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infofarmer
·11 gün önce·discuss
Yeah, I measured over 5000ppm in a taxi with two passengers. Showed the driver how to enable air intake (he didn’t know about the feature) and tried to explain this is deadly. Pretty sure this is commonplace globally.

Generally it’s a miracle to me so many people survive traffic on public roads, statistically.
infofarmer
·26 gün önce·discuss
Exacerbated by astonishing overuse for anything from a 2-minute endoscopy to a 15-minute hand surgery. The pursuit of “comfort” at the cost of fractional lobotomy.
infofarmer
·29 gün önce·discuss
Obviously an LLM and sad Carmack engages with slop to normalize it.
infofarmer
·9 ay önce·discuss
to be pedantic, a maxed out MBP is 90200 BRL in Brazil now before AC+ and software, around 16777 USD
infofarmer
·10 ay önce·discuss
Holding Fallout 1/2 as the best gaming experiences of my life for a long time, just recently discovered Fallout Nevada and Sonora that some kind talent also ported to WASM/Web — and it finally hit the spot for me after ~25 years.
infofarmer
·2 yıl önce·discuss
decoding state can be bulkier than a key frame and opaque to the CPU if hardware acceleration is used

I wonder if caching semi-compressed frames would be more efficient in either case (CPU or GPU)
infofarmer
·2 yıl önce·discuss
you'd have to "rebase" all the other frames to be derived from those
infofarmer
·2 yıl önce·discuss
search engines and wikipedia point to actively maintained versions
infofarmer
·2 yıl önce·discuss
somewhat related: /rescue/* on every FreeBSD system since 5.2 (2004) — a single statically linked ~17MB binary combining ~150 critical tools, hardlinked under their usual names

https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?rescue https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/rescue/resc...
infofarmer
·2 yıl önce·discuss
once you actually need to configure Caddy, it is an abomination beyond imagination — the docs, Caddyfile, JSON config — all of them lack coherence or sensible design

never touching it again

good defaults matter; nginx configs were very concise and readable in 2005-2015 when I was using it heavily; http/3, ws, acme — perhaps new tech is yet to be incorporated properly (and maybe it never will)
infofarmer
·3 yıl önce·discuss
Lithium is <10% cost of a battery. Presumably much less now. Doesn't affect the price of EVs that much yet.
infofarmer
·3 yıl önce·discuss
discussed here a year ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34424150
infofarmer
·3 yıl önce·discuss
oh, interesting; it was ipfilter for ages, and suddenly pf-only now

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37838_01/html/E60993/pfovw-compa...
infofarmer
·3 yıl önce·discuss
Happily running FreeBSD 13 on Hetzner CAX11 since April [1] [2]

Great to see OpenBSD is now available as well!

[1] https://twitter.com/pandrewhk/status/1649020655558336514

[2] https://gist.github.com/pandrewhk/2d62664bfb74a504b7f4a894fc...
infofarmer
·3 yıl önce·discuss
Any of the three major branches are the first choice for lean, bespoke network appliances. For Mullvad in particular OpenBSD or FreeBSD would be the obvious choice.
infofarmer
·3 yıl önce·discuss
Not sure the actual authors of the various overlapping Linux network subsystems even know the comprehensive picture "inside and out" for chronic lack of consistent documentation.

Last time I managed a small «supercomputer», 50x IBM blades running Suse, it wouldn't support PXE/NFS without kernel customization, but that would void support contracts and finicky third-party software. Made a switch to FreeBSD, where everything worked out of the box one hour later. That was over 15 years ago, I have no idea how much the situation changed.
infofarmer
·3 yıl önce·discuss
Not to provoke predictable responses, but I find it interesting that the tech-talented VPN providers are not using BSD in favor of Linux, especially with requirements like diskless operation, kernel customization, and tighter security.
infofarmer
·3 yıl önce·discuss
If you check the profile of the author, Jon Brodkin, https://arstechnica.com/author/jon-brodkin/ — roughly 100% of his headlines are political: anti-Musk, anti-GOP, pro-Biden, pro-gov. Disgusting how this goes under the once-respected brand of Ars.
infofarmer
·3 yıl önce·discuss
Without looking, chances are Apple is using the FreeBSD fork of pf, that diverged long ago (mostly to implement SMP to handle much more traffic).
infofarmer
·3 yıl önce·discuss
The OpenBSD OS is roughly as relevant today as it ever were. The OpenBSD project has significantly grown in relevance since inception through OpenSSH, LibreSSL and dozens of other high-quality implementations.