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I wasn't aware that anyone thinks ZFS is no better than ext4. Surely the interest in developing Btrfs and Bcachefs, with features obviously meant to compete with ZFS, would suggest that mostly people think it is? And you also have Canonical adopting ZFS outright, and Red Hat working on improving XFS as an alternative file system.
Fascinating to see OpenID here. Where do you use it? I thought it was pretty much dead, so implemented IndieAuth recently which does what I want, replacing OpenID’s functionality.
A "call arbitrary external program" feature does not get in there by accident.
Latest Zhaoxin x86 CPUs tested: This is what China closing the gap looks like
Why isn't it devastating the Chinese economy by banning foreign the same kinds of foreign investments?
If you're wise enough, you shouldn't go and buy the first edition of this Apple product. 100% of the time you're at the start of the planned obsolescence chopping board and will be using outdated hardware made by accidental or deliberate mistakes Apple made just for it to be replaced in 6 - 8 months.

Be wise and wait for the second or third revision.
Most people see a vast moral difference between failing to pay a debt you owe and taking something that doesn't belong to you in the first place. If you broke into an unoccupied apartment and squatted there, that'd be at least as stealing food from a grocery store.
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How do you make that happen, realistically?

"You must sell."

"Okay, this 3br house is $10MM. It's not selling."

Eminent domain?

Are we going to do that for the huge swathes of vacant homes we already have, too?
I don't think the parts about ZFS being "better integrated" on FreeBSD are really true any more.

For one thing, ZFS-on-Linux is now the canonical, upstream OpenZFS implementation - https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/solaris/ZFSOnLinuxN...

For another, Ars Technica recently reviewed FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE and found poor ZFS integration in the installer and in mount(8):

> Eventually, I realized that FreeBSD's mount command didn't really understand my ZFS root filesystem. -- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/04/not-actually-linux-d...

Compare that with the relatively streamlined ZFS-on-root install support built into Ubuntu: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/a-det...

(I'm sticking with ext4 until kvdo, bcachefs, or maybe tux3 is mainlined.)
The number of housing buys in the US and Canada that are by Chinese nationals is low single digits. Chinese people, AirBnB, and boomers seem to be the boogeymen of choice for people who want to blame high housing prices on anything other than the fact that new housing supply has been retarded while demand continues to increase at a low but steady rate.

If demand grows while supply stays constant, any 7th grader could tell you the consequences, but this basic fact seems to elude our elected officials.
> I've worked in a lab and Occam's razor for me says the lab that is 280 meters away

Yeeaah, about that... I looked more myself last time when I mentioned this and couldn't find the reference I originally saw (it was more than a month before my comment a month ago), instead found this:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/%E6%96%B0%E4%B8%96%E7%BA%A...

https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=auto...

According to Google Maps and Translate, the pin in the image in that PDF that says "Wuhan Center for Disease Control & Prevention" is actually on a building labeled "New Century Home Appliances Collection and Disposal Station".

14-15km appears to be the actual distance from the market to the lab: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Wuhan+South+China+Seafood+Wh...

There is one building 4km away called the Wuhan CDC&P, but looking at the surrounding buildings that appears to be an office, not a lab: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Wuhan+South+China+Seafood+Wh...

IMO despite the faked image, the same city is still suspicious, especially with stories like this coming out now: https://news.yahoo.com/suspected-sars-virus-and-flu-found-in...
uniqueness constraint on first name?
Yeah I did have this idea at one point that if we’re in a simulation, than there is a cost for simulating things at finer and finer detail, which could manifest itself in higher energy requirements that we see in particle accelerators, but that we aren’t actually learning anything new at those levels, maybe we’ll find some new fundamental particles that make up the electron for example, And we’ll find new particles that make up those, none of which even existed until we started poking at them, since they aren’t necessary for the simulation to run.
It’s much harder than that because the JIT is speculating on what lots of objects in the heap are doing, including watchpointing them to constant fold properties. It’s not clear what the key should be in that case.

