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by qdotme 5mo ago
I've answered some down the tree a bit for the inspirational use case for it. Since I built it, I've started seeing it as a hammer for many nail-like problems - I think that would die down over time; but.. I have my ESP32 "pe
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by qdotme 5mo ago
That was indeed one of the main drivers for it! ESP32 (especially with 2.4GHz WiFi latencies) is not super well suited for OS installs, but... many UEFI firmwares (and some network drivers!) will let you boot iSCSI directly. The other one i
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by qdotme 5mo ago
Thanks! Let me know if you have any questions - I've long wanted to write something "system-level" in Elixir.
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by qdotme 5mo ago
Hi HN - Tom here, I built scsipub. The short version: it's iSCSI targets on the public internet. Pick an image, get a block device. The free tier doesn't need a signup at all - iscsiadm -m discovery -t sendtargets -p scsipub.com a
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How we run iSCSI over the internet(scsipub.com)
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by qdotme 7mo ago
Or.. both! The industry is broken. It's broken in the same sense the railroad industry is broken. It has reached the point of abundance, where we're doing things that don't need doing. That won't get done in an efficie
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by qdotme 7mo ago
Ready at what level, though. The subtleties are what matters. It’s well established that belligerents can use mines, to separate the tactical decision of deploying for purposes of area denial; from the snap-second lethal decision (if one ca
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by qdotme 7mo ago
Well, or just the possibility of future-proofing the agreement in favor of the US government, as well as walking back the slippery slope of „no autonomic lethality” and „no mass surveillance”. The former, grants the Congress the ability to
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by qdotme 7mo ago
Not at all. Especially at that level of capital. It’s the equity equivalent of „if you owe a bank a million dollars, you’re in trouble. If you owe a bank a billion dollars, the bank is in trouble”. Capital is extremely fungible. Typically e
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by qdotme 7mo ago
Depends. Many still reflect the founders vision; even if that vision might have evolved over time.
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by qdotme 7mo ago
FWIW, I don’t actually know if board of Anthropic has actual power to replace its CEO or if Dario has retained some form of personal super-control shares Zuckerberg style. At some level of growth, the dynamics between competent founders and
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by qdotme 8mo ago
I guess we might have opposite experiences. Part of which I understand - the society moved on, the modern ways are more mature and developed… but I wonder how much of that can be backported without handing over to the centralized systems ag
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by qdotme 8mo ago
Or „just enough” for the subset of users that is „enough” to ensure product viability. The absolutism of „all or nothing” is rooted in the strictly-better mentality for replacing something. For Wine/Proton, the core demographic is esse
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by qdotme 8mo ago
Except they did with Wine, in a way. They got to the point where sufficient number of third party software developers target the common base between Wine and Windows (Steam/Proton), electing to have broader compatibility rather than ca
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by qdotme 8mo ago
I think people (especially those who joined the internet after the .com bubble) underestimate the level of decentralization and federation coming with the old-school (pre web-centric mainframe-like client mentality) protocols such as email
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by qdotme 8mo ago
Another reason why I think it failed (TIL Yann LeCun was the coauthor) is the connotation with the pirate books/articles community. When I came across this format in college days, when handling lots of scanned material, it always trigg
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by qdotme 10mo ago
TIL: Backstory of sourceforge! Brings back memories…
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by qdotme 10mo ago
The better question is the seek latency. The bandwidth for read isn’t too horrible, if the seeks can be kept within reason. This is somewhere between tapes and actual pressed optical media (not dyed /re/writeable). Should seek way
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by qdotme 10mo ago
True, for some definition of first and some definition of modern. I’d say it builds extremely heavily on the works inside XTX (and prior to that, XFactor etc) on general purpose linear algebra tooling, and still doesn’t change the fact that
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by qdotme 10mo ago
No, I just realize these for what they are - reasonable projects at the exploitation (rather than exploration) stage of any industry. I’d say I have an average CV in the EECS world, but also relatively humble perspective of what is and isn’
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by qdotme 10mo ago
Essentially, yes, they haven’t done deep software. Netflix probably comes closest amongst FAANG. Google, Meta, Amazon do “shallow and broad” software. They are quite fast at capturing new markets swiftly, they frequently repackage OpenSourc
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by qdotme 11mo ago
Oddly, the article does not talk about "why"! So - let me shoot my guess. Uber didn't invent a new category. There were already taxi dispatchers, and there were already "radio-taxi" and "mini-cab" dispatch
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by qdotme 11mo ago
IANAL; but - jurisdiction dependent. Some have "interoperability exceptions" - so if you have been granted a license to something, you can reuse it in different context (so for instance you could run Microsoft Office on WINE even
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by qdotme 11mo ago
SGI IRIX and HP-UX handled multiple ABIs from one root partition, with the dynamic linker loader using appropriate paths for various userlands. This had the advantage that one, networked root filesystem could boot both M68K and PA-RISC, o
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by qdotme 11mo ago
There are downsides. Unsure if significant vs negligible. And same in terms of “internal” protocols - that essentially goes against the modularity (and while in the past there were good reasons to get away from modularity in pursuit of perf
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by qdotme 11mo ago
You could actually support both at runtime with both ABIs being available. This is done routinely on x86_64 with x86 ABI for compatibility (both sets of system libraries are installed), for a while I used to run 3 ABIs (including x32 - the
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by qdotme 11mo ago
Can you elaborate on what makes ELF (potentially with custom sections/extension and maybe custom ld.so plugin) insufficient? A lot of remarkably unusual stuff has been shoved into the format without breaking the tooling, so wondering
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by qdotme 11mo ago
Nesting, mostly (having used that trick a lot, though I usually sign that record if originating from server). I've almost entirely moved to Rust/WASM for browser logic, and I just use serde crate to produce compact representation
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by qdotme 11mo ago
Yes! This is a very under-utilized concept, especially with client-side execution (WASM etc!) Few years back, I built a proof-of-concept of a PDF data extraction utility, with the following characteristic - the "recipe" for extrac
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by qdotme 1y ago
What I was actually hoping for.. and so far turned out disappointed, is a half-decent LTE/4/5G module that can be Arduino compatible. Just like ESP8266 (and later -32) variant opened up the IoT over WiFi, there is a potential indu

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