pdmccormick

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by pdmccormick 3mo ago
Thank you for sharing this tidbit. It looks like this may have been fixed? https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/master/NetworkPkg/Htt... I have an HTTP netboot flow that worked on older AMI Aptio
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by pdmccormick 4mo ago
This also works: var _ MyInterface = (*MyStruct)(nil) In my mind as I read this, I am reminded that it is the receiver type *MyStruct that implements MyInterface. YMMV.
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by pdmccormick 5mo ago
Also, if you kill 10 people a year, you will have an accelerating rate of average wealth growth!
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by pdmccormick 8mo ago
"Become close friends with the software you use all the time." That is a beautifully evocative phrase for a lovely idea, thank you for sharing. If I may share an idea for which I don't have nearly as nice and succinct a summa
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by pdmccormick 9mo ago
Conceptually, can you break your processing up into a more or less "pure" functional core, surrounded by some gooey, imperative, state-dependent input loading and output effecting stages? For each processing stage, implement funct
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by pdmccormick 9mo ago
Bravo lol
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by pdmccormick 10mo ago
"Eldritch vectors" is a perfect descriptor, thank you.
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by pdmccormick 11mo ago
That seems like a lot of money. How quickly can sustainable capacity be built up in terms of building power plants, data center construction, silicon design and fabrication, etc.? Are these industries about to experience stratospheric growt
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by pdmccormick 1y ago
HTTPSSH. Why not just SSH/QUIC, what does the HTTP/3 layer add that QUIC doesn’t already have?
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by pdmccormick 1y ago
“It sounds like a bunch of DJ’s dared each other to set their drum machines to BPM=1000” That has been my favorite line from this for decades (at least that’s how I remember it going).
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by pdmccormick 1y ago
Could you be more specific about where you think the brain rot is? I thought the issues regarding bcachefs and Linux kernel development revolved around respecting conventions for code freezes and release candidates. It seemed more about get
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by pdmccormick 1y ago
I love projects like these. They touch upon so many low level aspects of Unix userlands. I appreciate how systemd ventured beyond classical SysV and POSIX, and explored how Linux kernel specific functionality could be put to good use. But I
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by pdmccormick 1y ago
I wonder how many more orders of magnitude of precision will be realistically possible. I wonder if we'd ever be able to use gravity to "see" things at non-cosmological scales, like if you could resolve the gravitational wave
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by pdmccormick 1y ago
I remember studying the source code to the PHP Zend Engine 25 years ago, and seeing a triple C pointer for the first time (I think it was `zval***`?) I did a lot of PHP in the following years, including using PHP for a high school programmi
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by pdmccormick 1y ago
Not to mention intact families where parents had sufficient discretionary time (i.e. jobs that paid the bills with reasonable weekly hours) and a culture of prioritizing passing down knowledge to children and creating spaces in the home for
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by pdmccormick 1y ago
Does anybody remember when the very first Pi was delayed due to an Ethernet magnetics issue? IIRC they needed a jack with integrated magnetics but populated a wrong part. How far they’ve come since then!
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by pdmccormick 1y ago
This reads like an LLM's fever dream. Maybe the singularity won't be a unitary super-intelligence but rather something like a gaggle of backscratching consultants, a self-perpetuating, invasive, seething mass of bureaucratic AI ag
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by pdmccormick 2y ago
And just how much of the Linux Foundation budget goes to supporting kernel development? What percentage of core kernel developers are paid from the Foundation? As long as Linus is happy and productive, I suspect nothing much will change.
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by pdmccormick 2y ago
I'm genuinely curious, for someone who develops web application backends and larger distributed systems & infrastructure, predominantly using Go and Python, exclusively targeting Linux, is there anything in the .NET ecosystem that
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by pdmccormick 2y ago
That option is CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/ramfs-roo... .
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by pdmccormick 3y ago
file has a lot of magic, but a file typically has only one magic.
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by pdmccormick 3y ago
Was it a slam dunk case for a prosecution, or obviously reasonable doubt?
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by pdmccormick 3y ago
Imagine coming to terms with having nearly a trillion pennies.
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by pdmccormick 3y ago
By "personal computing" I guess I do mean machines that I have full root on, so usually either a laptop/desktop or a local headless server. Out of curiousity, these servers that you're dealing with, do you have to use th
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by pdmccormick 3y ago
Funny, I was just learning about Git revision ranges the other day, to get to something like the last one! Thanks for sharing.
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by pdmccormick 3y ago
I'm curious, how much time would you say you spend on a set of personal machines, versus connecting to random hosts? My conceptualization of "personal computing" is something more akin to a home or a garden. It's a place
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by pdmccormick 3y ago
I have not tried that yet, no. For me the goal isn't just about shortening often repeated commands, as though the limitation were purely about character input speed, it's more of a contemplative practise of learning how to notice
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by pdmccormick 3y ago
Thanks, 25 years in and I'm still learning new things. But I don't think I was specifically shouting out the Unix philosophy. My comment was more in response to the OP article, that rather than "trying" to optimize in th
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by pdmccormick 3y ago
Over the past year, I’ve made a deliberate effort to improve my “personal computing”, which for me is about how I use the shell. I start by trying to notice when I’m doing the same task multiple times and getting tripped up on the specific
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by pdmccormick 3y ago
Pivoting to the related subject of compact textual representations of _typed_ data, check out CESR[0]. Through some careful choices of code prefixes and payload lengths that won't require Base64 padding, it provides a novel encoding sc

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