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by barnacled 4y ago
Reasonably politely pushing back on these has got my post not only downvoted to oblivion (after upvotes) but then flagged (!!) while of course the guy who was abusive in return, no problems. I know you have written eloquently about HN in th
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by barnacled 4y ago
Each of these points are false in my opinion but I genuinely do not understand why you think I'd continue to engage with you after you condescend with that ludicrious 'garbage in garbage out' comment? The fact this was upvote
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by barnacled 4y ago
I am writing a book I intend to release commercially, and a good sized one at that (likely 1,500 pages+). I am absolutely stubbornly determined to release it as both print and DRM-free PDF. It'll get pirated anyway (if anybody cares en
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by barnacled 4y ago
Not out for a long while yet, but https://linuxmemory.org/ :)
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by barnacled 4y ago
That it wasn't completely insane to write a book on the linux memory manager.
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by barnacled 4y ago
Incredible work! I'm writing my own book (obligatory mailing list link [0] and description [1]) and I wondered how you tackled the mental side? It is a bit of a rollercoaster I am finding. That constant fear gnawing in the back of your
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by barnacled 4y ago
This really chimes with me, I'm writing a book about the Linux memory management subsystem [0] and my primary motivation is to learn the subject more deeply and what Paul says here really aligns with my experience. The effort to explai
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by barnacled 4y ago
You do realise there are countless people who have 'read the papers and thought about the conflicting evidence' about climate change right? The reality is unfortunately that these people ARE nutty conspiracy theorists. They are no
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by barnacled 4y ago
No, you literally said 'all his claims are facts until proven otherwise'. I am not being vague, I literally posted a link to a rebuttal thread. This is why I don't post on hacker news any more.
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by barnacled 4y ago
The 'counter' is incredibly weak sauce and she's been rebutted several times. Again, as I said, if you just ignore rebuttals you can keep acting like you have a point. The second post is a scurrilous and nasty smear job from
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by barnacled 4y ago
Ah I expected to get downvoted into oblivion, I know it's a cliche to say it but HN isn't what it once was. A key point to take away is that the fact there are 2 lineages means that lab leak is super unlikely. It would require som
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by barnacled 4y ago
'Claims are facts until proven otherwise' is quite the take, I think Karl Popper would take issue with that. I linked a thorough thread from a domain expert explaining in detail why the claims are false. These things have been add
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by barnacled 4y ago
There is now evidence firmly against lab leak and firmly in favour of natural origins, covered in depth by a domain expert here - https://twitter.com/angie_rasmussen/status/15519378265808240... I feel like this is
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by barnacled 4y ago
This is not evidence. It's hand waving 'how do you explain' stuff that has been addressed many times by experts in the field. No credible evidence whatsoever has been presented. If you ignore experts and just keep repeating t
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by barnacled 4y ago
The problem with this is it is full of utterly debunked nonsense that Ebright knows full well has been addressed. It's Brandolini's law [0] in action, and no matter how many times virologists rebut these positions the same old tri
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by barnacled 4y ago
Interesting this came out just as I rejigged and updated a visualisation tool I made a decade ago (!) which shows sorting algorithms in a really pretty rainbow colour form. I think it gives a good insight into how these work. https:/&
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Rainbow Sort(ljs.io)
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by barnacled 4y ago
This reminds me somewhat of golang - ostensibly open source project but in reality all meaningful decisions are made by those at the company (including shameful throwing away of community work). Perhaps we need a different term to different
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by barnacled 4y ago
As somebody who has started collecting ultima box sets recently (pure nostalgia loved them as a kid) it's been mad to see how ultima 5 has gone from £50 when I bought it a few years ago to maybe even £250+ now. I was hoping I could got
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by barnacled 4y ago
I am at the start of writing a book and had some major freeze at the start before, much like the author here, realised that all that matters is that I write the damn thing. I love how LaTeX lays things out, so I'm using LaTeX. I'd
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by barnacled 4y ago
While I agree in spirit with your point that being true to yourself is very important, as somebody who's been consistently honest (over ~15 years or so career) I'm afraid I think you're far too optimistic on that front. By al
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by barnacled 4y ago
You are taking out the human element of a bad manager wanting revenge for you bad-mouthing them. You might say 'well it's not professional to do that!', however a well motivated manager with an axe to grind can find all sorts
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by barnacled 5y ago
As somebody who works in London, you are right that infra is much better here than at least some places in the US (was shocked when I visited Austin) but the commute is brutal, overcrowded and often unreliable. For example the train line I
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by barnacled 5y ago
>huge companies do not make changes like this purely on the basis of newspaper columns. The same newspaper ran similar tactics against YouTube which resulted in colossal changes. These kinds of stories have an enormous impact, magnified
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by barnacled 5y ago
I really hate that people call Linux distributions 'X OS' and you get sites like this which at no point clarify where it is actually a distro or an entirely new OS. It is confusing and somewhat disrespectful towards Linux.
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by barnacled 6y ago
I work in the exact same industry as him and earn considerably more. As always coding jobs are not fungible and finance coding jobs are not fungible either (a .net back office programmer is not going to earn the same as a front office quant
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by barnacled 6y ago
EDIT: Removed as getting downvoted into oblivion...
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by barnacled 6y ago
Thank you! I wanted to reply last night but got rate limited. I've been questioning my side project recently (hence why no updates for a month) so hearing positive feedback from people does help motivate.
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by barnacled 6y ago
Thanks, I am reading the kernel source as I go and using that to answer questions as I figure things out.
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by barnacled 6y ago
Actually no, the malloc doesn't allocate any memory it just updates the process's VMA to say that the allocated virtual range is valid. The pages are then faulted in on write. This is where things like OOM killer become very confu

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