msgilligan

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by msgilligan 2y ago
I think a fork with a mission to aggressively rewrite the kernel into Rust would be a great experiment. Lessons learned could be applied to the more mainstream C/Rust kernel(s). Has anyone done that?
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by msgilligan 2y ago
For those interested in the rationale for the simplified main methods (and the rationale for not simplifying further), the relevant JEP is a good read. JEP 495: Simple Source Files and Instance Main Methods (Fourth Preview) https:/&
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by msgilligan 2y ago
I agree that for experienced programmers working on large projects a little bit of verbosity around `main` is insignificant. But first impressions matter, especially when there is pervasive word of mouth about "verbosity". Pretend
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by msgilligan 2y ago
Yes. Definitely already needs a second edition. I would happily buy it.
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by msgilligan 2y ago
Ruthlessly rooting for rootless!
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by msgilligan 2y ago
systemd-nspawn might be what you are looking for: https://wiki.debian.org/nspawn
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by msgilligan 2y ago
It's almost 40 years since it was published and almost as long since I read it, but The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins [1] has a chapter or section about echolocation in bats that I found fascinating. As I recall, it talks about h
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by msgilligan 2y ago
I've been using Nix on macOS for almost a year. The good (and bad) thing about Nix is that it supports many different use cases, so you have to spend some time understanding the options before you can even figure out which flavor to in
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by msgilligan 2y ago
Asahi M4 support and 3rd-party SSD upgrades[1] will result in me buying an M4 Mini. Glad to hear that Nix works well on Asahi! [1] https://wccftech.com/m4-mac-mini-ssd-already-modded-to-2tb-s...
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by msgilligan 2y ago
There is at least one way to do it: https://cheerpj.com/cheerpj-applet-runner/
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Upgrading Linux with Rust looks like a new challenge. It's one of our oldest(theregister.com)
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by msgilligan 2y ago
Subtitle: From the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever built. Not even a kernel
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by msgilligan 2y ago
I'm hoping that is not the case. I signed up in the hopes there will be more.
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by msgilligan 2y ago
When the whole first paragraph is about how it's not about ideology, it's about ideology.
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by msgilligan 2y ago
Java 23 is not final and I'm hoping this JEP makes it into 23: https://openjdk.org/jeps/401 I don't follow the JEP process closely enough to know if it will be proposed for 23 or approved. But I think it&#x27
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by msgilligan 2y ago
The submission is a page from r/Buttcoin, a Bitcoin-hater subreddit, with a random screenshot making the $188 for $4.09 complaint. For those who don't know, Bitcoin on-chain transactions fees are not proportional to the amount sen
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by msgilligan 2y ago
> People don't have problem reading try/catch, are used to it, it's already there, semantics match - why complicate things? We don't have a problem reading try/catch because it comes from an era when Java was mor
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by msgilligan 3y ago
"I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life." Regardless of one's political opinion of Ronald Reagan, his letter announcing his Alzheimer's diagnosis is relevant and poignant. https:/&#x2F
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by msgilligan 3y ago
I don't think any EIA officials are _quoted_ in the article. I'm not disputing the 8% figure mentioned.
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by msgilligan 3y ago
This looks like fairly breathless, non-critical reporting. (The tagline of Grist is "Climate. Justice. Solutions." which at least implies a motivation for biased reporting.) The article: * avoids the question of whether the new wa
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by msgilligan 3y ago
This shouldn't be downvoted. It is a legitimate question and widely held misconception that is addressed in several of the responses to parent.
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by msgilligan 3y ago
The owner can control Trustzone if the device is shipped with unfused OTP registers. On Raspberry Pi for example, you can write the hash of your own public key to locations 47-54 of the OTP memory block: https://www.raspberrypi.c
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by msgilligan 3y ago
I used MacNosy extensively in the Mac 68k era. Though I haven’t used Ghidra, reading about it reminded me of the fun (and frustration) I had with MacNosy. I have no doubt Ghidra has a superior overall user interface. But, as memory serves,
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by msgilligan 3y ago
Well the most significant difference [on macOS or Windows] is you must use a VM (by default Podman Machine) so there can be a Linux kernel to run the containers. This is a significant limitation that you do not have when running on Linux. A
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by msgilligan 3y ago
Valid point, but we are decades away from putting the whole world on Bitcoin. In those intervening decades lightning alternatives and/or derivatives will likely be developed that can allow the entire world to use Bitcoin.
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by msgilligan 3y ago
The article makes some great points, but it is surprising that the article doesn't mention Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, or even the theoretical possibility of a "digital cash" that mitigates some or all of the issues he identifie
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by msgilligan 3y ago
Google "Lightning Network". It allows for "off-chain" transactions that aren't included in the "7 tx/sec" limit.
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by msgilligan 3y ago
Lightning network (which admittedly has its own set of flaws) does a reasonably good job of improving privacy and increasing scalability. It's reasonable to assume that Lightning and other "layer 2" technologies will continue
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by msgilligan 3y ago
Some are saying they'd rather have an x86 for software compatibility reasons, but for those of us with ARM64 Macintosh systems that are building home labs, it's nice to be able to use the same binaries as we use in VMs on our Macs
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by msgilligan 3y ago
It was “National Military Establishment” from 1947-1949. According to wikipedia, the new organizational structure was created in 1947. In 1949 it was renamed to “Department of Defense”. (I had just looked this up for my sibling response to

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