krylon

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by krylon 8y ago
Mmmh, that face looks familiar. He used to work at Microsoft, right? I remember reading a couple of his blog posts, and they as funny as they were interesting. But he is so much better in person.
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by krylon 8y ago
There was episode of BSDNow where they interviewed Jordan Hubbard about this: https://www.freebsdnews.com/2015/10/31/bsdnow-tv-episode-113... Personally, I never found startup time to be much of a problem, on
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by krylon 8y ago
Fwiw, some distros have stuck with different init systems: Void uses runit, Devuan (Debian fork) uses sysvinit, Gentoo uses OpenRC[1]. There are probably more that I am not aware of. Systemd has not given me any trouble, yet, but I run Void
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by krylon 8y ago
I don't think a Lisp machine would make much sense these days, as far as the hardware is concerned. Designing and building CPUs is very expensive, and the small market for such a machine would make them prohibitively expensive. But an
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by krylon 8y ago
I considered that option, but as far as I could find out, that would force the SATA controller in to RAID mode, making it impossible for ZFS (I use ZFS, too) to get at the SMART data from the disks. My server runs FreeBSD, and I have restri
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by krylon 8y ago
FWIW, I have a HP Microserver Gen8 with the dual-core Celeron and 16 GB of RAM, including 4 3 TB HDDs I paid about 800 bucks. I have had this machine for three years now, and it has given me no trouble whatsoever. It is quiet, reliable and
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by krylon 8y ago
It's a little sad these machines are so expensive. I can see it from IBM's point of view, there probably is not much money to be made in scaling these machines down, but still.
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by krylon 8y ago
The biggest I heard of was built by SGI (although it was just the husk of SGI which was was bought by another company which kept the name), now HPE. It had up to 32 Xeon sockets (so maybe 256 cores?) and up 24 TB of RAM.
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by krylon 8y ago
I am by no means an expert on that particular subject, but from what little I do know, both Go and Lua (the regular C version) have garbage collectors optimized for low latency; I may be wrong, but if I am not, it looks like a good match, d
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by krylon 8y ago
I really like the find(1) command on Unixoid systems. On Windows, I have installed git some machines simply to have grep and find available.
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by krylon 8y ago
That would actually be a really awesome name!!!
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by krylon 8y ago
> But in Germany, if you are big enough or in government, you can do nearly everything without effects. While I sadly agree, I would like to point out that this is true of many countries.
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by krylon 8y ago
Me too. I did not understand fully what was going on, but I remember the excitement and optimism that hung in the air.
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by krylon 8y ago
The name Robotron, though, is awesome!
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by krylon 8y ago
This is so fascinating. By the time I understood why and how Germany was two separate states, the wall was long gone. It is weird,actually,because I am glad I did not have to live through those times, but I do get a wave of something nost
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by krylon 8y ago
Works for me on Android using Firefox.
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by krylon 8y ago
As a German, allow me to respectfully disagree. I think English is far easier to learn. I often find it easier to express my thoughts in English than in German. I do agree that German is a beautiful language, though, and highly recommend re
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by krylon 8y ago
I am already feeling nostalgic! Can't wait to play Turrican again!
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by krylon 8y ago
Well, evolution has spent millennia optimizing human brains, and millions of years optimizing brains in general, while we have been building computers for ~70 years, about a human lifetime. And for much of those 70 years, energy efficiency
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by krylon 8y ago
I vaguely recall some guy in Australia took out a patent on the wheel a couple of years back as part of a crusade to show how broken the patent system was. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn965-wheel-patented-in.
951.
by krylon 8y ago
Nothing beats a good plot twist. ;-) But if I can vote for it, it's not much of a surprise, isn't it?
952.
by krylon 8y ago
The best part of a good story is when it genuinely surprises me, does something I totally did not expect.
953.
by krylon 8y ago
A former coworker of mine who works in industrial automation told me that Siemens had to give US authorities access to their source code; I would not be surprised if that source code had "leaked" to the intelligence services.
954.
by krylon 8y ago
They have improved a lot over the past couple of years, I use it as my engine of choice these days. For really obscure problems, the results on Google are still better, but about 99 percent of time, DuckDuckGo is en par with Google by now.
955.
by krylon 8y ago
> the installer progress bar was ... peculiar Windows 95 was really annoying in that regard, the progress bar would race to 95%, and then stay there for a long time. We used to joke that the installation routine would only start doing an
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by krylon 8y ago
Let's assume the OS is FLOSS software and includes a daemon that sends random data to other devices to be encrypted and discarded randomly.
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by krylon 8y ago
In many (most?) cases, you do not need the performance (which is why people use C#, Java, etc.). When the performance is needed, the burden of using C++ seems like a small price to pay[0], but a lot of the time, the expressiveness offered b
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by krylon 8y ago
Mmmh, one large scar across your abdomen (~20cm, I think in case of my grandfather) vs. four incisions about 1cm each makes a huge difference. Being able to get up and move around on the next day vs. having to lie in bed for weeks certainly
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by krylon 8y ago
I was a little disappointed I did not get any opioid analgesics after the procedure, but on the plus side, I did not need it. I got Metamizole ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamizole ) on the first day and was told I
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by krylon 8y ago
Good question. I think the medical progress is tremendous. My grandfather needed weeks before he could sit up again without serious pain, and he had a scar that went all across his abdomen. I had four small incisions (the largest was about

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