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ZFS never came from FreeBSD -- its origin is Solaris, and specifically from the tediously open-sourced and then thrown under a bus by Oracle OpenSolaris, forked into the Illumos project.

So FreeBSD's version has never been the "master copy", so to speak. In some ways the most sophisticated version has always been the (now very aggressively close sourced) Solaris 11 ZFS, which is very incompatible with the open source forks because of new features added.

FreeBSD switched from upstream Illumos to the OpenZFS/Linux sources because Illumos development has slowed to a crawl, while ZFS on Linux is ironically very active and has more and more corporate backing, while essentially all corporate backers of Illumos except maybe Joyent (?) are dead, as mentioned on the FreeBSD mailing list. This means in practice development on that fork of ZFS ceased as bugs piled up, since relatively few hobbyists are going to deep dive into something as complex as ZFS. [0]

FreeBSD gained several new features from Linux's ZFS that it simply didn't have before, like native encryption support in ZFS itself without needing Geli/GEOM. I've heard several FreeBSD users get excited about this, so I presume the wrapper wasn't well-loved. Other features mentioned in the mailing list are "multi modifier protection, project quotas, encrypted datasets, allocation classes, vectorized raidz, vectorized checksums, and various command line improvements". It's simply superior to the Illumos upstream, and will only improve over time while Illumos sadly stagnates into oblivion.

The kernel guys are never going to like it, and I fall closer to their camp. I'd rather use Linux's native layering mechanisms instead of using an omnibus package. But I also think ZFS on Linux is in practice very widely used and very mature. Same as the nvidia drivers, too -- people endlessly complain about them, but even Fedora adds a button in the GUI for installing 3rd party repos with the drivers, and my nvidia blobs have survived for 4 OS updates without breaking. There are several OSes like Pop_OS! that just include them OOTB.

[0] https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2018-Dec...
Every race has to have a finish line
Some sysadmins/postmasters do this to protect against spam floods. They use cron jobs to hold/release emails after validating the envelope contents using tools like MailScanner. Some use that for intercepting test messages [1] I don't have the links handy, but I have also seen some projects in github that utilize hold queues for managing more granular rate limits based on content rather than destination. Some anti-spam tools will also quarantine messages into the hold queue for review.

[1] - https://serverfault.com/questions/219173/configure-postfix-t...
The entity that makes Game A has a choice where the app is sold. So, for Example, EA sells games on Origin but also Steam. There are lots of apps that are in many stores.

On an iOS device, the entity that makes the app has no choice of what store to be in, they must be in Apple's. That is a monopoly.

As many have pointed out, if you only want to get your apps from one store-- like Apple's-- you could chose that. But currently you can't choose to use another app vendor.
Before you say protein folding, I was in on meetings where s major pharma company was considering decommissioning their computational data center in the bay area because it was underused and the real estate was worth too much to leave on the table
Arguably the market has already decided the behavior they want by buying iPhones in the first place. Apple didn't suddenly change their behavior. This is how the app store has always behaved. Everyone had that information available to them prior to making the purchase. How can you be sure that Apple customers don't actually want a walled garden with a single app store that is tightly controlled by Apple? After all if they didn't want this they could have purchased one of the numerous other Android offerings.
I always find both website and logo design most puzzling, they obviously follow trends, but are these trends actually based on what the designers think users might find most attractive and useable?
From the outside it looks more like a chain reaction of copying what another popular site is doing at the time.

Someone working on the design end of things might be able to enlighten me.

When it comes to logos some of the decisions are just baffling and feel like "change it just to change it".
What's wrong with email newsletters? I actually like them quite a bit.
For an indication of how this will go, it’s worth looking at how the existing R&D grants system is used and abused.

I have done a few “hold your nose” consultancy gigs for an outfit that specialises in the entirely legal, if morally dubious, process, of importing the family of high net worth individuals on entrepreneurship visas - and laundering their money into the U.K.

I was approached in 2016, after I cashed out of my business, by an acquaintance from school who had spent a few years as a Tory MP, and was now using his barristers chambers to run this scheme. He was the head of chambers’ nephew, and is still considered their golden goose, because this stuff is seriously lucrative.

I’d provide a business plan, and would be the U.K. national director. They’d be the investor director from overseas. I assigned all reporting etc. over to the agency, so I was just producing business plans and providing a U.K. taxpayer’s identity.

They’d put in their money (as it’s an investment the burdens of UWOs and so-forth don’t apply, as it’s counted as a liability, not an asset), the government would match it, and they then come to Mayfair, pay themselves a salary for three years, do an annual R&D tax credit and get a nice big cheque from HMRC, and then wind the whole thing up when it “unexpectedly fails”.

