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by topspin 9mo ago
> Really needs an agent-oriented “getting started” guide to put in the context, and evals vs. the same task done with Python, Rust etc. It has several such documents, including a ~1400 line MEMORY.md file referencing several other such f
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a.k.a. jkh. That's a blast from the past. Back in the early FreeBSD days, Jordan was fielding mailing list traffic and holding the project together as people peppered the lists with questions, trying to get their systems running with
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Results compel expectations, and every "success" unlocks more latitude. A rational person cannot admire headlines that trumpet the wonderful achievements of digital dragnets in one case, and then suffer "concern" when m
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> Why are they comfortable saying this? They receive recognition for the results. Phone data was used in a large fraction of the cases against rioters in the 2021 capital attack. The Powers That Be were grateful that law enforcement we
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> Plenty of ebooks with built-in illumination, you know. I do! And here's dark mode feature for one of them[1]. [1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
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by topspin 9mo ago
> Preact is only 4.7 kB Is there some outlier place where people using virtual DOM frameworks don't also include 100-200kb of "ecosystem" in addition to the framework? I suppose anything is possible, but I've never ac
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Exactly. Contrast or, more precisely, the dynamic range we desire, is ruined by dimming displays enough not to cause pain and fatigue. It's a dumb solution, and we may all safely ignore it, knowing it won't occur. "Dark mod
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> Books reflect ambient light. Thanks! I always wondered how books worked.
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> I’ve never met a person saying they hate books and wish they were white on black. I've never seen a book actually radiate its own light. Perhaps if there had been 600+ sq. inch self illuminating books, we might have invented dark
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There is QNX. seL4 is another. The former is proprietary. The latter kernel is GPL2, similar to Linux.
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> so why would they need to rent to a business with low operating costs If you're asking why the landlord doesn't just leave the site vacant? They're offsetting costs or obviating vacancy taxes or both. There are a lot o
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Ok, but you're not going to get a nifty $4 lunch bowl shop. The properties are held until Starbucks or H&R Block or whatever wants to expand. Maybe said tax makes the mattress store reopen with its one minimum wage cashier poking
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> imposing a vacancy tax That might help a little, but you won't notice. Beating such taxes is done with low value businesses. A mattress store is a typical case, good for holding larger spaces with almost no capital cost: a low o
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AA Flight 191 in 1979, 273 dead. American Airlines invented their own engine removal procedure using a forklift and damaged a pylon and mounting bracket. The engine ripped off the wing on takeoff.
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> Thanks to NPR for this important reporting It's fascinating to see such work. By the grace of NPR, apparently the "transient inflation" narrative is officially inoperative, and plebian concerns about the price of eggs
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> this relies on the idea that the purity numbers are based on "time of test" not "date of seizure" No, the idea doesn't rely on "time of test" vs "date of seizure". There is no real provenan
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It makes a great deal of sense. > deaths dropped months before purity did That's a plausible lag: credible purity figures are not sourced from Mexican drug cartels. They come from laboratories at the end of a long chain of custody c
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> I’m guessing v4 C didn’t have structs yet There may have been a early C without structs (B had none,) but according to Ken Thompson, the addition of structs to C was an important change, and a reason why his third attempt rewrite UNIX
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No. A batch of submission queue entries (SQEs) can be partially completed, whereas an ACID database transaction is all or nothing. The syscalls performed by SQEs have side effects that can't reasonably be undone. Failures of operati
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I can't agree with this. There is ample evidence of serious flaws since 2021. I hate that. I wish it weren't true. But an objective analysis of the record demands that view. Here is a fun one from September (CVE-2025-39816): &
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I believe it's possible, but that it's a hard problem requiring great effort. I believe this is a opportunity to apply formal methods ah la seL4, that nothing less will be sufficient, and that the value of io_uring is great enoug
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In your high level "You might not want to use it if" points, you mention Docker but not why, and that's odd. I happen to know why: io_uring syscalls are blocked by default in Docker, because io_uring is a large surface are
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Andrew Grove, in his later years, held the same view. He explained essentially everything we had seen till then and since: the decline of US semiconductor manufacturing, the loss of talent, critical dependence on foreign nations and compan
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> it surprises me that this hasn't been perfected It shouldn't. It's never really been perfected across native GUI APIs after 40+ years: just various degrees of "good enough," plus fobbing it off to web stacks.
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> China moves on Taiwan What is the risk calculation one would perform before attempting to invade Taiwan while Trump is calling shots? Whatever else you think about Trump, for better or worse, he is not bound by establishment prerogati
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https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/object... Arbitrary name+value pairs attached to S3 objects and buckets, and readily available via the S3 API. Metadata, basically. AWS has some tie-ins
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by topspin 10mo ago
Great, and thank you. I really, really appreciate that Garage accommodates running as a single node without work-arounds and special configuration to yield some kind of degraded state. Despite the single minded focus on distributed opera
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No tags on objects. Garage looks really nice: I've evaluated it with test code and benchmarks and it looks like a winner. Also, very straightforward deployment (self contained executable) and good docs. But no tags on objects is a pre
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> to bash MS products. Microsoft gives them a lot of ammo. While, as I said, Microsoft et al. have seen that SMB is indeed efficient, at the same time security has been neglected to the point of being farcical. You can see this in head

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