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by drewg123 4y ago
If you want to save the oceans, ban plastic fishing equipment, as nets and other gear is the biggest plastic polluter in the oceans: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/06/dumped-f...
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by drewg123 5y ago
Speaking of the old days: I miss the old days when yellow flags were for a section of the track, and there were no safety cars. Last year's F1 season finale was an embarrassment. I'm very happy that Max won, I'm just not ha
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by drewg123 5y ago
I did the same, roughly two years ago. I'd been Android since the Nexus One. The lack of commitment to long-term support is what did it for me. Between Apple's support for OS updates for much older hardware than Google, and the
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by drewg123 5y ago
The Apple TV+ catalog is not very deep, but the quality of what they have is really good. It was easier to find something really good to watch on Apple TV+ than Netflix, and I think that's just a consequence of them having far fewer
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by drewg123 5y ago
Netflix doesn't generally do RSUs for engineers (they might for execs, I don't know), so total comp for engineers is not impacted.
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by drewg123 5y ago
How big is the ecosystem of packages available via nix on FreeBSD?
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by drewg123 5y ago
It does, but its easier to grep for the number in a errno.h
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by drewg123 5y ago
Its a shame errno is even needed, and is one of my pet peeves about linux. On linux, errno.h is fragmented across several places because errnos are different on different architectures. I think this started because when Linus did the in
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by drewg123 5y ago
Old unix tools like vi or emacs and "make" were built when nearly all computers were remote, and work really well for this. Especially when combined with something like "screen" to preserve multiple sessions..
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by drewg123 5y ago
That's the tricky thing. Wifi6 is not the same as 6E. The "E" means its capable of operating in the 6GHz band.
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by drewg123 5y ago
If you have a 6E / 6GHz capable client, a 6E router will help a lot with interference. The 6GHz band is new enough that its not likely to be crowded. However, since its so new, you're unlikely to have a 6GHz capable client... The
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by drewg123 5y ago
I'm curious why TLS packets are small in your experience. We use 16k TLS records, and send at whatever MSS the client has negotatied with us. Thats normally something "normal", like 1420-1460 bytes. Plus we use TSO, so the
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by drewg123 5y ago
The limit for FreeBSD software kTLS with our workload is a little over 100Gb/s (using a 2x100G NIC) on a 2697a v4. I think most people only get 25-30Gb/s out of the same CPU when not using kTLS.
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by drewg123 5y ago
The bottleneck is both CPU and memory bandwidth. Doing kTLS in software (or in a lookaside accelerator, like QAT) doubles memory bandwidth requirements because something (CPU or accelerator hardware) needs to read the buffer to be encrypte
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by drewg123 5y ago
We've been running kTLS + SSL sendfile on FreeBSD at Netflix for the last 6 or 7 years. (We had local patches to nginx, before nginx did them "right", and 2 versions of kTLS before the 2nd version was upstreamed to FreeBSD).
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by drewg123 5y ago
Its only in "new" for me..
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by drewg123 5y ago
For OTA, you get tuner like the HDHR, and use one of many PVR apps available to playback and even record OTA TV.
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by drewg123 5y ago
You can disable them by side-loading an alternate launcher. Sadly, an Amazon FireTV update is disabling this for firetv
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by drewg123 5y ago
I recall reading the Samsung TVs need to have an internet connection before you can use them for the first time. I don't have a reference..
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by drewg123 5y ago
Are there any open-source friendly Wifi 6e routers or PCIe cards that support AP mode? The last I looked, the Intel 6e wifi cards did not work in AP mode, so building one was not an option. And sorting through the OpenWRT supported routers
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by drewg123 5y ago
My first car was a 22 year old (at the time) 1964 Triumph TR4 that my dad and I found in a barn. A lot of the issues in this 914 were present on my car as well. My car had a minor engine oil leak, and the oil would drip onto the exhaust
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by drewg123 5y ago
It seems impossible to find anyone regardless. My mom's family has common names, so there are pages and pages to wade through. Meanwhile my dad's family has a very unusual last name, but their data seems to be missing from the 1
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by drewg123 5y ago
Yes, they are the best. I used them several years ago when constructing my family tree. And a big raspberry to their competitors that lock everything behind a paywall. I think one of them (ancestry) has exclusive deals with some states, s
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by drewg123 5y ago
I was using this to try to find the records that included my family. The search for 'Firstname Lastname" seems to search for Firstname OR Lastname. Does anybody know if its possible to search for Firstname AND Lastname and what
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by drewg123 5y ago
Thanks for this, without this I had no clue what the article was referring to. It would be nice if there was a fairly stable kernel API (or ABI) so drivers like this didn't have to be in the kernel. Out of tree drivers are a nightma
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by drewg123 5y ago
Warning: The site hijacks your back button (firefox on linux at last)
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by drewg123 5y ago
Is this linux GRO, or LRO? I've found that GRO is can be less efficient than LRO, but its been 7 years since I paid much attention to Linux performance..
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by drewg123 5y ago
The solution on the receive side is LRO. I was doing 10GbE line rate with 1500b frames in 2006 or so on consumer-grade CPUs using software LRO (implemented in the driver). I worked for a NIC vendor (Myricom) that shipped our NIC drivers wit
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by drewg123 5y ago
I have exactly the opposite view. With offloads like TSO and LRO, NICs can pretend the network supports very large "packets", while still segmenting traffic into standard 1500b chunks. From a hardware perspective, supporting jumb
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by drewg123 5y ago
This NIC can reach wire-speed (100Gbps) with Jumbo frames. To me, this suggests that it's packet-rate limited, and if so, it can really only be counted on to do 1500/9000 or ~16.6Gb/s with standard frames.

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