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by Annatar 2mo ago
We all have our delusions.
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by Annatar 2y ago
The natural tendency is to tackle the hardest parts first, because it's intuitive that the low hanging fruit will be easy and therefore bring more satisfaction. However, I found that tackling what one knows first -- the low hanging fru
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by Annatar 2y ago
Clean bash would mean that it is portable; that bash script will only work on Linux, whereas it will horribly break everywhere else.
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by Annatar 3y ago
One could pipe that output directly to nroff or groff: | soelim | tbl | eqn | nroff -man - | $PAGER | soelim | tbl | eqn | nroff -man -Tpost - | /usr/lib/postscript/bin/dpost | ps2pdf - > ~/Desktop&#x
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by Annatar 3y ago
The problem wasn't that he didn't care, but that he sunk his own private fortune made at Commodore into ATARI, and that ATARI was always teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. They never had enough money, it's amazing that the
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by Annatar 3y ago
Every time a socket is instantiated, Sun Microsystems comes alive; so too it is with NFS, and many other core technologies; there is lots that's left of Sun which still makes it live, even though it doesn't officially exist any mo
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by Annatar 3y ago
Modern post-2012 Fortran is excellent, and the compiler produces very fast code, GPU or otherwise. And it is very portable.
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by Annatar 4y ago
This is an already solved problem: - package everything, *especially configuration*; - executables in /opt/someprefix/bin, no extensions; - daemons (services), executables with elevated privileges go into /opt&#x
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by Annatar 4y ago
Which compiler did you use? Did you generate an executable machine code image with it? How are you drawing graphics with Lisp (SDL, DirectX, OpenGL, something else)?
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by Annatar 4y ago
ZFS was made by Sun Microsystems, which was a dear, awesome company that educated, fed, clothed and put bread on the table for an entire generation of computer professionals outside of Sun Microsystems, not to mention paid millions out of t
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by Annatar 4y ago
Solaris is UNIX 03 certified. Solaris is actually a reference implementation platform for: - TCP / IP; - NFS; - POSIX; - XPG4; - XPG6; - SVR4.
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by Annatar 4y ago
Solaris is used in life-critical environments, like for example medical systems or energetics. Anything that's absolutely life critical and must run for thousands of days without rebooting. And it's really nice for running softwar
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by Annatar 4y ago
"How would a mirrored boot work in practice?" The same way it has worked for the past 30+ years: the firmware boots from first designated boot device; if that device isn't bootable, it moves on to the next one. The next one b
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by Annatar 4y ago
Not by hand! With configuration packages in OS-native format! 1. When a system comes in, it is scanned and entered into the asset management database, which then triggers a process to enter the scanned MAC address into the DHCP, by generati
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by Annatar 4y ago
Ansible is like a fifth wheel on a car, since all of the configuration can be done inside of OS packages, and orchestration can be done via SSH (which is exactly how Ansible does it). Put those two together and Ansible is a solution to a no
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by Annatar 4y ago
It's not a shallow dismissal, it's the scourge of our industry; I can't wait to retire so that I would never have to look at it again. Give it a rest with virtue signalling.
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by Annatar 4y ago
How is inventing yet another complicated machinery to churn out some HTML and JavaScript innovation?
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by Annatar 4y ago
Utter nonsense. People are laughing their asses off at the amount of idiocy on this web site.
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by Annatar 4y ago
Who exactly is being influenced?
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by Annatar 4y ago
You've heard of this thing called "Twitter"?
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by Annatar 4y ago
Actually “Hacker” “News” has been a point of ridicule for quite a while now outside of the bubble here, so arguing that it’s an opinion forge plays right into its notoriety.
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by Annatar 4y ago
286 was a very shitty system: it had only a beeper, practically no DMA, no graphics hardware acceleration of any kind (not even hardware scrolling; sprites were science fiction). Almost everything in that shitty PC bucket was driven by the
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by Annatar 4y ago
It takes a month to set up a Kickstart infrastructure (DHCP, TFTP, NFS, Kickstart profile(s)), a day to three days for an experienced system engineer to package the components, and a week to three weeks to test and package the configuration
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by Annatar 4y ago
Except that a JIT is still not a compiler in the conventional sense. I am specifically referring to a program capable of generating and permanently storing machine code on stable storage.
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by Annatar 4y ago
I don't understand how anyone could leave the job half-finished and compromise in this way: in these scenarios, almost all the legwork is done to also build a compiler, for those times when the interpreted code runs just right and is r
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by Annatar 4y ago
It does not benefit me: you mistake niceness for kindness. There is little I can learn from you and your guideliness when you yourself cannot tell which is which.
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by Annatar 4y ago
You are not supposed to "identify" anything on UNIX-like operating systems; that is what the file(1) command is for, specifically, especially so since the entire concept of UNIX is that everything is a stream of bytes . Attemptin
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by Annatar 4y ago
This was a good article, and more such articles with examples are needed because understanding how pointer aliasing works can yield significant performance gains, since the compiler can be directed to make optimizations it would otherwise n
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by Annatar 4y ago
Maybe before starting to teach others, you should teach yourself how to cleanly package your software into OS packages, instead of peddling around MS-DOS style shell scripts with a .sh extension. Didn't anybody teach you that UNIX-like
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by Annatar 4y ago
Dedicated controllers were absolutely out of the question because nobody could afford them, which is why Amigas were so popular: a fully multitasking, multimedia computer for 450 DM. That's 225 EUR! Somebody that cost sensitive won&#x2

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