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free652··on Why I run FreeBSD for my home servers (2024)
zfsbootmenu https://docs.zfsbootmenu.org/en/v3.0.x/

Also nice way to recover zfs if anything goes wrong. yea, it's a linux image for just booting. But you put it as an EFI image, and works great.

free652··on Why I run FreeBSD for my home servers (2024)
Well since FreeBSD is pulling ZFS source from Linux, I am not certain what are the rough edges. And I have ran ZFS for 7+ years on Linux with zero issues.
free652··on FAQ on Leaving Google
>Laying off randomly and not low performers

Low performers? By what metric? And your metric sucks, that's because a single metric is meaningless, even 10 metrics are useless.

Did you do over 200 CLs a year? 10000 LoC? 10-20 design docs? 10 product launches? CL comments, reviews, bug fixed, filed?

Sure you can identify outliers, but the baseline is not exactly very telling.

In my other companies layoffs were always random.

free652··on FAQ on Leaving Google
IMHO a lot of googlers (especially old timers) believe they were special, here is a news flash. You weren't, Google didn't come with a lot of products. And that's why where Google is right now.
free652··on He blew the whistle on Amazon. He's still paying the price
I can read and suggest for you to do the same when providing sources:

From [0]:

>The Israeli military has not officially published any estimates of those killed.

free652··on He blew the whistle on Amazon. He's still paying the price
According to Hamas, right? When someone throws numbers directly from Hamas, that someone lost all credibility.
free652··on We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO
DDG sells your information to Microsoft, there is no such thing as privacy when $$$ are involved
free652··on Banging errors in Go
>Java is not the best for error handling by any stretch. But it's easily better than Go.

Nah. If you ever worked in a big enough company you would have:

try & catch Throwable at the main entry.

Go forces to think about every error.

C# doesn't even have checked errors, after using Java for 10 years - checked exceptions are dumb.

Go doesn't have a stack trace in the error and thats dumb.

free652··on Microsoft CEO testifies that Google’s power in search is ubiquitous
Random stuff:

>how many times russia surrendered moscow

Google provides links about the history of Russian wars.

Bing talks about the current Ukrainian affair.

Bing = garbage

free652··on Tech workers now doubting decision to move from California to Texas
it was over 100f 30 days this August

https://www.wunderground.com/history/monthly/us/tx/austin/KA...

I barely handle over 90f for few days

free652··on Google's browser security plan slammed as dangerous, terrible, DRM for websites
Safari already has WEI, but nobody cares about that.
free652··on Why Google Zanzibar shines at building authorization
So how do you manage filtering of a billion records?
free652··on EY gets banned from new audit business in Germany
The latter just collects the paycheck and could care less about anything else, they won't get fired.
free652··on NY Sabotages Right to Repair Bill [video]
The difference is a lot more, I usually see >100. But even for a cheap flight that was 138 jet blue basic, it's 60 for the middle tier and 110 extra for the refundable.
free652··on Golang disables Nagle's Algorithm by default
I said the company, not engineers. And macbooks are used as chromebooks, I haven't used anything outside of Chrome/term. the dev environment is glinux. osx/m1 is not supported without getting exceptions and not worth the trouble.
free652··on Golang disables Nagle's Algorithm by default
The default is glinux, most of the company are using chromebooks.
free652··on LibreOffice blogs about Blockchain, locks comments after negative user feedback
99.99% is done without blockchain, that's a pilot project with little adoption.
free652··on Intel and the $1.5T chip industry meltdown
a) we don't know exactly what would happen if China implemented US policies. So that's not a fact, thats a hypothesis.

b) China lies all the time. That's a fact. May be 5 million died from covid there. who knows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_misinformation_by_Chi...

free652··on Magic Leap 2
2013 backer, I am looking for my single player campaign. I could care less for MMO. It was promised for 2014. So....
free652··on Upgrade to Linux
Upgrade to ChromeOs. why bother with Linux. I converted an old windows laptop with a touchscreen to a chromeos using now google acquired neverware. love it.
free652··on $600M Binance Hack
I sold my crypto, there is no point of yet an another alt coin.
free652··on Why Don’t We Use Chemical Weapons Anymore?
That's article is absolute garbage, it doesn't convey any rebuttals of any kind. So you are just mudding the waters with he said / she said.
free652··on Cloud desktops aren't as good as you'd think
I work at the company the gives a chromebook and a cloud desktop. Works great for me.

VS Code for the development, SSH for the remote desktop, most of operations can be done via VSCode anyways. Chrome RDP is slow, I agree. I never use it anyways.

free652··on Meta has banned the personal Facebook accounts for everyone on our team
The data server via API isn't yours, that's FB's data. You can download YOUR data via a page on the FB site.
free652··on Google postpones MV2 shutoff in Chrome stable to June 2023
I had a google interviews loop, 2 out of 3 weren't leetcode related questions. the 3rd was a easy medium bfs. one of questions drilled into teSt driven development and etc.
free652··on AWS vs. GCP reliability is wildly different
Are you sure, because AWS consistently requires me to migrate to a different host. They go as far as shutting down instances, but don't do any kind of live migrations.
free652··on Google canceled its next Pixelbook and shut down the team building it
arent they switching to hp?
free652··on Citibank may lock bank accounts for 45 days if breach suspected
cold wallets... kinda need to remember them right, like a key or a password or a phrase. so you store that somewhere. now that's somewhere can be compromised and you are out of your money.
free652··on Static site hosting hurdles
Cloudflare has free hosting for static content. there are some limits, but my sites are tiny.
free652··on Ask HN: Is there a developer laptop that does not suck and is not a Mac in 2022?
My requirements are simple and hard, I need to have 2 4k monitors and preferably at 144hz. not that many businesses laptops can do that. I have settled for m1 pro, but I didn't pay attention that the hdmi output is only 2.0. so the second screen is only 60hz.
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