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by dexen 15d ago
An absent (removed) part might be acceptable depending on circumstances, but a genuinely missing part creates hazards and must be ascertained as to its location. A mechanical jam, an electric short, a hydraulic leak, or a Foreign Object D
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by dexen 4mo ago
Excellent post, thank you
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by dexen 7mo ago
Gonna re-post my 2023 comment on IPv6: >It is gradually becoming acceptable to dismiss IPv6 and suggest searching for a modern, practically minded alternative. Important first step in untangling the mess. >Naturally opinions vary as
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by dexen 1y ago
At my old uni there were a couple public terminals running DOS, most of the time sitting idle at the prompt. It was bespoke kiosk cabinets only exposing keyboard and screen. One April Fool's I had the bright idea to change PROMPT to s
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by dexen 2y ago
In which Jerf longs for PHP. Every single point has been in, and actively used, for a long while. The __call() & friends is particularly nifty - simple mental model, broad applicability, in practice used sparingly to great effect. All i
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by dexen 2y ago
>printing also will likely impact timing and can change concurrent behaviour as well. I've had a bug like that and the intuitive way to handle it turned out to be entirely sufficient. The bug (deep in networking stack, linux kerne
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by dexen 2y ago
>government getting private property snatched in transit by extending letters of marque to ISPs Yep, that is piracy indeed, even if done under the figleaf of "privateering".
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by dexen 2y ago
For sake of example: a "locale-aware" number conversion routine would be the worst possible choice for parsing incoming network traffic. Beyond the performance concerns, there's the significant semantic difference in number f
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by dexen 2y ago
>Unless it's one of those cursed things installed at the customer thousands of miles away that never happens back in the lab. I had a bug like that in my previous (telcom embedded dev) career. Ended up driving to the customer premis
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by dexen 2y ago
The brevity carried over to Plan 9. Re-posting my older comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4023385 ): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs follows the Unix philosophy. A lot of
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by dexen 2y ago
To further expand upon this, quickly ascending to high altitude (flying airplane or balloon) after diving is also dangerous, for the very same reason. Pilots are trained to wait out at least 24 hours after a dive, or at least 12 hours if th
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by dexen 2y ago
Author states "i feel disrespected in my own ~home.". And funnily enough "~" is exactly what he's looking for: df -h ~
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by dexen 2y ago
Interesting, thank you. Especially the point about government being a huge spender where it has reduced regular commerce.
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by dexen 2y ago
It is sad to see the correct reply grayed out. This kind of regulation is known to breed corruption & abuse, tilting the field heavily towards the highest spenders. Can only be enacted when ideology trumps well established knowledge &am
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by dexen 2y ago
Seconding this. Having lucked into using Lilo and no initramfs for several years now, I'm very happy with robustness and straightforwardness of the solution. In contrast, on the rare occasion I've dealt with somebody elses' G
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by dexen 2y ago
The article is about latency, the GP is about latency, you instead pivoted to throughput. Of course throughput can be made arbitrarily high when you don't measure latency. Doesn't help your case at all, quite the opposite. I am in
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by dexen 2y ago
I particularly like how in Acme, when selection is zero-width ("empty"), it is the cursor. Conversely selection can be extended from cursor in any direction. As a side effect, this greatly simplifies the API for manipulating both.
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by dexen 2y ago
Love this. Aligns with some of my recent musings. Even better, it would be largely immune to certain recently discovered problems with AI, including ingesting AI-generated content.
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by dexen 2y ago
Secondend! I like how this checks for both actual work quality, and for cultural fit, in one step.
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by dexen 2y ago
Surprisingly the difference isn't quite as it seems. There's an important distinction between mass of the vessel's own structure, the bare necessities like fuel, stores & crew, and its payload. Naval engineering and insur
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by dexen 3y ago
>Computers and other automations never made creative decisions before Oh they absolutely did. Even the early optimizing compilers discovered new pathways and created code that surprised even their authors. The only difference is that n
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by dexen 3y ago
I subscribe to your and broadly follow your arguments. It's also worth pointing out the speed of information propagation, speed of manufacturing, and speed of distribution & logistics has dramatically increased since 14+14 years wa
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by dexen 3y ago
>how has the situation improved since then? It is gradually becoming acceptable to dismiss IPv6 and suggest searching for a modern, practically minded alternative. Important first step in untangling the mess. Naturally opinions vary as
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by dexen 3y ago
Most likely using the WebPageTest tool at https://www.webpagetest.org/
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by dexen 3y ago
Excellent thinking, making the text hypertext and opening up for ad hoc composability. Ah, the joys of re-discovering the Plan 9 tech. Here specifically the Acme IDE, and also to certain extent the Rio WM.
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by dexen 3y ago
"Append-only files" would be a great fit here: to ensure regular users and bots don't modify others' posts. Sadly this Plan 9 functionality is not ported to Linux yet. That's a permission bit, similar to "read&
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by dexen 3y ago
The C2 wiki was re-written and re-implemented as single page app, currently at http://fed.wiki.org/ It is an interesting change, to a more federated style. I ended up doing a small project inspired by this change, at https
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by dexen 3y ago
Acme has a handful of keybindings, like the usual ^A, ^E for navigation, ^Z for undo, etc. Plugging in new ones is a few lines of code, for example my ^S for Putall (saving all windows): https://github.com/dexen/plan9po
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by dexen 5y ago
Recommend against incentivizing visiting the newest submission - it would increase effectiveness of submitting content over the effectiveness of community moderation. That kind of change would empower the outsiders over the community, presu
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by dexen 5y ago
There's a recent (January 19, 2022) CDC publications with numbers on exactly that. Forbes provides a brief overview: "CDC: Prior Covid Infection Offered More Protection Against Delta Than Vaccines — But Both Together Did Best&quot

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