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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 o…

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.

Also, if you kill 10 people a year, you will have an accelerating rate of average wealth growth!

"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 d…

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 …

Bravo lol

"Eldritch vectors" is a perfect descriptor, thank you.

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.? …

HTTPSSH. Why not just SSH/QUIC, what does the HTTP/3 layer add that QUIC doesn’t already have?

“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 goi…

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 c…

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 k…

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, lik…

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 foll…

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 do…

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 t…

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-perpetuat…

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 …

I'm genuinely curious, for someone who develops web application backends and larger distributed systems & infrastructure, predominantly using Go and Python, exclusively targeting L…

That option is CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/ramfs-roo... .

file has a lot of magic, but a file typically has only one magic.

Was it a slam dunk case for a prosecution, or obviously reasonable doubt?

Imagine coming to terms with having nearly a trillion pennies.

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 yo…

Funny, I was just learning about Git revision ranges the other day, to get to something like the last one! Thanks for sharing.