Still not impossible but I want to be clear on what exactly makes this hard. CPU model for example is not what makes it hard.
Fed expands its shopping list to include junk bonds
Kind of ironic that halfway through reading an article about spam, they have a popup on screen begging me to sign up for their mailing list.
The only way I can understand it is incredible shortsightedness. In other words, it's not "close the nuclear plant and open a coal plant". They see it as "close the nuclear plant" and don't think about it any further than that.
I wonder if FreeBSD Jails never really caught on that much because of the name.
hey sergiotapioca

talk is cheap, be the man you're claiming to be please, go out, mingle, get close to lots of your relatives. and remember, the government are telling you to wash your hands, so don't do that. show them how you're not gonna take any crap from the elites.
They don't run at the same speed in the same direction. You will have people passing each other, and who knows how long it will stay afloat in the air over the trail.

Two runners 100ft apart same direction same speed (6mph) is only 11 seconds before the runner in the rear passes through the exhaled breath of the runner in front.
The 'economy' isn't some wild and mystic beast that we must tame into subservience. It's the way we measure the flow of money, goods, and services. By definition it cannot 'serve' anyone.
No city I'm aware of enacted a severe lockdown by our standards during the Spanish Flu. I haven't seen any record of a ban on private gatherings, or a general shutdown of non-essential businesses (as opposed to a targeted ban of bars and restaurants).
I’ve been looking at Devon Think but finding it a little hard to understand how best to leverage it. Would you mind sharing how you use it?
For me, I don't think the huge impact to the lives of the people displaced from the lands that was home to their culture and communities for generations should be overlooked in any discussion of what is acceptable costs of a power generation accident.
Then should rents go up? It is now much riskier to be a landlord, risk that is going uncompensated...
The Olympics are actually significantly different than the corruption perpetrated by the cavalcade of asshats that were Governor Walker's cronies.

I mean, they actually hold an Olympics. It's not clear to me that anything meaningful will happen out in Mt Pleasant Wi. Not even anything worth the 1 billion we've already spent, and that's forgetting about what we're on the hook for if something does happen. It's put a lot of us in wisconsin in the awkward position of hoping everything there completely fails, so we can get out with just the losses we've already taken.
Many landlords still have to pay for their ownership of buildings and properties and maintenance, etc. They need to see relief first if tenants are to also see relief.
XML is way worse. An errant tab can totally screw over your config with no warnings. I've never needed a linter or had much trouble with JSON, explicit delimiters go a along way.
Why not talk more about spent fuel disposal?
But living in a place without paying is taking something that doesn't belong to you. That space could be otherwise used if you hadn't temporarily stolen it.
Lol. Not at any scale. Once you own about a dozen units the principal risk is not getting over your head in debt.
Someone should do this with:

1. Landlords who insist on raising rent.
2. Instacart shoppers who promise huge tips only to revoke them at the last minute.

If people can't be decent on their own during a pandemic, maybe some shame will help.
Theoretically yes, although the demand curve also comes into play. In a parallel universe where the risks of a pandemic/lockdown was known and taken seriously, you would definitely expect rents to be higher.
What’s your laptop?
Sort of a "turtles all of the way down", but only if you actually go looking for the turtles. This entire article makes my brain hurt in ways I'm really not used to. (I'm used to brain-hurt, you can't be intellectually curious without experiencing that occasional side-effect. It's just this particular flavor of it is... disconcerting)
> I would guess that your definition of "successful" is set unrealistically high

This might be the case. It just always gets me down when I read first author research papers written by undergrads and ivy-bound high school students that far surpass my fundamental understanding. It feels like I'm behind forever and I don't have any hope anymore because I was just born like this.

I'm honestly not even sure what makes me happy.
And people like this is why I don't see a sustainable future for America and most of the world.

