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by milcron 10y ago
Hmm, I've seen this phenomenon before. I wonder if it has to do with popularity and tweet load?
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by milcron 10y ago
I'm just not sure how significant the MT work is. OpenBSD's pf has also had performance improvements since 4.5; it would be good to see a benchmark.
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by milcron 10y ago
What are some of FreeBSD's improvements, apart from multithreading?
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by milcron 10y ago
Just use OpenBSD. They are the upstream developer of pf anyway. pfsense uses FreeBSD's fork of pf, which is years out of date. They forked in order to add multithreading, ostensibly for performance. But the diff is too complicated to
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by milcron 10y ago
Did you read the article? The new film works by a process called radiative cooling. This takes advantage of that fact that Earth’s atmosphere allows certain wavelengths of heat-carrying infrared radiation to escape into space
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by milcron 10y ago
>"Urbit for mere mortals guide" How about this? https://www.popehat.com/2013/12/06/nock-hoon-etc-for-non-vul...
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by milcron 10y ago
(I wasn't alive then, so I'm only informed by what I've read.) A few short years after Minsky's comment, microcomputers were in full bloom and expensive Lisp machines were no longer viable. Cheap PCs could run Lisp code
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by milcron 10y ago
Yep... Lisp machines were thoroughly in the "mini"computer (cabinet-sized) category and completely missed out on the microcomputer revolution. IBM PCs were cheaper and got the job done. To an extent. The AI winter didn't help
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by milcron 10y ago
IIRC the cases were made out of magnesium. There are videos of lighting them aflame on youtube.
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by milcron 10y ago
They address this is a way to cut down on spam. A crucial difference between Urbit and other networks is that planets are scarce. Even when the network is fully populated, there are only 4 billion. Early in Urbit's life,
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by milcron 10y ago
And libraries typically have their own license. I wonder if these templates came with a license, or are considered part of the CAD software and not redistributable?
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by milcron 10y ago
I always thought the lack of density was SF's problem! Too many nice old houses in the way of proper apartment buildings.
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by milcron 10y ago
Another difference is that Coreboot is essentially a rolling release, whereas Libreboot periodically takes a snapshot of upstream and maintains it for a while. Libreboot is therefore something like a long-term service release. Anecdotally,
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by milcron 10y ago
They look at the clock to decide whether or not to bluff, so this is already taken care of.
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by milcron 10y ago
Wasn't that just the opposite? I thought the complaint was if Trump had merely taken the 'small loan of one million dollars' and invested it in the S&P500, he would have made more money. That is, he is worse at growing
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by milcron 10y ago
If I expect the website to be static (like an article) and it requires javascript, then I just close the tab. If the website provides dynamic content then it's understandable that js would be required.
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by milcron 10y ago
Discord is great at being both a Slack clone AND a Teamspeak clone at the same time.
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by milcron 10y ago
I for one would prefer to avoid the gaming industry, but would not turn down the opportunity to work at Valve.
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by milcron 10y ago
Right, but the headline "rains have satisfied the drought debt" only applies to the North.
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by milcron 10y ago
I'd believe that. This article is about the Northern part of California.
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by milcron 10y ago
Only the Northern part of the state has satisfied the drought. > On Nov. 3, the U.S. Drought Monitor reported that about a quarter of California was out of drought conditions, the best outlook the state has had since spring 2013, when 64
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by milcron 10y ago
This would be great if they got to keep the same salary. Now they're just plain out of work. Hooray?
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by milcron 10y ago
I don't think it matters where the device was built, as long as the US distributor can be sued for damages.
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by milcron 10y ago
I don't operate a server farm but OpenBSD updates are pretty easy. Just do `pkg_add -Uu`. If your dependencies are minimal, keeping OpenBSD up-to-date is actually pretty relaxing. Don't need to install security patches all the tim
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by milcron 10y ago
Users don't have to reveal themselves, but there's a list available at https://www.openbsd.org/users.html I see lots of academies, ISPs, and even Adobe is in there,
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by milcron 10y ago
He said that in ~2007? So that may be correct. x86 hardware virtualization has gone through several generations so his comments may have remained accurate even as hardware features were added. Hardware-assisted virtualization really took of
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by milcron 10y ago
Correct. Currently it can only run OpenBSD guests, and it only supports x86. The landscape is a little different now that hypervisors are no longer cutting edge, and the x86 architecture has improved virtualization abilities which help prev
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by milcron 10y ago
Did not mean to preach to the choir, hah! I would argue that pledge goes a long way towards addressing the problems of insecure C code, although it's definitely not as fine-grained as ACLs.
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by milcron 10y ago
Just to try and explain where I feel the OpenBSD project is coming from... their philosophy is a little different. At the very beginning OpenBSD was not about security per se, but about simplicity of implementation and stark, clean code. It
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by milcron 10y ago
Inertia, probably. You can find older releases at that URL too: https://opensource.apple.com/release/os-x-1010.html

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