I did two of these before I got cold feet. A Russian oligarch’s son, a Kazakh oligarch’s wife. Never met them, only found out their IDs after the companies were incorporated.

Whole damn thing stinks to high hell, but it’s essentially the intended purpose of the scheme.
The article is from nine hours ago.

The interesting part will come, maybe, in the next days.

It's going to be interesting if somebody from the pop scenes comes out to confirm those claims, in a sort of "me too" fashion.

I mean, I would really like to see this topic discussed by more people in the industry. If anything, to help put an end to this kind of practices.
Your later half is essentially what subtree does, but it can also merge changes if you have any.
Visit https://projectsandcastle.org/ and follow the instructions, assuming your hardware meets the current requirements.
Regular overtime is nothing else than organisational and management failure to me. It means you have more work than you have people for, and should just hire more of them.

I understand having to work late a day or two because there's an outage, or a feature needs to be done ASAP, but I'm taking those hours back the next day.

Also, not sure about others, but I'm wildly productive when working up to 8 hours daily, and my productivity goes out the window if I work more than that for prolonged periods of time, because I get burned out real quick. (Actually, even with up to 8 hours I need regular vacations)

And being passionate about my work has absolutely nothing to do with that. (I try to work at places where I'm very passionate about it)
The laser was supposed to take care of SDI sats and other space-borne elements, indeed.
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I mean, they could. I don't see the point of that though. All of the product information is available directly on the page where they can email themselves, it's not like one of those "give us your email before you can see the info" things. It's more just to give the user something to reference.
Microsoft Teams AI could tell you who is most enjoying your video call
Another approach is VCT/EIS, where private investment is incentivized via aggressive tax breaks.
> Either you’re younger than me or you’ve forgotten about the pre-order content exclusives from different stores.

This has basically no bearing to the actual game access. While now, buying in a certain store means a very limited selection of titles, which is unlike anything ever experienced in physical retail. So, bad analogy.
This is incorrect. Informed consent requires that people be given the best available information. If that contains a lot of unknowns, and they understand that, and consent to it, that is completely valid.
And, does the severity of your case depend strongly on your dose?

This could have been extremely interesting early on. If it turned out that (say) severe cases in young people required a huge does, then it might have been possible to "vaccinate" everyone under 40 by only-just infecting them.
well, if only we hadn't have forgotten that corporations work for the people, imagine the world we could live in.
Wasn't the internet itself funded by the government before companies like google and amazon abused everything that was not regulated soon enough?

The governments should not be inventors, though, I agree. Government should regulate and protect without uncalled for interventions.

Publicly funded non foi sounds like a playground for scammers and corruption.
Let me guess -- he didn't have 2fa enabled?
I've used this a good bit and struggled with two things:

1. Newsletter formatting sometimes gets broken and comes out ugly

2. For longer newsletters or digests I sometimes skim too fast since I'm used to having single articles in rss feed. I guess this is more a comment on my reading habits with rss.
It's from Frederick Brooks' book, "The Mythical Man-Month", the earliest good book on management of software projects. "The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned."
> To bring it back to your original post - you called someone ignorant for stating that leaving work at work is a choice.

It was tongue in cheek. I was literally quoting them calling me ignorant - it looks stupid and is not condusive to good discussion, I agree!

> As a significant equity holder in an early stage company, you cannot compare yourself to regular employees.

I was expressing the fact that I've seen this many times at several companies, as opposed to it being "a few bad apples" as you originally stated. Not that there is any similarity in the experiences of those roles.

The choice to leave work at work on the daily, vs the choice to switch jobs when you're unhappy, are not the same choice - just so we clear that up because I feel like there are two separate points being made here vs the original comment I was replying to.

It is a choice to leave, yes, definitely agree with you there and I appreciate your perspective here. We are definitely privileged to be in such a fruitful field.

It is also a choice to leave work at work, however, there can be ramifications at your expense and out of your control if you do so. That doesn't happen when you are unhappy and decide to start looking for another job, unless you tell your employer you're doing so...

EDIT: I added some hard data points to back up what I was saying. None of the points changed, only added, didn't delete. Apologies if that confused you.

Criticism of capitalism? Lol, you said we should be grateful for all this money we earn in comparison to other industries. I said no duh, we create a ton of wealth - look at the wealthiest people in the world, they come from software - Gates, Musk, Bezos. It makes sense that compensation is higher in an industry where more value is being created.

> so I'll disengage and just hope you'll find peace and appreciation for the good things in life.

Likewise :)
Feeless, instant transfer. You can use it today. Not sure if that alone is enough though.
I'm having trouble finding this. Any title or other info that you remember? I don't see it on his web page.
Going online to a download website and downloading what ever you want.

There has always been "app stores" if it's tucows download or filehippo or gamespy or what not.

