jclulow

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by jclulow 2y ago
The remainder of the staff working on SmartOS, and the remaining IP like trademarks, and customers and so on, were all bought from Samsung by MNX so they could take it over. They're doing a great job over there with it, and unlike Sam
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by jclulow 2y ago
I'm part of the illumos core team and I'm quite keen to use Rust in the base of illumos, FWIW. There several contexts in which we could make good use of it, and the primary challenges in most cases is either one of release engine
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by jclulow 2y ago
Go offers channels in the standard library, which you can use to do message passing, certainly (so does Rust). But I/O through the stdlib is absolutely asynchronous. I/O routines that would block, like sending and receiving from
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by jclulow 2y ago
What is it that you think engineering entails, exactly? In a software business your job is to produce artefacts the business can sell, without spending so much in the process as to destroy any hope of profit. Part of this involves talking
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by jclulow 2y ago
Can you give some examples of the sort of harmful and dangerous untruths you're referring to? Sounds positively deleterious to me!
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by jclulow 2y ago
"Redelivery versus duplicate" is doing quite a lot of work in there. This is an "at least once" delivery system providing building blocks that you can use to cope with the fact that it's physically impossible to pr
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by jclulow 2y ago
Is this... a service for spamming patent applications as fast as you can without paying lawyers as much as we used to? Can't see how that could exacerbate all of the deep problems with the patent system!
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by jclulow 2y ago
Can you perhaps expand on the incentives and the mechanism of increased danger?
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by jclulow 2y ago
Perhaps removing a pricing scheme so complicated that it literally can't be modelled usefully by the customer would be even better?
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by jclulow 2y ago
An apprentice is another person performing the same kind of work as the carpenter. That's fundamentally different from using an LLM, which is not a person and does not function like a person. Whether you think LLMs are spectacularly w
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by jclulow 2y ago
You don't need an expensive, opaque, antisocial system to run interference against your users. What you need is literally just a checklist. Give the user a checklist instead of just freeform text -- where they can check off the three
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by jclulow 2y ago
- Perfectionism, but defined as "Wanting to make things amazingly well, but never finishing them" - Procrastination - Issues from context switching and distraction Is this ... ADHD?
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by jclulow 2y ago
Surely you could just... Use a different chat system?
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by jclulow 2y ago
I think it might actually be _the wrongdoing_ that really exposes you to legal liability.
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by jclulow 2y ago
truss(1) is not DTrace-based. It continues to be implemented in terms of the process control and instrumentation facilities provided by the proc(5) file system, as it has been for a long time.
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by jclulow 2y ago
Dear god I want off Mr Bone's Wild Ride. I can't wait for even more pull request spam, now fully automated.
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by jclulow 2y ago
> Even a cheap language tutor is 20$ an hour. With AI it'll basically be free. Only until you drive the last tutors out of work. Then somehow it will be $40 an hour again.
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by jclulow 2y ago
Seems like a lost opportunity to introduce 0xFF as the error code that means "look in the extended error field we've since added to the message, which includes a u32 _and_ a human readable string for display" to be honest.
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by jclulow 2y ago
An incredibly long ramp up to complaining about centralised control by rent seekers (a very reasonable complaint!) which gets bogged down in some ostensibly unrelated shade about whether client-server computing makes sense (it does) or is i
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by jclulow 2y ago
FWIW, I would be inclined to standardise on PIV/CAC devices (i.e., smart cards), for which there are standard USB readers and drivers and protocols. You can get started with YubiKeys because they're relatively reliable, if a litt
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by jclulow 2y ago
> The output of a machine simply does not qualify for copyright protection – it is in the public domain. The machine, such as it is, is generally not acting on its own. A person operates the machine, and presumably is on the hook for in
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by jclulow 2y ago
> the situation in the wild is that most of these TUI users have a sub-optimal development experience that causes them to push more defects What an amazing pile of unsubstantiated horsefeathers!
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by jclulow 2y ago
> Unfortunately, I don’t know how to convince others, especially those above me, that if I do less of the features they want, the product will be better, despite trying. I think it boils down to the fact that this is nowhere near being a
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by jclulow 2y ago
The Windows mechanisms you're mentioning were also added over the course of many, many years. Much of Windows also happened a long time after UNIX signals were invented. If you're including all that other stuff, it's probabl
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by jclulow 2y ago
Well then surely it should be "UpdAda"? (I hardly...)
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by jclulow 2y ago
> 9p+encryption on top instead of NFS, much better NFS with IPsec for authentication and privacy seems similar in principle, with the added benefit that it's widely available.
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by jclulow 3y ago
Yes, ZFS has the same fundamental issue that all COW file systems have here. We have a reserved pool of space that you can't use except for operations like removing stuff. The new problem with that reserved pool mechanism is that in 2
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by jclulow 3y ago
I was diagnosed in my 30s. In retrospect, it explains a lot of difficulties I have had for my entire life. I wasn't hyperactive, so they mostly went unnoticed by other people -- it's really hard to know whether your struggles ar
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by jclulow 3y ago
As a person with ADHD whose executive function is markedly improved by stimulant medication, and who knows a lot of people in the same boat, the whole thrust of the introduction to this article is pretty amazingly tone-deaf and specious.
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by jclulow 3y ago
It's still early days for us obviously, but we have some of our equipment in a cage in a regular colocation facility, on the Internet. We're generally able to provide access to systems there so that folks can kick the tyres as pa

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