I have user account on my personal Google Workspace domain that is used purely for superuser access (my day-to-day account doesn't have special access). I recently had to log into it for the first time in a few years to…
From the article: > I work at Red Hat. Mostly on AArch64 support in several projects. So an ARM developer, working for a major Linux distro vendor and trying to dogfood their work, used the closest thing to an ARM…
> We used to do that too from the late 1930's to the late 1970's, which is why we were the dominant industrial power in the world at that time as well. I think there's another world event that happened in that time span…
> Canonical announced that they are no longer using Debian as a base, but the unvetted packages compiled and uploaded by random people on Snap. Citation very much needed for this claim.
A lot of professions have terms of art that can be interpreted incorrectly or be viewed as odd by laymen. "Individual contributor" is no different. Maybe it sounds weird to you, but it's a well-understood term in the…
This is a pretty odd take, from my perspective. If one of my direct reports came to me and said they were interested in working on, say... AI observability (replace with whatever interests you), and that was something I…
Fractal still sells a Serenity workstation[1], but it's essentially an off-the-shelf AMD Ryzen-based system, installed into a Fractal Design Define 7 Mini case, with a Noctua tower air cooler and case fans replacing the…
More recent revisit: https://www.phoronix.com/review/snapdragon-x-elite-linux-eoy... TL;DR: It runs, but not well, and performance has regressed since the last published benchmark.
I have used Terraform, Puppet, Helm, and Ansible (although that's not strictly declarative), and all of them ran into problems in real-world use cases that needed common imperative language features to solve. Not only…
> Sure, but lts often doesn't work for other use cases like gaming. For example the experience on lts with this year's AMD gpus will be extremely poor if it works at all. I'm using Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with a Radeon RX 9070…
> Have you ever had to maintain a software project with many dependencies? If you have, then surely you have had the experience where picking up the project after a long period of inactivity makes updating dependencies…
> You are probably using some annoying pedantic definition of unstable. Most people mean it to mean “does stuff crash or break”. English has a specific word for that: reliable. Pedantry aside, having a complex system…
> Arch being unstable is a myth. Arch follows a rolling release model. It's inherently unstable, by design.
Debian -- probably not, but Ubuntu has numerous variants whose primary purpose is providing a different desktop experience, and a SteamOS-like variant would fit in perfectly with that.
> the kernel might still be good but the userland is just awful in every way imaginable The Windows kernel is also falling behind. Linux is considerably faster for a wide variety of workloads, so much so that if you're…
There's nothing about 4K videos that needs an SSD, an OLED display, or any particular video codec, and "large-scale internet infrastructure" is just a different way of saying "lots of high-bandwidth links". Hardware…
Dial-up modems can transfer a 4K HDR video file, or any other arbitrary data. It obviously wouldn't have the bandwidth to do so in a way that would make a real-time stream feasible, but it doesn't involve any leap of…
> Besides, the gaming industry keeps shooting themselves in the foot by only supporting Windows (Mac is a thing too). That is slowly changing, but so many game devs are drinking the Microsoft koolaid they don't even…
I have seen no credible explanation on how current or proposed technology can possibly achieve AGI. If you want to hand-wave that away by stating that any company with technology capable of achieving AGI would guard it…
> I still say that x86 must run two FPUs all the time, and that has to cost some power (AMD must run three - it also has 3dNow). Legacy floating-point and SIMD instructions exposed by the ISA (and extensions to it)…
Intel has only about half of the server market at this point, and that's with their products priced so low they're nearly selling them at cost. The margins on their desktop products are also way down, their current…
If we're comparing incompatible platforms, then the Apple M4 Max's iGPU is weaker than the Playstation 5 Pro's AMD iGPU in everything except for memory capacity. Intel has a competitive iGPU in the low-power mobile…
Turning a machine off loses any existing application state, and requires both applications and the OS to be re-launched. When I put a machine into standby, I want it to go in a standby state, and then stay there until I…
> Publishers could just put "Guaranteed playable until 2026-07-02", and then extend those games that are profitable. A one-day warranty would almost certainly run afoul of the EU's merchantability laws. Edit: Misread…
> The Dems, because deep down they'd rather have the GOP over real progressives. Decided to rig it for Hillary again in 2016. Sanders had an actual base, but the DNC didn't want him to win. Sanders was a candidate in…
I have user account on my personal Google Workspace domain that is used purely for superuser access (my day-to-day account doesn't have special access). I recently had to log into it for the first time in a few years to…
From the article: > I work at Red Hat. Mostly on AArch64 support in several projects. So an ARM developer, working for a major Linux distro vendor and trying to dogfood their work, used the closest thing to an ARM…
> We used to do that too from the late 1930's to the late 1970's, which is why we were the dominant industrial power in the world at that time as well. I think there's another world event that happened in that time span…
> Canonical announced that they are no longer using Debian as a base, but the unvetted packages compiled and uploaded by random people on Snap. Citation very much needed for this claim.
