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by cperciva 11mo ago
Well, most "upstreams" the process looks like "they do a release, then we start testing the code, and after a few months we're comfortable enough for it to be in a FreeBSD release". But with ZFS, "they" a
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by cperciva 11mo ago
We wouldn't do it with anything else, but FreeBSD has a special relationship with OpenZFS.
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FreeBSD 15.0 is now available(lists.freebsd.org)
37 points by cperciva 11mo ago|8 comments
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by cperciva 11mo ago
each point release is only supported for about three months Where are you getting 3 months from? It's usually 9 months and occasionally 12 months. Also, major versions are supported for 4 years and unless you're messing with ke
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by cperciva 11mo ago
The problem here is that "mean" is a poor average. For hotels, if you're rating in 10 different categories, you really want a single 0/10 to bring the overall score down by way more than one point. The opposite situatio
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by cperciva 11mo ago
One issue, as they point out, is that we now do minor version updates every 6 months, and you need to update for each one. (We have a 3-4 month period where both are supported, but e.g. 15.0 will be EoL before 15.2 is released.) We are awa
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by cperciva 11mo ago
AWS has done its quarterly housecleaning / “Googling” of its services Note: This is actually two quarters of Googling, because they were revising their process during Q3 and put deprecations on hold.
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by cperciva 11mo ago
"Four twenties and ten" is better than the Danish "five minus a half, times twenty".
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by cperciva 11mo ago
Yes, we've definitely had improvements recently. 14.3 was much faster than 14.2 and 15.0 is even faster.
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by cperciva 11mo ago
I don't know exactly how fast it runs, and it will absolutely depend on your hardware and network, but I've definitely gotten more than that.
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by cperciva 11mo ago
Serious answer: Because they have to eat. Being a purist doesn't mean they can afford to ignore the world they live in; even if they believe that USD is fundamentally worthless and keep all their wealth in Bitcoin, they still need to
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by cperciva 11mo ago
I can't remember which chipsets support it. But yes, the FreeBSD Foundation has been putting a lot of money into laptop support, including wifi improvements.
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by cperciva 11mo ago
FreeBSD has 802.11ac.
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by cperciva 11mo ago
Understand that I'm in the minority? Sure. But the fact that I'm bringing my daughter to a medical appointment should be a pretty clear indication that, you know, I bring my daughter to medical appointments.
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by cperciva 11mo ago
I run into this sort of bias all the time -- in the real world, not just in AI. I take my daughter to medical appointments, both for scheduling reasons (my wife's schedule is less flexible) and rapport reasons (I'm not that kind
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by cperciva 11mo ago
You lose GPS, which breaks real-time power grid management Why? Power infrastructure isn't moving, and ntp is plenty accurate enough for timekeeping here; no need for GPS clocks.
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by cperciva 11mo ago
FreeBSD 15.0. Rather depressingly, almost everything I said two months ago is still true: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45419134 But I'm hoping to have it out by the first week of December.
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by cperciva 1y ago
So one erroneously issued certificate can brick every ID card in the country?
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by cperciva 1y ago
a feeling of abstract relationships This. If you ask me to imagine a triangle I'll start thinking about having three sides and three angles and the area is half of the base times the height and it's a rigid body and the angles
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by cperciva 1y ago
EuroBSDCon is very similar, for obvious reasons.
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by cperciva 1y ago
Yup that's the one.
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by cperciva 1y ago
I gave a talk about FreeBSD on Firecracker at bsdcan a few years ago. Sorry I'm on my phone just before an orchestra concert so I can't give you a link but if you Google "BSDCan Colin Percival Firecracker" you should fi
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by cperciva 1y ago
I believe NetBSD also holds the record for the fastest kernel boot time for a general purpose operating system -- I held this record with FreeBSD with the system booting in about 23 ms but Emile got NetBSD down to 15 ms IIRC and I've b
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by cperciva 1y ago
There's a lot of shared code.
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by cperciva 1y ago
I may be wrong, but aren't most drugs sold by large pharma companies actually developed elsewhere and then acquired?
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by cperciva 1y ago
It also speaks to an absolute failure of governance. If I missed an important email on a FreeBSD mailing list, you can bet that a dozen other people would see it and either poke me about it or just go ahead and act upon it themselves. The
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by cperciva 1y ago
In demanding industries, people spend 2/3rds of their waking hours around their coworkers. If you sleep 8 hours/night, this means you're spending 75 hours/week with your co-workers. That seems... a bit excessive?
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by cperciva 1y ago
I thought "targets" was just anything designed by civil engineers.
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by cperciva 1y ago
I was referring to the US SEC and DOJ, they will easily establish jurisdiction against anyone touching US markets in some way, anywhere in the world They can claim jurisdiction, sure, but they can't execute search warrants or arrest
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by cperciva 1y ago
The provinces cannot sentence somebody to prison for more than 2 years (which is why you often see people sentenced to "two years less a day") No, that's a separate issue. Sentences of less than 2 years are served in Provi

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