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fsck - 18+ obviously can't just fsck around filesystems
Re:Show HN: Shittp – Volatile Dotfiles over SSH on Sunday December 21, 2025 @07:15PM (#46349991)
something like this, i recon:

  $ tar cf - ~/.shrc | ssh target '(cd ~ && tar xf -)'
Re:Heartbeats in Distributed Systems on Thursday November 13, 2025 @12:40PM (#45917894)
I did this systematically: at the first sign of outlier in performance one system would move itself to another platform and shut itself down. The shutdown meant turn all services off and let someone log in to investigate and rearrange it again. This system allowed different roles to be assigned to different platform. The platform was bare metal or bhyve vm. It worked perfect.
what happens if an IP address is not in the geo db? For example: 2606:4700::6811:
Re:Swift on FreeBSD Preview on Thursday November 06, 2025 @09:11PM (#45842854)
Qt has grown so huge that I rather choose Tk or GTK for cross platform GUI.

i would love to see how Swift will do cross platform gui.

Ramachandran, the Temporal Lobes and God - Part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z4B5BYbjf8

How does a company define or at least describe company culture and displays it up front? I am genuinely curious, and not trying to start any sort of flame wars.
Re:Let's Help NetBSD Cross the Finish Line Before 2025 Ends on Sunday October 26, 2025 @12:07PM (#45712947)
an offspring to build your own minimal BSD UNIX system: https://www.smolbsd.org/
Re:Let's Help NetBSD Cross the Finish Line Before 2025 Ends on Sunday October 26, 2025 @12:02PM (#45712914)
i ran NetBSD as a desktop on BeagleBoneBlack from circa 2010 until recently when I donated the hardware to a CompSci student.

...and as others mentioned it: the rump kernel.

What were the resource setups? How do they compare to linux resource setups?

Defaults in current are in etc.amd64/login.conf. https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/src/etc...

(p.s.: the bubble are cool. highly distracting to me, hence I could not read the article in full.)

Re:Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++ on Saturday August 02, 2025 @11:29AM (#44768429)
i always emphasize to new programmers to learn any language and practice it with respect and discipline. All languages have dark corners, the human who can reason which constructs are appropriate.
Re:Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++ on Thursday July 31, 2025 @08:23PM (#44751728)
> Carbon exists so that it's possible to migrate a large C++ code base, like Chrome, from C++ to something saner, incrementally.

_Incrementally_: a C++ project can be incrementally made more sane also using constructs to avoid and constructs to use once the problem domain is confined. In my past, I had successfully implemented this quest for 3 different fairly large C++ projects. This is not a strong selling point for carbon.

perceptrons, memory-in-a-box, back-propagation (even though it's computation expensive), Long-term-short-term memory, Support Vector Machines and other Neural Networks.

In the book "Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach" by Stuart Russell and Peter Norviq, you may find more gems.

this is just a link to a signup page.
Switzerland?
i recommend this paper to understand brain-state-in-a-box[0]. In my studies of linear algebra / calculus, we had optimum calculus reaching error minimum.

help me out, i learnt it a long time ago, would "Optimum in der Infinitesimalrechnung" be optimum calculus?

[0] https://www.dam.brown.edu/people/elie/am41%202012/gBSB.pdf

(edit: wording)

Re:Jane Street's sneaky retention tactic on Saturday June 28, 2025 @02:01PM (#44406760)
and low latency messaging: tervella. (2014-2015, I had to deal with it.)
Re:Jane Street's sneaky retention tactic on Saturday June 28, 2025 @01:59PM (#44406753)
Many years ago, I interviewed with Jane Street. They asked me C++ questions and if I am willing to learn OCaml. Sure, I can learn any language. The position was given to someone else who already knew OCaml. They use OCaml for everything, building software to distributing it etc. That's my interview experience with them. I think they chose that language because it can be as speedy as C++ with proper knowledge and optimizations. I do not know OCaml besides learning it when I worked with researchers/mathematicians who wrote OCaml and i had to understand the code.
Re:Jane Street's sneaky retention tactic on Saturday June 28, 2025 @01:42PM (#44406620)
It is fair competition. Using the same tools as one's competition yields similar gains. Using better tools increases the possibility of higher profits. Same as in manufacturing, chip making: better tools more profit. Potentially better profit. Nothing cringey about it.
Re:How I Program with Agents on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @02:04PM (#44250179)
plus 1 for using agents for api refresher and discovery. i also use regular search to find possible alternatives and about 3-4 out of 10 normal search wins.

Discovering private api using an agent is super useful.

for the past 20 odd years, old hardware with tweaked, custom compiled and build FreeBSD, NetBSD served me and my few customers quiet well. There is lot of joy in it. Recently, I started modifying open source software to be self hostable. Some does not work well enough when the internet is not accessible. for example FarmOS.
they don't work for me having astigmatism with or without prescription glasses.
Re:A leap year check in three instructions on Thursday May 15, 2025 @06:55PM (#44000173)
there is "Hacker's Delight" by Henry S. Warren, Jr.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker's_Delight

Same here with firefox, FreeBSD.
Re:The Linux Kernel's PGP Web of Trust on Friday May 09, 2025 @02:55PM (#43939938)
since we are at time constructs, german also uses "wenn" when english uses "if" or "when".

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