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9:11:37
no-defun-allowed
With regards to the statement "The access tag consists of the 4 most signicant bits of a 64-bit pointer" in page 19 of the CLOSOS specification, I was informed that the most significant bits of the pointer have to be the same as the most significant bit that is used in addressing.
9:17:23
no-defun-allowed
shka__: This is about access control bits in CLOSOS, which are not tag bits.
9:19:45
no-defun-allowed
But I got into another terrible discussion after making a quite shocking joke about using a difficult-to-install Linux distribution, and that is something I need to learn not to do, or I need to learn to change the topic quickly.
9:22:25
no-defun-allowed
It wasn't really a joke, but I responded to "installing arch is actually a good learning experience and isn't that hard so if you're interested in like learning more about linux + getting better customization I'd go that route" with "You won't learn anything new from using a difficult to maintain distribution, other how bad the design of GNU/Linux can get."
9:23:41
no-defun-allowed
I guess it was funny to me because the former was my mentality four years ago, and it didn't work out at all.
9:25:46
beach
People who have spent a large part of their lives investing in some technology often take it personally when someone tries to point out that that particular technology might not be optimal.
9:26:53
no-defun-allowed
(And in my opinion, what you learn instead is how to get from the live disk to a new bootable system in as little time as possible, possibly reinforced through several attempts at getting the damn thing to boot, which is much less than what was promised.)