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by rbf_ 11y ago
Cool, it would be an interesting design to see something with polling and perhaps different gears for lower load levels. BTW, the system with polling architecture that I mentioned I worked on is still in production and selling well(I hear).
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by rbf_ 11y ago
That little embedded user space tcp/ip stack is really neat.
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by rbf_ 11y ago
They mention that this is using a polling architecture so each core is using 100% cpu even when idle. I've worked on high performance systems architected around polling before, but assumed that would be prohibitively costly these days
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by rbf_ 12y ago
It's not a democracy at all, purposefully so.
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by rbf_ 12y ago
I do think some of the divisive issues that are taken up often end up cloaking other matters that should be focused upon. Perhaps with strong enough invariants and a pre enactment filter it would much harder to use divisive social issues po
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by rbf_ 12y ago
If you think about how much carnage has been caused by the fact that we can in fact pass unconstitutional laws and then it takes decades of work to strike them down due to the bottleneck we have in our court system (supreme court). Would be
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by rbf_ 12y ago
I think what we really need is ConstitutionalRepublicOS which would be a bit more complicated. But by defining strong constitutional invariants with regard to individual rights perhaps we could pre-strikedown unconstitutional laws before th
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by rbf_ 12y ago
Haha!
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by rbf_ 12y ago
Well that's why I suggested chaotic neutral as an alignment for your requirement. I think this would work well for your goals. It can be fun & challenging to play other alignments too however. Like an alignment that least resembles
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by rbf_ 12y ago
I find the alignment system interesting and conducive to working on your role playing. But if you don't want to be role playing in a straight jacket I would pick chaotic neutral :)
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by rbf_ 12y ago
I wrote one for my TI-99/4a long ago and had most of my characters backed up on cassette decks :)