verisimilitude: I think about the seven laws a decent bit, asciilifeform.
verisimilitude: On this Lemote Yeeloong, it's being slow for some reason, so I foolishly tried to use a ``traditional'' UNIX utility, renice, to adjust scheduling.
verisimilitude: I didn't expect it would lock my machine for over half an hour, to give two Emacs instances negative twenty priority, the highest priority, because some jackass thought those were good numbers for this.
verisimilitude: Also, in writing that last message, it was lost because of SSH errors, so I got to type it twice.
verisimilitude: So, the options at my disposal were to reboot and lose state, or wait to renice again, so I waited.
verisimilitude: Only a fool thinks the ``superuser'' should be allowed to unintentionally lock the machine up for over half an hour.
verisimilitude: This machine can do millions of calculations per second; just what was it doing, I wonder.
verisimilitude: The solution is, of course, to use hardware massively more powerful than necessary.
snsabot: Logged on 2021-01-04 11:50:41 asciilifeform: verisimilitude: i'll add what the schoolbook ~won't~ tell you : the shared-resource bottleneck is ~not~ the greatest catastrophe of the vn model of computation. rather, it is the shit-sandwich of broken abstractions based on the interrupt.
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verisimilitude: It's always disappointing to click on the website links of loper-os commentators to find empty domains or link farms.
verisimilitude: Does it seem unrealistic, asciilifeform, for me to believe many corporations and other large groups could be replaced by single programmers who were simply able to use the machines to their fullest?
verisimilitude: It's truly sickening, to see the omnipresent waste, given this perspective.
verisimilitude: Cut away ninety-nine percent of the fat, and allow good tools, languages, and systems, and I see no reason why one man couldn't do the work of millions.
verisimilitude: Care for an interesting story which struck me recently?