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Knoppix was the first Linux distro I ever tried back in the early 2000s. IIRC it was only a few hundred megs. At the time it didn't have the overlayfs feature which often felt limi…

Cool, I'll have to try it in the next 18 months before they turn it down.

"... the equivalent of a broadcast TV channel that only showed 7 minutes of actual TV content per hour, devoting the other 53 minutes to paid commercials and promotions ... Almost …

Thanks for the post! Question: While you would want any official arch built natively, maybe an interim stage of emulated vm builds for wip/development/unsupported architectures wou…

I don't know the reason TextFormat was invented, but in practice it's way easier to work with TextFormat than JSON in the context of Protos. Consider numeric types - JSON: number a…

This looks really nice! I'm excited to see it and am left with questions from perusing the site. Let me know if I missed it. It's simple and also has an excellent choice of where t…

> Of course, we've been told to never accept a counter offer at your job. Do you have a example article? I haven't encountered the advice, but I'm curious if the reasoning matches …

Who reaches for a tool they forgot about? Few organizations invest in solutions only understood by one or two individuals on their team. This is actually what prevents undergraduat…

I was about to mention this too. Compare: "import a specific lightweight library and wire together as needed" vs "write the whole app in terms of a bloated framework". I've been ou…

The West Wing has such a good clip about this: https://youtu.be/vVX-PrBRtTY?si=05KQjltJ8fVsqMDw

It's always a matter of chasing the bottleneck. It's fair to say that network isn't the bottleneck for most applications. Heuristically, if you're willing to take on the performanc…