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miga

635 karma · joined January 12, 2013

Haskell & declarative language dev, blockchain and big data platform builder, former research nanoscientist.

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miga··on Having non-x86 machines makes your life harder
Voice against innovation!!!

Without architecture diversity, he wants to limit innovation, and promote a monopoly. x86 is anything but an open source standard, due to patents, and thus cannot be easily standardized. So he also voices against open standards.

miga··on Apple could force a 111-year-old fruit company to change its Apple logo
Once again, Swiss will raise their pikes to protect right to protect their own in court without any EUtside interference...

While money is wasted on proceedings.

Good case for a libel countersuit?

miga··on Linux Namespaces Are a Poor Man's Plan 9 Namespaces
Article mentions that Plan9 missed `cgroups`, QoS.

Linux moves towards massive process sharing, and thus various of sharing controls are key to the future that is missing from 90s operating systems.

Just enable sound, run your browser and music app, and count number of processes living with `ps ef|wc -l`. I see 282 kernel threads, and 536 total processes. You will see that we live in the future, because of extensive modularization of system services, and cannot get back without sacrificing reliability and comfort.

miga··on Linux Namespaces Are a Poor Man's Plan 9 Namespaces
I disagree with the author:

1. We could gradually port Linux `ioctl` to Plan9 namespaces, if there was understanding they greatly simplify Docker.

2. Docker and virtualization are one of most important applications of Linux, but there is still not even a proof-of-concept implementation of such on Plan9.

3. We don't need a complete rebuilding of Linux to make it more like Plan9. Both Windows and Mac OS X is an example of system that underwent radical redesigns of several subsystems.

4. All features of Plan9 could be brought to Linux by adding modules for alternative system interfaces, and deprecating old ones or blocking them with security capabilities.

miga··on Warning: Geomagnetic K-index of 4 expected; electron 2MeV Integral Flux >1000pfu
Coordinates point to southern hemisphere during its winter. Sure subsolar point would be in the northern hemisphere now, would it not?
miga··on Texas rules requiring water breaks for construction workers will be nullified
Are all the workers insured?
miga··on PyPI Was Subpoenaed
Excellent example of how difficult it is to design privacy-friendly service.

Any information that can be subpoenae-ed can also be hacked away.

miga··on Ford is Losing $22,000 Per EV Sold
That is difference between dumping and investment.

All tech companies invest.

Nobody is surprised when fresh technology (EV) requires upfront investment.

Title is misleading.

miga··on Not deploying on Friday is a red flag indicating a seriously broken process
Depends whether you have 100% confidence that all possible faults are automatically tested for...

The thing is, that for big deployments you can be never so sure.

There may always be "human factor" that will cause users to click the wrong button without looking at its label.

miga··on Ellen Brown: The Looming Quadrillion Dollar Derivatives Tsunami
Would such a number cause inflation? After all, derivatives are highly liquid, and would add to the overall number of liquidity in circulation.
miga··on Amazon Linux 2023
DevOps 101 is to use tools that you can test and debug in your virtual machine.
miga··on 40% of the code GitHub Copilot users check-in is AI generated and unmodified
This is double risk:

1. Security vulnerabilities from unaudited code.

2. Copyright violation risk, since a lot of CoPilot examples show clear excerpts from open source repositories.

miga··on The FBI Just Admitted It Bought US Location Data
The trouble here is not FBI at all.

This purchase is just a proof that privacy protections given by US law are totally ineffective.

As soon as the data is on the open market, no GDPR, and no US law protects the customer, since public prosecution is not interested in blatant violation of privacy here.

This is also the main reason why EU continuously threatens US with withdrawing _safe harbor_ provisions.

As soon as the data enters US, the open market assures it will be widely available contrary to all regulations.

miga··on Earth’s innermost layer is a 644 kilometer wide ball of iron, new study finds
Would love to see "new study" that actually finds something new.
miga··on M1 MBP down to 3.5hr battery life when writing code
When coding, you usually will have linter or compiler taking 100% core in the background.
miga··on Florida lawyer argues pregnant inmate’s fetus is being illegally detained
Foetus itself does not have agency, and thus cannot be detained. And born child would probably stay with its mother anyway.
miga··on Ask HN: Why does Stripe need $4B?
Hardships like taxing illiquid stock is the main reason for only taxing _realized gains_.

Since Stripe wants employees to cherish their vested interest in the company, the corporation goes ahead of law here and facilitates. This also means that employees are less likely to either forfeit and sell the stock to third parties.

Legislators promoting entrepreneurship may in future encourage this behaviour to strengthen employee ownership of companies, when RSUs become commonplace for most employees, not just executive officers.

miga··on 80k megapixel panorama photograph of New York City (2021)
Not sure if "trivial" is a good word.

Sure you may publish a JS library on NPM to prove it is sooo simple?

miga··on 80k megapixel panorama photograph of New York City (2021)
I wish the web page also took care of aspect ratio.

Good for viewing at 8k after you correct aspect ratio by browser window resizing.

miga··on Amazon will require employees return to the office 3 days a week
Remote working was a big threat to influenza and other virii, but with so many employees requiring return we will get our flu back in no time.
miga··on Shrinkflation, SanDisk Style
So they need to overprovision, and compensate for effects - that is fine.

However, only advertising "usable size" is truthful, everything else is misleading.

It is sad that the legal system tolerates such cheating because it makes it harder to find the actual properties of the product. Or even makes it impossible to actually know how the product will actually work.

miga··on US NIST unveils winning encryption algorithm for IoT data protection
What is expected lifetime of these?
miga··on Expected changes with Dropbox for macOS
"In order to integrate application with the operating system, we will downgrade the following features and worsen user experience: ..."
miga··on [dead]
First ever #CardanoServerless meeting happened after Catalyst Townhall was in December 2022. Listen to the discussion of #StreamCardano.
miga··on Bay 12 Games has made $7M from the Steam release of Dwarf Fortress
Question is whether they recorded investment in the Dwarf Fortress over the years, so they could subtract it from the base of the tax.

They spent more time on this game than on any other.

miga··on When Discord is open in the background, NVIDIA card will not reach full speed
There are many problems with discord, and GPU is not the worst one.

Discord Snap has to block many unusual activities, but I still see these:

* attempt to `ptrace` processes all the time;

* using 99% CPU;

* to work Discord needs some non-standard interfaces to be connected;

* Discord tries to track which other programs you run by default and shares it.

* too frequently restarting desktop integration snap until the logs make machine non-functional (got 500GB.)

* blocking other programs using desktop integration for file dialogs: latency of several minutes, sometimes dialogs never appear.

Discord is as dodgy app as can be. Hope we will not find it is actually another distribution of spyware.

Since programs with so many bugs and crashes are frequently prone to security issues, I recommend to replace Discord with another app that allows push-to-talk.

miga··on [dead]
"Report Inaccurate Information on Another Member's Profile"

https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a1337291

miga··on Twitter suspends Israeli MK over call to kill Palestinians
It is a platform. Whether it enforces rules consistently is important.
miga··on Amazon has radically transformed small businesses in both the U.S. and China
Interestingly, transformation happened in the absence of Amazon. For example, Allegro in Poland offered much wider choice than Amazon. Basically competitor for eBay but with transportation included (thanks to InPost!)

The main difference is that the brand is more visible on Allegro.

miga··on Ask HN: Is it just an accident that Pascal can be compiled extremely fast?
Custom object format: https://prog21.dadgum.com/47.html?repost=true#:~:text=Minima....
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