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> 9pfs for the Hurd From the wiki: > 9P is perhaps not as robust or as fault tolerant as NFS How is it not robust? What metric did they use? Fault tolerance is not explained here s…

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I had a friend who had a similar experience with a dating site scammer. The guy dropped the act and admitted he was operating out of Africa (I forget the country) and was not proud…

Makes sense for Broadcom.

Well for one thing, the Beatles song of the same name would be valid. > Sun Moon Tyr Wodan Thor Freya Saturn Balderday works pretty nice. Or maybe Jupiter though jupiday sounds sil…

Why aren't the data centers footing the bill? If they want to suddenly spawn GW of load out of thin air then they can pay for the needed infrastructure without pushing that burden …

Depends. NYC busses used to be a mix of municipal and privatized companies that were part of the Transit Alliance. In addition to city owned and operated buses you had four private…

My 70-something mother loves youtube.

Going to school in Jamaica, Queens (ironic, I know) I would get a beef patty from a deli/bodega on a roll with cheese or on cocoa bread (said to be the only way to eat it by random…

> Itanium motherboards never became a thing from the top-10 sized Taiwanese motherboard makers Supermicro and pretty sure Tyan offered Itanium motherboards. From what I remember th…

If only Go were as simple as the Plan 9 compilers it is derived from. Go is so big it is used as a disk thrashing benchmark for the new 9front gefs disk file system. In addition to…

> I do know that in Plan9, 'everything is a file' is literally correct. Almost correct. There are also shared memory segments via segment(3). You segattach(2) to a segment from a u…

Bravia 1080P LCD. I have a 30 and a 45 inch. However, I have a big silver 27" Trinitron that we used to game on in ye olde days. Still working but in storage at my shop.

Still hoping my two Sony dumb TVs keep on truckin. Don't care if they're only 1080, I still watch blurry VHS rips, its fine.

An interesting cover story but not grounded in reality. Chips aren't the only thing we need to stockpile - China builds just about everything we use ranging from appliances to comp…

To be fair drivers for all that existed already but support was very very narrow in terms of variety. e.g. there was wifi support for like one or two cards but handled on a per car…

Plan 9 is mostly Rob Pikes idea and did not involve Ritchie heavily. https://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/1st_edition/designing_plan_9 Recently, Pike commented that he designed Plan 9 so h…

Take a break from this stuff. Go outside. I got burnt out from focusing on tech projects too much. I took a break. It's nice.

At first I thought this was an Ada package for parsing URL's but no, it's a c++ URL parser confusingly named Ada.

Too much tech. I think the focus should be non-tech aides to curb tech use. Otherwise you risk yak-shaving and you're back to fiddling with tech.

I like the idea of s-expressions over the wire. Have you thought about replacing the JSON with s-expressions for snapshots?

The computer + the internet is the worlds greatest fidget spinner. How many times have you wanted to "quickly" check Wikipedia, e.g. reading up on a random town then find yourself …

FYI: old.reddit.com is no longer accessible without a reddit account.

> If I had access [to AI] back then, I'd probably just spend more time on the beach. If AI were marketed like this it would not be appealing to employers. So of course AI marketing…

Perhaps they meant United Artists, an evil syndicate hell bent on world domination and film distribution.