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by p_l 1y ago
From what people reported around the rugpull, BB pretty much nuked all customer relationships with various groups that had commercial licenses too, not just with people who looked into open source or free-as-in-beer options. Greatly acceler
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by p_l 1y ago
After previous rugpull, why anyone would want to jump through the hoops?
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by p_l 1y ago
I think HPPA->Itanium replacement without replacing the entire server was limited to Superdomes. But it made it cheaper for HP to produce Itanium servers, though I bet they didn't pass those savings...
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by p_l 1y ago
TIL. The only mentions I have seen were of changes for TI Explorer from Lambda, so I could not figure if it involved any kind of different circuitry
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by p_l 1y ago
Sun leadership wanted to license OpenSolaris under GPLv3. However, GPLv3 work was dragging on at FSF and the license was not released in time. Moreover, there was opposition from Solaris dev team due to belief that GPLv3 will lock out reuse
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by p_l 1y ago
Major difference between Lambda and TI machines was a switch from 24bit fixnum (and addressing) to 25bit fixnums (and address)
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by p_l 1y ago
CDDL ensures OpenZFS can be used for not just Linux, and prevents patent-based attacks (which have been used against GPLv2 code reuse in the past). So the OpenZFS team is not exactly interested in moving to GPLv2, because it would break mul
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by p_l 1y ago
It wasn't designed to be hostile to Linux - insider claims they expected integration within weeks, the license kerfuffle was a surprise. The choice of creating a new license was because of two reasons: - Internally people wanted for th
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by p_l 1y ago
The whole "Sun explicitly did not want" is an invention of one person at a conference, and opposite to what other insiders say
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by p_l 1y ago
Solid management of the services is important, yes. Also being prepared for when requirements change. I remember to this day when a bunch of small (rack-scale) deployments suddenly needed heavy-grade DNS because one of the deployed projects
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by p_l 1y ago
Most likely from Common Lisp due to links between R and Lisp. In CL double colon lets you access unexported symbols from a package, while single colon accesses only the exported ones
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by p_l 1y ago
The step with declaring hw registers in assembly reminds me how assignment of value to pointer is IIRC at best implementation defined, and at worst UB, and playing around with volatile saves you not from zealous optimizer. Arguably every ha
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by p_l 1y ago
USPS normal letter volumes are falling, but due to various stupid crap they are forced to deliver a lot of junk mail at low price. Political issue rather than technical. The difference for parcel services is that, statistically, they do n
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by p_l 1y ago
The original use case for access times was for backup purposes - long unused files would be marked for "reaping" by backup process and either moved to backup storage or moved to a different storage tier in a hierarchical storage
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by p_l 1y ago
There's at least some difference in design and requirements due to different assumptions about how high one needs to go on external rig, equipment in use, and fire codes. None of it insurmountable but essentially means european vendors
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by p_l 1y ago
right wing to center-right for most reformist-minded Democrats. Maybe Bernie alone as center-left.
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by p_l 1y ago
Well, better said would be that ESR was... loud around EGCS? I got into Linux and FOSS essentially just as EGCS took over GCC for good, so I am less clear on details
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by p_l 1y ago
An important part to remember is that Cathedral refers to GCC and Bazaar to EGCS , which was a GCC fork that IIRC ESR was big part of and which ultimately replaced GCC
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by p_l 1y ago
US customary is prevalent because USA after WW2 was the China of aviation - market got flooded by aircraft that had us customary units. Nautical miles and knots were present in long range navigation, especially oceanic
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by p_l 1y ago
I learnt to fly in metric, every time I see feet and feet-per-minute in sims I'm confused as hell, and you can't ask virtual ATC to switch to metric. At least nautical miles and knots have some use on this planet specifically...
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by p_l 1y ago
USPS has drastically different approach to mail deliver and pickup than most countries. Including as mentioned street-level mailboxes for both pickup and delivery, and general idea that really rural mail gets delivered direct still. In co
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by p_l 1y ago
At least one cycle, yes, but generally it would make it possible to deliver. AFAIK it also became crucial part of how intel could deliver "EM64T" chips fast enough - only to forget to upgrade memory subsystem which is why first ge
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by p_l 1y ago
I find that a lot of "it's always DNS" falls down to "I don't know routing beyond default gateway" and "I never learnt how to run DNS". Might be a tad elitist of me, I guess, but solid DHCP, routing,
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by p_l 1y ago
Another issue (also driving some of the opposition to v6) is the pervasive use of numerical IPs everywhere instead of setting up DNS proper.
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by p_l 1y ago
Main source of issues leading to overcomplex networking that I ever seen was "every VPC gets a 10./8" like approach replicated, so suddenly you have complex time trying to interconnect the networks later.
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by p_l 1y ago
It's already cut down compared to its pre-google interfaces though
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by p_l 1y ago
Part of the issue was also that it was Cray's first proper MPP system, after being very much against MPP designs in the past.
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by p_l 1y ago
With ex-Digital customers running OpenVMS, they held onto last-generation Alpha machines because they were substantially faster than the new Itanium ones in all practical uses. This is also why HP was finally forced to resurrect the nearly-
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by p_l 1y ago
EV6 CPUs could ostensibly use the same chipsets etc. as Athlon (in fact, some Alpha motherboards used Athlon chipsets). That was part of the strategy to increase volume. Then came Compaq and its love for intel.
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by p_l 1y ago
It was canceled essentially overnight by Compaq higher-ups, teams at Microsoft and Compaq learnt when they came to office. It was present on last release candidate before RTM, because it was essentially the only 64bit platform to actually f

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