We need to unlearn our current relationship with housing and change our view entirely.
> one exception a colleague of someone on a discussion board had once

You're not even trying to have a reasonable discussion about this, are you.

At least this guy has a datapoint. You just have a hunch that you can write code faster if it's formatted slightly differently. I don't think it's true -- I don't think typing semicolons and curly braces slows down my coding enough to warrant omitting them. Most of my time coding is spent thinking and reading, probably less than 15% of my time is spent typing. So if I only type semicolons and commas 5% of that time, that means I'm saving 0.75% of my time by not typing them, which is about 14 hours a year if I work 40 hour weeks.

I've definitely debugged a yaml error or two due solely to formatting in the past year, which probably cost me at least 4 hours of productivity. If my entire codebase was formatted solely by indents and returns, I imagine that number would balloon significantly, which is why I opt to use semicolons and other formatting characters.

Also, they're not "reading impediments," at least not universally. Being able to use my code-editor to jump to the end of a code block (by matching a { or }) has been immensely useful in my experience.
Profit is not compensation for risk. Risk is a limiting factor in chasing after profits, sure, but you can take unprofitable risks, and if you have a particularly privileged position or information, you can make a profit with little to no risk. Hugh Grosvenor, 7th Duke of Westminster doesn't exactly take a lot of risk for his rents.
Where I live, although the rent was technically due on the first, there's an automatic grace period of three days without late fees so the actual due date is the fourth.
Price (in essentially all cases, particularly for commodity goods like housing) is based on supply and demand, not on the individual financial situation of the person selling the product.

If demand for housing climbs noticeably, rates will follow, and vice versa (if supply of housing climbs, rates will plummet)

The reason profit exists is that risk must be assumed to earn it.
How do e.g. the sections about bhyve and Bastille describe Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux? The describe features, but they tell me nothing about why those might be better than counterparts in the Linux world.
The question was about the economy. Im genuinely curious. The political ramifications is a different problem. A really good salesman might be able sell something a lousy salesman cannot.
Israel’s Not-So-Secret Weapon in Coronavirus Fight: The Spies of Mossad
JS VMs try to be really good and smart about startup time like when you visit a page for the first time.

The main trick is to interpret the short running code.

That said, some JITing makes page load faster. But only if the JIT only kicks in for functions that run more than some amount of time and the JIT is very cheap to run.
People without incomes right now can probably afford food, even if they can't afford rent. The fact is that a significant fraction of society is in an impossible situation right now, through no fault of their own. And probably very few rentiers are in that group.
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I agree rents will probably come down, as they do in any economic down turn, but not because of some exploitative relationship between landlord and renter as you imply.

It's all supply and demand. Lower economic activity translates to lower demand. I'd also say that to imply that a landlord doesn't provide a service is total nonsense. There are plenty of reasons why people and companies might prefer to rent instead of buy the least of which is that a tenant doesn't have a long term financial commitment or principal / property value risk. There are many companies that even take their wholly owned property and sell it so they can lease it back in a triple net leasing arrangement because it benefits them to not have capital locked up in real estate value.
FriendS? As in, multiple? I mean we all know one or two crazy people, but if people in your social circles believing that dog saliva is healthy is a common thing, or even the norm, I'm wondering what the cultural context around those circles are. I haven't like, properly studied it, but I'm quite confident stating that the overwhelming social norm in at least Western cultures is that letting a dog lick your face is very unsanitary and that there is quite a large amount of social stigma attached to it (this is my stunted attempt at saying, in an as non-judgmental way as possible, that it's a very low social status thing to do, to let a dog do that, let alone encourage it).
I agree that this isn't UBI. I still think that it holds lessons that carry weight in a UBI discussion.

To be clear, the point I was trying to make was that the "free $STUFF", where peoples' lives depended on $STUFF, worked great while the times were great. But it didn't work so well when times were not so great, and $STUFF was hard to come by. I think that, even with STUFF=money, we would face similar challenges, and need to be prepared for those challenges, with answers.

