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Improbable doesn’t have planet scale solutions. Their most touted title, Worlds Adrift, is explicitly discretized into regions. They use ‘creative’ solutions like ‘impassable storms’ to prevent crowding.


It's likely they have both.

What they're shipping right now is the latter.

What they're selling to investors is the former. Planet scale.


Why do you think that they have what they are selling to investors?


That is a very good question. Has anyone tested the scaling and load limits of the thing yet? I haven't seen any reports.


POSIX


Heh. Especially true if we allow indirect to count, since I'll bet the vast majority of the web APIs upthread are hosted on *nix.


Children would be lazily loaded and would not appear in directory listing of the parent directory. `find` would search your existing local checkouts only and the file system would still be POSIX.


How do you trigger loading the projects if there isn’t a pointer to them showing up in the file system?


When you open or stat a directory that doesn't exist, try to checkout that path, if that fails, return an ENOENT error?


To the author: the double quote characters in your phishing dialog are straight ASCII " but the quotes in the official dialog are Unicode open/close double quote characters.


Yeah, thanks for the note, I noticed that but was too lazy to re-do the screenshots.


Ok, but that's hardly the point...


I know Apple uses curly quotes for EVERYTHING so that raises an instant alarm in my head.


In that case you're probably more secure than 99% of apple users. I don't think more than 1% of iphone users would've noticed the difference.


Yup. Everyone who had accidentally edited a JSON file in TextEdit knows this.


Some more context: Andrew Anglin is the editor of The Daily Stormer neo-nazi web site.

I re-watched American History X last night and I greatly recommend it to anyone who wants a little (dramatic) insight into modern American white supremacy motivations. In particular, the main character, Derek, gives a speech to a group of skinheads which is disturbingly similar to some of Trump's campaign speeches (though more eloquent).


Also, I recommend that any concerned intellectual read this book:

http://a.co/bAOViyI

(Warning, the cover has a picture of the Hitler salute, but it's squarely anti-Fascist.)

It details the ideological underpinnings of the above. They say explicitly that they want to replace the current social order. The erosion of human rights is one of the explicit ideological goals of the leadership of both the far extreme right and the far extreme left.


The person in question is Heather Heyer, victim of the vehicular homicide hate crime in Charlottesville, VA.


Oh yikes, I didn't recognize her. That's even worse.


Many developer use cases do not demand heavy bind mount file access. For example, incremental builds of static languages typically work fine.

docker/for-mac#77 is related to "bind mount" performance but docker/for-mac#668 is virtual block device performance. Have you posted a reproduction workload that demonstrates the performance problems you are having?

Docker 17.04 includes a `cached` bind mount flag that relaxes consistency of the mount in exchange for significantly reducing guest-host roundtrips especially for inefficient workloads that repeatedly access the same files.


We're seeing the same issue. We've been using shared folders with VMware for a long time, which are also slow (but not this slow).

There's a case for keeping the Docker environment stateless and expendable (wipe to restart), and keep certain things (PostgreSQL databases, for example) on the host machine. Currently, that's impossible because of the aforementioned issue.

I haven't tried the "cached" flag since it's still in beta, however.


Could you please link to some docs for the cached flag you mentioned? I can't find anything about it.


Documentation for 'cached' is on its way. There'll be a blog post up soon with a friendly introduction, and some representative benchmarks. In the meantime there's a drier but more detailed specification of the behaviour of 'cached' waiting in a pull request here:

  https://github.com/yallop/docker.github.io/blob/d9a57867/docker-for-mac/osxfs-caching.md


The 14th amendment does not guarantee privacy so I'm not sure why I'd believe anything else this page says...


The Supreme Court disagrees with you. See Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965) and Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973).


> An operating system is a collection of things that don't fit into a language. There shouldn't be one.

~ Daniel Ingalls, co-creator of Smalltalk http://web.archive.org/web/20070213165045/users.ipa.net/%7Ed...


Yep.

C and C++ are the outliers here.

Although C++ is moving into a richer runtime, thus increasing the likelihood to write OS independent code without relying on third party libraries.

Even C, if POSIX had been part of ANSI C, would fall into this scenario.

In a way, UNIX can be seen as C's original runtime.


I think it actually requires comparing relative prices to save a life which only puts a floor on the value of a human life.


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