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by drewg123 3y ago
To be fair, FreeBSD with ZFS (especially with the poudriere pkg build system, and 2 different linux compat environs) has quite a few (40+) filesystems mounted. See my workstation: https://dpaste.org/bnwdt
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by drewg123 3y ago
Many flights do not have reliable internet access that is fast enough to stream video. And I want to watch what I want to watch, not the random selection of stuff I might find on the inflight entertainment. Not to mention that I want to
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by drewg123 3y ago
I really, really wish that Apple had not let developers opt-out their apps from running on M1/M2 Macbooks. My use case is a long flight where I want to watch a movie on a screen bigger than my phone. For a while, some of the streamin
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by drewg123 3y ago
The problem is that cows contribute to deforestation in places where we can least afford it (eg, the Amazon rain forest), and those areas are far better carbon sinks than grasslands. I'm all for bringing the bison back; but we certainl
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by drewg123 3y ago
Animal agriculture, especially cattle, is one of the least efficient ways to produce food in terms of energy and land use. Its responsible for almost 10% of greenhouse gases.[1] One of the best things you can do for the planet it to stop ea
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by drewg123 3y ago
It also seems like they don't have a lot of competition yet. Maybe the owners want to get their money while they own the market for shopping apps because they see writing on the wall.. I personally think that their UX is so terrible t
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by drewg123 3y ago
How slow is this? I needed x86 windows for something just after I got my M1 MBP in 2021. So I installed a copy of windows 10. I don't recall which hypervisor I used, but it was super slow.
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by drewg123 3y ago
I was a baby in the early 70s, and I'm not even sure I ever had anything resembling a car seat. I remember walking around in the back seat area of my grandmother's giant Ford sedan in the early 1970s. I also remember sitting on th
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by drewg123 3y ago
Great post. I feel the same. I look at the heroics done to make the linux Intel and AMD drivers work, and it seems like the current nvidia driver is far simpler. Eg, a binary blob with native wrappers. The only time it breaks is when
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by drewg123 3y ago
I had the same thought, which is what made me google to see if it was the same company..
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by drewg123 3y ago
I think its fascinating that a company that I know for automotive brakes used to make computer memory. After looking at their wikipedia page, its clear that they branched out in many different directions.
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by drewg123 3y ago
A car with a production run of 150 units and a list price around $2.2M [1] doesn't really seem like a "production" car in my mind. [1]: https://www.caranddriver.com/rimac/nevera
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by drewg123 3y ago
I like this. Just lock the overheads for the first few minutes after the boarding door opens.. I wish there was an airline simulator game.
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by drewg123 3y ago
The big problem is getting bags out of the overheads. So I think the best way to get people off planes quickly would be to prevent as many people as possible from carrying on luggage. There are 2 reasons people use carry-ons rather than ch
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by drewg123 3y ago
Looking in the source, there appear to be implementations of bcopy (in Vax assembly!!) and printf. Didn't SysV have a libc at this point?
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by drewg123 3y ago
"Readability" works terribly when your company is acquired and your team enters all at the same time. Google has (or had ~10 years ago), a thing called "readability" for each language, where in order to be allowed to com
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by drewg123 3y ago
Thank you for mentioning extension headers. IMHO, they are the worst mistake in IPv6, because they are unbounded. If you design your hardware to handle extension headers, there are all kinds of edge cases to worry about, and regression te
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by drewg123 3y ago
Please tell me that I can buy this somewhere..
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by drewg123 3y ago
Serving static web content via kTLS. We (at Netflix) have worked for a decade to make this as efficient as possible.
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by drewg123 3y ago
I think a lot of it is because unlike Linux, FreeBSD is a not just a kernel, but an entire OS, with a kernel, utilities, compilers, and a package manager. There have been different distros (PC-BSD, debian kfreebsd, etc), but I think the &q
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by drewg123 3y ago
It hurt me while I was in school in the late 80s. I applied early decision to CMU, and was accepted. My parents were older, and very financially conservative, and were not high income. When I got the aid package, I found out that I quali
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by drewg123 3y ago
The system is seems designed to screw the middle / upper middle class. My son is going to college next year. I make enough that my son will not qualify for aid, but I'm not a billionaire, so the sticker price that I'll hav
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by drewg123 3y ago
Firefox wouldn't connect to the site, talking about how the connection is not secure. It turns out the I was accidentally using cloudfare DNS, and they won't resolve archive.is, and their landing page triggers this. Switching ba
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by drewg123 3y ago
I like the idea of one-way rentals of towable generators. Think a U-haul like model, where you pick one up at a gas station near your origin, and drop it at your destination. Now if EV makers would just allow charging while driving..
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by drewg123 3y ago
The charging performance of one of the bZ variants is so bad one could say it doesn't really do "fast" charging. See the out of spec review "The Toyota bZ4X AWD Sets A New Low Record In Our 10% EV Road Trip Challenge (U
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by drewg123 3y ago
I've done a 1600km trip 6 or 8 times in a 2017 Model X 100D. I do it in one ~18 hour drive. About 3.5hrs of that time spent charging. Charging has never been a problem. I think the worst experience I've had was a few years ag
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by drewg123 3y ago
BSDi actually helped FreeBSD develop SMP support. FreeBSD's "SMPng", the basis for the SMP facilities in the kernel today, was started roughly 23 years ago, with the help of BSDi engineers, as well as donations of code. Refe
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by drewg123 3y ago
Not according to the computer I'm typing this on, 31 years later :) FWIW, Klara has a good series on the history of FreeBSD: https://klarasystems.com/articles/history-of-freebsd-unix-an... https://klara
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by drewg123 3y ago
Google is especially malicious, as they disable the mouse based past options in docs on firefox. This is a pain for users that don't know the paste shortcuts, or who are more comfortable with just using the menus. Sadly, the "do
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by drewg123 3y ago
I do too, and I have had great success... until recently, when I noticed multiple sites that don't display all form fields / checkboxes under firefox. Most recently, I was checking into an international flight on aa.com, and there

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