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by throwawayish 10y ago
> ... or a filesystem as a backing store first. File systems are far harder to use correctly compared to pretty much any database; suggestion: only use them for storing large blobs, and use collision-free names (eg. random UUIDv4). Many
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by throwawayish 10y ago
> I'm somewhat aware but it seems like the idea of a computational graph is the most generic computational idea I can think of and I'm surprised it's not more explored. ASTs?!
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by throwawayish 10y ago
Earlier in my life I did a lot of Windows system-level programming, including some minor driver development, and now I'm practically exclusively on the #nix bunch, sometimes doing similar stuff. I can't say that there is a dispari
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by throwawayish 10y ago
If you're on a budget it makes little sense if any to buy things like a motherboard, CPU or memory new.
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by throwawayish 10y ago
A Pentium II can play a DVD back at 24 fps back no problems.
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by throwawayish 10y ago
Uh, no. That article is a bit of a long winded way to say that 2PC with timeouts is 2PC with timeouts.
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by throwawayish 10y ago
Unix has process groups. Unix has access control (ie. memory protection, FS access protection, FS root aka chroot). Containers are process groups with access control. The actual entity has a different name pretty much everywhere, eg. Solari
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by throwawayish 10y ago
The numerous performance and stability issues (not just in the containers, but also affecting the main cgroup / "host" rather badly) I had with Docker, but never with LXC, which, according to you would be pretty much the same
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by throwawayish 10y ago
WinDirStat does a map-like view where blocks are grouped by folders. KFilelight only does sunburst I think, but I also have to say I like that, because it's easy to navigate (large click-able surface area).
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by throwawayish 10y ago
KDE: Filelight, https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/kdeutils/filelight/introducti... Windows: WinDirStat
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by throwawayish 10y ago
There are some sections of Autobahn built with concrete slabs and they are terrible, even if it were for the noise alone [1]. But they are also problematic when it gets hot -- warped slabs and slabs being lifted into the air by pressure (
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by throwawayish 10y ago
This is legacy built on legacy built to work with minimal CPU cycles on existing hardware designed to be compatible with hardware from the 40s. Yes, concerns aren't separated ;) A much more recent and far superior design can be found i
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by throwawayish 10y ago
http://zodb.org/ is literally what you are describing :) It's the basis of most Zope apps, including Plone, but also many other applications; there's not much talk about it, because it just works. Like in the comm
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by throwawayish 10y ago
> There is no application that has a 30 years lifespan. You literally made me "chuckle out loud".
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by throwawayish 10y ago
The format itself is not complex, but recovering the transaction is (very much). So better make sure to leave it clean.
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by throwawayish 10y ago
I loathe this kind of headline, claiming to have the authority to tell me what to do or what is good or bad for me. How presumptuous.
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by throwawayish 10y ago
In most European countries it's much easier to get citizenship if a) stayed a while and b) gave birth to a child. Similarly it's easier for the other parent to get citizenship or permanent residence under these conditions. But yea
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by throwawayish 10y ago
I disagree with both of you. SQL and ORM are a superb fit for a great many applications, incidentally a large share of real world applications. The four-letter abbrev. CRUD comes to mind, as well as reporting. Most kinds of NoSQL remove som
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by throwawayish 10y ago
SSH != remote shell -- pretty much one of the main points of this article.
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by throwawayish 10y ago
No, this is often about having a working exit strategy. Similar things happen in many countries right now, usually by getting a/the pregnant wife into the country, getting citizenship for the child and thus at least residency rights fo
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by throwawayish 10y ago
Wholly irrelevant, just like the Python "benchmark" that was on the front page yesterday.
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by throwawayish 10y ago
Prior approaches to mixing architectures in one system (and actually moving applications at runtime dynamically, as in big.LITTLE,) were ...
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by throwawayish 10y ago
Also, you don't have to route traffic over tor in Qubes.
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by throwawayish 10y ago
Konsole?
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by throwawayish 10y ago
Both Pentium and Celeron are used for standard mainstream dual-core chips and for Atom chips (eg. J4205, Celeron G3900, Pentium G4400)... so in a way they are Intel's trash-can brand.
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by throwawayish 10y ago
I expect the same. Prior approaches to mixing architectures in one system and actually moving applications at runtime dynamically, as in big.LITTLE, were either far too complex to target or far too inefficient (1). I also don't see a t
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by throwawayish 10y ago
The CPUs run different OSes and there is no ability to move tasks between them; this is rather unlike a hybrid or "big.LITTLE" approach.
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by throwawayish 10y ago
Not really, the ARM in the SB is much more like a ILOM system; not much different from the various processors scattered around hardware these days, be it ARM or some other more niche architecture, or even special-purpose archs.
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by throwawayish 10y ago
> That's a huge loss of face for java IMHO Because the JVM JIT, like every other compiler , sucks at developing vectorized algorithms ad-hoc ; a task usually carried out by human experts in that?

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