I don’t think that’s what’s happening. There’s no hard requirement for cat to read everything straight into memory. It can send data once it’s available, and the receiving process can read it as fast as it wants. There are cases where this might be more clear: Let’s say you have a big video file that you want to convert to something that only supports like y4m input and is not in ffmpeg. A common way is something like ffmpeg -i infile -f yuv4mpegpipe - | encoder --y4m outfile - I’m pretty sure ffmpeg won’t read the whole infile into memory, nor will it store the whole y4m representation in memory. Instead, it will decode infile as necessary and push into the pipe at the speed the encoder can handle.

But yeah, I remember something about tar using libraries for compression being more efficient that piping its output to a compressor. So it’s still the better route, but probably not as much better as you think.

Not being able to Syu every 5 minutes and only being able to update once a day was the biggest challenge when I changed to NixOS

Genius

Alright, not that I wrote or implied that anywhere… In fact Java was probably the whole reason Oracle bought Sun to gain leverage over Android. Which fits very much into what I wrote - one company innovates, another one buys them to squeeze users (Google wasn’t a customer of Sun, they used their own implementation which wasn’t exactly Java but also not exactly anything else). Just that Sun by all means wasn’t a small company, I mean they controlled almost a full stack with their own processors (SPARC), workstations and servers (Blade was somewhat famous), an operating system with Solaris (and if you want to count it even JavaOS) and Java on top of those, and they contributed a lot of technology like NFS, ZFS (license discussions aside). On the other hand, when they bought someone, the product wasn’t just milked to death, but actually integrated into their stack and continued to be developed in the open.

Shame it turned out that way, I guess Sun was a bit overleveraged with how much they did vs. how much they made from it. And to think that Oracle paid less than a fifth than what Twitter sold for later for all of that technology to go to waste, just for a chance to sue Google… But we long as suits continue to license their stuff because they have cool advertisements at airports, this will keep going.

Oracle was never really innovative on a technical level , it’s first and foremost a company focused on selling licenses, and they’re really innovative in that regard but if you fall for that as a company, I have no pity, this is their whole schtick.

Big companies in general are often rather conservative in nature while innovation happens on smaller scale and later expands.

The big problem is rather that a lot of innovation has been absorbed by the big companies via buyouts, especially when money was cheap to borrow. Innovation bears risk, buying an established solution and milking existing users much less so.

I don’t think the users are without blame. A lot of people ignore the red flags when a solution is just convenient enough (we need the commercial support / this exactly covers our use case so we don’t have to hire someone to adapt it / …) and the vendor then cashes out when moving away from his solution would be really expensive.

I think there’s still a lot of innovation lately, but a lot people are just looking for the next big thing that does everything it feels like.

server owners

The only server owners in Discord are Discord themselves. They just let you use them so they can monetize your data.

Interesting how similar our distro careers are. My switch was also after a long time (15 years). Wouldn’t go back to Arch. Still think it’s a good distro for what it’s trying to achieve.

Hey, I never said this is what people want, just that it is in fact a transferrable skill. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone just trying to get their machine running, but if you’re looking to gain some insight, is not the worst choice.

If you actually try to understand what’s happening, I think it’s one of the best ways to learn how a system is composed, at least if you install manually. What’s a partition, file system, what does mounting do, chroots, you name it.

I don’t use Arch anymore but still think it’s a great distro to learn the basics while still having the luxury of new binary packages. Manual Arch install abstracts basically nothing away from you, for better or for worse.

Currently on NixOS, I’d say while its engineering is better overall, the things you learn there are much more distribution-specific or maybe concept-specific and often not applicable to other distributions.

I guess there are also probably ways to install e.g. Debian manually, I’ve never seen instructions for it though as there was always the focus on the installer, and frankly I’m not a big fan of apt and all. It always seemed to be much more convoluted than pacman plus it does a lot of stuff for you, whether you want it or not was my impression.

The void doesn’t actually speak Spanish, it’s just pretending not to understand so that it doesn’t need to justify. Actually adds to the punchline

Ich hoffe auch, dass die Klage Erfolg hat, sehe es allerdings auch nicht als sehr wahrscheinlich. Ich vermute, wie schon geschrieben wurde, dass Amazon sich auf den Standpunkt berufen wird, Prime sei kein Vertrag mit einer fixen Laufzeit, für den man bezahlt, sondern quasi etwas, was tageweise gebucht wird und nur aus Gründen der vereinfachten Abrechnung für längere Zeiträume gezahlt wird. Jede Kunde hat die Möglichkeit, Prime jederzeit tagesaktuell zu kündigen, das ist kein Sonderrecht bei Vertragsänderung, sondern deren Praxis (auch wenn natürlich wieder hinter einem Dark Pattern versteckt). Bei einer sofortigen Kündigung wird daher auch die Restlaufzeit anteilig ausgezahlt.

For years Dota players have argued that having to click the enemy hero to see their mana is peak game design. It was very rare to see anyone argue on favor of it. Better late than never I guess?

Hab’s im Einsatz, aber in einem sehr simplen Setup - nur eine Platte, bcachefs auf LUKS (ja, ich hatte wohl auch die interne Verschlüsselung probieren können…) - noch keinen Datenverlust, mir kommt die Platte langsam vor aber ich hatte die nie ohne bcachefs im Einsatz, daher fehlt mir der Vergleich.

I don’t know what you’re talking about.

Lol ich sehe es trotz leicht anderer Laufbahn ziemlich genauso. War zwölf Jahre als Soldat beim Bund aber halt immer Schreibtischtäter. Mich als “Veteranen” zu bezeichnen fände ich eklig, das weckt einfach Assoziationen, die einfach nicht zutreffen, aber wenn es dadurch mal was billiger gibt Frage ich nicht nach

Just like our bëpen-böpenmänner.

The folders actually do make sense.

Roaming: this data can be moved between machines in a domain if you have a roaming profile. E.g. go to another workstation and your browser configuration is the same? Means it’s in Roaming.

Local: this data will not be synchronized between machines when you roam. This could be your browser’s cache.

LocalLow: like local, but for applications that are “low integrity”, like Internet Explorer. These folders have special properties. https://helgeklein.com/blog/internet-explorer-in-protected-mode-how-the-low-integrity-environment-gets-created/

Ah, to be 13 again.

You can’t tell me you’re not using an extension cord for the controller

The usual 50% off was already a very good deal in my opinion. If you ever considered looking into this game there is no better time than now. An absolute masterpiece and one of my favorite games of all time.

Also finally you can manage your inventory outside of the holy mountain (tinkering not included by default). This was the primary reason I played on beta the last months. Once my current run ends, I’m switching to stable.