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by vlowther 2y ago
It is not hard research, it is "just" a lot of plain old boring engineering.
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by vlowther 2y ago
> Does iPXE have a ca-certificates bundle built-in, is there PKI with which to validate kernels and initrds retrieved over the network at boot time For HTTPS booting, yes. > how does SecureBoot work with iPXE? It doesn't, unless
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by vlowther 2y ago
Oooh. 6809 resurrection project. I studied that arch obsessively when I was a kid with a Tandy Color Computer.
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by vlowther 2y ago
One of the great thinkers of the modern era. He will be missed.
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by vlowther 3y ago
Terrorists willing to blow themselves up at a time of their choosing is the key there. With nuclear waste hot enough to be a menace, the window between getting the material and being painfully incapacitated and/or dead by the material
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by vlowther 3y ago
More than that. If you have ever had to fix a bug in code common to multiple maintained releases of a project, being able to apply the same patch to them all as its own thing instead of having multiple cherry-picked commits with identical
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by vlowther 3y ago
That is a distinction that only exists because a Git repo is an ordered sequence of snapshots of your code that get translated to and from patches for human consumption. As far as I can tell, a Pijul repo is more of a giant dependency grap
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by vlowther 3y ago
Charge, mass, velocity, and spin are objective. Value exists only in the eye of the beholder.
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by vlowther 3y ago
Fish Speakers. God Emperor Of Dune.
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by vlowther 3y ago
Nothing. You have to get into INTERCAL territory to find something more tedious to work with than COBOL.
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by vlowther 3y ago
Anything that implements or consumes `io.Reader` or `io.Writer` would dispute that.
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by vlowther 3y ago
Why the extra "clone the code" step in the Go developer experience? Been using Go since 1.0, never had to do that.
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by vlowther 3y ago
> The planet will die off first. Definitely not. It may go through a bottleneck in which humanity has to adapt or die (not for the first time, I might add), but (if anything) after the climate has stabilized and life has adapted it wil
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by vlowther 3y ago
Probably Go. It is really well suited to this sort of thing.
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by vlowther 3y ago
> Good luck getting that to run in different environments because static or not, nearly every executable has dependencies. Go compiled with CGO_ENABLED=0 disagrees, especially since embedding was folded into the standard library. > Wh
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by vlowther 3y ago
BBEdit is my weapon of choice for reading massive log dumps and database dumps for support at $DAYJOB. It does not seem to ever choke no matter how many hundreds of megabytes if text I need to plow through.
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by vlowther 3y ago
... And nothing of value was lost.
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by vlowther 4y ago
Covid pandemic proved that most office jobs can be done remotely with little to no loss of productivity.
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by vlowther 4y ago
Because I would rather write one generic container library than n slightly different ones for each data type of deal with screwing around with casting interfaces?
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by vlowther 4y ago
Yes.
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by vlowther 4y ago
well, FAT16/FAT32/EXT2 are not journalled, so making them lose data in a giant variety of ways is a trivial affair. You might want a higher bar than that.
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by vlowther 4y ago
Not that I have seen. map[T]struct{} is more common, with if _,ok := m[x]; ok {} used for testing if a key is in the map. The space savings really add up with large sets.
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by vlowther 5y ago
Instructions unclear, now suffering from waterfowl infestation. I think some of them are geese.
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by vlowther 5y ago
You can now. That was not always the cas e, and that is one of many reasons I used postfix instead of sendmail back in the day.
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by vlowther 5y ago
Ethanol is awesome when it comes to knock resistance because it is much slower burning than gasoline is with all other parameters being equal. Where it bites is that it requires better seals than gasoline, and it has lower energy density,
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by vlowther 5y ago
Good old nuclear salt water rockets: https://www.npl.washington.edu/av/altvw56.html Just don't point the exhaust at anything inhabited.
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by vlowther 5y ago
Given that your squishy brainmeats also consist of neural networks that have been trained directly by years of experience and indirectly by billions of years of evolution, I can write off your response as just a weighted average retrieval a
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by vlowther 5y ago
Twenty years ago it would have been the Scary Devil Monastery. But that was another lifetime, and besides, the protocol is dead.
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by vlowther 5y ago
... writing the code required to write the code needed to implement indexes is more fragile than letting the compiler do it for you, most likely. I maintain a reflect-based indexing implementation for in-memory data, and look forward to se
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by vlowther 5y ago
Shades of NCR vs. IBM, to call back to an even older school acronym pissing match.

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