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by jclulow 6y ago
> D-bus is fantastic in its own right and good at abstracting functionalities. This feeling about D-bus is, I feel, not universally experienced.
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by jclulow 6y ago
Oh my word, that article on tarsnap is a frightful bore. I was a tarsnap customer and I thought it was great. If Colin is happy running it more like a utility than a rapacious VC-backed hyper-growth racket, I'm not sure why that is b
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by jclulow 6y ago
I think for starters it's important to recognise that the expectation of a "post-government" career is itself a part of this problem. If we instead built long term competence within public institutions, including competitive
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by jclulow 6y ago
The mental cost of getting over the hump of procrastination is also not uniform. If I clean dishes in chunks at least somewhat as I go, then the kitchen is less of a catastrophe when I'm finished. I'm more likely to put off the
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by jclulow 6y ago
On the contrary, it sounds like a seasoned group of people who understand their needs and are wary of the very real challenges presented by most existing SQL systems with respect to deployment, testing, and especially fault tolerance. I&#x
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by jclulow 6y ago
I mean, not really? I think you're projecting the behaviour of the USSR (or whatever) onto the architectural style. From an aesthetic perspective, brutalism can be surprisingly pleasing -- especially if you throw in some trees: http
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by jclulow 6y ago
Even if they trusted the sign, I have observed that people (myself included) often don't even _see_ all the signs when we're being directed by the GPS. I'd love to see a study on what changes about your perception when using
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by jclulow 6y ago
In rightsholderworld, the application is a mere irritation that must be paid for in order to retain absolute control over distribution for as long as possible. They probably don't want to pay for it -- why can't the customer just
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by jclulow 6y ago
> Buy goods/services from your friends Certainly you are _allowed_ -- but if it's for an economically meaningful service, like renting an apartment, the follow-on suggestion that it's "only weird if you make it weird&
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by jclulow 6y ago
The NRLB may yet.
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by jclulow 6y ago
It does, indeed, report that "This page is taking too long to load."!
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by jclulow 6y ago
Did AIX actually _allocate_ and map the pages you requested, or merely _reserve_ them by bumping a counter? Solaris at least historically did the latter. The heavy lifting of determining which physical page you would get, and actually map
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by jclulow 6y ago
Perhaps ironically this will result in longer dotfiles for all the people who were already happy with the existing default behaviour!
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by jclulow 6y ago
One imagines once Amazon starts cataloguing palms, quite a few government and law enforcement agencies will suddenly tend to have quite a lot of images of palms! I expect they were trying to contrast with face recognition, though.
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by jclulow 6y ago
Not all bugs are sufficiently cheaply reproducible outside the environment in which they are observed. It seems silly to tie your hands behind your back when you could just inspect what the computer is doing and then fix it.
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by jclulow 6y ago
Bypass networking is generally more akin to how device drivers in microkernels work: a core trusted set of functionality that needs to be in the kernel is (e.g., programming the MMU or I/O MMU, scheduling) and all the device control an
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by jclulow 6y ago
Other UNIX platforms have had and followed file system hierarchy standards before FHS. The challenge with things like binaries in /etc is usually one of backwards compatibility -- decisions made from expediency or just technological l
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by jclulow 6y ago
I learnt BASIC when I was young, and then (Borland Turbo)Pascal after that, and C family languages (including C and Java and such) after that. Then I learnt Python, and even wrote a lot of it at Uni and for various jobs -- enough that I&#x
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by jclulow 6y ago
I think you're grossly underestimating the effect of other visible bids on behaviour. When I was buying a lot of IT equipment, years ago, sniping was the only reliable way to win auctions. It was almost like people would only bid on
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by jclulow 6y ago
I think it's a pretty rubbish idea if you don't believe the point of life is to maximise your earnings. What if the point is to lead a good life that you enjoy on some level, and society is a system in which we perhaps try and fa
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by jclulow 6y ago
With respect to interactive programs in a pipeline, this can already work today if the software is written to allow it. While it is common for interactive software to use the standard descriptors for I/O they are not required to. You
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by jclulow 6y ago
Despite what the article says about illumos not having something analogous, we do actually have something and have had it for more than a decade: https://illumos.org/man/1M/syseventadm It allows programs to be run
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by jclulow 6y ago
They are if you perform the correct sequence of fsync operations on both the file and the directories, and use a file system which is correctly implemented.
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by jclulow 6y ago
Have had some serious and deeply negative experiences with mixed workload performance on Toshiba disks in the last five years. Allegedly enterprise-grade 2.5" spindles, becoming deeply confused when handed both reads and writes concur
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by jclulow 6y ago
I don't have an opinion on Deno per se, but I quibble with this part of your point: > Code, specifically library code, which is what npm mostly consists of, in its most ideal state should not have a never-ending variety. On the cont
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by jclulow 6y ago
I am routinely surprised to receive email spam from my gym membership. It's like they're daring me to remember to cancel it.
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by jclulow 6y ago
My understanding is that sponsorship on at least the E-3 is difficult or impossible; that visa is not "immigrant intent", which ostensibly means something in the statute with respect to paths to permanent residence.
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by jclulow 7y ago
I'm all for cross compilation, but in reality you still need running copies of those other operating systems in order to be able to test what you've built.
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by jclulow 7y ago
I dunno, how long did it take in South Korea?
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by jclulow 7y ago
I believe the substance of those suits was on the copyright protection IBM were due on the ROM BIOS image, which was the most substantial piece of IP developed by IBM for the PC. In the end, clones won because the BIOS call interface could

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