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511.
by rwmj 8mo ago
At no cost apparently, since Linux still manages to be much faster and more efficient than Windows.
512.
by rwmj 8mo ago
Not really. It elegantly solves the "create a process, letting it inherit these settings and reset these other settings", where "settings" is an ever changing and expanding list of things that you wouldn't want to
513.
by rwmj 8mo ago
Also Xavier Leroy's ZINC paper ( https://xavierleroy.org/bibrefs/Leroy-ZINC.html ) although I believe that's no longer the implementation used by OCaml since it got replaced by an even more efficient one.
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The Case of the Disappearing Secretary(rowlandmanthorpe.substack.com)
59 points by rwmj 8mo ago|19 comments
515.
by rwmj 8mo ago
https://archive.ph/HELuu
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This iceberg was once the biggest in the world(bbc.co.uk)
11 points by rwmj 8mo ago|0 comments
517.
by rwmj 8mo ago
The annoying thing I've found with Linux under memory stress (and still haven't found a nice way to solve) is I want it to always always always kill firefox first. Instead it tends to either kill nothing (causing the system to ha
518.
by rwmj 8mo ago
No serious enterprise SaaS company differentiates themselves solely on the product (the products are usually terrible). It's the sales channel, the fact that you know how to bill a big company, the human engineer who is sent on site t
519.
by rwmj 8mo ago
Absolutely! So let's have a code browser like that (somehow).
520.
by rwmj 8mo ago
Also it'd be nice to have something that is more spatial. A famous memory technique is remembering where things are in space[1], but I've never seen a code browser that works spatially. (I have no idea how to actually do this.)
521.
by rwmj 8mo ago
The small spend may be worth it to destroy US proprietary AI companies.
522.
by rwmj 8mo ago
That raised the question, how do you make Rydberg atoms, and the answer is (always!) with lasers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rydberg_atom
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Brain has to work harder in an open-plan office(phys.org)
2 points by rwmj 8mo ago|0 comments
524.
by rwmj 8mo ago
Netscape didn't have ridiculously high overheads?
525.
by rwmj 8mo ago
Maybe if they'd invested in themselves they would have been able to expand (eg. they could have hired more sales people or spent more on advertising). If they truly were unable to find a reliable investment then they should have given
526.
by rwmj 8mo ago
Yeah, one of the bad guys even had a private island where he invited all his rich psychopathic friends.
527.
by rwmj 8mo ago
You have to compare it to what else they could have done with the money, such as investing in their own growth, or even giving it back to shareholders if they had no good ideas what to do with the money.
528.
by rwmj 8mo ago
Lost $234 million on that according to https://archive.ph/09kZr (link goes to FT.com)
529.
by rwmj 8mo ago
Most C compilers let you use variable length arrays on the stack. However they're problematic and mature code bases usually disable this (-Werror -Wvla) because if the size is derived from user input then it's exploitable.
530.
by rwmj 8mo ago
https://xcancel.com/BullTheoryio/status/2027250361816486085
531.
by rwmj 8mo ago
Although it's quite a flawed novel compared to brilliant space opera like Hyperion, I have a bit of a soft spot for Carrion Comfort. I think it'd make a great movie!
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The world's first hydrogen double-decker bus fleet dropped(bbc.co.uk)
8 points by rwmj 8mo ago|1 comments
533.
by rwmj 8mo ago
Since we're talking about defining our own processor, that means we need to define one with cheaper traps. Expanding on what I wrote above about "bits of hardware acceleration", maybe adding a few primitives to the instructio
534.
by rwmj 8mo ago
I think the interesting thing about having protection in software is you can do things differently, and possibly better. Computers of yesteryear had protection at the individual object level (eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
535.
by rwmj 8mo ago
To some extent (not capabilities), Haiku fits the bill here ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_%28operating_system%29 ). Applications are bundles (but not WASM of course). The UI is very clean. The whole OS is also
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Red Dwarf Creator Rob Grant Has Died(beyondthejoke.co.uk)
3 points by rwmj 8mo ago|1 comments
537.
by rwmj 8mo ago
I started practising guitar every day and it didn't change my life but I have a lot of fun doing it.
538.
by rwmj 8mo ago
libsystemd was the indirect dependency that caused liblzma to be pulled into sshd.
539.
by rwmj 8mo ago
When I was being interviewed, we did talk about exactly this, including that libsystemd is a kitchen sink, and that eventually OpenSSH went with open-coding the equivalent to sd_notify instead of depending on libsystemd. (Also that ahem
540.
by rwmj 8mo ago
Thanks! I was asked to fact check a rough-cut of the video a couple of weeks ago. Sadly they missed my suggestion to fix the spelling mistake ("UNRESOVLED").

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