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931.
by kev009 10y ago
mips, ppc and sparc64 are in theory fine on llvm already, in practice there are issues but nothing that can't be worked through, especially given past work OpenBSD has shown on gcc. All 3 are commercially viable for at least a decade.
932.
by kev009 10y ago
A couple more interesting components: * http://llvm.org/releases/3.9.0/tools/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes... * http://llvm.org/releases/3.9.0/tools/clang/tools/ex
933.
by kev009 10y ago
Effectively, TrueOS _is_ FreeBSD, plus the work in progress graphics stack that will eventually land in .org base or ports, plus an installer, plus some opinionated settings (kernel build, /etc, /boot/loader.conf), plus some
934.
by kev009 10y ago
Attacks that are heavy on L1-4 are the hardest to protect against because of the need for large fixed infrastructure (peering/transit). L7 attacks can be scrubbed by the same infrastructure. Beyond that, it's all a matter of dete
935.
by kev009 10y ago
I wonder how much suffering would be alleviated in most mid-level IT organizations if they just used Joyent/SmartDataCenter, and I say this as a FreeBSD developer with no affiliation.
936.
by kev009 10y ago
I work at a large CDN that also sells DDoS mitigation. Firstly, we are built to endure any DDoS the internet has yet seen on our peering, backbone, and edge servers for CDN services. This is quite important when you are tasked with running
937.
by kev009 10y ago
As a student of UNIX history I find it interesting seeing some of these names (I've seen this article before). I'm curious where all these folks ended up, never saw Lorinda Cherry referenced much past this date although she was v
938.
by kev009 10y ago
For large swaths of life the PowerPCs in a mac significantly faster than any available x86 CPUs. Back in the single core days, clock speed was something that lay user vaguely understood was correlated to performance. This had a subtle but
939.
by kev009 10y ago
The idea of the OpenPower thing is that you are no more locked in than you are on x86, perhaps not quite as open as arm64 but it's pretty nice in theory. Also, I have a major sad for our industry when people struggle so much with alter
940.
by kev009 10y ago
Haswell is in 11.0, anything newer than that needs to use out of tree.
941.
by kev009 10y ago
People try to keep the big ticket items in major releases on the wiki: https://wiki.freebsd.org/WhatsNew/FreeBSD11 Async sendfile, TCP/IP improvements, RSS are things that stand out for my workload. bhyve with U
942.
by kev009 10y ago
Matt Macy added support for current Intel and amdgpu graphics out of tree for now https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics/tree... . It is up to Linux 4.7. The graphics stuff is MIT licensed and th
943.
by kev009 10y ago
As someone who works on multi-terabit networks, this would be very difficult for most network operators to handle. Don't overestimate the competence for malice here. Usually the tactics of shitty ISPs are much more simple, such as no
944.
by kev009 10y ago
Amazon impresses me in solving the problems typical stuffed shirt business people try to run from. AWS is a great example of tech execution, but courier services are probably a more impressive accomplishment objectively speaking. Sustainab
945.
by kev009 10y ago
It's amazing how pretty much all HW development does formal verification business as usual.
946.
by kev009 10y ago
I like this transparency, I know I never want to work at uber.
947.
by kev009 10y ago
Sounds very unlikely, if someone interrupted your meditation would you feel groggy like interrupted sleep? I believe meditation is mostly psychological, while sleep is physiological.
948.
by kev009 10y ago
Side sleeping has positive effects on airway maintenance, may help get in and stay in the deeper phases for some people with obstructive apnea.
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The NeoMutt Project(neomutt.org)
7 points by kev009 10y ago|0 comments
950.
by kev009 10y ago
Foolish for the downstream integrator, maybe even the longevity of the platform, but shrewd for creditors and shareholders. I'm laughing because integrators flocked from MIPS to ARM, and events could unfold such that they run back to M
951.
by kev009 10y ago
There are different kinds of fatigue though. When I go running, it's some kind of aerobic sensation, but eventually my thoughts shift when it's time to stop. If I lift heavy things for an hour, I can also be quite winded but there
952.
by kev009 10y ago
That was just my reaction to the article. I saw Google and ACM so thought it would be something good, but in the end I fell victim to the authority click bait. The article is written in a scholarly style, but it is neither academic nor pr
953.
by kev009 10y ago
History as a guide, we will look back on this for the tire fire it is. monorepo and projects like Chrome and Android to me look like a company that is trying its best to hold itself together but bursting out at the seams the same way Micro
954.
The Future Domain Story(jack.hoa.org)
2 points by kev009 10y ago|0 comments
955.
by kev009 10y ago
The ECN stuff is interesting, any router jockeys here? Do you typically allow ECN through your peers?
956.
by kev009 10y ago
What is your opinion on Operating Systems research and industry? I find the Linux monoculture tiresome.
957.
by kev009 10y ago
That's dumbfounding. I know first hand a certain monthly-fee movie streaming service and the CDN I work for can tell anyone who wants to hear about handling silent corruption and bit rot and we have a relatively small fleets. At home
958.
by kev009 10y ago
Not looking at HAMMER/HAMMER2 is just NIH too, no 'taint' from BSD as Apple should well know on their UNIX side.
959.
by kev009 10y ago
I can't help but think this is just a severe reaction to the tire fire that most Linux distros are, especially RedHat/CentOS and Ubuntu. BSD or Alpine Linux get in the way a lot less, are much more customization and compact, and
960.
by kev009 10y ago
* https://developer.akamai.com/stuff/Optimization/TCP_Optimiza... * https://www.akamai.com/us/en/about/news/press/2013-press/aka...

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