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by aduitsis 6y ago
It's sad that, albeit being a major contributor of open source code during the 2000's, Sun Microsystems was getting a lot of hatred from many quarters the open source community. Not sure how much that contributed to Sun eventually
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by aduitsis 6y ago
Previous job was at a University, 15+ years using FreeBSD for almost all services. We've had Jails, ZFS, etc for a good part of those 15+ years, which was a huge asset. Not that it was completely trouble free, but assuming that with an
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by aduitsis 6y ago
You can find instructions how to create Ubuntu Jails inside FreeBSD. There was an experimental Docker port for FreeBSD some years ago and it was actually working. I think it is mentioned here https://wiki.freebsd.org/Docker
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by aduitsis 6y ago
Unless your job is to teach Latin :). Quite a few schools around the world are teaching Latin or even Ancient Greek. Are Latin and Ancient Greek dead? Ostensibly yes. But not useless. Besides teaching, there is a tremendous amount of books
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by aduitsis 6y ago
This. If you're paying good, practically everyone will come to interview for you, so your supply is inexhaustible. So you can afford false negatives.
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by aduitsis 6y ago
This is supreme nitpicking, but the author being quoted about the term "metaverse" is Neal Stephenson, not "Neil Stephensen".
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by aduitsis 6y ago
I love https://manytricks.com/moom/ . Being available in the app store is a major plus from my point of view. And it has the usual tricks like keyboard shortcuts, etc.
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by aduitsis 6y ago
I had installed Windows 3.0 on the 20Mb HDD of my Hyundai 16v (8088, 10MHz!) via 20 360Kbyte floppies :) (edit, yes Windows 3.0 could use CGA 640x200 with 1 bit colour)
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by aduitsis 6y ago
Your point is very well taken, but using Turbo Pascal to create an application with a TUI was surprisingly easy back in the day. You could just add some small boilerplate and you basically had something with a TUI running. So the entry barr
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by aduitsis 6y ago
Very nice! There is a certain appeal to having simple, versatile and robust systems such as a terminal emulator to build upon instead of complex APIs that require many many hours just to understand their asynchronous operation and complexit
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by aduitsis 6y ago
Thank you, this is great!
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by aduitsis 6y ago
Slightly tangential, it's a huge pity that twitter suspended the account of the medieval death bot. https://www.smithjournal.com.au/blogs/history/3011-this-medi...
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by aduitsis 6y ago
My favourite small detail on the Mac, is how the clipboard interacts with the filesystem. You can select some text, drag it into the Desktop and it will become a .Clipping. Now, if you drag and drop that clipping into a text field (e.g. tex
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by aduitsis 6y ago
The vastness of the cosmos we are living in, is simply unfathomable. I'm not even sure we have the ability to really appreciate the scale here. After a certain point it becomes just numbers.
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by aduitsis 6y ago
Drew, thank you kindly (and Netflix) for your contributions to FreeBSD. They do not go unnoticed. I, for one, learned quite a few things too out of your presentation, which is here: https://2019.eurobsdcon.org/slides/NU
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by aduitsis 6y ago
Slightly tangential, I am under the impression that the CHERI project has actually identified security bugs and reported them back to FreeBSD. https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/
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by aduitsis 6y ago
My point exactly, thanks.
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by aduitsis 6y ago
Yes, sorry, let me be more clear, I don't understand why Go should allocate a small 2k stack (you are correct, the Go stack size has fluctuated through the years, nowadays it's 2k) and if it grows go to the trouble of copying it t
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by aduitsis 6y ago
Obviously I'm missing something here, because I was under the impression that, regardless of how big the stack is, the pages are going to be mapped (in the data structure pointed to by the CR3 register) when accessed and no earlier. Un
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by aduitsis 6y ago
Point 100% taken on the matter of having the right to repair and procure spare parts. Here in the EU, I hear there is a major push to introduce some meaningful legislation to establish requirement, definitely right direction. Comparing Sams
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by aduitsis 6y ago
I think the inability to repair Apple products is right on par with the rest of the industry really. My Samsung mobile phone is just as difficult to repair as an iPhone. Also, when it comes to computers (I use a Mac), there is also another
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by aduitsis 6y ago
For popular packages this is not that common. For less popular packages, yes it can happen, because maintainers are almost completely volunteers. Some years ago I created a port, then at some point stopped being able to find the time to m
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by aduitsis 6y ago
The Congress cancelling a deal to sell a 100 F-35s along with some of their parts being produced in Turkey hardly sounds like a weak sanction.
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by aduitsis 6y ago
Google maps started from a position of being better and snappier than (then) Nokia maps. Today, it's almost impossible to use google maps while driving, the UI is simply unusable unless you can devote your 100% attention to it, and eve
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by aduitsis 6y ago
Incidentally, many services are now requiring a cellphone to send some one time password via SMS. Your phone number is something that you actually pay for and can transfer between carriers as you see fit. So in that sense, it's much mo
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by aduitsis 6y ago
Thank you, I meant non-optimal in the sense that using a (possibly free) email provider as a "backend" might mean that the emails are eventually accessible by third parties. Having your own domain like that mostly shields from the
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by aduitsis 6y ago
I'm not sure this can work in general. You need some entity to forward and use the proper envelope headers for the mail to go through in the backend.
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by aduitsis 6y ago
One serious problem is that email, apart from a means of communication, is also a means of authentication. Taking away a person's email address could easily mean that they will have to spend a tremendous amount of time changing it with
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by aduitsis 6y ago
My sad thought is that today I'm probably never going to have the pleasant opportunity to be proven wrong by telling the kids to stop wasting their time on Fortnite :( .
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by aduitsis 6y ago
Previous job, we were running almost everything in "normal" jails (as opposed to fat). We even stayed with ezjail, which is dead simple, because we were so comfortable with it and could understand how to manually fiddle with stuff

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