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| Possible pun on existing desktop environments: KDE, CDE, LXDE, XFCE,... -> XKCDE (relies on conics using only upper-case letters). --[[User:JakubNarebski|JakubNarebski]] ([[User talk:JakubNarebski|talk]]) 10:51, 25 November 2016 (UTC) | | Possible pun on existing desktop environments: KDE, CDE, LXDE, XFCE,... -> XKCDE (relies on conics using only upper-case letters). --[[User:JakubNarebski|JakubNarebski]] ([[User talk:JakubNarebski|talk]]) 10:51, 25 November 2016 (UTC) |
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− | ^ This is a more plausible explanation ([CDE: Common Desktop Environment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Desktop_Environment) than "Collaborative Development Environment) mentioned in the explanation above. [[User:SabreWolfy|SabreWolfy]] ([[User talk:SabreWolfy|talk]]) 09:44, 26 November 2016 (UTC)
| + | The title text is a take on poetry. Sebastian --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.91.97|162.158.91.97]] 11:00, 25 November 2016 (UTC) |
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− | The title text is a take on poetry. It extends from the abstract tree (which is a digram and a datastructure type) to an actual tree with unpluggable roots and leafs which scatter in the wind and finally land spinning. Sebastian --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.91.97|162.158.91.97]] 11:00, 25 November 2016 (UTC) | |
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| Title text may bear an oncology reference, with the "root machine" being a primary tumor and the "leaf VMs" its metastases, which also (can) proliferate to form a new tumor on whatever tissue they land (even long after the primary tumor is destroyed). [[Special:Contributions/162.158.234.218|162.158.234.218]] 13:26, 25 November 2016 (UTC) | | Title text may bear an oncology reference, with the "root machine" being a primary tumor and the "leaf VMs" its metastases, which also (can) proliferate to form a new tumor on whatever tissue they land (even long after the primary tumor is destroyed). [[Special:Contributions/162.158.234.218|162.158.234.218]] 13:26, 25 November 2016 (UTC) |
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− | The "Pastels.com" link is already broken, and this comic is new for today??? Either somebody forgot to check the link or whoever owned the domain brought it down rather abruptly. --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.75.95|162.158.75.95]] 18:39, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
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− | Humans have used similar stacking arrangements in many different ways before. From Shakespeare's plays within plays, TV shows within shows, or characters within a story writing about an author writing a book. In the case of a book author, the 4th step might actually work - other authors, or fan-fiction writers might continue to tell stories about a character long after the original author is dead. A webcomic might be made satirizing a Krillin fanfic, that is referring to the character from Dragonball, a story whose main character is Goku, based on Sun Goku from the Journey to the West which is a retelling of Xuanzang's own account, Great Tang Records on the Western Regions which contains Buddist parables that describe a Master teaching a Student about the nature of Buddha a state of being exemplified by the achievements of Siddhartha Buddha who gain enlightenment after meditating on the lives of thousands of people. I think we as humans are good at stacking such virtual environments because it is a prerequisite of properly developed empathy, which requires tracing, sometimes long and elaborate, chains of relationships based on what someone else thinks another person might think of somebody else's behavior. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.214.231|162.158.214.231]] 19:42, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
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− | I wonder how many xkcd comics contain lowercase letters (like 's' in "VMs")... --[[Special:Contributions/172.68.54.123|172.68.54.123]] 19:36, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
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− | we need to go deeper[[Special:Contributions/162.158.59.173|162.158.59.173]] 04:27, 27 November 2016 (UTC)Guest User that doesn't know what they're doing
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− | The current explanation doesn't clarify "containers;" I expect Randall is thinking of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating-system-level_virtualization a software container] which allows you to deploy a service such as a database engine in isolation from other services using a minimum of resources. This comic makes me think of my experience trying to use [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docker_(software) Docker] on Windows. Docker is among the most popular software container systems, but is tightly bound to Linux, so deploying a Docker container under Windows (or Mac OS X) requires that you first deploy a virtual machine, thus negating some of the benefit of using containers and pushing the software running in the container down yet another level. [[User:Davidhbrown|Davidhbrown]] ([[User talk:Davidhbrown|talk]]) 19:11, 27 November 2016 (UTC)
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− | Protecting seeds, especially light ones that autorotate, from fall damage seems pretty far-fetched. The autorotation of seeds more likely serves to increase the time they take to fall, thus increasing the distance they travel in the wind. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.241.53|108.162.241.53]] 13:14, 28 November 2016 (UTC)
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− | I wrote this a while back which nests KVM indefinitely -- or at least in theory, in practice I can only get to L4 on hardware I have available. http://git.annexia.org/?p=supernested.git;a=summary [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.219|141.101.98.219]] 18:12, 28 November 2016 (UTC)
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− | A slightly simpler, but more error prone script.
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− | # If you hate yourself, (DO NOT DO THIS) set file=/dev/sda and add this script to init. Expect corruption.
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− | # Untested, though I came close to running it on accident.
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− | VM_Drive='format=raw,file=__Enter_A_Modified_Run_From_Ram_Img__,if=virtio'
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− | MemAvail=$(free -m | grep '^Mem:' | awk '{print $7}')
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− | MemUsed=$(free -m | grep '^Mem:' | awk '{print $3}')
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− | VM_Mem=$(echo "$MemAvail - 10" | bc -l)
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− | ProcessorCnt=$(grep '^processor' /proc/cpuinfo | wc -l)
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− | if <nowiki>[[ "$VM_Mem" -ge "$MemUsed" ]]</nowiki> ; then
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− | echo "-------------Still have ${MemAvail}M and only using ${MemUsed}M. Spinning up another!-------------"
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− | qemu-system-x86_64 --enable-kvm -cpu host -smp $ProcessorCnt -m $VM_Mem -drive $VM_Drive
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− | else
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− | echo "!!!!!!!!!!!!!Only have ${MemAvail}M and using ${MemUsed}M. Not spinning up any more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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− | fi
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− | [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.117|108.162.221.117]] 13:27, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
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