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931.
by cperciva 4y ago
Cloning the codebase is what I'm getting at with preparing a disk image.
932.
by cperciva 4y ago
Not to diminish this work, but I think it's worth noting that it's increasingly possibly to launch new VMs extremely quickly too. FreeBSD/Firecracker can reach userland in 33 ms, and the OSv unikernel boots in under 10 ms.
933.
by cperciva 4y ago
Nope. Official advice is "use RDRAND".
934.
by cperciva 4y ago
Netflix tried Linux. FreeBSD worked better.
935.
by cperciva 4y ago
I've been getting those a lot recently. I assumed it was my phone number being attached to an account which it shouldn't be attached to.
936.
by cperciva 4y ago
Double entry bookkeeping doesn't mean that you have two records for each transaction. In fact, it's the exact opposite! Transactions fundamentally have two parts -- where the money is coming from and where the money is going --
937.
by cperciva 4y ago
As zorkian noted, "messages per day" is a marketing number. In a technical blog post, what matters is the numbers which are relevant for technical purposes , such as peak (or high-percentile) messages per second.
938.
by cperciva 4y ago
Absolutely not. This is an average, I bet their peak could be in the mid hundreds of thousands That's my point. Per-second numbers are far more useful than per-day numbers.
939.
by cperciva 4y ago
Ideally I'd like to hear about messages per second at the 99.99th percentile or something similar. That number says far more about how hard it is to service the load than a per-day value ever will.
940.
by cperciva 4y ago
4 billion messages sent through the platform by millions of people per day I wish companies would stop inflating their numbers by citing "per day" statistics. 4 billion messages per day is less than 50k/second; that sort o
941.
by cperciva 4y ago
Beethoven's compositions are in the public domain because he died before Mickey Mouse first appeared on screen, but specific copies of his works may still be covered by the editor's copyright. For the benefit of non-musicians: E
942.
by cperciva 4y ago
There's nothing stopping your routers from looking at the TCP port number to decide which network/host to route packets to. ;-)
943.
by cperciva 4y ago
If you're opening a connection to TCP/80 it's a safe assumption that you want the web server. That said, I think it's a shame SRV hasn't been more widely adopted.
944.
by cperciva 4y ago
Accepting arguendo that your claims are correct: What do they have to do with the magic / more magic grounding switch?
945.
by cperciva 4y ago
Oh, they absolutely justify it on the basis that if a CDN node is unstable they'll just fail traffic across to another node. And as a FreeBSD developer I have to say that it's great having the OS (or at least the parts Netflix us
946.
by cperciva 4y ago
The WG code was introduced unusually late, I agree. Usually experimental stuff like that lands soon after a .0 release so that there's a year to iron out details before the next release. But this is a quantitative difference -- how c
947.
by cperciva 4y ago
The recent WireGuard debacle left a bad taste about this. As it actually turns out, sometimes there is zero technical review for very important patches and a few blessed developers can (and sometimes do) just throw their stuff directly int
948.
by cperciva 4y ago
This one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7523953 Patrick's rant about all the things he would change in Tarsnap continues to be responsible for the largest spike in new accounts in Tarsnap history.
949.
by cperciva 4y ago
You're quite right, and to be honest at this point I've given up trying to keep track of where it's at. It's definitely something I'd like to see completed, but I've been too busy with FreeBSD/EC2 and spe
950.
by cperciva 4y ago
Good auctioneers make sure there are at least two buyers for specific things like that.
951.
by cperciva 4y ago
Once pkgbase lands we'll probably see more progress there.
952.
by cperciva 4y ago
The trend of banks outsourcing software dates back decades. The "online banking" systems of most small banks and credit unions are outsourced, for example; if you have three branches and an IT staff of two people, you're goi
953.
by cperciva 4y ago
Agreed that it's a narrow specialty. I think being a skilled (and careful!) woodworker is the primary prerequisite though; many luthiers have little or no musical talent (which may go partway to explaining why instruments are valued m
954.
by cperciva 4y ago
Definitely as a luthier -- a violin made by a skilled luthier (not "top of the profession", but "a decade or more of experience doing this full time") is typically in the $10-40k range and if they're not doing repai
955.
by cperciva 4y ago
Never mind seconds, I have the FreeBSD kernel boot (aka time-to-init(8)) down to 40 ms in Firecracker.
956.
by cperciva 4y ago
Not sure if this applies to houses built in the 70s and 80s, but I've heard that Chinese-Canadians have a strong preference for stucco over other forms of siding because it's perceived as being more durable.
957.
by cperciva 4y ago
Aha, interesting! In Canada it's possible to "countersign" a cheque, allowing it to be cashed by a third party, but in practice it's extremely rare and many banks refuse to cash such cheques. It never occurred to me tha
958.
by cperciva 4y ago
I'm surprised that this applies to cheques. Can someone from the region explain this? In Canada cash transactions over $10k are possible but require a large amount of extra paperwork for anti-money-laundering reasons, but there's
959.
by cperciva 4y ago
Parenting. We have a very energetic 15 month old who has decided that 8 hours of sleep at night + a 1.5 hour nap is all she needs. Also, she has been teething pretty much non stop for 9 months. Aside from that, I'm learning a lot abo
960.
by cperciva 4y ago
There's both. The encryption (decryption) key has leaked. The original question was about "making your own microcode", for which you would need the (not leaked, and unlikely to leak) private signing key.

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