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by sigil 9y ago
I love this story. Thanks for sharing!
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by sigil 9y ago
> This is hardly a special feature of Bash, it's just how the operating system works. I never claimed otherwise!
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by sigil 9y ago
Traps are neat but beware, they aren't completely reliable. You can't trap SIGKILL or SIGSTOP. In the article's examples, a SIGKILL would (1) leave temp directories around, (2) fail to restart a service, and (3) leave an expe
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by sigil 9y ago
Not at all! Two independent voices, stepwise motion — it’s almost counterpoint. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterpoint
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by sigil 9y ago
For a dataset larger than physical memory, using a memory filesystem like tmpfs for the merge stage will either swap (|tmpfs| < |ram|) or deadlock (|tmpfs| >= |ram|). Instead, your best bet in that case is to give sort as much physica
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by sigil 9y ago
I know the annoyance you're talking about, but I think you're better off wrapping sort(1) with something translates from column names to indexes. Among the reasons: sortcsv buffers all input into memory [1], while sort(1) uses a d
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by sigil 9y ago
Equivalent sort(1) invocations for your examples: sort -k2 -k1 -k3 contacts.tsv sort -k1 -k2 -k3 contacts.tsv This assumes TSV input, but there are plenty of reasons to prefer that to CSV. If I'm working from CSV sources I
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by sigil 9y ago
My Thinkpad X1C5 gets 10-12 hours. That’s with light workloads (browsing & editing) and average screen brightness.
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by sigil 9y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11318508
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by sigil 9y ago
That Stonybrook Farms episode is a wild ride! Pretty much the opposite of my entrepreneurial style, but that’s why I love “How I Built This” so much — you get exposure to a wide variety of strategies that worked, including some you never th
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by sigil 9y ago
On the contrary, libertarianism regards the law as force organized for the common defense and nothing more. [1] The protection of our negative rights is the one essential function of government in the libertarian view. I've always be
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by sigil 9y ago
> What if the reason for all of these issues ... have nothing to do with men and women and more to do with the fact that when we left our tribes, villages and communities to pursue the industrial dream, we cut ourselves off from the one
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Faster Unbalanced Private Set Intersection [pdf](eprint.iacr.org)
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by sigil 9y ago
So this looks better than the status quo, but is it really trustless? Couldn't OWS still be compelled to drop something in that walks & talks like this secure enclave, but enables remote collection of address books? It seems we&#x2
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by sigil 9y ago
And 10+ minutes after this thread was started, the AWS status page finally acknowledges there's an issue. HN really is a best-in-class monitoring service. https://status.aws.amazon.com/
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by sigil 9y ago
Yup I'm seeing 503s in us-west-2 (EC2 instance talking to S3), but outside EC2 is okay.
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by sigil 9y ago
> I've seen this version of Make used to build a feature animated film. Witnessing the versatility of that feature film's multitude of software and renders and composites all built through Make taught me Make is the only tool
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by sigil 9y ago
> If you aren't exposing things like source ip, listen queue depth, buffer sizes, errno from failures, etc...you are potentially limiting how well it works. This is a good point. > Plus the read/write overhead. The autho
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by sigil 9y ago
Thanks. I use the REPL debugger often, glad to see it's not going away.
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by sigil 9y ago
Can I debug node 8 from the command line, or do I need X / chrome now?
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by sigil 9y ago
This is amazing, congrats. I worked on Windows briefly in 2005 (the same year git was released!) and was surprised at how well Source Depot worked, especially given the sheer size of the codebase and the other SCM tools at the time. Is ther
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by sigil 9y ago
This one, about doing 40 million req/s in Lua on a single box, still blows my mind. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7180672
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by sigil 9y ago
> I don't know what other financial services the Accredited Investor Rule deprives ordinary consumers of, but to the extent that it deprives them of access to VC investments: it's increasing their wealth. By that same logic, we
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by sigil 9y ago
Will VCs make better investments, on average, than retail crowdfunders? Probably. That's their job after all. Does that mean the law should protect crowdfunders from themselves? That I'm not so sure about. I can think of no more &
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by sigil 9y ago
Addendum: MOSIX looks pretty interesting for small-scale things.
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by sigil 9y ago
All good stuff, thanks. > I think most of the research is going into "VM" rather than "process" migrations given most computing is going in that direction. The VM-migration-over-RDMA paper you cite is interesting, at
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by sigil 9y ago
> What about Tannenbaum et al's Amoeba OS? Unlike the contemporary Sprite, Amoeba does not support process migration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoeba_(operating_system) > Globe toolkit Got a link to t
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by sigil 9y ago
If you're the author of DAMPVM or are familiar with the internals, can you comment on: 1. The costs of migrating a process. How long does it typically take to an order of magnitude -- ms, secs, mins? How much state needs to be transfer
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by sigil 9y ago
Thanks for the correction. I have no idea why they would do that, do you? Isn't memory hardness the entire point?
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by sigil 9y ago
The LASP author also has a good reading list for CRDTs. [0] Here's why I find LASP intriguing. It started with a simple question: can't the OS just migrate a "process" to another machine for me? For a couple decades now,

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