of computers to people, not build a menagerie of curiosities and fund personal projects. Everything we've written here is real, at least from our point of vi
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by jclulow 2y ago
While we have a common ancestor in the original UNIX, so much of illumos is really more from our SVR4 heritage -- but then also so much of that has been substantially reworked since then anyway.
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by jclulow 2y ago
Yes, my personal goal is to ensure that basically everything we do in the Oxide "stlouis" branch of illumos eventually goes upstream to illumos-gate where it filters down to everyone else!
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by jclulow 2y ago
Folks are working on it! I believe it boots on some small systems and under QEMU, but it's still relatively early days. I'm excited for the port to eventually make it into the gate, though!
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by jclulow 2y ago
It's not a blog post, it's an RFD. We have a strong focus on writing as part of thinking and making decisions, and when we can, we like to publish our decision making documents in the spirit of open source. This is not a defence
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by jclulow 2y ago
Yes, to be clear this is not meant to be a criticism of software quality at OpenBSD! Though I don't necessarily always agree with the leadership style I have big respect for their engineering efforts and obviously as another relativel
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by jclulow 2y ago
FWIW, founder mode didn't exist five years ago when we were getting started! More seriously, though, this document (which I helped write) is an attempt specifically to avoid classic FUD tropes. It's not perfect, but it reflects
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by jclulow 2y ago
For what it's worth, we at _Joyent_ were seriously investing in bhyve as our next generation of hypervisor for quite a while. We had been diverging from upstream KVM, and most especially upstream QEMU, for a long time, and bhyve was a
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by jclulow 2y ago
You can read a bit about our decision making process on the host OS and hypervisor in Oxide RFD 26: https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0026
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by jclulow 2y ago
The answer is definitely not "no", but as far as I'm aware we haven't found any particular cases where that level of formalism and that specific style of arrangement would help. In an open source world where multiple shi
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by jclulow 2y ago
I'm not hugely excited about Bazel, or really any of the more complex build tools made either directly for, or in the image of, the large corporate monorepo tooling. Right now we have decades of accumulated make stuff, with some orches

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