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by andrehacker 10mo ago
I stand corrected, the official current release plan is "...while each individual point release is only supported FOR THREE MONTHS AFTER THE NEXT POINT RELEASE". https://www.freebsd.org/security/#:~:text=on%20
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by andrehacker 10mo ago
>> Or you can go like Netflix and just run as close to -CURRENT as you can. The point is that for any system that has a publicly facing (internet) part you will have to keep up to date with known vulnerabilities as published in CVEs.
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by andrehacker 10mo ago
Sure, but the point is that each minor release contains changes in all third party open source packages/ports by taking them to the head version. Open source packages often include breaking changes, all but guaranteeing your applicatio
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by andrehacker 10mo ago
As much as I love FreeBSD, the release schedule is a real challenge in production: each point release is only supported for about three months. Since every release includes all ports and packages, you end up having to recertify your main ap
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by andrehacker 11mo ago
Great memories, I worked for a CAD/CAM company at the time.. as an intern. One of the problems they had was that they did not want to ship demoes of their system to certain countries as they had seen code be reverse engineered and stol
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by andrehacker 11mo ago
There is a movie about that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project "Colossus requests to be linked to Guardian. The President allows this, hoping to determine the Soviet machine's capabil
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by andrehacker 11mo ago
Brian May (Queen) has a PhD degree in astrophysics :)
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by andrehacker 11mo ago
When we built systems in the early 90's (non web GUI), typical requirements were that login/startup would at most take a few seconds and any user action would have to be satisfied with sub second response time. I often think about
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by andrehacker 11mo ago
Ah, I see, okay. Based on the quality of the article, the subject matter of the book being right in the center of my wheelhouse and the references I could find on the internet, I just ordered a copy (apparently a paper copy), look forward r
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by andrehacker 11mo ago
Am I missing something ? The article is great but the web site is supposedly related to a book "inventing the future".. which is nowhere to be found. Other than a big, slowly loading graphic, 3 posts and indexes for the book... th
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by andrehacker 11mo ago
Just rewatched it on Laserdisc last month (era-appropriate and all) :) The computer effects are amazing (especially considering it was made in 1983), the concept is very interesting, the acting is a bit odd, and... Natalie Wood sadly died d
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by andrehacker 11mo ago
Mr. Righto's (Ken Shirriff) approach using a constraint solver (MiniZinc) https://www.righto.com/2025/10/solve-nyt-pips-with-constrain...
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by andrehacker 11mo ago
++ for reference to "Colossus: The Forbin Project" I only discovered that film about a decade ago, and it quickly became a favorite. What’s wild is how it’s shifted from pure sci-fi to something that feels eerily plausible, especi
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by andrehacker 1y ago
Any discussion about Maze algorithms cannot be complete without a reference to the 1982 endless Maze algorithm used in the "Entombed" Atari game. Many great articles about this can be found like: https://www.gamesthatwe
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by andrehacker 1y ago
Ah, the early days of AI. If a book or movie is ever made about the history of AI, the script would include this period of AI history and would probably go something like this… (Some dramatic license here, sure. But not much more than your
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by andrehacker 1y ago
The Atari 800 came a bit later (1979), the 3 discussed all were introduced in 1977. 1979 was also when the TI-99/4 came out which eventually became popular when the price was dropped below cost.
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by andrehacker 1y ago
>> Patients tend to find it jarring if the lens is perfectly clear. Yeah, funny. Light it up ! For.. reasons.. I only had one eye done for a bit and, boy, did the world look different with the old and new lens. Christmas trees, for ex
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by andrehacker 1y ago
Silly remark, but talking about "Svelte", I can't parse the picture with Mike Markkula: the Apple II in the front is not exactly a small computer: it is a full size keyboard with several inches of space between the keyboard a
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by andrehacker 1y ago
Great article. It’s wild to look back at 1977/1978 and realize how suddenly the personal computer era exploded into the mainstream. The PET, TRS-80, and Apple II all hit the market within months of each other, and while hobbyists had
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by andrehacker 1y ago
>> One of my fondest memories was buying the book "The Elements of Computing Systems" >> by Nisan and Schocken, and implementing a 4-bit CPU in Minecraft. You confused me there, the book doesn't cover Minecraft, y
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by andrehacker 1y ago
Yes, kind of... /path/to/firefox --window-size 1700 --headless -screenshot myfile.png file://myfile.html Easy, right ? Used this for many years... but beware: - caveat 1: this is (or was) a more or less undocumented
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by andrehacker 1y ago
It.. depends. Historically NFS has had many flaws on different O/S-es. Many of these issues appear to have been resolved over time and I have not seen it being referred to as "Nightmare File System" for decades. However, depe
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by andrehacker 1y ago
And how can we leave out the OG of tech writers: Donald Knuth. He got a bit distracted by developing TeX but he got a well deserved Turing award for the series.
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by andrehacker 1y ago
That is an excellent recommendation. For Operating Systems anything Andy Tanenbaum did is world class. This made me look up what he has been up to, there is a 2023 edition of "Modern Operating Systems" which covers cloud virtualiz
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by andrehacker 1y ago
I thought the same but then I realized the post is from 2014, so maybe not at the time
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by andrehacker 1y ago
As every other thread about LLMs here on HN points out: LLMs are stupid and useless as is. While I don't agree with that sentiment, no company has yet found a way to "do it right" to the extent that investments are justified
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by andrehacker 1y ago
I agreed with that for a bit... and then out of nowhere came Apple Silicon, incredible specs, incredible backward compatibility, nah, Cook is no dummy.
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by andrehacker 1y ago
I agree. From what I have seen in corporate settings, using anything more than GET/POST takes the time to deploy the API to a different level. Using UPDATE, PATCH etc. typically involves firewall changes that may take weeks or months t
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by andrehacker 1y ago
For those who experienced the short but intense “mashup” mania in the early 2000’s where web applications were supposed to be easily coupled and chained ? Will MCP ecosystems fail for the same reasons (too many changes in APIs, monetization
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by andrehacker 1y ago
Sorry man, there never was a second “Matrix” nor a third.

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