cperciva (u/cperciva)

cperciva commented on 150 MB Minimal FreeBSD Installation vermaden.wordpress.com/20... · Posted by u/vermaden

> Also keep in mind that You have entire static FreeBSD Rescue System available under /rescue dir.

If you have ZFS with boot environments, how valuable is that?

cperciva · 4 days ago

You can access /rescue without rebooting, for one thing.

cperciva commented on Guinea worm on track to be 2nd eradicated human disease; only 10 cases in 2025 arstechnica.com/health/20... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

I_dream_of_Geni · 5 days ago

Honest question here: how is a worm (parasite) considered a "disease"? I Googled this question two different ways and got two different responses.

cperciva · 5 days ago

The parasite is not the disease; the parasite causes the disease.

Similarly, SARS-COV-2 is a virus which causes Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the Human Immunodeficiency Virus causes AIDS.

People often conflate parasites or viruses with the diseases they cause, and it's practically impossible to eliminate the diseases without eliminating the causative agent, but they are technically distinct concepts.

cperciva commented on The world is more equal than you think economist.com/graphic-det... · Posted by u/andsoitis

aydyn · 6 days ago

And the increase in low income is due to...?

cperciva · 6 days ago

More people attending college, for a start. The increase in low-income households is much smaller than the increase in high-income households.

cperciva commented on The world is more equal than you think economist.com/graphic-det... · Posted by u/andsoitis

aydyn · 6 days ago

middle class is shrinking

https://www.pew.org/en/trust/archive/fall-2024/the-state-of-...

cperciva · 6 days ago

... primarily because households which would have been middle-class now have upper-class incomes instead.

cperciva commented on Time Machine-style backups with rsync (2018) samuelhewitt.com/blog/201... · Posted by u/accrual

TKAB · 6 days ago

What happened to tarsnap? Anybody using it?

cperciva · 6 days ago

It's still there; and yes, people are using it.

cperciva commented on See how many words you have written in Hacker News comments serjaimelannister.github.... · Posted by u/Imustaskforhelp

tzs · 7 days ago

You can see the karma of the people with the 11th-100th highest karma at https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders . Here are the 60 of those people who are also in the top 1000 on the word count list, sorted by increasing word to karma ratio.

Columns are words/karma, words, karma, name.

   3.5  308431  88008 mooreds
   4.1  307127  75567 stavros
   4.3  314850  73503 minimaxir
   4.3  575909 133629 ColinWright
   4.5  429663  96135 walterbell
   5.5  320283  58461 wallflower
   5.9  463540  78823 paxys
   6.1  298839  49063 paulpauper
   7.1  450573  63823 cperciva
   7.1  685484  97028 simonw
   7.2  415385  57466 mpweiher
   8.8  435188  49452 Waterluvian
   9.4  912601  97058 steveklabnik
   9.5  484782  51089 pavlov
   9.5  514233  54028 nkurz
   9.6  738986  76912 jedberg
   9.9  538580  54533 pavel_lishin
  10.5  523765  50113 wmf
  10.5  562066  53697 kibwen
  11.1  649587  58521 pmoriarty
  11.2  554531  49316 petercooper
  11.3  626706  55613 sp332
  11.3  674598  59635 tyingq
  11.3  997305  88154 ceejayoz
  11.4  774926  67711 davidw
  11.8  892827  75358 hn_throwaway_99
  12.5  652216  52309 duxup
  12.5  627078  49987 Someone1234
  12.6 1999366 159310 Animats
  13.3 1168121  87843 userbinator
  13.5 1425286 105817 pjc50
  13.5  771686  56994 lisper
  14.1 1143293  81306 crazygringo
  14.2  698215  49002 JoshTriplett
  14.3  867103  60494 saagarjha
  15.4 1628467 105619 toomuchtodo
  16.2  787659  48722 amelius
  16.3 1285245  78792 WalterBright
  16.5 1058282  64324 ryandrake
  16.6  892312  53904 ksec
  18.8 1038783  55136 bane
  19.8 1950935  98675 anigbrowl
  19.9 1355066  67997 masklinn
  20.0 2510303 125350 pjmlp
  20.2 2110424 104359 PaulHoule
  20.3 2251499 110917 ChuckMcM
  20.5 1497782  73213 jrockway
  21.0 1168930  55722 btilly
  21.9 2747766 125470 rayiner
  22.2 1822427  82045 nostrademons
  22.4 1319812  58825 wpietri
  24.7 1275113  51702 brudgers
  27.6 3131449 113256 TeMPOraL
  29.7 2701314  90987 jerf
  30.1 2696913  89718 coldtea
  31.7 1911252  60198 Retric
  37.6 4785959 127149 dragonwriter
  38.5 2130838  55318 derefr
  39.3 2583878  65748 dredmorbius
  42.5 2141376  50383 tzs

cperciva · 6 days ago

If you're going to do that analysis, you would really want to distinguish "karma from comments" from "karma from posts", since only the former is associated with words of comments.

I'm not sure if that data is available though.

cperciva commented on 1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes? waspdev.com/articles/2026... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

hackyhacky · 6 days ago

To avoid confusion, I always use "kilobyte" to refer to exactly 512 bytes.

cperciva · 6 days ago

Not to be confused with a kilonibble, which is 500 bytes.

cperciva commented on FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE nbcnews.com/tech/internet... · Posted by u/duxup

ModernMech · 13 days ago

You have to remember that "the government" is not a monolith. Evidence goes before a judge who is (supposed to be) independent, and cases are tried in front of a jury of citizens. In the future that system may fall but for now it's working properly. Except for the Supreme Court... which is a giant wrench in the idea the system still works, but that doesn't mean a lower court judge won't jettison evidence obtained by gunpoint.

cperciva · 13 days ago

Evidence goes before a judge

What evidence went before a judge prior to the two latest executions in Minneapolis?

cperciva commented on Significant US farm losses persist, despite federal assistance fb.org/market-intel/signi... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo

mapt · 19 days ago

Your buffer here is meat. Cattle are tremendously inefficient consumers of grain. Eat your burgers in the bountiful years, then slaughter 75% of the herd in a hardship year, eat well for six months, then spend the next three, four, five years eating more grains while the herds recover.

Ethanol is another one.

That's the sensible way to do it.

Somehow I doubt that it's the way we do it... But maybe the variability is coming from world trade and developing nations.

cperciva · 19 days ago

Cattle are inefficient consumers of grain, but highly efficient consumers of grass. Most land used for pasture can't effectively be used for anything else.

cperciva commented on FreeBSD docs.freebsd.org/en/books... · Posted by u/vermaden

brcmthrowaway · 19 days ago

Does it support arm64?

cperciva · 19 days ago

Yes, arm64 support has been Tier 1 since FreeBSD 13.0.