drewg123

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Sr SW Engineer, Netflix Open Connect CDN working on FreeBSD kernel performance.
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Comment · 9 days ago
I'd love ZFS a lot more if it weren't for the ARC. Using ARC means that ZFS caches stuff outside the kernel page cache. That in turn means that sendfile is no longer zero-copy when data originates on ZFS, making it a non-starter for content drives for our CDN workload.
Comment · 15 days ago
The way you phrase it makes me realize its almost like a GPL contamination. Eg, once you pull in GPL code, your project is infected and can never use a BSD (or other GPL incompatible) license.

Similarly, once you pull in terrible AI slop code, the project becomes unmaintainable by humans and you need to maintain it with AI.

Comment · 15 days ago
For somebody who hasn't kept up with all the different open source models and what token rates mean, how would using this compare to something like codex or claude? I assume it would be much slower and less capable..?
Comment · 22 days ago
Seems like GPUs and RAM/NAND are the problem, and that's a common problem for arm64 and x86
Comment · 22 days ago
How effective are the western embargos? Will it be possible for them to replace destroyed hardware?
Comment · 23 days ago
The BSDs have had a version of this for many, many years. If you hit ^T on the terminal, you deliver a SIGINFO to the application you're waiting for. By default, you get the program name, what its blocked on, and info about real/user/sys time and memory use.

Starting an emacs window in the fg:

% emacs ^T load: 0.32 cmd: emacs-31.1 64938 [select] 2.89r 0.75u 0.06s 6% 122404k

Comment · 29 days ago
Its a spectrum. For ai-maintained code (like a gui to visualize performance data), IDGAF what the code looks like. I just let claude or codex go nuts and 100% vibe code.

For code I care about, I audit every single hunk as its produced. I give it extensive style guidelines, and crack down on things like a 20-line essay in a comment.

For mission critical code, I write the code myself and have an agent review it.

Comment · 1 month ago
Every other morning I get out of the shower to my wife cussing out siri because it can't handle the simple task of snoozing an alarm...
Comment · 1 month ago
My gmail account is old enough to drink. Too bad that doesn't count for something..
Comment · 1 month ago
As an end user, all I really care about is that the watch doesn't buzz every single time my long-winded colleague hits <enter> on slack, but that I do see slack notifications when I'm able to look at my phone. And I always want to see my wife's texts on my wrist...

Whether that filtering is in the app, in the OS, or on the watch is not important to me.

Comment · 1 month ago
3+ year old XREAL Air AR Glasses.

I bought them to code more effectively on my laptop at my then girlfriend (now wife)'s house. The display was too pixely and distracting for me to code on. However, its plenty good enough for videos.

For videos I mostly use it with my phone (16 pro). Some apps are great (Netflix, AppleTV) and are smart enough to turn off the iPhone screen. Others (VLC, HBO) leave the screen on and burn battery at 2x-3x the rate of AppleTV or Netflix. I can watch AppleTV or Netflix on a coast-to-coast flight an still have plenty of battery left over. With HBO I use probably 20% battery per hour.

Comment · 1 month ago
Same.

I just wish Garmin would get their act together with filtering notifications on iOS. No, I'm sorry, not every app on my phone should be important enough to buzz my wrist. Filtering works fine for Garmin on Android, and apparently for other watch brands on iOS (Coros, Pebble, etc).

The sad thing is all I really need is app-level granularity (slack, you're banned from my wrist!).

If this isn't fixed by the time my 5 year old Fenix fails, I'll move to a different brand that enables filtering.

Comment · 1 month ago
Great point.

For media consumption on the go, I use AR glasses. They are considerably cheaper than the upgrade from an 18Pro to a Duo, and give you an absolutely giant screen.

Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
How is Miami not near the bottom of the list? Every time there is a moderate rainfall, streets flood like crazy. Plus we are in hurricane alley, and some models project that most of the Florida peninsula will be under water in 50-100 years.

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