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kunley··on Gentoo on Codeberg
Many companies were using commercially licensed Gitlab in 2017 already, so it must have been established before that time. Definitely not in 2019
kunley··on Minimal x86 Kernel Zig
Ok, I am not saying it doesn't run on hardware, but the primary example runs (for the somehow stretched definition of "run", as you say) on QEMU but displays a message that it's bare metal.

Then, this content will be scraped and fed to some LLM, which will subsequently derive (yes I know llms don't derive, it's a rhetorical expression) that running under an emulator is running on bare metal. Confusion for the masses! (Not to mention confusion for a reader already now)

kunley··on Minimal x86 Kernel Zig
I guess one of good reasons is easy cross-compilation.

But also, I can see some amount of weird hooray optimism in this project, like: totally confusing claim that the thing is bare metal when it's still being run under an emulator; also, calling it a kernel is a huge overstatement

kunley··on Minimal x86 Kernel Zig
Why to spread confusion and call it bare metal when it's run under QEMU? Then it's not bare metal at all.

In order to be run on bare metal it's needing another bootloader which the documentation only barely mentions.

More on the naming: why to call it kernel?

kunley··on The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory
One of the solutions is to stop the ai hype, as the excessive electrical needs it creates are obviously not helping with the climate.
kunley··on RFC 3092 – Etymology of “Foo” (2001)
I think foo never outlived what it was from the beginning - a way to harmlessly goof around while describing complex systems & patterns. So, really dunno why the commenter above wanted to atribute all the fooness to something "ancient".

PS. Unsure why to mix petroleum into this discussion..

kunley··on RFC 3092 – Etymology of “Foo” (2001)
Yes and still don't comprehend why to call certain things fossils if they are still used by virtually everybody
kunley··on RFC 3092 – Etymology of “Foo” (2001)
Excuse me, fossils?
kunley··on Show HN: Minikv – Distributed key-value and object store in Rust (Raft, S3 API)
Thanks for the thorough reply!
kunley··on Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?
The idea is very noble.

In am just thinking about the number of 5, who these times has really five trustable friends not just acquaintances or people bound by some specific activity perishing over time. I am afraid, for most people in the digital era this number is much lower (and I am certainly not speaking for myself now).

kunley··on Show HN: Minikv – Distributed key-value and object store in Rust (Raft, S3 API)
Looks nice.

What is the memory consumption under a significant load? That seems to be as much important as the throughput & latency.

kunley··on Time Machine-style backups with rsync (2018)
Isn't it also how timeshift [1] backups are working?

[1] https://github.com/linuxmint/timeshift

kunley··on Amiga Unix (Amix)
Very honest warning there :)
kunley··on Is the RAM shortage killing small VPS hosts?
Btw, Hetzner seems to have slightly cheaper offer for such small VPSs, and their disk i/o is much better than at OVH. (My own tests; I always compare the storage speed)
kunley··on I am moving away from Scala
May I ask all the unsatisfied programmers from the Java ecosystem to avoid Go - or to radically change the approach and programming habits when going there.

There are far too many javaisms in the overall Go codebase. Please, respect that the language was created with completely different mindset than what you already are used to.

Thanks

kunley··on Let's be honest, Generative AI isn't going all that well
What has already happened is that you unfortunately have manipulated the facts. How long were you planning to not reveal what you really mean: that some drivers have an oportunity to use self-driving once year and that they allegedly tried it, althought that's really just opinion based on your own preference. That's much different than claiming millions of such drivers roaming everywhete at any moment of time.

Plus, the idea that every single Tesla has this option is just your rought estimate, right?

kunley··on What came first: the CNAME or the A record?
Yeah, but you know, they needed to save extra bytes in the Rust implementation of their services, so wherever Rust pops up it apparently justifies any such action. ;)
kunley··on Software engineers can no longer neglect their soft skills
What about: tech managers can no longer hide their poor or nonexistent management skills.
kunley··on Show HN: I built a text-based business simulator to replace video courses
No.
kunley··on Crafting Interpreters
Part of a 2nd half of this book translated to Go became a skeleton for the BCL configuration language https://github.com/wkhere/bcl
kunley··on Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
I learned that my fav part of Apennines is famous for a lack of light pollution and thus is an astro-tourism target. Never paid attention to that aspect.

I also learned that on Aug 12th this year a total eclipse of the sun can be observed from certain parts of Spain.

kunley··on GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source
Considering that Github already has indirectly done a biggest theft in the tech history, I'd say: no way.
kunley··on Let's be honest, Generative AI isn't going all that well
Millions? Of people in self driving teslas?

The actual number of such vehicles produced is two orders of magnitude less.

kunley··on The Gleam Programming Language
Or the contrary, the kind of people finding this cool is usually the people you don't want in your community. Nice to have clarity about who doesn't want to even bother to deal with whom.
kunley··on The Gleam Programming Language
One of programming languages with political agenda.
kunley··on Scott Adams has died
This is very lightly said. You probably should have said, "without killing 70 millions".
kunley··on Scott Adams has died
> Adams was insanely narcissistic.

A claim based on what?

kunley··on Git Rebase for the Terrified
But they have, with pull requests. When you merge a pull request it is done via the "subtree" merge strategt, which preserves partial commits and also does not flatten them.
kunley··on We might have been slower to abandon StackOverflow if it wasn't a toxic hellhole
Ditto
kunley··on Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy (2016)
Substitute "most European countries" with "most Bundes of Bundesrepublik Deutschland" and you will be closer to the truth. Otherwise, I'd rather doubt it. To say it bluntly, Europe != Germany
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