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> "... family pressure to euthanize is a major practical concern..." Agreed, and this is one of my major reservations about euthanasia. I still think it is overall for the best, bu…

For what its worth, I think we're approaching this question from opposite ends of the spectrum. Rather than asking when it is permissible to kill, I look at it as "when is overridi…

Thanks for that explanation. I can't speak for the OP (or anyone else), but my take on the difference between them is that euthanasia is suicide, but only once all other options ha…

I haven't gotten around to trying it myself yet, but OpenFastpath+OpenDataplane supposedly has a userspace port of the FreeBSD stack that runs on DPDK through ODP-DPDK. http://www.…

(One of the authors here) This is by far my favourite post in this entire thread -- I don't think I've ever seen Seymour Cray referenced as an authority in this manner before :) No…

(Disclosure: one of the authors here) I don't think CAT can be used to partition kernel and userspace -- I'm not even sure how you'd go about doing that given that you can (and do)…

Not sure exactly what OP is referring to, but CSS-trees [1] are a classic example of cache-aware indexing structures that fetch entire pages into cache and arrange data so that mos…

Yes. Even the persistent memories that attach to the memory bus are currently quite a bit slower than DRAM (5-7x from estimates I've seen), while the difference with PCIe-attached …

(Disclosure: one of the authors here) Wrapping a bunch of replies into one: Absolutely agree that we need to view fast storage as something other than disk behind a block interface…

Disclaimer: I'm not in SF, nor am I familiar with HR policies at large companies. That being said, > "If that happens before I've proven myself as a good engineer, I won't feel lik…