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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> This is not at _all_ my interpretation of Casey and JBlow's views. IMHO this group's canonical lament was expressed by Mike Acton in his "Data-Oriented Design and C++" talk, where he asks: "...Then why does it
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Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin(simonwillison.net)
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> And until they do that, it's not safe to use ZFS-on-Linux anyway, since Oracle could sue you for it. This is clearly untrue. Upon what theory?
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Linus on bcachefs: "I think we'll be parting ways in the 6.17 merge window"(lore.kernel.org)
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
I actually asked Ron Minsky about exactly this question on Twitter[0]: Me: [W]hy not just use Rust for latency sensitive apps/where it may make sense? Is JS using any Rust? Minsky: Rust is great, but we get a lot of value o
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> Could be, which is why you have a lawyer to put guiderails on and give a "are you sure you want to go down this path?" . Guardrails are the wrong way to think about the relationship. The attorney is not your mother and you
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> Taking a more active role, though, and saying "this is how I want you to respond to that motion" will shortcut a lot of that research time. Taken literally however "this is how I want you to respond to that motion&quot
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> different lawyers kind all do their own thing in a multitude of different ways. Agreed. There is no formal processes to the inner workings of firms (but perhaps there should be). What I think the author is saying is: There is no singl
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
I read the same and came to the opposite conclusion. I said: "Yikes. The balls on this guy.": > Some lawyers bristle at clients setting strategic direction. They believe there’s a “correct way” to do things, they know it, an
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
This is great. Also about time, etc. But is it also finally time to fix dtrace on MacOS[0]? [0]: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/735939?answerId=76...
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> The rust coreutils author said that he doesn't care about the license/rights of users. Cite?
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> If one worries about bitrot, the backup tools are not good place to detect that. Using a filesystem with native checksums is the way to go. Agreed. But I think that elides the point of the article which was "I worry about backing
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> You've asked for something which is nonsense if you want to "recycle" compute used to checksum records. As you will note from my request and discussion, I'm perfectly willing to accept I might want something silly.
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
I think you may misunderstand what httm does. httm prints the size, date and corresponding locations of available unique versions of files residing on snapshots. And -- this makes it quite effective at proving how often this happens:
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
I actually once suggested this to ZFS, and saw some push back! See: https://github.com/issues/created?issue=openzfs%7Czfs%7C1453... Maybe someone else will have better luck than me.
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> As with rsync borg does not read files if their timestamp/length do not change since the last backup. ...but isn't that the problem described in the article? If that is the case, Borg would seem to the worst of all possible
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> BorgBackup is clearly quite good as an option. After one enables rsync with checksums, doesn't Borg have the same issue? I believe Borg needs to do the same rolling checksum over all the data, now, as well? ZFS sounds like the be
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> Author doesn’t explain what happened or why the proposed flags will solve the problem. Probably because she/he doesn't know. Could be lots of things, because FYI mtime can be modified by the user. Go `touch` a file. In all
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> This is not correct. Oops this is my mistake. I shouldn't have said founded when I didn't actually know. These days it is at the very least marketed as such. A conservative alternative to...
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
This tariff discussion is insipid. The question is not whether there are some historic antecedents for tariffs. Of course there may be, like there are historical antecedents for slavery, but the question is what is the current econometric
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> When I was applying to unis in mainland Europe (because US/UK was too costly) any place below at least a hundred year old was “too nuvo” for my academic taste ;-) Hillsdale is a college founded expressly to be a conservative alter
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Static Types Are for Perfectionists(mmapped.blog)
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> What an unnecessarily snark and dismissive comment to make about someone's work. The snark was intended, however any dismissiveness concerning Ginger Bill's effort was not. However, when you make a decision like "Odin w
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> a)... Odin will never have an official pkg manager Perhaps this explains why Odin has found such widespread usage and popularity. /s > b)... Jonathan Blow, who's talk "Preventing the Collapse of Civilization" Wit
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> You stated something as fact that is not. You were wrong to do so. You are wrong to blame me for pointing it out. You are wrong to continue complaining. You are wrong. Clear? Ugh. Well, I suppose it must seem very unfair to live a l
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> Drop the "mischaracterising" routine. You're asserting specific things, so expect to get challenged when they're nonsense. If I said "Coca Cola wants to lay claim to being the best cola soda in the world",
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> There is a lot of embedded knowledge in existing implementations, Agree. The question whether to rewrite and/or whether to use any new implementation should take this fact into account. > Rust deals with just one small class of
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
>> ... I believe that there are many reasons why Linus chose to give Rust for Linux a chance. I believe at least one of those reasons is mindshare. If Linux chose not to experiment with Rust drivers, then that mindshare might go s
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> Entirely untrue. It may happen, but there is zero consensus to port Linux to rust. Not even the tiniest bit. ... But I did not say there was a consensus to port Linux to Rust? I'm sorry you misunderstood. Now, why would Linux wan
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by mustache_kimono 1y ago
> That all said, Rust is not a smoking gun for incorrect application logic. It could still happily incorrectly execute stuff with the wrong permissions or blow something up badly. This side steps the issue which is "Does Rust help

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