I think that the "I" part makes it better, since at least that gives us monetary tools, and we might be mature enough at this point to be able to manipulate to our advantage. It's much easier to make money grow in Washington than it is to make wheat grow in climates it wasn't built for.
> But stupid doesn’t become less stupid because it was dumb for the right reasons.

I think you misunderstood my post.

I wasn't saying that what they did wasn't stupid. It was. The post I was replying to implied the following in a condescending way:

1) the poster is not "simple" enough to be conned by a massive corporation

2) all people living in rural areas are "simple"

3) all people living in rural areas should know that they are simple and never aspire to anything that we big-city people do because it is beyond their cognitive abilities

4) doing something that will probably fail (trusting Foxconn, in this case) is never a rational decision

Regarding #4, it's easy to say that Foxconn is 100% untrustworthy, but we all know that mostly in hindsight. Even if they had a 1% chance of coming through, a region with a dying economy might actually be rational to throw away an enormous amount of money. If it's their only hope, it would be rational to throw away all of their money.
Aren’t Linux and freebsd using the same zfs fork at this point though?
I'm concerned about safety not from the engineering side (although not dismissing it), but from the standpoint of an easy access to sufficiently large amount of radioactive material to build a dirty nuke. As the nuclear plants get smaller, the security is going to become a larger percentage of the operating costs and operators will be tempted to skimp in this area.
And yet a small Spanish town in the middle of nowhere was the world capital of chess for many years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linares_International_Chess_To...
There is florist in the article that is introduced as someone who could pay rent from her savings. However, she has decided she would "rather conserve her money than pay bills now."
The best thing to do is just put a moratorium on rents and debt for a couple of months.

Semi related I read a detailed description what happened during the hyper inflation in Germany after WWI. A key thing is the inflation was not uniform. Food prices increased the most. And rents the least. At the end rents were effectively zero.
Linux is a Boeing (a 737 Max, if you ask certain people), OpenBSD is a Cessna.

If you do a direct comparison, OpenBSD would lose in terms of benchmarks, hardware support, software support, features, etc.

But OpenBSD is more a philosophy, a particular way to approach computing that works for some people. OpenBSD is basically a continuation of Unix from the 80s, where the admin/user (no distinction in reality) is expected to do some work from the command line. Thus it's a great user experience. The config files tend to have the same syntax, and it's human-friendly syntax, not some XML or YAML crap designed for a tool. Things are kept simple so human brains can understand them.

But the trade-off is basically features, performance, hardware and software support. It's a bitter pill but, again, it works for some people.

I use OpenBSD full time on my router, but I tend to switch back and forth on laptop and servers (with Debian).
1) Probably not 100 hours but, terminator is very, very good: https://blog.al4.co.nz/2011/05/getting-the-most-out-of-termi...

The saving layouts feature is an absolute gem.

2) dmenu (https://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/) is a lifesaver. I use it even on Ubuntu to launch custom scripts. The autocomplete is good because unlike when I use alt-F2 I can actually tell if a command is type correctly or not. Also it's a little known fact but you can type full commands into it, complete with pipes, and it will execute it. For ages I had a bind against notify send so I could examine data by doing `Meta-P foo | show` which would dump it to a notification. Just really useful for getting data without needing to wait for a terminal to start, just to show you one thing or value you need for 2 seconds.

3) Also I'll go ahead and plug my filesystem tagger - koios (https://gitlab.com/finnoleary/koios). It has a feature where it will autodetect (using libmagic) the type of a file.

