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I don't think I'll ever need to read one of these threads again, now.

I have the original Wolfenstein disk for the Apple ][, complete with typed label. Out of curiosity, I did email people at id software asking about Castle Wolfenstein and what the c…

(Not OP) Oatly's process is patented, so you can look up what they do. That places some restrictions on using it in the same markets, of course. I think it's this one: http://patft…

You are confusing principle with implementation. Reducing clock speed reduces power usage and you can compensate with more cores is indeed a truth. However, finding that option in …

Huge, multinational corporations with products in every house and business across the world also write a small minority of unpredictable, difficult-to-diagnose bugs. (Meltdown, Spe…

You are misinterpreting the sentence. Most people's exhaustive testing regimen is to try something a few times, shrug, and say "works for me". Not necessarily for file systems, but…

For what it's worth: Sepherosa Ziehau spent some years serving out huge streams of video in a company similar to Netflix, in China. He used DragonFly. So, it may not have the same …

I generated them; what would you prefer, and why? I know MD5 hash collisions are vaguely possible, but I would think they would be extremely unlikely here.

What Elhana said - mount_hammer2 isn't included in /usr/share/initrd so it's not copied into the image used there. You can build a new initrd - cd into src/share/initrd/sbin, add i…

It's not released; it's just tagged. Seriously, I haven't even finished building the release image yet.

This is a poor study. The "control" of NYC doesn't match Seattle in most every respect, and switching to Bellvue - well, you can read the paper where they say Bellvue followed the …

Refrigerating bread ruins it. Freezing does not. (Which the linked article does state.)

Outside of this not-really-helpful study, I can say that sourdoughs do tend to have a longer shelf life without preservatives; they resist staling and mold better than white bread,…

Really "gluten-free" means that someone with severe celiac disease could eat there, and the acceptable levels of flour/gluten/whatever have to be very, very low. So low that you wi…

I hope - and I admit I am biased this way - that 'gluten-sensitive but not celiac disease' suddenly evaporates, sort of like MSG headaches turned out to be not a thing. Except I wa…

Adding butter, powdered milk, or even dried potato into the recipe will often give a softer crust. A small amount can go a long way! Another trick is to brush the loaf itself with …

You can get a similar benefit to taste without changing texture by using a preferment; i.e. a biga or poolish, depending on what term you like. Let the preferment sit overnight, th…

Selling to restaurants is reliable but low-profit, because you're selling in bulk. Selling direct to consumers has a much better margin. Margins are not high in baking to begin wit…

More people using IPv6 on DragonFly would help tease out issues... but then again more people using IPv6 in general would help, too.

You are confusing developer bandwidth with network bandwidth. He's not saying IPv6 network performance is slow, he's saying he doesn't have as much time as he'd like to work on it.…

Petty history aside, the project needs to be more open in communication. There's too many secret mailing lists and mystery discussion, which is a common thread in all the problems …

Hello, fellow Reynaud Syndrome sufferer! Lots of unhelpful advice in other posts: gloves don't work, because heat is brought to your hands by blood flow. Blood flow is cut off, whi…

Use it as a gateway, a web server (shiningsilence.com), and a music machine at home. At work as a host for a few software packages (Mediawiki, though not since a switch to Confluen…

Completely avoiding sugars and grains? That's not easier; you trade a less complicated rule for severe diet restrictions. Applying that rule about less processed foods will help wi…