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by ori_b 5y ago
Your implication is that Google is not treating Fuchsia as a 'throw it over the wall' project, but as one with community participation. How many of your colleagues are from outside of Google? How often do you work with non-googler
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by ori_b 5y ago
How many of your colleagues are outside Google?
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by ori_b 5y ago
There's 600+ patches needed to build chrome on BSD, and upstream is constantly churning, which means they need maintenance. Upstream refuses to import anything related to BSD support, so they need to be maintained out of tree. And this
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by ori_b 6y ago
Which team is "they", and are "they" communicating with every other team?
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by ori_b 6y ago
Don't worry. It's a Google browser with a Microsoft logo.
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by ori_b 6y ago
> Correct me if I am wrong, but to an extent, isn't the memory bloat inherent to Chrome's sandboxing model? It just puts each tab into a native process, so there's no inherent need for the per tab sandbox to be more heav
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by ori_b 6y ago
This is incompatible with protobuf. Protobuf has variable length encodings for all its integers, including field tags. https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/encoding
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by ori_b 6y ago
As always: Reasonable and thoughtful beats all alternatives.
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by ori_b 6y ago
By that token, the M1 wasn't a big deal.
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by ori_b 6y ago
Wayland (and X11, and any other modern display system) will absolutely fry non-multisync monitors. Those were common in 1996. Hardware has just improved enough that we don't need to care. This isn't wayland vs X11. X11 is terrible
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by ori_b 6y ago
Of course vi is graphical. Vi is literally short for 'visual': it was created as a graphical extension of ex. The mark of a command line is a stream of commands and responses, not whether it does ascii art to emulate graphics.
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by ori_b 6y ago
> There are text mode action-oriented apps: ncurses/turbo vision/etc. based applications like Commander, or the old Borland IDE, or Tilde, or the old FoxPro, or plenty others.* These are graphical programs, just with a substa
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by ori_b 6y ago
I'm not understanding how you propose to resurrect and continue the process after the tab segfaults.
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by ori_b 6y ago
Great. So, can you hook in to a running browser the next time a tab crashes, fix it, and continue viewing the website, with no prior setup? How?
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by ori_b 6y ago
We lost the environment where the whole OS was a debugger, and everything could be inspected and modified as the system was running.
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by ori_b 6y ago
I just used git-fsck, and my implemention is here (both read and write, hosted using git9 on 9front): http://shithub.us/ori/git9/724c516a6eda0063439457a6701ef0d7e... http://shithub.us/ori/git9
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by ori_b 6y ago
Pingthings.io | Linux, k8s, Go | Remote | Full time (North America Timezones) | https://pingthings.io Pingthings is a startup built around a custom high performance time series database, focusing on improving the way that the en
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by ori_b 6y ago
I'm currently touching the plan 9 email tools a lot, and recently rewrote the acme mail client. There are warts, of course, but the ones you've discussing are either related to the underlying communication and not the format, or a
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by ori_b 6y ago
Images can be compressed when using devdraw. The compression formats are relatively primitive, but they're good enough in practice. Slotting in better ones seems like it should be straightforward, though video codecs don't fit cle
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by ori_b 6y ago
These things have already been done with 9p. > The debug APIs can still only return a direct memory mapped pointer to the process memory as a special case Can you point to the special case here? http://man.cat-v.org/pla
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by ori_b 6y ago
Yes, that's the meaning of no special cases*: it means you don't add special cases. But this is why plan 9 has 40-odd syscalls instead of 500, and tools can be interposed, redirected, and distributed between machines. I don'
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by ori_b 6y ago
> How is that conceptually different from IPC? The graphics system appears to somehow pass mouse and keyboard events to the client programs over a channel. A thread reads them from a file descriptor and writes them to a channel. You can
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by ori_b 6y ago
Channels are not IPC -- they're a libthread API that stays within a shared-memory thread group. There are few magic kernel devices that don't act like 9p, like '#s' which implements fd passing on a single node. And the V
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by ori_b 6y ago
Plan 9 is not a posix system. That means it doesn't have to deal with legacy posix behavior. If you want unix, it's easy to get it. > For read-only resources yes, for handling writes to the mmapped region, that seems quite brok
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by ori_b 6y ago
> if Windows decided to export every system-level API as a DCOM object, that would also get you the same kind of "the whole universe is networked" kind of deal. The difference is that in Plan 9, there is no 'if', and
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by ori_b 6y ago
> I think this wildly overstates it. Much of the good innovations have been adopted in Linux. The main innovation can't be done by addition. With plan 9, many special cases are removed. You no longer have to wonder what happens if y
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by ori_b 6y ago
Plan 9 is also participating in GSOC this year. http://p9f.org/wiki/gsoc-2021-ideas/index.html
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by ori_b 6y ago
You missed the point again. This isn't about forcing anyone to pay. This is about Google strangling their ecosystem in exchange for some short term growth.
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by ori_b 6y ago
You missed the point. The observation is that Google makes money from eyeballs on ads. The reason they make money is that they can lead people to the content that they want. The content that they want comes from websites, which benefit from
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by ori_b 6y ago
And yet, it's managed to avoid many of the OpenSSL CVEs. It's not a "viable alternative" because nobody cares enough to test their code against it.

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