So you can do something like: "tag all the files that have the mime type 'png' files in the directory with the tag 'png'":

koios auto image/png +png .

and then "give me all the files tagged with png that do not have the .png extension":

koios show +png | grep -v '.png$'

It binds tags to files so there's no background processes or databases needed (aside from the actual 'tag name' database, which was done to save space), and you can move them, copy them, whatever, without worrying and the tags stay bound to the file.
Sorry, I just want to clarify as I may have misread "should" (English is a marvelous language :D )

Are you saying that you expect them to have the resources, or are you saying that the businesses should be budgeting to support responding to large scale arbitration?
Maybe the landlords should've been more responsible and saved for a rainy day. Isn't that what the less-well-off are always told to do? Poor planning on their part shouldn't be the fault of renters.
Meanwhile gov banks have been keeping foreclosed housing off-market for over a decade to prop up the price.
Wow I see no mention of no systemd in FreeBSD here.

I love how unified the freebsd maintenance and just general system utilities are. The documentation doesn’t lie. I’ve never had a bsd box stop booting because of a wonky system change either.
Arguably we need a debt jubilee given the current state of affairs.
Does this not also disincentivize the little guy from taking on BigCorp? I might be willing to put up tens of thousands of dollars to fight for justice but I can't risk owing millions to BigCorp lawyers if a judge or jury disagrees.
The guide was pretty good as I remember, I ran Gentoo through most of university. It did take a while from a stage1 install though.
"jails" are the native solution for FreeBSD. You wouldn't set up a FreeBSD server to run docker.
- IntelliJ IDEA [https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/] (surprised no one mentioned it yet)

- Spotlight - for quick calculations

- Contexts [https://contexts.co/] and chunkwm for window management [https://github.com/koekeishiya/chunkwm]

- Maccy [https://maccy.app/] for a decent and beautiful clipboard manager
I suggest writing extensions for vscode to provide tcl language server and debug server.
Forest https://www.forestapp.cc/ I've tried a bunch of distraction blockers, but this is the one I've found most pleasant to use.

Mosh https://mosh.org/ I'm a fairly recent user so it hasn't been 100 hours yet, but it will be.

Not a program per se, but a few years ago I set up a cron job to back up my shell history every night to a file named based on the date, and then aliased 'h' to grep them all and pipe to tail. This allows me to see the last dozen times I used any string in a shell command. It comes in handy many times per day.
Surely the risk motive for profit includes what's happening now?
I do like the idea of viewing time in the context of physical information. That makes a lot of intuitive* sense to me as a layperson

*Intuitive in the colloquial sense of the term, not in the way it's being used in this article
Regarding the cost of simulation, you might find what Dr. Michio Kaku said during his AMA.

>I mentioned that a digital computer cannot simulate even a simple reality, since there are too many molecules to keep track of, far greater than the capabilities of any digital computer. We need a quantum computer to simulate quantum reality, and hence, once again, the weather is the smallest object that can simulate the weather. Therefore, I don’t think we live in a simulation, unless the simulation is the universe itself. -Dr.Michio Kaku
Right now.

Corporate America will be culling the herd in a few weeks. Financial services are already purging.
I suspect you're referring to the widely debunked claims of Ralph Neder here?

Plutonium is, in itself, not all that toxic - it is significantly less toxic than many other heavy metals, and can be handled safely. I wouldn't suggest going out of your way to inhale plutonium dust - but that holds true for such large swathes of the periodic table such that it seems somewhat silly to base a power generation strategy on that alone.

It is of course radioactive, but that then falls into the problems I described above (the tradeoff between not-that-dangerous and not-that-long-lived). However the main reason people complaining about plutonium dust sound rather silly to me is this: plutonium is extremely dense - almost double the density of lead - and thus encouraging it to float around the atmosphere isn't all that easy. Unless you have someone machining doorknobs out of Pu-238 in your bedroom (in which case I would strongly urge you to find different housemates) then inhaling plutonium dust seems rather low on the list of things to worry about.
Maybe instead we should ask ourselves why the rent is so high instead of blaming people who just want to minimize the time they take out of their short lives to spend commuting to a job they need to survive.
Sounds straight from a 90's Microsoft marketing department, I'm glad not everyone listened back then.

More users is definitely a feature though.