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by cperciva 1y ago
Fair enough, but I'd say that half of Europe being free is better than none of Europe being free. I don't think there's much the UK could have done to help Eastern Europe.
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by cperciva 1y ago
Sure. The UK has done a lot, both Good and Evil. There are lots of countries which have done less Evil than the UK. There are some countries which have done more Good than the UK. I can't think of any country which is on both lists
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by cperciva 1y ago
And most of those were voluntary, not armed rebellions.
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by cperciva 1y ago
I won't argue with the statement that Ireland did less evil than the UK. I'm unclear how you can justify claiming that Ireland did more good than the UK.
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by cperciva 1y ago
No nation is exclusively good, but I would challenge you to name a nation which did both more good and less evil.
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by cperciva 1y ago
I think less direction and more design. And 40+ years of history doesn't hurt either. But yes, it's impressive how well FreeBSD does considering the relative size of the developer communities.
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by cperciva 1y ago
5 is not a power of 2. ;-)
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by cperciva 1y ago
Weird. I haven't changed anything, and the em-dashes were just "—", not UTF-8.
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by cperciva 1y ago
I can't remember exactly but it was a few hours. I already knew which week the issue arose (from comparing weekly snapshots) so that gave me a head start. But yes, I built a lot of AMIs. And launched new EC2 instances for each of the
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by cperciva 1y ago
Apple did very important work making LLVM happen, but that was a long time ago. At this point there are lots of companies involved in that project. As far as "power" is concerned... speaking as release engineer, I don't give
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by cperciva 1y ago
Yes, their CDN is FreeBSD but last I heard all of their cloud operations are Linux.
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by cperciva 1y ago
I have no clue. Seriously, the users who talk to me are maybe 0.1% of the total FreeBSD/EC2 user base. I would love to know who is using FreeBSD in EC2.
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by cperciva 1y ago
I'm not sure where you're getting the "Apple holds soft power over FreeBSD" thing from. Netflix is probably at the top of the list given all their performance and stability work -- and, you know, the fact they push a la
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by cperciva 1y ago
giving the world scrypt Ironically that bug happened because of scrypt . Creating scrypt led me to refactor Tarsnap's crypto code, which is when the bug slipped in.
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by cperciva 1y ago
Pretty sure that's not related. For one thing I don't think EBS snapshots are stored in S3 as 5 GB segments.
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by cperciva 1y ago
Nothing comes to mind, but if you want to drop me an email I can walk you through some benchmarking.
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by cperciva 1y ago
I believe 1 GB is also fast.
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by cperciva 1y ago
Err, I'm happy to fix things, but can you elaborate on what is broken?
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by cperciva 1y ago
Rust would not have prevented that bug.
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by cperciva 1y ago
I don't know, but Microsoft has some developers working on Hyper-V for FreeBSD. They've even come to FreeBSD developer summits.
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by cperciva 1y ago
Maybe, but I don't think that would explain 8 GB also being fast while 6 GB is slow?
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by cperciva 1y ago
Yep there's a lot of work going on. I was just writing about the work I was doing. ;-)
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by cperciva 1y ago
My understanding is that EBS has some heuristics for deciding whether to keep data cached; an AMI which has a cached snapshot as its root disk will boot much faster than an AMI where all the data needs to be pulled from S3.
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by cperciva 1y ago
True. In this case it was drywall in a poorly lit basement, so I wasn't all that concerned about it turning out perfectly -- but it absolutely did turn out much better than it would have if I tried to do it myself.
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by cperciva 1y ago
I'd love to see Amazon contribute more, of course; but the fact they don't show up as donors to the FreeBSD Foundation doesn't mean they're not supporting FreeBSD. The money they paid me didn't flow through the Fou
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by cperciva 1y ago
It turns out that at a certain point, money can buy time. Do I fix the leaky tap myself, or hire a plumber? After electricians rip up my basement drywall (perfectly reasonably -- I was getting solar panels installed and the electrical pan
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A year of funded FreeBSD development(daemonology.net)
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by cperciva 1y ago
Note for non-Canadians: The Tyee is a leftist fringe publication... by Canadian standards.
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by cperciva 1y ago
I accidentally dropped the filter paper in the school hallway It's wonderful when "accidents" like this happen.
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by cperciva 1y ago
FreeBSD Foundation and assorted other open source and adjacent causes: https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2023-10-25-2%5E18-dollars-t...

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