Maybe it's not just transistors they're hoping to gain from this.
I think it's more like building a brain from organic matter that's the real boon. Sooner or later we'll be discarding silicon and extracting neurons from mice just to watch YouTube IX in space with our Tesla corvette cruisers and our alien barmaids serving us Soylent Green in a martini glass!
It would be much easier for people to disregard the customer and not complete sales in a big company like that though. It's not only more likely, it ONLY happens with them.
A small business would never have a company that delivers be that disappointing and lazy, especially after complaints to their customer service.
Or even lack any sort of concern they lost a sale... Disappointing!
What Linus is really saying is that the way Skarupke measured the spinlock being 'bad' is wrong. Skarupke tried to measure it in C, but you can never be sure if you're not being scheduled by anything else.
Skarupke inaccurately defined this as 'mutex vs. spinlock' and an ongoing debate surrounding this as they are comparable, when in no way are they comparable as in userland you simply cannot use spinlocks.
The Windows scheduler apparently doesn't do this, and handles spinlocks better; whatever that means. But the way it works is that spinlocks should work poorly if you run them poorly. Full manual-control of when running a spinlock in userland, you will be scheduled by other things, and you should know that.
That's what Linux is really about. The ability to do something and not have the system "better-ize" it like Windows does by doing some black magic and running an unknown process alongside your spinlock to make it run better.
A spinlock run in userland SHOULD be scheduled by other things, as Linus says. As Linus implemented in the kernel.
Man I really hate all the crap websites like this put on their page these days. What's wrong with reading the article as the first thing you see? Scroll-throughs and clickables and cookies oh my.
It's just a matter of what people are interested in, and having an attitude that clearly shows you're not interested in that topic, will draw everyone who's not interested in that topic to follow you. That's why trolling is so popular.
The only thing I like about Alexa is when the servers go down and they're no logner supported in 10 years, people will be stuck holding-the-bag like Betamax and Laser Disc holdouts.
Wow, never thought I'd meet ME in hackernews.
This is exactly what I do. I have a domain with a few services running and upload everything to that, then get a hyperlink to it to embed/raw post everywhere.
I've got one that grabs a few pages of my favourite background site and replaces my windows backgrounds every week.
It'll loop through the thousands they have there a hundred at a time, so I'm right for the next couple years.
Isn't connecting to Microsoft being online?
Unless you're running exchange on an OFFLINE, LOCAL NETWORK your outgoing traffic to Google will contain metadata and you're not stopping anything by removing the SIM card other than inconveniencing yourself.
It still calls home, it's still online. Lock down Microsoft and Google's IPs permanently, outbound, on all networks you use or this won't work.
This is a great point. If we didn't host our own servers, we'd be on the line for thousands more than we currently pay.
It's only sheer force of keeping servers internal that we've had the expertise and knowhow to host our platform ourselves.
Now that we're the size that we are, the platform is crazily reliant on hosting it ourselves for administration and liability, so we'd need to have migrated anyway.
You're literally using a graphics rendering engine for a script someone wrote to handle how it displays the pictures on your screen.
You should be lucky optimisation and operational benefits of web browsers have come as far as they have.
Web interfaces are nothing more than a miracle, and you're complaining that the ad-hoc nature of putting up a website and having it render in a magic box is too poor quality for you because of RAM numbers. Great.
People just don't know about China. This is how it is there. There is no openness and freedom and everyone is monitored. People say it's not too bad.
Personally, I don't know how I'd feel about it. It would change things and you'd only be able to go on state-approved websites, but life would go on...
The fact people can take tickets and you have to fight and have an argument about it really shows that there's a discourse inevitable in systems like Agile.
Who gets the 'tickets', why are 'tickets' always ruling people, when will 'tickets' be more like working for your own company?
The fact is the tickets themselves are acting like a virtual currency of which only one person gets, exclusively.
If more than one person could work on a ticket this would solve the problem, but the fact that people are locked out and it's exclusive makes them an argumentative point and causes greed/habits to form.
Fix the tickets, not the people.
All the credit and satisfaction comes from this one point.