bigcat123's comments

It's not funny game. It's part of abstraction hierarchy and physical computing model vs. programming language computing model.

It's only funny because one would presume that there ever was a time the hardware was not playing "funny" game.

And no, it always has a giant abstraction gap between hierarchy, and that's a fundamental part of modern electronic computing. One shall allow oneself to learn those and get used to how things are actually working.

Let's put in this way.

One saw a black box.

One was told that the black box contains some nasty staff.

One knows that the above statement is biased.

One then claim that the black box contains the nasty thing.

See how bias anchored one's thought, even if clearly this guy had no first hand information to make any judgement at all. Yet still be able to have a mental state that clearly established.

Case in comparison, bpf or ebpf. In that they are both a type of radically different approach on solving the old problem. Bpf being kernel programmability for app developer, wasm being portable execution environment.

Emotions do not serve any purpose. It's a abstract concept describing certain psychogical process in human that is not characterized by so-called rational thinking.

Most non artificial things are not serving any purpose, they are coincidents filtered through natural selection.

Most artificial things serve some purpose of its makers.

I value the diversity on HN.

I mostly value when my view are reputed by facts and reasoning.

What the author pointed out as a symptom, is the result of the systematic dumbdown of the population by our comparative overload, who might or might not have been conscious about it.

Software engineering is largely non value based, they are technical based. On things they designed for and on things they base their code upon. In such affairs, democracy is a incompatible framework. It's like my c++ compiler does not compile Java code, that's a technical design and facts. It has no implications to anything political.

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This is a bit out of context. 5-15% in any measurements to mainstream software is too easy. Even if it's operating system. We all know that.

This is why almost any papers that compare a research project's products with a mainstream production one in terms of performance is usually just for establishing context than actually comparison.

The 4th book of Frank Hurbert's dune saga. Or I personally think it's THE ending of the actual dune story line. Not only it completes the cycle started in Book 1 titled "dune". The 2 later books are really spin-off that tells a much smaller story.

God emperor shows Hurbert's astounding depth and width in understanding humans as the building blocks of the civilization. And gave an unprecedented interpretation of humanity (and ruthlessness).

The words are poetic with a sense of intonation built-in that renders a supernatural feeling, and had made me rethink how humans should live together.

It's also a book that ends at the beginning, and used one sentence to reveal the climax of the whole dune story line. One had to appreciate Herbert's immense imagination and skills to bring those into words, that depicts minuate details that are enthralling yet always points to the ultimate idea. A literary genius and magnificent architect in human language at the grandest scale.

That's the one book Ill bring along if I am on an one-way trip to Mars!

Thus the second part's question becomes strange. As anything needs to be done on K8s needing ebpf also requires ebpf outside k8s (there often is replacement, but that does not harm the fact that ebpf can be used in those cases).

Just from the beginning:

> Despite its scale, Microsoft is one of the most overlooked companies in tech.

What's the standard of overlookness? I never for a moment feel MSFT was overlooked, by any measure of sampling.

> It is not a beloved consumer brand like Apple, Facebook, Amazon, or Google.

In 90s, MSFT used to be thought as one of the 2 pillars of THE PC industry as a whole. And MSFT was commonly thought to be the more powerful one of the wintel dual.

MSFT lost its glamour when the anti monopoly suit hit them hard.

Then very loosely speaking MSFT lost a lot of battle in the 2010s.

But still, MSFT has a much longer history than FB and Google. Theese 3 enjoyed probably similar scale of love from their users. And FB is the one with the least amount of love in their hayday.

Apple is a different story. They always have a particularly cult like following that skewed every commentators' perspective.

> It was not a venture capital success story: Microsoft was too profitable to raise real VC money, so the founders owned 70% at IPO.

What? BC has been much smaller in the days of MSFT. You should say BC was not favored not MSFT was not relevant to VC. It was after MSFT created the PC market, and enabled Internet, then that the entrapeneriship becomes much cheaper through online economy. Then the VC becomes a central force of the high tech industry.

You are asking the father to be judged by its grandson for greatness...

> It is the oldest of FAMGA, hidden away in a different state.

What?... Why not included HP, DEC, Fairchild then... Of course some is old some is young. The fact that MSFT lives for so long is a symbol of success itself...

Thus mumbling of words are unbearable...

I am often amused that many people who doesn't hesitate to call main stream media unreliable in most affairs, suddenly trust them with strong passion when they are starting to be much more biased towards China and Chinese people.

Hopefully this situation can be changed eventually.

Earth is not large enough for blind hate. We have to learn live with each other. Or move into Space.

> The report, authored by Adrian Zenz, an independent Tibet and Xinjiang researcher, says that 500,000 people, mostly subsistence farmers and herders, were trained in the first seven months of 2020 and authorities have set quotas for the mass transfer of those workers within Tibet and to other parts of China.

One thing I hate about mainstream media reporting is that they never link to the source material.

Just from the above description, I cannot see that these people are forced in anyway. And deriving such numbers from public Chinese government documents is not accurate either, as certain words can be easily misunderstood given the sinophobia sentiment nowadays.

Never heard of this event. Mind to provide a link with more details?