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by somat 6mo ago
I think the biggest problem is the various filesystem layers assume the system will be more reliable than it is and suffer. I have a fun weekend experiment running, encrypted remote block storage where I put softraid crypto device(yes I lik
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by somat 6mo ago
Unfortunately it will all probably sort of work, But best not to dwell too much on how the sausage is made, it is pretty unpleasant. There will be some interesting job titles in the future however. I just read Vernor Vinge's "A de
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by somat 6mo ago
Probably a crt projection tv.
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by somat 6mo ago
It's called "The Web"
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by somat 6mo ago
CGI and FastCGI are two different things in two different domains. Well the domains are not that different but enough that CGI solves a real problem and makes sense and FastCGI does not. CGI is the interface between a HTTP transaction and a
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by somat 6mo ago
git is an infrastructural public good. github is a company that sells you git adjacent services. Speaking of git adjacent services. Why did google code end? Was it too hard for them to monetize? I tend to have an aversion for signing up for
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by somat 6mo ago
I suspect the government contract roots are what lead to it being placed in the public domain. It did not have to, they could(and some would argue probably should) have gone the normal copyright with public use license route. But I suspect
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by somat 6mo ago
Reveal Codes is a good start, but if I remember correctly they were read only. you could not close the loop and enter codes. Reveal codes in a small way made me swear off word processing for good. We had an office document in wp 8 or 9 if
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by somat 6mo ago
How is nfs on mac? Not really equivalent, I know, but if smb is that bad I am curious about alternatives.
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by somat 6mo ago
img src="file.svg" does that work for you?
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by somat 6mo ago
The fundamental idea behind Kanban is backpressure signaling for logistics. If I understand it correctly it moves the signaling in-band so it can be handled at a locally distributed level, that is, each local parts consuming system is respo
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by somat 6mo ago
Comparing lisp and APL is interesting because they feel almost opposite in approach to language design. Lisp optimizes for syntax simplicity, the "all possible computation is expressible with these three symbols" sort of thing. se
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by somat 6mo ago
Now I am wondering how VMS handled this. Do VMS programs just get no chance to recover from arithmetic faults? That is, do whatever the VMS equivalent is to masking sigfpe in unix. Was there ever a source drop for VMS on vax? Probably hard
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by somat 6mo ago
One reason I heard the internet works as well as it does is that it inverts the bell system. Where the bell system is a smart network with dumb edge devices. The internet is a dumb network with smart edge devices. The reason this is suppose
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by somat 6mo ago
These obscure architectures are almost always one person with a dream, one hero willing to step up make it happen and maintain it. My favorite is the openbsd luna88k https://www.openbsd.org/luna88k.html I don't have an
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by somat 6mo ago
Ehhh.. This is a bit revisionist for a couple reasons. 1. smtp predates dns. or really even most of the internet. It was originally designed to work over uucp. 2. early smtp used bang paths (remember those) where the route or partial route
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by somat 6mo ago
"When the software is being written by agents as much as by humans, the familiar-language argument is the weakest it has ever been - an LLM does not care whether your codebase is Java or Clojure. It cares about the token efficiency of
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by somat 6mo ago
Salutes on the post. After hearing the flavor tricks they have to jump through to make "never concentrate" I was sort of hoping the freezing process of FCO kept more of the original flavor. But it sounds like it does not. The indu
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by somat 6mo ago
The process to make never concentrated orange juice logistically viable involves removing all the oxygen from the juice so it stores well. Now you can take a seasonal product like oranges and sell the juice the entire year around. Unfortuna
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by somat 6mo ago
Several years ago when I bought a slr, I went with nikon, mainly because their F-mount lenses are mostly compatible back to 1959. It is a lot of fun to pick up and use nice old glass from garage sales and such. They tend to require manual c
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by somat 6mo ago
I run a public unix(openbsd) shell for fun, I call it my social network platform it sort of sucks, no users, ip6 only, a bunch of vm's on an old underpowered router running in my closet. But feel free to stop by and set up a .plan if y
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by somat 6mo ago
That is why I have doubts about their scalability. There are fundamental physics reasons we were able to scale digital computers and were unable to do the same to analog ones.
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by somat 6mo ago
NAT is a statefull firewall with a trick. One is exactly as complicated to reason about as the other. Except on one you don't need the trick.
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by somat 6mo ago
"The second approach was to use a digital computer to determine the solution. This solution was rejected because in 1963, a digital computer was expensive, slow, and less reliable." This inflection point between analog and digital
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by somat 6mo ago
While true your argument is weak, for example in pov-ray the shapes are pure exact mathematical concepts. But nobody is saying how great this is for 3d printing or general cad work because it's not. The real key benefit from these prog
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by somat 6mo ago
The REST term triggers me. It should not. I should just let it go. But whenever someone says REST 99% of the time they mean HTTP and 98% of the time it is json over HTTP. REST is a specific access pattern where you ship the application requ
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Pfsync Packet Header Field Renamed to Avoid AI Bug Report Noise(undeadly.org)
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by somat 6mo ago
With regards to printer rip(raster image processer) machines. We think of this as an easy task today but historically they had to be surprisingly powerful. When I bought my sgi o2 I found it had lived it's previous life as a rip. Which
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by somat 6mo ago
"Sadly, the hang was deterministic" No, no, you rejoice, a deterministic bug is the best sort of bug. because now you have a test case and a solid method to know when it is fixed. The sad bugs are the ones you can't find a te
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by somat 6mo ago
Even netflix suffers from this, for a while they were great, pay them watch anything. but then the traditional publishing houses started cutting their works off from netflix in favor of running their own streaming. which had two results, a

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