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Feels like this is something I could learn before moving trying Rust properly for the second time. What do Rust developers here think about that ?

In this entry I explore the basics of cgroups and how to use them for resource constraints for processes. As an example, I also create a process, add it to a new group, and restrain the resources being used by the process. Hope you enjoy digging through this as I have ! Cheers !

In today's post I will go over process isolation in operating systems and how to start doing the same in Linux. Further into this series I am going to compare what it means to isolate processes in other operating systems as well.

With Linux as a base we will understand how Kernel features in Linux allow us to implement process isolation and by extension, containerization. In future entries into this series we will see how other operating systems implement this functionality as well. For now we will start with process isolation in Linux, understand the tiers to process isolation and then see how we can do similar isolation in other operating systems.

Hope you enjoy this one !

I'm back with a new post today on keeping time in Linux, timespaces, network time protocol and how time synchronization became necessity during the advent of railways in the mid 1800s. We will look at how the Raillway mania of the 1840s paved way to time synchronization, how we synchronize time across devices using NTP and a peek into Linux clocks and time namespaces. Hope you enjoy this one !

Do share your experiences with debugging NTP issues and if you have any thoughts on Linux Timespaces and how you use it in production or know any tools which use it heavily.

From what I have learned, LitmusChaos and ChaosMesh have experiments which you can do to mess with the NTP and the kernel clocks, but I wasn't sure how useful people find it really. Do you perform any tests like these for your application ? Have time namespaces helped you in migrating containers in the recent past ?

My substack dashboard either took too long to load or there seemingly was some issue with CSS everytime, had to look into this. Have you faced a similar issue before ?

Thank you for the question ! My assumption is the same. For your question I am looping in the mirrord team.

Second part of my series about exploring mirrord internals. In this one I start scratching the mirrord-layer surface and see how it's dynamically loaded with LD_PRELOAD into binaries to hook into libc functions whilst creating a layer which accepts inputs from mirrord-agent, which are then used to hydrate the hooked libc functions. I spend time in this article to explore this trying to intuitively understand what's going on.

Have a new entry on mirrord (https://mirrord.dev/) and how it mirrors a process from your local machine to Kubernetes. In this post I particularly talk about the mirrord agent but in the subsequent one, I will also be discussing about the tools you need to employ if you had to make this possible for yourself. Mirrord mirrors (and can steal) traffic from your Kubernetes environment to a local process which is the coolest part about it. Can't wait to talk more about it in the next one.

Exploring Virtual Kubelets in Kubernetes: Part 1

Is that Economic Freedom Fighters ?

This paper is not cited in the book thankfully.

I have been reading Outlive by Dr. Peter Attia. I believe this research is used in the book to talk about Alzheimer's. I'm guessing the book will have to be revised. Gonna have to check in the acknowledgements of the book now.

I try to explore Elias Canetti's Crowds and Power in this series of posts in my new newsletter. I have used p5.js to visualize the initial theory of the fear of being touched by Elias Canetti. Had too much fun doing this. Any notes on what you would like to see or on the writing style or anything else is appreciated.

Nice pictures

Always felt that with my ex around

Are there any plans to open source instant in the future ?

Gifs, especially anime and cartoon gifs were an important part of my childhood. Everyday, for 2 years I used to spend countless number of hours hoarding pictures and gifs of animes and cartoons from different sites on the interwebs and save them in directories where each of the directory was dedicated to a particular anime and was named accordingly. I used the gallery view in folders on windows to make the experience even better (for myself) to look back on the beautiful collection of pictures and gifs I had wasted countless number of hours collecting.

Sadly, one day my dad called a computer technician to fix the PC cuz it was too slow. The technician backed up everything but the Documents/Pictures folder which had my precious collection. The folder amounted to atleast a few GBs. But alas, it was summertime and I was skating in the streets of Pune during which the surprise PC fixing took place. When I came back, freshened up and turned on the desktop, i was greeted by a new installation of Windows Vista and an empty Pictures folder in my documents.

Keep multiple copies of your precious data kids, thank me later.

DALL E works really well if you are specific enough. When you don't get the intended result, it helps to identify the element which wasn't generated properly and then improve your description of the same.

"Two men, one of whom is on fire, shaking hands on an industrial lot." can be rewritten as, "Two men, shaking hands, standing on an industrial lot. Person on the right is on fire. Camera is 30 metres away."

You can go into more specifics of the framing and the angle from which you want the picture to be take. By default, DALL E will give you the most realistic generations to your prompts unless you mention "digital art" or a particular art style. I have gotten the best results when generating art instead of photos.

If rich text formatting is your feature proposal for a social media network should I even care about it. Users care about a larger abstracted view about what you can do differently with what you can do with the smn interface. Flaunting rich text formatting feels like a core developer's achivement rather than a technology achievement. Do correct me if I am wrong.

This sounds like a great tool in theory for spreading awareness about bribery but solving systemic corruption won't necessarily be that easy (which is the root of this problem in India). Indian society is used to bribery and at times prefers it. It's a system where the primary source of income earned by people in power is through "under the table deals". The steps to fixing the corruption also have to be systemic which should include better wages for government employees and higher accountability of the funds allocated for government projects. AFAIK accounts, land records etc. still haven't been digitised completely in India. Once this process starts, there should be a noticeable change not just wrt corruption, but also in streamlining of govt. processes.

In India it's become quite common to fake an RTPCR test by changing the dates on an existing one. All you have to show here is a pdf copy of your test as you get off your flight and no one checks the feasibility of the test via the given qr code, they just check the date and that's it.

After learning C as the first language in college, I was sure that programming wasn't for me till I was introduced to processing and p5 js. Processing was a blessing for me.

I had written something else entirely and edited it and then forgot to remove the last bit. Apologies for the terribly useless comment.

The title would have been related to economic news if we were living in the world of Rick and Morty. I get how it can be misleading though.

- and that's how ladies and gents, you fake knowing economics

P.S. the article is not related to economics