Bit fields are a necessity in low level networking too.

They’re incredibly useful, I wish more people made use of them.

I remember I interned at a startup programming microcontrollers once and created a few bitfields to deal with something. Then the lead engineer went ahead and changed them to masked ints. Because. The most aggravating thing is that an int size isn’t consistent across platforms, so if they were ever to change platforms to a different word length, they’d be fucked as their code was full of platform specific shenanigans like that.

/rant

Talking heads - once in a lifetime

And you may ask yourself: where is my beautiful house? Where is my beautiful wife?

In the industrial automation world and most of the IT industry, data is aligned to the nearest word. Depending on architecture, that’s usually either 16, 32, or 64 bits. And that’s the space a single Boolean takes.

That’s SBN. C’mon, mate, it’s like you’re not even trying.

Thanks!

Total Breakdown of the Id?

Well done! Protip: You can use double new lines to format paragraphs. And full-stops.

I must clarify. I use only Aliexpress, the retail side of Alibaba.

No, used to be cheaper. And you can buy samples of switches (singles, 5-packs) easily there, while usually not available on amazon. Keycaps are less expensive too. The biggest downside really is the time it takes to arrive, but if you adjust your expectations accordingly, it’s not an issue.

Works fine, just takes a while. It’s like a surprise gift for yourself.

Godspeed, friend.

With Recall as it is, trying to have anything written privately in Windows is a losing battle.

That’s Alibaba for me, essentially.

Trying to get as much Chinese keyboard parts as possible before the tariffs ends the party.

Edit: autocorrupt

Great talk indeed. And I will quickly acknowledge that something had to be done, and that systemd had the courage to innovate and address the issues. I just wish it did so in a more transparent way to the end user.

For instance: there’s a whole established system of dealing with logs in place. Why build a separate one just for your init system? Why binary? Why even integrate it with your init? I’m not saying storing everything on /var/log and using logrotate is ideal or even covers all use cases. But a log management system is its own thing.

That’s just an example of how systemd didn’t jive with every other subsystem in a Unix like OS. It could have been done in a Unix way - small cohesive tools that are good at one job and can be combined to do more together.

That’s where I think he missed the mark when dismissing the monolithic criticism by saying “it’s not a single binary so it’s not monolithic”. Its philosophy is monolithic.

That said, I use systemd on my machines because that’s what my do uses and I don’t think it’s a reason to swap distros. For the same reason I use Linux and not a micro kernel. I.e. philosophy is important, but implementation is importanter.

So that’s the story. SystemD feels very Microsofty, though. A big, opinionated, monolith.

Wasn’t the systemd dude a Microsoft employee or something?

Epic?

Your brains and mine work very very differently. Kudos to diversity.

They went so far as to say that they regret it but the decision didn’t impose any change of behavior. That’s as much of a shrug as you can officially get.