A lot of professions have terms of art that can be interpreted incorrectly or be viewed as odd by laymen. "Individual contributor" is no different. Maybe it sounds weird to you, but it's a well-understood term in the…
This is a pretty odd take, from my perspective. If one of my direct reports came to me and said they were interested in working on, say... AI observability (replace with whatever interests you), and that was something I…
Fractal still sells a Serenity workstation[1], but it's essentially an off-the-shelf AMD Ryzen-based system, installed into a Fractal Design Define 7 Mini case, with a Noctua tower air cooler and case fans replacing the…
More recent revisit: https://www.phoronix.com/review/snapdragon-x-elite-linux-eoy... TL;DR: It runs, but not well, and performance has regressed since the last published benchmark.
I have used Terraform, Puppet, Helm, and Ansible (although that's not strictly declarative), and all of them ran into problems in real-world use cases that needed common imperative language features to solve. Not only…
> Sure, but lts often doesn't work for other use cases like gaming. For example the experience on lts with this year's AMD gpus will be extremely poor if it works at all. I'm using Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with a Radeon RX 9070…
> Have you ever had to maintain a software project with many dependencies? If you have, then surely you have had the experience where picking up the project after a long period of inactivity makes updating dependencies…
> You are probably using some annoying pedantic definition of unstable. Most people mean it to mean “does stuff crash or break”. English has a specific word for that: reliable. Pedantry aside, having a complex system…
> Arch being unstable is a myth. Arch follows a rolling release model. It's inherently unstable, by design.
Debian -- probably not, but Ubuntu has numerous variants whose primary purpose is providing a different desktop experience, and a SteamOS-like variant would fit in perfectly with that.
> the kernel might still be good but the userland is just awful in every way imaginable The Windows kernel is also falling behind. Linux is considerably faster for a wide variety of workloads, so much so that if you're…
There's nothing about 4K videos that needs an SSD, an OLED display, or any particular video codec, and "large-scale internet infrastructure" is just a different way of saying "lots of high-bandwidth links". Hardware…
Dial-up modems can transfer a 4K HDR video file, or any other arbitrary data. It obviously wouldn't have the bandwidth to do so in a way that would make a real-time stream feasible, but it doesn't involve any leap of…
> Besides, the gaming industry keeps shooting themselves in the foot by only supporting Windows (Mac is a thing too). That is slowly changing, but so many game devs are drinking the Microsoft koolaid they don't even…
I have seen no credible explanation on how current or proposed technology can possibly achieve AGI. If you want to hand-wave that away by stating that any company with technology capable of achieving AGI would guard it…
> I still say that x86 must run two FPUs all the time, and that has to cost some power (AMD must run three - it also has 3dNow). Legacy floating-point and SIMD instructions exposed by the ISA (and extensions to it)…
Intel has only about half of the server market at this point, and that's with their products priced so low they're nearly selling them at cost. The margins on their desktop products are also way down, their current…
If we're comparing incompatible platforms, then the Apple M4 Max's iGPU is weaker than the Playstation 5 Pro's AMD iGPU in everything except for memory capacity. Intel has a competitive iGPU in the low-power mobile…
Turning a machine off loses any existing application state, and requires both applications and the OS to be re-launched. When I put a machine into standby, I want it to go in a standby state, and then stay there until I…
> Publishers could just put "Guaranteed playable until 2026-07-02", and then extend those games that are profitable. A one-day warranty would almost certainly run afoul of the EU's merchantability laws. Edit: Misread…
> The Dems, because deep down they'd rather have the GOP over real progressives. Decided to rig it for Hillary again in 2016. Sanders had an actual base, but the DNC didn't want him to win. Sanders was a candidate in…