AndrewDavis

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by AndrewDavis 8y ago
Makes sense for inclusion in package repositories.
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by AndrewDavis 8y ago
Sorry, I should have been more careful with my choice of wording. We don't outright ban sharp knives. In Australia most states have laws restricting knife sales to young people, in my state it's 18. I don't think many people
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by AndrewDavis 8y ago
>Lawn darts were banned on a mere 750 ED visits annually Lawn darts are a toy, a toy for children an adults to play alike. Ball magnets aren't sold as a toy. We don't restrict the sale of sharp knives because children might in
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by AndrewDavis 8y ago
> don't like is that their CPUs are pin based To me that's a win. If a CPU pin is bent it's typically fairly easy to straighten it. Fixing a bent pin a socket is a massive pain. But it's much easier to protect socke
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by AndrewDavis 8y ago
>The thing I find so disconcerting is just how little expertise seems to be present in the legislative space around tech in Australia There is expertise. Our Prime Minister knows tech, Turnbull is a millionaire from seeing the potential
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by AndrewDavis 9y ago
Melbourne transport is fantastic in the CBD, or in the inner suburbs near a train stations that services multiple lines. Where Melbourne struggles is the services as you get out of the inner suburbs. Where the bus services can be a 10 min
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by AndrewDavis 9y ago
It seems to alien to me. In Australia soda (soft drink!) at a sporting venue or a bar will cost $3+ or more for a glass. But if you have a licence to serve alcohol, it is a requirement to provide free water to all patrons.
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by AndrewDavis 9y ago
That's the ARC. The ARC max size will default to (at least on FreeBSD) total ram -1GB[1]. Because the ARC is read cache it will shrink if the system needs more memory. Unused ram is wasted ram. [1] https://www.freebsd.org&
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by AndrewDavis 9y ago
It's much better in latency too[1]. I also wonder if the current products are bottlenecked by the controller and whether DIMMs will see vastly superior performance. Guess we'll have to wait and see. [1] https://www.pcpe
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by AndrewDavis 9y ago
Is there support for Bhyve?
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by AndrewDavis 9y ago
Inside of gaming, AMD's open source AMDGPU driver+MESA outperforms similar priced Nvidia cards with their closed stack. I find it odd that AMD can get the drivers right for gaming but that's about it.
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by AndrewDavis 9y ago
I wonder how this would compare to Netflix's CDN machines. Where Netflix moved TLS encryption into the kernel.
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by AndrewDavis 9y ago
Receive over the air channels
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by AndrewDavis 9y ago
Together FreeBSD, ZoL and the Illumos groups work on OpenZFS. Oracle closed off Solaris. The decendent of Open Solaris is Illumos. Oracle ZFS and OpenZFS are not hte same thing. OpenZFS repo is the upstream, though it is closely tracks th