nknight

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by nknight 15y ago
The "OS X uses a microkernel" myth needs to die. OS X's kernel, XNU, is based on a pre-3.0 version of Mach, which wasn't much of a microkernel to begin with, and neither Apple nor NeXT before it used Mach as a microkernel. You can't even re
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by nknight 15y ago
> screwing up Expose "Screwing up"? Works much better for me. Have you actually taken some time to play with it? > the changes in scrolling You mean the changes you can turn off? > 1% is the unwelcome increase in skeuomorph
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by nknight 15y ago
IBM isn't particularly aggressive with its patent portfolio, especially in areas not relevant to its core businesses, nor are they likely to want the distraction and cost of suing a company a fraction their size in search of a small slice o
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by nknight 15y ago
I'm not sure IBM is adding much to its bottom line with these sales. I don't think profit is their only, or perhaps even primary, motive here.
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by nknight 15y ago
My mother was office staff at a nuclear plant for a number of years in the late 80s/early 90s (and for reasons passing understanding, received training as some sort of emergency/backup operator, despite making very clear that in an emergenc
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by nknight 15y ago
> $120 for 3TB So even if you throw out the rest of the hardware and have zero redundancy, $40/TB * 25000 terabytes = $1,000,000. (Of course, somebody has to ship and store over 8,000 HDDs, too.)
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by nknight 15y ago
"Growing"? Look up J. Edgar Hoover and COINTELPRO. Look up the 1968 Democratic National Convention. American law enforcement has never respected the Constitution.
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by nknight 15y ago
Actually, they might be forced to stop using the GPL code and pay damages. The GPL is a copyright license, not an ordinary contract, and there's no provision for specific performance. The court isn't going to issue an order commanding the r
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by nknight 15y ago
It's a story about sexism. The "PR" in this case is basically a "How to be Sexist" guide. They hit all the high points -- "looking for attention", "double standard", "I bought you drinks!", and, of course, threatening the woman's economic w
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by nknight 15y ago
I know several male "homekeepers" who would be very offended by that extremely sexist remark.
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by nknight 15y ago
Interracial marriage was illegal in much of the US until just 45 years ago. The Stonewall Riots were the same year we landed on the moon. Romer v. Evans wasn't until 1996, and Lawrence v. Texas is just eight years old. You have a poor sense
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by nknight 15y ago
I don't necessarily recommend coding on an iPad at this point in time, but if you're going to try and use the iPad as a laptop replacement, you're probably better off getting something like Kensington's KeyFolio case+keyboard units[1]. I've
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by nknight 15y ago
You're way off track. The whole point is that there is a huge problem preventing potential customers from giving content owners money, even as the content owners bitch and moan about us not giving them money. It is emphatically not the cu
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by nknight 15y ago
Er, those are not entirely custom UIs, they use standard widgets in well-defined ways that the platform/window manager understands.
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by nknight 15y ago
Oh yes it does. I probably caused measurable damage to my hearing trying to block out the conversations with headphones+music. It was horrific.
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by nknight 15y ago
Your DVD collection uses the largely obsolete MPEG-2. DVD-quality video in h.264 is a fraction of the size.
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by nknight 15y ago
> I get 9 months at 20 MBit/s [1] which is kind of low for a blu-ray Blu-Ray bitrates are bloated for various reasons, like older encoders, film transfer, and a lack of anything better to do with the space. You don't need 20mbps with
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by nknight 15y ago
Now that I know about Gunicorn (thanks!) I might deploy with that. I was just going to use multiprocessing + wsgiref. We don't get significant benefits from async with our current codebase and load characteristics -- like I said, the depend
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by nknight 15y ago
We have an indirect, semi-optional, largely accidental dependency on eventlet/gevent which won't work in PyPy, but it's easy to just rip out if we go to production with PyPy. We should rip it out anyway, but there's no reason to spend the t
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by nknight 15y ago
60TB is 2+ years of HD video at typical bitrates. It's two months at a patently absurd 100mbps. You could write every bit of traffic passing through a 10gigabit link for 14 hours. Assuming a 100-year lifespan, if every second of your life w
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by nknight 15y ago
I've run one-off internal tasks with it, but for production, our CPU load on CPython is still low enough I can chant "it ain't broke" and do other things. I have tested our codebase on it to make sure we can deploy if we need to, though.
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by nknight 15y ago
You seem to be in an entirely different universe from the point. Most workloads would take weeks, months, even years to write out 60TB of data. It will be unnecessary for the filesystems to garbage collect old data with any frequency, and y
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by nknight 15y ago
Realistically, I think most workloads would end up moving to pure copy-on-write filesystems. There won't be much rewriting.
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by nknight 15y ago
You're very confused about how antitrust cases usually shape up, and how bankruptcy works. First, assuming a private antitrust lawsuit is brought against Microsoft by a company that then enters bankruptcy proceedings, it is very possible th
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by nknight 15y ago
> I am unfamiliar with many of the details of US laws, but does signing a special deal to offer a new product with 1 exclusive partner mean you have to offer it to everyone? If the deal hurts competition in a market, the deal may be i
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by nknight 15y ago
> Have I ever received an email from someone using an iPad? I have. My father, my mother, my aunt, my best friend, one of the most skilled software engineers/architects I know, an engineering manager I work with, several members of ma
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by nknight 15y ago
Antitrust cases against big companies are always going to be expensive, but one of the many stupid things the DOJ and states did in the Microsoft case was making Microsoft fight for its life. It was unnecessarily aggressive and drove up the
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by nknight 15y ago
That writeup is certainly interesting, mostly with regard to escape analysis, but it's entirely untrustworthy with regard to the comparison to malloc. First, it appears to base its assumptions about malloc implementations on a paper dating
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by nknight 15y ago
15 USC §1: " Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is declared to be illegal. " Such is the very first sentence of
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by nknight 15y ago
> So I acquire a general understanding of cryptography to make a decision But this is precisely what the cult priests don't want you to do. There are only two words you need to know: "use bcrypt". Any attempt to learn more is heresy.

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