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by ris 11y ago
I can't imagine anything lonelier.
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by ris 11y ago
Not the way I like doing it as it is entirely inflexible from a deployment point of view.
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by ris 11y ago
I'm not totally sure of the point of using docker in this example. I don't really get what docker can do that can't be done better with pure nixos (and a simpler container system if you're in it for the supposed securi
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by ris 11y ago
NixOS doesn't really tend to worry about user dotfiles, it's more for system configuration. In fact, home directories are one of the few places that are considered "stateful" and aren't managed by Nix.
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by ris 11y ago
"I consider the CPython switch from Mercurial to git the final declaration of victory." Really I think it was bitbucket's total sidelining of hg in favour of git. hg features break regularly on bitbucket and today if you visi
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by ris 11y ago
This looks very nice. Something I've wanted in a postgres query plan visualizer is a "timeline" view of the various nodes. Seeing as for each node we get a "start time" and "duration" it seems like it shou
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by ris 11y ago
"ARM is probably the closest open chip platform out there" I don't know what you think is open about ARM. AMD even uses the ARM locking-down technology to implement its system management processor.
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by ris 11y ago
I would say it's reasonably fair to call Qt's moc system "odd". Not the worst thing in the world. But you'd probably be interested to know that there are some working on experimental fork of Qt replacing the moc and
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by ris 11y ago
The answer is: it's very complex and subtle, and it varies by country. OSM'ers have been all through this is this is what brought about the ODBL.
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by ris 11y ago
I used to run openbsd routers, but the lack of real package management or a decent manageable upgrade story made it more trouble than it's worth. (That said, I'm still quite fond of openbsd, but from afar)
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by ris 11y ago
"For some of us, this bleak and witty thriller was an introduction to grownup reality." I think this sentence sums up how I feel about le Carre entirely. An introduction to grownup reality.
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by ris 11y ago
I don't think the parent is claiming there are, the point is that Doom wouldn't have been possible without coding with performance as a priority, but that's "ok" because in a lot of applications there isn't a p
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by ris 11y ago
Well, the problem is it isn't a single bug, WebGL is an entire minefield of bugs. OpenGL drivers were generally never written with security in mind, and now all of a sudden we've got untrusted code able to poke away at them. WebGL
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by ris 11y ago
I suspect it largely doesn't exist yet. Keep in mind all you see are probably mockups.
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by ris 11y ago
I think it's unlikely that they intend to release the source as they talk about "Partnering for free!" for "licensing", so clearly want to retain some pretty tight rains on the code. "Profit sharing" is a
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5 points by ris 11y ago|2 comments
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by ris 11y ago
"That's not a "pop-opinion". The popular opinion is exactly the opposite: microkernels are mostly a curiosity at best (if not a travesty) and monolithic kernels do 99.99% of what you want." Nope, I'd say the po
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by ris 11y ago
"Who is "we" ?" Hipsters.
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by ris 11y ago
Wow, so this is what it's like to be misrepresented. Firstly, there is no "microkernel hatred" on my part, just hatred of pop-opinions of them being a 100% superior technology for all cases. And my second comment follows this
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by ris 11y ago
Fixed-function hardware on GPUs is really on the way out.
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by ris 11y ago
Perhaps one of the major problems with bluetooth is it requires such a deep stack of confusing software which it's hard to find logs for when things are acting up. For me, it turned out one piece of my stack had been set up by debian b
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by ris 11y ago
I'm a debian stable user. KDE5 will come to me when it does. Anyway, I'm truly sceptical of KDE's trajectory now I've been burned a bit (and I'm saying this as a sort-of former "KDE person"). It seems like
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by ris 11y ago
Yes, except when you have to select something in between the time you copy & paste, e.g. change focus to the URL bar of a browser. Then ctrl-C is your friend, and works everywhere except the terminal. But the terminal is a special cas
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by ris 11y ago
"IMHO X11 needs to be replaced as fast as possible." X11 has very little to do with any of your complaints.
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by ris 11y ago
(response to 2:) Er, so bypassing the microkernel for the vast majority of your work is a vindication of the "microkernels are just better" line is it?
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by ris 11y ago
"QNX4 is high throughput, mister." Ok then, show me the server farms... I'm not even really talking about HPC, just the massive datacentres that run everyone's lives. All for the most part running monolithic kernels. I d
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by ris 11y ago
I... never said anything about these spaces, which I suspect you would agree require significantly different kernel design from a "desktop system" which is what this topic is supposedly about.
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by ris 11y ago
This is basically the "everyone's a dumbass" argument.
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by ris 11y ago
I don't disagree.
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by ris 11y ago
High throughput. As I've said elsewhere, realtime != high throughput. Just deterministic throughput. Users of these systems are willing to use slightly overpowered hardware if it means hitting processing deadlines.

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