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by theamk 3mo ago
Funnily enough, "GPU" (video driver) on Linux used to be microkernel-like: the Xorg would run in userspace and talk to device directly. It was exactly as you described - if Xorg crashed, you could use keyboard shortcut to reinitia
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by theamk 3mo ago
The only way to make it work with zero contest pages is to dedicate a whole core per process. There would be 1 core for filesystem, 1 core for network, 1 core for GPU, 1 core per device... You are going to run out of cores pretty fast! And
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by theamk 3mo ago
> The overhead was too high because computers in the 80s didn't have a way for a userspace process to directly access a particular hardware device. Eh, no, author mixed things up. To access a hardware device, you need ioperm, which
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by theamk 3mo ago
It is pretty serious for all those people who has been laid off.
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by theamk 3mo ago
instead of pointing me to 2K lines file, can you answer the question directly? > if I add a gigabyte of photos and then close the lid of my laptop, who is storing those? Do I choose specific nodes I trust, or is it assigned randomly? Ho
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by theamk 3mo ago
you are really not reading jameskilton's comment, are you? the internet is already decentralized. "Anyone can hook up a computer to the Internet and others can immediately access it". This means: cloud - don't need it, p
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by theamk 3mo ago
it's a node.js app which you run on your machine and which serves a localhost page with a bunch of services. Not clear which, but "messages", "files" and "streaming" are all mentioned.
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by theamk 3mo ago
despite having "OS" in the name, it has nothing to do with operating systems. It's a local node.js app you run, which connects to their own mesh network, and somehow fetches the user data from the P2P mesh. The P2P mesh is su
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by theamk 3mo ago
I have no doubt that Windows internals are at least as complex as Linux internals. Actually they are likely much more complex - all that backward compatibility won't shrink the API surface or make it easier to program. But are they &qu
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by theamk 3mo ago
note: this is from "Operator of @KiwiFarmsDotNet", I assume this one [0]. If so, it's pretty ironic that he is complaining about doxing. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms
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by theamk 3mo ago
As common with AI-based commit message generators, this does not answer any of the interesting questions: - Why was this project started? - How is is it different from alternatives which do the same? - What is development focused on? (and n
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by theamk 3mo ago
advanced work != advanced tools You can have basic and not very user friendly tool, and work on very advanced topics, such as new forms of networking, innovative database, cool filesystem or storage devices, etc... Or you can be an advanced
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by theamk 3mo ago
Have you installed Windows recently? It is full of ads. If Microsoft can push ads to users, why can't LG?
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by theamk 3mo ago
That's just living in the Windows world. After start menu ads, I don't understand why people are being surprised anymore.
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by theamk 3mo ago
https://archive.is/yniv5
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by theamk 3mo ago
broken in Firefox, SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG
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by theamk 3mo ago
For external events, like code update or new publish, sure. But the author talks about scheduled events - it's harder to think of good examples here. (because with scheduled events, if you missed deadline once, there is a good chance t
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by theamk 3mo ago
The title of the post is "Tokio/Rayon Trap" - those are two very well known Rust libraries. (in case you missed it, authors mention them later and explain what they do: "Use Tokio for I/O, and send CPU-bound work to
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by theamk 3mo ago
I think the the second part was kinda obvious? The moment I read this: > If you’re anything like me, you would probably have said Parallel Spawn, Prefer New, and Wait are perhaps defensible, whereas Prefer Old feels weird/backward.
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by theamk 3mo ago
Pretty sure that to get a bug bounty one needs to study things first, and this takes quite a bit of time.
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by theamk 3mo ago
Don't your kids go anywhere by themselves? Or do they stay at home / only get ferried by the parents? A bus-tracking app on my phone completely changed how I interact with public transit, and made it significantly better. I rememb
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by theamk 3mo ago
Sure that had to justify it, people were writing all sorts of posts about how Bun was no longer trusted since it was rewritten with Rust. Bun's post was explanation of that process that was (IMHO) pretty reassuring in that the new vers
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by theamk 3mo ago
The research is good - range tracking is something that ever verification model should do. But reading words "Arduino" and "safety critical" in the same sentence jars me every time. Yes, Arduino ecosystem is large, and i
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by theamk 3mo ago
Or, in shorter words: "I don't care, stop wasting my time" I get those kinds of question all the time ("I like A more but C is the fastest; what do you think?"), but when I don't care or don't know, I pref
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by theamk 3mo ago
> Why would you even want to do that?” > I dunno, man, it’s the job I was given. Do you know or not? That's pretty sad to hear, and that's the hardest thing about working with junior engineers (or nowadays, with LLMs). Someo
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by theamk 3mo ago
https://archive.is/YkrVy
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by theamk 3mo ago
That featur is opt-in: someone had to check a checkbox somewhere to enable it. And yeah, that how the businesses work: you opt-in to feature, then you start paying for it. Sometimes the latter part is delayed, in which case it's a good
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by theamk 3mo ago
> GitHub Code Quality is available for organization-owned repositories on GitHub Team and GitHub Enterprise Cloud plans. Both of those are paid plans, so the billing information available. As the message says, this email is not for indiv
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by theamk 3mo ago
current front page: out of 6 posts viisble, 3 are about AI
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by theamk 3mo ago
> access to this data is being limited to a repository's own admins and collaborators. Sounds fine to me? Why would a random third-party need to know which repos do I star, and who stars my repos?

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