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snorerot13

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There is only one day. There is only ever one day and it is today, the Day of Nine Dogs, Day of Magicians, Day of Initiations.

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ricci, to random
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Took almost an hour, but I finally won a battle of will and wits against the cat, with the help of the kid. NOW I'm ready for anything today can throw at me

snorerot13,
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@ricci
Haven't you learned your lesson about starting the day by fucking with Bast and bragging about it?

snorerot13,
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@ricci
Uh huh. And last time you bragged that you'd bested your cat the earth rent asunder. I dig Wallian hubris, but read the room.

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Ooh boy let's see what we have in store tonight on : !

snorerot13,
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@elb
Y'all do understand my personal domain has been lunbase.org since the 90s for a reason, right?
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snorerot13,
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@ComicContext
🎶 Highway to the Danger Room🎶

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snorerot13,
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@ComicContext
Steve Rude?

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Marina: 2
Fresh Roast coffee roaster chaff lids: 0

snorerot13,
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@elb
They're made of eggshell.

ricci, to random
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"Sorry kid, before you can play Minecraft, you need to wait for dad to debug this problem with proxy ARP and VXLANs" - Statement dreamed up by the utterly Deranged (me)

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@ricci
You bear the chains you forged in life

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A colleague suggested that I had left -O0 on in a shared Makefile and I felt like I'd run down someone's dog without stopping. Turns out I didn't do it. If I were not barred from doing so, I'd consider a duel.

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There's no tool like a Microsoft tool to make me want to hit a developer with a hammer.

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I'm in a coffee discussion involving measurements and ratios. I've made some questionable life decisions.

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Just had to "per my previous email" someone. Don't make me do it.

snorerot13,
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@elb
An ambiguous position at best given your server.

snorerot13, to random
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Google was not very helpful in assisting me in typing μkernel.

rdviii, to random
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@elb (cc: @snorerot13) tag, you're it. What influenced you?
https://rdvlivefromtokyo.blogspot.com/2024/02/research-distributed-systems-that.html

snorerot13,
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@rdviii @elb I generally like your list of influential papers/systems. But I don't really think in terms of systems that way. I think of the ideas. I track ideas through systems and that can be a shorthand for their evolution.

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@rdviii @elb Your autocorrect changed Mach to Amoeba. Which is kinda snark, but I do have a point. The big idea I take away from those systems is the μkernel. If we use the idea, we can move right on to the discussion without getting derailed by foggy memories or how bad an idea distributed object models are if that's not the discussion you want to have.

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@elb And why stop there? Let's do nano- and exo- while we're down there.

Incidentally, I had always assumed that exo- was just a small SI prefix. Nope. WTF!?

I think that μkernels have some applications. As with everything, where you thunk down those interfaces is the hard part. An IPC per page fault isn't the right place.
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@rdviii
And those pagers are another example of how systems can be too vague. There's a group of Mach papers that are all about optimizing IPC by (ab)using the paging system. But if those kind of contortions are necessary for performance, it undercuts your distributed μkernel aspirations.

I think Amoeba just took the networking hit and now we have μservices.
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@elb
Plan 9 is the most obscure system in Rod's post I've used as a daily driver and I'm generally a fan. As you say, lots of those ideas made it into the wild and I also think you're right that it felt similar enough to Unix to make it a hard sell to devs.
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@elb
The UI difference does not surprise me. When I was introduced to him, he assumed I used emacs and that this was not a feature.

I did like sam quite a bit, though at the time mouse use was pretty much mandatory. Not my favorite feature of an editor.
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It seems Biden landed KSMO. Off to buy a MAGA cap and join TruthSocial. Nice knowing all of you.

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@elb General Aviation

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A few years ago, @elb threatened to make me, and possibly @snorerot13, co-author a textbook on with him. I still want someone to write exactly the book I want, but I work seven days a week as it is...

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@elb
I quite like those. Is it an undergrad class at UB?
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@elb
I think the focus on themes is right on for undergrads and doing a project is always great.
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snorerot13, to random
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I e-mailed someone a custom rpm I rolled them to install grap on their f39 system on xmas eve. I have made some life choices.

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Since Substack is okay with Nazis, how about a thread of alternatives for people looking to get out, and possibly take their audiences with them?

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@lilithsaintcrow
Wired still exists?
@rpardee @ComicContext

elb, to random
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PSA: if you use gnu textutils sort with -k and -n and it doesn't find a number, it sorts the entire line instead of the selected key, alphabetically. I haven't checked to see if this is a POSIX thing or not, but ... it sucks.

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@elb
One job of aTA is to learn hard lessons by doing foolish things. As Allman once put it "then everything went black".

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