Readit Newstcmart14 commented on Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down pcgamer.com/games/masterc... · Posted by u/croes
i don't think that's a new benchmark, it's a very old benchmark. Anybody who can't pass it hasn't exceeded the standard set by microsoft tay back in 2016
I'll grant you that Tay's ability to turn into an utter shit show was phenomenal. However, IBM thinking it would be a good idea to give Watson the Urban dictionary holds a special place in my heart.
tcmart14 commented on Container: Apple's Linux-Container Runtime github.com/apple/containe... · Posted by u/jzelinskie
How actually is Swift as a Rust alternative? Is it feasible?
The only gripe I remember with it is that all its APIs are weird.
Like instead of normal names, you have Apple-legacy-names for methods/classes.
I can't speak to performance since I don't really race languages. But as far as feel and what not, it is very similar. But there is also a pretty good overlap in people who worked on Rust and people who worked in Swift. Graydon worked on both. So Swift has a lot of similarities with Rust. The way I usually word it is, Swift is like having C# with mostly everything you like about Rust.
I believe a lot of the legacy names come from when your interfacing with platform APIs like UIKit and such if you have to and they haven't quiet gotten a bump from their Objective-C APIs to have more swifty-APIs.
tcmart14 commented on A year of funded FreeBSD development daemonology.net/blog/2025... · Posted by u/cperciva
Consider me convinced. Like I say, it was never anything but empirical skepticism. Neither for or against until sufficient evidence has been collected, as painful as that can be. Thank you for your work on scrypt.
Just to give another data point. LLVM is a good example. Where FreeBSD and Apple may still interface quiet a bit, and this isn't exclusive to FreeBSD, I think Apple is still a primary contributor/maintainer of CUPS and a few other systems like that.
tcmart14 commented on A year of funded FreeBSD development daemonology.net/blog/2025... · Posted by u/cperciva
Very interesting. Doing more reading on FreeBSD's presence in the HPC space. Thank you.
Also checkout DragonflyBSD. They, at least at one time, where gunning for the HPC use case.I don't keep up with it enough to know the current state today, to know if they are still hard charging in that direction since they forked from FreeBSD years and years ago.
tcmart14 commented on A year of funded FreeBSD development daemonology.net/blog/2025... · Posted by u/cperciva
Can someone who uses FreeBSD fill me in on the niche that it fills in the Unix space? Why not use OpenBSD or NetBSD, which are far simpler and coherent? If the answer is support for stuff like ZFS, Nvidia drivers, ELF, etc. why not Linux? I'm well aware of the problems with GNU, but do you have problems even with something like Musl Void?
I'm genuinely actually curious. FreeBSD exists in kind of a shadow realm for me where I've never been quite able to pin down the soul that keeps it chugging, but I know it exists somewhere in there.
First, FreeBSD is probably the most common BSD you'd run into. Definitely has the largest user base. And of course, large user base, more developers, and usually more ports maintainers. Not always true, but true most of the time. FreeBSD has also usually focused on the server case, so a lot of the improvements are improvements where servers will see the most benefit. That sorta explains the, why FreeBSD over OpenBSD and NetBSD. I personally prefer NetBSD, but there is a solid argument for FreeBSD.
Why FreeBSD over Linux? To me, I would say it depends on what sort of engineering model you think works best. Linux is great, but it is essentially a giant orgy of a lot of independent projects that luckily work together to create a linux-based operating system. The kernel team is different from the gnu team that works on gnu libc and gnu core utils. Even with Rust core utils becoming a thing, it's still a separate team. Linux doesn't have a true notion of a 'base' system like the BSDs do. Each of the BSDs provide a 'true base' system. That means pretty much all of the code (maybe a few exceptions), but the core hot code on a freshly installed FreeBSD operating system is all owned and maintained by the FreeBSD team (this applies to NetBSD and OpenBSD and DragonflyBSD). This is the libc, the kernel, the user land utilities, basic programs and even some advanced ones (like OpenBSD's httpd or firewalls), and even the boot loaders! So it provides some sort of coherence to the platform that just isn't on linux.
Linux, and I use that a lot to, is really an amazing anomaly in software. That in the most minimal distribution, you really have tons of software from teams that may have little to no interaction with each other, can some how all be compiled together to work.
Addition: Wanted to make an addition to the difference in engineering decisions. The BSDs in general make clear distinctions between what is provided by the system and what is from third parties. An example of this is reading through some of the file system hierarchy stuff in FreeBSD. Yes, Linux technically has a file system hierarchy and things are supposed to have a designated place, but it's much more Wild West on linux. FreeBSD and the FreeBSD community generally conform to the standards defined in `hier` pretty well.
tcmart14 commented on A year of funded FreeBSD development daemonology.net/blog/2025... · Posted by u/cperciva
I wonder for what reason Microsoft funds them. Their Hyper-V extensions are not as complete as Linux. There's no Microsoft-supported port of .NET. I can't think of any services that run on *BSD from Microsoft, cloud or otherwise.
I don't know if this explains all the funding. But there definitely was a year where the employees at Microsoft voted to give funding to FreeBSD. I don'w know if it's a thing, but apparently Microsoft had this thing where every year, or quarter, employees could sort of nominate and vote on open source projects that Microsoft would donate to[1]. And FreeBSD one year won some funding out of that.
[1] https://resources.github.com/open-source/microsoft-foss-fund...
But yea, I'm not sure if they have a reoccurring donation to FreeBSD or not. Looking at the FreeBSD Foundation, they are listed as sponsors for 2025/2024/2023. So my guess is that they do have some form of reoccurring donation.
Does Apple have a monopoly on web maps?
I'll be honest, until this, I didn't even know you could go to maps in your web browser and use it there. I figured it was really for iPhones and iPads.
> War in Ukraine will tank the stock market
> High interest rates will tank the stock market
> Tariffs will tank the stock market
> IA will tank the stock market <- We are here
All those statements made sense to me at the time. And I have no doubt that one of these days, someone will make a correct prediction. But who the hell know what and when.
Diversify, be reasonable and be prepared for it to happen someday. But freaking out with any new prediction of doom is not the winning strategy.