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by jdub 6y ago
Check out SolidRun's Honeycomb LX2K. All very normal: Mini ITX, PCIe x8, DDR4 SODIMMs, USB 3.0, M.2 for NVMe. Bonus: 4 10GbE SFP+ ports. Mine is a delight. https://www.solid-run.com/nxp-lx2160a-family/honeycomb-wor
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by jdub 6y ago
Rockchip, Mediatek, and Qualcomm are not in the same ballpark as Apple Silicon. They're barely in the same sport.
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Very little will change for most developers. I suspect you're deploying on Linux, right? You're already building and deploying on different operating systems, how much can a different architecture complicate things? Well... What i
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I didn't see it in the post, but a huge amount of this is due to Andy Grove's work on Rust implementations of Apache Arrow and DataFusion. I imagine he's happy where he is, but I hope there's some opportunity for InfluxD
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by jdub 6y ago
That's a very, very old "manifesto" that was pasted verbatim into almost every FLOSS news site and mailing list at the time (relevant or not), written by a well known troll and harasser who was removed from multiple FLOSS com
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by jdub 6y ago
Yeah! The amount of toil and burden AWS removes or reduces for me across the board (security, managed services, running multiple datacentres and everything necessary to do so…) means I can work on vastly more valuable things. Which more tha
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by jdub 6y ago
Every company I've worked for in the last ten years has needed all of the above, and I like to work for small companies (fewer than 100 people). Only in the last couple of years have I had any interest or need to branch out to the othe
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by jdub 6y ago
Are there tens of regions around the world? Are there multiple AZs within a region that are single-digit milliseconds apart? Can I autoscale? Is there a managed load balancer? Do I have to manage my own database instances and availability?
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by jdub 6y ago
That's a different concept of abandonment to what's happening with the Xorg server code today.
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If you're talking about forks, they're pretty much the complete opposite of abandonment. Forks exist because people want to work on the code.
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by jdub 6y ago
There's been some interest among the Samba hackers, including some discussion with Microsoft. They seem quite excited about SMB-on-QUIC as an Internet-capable network filesystem protocol.
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by jdub 6y ago
Oh, I was describing the nature of build.rs files as script-y, rather than Rust itself. :-) Here's a very simple one: https://github.com/alexcrichton/brotli2-rs/blob/master/brotl... Here's one
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Unless you're writing libraries, Rust feels a lot like Python. One thing that sticks out in a scripting mindset is the various string types, but I mostly accept that as a small price to pay for doing things correctly (OS strings vs.
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by jdub 6y ago
> Technological advancement is good in its own right. Holy shit, it's 2020. Look around.
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But then, Go is the lurching zombie of Plan 9. :-)
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This is very far away from the Rust I know, both language and contributors. Since 1.0 Rust has improved a lot while maintaining compatibility, even through a big deprecation step like the 2018 edition. A good chunk of those improvements a
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by jdub 6y ago
Design and build? Yes, very much so. It'll be simple, but it's doable. How useful it becomes is a function of how much time you spend on it, and how many others you get interested in it.
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That's awesome – better update the README. :-)
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by jdub 6y ago
Literally in the first sentence of the new volume type intro: "… at the same price as the existing io1 volumes".
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by jdub 6y ago
Funny bit of Ubuntu history: It was almost "Canonical Linux" by the company "Ubuntu", but it didn't take much for the founding employees to convince Mark that it should be the other way around. I don't think an
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by jdub 6y ago
That'd be the Debian alternatives system in action. $ update-alternatives --list editor
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by jdub 6y ago
Too quick to create a new language?! Rust was started in 2006 and announced in 2010. Its improvements are based on research done before and after C/C++ existed. If you're the only person smart enough to solve the $64B problem so e
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by jdub 6y ago
Are we only looking at little ones that have their own user interface? If not, Snowplow is the prime mover of web and event tracking. https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow
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It's a twist ending to the first five minutes of the film.
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If you think we could get this right in C (48 years old) and C++ (35 years old), don't you think we would have done it by now? :-)
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Good news: `-Z build-std` is available in nightly and various bleeding edge projects have switched to it https://github.com/rust-lang/wg-cargo-std-aware
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by jdub 6y ago
1. You could possibly get closer, but you'd lose a lot. Most of Rust's "nice security features" are wildly incompatible with existing C/C++ code and inherent language features. 2. No. If C/C++ could be made saf
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by jdub 6y ago
A major QEMU contributor suggesting that future work on a specific subset of components (that are prone to vulnerabilities that are difficult to avoid in C) be done in Rust is not naïve. It's the beginning of a community discussion.
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by jdub 6y ago
The song was released almost a year before UTF-8 was first presented at USENIX, so I think it is reasonable for the lyrics to be expressed using the commonly available technology available of the time.
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by jdub 6y ago
The units are not spoken, but for clarity they should be notated in the lyrics.

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