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by uncircle 1y ago
> In reality, this is a red herring in most critiques of microkernels. That’s true. I remember reading the L4 microkernel papers, showing how they achieved really decent message-passing performance on Intel 486 processors IIRC. I figure
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by uncircle 1y ago
I was wondering how the syscall mechanism works on Windows compared to Linux, and I found this delightful article: https://alice.climent-pommeret.red/posts/a-syscall-journey-i... EDIT: also, wondering why the above art
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by uncircle 1y ago
I wish I had access to a small ISP. It is comforting to know that if something goes wrong, on the other end of the line there is someone with a Cisco shell open ready to run a traceroute.
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by uncircle 1y ago
HNers will probably take VC money and sell to Meta eventually for a gazillion dollars. You should ask someone on the GNU mailing list (but they don’t have the time and money, especially marketing reach to compete with anything popular)
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by uncircle 1y ago
Ripe for antitrust litigation. Reminds me of Microsoft bundling Internet Explorer. Unfortunately, developing countries have bigger things on their plate than going against Meta, especially since I figure the “bribes” and promise to improve
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by uncircle 1y ago
That makes more sense. Thanks.
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by uncircle 1y ago
There's two: > Even I can’t answer every question about C++ without reference to supporting material (e.g. my own books, online documentation, or the standard). I’m sure that if I tried to keep all of that information in my head, I’
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by uncircle 1y ago
public static final String DISALLOW_FUN The default value is false. [...] Type: Boolean [...] Constant Value: "no_fun" Source: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/UserManag.
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by uncircle 1y ago
Your question fascinated me. Googling "where did the Sun got its low entropy" I also came across these explanations: "Solar energy at Earth is low-entropy because all of it comes from a region of the sky with a diameter of
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by uncircle 1y ago
> Chickens are hilarious and surprisingly adorable. They are, but also extremely dumb. I always think of Herzog's rant about chickens and their stupidity. As they are literal dinosaurs, the terrifying aspect of gigantic carnivore sa
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by uncircle 1y ago
After the discovery of a psychedelic compound, there are two pipelines for release: - the academic way, where it's studied in labs by "serious people", and after FDA approval a big pharma with worldwide licence sells it for o
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by uncircle 1y ago
True but doesn’t matter how slow light is. The closest to c your speed is, the shortest the time you experience on board of the space ship. At light speed, space and time cease to exist. You reach destination instantly. So the goal is to cr
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by uncircle 1y ago
If you talk about myhouse.wad, you must link the video of John Romero himself playing it: https://youtu.be/gIl_TqFJNO8?si=H4o6m-RbH2rpX2FG
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by uncircle 1y ago
Sweeteners don’t solve the obesity epidemic, they make it worse. Bodies are complex systems with feedback, you cannot focus only on the amount of calories. If one is overweight, and keep reinforcing their dietary patterns by eating sweet fo
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by uncircle 1y ago
The good thing about todos on physical objects like a whiteboard is that the space is limited. Todo software tends to accumulate tasks until there are so many you’re overwhelmed with anxiety just opening the app, and pruning them would be
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by uncircle 1y ago
What's the language shown in the CP/M-86 listings? E.g. http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/digitalResearch/CPM_Listings/CP...
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by uncircle 1y ago
Yes, that's true, but chronic procrastinators also get older which means they know what works best for them, and also accept that some stuff might fall through the cracks, and that's perfectly fine. Wanting to have a perfectly org
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by uncircle 1y ago
I was about to be a little snarky but your comment reminded me to be kind. Thanks. I don't have a receipt printer, what helps me is an A4-sized whiteboard with marker when I feel like I'm falling behind my tasks. Also, to use todo
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by uncircle 1y ago
That raises even more questions.
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by uncircle 1y ago
It cannot be humor as it doesn't have, at the end of the comment, the tag /s
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by uncircle 1y ago
> Does this mean that eventually in a world where we all use this stuff, no new language/framework/library will ever be able to emerge? That's a very good question. Rephrased: as good training data will diminish exponentia
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by uncircle 1y ago
> It utilizes different shades of grey borders to convey a sort of faux surface-normal highlight on beveled edges to indicate whether the element is raised or sunken. You mean this? https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/
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by uncircle 1y ago
I prefer s5cmd as well because it has a better CLI interface than s3cmd, especially if you need to talk with non-AWS S3-compatible servers. It does few things and does them well, whereas s3cmd is a tool with a billion options, configuration