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by xenadu02 6mo ago
Are you sure about that number being ex-fuel? FWIW I'm not interested in flying commercial with non-union pilots so that airlines can become cheap labor body shops. I'm also not interested in saving money by having Boeing outsourc
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by xenadu02 6mo ago
You can always route writes to a writer node with streaming WAL replication to all the reader nodes. Works for some workloads and systems, not for others. For that matter if you write your system with the correct abstraction you can switch
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by xenadu02 6mo ago
Yeah that's true, it doesn't require a physical implementation per-se. It does specify cross-talk specs and frequency response. IIRC Cat-5E was 125, Cat-6 250, Cat-6A 500Mhz. But copper is copper and all else equal well-made coppe
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by xenadu02 6mo ago
In more general terms "runtime" means the userspace facilities above and beyond the standard system APIs (which often translate directly into syscalls into the kernel). It is a set of agreed-upon data structures and functions for
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by xenadu02 6mo ago
A race to the bottom on pilot pay won't help anything. Well it may lead to less qualified pilots. You can ask Boeing how well screwing over labor has worked for them if you like. All US airlines have the same labor costs for pilots and
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by xenadu02 6mo ago
IBM is also the reason MS-DOS doesn't support "-" for options and why it doesn't have devices in the "\DEV" directory on all drives. Support for "/" as path separator survived though! Many MS fol
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by xenadu02 6mo ago
Spirit has filed bankruptcy twice in the past year. Bondholders aren't going to accept any purchase plan unless the buyer is going to vastly overpay. They probably believe they'll get more money back from selling the aircraft. If
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by xenadu02 6mo ago
Is the disconnect here that in many datasets there is some implicit distribution? For example if we are searching for english words we can assume that the number of words or sentences starting with "Q" or "Z" is very sma
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by xenadu02 6mo ago
> The most important question was the structured cabling in the walls; was it CAT-5E or CAT-6, or even CAT-6A? Remember from the last post, 10GBASE-T might work over short runs of -5E (even though officially it's not meant to be abl
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by xenadu02 6mo ago
This comment is completely incorrect. kqueue VNODE events are delivered so long as your process has access to the file. There is no "same-process" notification filter.
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by xenadu02 6mo ago
I have no idea why they aren't using kqueue but that works on macOS and FreeBSD. It has for years. You want EVFILT_VNODE with NOTE_WRITE. That's hooked up to VNOP_WRITE in the kernel, the call made to the relevant filesystem to ac
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by xenadu02 6mo ago
If you're interested you can use kqueue on FreeBSD and Darwin to watch the inode for changes. Faster than a syscall, especially if all you need is a wakeup when it changes.
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by xenadu02 6mo ago
Most edible bananas are seedless and most cultivars (human grown) bananas are genetic mutants with triploid chromosomes (though a few are tetrapolid or diploid). Getting them to produce functional reproductive structures at all let alone vi
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by xenadu02 6mo ago
This is wildly inaccurate. Windows 3.11 was a hypervisor running virtual machines. The 16-bit Windows virtual machine (within which everything was cooperatively multitasking), the 32-bit headless VM that ran 32-bit drivers, and any number o
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by xenadu02 6mo ago
I do some machining as a hobby (I get enough of computers at work and elsewhere) so here's a similar tip: Don't treat your lathe faceplate as a precious artifact. Need to clamp an oddly shaped part to it? Drill and tap some holes.
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by xenadu02 6mo ago
IOKit was almost done in Java; C++ was the engineering plan to stop that from happening. Remember: there was a short window of time where everyone thought Java was the future and Java support was featured heavily in some of the early OS X a
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by xenadu02 7mo ago
> Someone will fulfil the need as there is a high incentive to. Unless the capital cost to compete is too high and the risk of the existing manufacturers undercutting you is very real. Plus it can take 5-10 years or more to build a new f
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by xenadu02 7mo ago
I think you have to temper the skepticism a bit though. SpaceX has dramatically lowered the cost of launching things into space. They are still the leader here. They can put a kg into orbit cheaper than anyone, even heavily subsidized state
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by xenadu02 7mo ago
It is important to remember that Microsoft created some of this chaos to begin with. Other aspects can be attributed to "the industry didn't understand the value of $x or the right way to do $y at the time". And some of this
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by xenadu02 7mo ago
I recommend ANSI rated cut protection gloves: https://www.mcmaster.com/9915N987/ I use them when working with sheet metal. They are high-dexterity. Thin and flexible. Steel threads are woven into the fabric. McMaster h
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by xenadu02 7mo ago
> You might want to take some time off the internet, I can smell your liver from here. I'm not sure what that means? Liver? Is that a drinking thing? I don't really drink so I dunno. > Time to take a chill pill and learn to
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by xenadu02 7mo ago
Because it's the least offensive. No one can yell at you or claim the color is "dated" if you stick to white/gray/black and a touch of stainless steel. Sad to see how many houses are painted gray or beige in SF now.
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by xenadu02 7mo ago
The REILs are part of ARFF training. Pilot training on it is also clear. The system is automated. It plots the direction and speed of anything approaching the runway and predicts a conflict. If the REILs are red it is HIGHLY likely there is
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by xenadu02 7mo ago
Is that not an admission that his poor management and lack of vision cannot foresee any way to make profitable use of those people's labor? A company raking in 5-6 billion per year can't find any profitable bets to make? Possi
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by xenadu02 7mo ago
Super shocking (sarcasm). Gamblers are the whales of that industry. The industry is well aware of that and well aware of how much harm they can cause. But their paychecks depend on not knowing so they choose not to. Same as pay-to-win freem
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by xenadu02 7mo ago
If you dig into JS engine implementations they deal with a lot of the same sorts of things. Simple objects with straightforward properties are tagged such that they skip the dynamic machinery with fallback paths to deal with dynamism when i
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by xenadu02 7mo ago
This is just an analogy but in Swift String is such a commonly used hot path the type is designed to accommodate different backing representations in a performant way. The type has bits in its layout that indicate the backing storage. eg a
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by xenadu02 7mo ago
Scrolling is broken by everyone everywhere. Scrolling to the bottom then forcing me to click "show more"? Lazy. A truly horrible experience. I don't know how anyone could think that is a good idea. The worst offenders are the
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by xenadu02 7mo ago
Sometimes it produces useful output. A good base of tests to start with. Or some little tool I'd never take the time to make if I had to do it myself. On the other hand I tried to get help debugging a test failure and Claude spit out p
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by xenadu02 7mo ago
The list of companies imploded by LBO/PE is quite high though. Why do banks keep lining up to fund such deals? They must be making money somehow. These companies aren't worth much in liquidation. Are they able to extract enough va

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