verisimilitudes

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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
Multics used segments and Lisp Machines had a single address space. UNIX breaks down quickly without multiple fake single address spaces for each program. > Programs just have to be compiled relocatable. Yes, and with unrestricted memor
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
> But this isn't state of the process image that needs to be serialised, it's state of the connection between two hosts and some kernel configuration on those hosts. Programming language doesn't play into it at all. It is
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
Some languages provide serialization of most anything by default, such as Lisp. Now, even in Lisp there are objects which don't make sense to serialize, including a TCP connection; however, the components thereof can be collected and
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
So, this is making a TCP Connection serializable in an ad hoc fashion. > It is natural to want those connections to follow the container to its new host, preferably without the remote end even noticing that something has changed, but the
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
Watching advertisements is completely optional.
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
This is right up my alley as it were. I'm not going to read the entire document, but I can remark on how the assembler language model is inferior to something I've created. Details are in my user page. In brief, an assembler
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
Hey, Dang. Why do I keep getting flagged or killed? I was told to start posting about things other than my website, but all of those end up dead just the same? What am I doing wrong here?
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
Take a break from discussing tape to talk about a topic truly relevant to hackerdom, the censorship of websites.
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
Dang told me I should upload links to places other than my website, so that's what I'm doing. What does it mean for society, when people realize "go build your own" won't be tolerated either? Democracy requires th
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
Diversity.
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
It's easy to support the status quo, until someone points out numerous issues with it, I know. At least read my website before calling me unhinged.
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
Congratulations on understanding what an abstraction is. Do I need to worry about the transistors or individual atoms in a computer? Why should UNIX be the right level of abstraction forever?
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
I'm being trolled by someone who finds a DNS lookup and an encrypted TCP connection to send a textual command to another machine is somehow impressive, rather than entirely basic and, again, unimpressive. It then puts the result into
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
That is far, far more than transferring a byte of data. Educate me. It's much more meaningful and useful than "something simple" "running little functions floating in the void" which just sounds like some vapid m
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
I don't use k8s or whatever garbage gets thrown around nowadays. I well remember my disgust when I learned AWS was just using UNIX virtual machines or whatever, rather than something simple, such as allowing people to run little functi
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
I like pointing out that millions of lines of code in the Linux kernel have no real memory exhaustion strategy beyond randomly killing a process. Those are millions of lines of code, few of which are reusable, and they do so very little.
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
It's a shame he doesn't mention Ada, which is static but oh so nice about it. Right, but the problem is – as Peter Harkins mentions here – that programmers have this tendency to, once they master something hard (often pointlessly
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
This is a bad language failure, however. The same logic, ported to Brainfuck, would exhibit the same stupidity. The C language makes it unreasonably difficult to write anything, even before proving it to be correct.
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
This describes a mainframe with dumb terminals.
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
Never forget this is how people who dare to reverse engineer Windows are treated: https://www.theregister.com/2019/07/03/reactos_windows_resea... https://marc.info/?l=ros-dev&m=11877534613
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
It's funny how this argument doesn't fly with people when it comes to blocking advertisements, with one man claiming it takes food out of his child's mouth.
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
How is it possible for a TCP bug that leads to stuck connections to go unnoticed for 24 years? It's because the fools responsible never rewrite their code, use a broken language, and don't even try to prove half of the broken ga
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
Not all CEOs of tech startups have the time to write code. Fortunately while Textualize is still in its development phase I have plenty of opportunity to get my hands dirty. Oh, so this is something unimpressive being used to disguise an
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
I go further than handwritten HTML and CSS. I also have a Gopher hole. The only advantage a browser such as Emacs' eww has over an Emacs Gopher client is that eww is included by default. It also leads to good practices such as avoid
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
I'm tired, dang. I wanted to delete this account, but I'm not allowed to do so. I didn't use it for years until I tried to contact someone here. Now, when I even try to submit something here into which I've poured eff
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
How could that be, if we be all the same?
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
White people who don't want to date black people and lesbians who don't want to have sex with transsexuals already suffer this.
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
I like how expecting real torrent clients to bend over for the WWW is in any way considered to be a reasonable stance.
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
His self-interest makes his position understandable. Why, programming is just as real as other engineering, except for those nasty consequences for gross negligence, such as using the C/C++ languages or garbage similar to them.
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by verisimilitudes 4y ago
The simple fact is most programmers would be too incompetent to exist in such a world.

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