CodeCompost's comments

On: Swift on FreeBSD Preview

[CodeCompost]

I donnow. C# and .NET are amazing. People tend to ignore it because Microsoft, but they are being short-sighted. What shiny things are you missing?

On: N8n raises $180M

[CodeCompost]

Can you give me more information about your experience with it?

On: Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ

[CodeCompost]

Well why do you need an app store for this? Can't you just ... I donnow ... create a webpage with OpenStreetMap integration?

[poly2it → CodeCompost]

I'm not saying it is the case, but considering other tactics employed by ICE, this sounds like something they could deploy as a honeypot to profile potential targets.

[recursive → poly2it]

Is that a difference from publishing an app on the app store?

[tredre3 → CodeCompost]

They could and they could even make it a PWA so it would be on the home screen and able to send notifications.

But they only want to support native iOS for whatever reason (they've listed their reasons: https://www.iceblock.app/android, I just don't personally believe them to be technically accurate/truthful).

[nebula8804 → CodeCompost]

Answered by the developer here: https://youtu.be/Pm4tC2Mnabs?t=25358

[rognjen → nebula8804]

Does not seem like a thought out answer.

It's harder to be anon with an app that with a web page because you have to cater for all the web things PLUS Android.

[Hikikomori → CodeCompost]

It is a webpage, they just had an app to view it.

On: The strangest letter of the alphabet: The rise and fall of yogh

[CodeCompost]

Reading all the comments in this threads sounds like English needs a GitHub repo with pull requests.

On: Users only care about 20% of your application

[CodeCompost]

I didn't read the article but in my experience, 80% of the application are parts that you rarely touch, config stuff and "LEFT JOIN" stuff.

There is always one or two parts where all data comes together and that is the heart of your application. Yeah those are the parts your users care about and pay you to make.

[filleduchaos → CodeCompost]

It's against the rules to say this, but it would definitely help to actually read the article.

[CodeCompost → filleduchaos]

Ok

On: Celestia – Real-time 3D visualization of space

[CodeCompost]

I'm surprised there isn't a version that runs on browsers using Emscripten.

On: The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami

[CodeCompost]

Back in the day, Bitnami was a way to run Wordpress on Windows. They packaged it nicely so that you could install it on Windows Server. Nowdays that could get you fired, but back then Linux was not so widespread.

On: Delphi in the Age of AI

[CodeCompost]

Delphi is dead. Nothing to see here. Move along.

On: Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context

[CodeCompost]

In Visual Studio as well?

On: Linux Performance Analysis (2015)

[CodeCompost]

> At Netflix we have a massive EC2 Linux cloud

Wait a minute. I thought Netflix famously ran FreeBSD.

[craftkiller → CodeCompost]

My understanding was their CDN ran on FreeBSD, but not their API servers. But I don't work for Netflix.

[diab0lic → craftkiller]

Your understanding is correct.

[achierius → diab0lic]

Why did they not choose to use it for both (or neither)? I.e., what reasons for using FreeBSD on CDN servers would not also apply to using them for API servers?

[seabrookmx → achierius]

They are extremely different workloads so.. everything?

The CDN servers are basically appliances, and are often embedded in various data centers (includes those ran by ISP's) to aggressively cache content. They care about high throughput and run a single workload. Being able to fine tune the entire stack, right down to the TCP/IP implementation is very valuable in this case. Since they ship the hardware and software, they can tightly integrate the two.

By contrast, API workloads are very heterogeneous. I'd have to imagine the ability to run any standard Linux software there would also be a big plus. Linux clearly has much more vetting on cloud providers than FreeBSD as well.

[aflag → seabrookmx]

Can't you fine tune linux as well? Does FreeBSD perform better somehow on a CDN workload? I find it difficult to imagine that the reason is performance. But I don't know what the reason is.

[craftkiller → aflag]

Netflix discusses their reasons starting at 18:20: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veQwkG0WdN8&t=18m20s

tl;dw: the performance, the efficiency of development, the community, FreeBSD is a complete operating system, the code base is smaller, the ports system, and the license.

and this video covers the optimizations Netflix has made to FreeBSD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36qZYL5RlgY

Also potentially a reason: According to drewg123, Linux's kTLS was broken. Which I see drewg123 also commenting in this thread. Is he the "Drew on my team" mentioned in the first video? Is he the speaker in the 2nd video? Idk https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28585008

[drewg123 → CodeCompost]

The CDN runs FreeBSD. Linux is used for nearly everything else.