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It's pretty active, actually. Look at the release notes for FreeBSD major versions. Some folks think the release engineering team is too active and that major versions should be su…

If you are working with FreeBSD in the cloud, you can use Terraform to provision on AWS and GCP. If you have to manage bare metal FreeBSD systems at scale (hundreds of systems), mo…

Love distrobox. Use it on my daily driver. If you are running an Ubuntu LTS / Debian stable / PopOS as your main operating system (because you want stability), but want to run blee…

Yes! I knew it was out there somewhere. Thank you.

This is cool. What I really want is to be able to build an array of these. Like turn a stack of old fleet framework laptops (or lenovo laptops -- something cheap and plentiful) int…

I started on GitHub, moved to a job that used Gitlab, and then another that uses Bitbucket. Being platform agnostic about CI/CD and Git, I think, looks better than being wed to a s…

Uh, yes, my snarky friend. I didn't suggest Sri Lanka is agriculturally self-sufficient. With so little a land area to work with, that would not be possible. It's not clear that sw…

There's a premium that can be exacted from switching to organic agriculture that isn't be discussed in this article. Sri Lanka has a limited land mass available for food production…

I've had to work through ADHD as an engineer and echo what a few folks on here have said about slowing down and being intentional. It's easy to get overwhelmed when you have a to-d…

I've used mounted volumes in docker for high-traffic postgresql databases and they've held up nicely. Should test this with SQLite, but I imagine it would perform just fine.

I've had similar experiences to what's been offered in other posts. Getting off the SD card and onto external storage is essential. The machine is almost useable, chromium lags a b…

Kerrisk wrote a great intro chapter on the evolution of the UNIX system architecture (with sources) and how Linux has developed with it that's relevant: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/…

Yes. We've lost the tall grass prairie to corn. But there are still vast portions of short and mixed-grass prairie in the southern great plains on land that was never suitable for …

The direct impact of turbines on wildlife (e.g., from direct strikes) may be negligible. But the secondary effects of carving-up large blocks of intact grasslands in the Great Plai…

We usually see the UN human development index cited for this. Which ranks countries based on life expectancy, education, as well as income. For the wealthy, my assumption is that y…

A lot of users struggle with this. Mozilla needs to diversify it's revenue stream, but the options available to them are only tangentially related to Firefox. Basically, (1) the VP…

> If producers are able to totally game a commodity market and control prices so completely than you have bigger problems than just poverty. Game is probably more strongly worded t…

This. There is compelling evidence that UBI, over the short term, really is effective at distributing money to a lot of people in need without a cumbersome burden of proof placed o…

Spoken like someone toiling away on their third postdoc position.

Industry kinda already has. Products launched. Teams managed. A candidate's publication record is a conversation starter during interviews, but I feel like years of experience at a…

Fidelity and other major online brokerages do this with their money market accounts. It doesn't chase an optimal yield like what you are proposing, but that would be interesting. I…

Came here half-expecting to see probabilistic programming implemented via Direct Acyclic Graphs (DAGs). This is cool, too, though.

The faith part comes from interpreting the economic results of capitalism. Do you accept it as a useful economic system given all the problems you see with it? Are you willing to e…

I'm for anything that might eleviate this second silent spring we are seeing with pollinators/birds in the US. But how much time/money does it take to develop an RNAi-based pestici…

* and probably humans, but we couldn't get approval for that yet... maybe now that we're in Nature Medicine?