Very few people google "simulation games" and scroll through the pages and pages of google results and go directly to a publishers website and download an exe that they run.

There is and always has been a middleman.
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You can disable it using group policy https://admx.help/?Category=Windows_10_2016&Policy=Microsoft...
Can't edit, but I was wrong on that number being production, that was peak capacity. That was peak capacity. However from my understanding there isn't a ton of interconnect capacity, so I have a hard time believing peak production was only 54% of peak capacity. Do you have a source for your numbers? It seems extremely low.
Can it be done by api? If so, you can setup a service that will do it automatically after a year, and just set a reminder to rest the timer every 6 months or so.
That's literally a major reason why people buy Apple products, though. If you can't sideload things, there's literally no chance of your phone being compromised by those things.
With exception of the RAKS entry, all the other stuff has been confirmed. It's just mostly experimental, but built, systems.

A bit of that happened because USSR ended up assuming that USA was more ready with some techs than they thought, and scaled to match (the amount of crazy that was due to essentially misunderstandings was, well, crazy).
On the flip side in India atleast they are competing against well known crony monopolists who own the govt. Nothing simple or obvious about the rules of that game.

As long as they are preoccupied with ruthlessly competing against each other things tend to head in positive directions for everyone. Its when they have no competition is when the the mindless ambition and ruthlessness causes the most damage.
It's true that nobody has to buy an iPhone, in that they can choose any of the one competing platform. "There's literally a single competitor" isn't a very strong argument against regulation, though.
You are sending a confirmation link to the receiver, but I expected that the sender must confirm the address.
I'm not so sure it's a conflation. Having a single app store makes for a more consistent user experience when moving from device to device.

You can tell people about apps and they know how and where to get them. See an app you like on another iPhone? You can probably install it on yours fairly easily. There's less confusion around the entire ecosystem because of its simplicity.
Instagram Announces Policing of Private Direct Messages
Personally I prefer SQLiteStudio [1] as it is closer to SQLite Expert Professional [2] that I used to use at work.

[1] https://github.com/pawelsalawa/sqlitestudio
[2] http://www.sqliteexpert.com/
> Ugh, why does it have to be different between npm and yarn v2?

Mainly just because yarn v2 went off book[0]. npm vs yarn v1 is a more sane wold.

[0] A perspective on Yarn v2 from the creator of Yarn v1: https://twitter.com/sebmck/status/1300664946645069830
A helpful, if brief, Forbes explainer:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottcarpenter/2021/02/16/why-w...

The answer, in short, is that turbines in colder places are typically equipped with de-icing and other tools, such as built-in heating. In Texas, where the weather is almost never this cold, they usually are not.
I don't know what the geographic distribution is, but overall the state is split evenly between between natural gas and electric heat (45% each), with the remainder being misc sources like propane.
Fads was a strictly YTMND term. On 4chan they were generally called memes, on SA they were image macros.
Microsoft became almost irrelevant under Ballmer or was at least trending that way. Nadella’s turn around is almost miraculous and is itself probably an interesting story. I wouldn’t bet on that as the norm. I’d expect the norm to be more like IBM, RIM, or Nokia.

I agree with most of the article, but one line stuck out to me as particularly wrong:

>”After the acquisition, we have an extremely long project that consumed many of our best engineers to align our data retention policies and tools to Google. I am not saying this is not important BUT this had zero value to our users.”

Good retention policy does provide value to users.

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> "When COVID hit and we moved to work from home - a huge amount of complaints began around why cant employees expense food since they are not in the office. While most "real" people were worried about keeping their jobs or finding one, many employees were complaining about expensing their food on top of their salaries/stocks/bonuses."

+1 on this - I find this behavior really irritating, it makes me roll my eyes to see some of the most coddled employees in human history whining about this kind of thing. The most charitable interpretation is its just a normal way for people to bond over some shared thing by complaining about it, but a lot of the complaining feels like more than that.

> "We had lunch in the cafeteria and a Googler online ahead of us was overheard saying “What? Sushi again???” which became our inside joke around entitlement."
What if your a native developer for a chrome book;)
Still cannot begin to understand the mindset of people who believe their employees actually care about their boring projects. Give people a reason to care and they will. I gain nothing if my manager or CEO succeeds.
Apple could allow you to add additional sources inside the existing store interface. We can already do this with apt and yum on Linux for example. They won't do it though because they want to increase friction to maximize their money. They don't actually care about users.
> rather it is in stock that vests over time, and the stock can fall

At a public company the stock based compensation is nearly equivalent financially (ignoring taxes) to getting 4yrs of comp up front that for a period of time can only be used to invest in your employer. That exposes you to a lot of risk, but on average it results in higher pay since on average the markets are going up (not just in tech) and you're able to invest money you don't yet have (contrasted with, e.g., if stocks were awarded according to current market rate). That risk profile won't suit everyone, but it's not inherently bad.

