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by jdub 10y ago
This C code doesn't use the C library. Code like this in Rust wouldn't engage with any part of the Rust standard library either. There's no runtime work to be done, in either language.
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by jdub 10y ago
Much as I disliked the proposal in the original post (which was later clarified by the GTK+ developers), it is telling that the respondent did not bother to research the reasons behind GTK+'s two API/ABI breaks in its 18 year hist
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by jdub 10y ago
Congratulations, you've won a single point of failure!
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by jdub 10y ago
That's how __vsyscall works now.
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by jdub 10y ago
They ship dtrace.
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by jdub 10y ago
Havoc Pennington in 2002: http://ometer.com/preferences.html
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by jdub 10y ago
"arbitrary syntax"… by that implication, isn't all syntax arbitrary? Your 99% use case is handled by "grep needle". You don't need an entire esoteric programming language to do a simple string search.
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Reader Personality Influences Reactions to Written Errors in Email Messages(journals.plos.org)
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by jdub 10y ago
No, the article is about Australia, and I'm Australian.
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by jdub 10y ago
Yeah. Reality doesn't really work like that.
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by jdub 10y ago
My position in today's society has been advanced by the crimes of my forefathers. The position in today's society of our indigenous people – those whose lineage survived – has been limited by the crimes of my forefathers. For that
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by jdub 10y ago
This is a part of our history that Australia has never properly accepted or dealt with. It's unfinished business for all of us. (It's almost surprising that The Australian – our only national paper, published by Rupert Murdoch&#x2
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by jdub 10y ago
btw, Raph: Have you seen Neil Brown's edlib? Might be an interesting datapoint if nothing else. (It's written in C, Neil being a kernel hacker and all.) http://blog.neil.brown.name/category/edlib/ https
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by jdub 10y ago
Lovely to see you outside the Google Black Hole, Raph. (And using Rust!)
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by jdub 10y ago
You can't see it, but boy can you feel it.
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by jdub 10y ago
Not quite configurable yet, but it appears that's the intention. (I wouldn't be surprised if they'll try to make that a bit more dynamic, if the hypervisor framework allows it.) https://twitter.com/jdub/s
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by jdub 10y ago
You're still running a VM with Docker for Mac/Windows. It's just beautifully integrated and focused on the use case.
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by jdub 10y ago
Same experience here, both on Mac and Windows. They've done a great job making it "just work". The user interface pieces are a bit raw -- perhaps "minimalist" or "unobtrusive" would put that in a better li
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by jdub 11y ago
OK, so: a) Phoronix. Grain of salt, please. b) Motivating ideation is not a plan. It was never the case that 10x10, GNOME 4.0, 20x20, GNOME OS (proposed more than a decade earlier btw) were widely accepted goals of the project. They wer
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by jdub 11y ago
Unity was all about desktop/mobile convergence. GNOME 3 was not.
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by jdub 11y ago
Though LinuxThreads was M:N, and Solaris migrated to 1:1 relatively recently too (as did others).
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by jdub 11y ago
I have incredibly strong doubts that this will ever be open sourced, as Microsoft does not want third parties to implement NT subsystems. If the emulation target is itself an abstraction, then maybe. Maaaaaybe. But that delivers pretty much
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by jdub 11y ago
If nothing else, based on the capabilities demonstrated so far, you should (theoretically) be able to run local Linux X client apps to a Windows X server over localhost TCP. You'll miss out on a few optimisations available when using s
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by jdub 11y ago
You can run any* Linux binary on WinLS, including apt-get in the Ubuntu rootfs. * within the probably surprisingly broad limits of the WinLS syscall emulation, though it wouldn't support niche OS config stuff, SELinux calls, etc.
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by jdub 11y ago
As WinLS is very much like branded Solaris Zones, here's what it looks like when you run `uname -a` in an (old, copypasta from the web) Linux branded zone: Linux centos 2.4.21 BrandZ fake linux i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
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by jdub 11y ago
Windows NT was designed from the start to have modular subsystems. It was most infamously used to provide a POSIX subsystem which really only checked boxes on government acquisition forms. :-) The reason WINE went with the library emulation
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by jdub 11y ago
From the blog post: "Many of the OS-level integration innovations will be open sourced to the Docker community when these products are made generally available later this year."
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by jdub 11y ago
Foreign investment is not a huge factor in Sydney housing prices, and even then it mainly just affects new stock. Our tax laws create a huge incentive for large scale negatively geared local investment in housing, which means there's a
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by jdub 11y ago
Turning up to vote is compulsory in Australia (for which I am incredibly thankful). That said, voting gives you a democratic voice, but it doesn't give you power.
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by jdub 11y ago
Absolutely amazing series. The conclusion is mind-bogglingly relevant to 2016, despite being delivered almost 40 years ago, in a room of "the world's most powerful computers", all vastly less powerful than what we carry in ou

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