I am on my 6th smartphone, it is the first phone of which the screen accumulates scratches. Google Pixel 9. None of my previous phones needed a screen protector.
> Unlike how rpm or apk packages are done, the deb package sources by design avoid having one massive procedural packaging recipe.
I think that one massive recipe of a well documented preprocessed language such as RPM is exactly what makes RPM maintenance a breeze compared to DEB. The inputs and outputs of each stage are clear. The expansion of the macros. The idea that you only need to execute a single command `rpmbuild` and everything is neatly wrapped from underneath it.
It may be a secondary effect - that the extension of life from reduction of cellular damage was due to the mice being less stressed out mentally after being stoned.
I’m no Peter Thiel fan, but I love his critique of DOGE:
> I had a conversation with Elon a few weeks ago about this. He said we’re going to have a billion humanoid robots in the U.S. in 10 years. And I said: Well, if that’s true, you don’t need to worry about the budget deficits because we’re going to have so much growth, the growth will take care of this.
Right. I guess either way, dystopia or utopia, if we have 1B humanoid robots in 2035, literally no one will remember saving $10M by cutting one scientific grant program.
Robot arm vacuums were just released few months ago. It can barely pick up socks and some types of slippers. There's still a long way to folding clothes.
His life mission is control, Mars was just a means to an end. He’s not going to get to Mars, and he very publicly destroyed any political capital he had on Earth.
Like Thiel, just another power hungry tech bro wrapping themselves in the idea of progress and humanity for PR. Define “progress” and for whom.
I wonder if in 2040 after 100 Gigafactories are built, large majority of power planets are green and rely on batteries, and ICE vehicles contribute only to tiny fraction of all pollution, there will still be people saying "it was just for money, meh".
The fact you actually believe a failing company can build 95 more factories when there is falling demand says it all. The propaganda is working very well.
I don't think it was for the money. I think it was for the ego. The money exists so that he can do things that make him feel good about himself.
I think he would love to be the guy who saved the planet. And if he's accomplished that by 2040, I'll be grateful to him for that. He'll have deserved it.
I think he'd also love to be the guy who colonized Mars. I believe that if you could ask him for one thing he wants, it's to be remembered in one breath with Christopher Columbus.
Of late, he seems to be distracted from both of those approaches. For a while, he thought he could be the guy who drowned the US government in the bathtub, enabling him to pursue his other feats in peace.
If that is ending, perhaps he'll return to being the great green visionary, electrifying the country despite the entrenched power structures working against him. It would take a lot to revise my extremely negative opinion, but if he really can be the guy who defeats global warming, I'll applaud him for it.
Hi. I'm Dan Aloni, original author of this project. It still warms my heart to see this pops in HN every few years. The others who have worked on it and myself are keeping that site as the good relic that it obviously should be :)
It still amazes me how breakthrough it was to have that working, given the lack of hardware virtualization for PCs in late 2003.
I used coLinux to install the unofficial Linux-based toolchain for iPhone apps, and I made an iPhone app editing it in Windows, with a Makefile that SSHed into the coLinux system, called the compiler and pushed the binary onto my jailbroken iPhone (who needs iPhone e-/simulators?).
I even published the app (ok code-signing was done on a Hackintosh), sadly it didn't make me rich...
Any idea why Microsoft didn't use this in WSL1 or 2?
Is it more efficient than hyper-v with hardware acceleration?
Can you see it being useful again? Or does it make sense to have a hybrid where the code runs using hardware acceleration but the timers are cooperative?
It seems that today we can achieve similar functionality in fundamentally different ways (WSL, WSL2/virtualisation, Cygwin, etc.) What in your opinion is today's closest solution to colinux? and why we don't see such clever solutions today?
WSL2 is analogue to coLinux and WSL1 is analogue to Cygwin. WSL2 is definitely what you want in place of coLinux. However, both have merit in what they can achieve depending on the circumstances. There is long thread on Github about the switch between the two, with many people asking to maintain both.
I created the images for Fedora, CentOS and OpenSuse. it thought me a lot about the dependencies, Linux image builds, etc... it was creating 'container'-images before this was a general thing.
Many stuff gets invented in raw form much before everyone receives it in a much more structured way.
Around 2007 when Linux namespaces started getting better support, I had made a small executable to use these system calls and to spin up a squashfs image 'just for compiling stuff for another system'. Much later, this whole method was replaced with 'docker run'.
There was already a cold war with Iran before Oct 7, and many warned it could pop any moment. It could be said to the detriment of Netanyahu that he ignored that and didn't want this on his watch. Iran was priming and planning for a moment where a joint Hezbollah-Hamas ground invasion would have put the Israeli military to a stress beyond its means, and with many thousands casualties on the first day. It would have happened sooner or later if it wasn't for the Hamas independent action.
Also, on Oct 2023 he and other officials said it is going to be a long battle from the beginning. He never once promised this to be short. And also, a clear victory from a long war gets him more electorates, so he aligns his own victory with Israel's.
I am on my 6th smartphone, it is the first phone of which the screen accumulates scratches. Google Pixel 9. None of my previous phones needed a screen protector.
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