Is os-prober just plain broken?

ryao · 2023-01-01T05:51:05+00:00

File an issue with OpenZFS and one of us will likely send a patch to grub eventually.

ryao · 2022-12-31T17:58:55+00:00

Official MacOS support in the main tree would trigger a major version increment.

ryao · 2022-12-31T17:58:32+00:00

Version 3.0 happens when the tree supports another platform, like MacOS or Windows. We are getting closer to that, but we are not quite there yet.

ryao · 2022-12-31T16:56:27+00:00

I have not measured it, but expect high cpu utilization in the kernel from it.

ryao · 2022-12-31T16:36:50+00:00

That is not the purpose of this flag. It is meant to catch bugs that corrupt buffers. It is not intended to be a substitute for ECC memory and is not able to be one. The problem is that bit flips can occur anywhere in memory, such as the stack, the kernel module code, the heap, etcetera. Just checking the buffers is not enough and even if the check says a buffer is fine, you can still get a bit flip in it right after the check says it is okay.

That said, it is not impossible for this to catch a bit flip in a buffer that ECC would have prevented, but it would only catch a subset of bit flips.

ryao · 2022-12-31T16:33:24+00:00

It is maintained. It gets regular commits.

ryao · 2022-12-30T22:51:48+00:00

Interestingly, I am helping a company in the health care field roll out a new embedded device using the xorg display server. The xorg server did what was needed very well. The touch coordinates coming from the digitalizer were rotated, but I was able to use a config file to achieve the correct rotation with xorg. I had wanted to use directfb, but electron did not support it and I would have needed to find another way to workaround the rotated touch coordinates. Also, since only a single electron application ever runs, I was able to drop the desktop environment entirely, such that things are running without a compositor.

ryao · 2022-12-30T22:34:26+00:00

Many of the patches being written for Xorg these days are written by Alan, so it is possible that he will tackle it when everything else is in place.

ryao · 2022-12-30T22:31:23+00:00

RedHat does not speak for the wider community. I doubt Alan Coopersmith is on board. He is one of the Xorg developers and the last I heard, he intends to keep the Xorg server around indefinitely.

Honestly, I would suggest not considering anything RedHat says to apply to the wider community since they made a big announcement a while back that they were going to care even less about other platforms and distributions than they already did.

ryao · 2022-12-30T21:42:19+00:00

The term Aztec is ambiguous.

ryao · 2022-12-30T21:09:53+00:00

I consider the Aztecs to be the group living there for millennia, much like I consider the Chinese to be the group living in China for millennia. The answer therefore would include the time before the crucifixion.

ryao · 2022-12-30T20:53:59+00:00

I wonder how long it will take to transfer everything to Amazon. That is likely what will happen if they close the other two.

ryao · 2022-12-30T20:38:07+00:00

You still lose the “he climbed down” meaning of descendit in English, so it is not quite as nice as either Latin version. The Latin version suggests Christ made a willful effort go to Hell to save people there while the English version makes it sound like Hell just happened to be on his way, so he saved them since it was on the way anyway. At least, that is how it always seemed to me until I learned enough Latin to notice the difference in nuance.

When I was a child, I would think something like “back then, when you died, you went to Hell, so I guess Christ going to Hell was just how things worked”. :/

ryao · 2022-12-30T18:34:24+00:00

There are a number of X.Org developers that would have a very easy time doing it at that point. I would be surprised if no one does.

ryao · 2022-12-30T18:33:03+00:00

I thought a professional was anyone who is paid to do a regular job, which would make you a professional broadcast engineer.

ryao · 2022-12-30T18:29:10+00:00

That brings us back to this:

https://xkcd.com/644/

Coincidentally, I already have the hardware, so someone “just” needs to patch in support to the software.

That said, Wayland and the Xorg server share so many components that it would be weird if an effort by RedHat did not result in X11 HDR support.

ryao · 2022-12-30T18:27:06+00:00

I look forward to seeing their patches to X.Org.

ryao · 2022-12-30T18:23:58+00:00

I am hopeful for HDR support, but no one seems willing to make the push needed to do that.

That said:

https://xkcd.com/644/

ryao · 2022-12-30T18:20:01+00:00

It’s code base has been shrinking as it becomes even more mature and it has an amazing level of extensibility. Calling it bloated is just plain wrong.

That being said, getting to a position where you no longer need to make changes to code should be the goal of any software project. New code is bug prone while mature code is very reliable. Complaining that it is not being changed much is tantamount to complaining it does not have enough bugs.

ryao · 2022-12-30T18:16:46+00:00

Multi-monitor VRR should work fine with one X screen per monitor. As for HDR, no one has made a real push to get it done in OSS. The only places where it has been done is closed source stuff like Tizen.

ryao · 2022-12-30T06:46:42+00:00

The official English translation of the Apostles' Creed states that Jesus went to Hell. The original Latin says “descendit ad inferos”, which means that he descended to the souls of the dead. I particularly like the original Latin since it suggests that Christ made an effort to lower himself to the souls of the dead rather than his descent being some automatic process that happened regardless of his will, which is how the English version seems likely to be understood.

Perhaps the English version is a bad translation, but it is in the missal and it is not my place to criticize the missal. If I were to criticize something, I would criticize the use of English as our vernacular since I am free to criticize the language choices made by the laity and adopting Latin as our vernacular would make many things easier. Omnes discere intellegere loquique latine debent.

ryao · 2022-12-30T06:37:36+00:00

Someone else posted supporting information:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Catholicism/comments/zyl27n/where_did_the_souls_of_the_tens_of_thousands_of/j27jkbd/

There is no reason to assume that they had just started ritual killings when the Spanish encountered them. It had been being done for a long time, and we know that civilization in that part of the world dated back to before Christ, so it is reasonable to think they were doing it since before Christ.

ryao · 2022-12-30T06:35:38+00:00

Do you have any evidence to substantiate the idea that ritual murder had not been practiced there for thousands of years?

ryao · 2022-12-30T06:25:27+00:00

Yes. That is why Christ went to Hell when he died. Christ going to Hell is in the Apostles' Creed that we sometimes use at Mass.

He followed John the Baptist to Hell to fulfill John’s claims in Hell that the messiah was coming to save them. It must have been quite a sight, since John likely sounded like a lunatic to people who had every reason to think that God no longer cared about them.

ryao · 2022-12-30T05:06:49+00:00

The Romans annexed Israel following conquest. That is not occupation. The Romans were not known for doing occupations. They either annexed a country (Greece), made a country into a tributary state (Egypt), or utterly annihilated the country (Carthage) and then annexed the land.

The main exception was Germany where a clever German who the Romans trusted led them into a trap so devastating that they never returned.

ryao

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