> you're rewarded with a shitty 1br apartment because that is all your cash comp can buy

Rent isn't thaat high. A nice oceanfront 2br goes for $3k/mo including utilities. Plus, if you really wanted to dip into stock-based comp for rent, your signing bonus will more than cover the difference for the several months till your first grant.

> because you need to write and debug code on a whiteboard within 30 minutes.

Yeah, that can be pretty shitty. It works out for a lot of people, but I'm certain that process overlooks good engineers.
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The beauty of both mediums is in the compression.

Text is that it's highly compressible while also being highly compressed (and lossy) info already. To make text we have to filter our own ideas, and then to interpret text we have to add a bunch of info back from context.

Pictures have the same tricks up their sleeve. Bitmaps are great but inefficient. If we put it through a lossy compression, it's a lot better. If we make it semi procedurally with a vector file, it's even better. How far can we take a compressed procedural file though? Well.. .kkreiger was about 97 KB, and stores a full 3d shooter. For a meg, you could store 100 such full games. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.kkrieger

Text isn't best in every way. With clever design we can use all the same principles that make text efficient, and make other types of data more efficient. It is a very good default though.
I'm not sure this will affect my latency here in Zurich. Quad9 is already impressive with a 2ms ping, which is surprisingly a bit faster than Google DNS and a few other major providers from my home.
Do you happen to know when this started?
Epic of course doesn’t have customers back - it’s most likely more scummy than Apple.

Only thing that markets discovered so far, that has somehow customers back is free market and competition (and it’s far from being perfect of course), and they happen to push for it.

It’s just a case where customer interested happened to be aligned, even tho companies fight it for profit reasons (as with privacy and Apple - good for customers, but not being done because of it).
The difficulty of mining bitcoin is variable, whereas for gold it is (comparatively) constant. The energy cost of creating $40,000 worth of bitcoin right now is very different from the energy cost of $40,000 worth of bitcoin having been created.

It is estimated that 190,000 Tons of gold have been produced in history, which is 53.8 years worth at current production rates. That current production rate requires 132 TWh per year, so the total cost of producing the gold in circulation should be approximately 7100 TWh.

The total power consumption of bitcoin has been approximately 370 TWh. The market cap for gold is approximately 11 times higher than bitcoin's, but that would still only be 4070 TWh when normalized. On average that's 0.37 kwh per dollar of bitcoin mined to date vs 0.64 kwh per dollar of gold mined to date.
Yep, seems more like a way to keep scandals like Cummings no-bid contract to his friends from coming to light. If it can be used as a slush fund, it probably will be, and eventually probably exclusively.

https://www.theweek.co.uk/951989/what-next-for-dominic-cummi...
> Instead, automation looks always fun and clever, until your growth-hack goes wrong.

"We found we can increase the number of people subbing for the newsletter by skipping double opt in"

"Why are we getting so many spam flags?"

Because the increase you gained was all the people who didn't want it, cosmic brain. The people who wanted it already had it.
That sounds like terrible UX. Users will automatically click on the button so that they can see their email. Nobody reads pop ups.
I was thinking the exact same, obviously a very smart guy but damn I don't really agree/align with most of what he expressed.
I'm sure it depends on the industry and the circumstances. Way back when, I worked in the US oil industry as an engineer and I remember one rig superintendent in particular who basically couldn't get out a sentence that wasn't punctuated with some cuss word or other. But even in the 90s in tech, some level of cussery was pretty normal. It's definitely true, at least at large companies (and events) these days, anything other than the very occasional f-bomb, especially in public is definitely frowned upon.
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Facebook isn't the good guy. Apple isn't the good guy. Epic isn't the good guy.

Every now and then their interests align with those of the users, but ultimately they all serve their own interests and will happily stand opposed to the users whenever it suits them best.
Agreed! It's a business problem. It's not a problem of the employee to shift their mentality to suit the demands of their employer. People want to do a good job though. Hence why there is onus on the employer to provide work-life balance. It's not enough to just "not ask" for work on the weekends. You need to proactively discourage it.
Similarly, the photolithography tech used by ASML Holding originated from research funded by the Dutch government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASML_Holding
Are you vaguely referring to some principle source of truth you found on this matter?
that happened after nadella changed course from the balmer years. It is not always the case that a new CEO can turn around the company (for example see GE).
This brings up an interesting question: should companies be held accountable for the network effects generated by their products on users (not competitors)?

I’d argue not, as long as users can still achieve the same goal in a different way, and it doesn’t worsen their quality of life.

For instance, in this context, the OP’s mother can still do a phone call, or agree to use a different software - which, by the way, is probably free.