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federico_c··on French court issues damages award for violation of GPL
> I think that's the end of "free software" in the GPL sense

If anything it's the end of OpenAI

federico_c··on Building Rich Terminal Dashboards
[Sorry for the spam]

If you want to create charts quickly there's also: https://github.com/FedericoCeratto/dashing

federico_c··on Deterministic Aperture: A distributed, load balancing algorithm
I might be spilling some secret sauce here but...

Control theory is mostly based on physical devices and analog variables, so it does not often fit with software systems.

However you are right nonetheless. Large networks contain a lot of caching of different kinds and other forms of data replication.

Caches warm up by transferring data and the available bandwidth to do so is never infinite. Especially when flipping traffic between whole datacenters.

Most load balancing systems are simply unaware of this.

federico_c··on Nim in 2020: A Short Recap
Nim natively supports 64bit RISC-V since years and 32bit in the current devel.

Also, the compiler itself is built for rv64 in Debian.

federico_c··on Nim 1.4
I use the Nim and GCC compilers from Debian in order to have guaranteed stable build system for 5+ years.
federico_c··on Tools I use: argparse builder
https://github.com/shellcomp/shellcomp.github.io/blob/master...

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Shellac-Protocol-Propos...

federico_c··on The High Privacy Cost of a “Free” Website
The amount of unused computing and storage on personal devices is staggering.

Yet HN never misses the opportunity to dogpile on anyone who points this out: data trasfer costs, battery usage, jokes about the Silicon Valley sitcom.

As if most phones weren't connected to wifi and power for 10+ hours a day.