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MadhuGururajan

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  • Thank you, Gemini, very cool.

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  • Because that other stuff used to work before the company fired all of QA and local devs. Then the bugs after that were used to justify LLMs to replace the "shitty coders" that outsourcing to a sweatshop usually entails. At least with the sweatshops there was some argument to be made that the people working there either had no other choice, or a slim chance they actually cared about their output and made it so at least it would do the bare minimum.

    Now that corporate wants to justify their hype and investment in AI to attract the moneyed entities, they will go to any lengths to show it actually works. Even if the Emperor has no clothes on!

  • Installing Linux Doesn't Need to Change. The Experience Does.

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  • The problem with your argument is that you are phrasing that as a problem with how the OS is not able to do what you want. But Linux is able to do whatever you ask it to. The real problem is companies.

    Most of the problems Windows users have with Linux is "Software X is not working in Linux" followed by "Alternative Software Y is too weird/quirky/broken on Linux". This used to be a problem with Gaming. With the investment of Valve into Linux, the scene there has dramatically shifted. Yet, you have cases like that of Roblox whose software is clearly capable of running on Linux but they deliberately hobble it and only support Windows. The important thing is that free software is written and maintained by people in their free time for free. So you can't expect the same level of polish as a dedicated company working on the software (Of course I can point to beautiful exceptions like Blender, VLC, etc.)

    So essentially the problem is two fold:

    1. Software/Game vendors don't want to support Linux
    2. Microsoft benefits from having it this way so they bribe their way into having Windows on retail hardware.

    Nowadays you can find laptops from manufacturers like Tuxedo or Framework, or even Dell/Lenovo where if you chose to go without windows they often discount your purchase by $100 or in some cases even $200!

    So it turns out Microsoft got greedy and is charging like 10% of hardware price as the cost of having Windows pre-installed. (Citation needed, I learnt it here on the fediverse)

    You and other people who want their stuff to just work are correct about the assessment of what needs to happen in Linux for it to catch up with Mac or Windows, but are incorrectly attributing the steep gradient set by Microsoft/Apple to inadequacy on the part of Linux.

  • Playtron wanted to take on Windows and SteamOS with their GameOS, now they're announcing a cryptocurrency

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  • The incentives are for scammers.

  • Programmers then and now

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  • use

    display: flex flex-direction: column align-items: center

    on the parent container

  • Programmers then and now

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  • Stackoverflow is for senior devs to clown on junior devs. It's the inverse of helping juniors.

  • Bytedance Proposes Faster Linux Inter-Process Communication With "Run Process As Library"

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  • I don't know the details of the MPK. So I consider it as some kind of function that maps {process PID, DLL} => Set of UID. And by UID, I AM talking about the system level user ID. Remember that this feature is a processor level feature. So it has to be transparent to the OS (well at least, to the OS Scheduler). Hence the output of this feature should be understandable to the OS kernel. Or so I hope as the implementation details are vague till now.

  • Bytedance Proposes Faster Linux Inter-Process Communication With "Run Process As Library"

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  • The gist is that a system call is introduced to go into the PCB and change the Effective UID of a process. Security is ensured by a processor MPK which is a CPU provided guard so that a {Process, Library} has only a restricted set of Effective UIDs it can switch to. This operations is supposed to use 30 to 50 clock cycles. So entry + exit is supposed to be done in 100 cycles. This is considered low overhead context switch compared to the traditional context switch on Linux for slower IPCs. They don't do a comparison against iouring, or simply multi-threaded process.

  • Exploiting Undefined Behavior in C/C++ Programs for Optimization: A Study on the Performance Impact

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  • or simply use a well designed programming language.

  • We're cooked y'all 🤣

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  • THAT is the message you took from all this? What you're going to root for the smug ignorant asshole?

  • Lenovo now ship with Fedora

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  • probably for the labour it takes to do the OEM install and verify that everything is up to date and works.. like audio and multi-monitor.

  • Arch Says Goodbye to Redis, Adopts Valkey

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  • the arch maintainers are not terminally online like some of us.

  • Replace Your Regular Linux Commands With These Better Alternatives

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  • you have to install a nerd font i guess. nerd-fonts dot com.

  • Replace Your Regular Linux Commands With These Better Alternatives

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  • 3rd thing: these tools may not be available on the remote server at your company. so you don't want to stumble on the commands (aliases exist but the outputs are wildly different)

  • No Connection, No Flush

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  • We used to be able to do multiplayer only without the need for official servers.

  • No Connection, No Flush

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  • it's a bit of a straw man from your side to act like the discussion is about multiplayer when we are discussing about single player campaign based RPGs or about multiplayer when the company deliberately shuts it down in favour of a new version that just milks players for more money; or about toasters that definitely don't need internet connection to function.

  • I am really considering moving from Arch to Fedora. What's your experience with this?

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  • I have never had luck with stability with fedora. But this was 5 years ago. Might try that.

  • No Connection, No Flush

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  • that's the company's problem. They made it too complicated.

  • Freedom Does Not Come From One Vendor

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  • You speak as if those things don't happen in a monopoly. Competition at least had a semblance of keeping each competitor on their foot.

    Only problem is consolidation of power is inevitable and thus the point is moot. You should have had a better argument for why it doesn't work.. instead you chose to look like the guy yelling at clouds.

  • How it started vs. How it's going

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  • the results do keep improving of course. But it's not some silver bullet. Yes, your enthusiasm is warranted.. but you peddle it like the 2nd coming of christ which I don't like encouraging.