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Comment · 14 hours ago
did he even renormalize the dataset on the S-1 fill size?
Comment · 2 days ago
The half-life of these projects are well below one year.
Comment · 2 days ago
Yet another software developer pretending to be philosopher
Comment · 11 days ago
I got your point about the monoculture, and I agree with you. Being different is not something bad.

My question was more nuanced though. It seems to me that in the past 10 years or so, openbsd didn’t invent very much. Of course that I agree that there are some punctual things where openbsd was first but that’s not the case lately. So it’s mostly a catchup game with linux features and compatibility needs for running linux software. If you open now the HN front page you will see one story about openbsd importing linux drivers and another story on openbsd struggles to support wine - and basically how wine developers don’t care too much about that.

Hence my question, if most of the effort is put to catch up with linux features, is it even worth anymore? If I want to use linux from 5 years ago, I could just do that. Putting so much effort and time into developing a linux feature clone just in case linux becomes evil, also doesn’t make sense, because you can fork when you see this. Licensing wise even less, I think there’s now a mixture on both sides.

So please take it as a genuine question, not as criticism or anything.

Comment · 11 days ago
Genuine question: if this is only a catch up game, then why not just use the original in the first place?
Comment · 1 month ago
import fireducks.pandas as pd
Comment · 1 month ago
What problem are they trying to solve? This part is still not very clear to me.
Comment · 1 month ago
Those 390 miles are from 100 to empty and you don’t do that in real life.

Usually on long trip stops I charge to 75% because after that it becomes painfully slow to charge the rest of 25. And I rarely stop below 20%, because of, eh, low battery stress.

So in reality I have to stop at half of the advertised range.

Comment · 2 months ago
I think that the steering committee currently considers that backwards compatibility has higher priority compared to strict memory safety. When the priorities will inverse then solutions will be found.
Comment · 2 months ago
What I have seen is that the Internet doesn’t attract interesting people anymore and such, the time they spend creating “content” is drastically reduced compared to, let’s say 20-25 years ago. And by “content” I don’t mean tiktok or youtube shorts, but code, blogs, demos or contributing to larger projects. The dynamic is different now, people are working disconnected and from time to time they might release ready projects that previously were seeing their development cycle happening online. Otherwise, there are many projects that don’t make it on the Internet anymore.
Comment · 2 months ago
Awwww, little blogger can’t write his slop anymore without rest of the world knowing that he’s not the author?
Comment · 2 months ago
Imagine the user confusion when he sets the interface in light mode and a couple of minutes later this changes automatically to dark mode because sun sets.
Comment · 3 months ago
I expect that the outer TCP might be better for high throughput, low RTT, no loss networks and more or less constant throughput on the vpn tunnel. Probably worse in all the other cases.
Comment · 3 months ago
PF configuration language that author considers to be “the clearest expression of firewall intent anyone has shipped” is 95% the configuration language of ipfilter, the initial solaris and bsd firewall software. Quite suspicious that the author doesn’t mention it, especially when pf started merely as a clone of the latter.
Comment · 4 months ago
Terra and Luna? Last time I had heard that, it didn’t end quite well

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