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New comment by passthejoe in "Why I love FreeBSD"

passthejoe — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:47:51 +0000

Having ZFS baked into the installer and fully supported by the project is a huge motivator for using FreeBSD.

I know that Linux distros can accommodate ZFS, but it's a fair-weather situation due to licensing and most distros' preference for BTRFS.

New comment by passthejoe in "The next two years of software engineering"

passthejoe — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 21:00:59 +0000

If the economy is profoundly affected by employment conditions going forward, how can housing costs not drop?

New comment by passthejoe in "Bear is now source-available"

passthejoe — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 21:33:13 +0000

Most static site generators offer a Bear Blog theme, including Hugo and Zola.

So you can get a self-hosted site that looks and acts like a Bear Blog, but run it yourself with a free software SSG.

New comment by passthejoe in "Bear is now source-available"

passthejoe — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 18:07:25 +0000

The license disallows use of the software for what it is intended: setting up a multi-user blogging system.

New comment by passthejoe in "Build Your Own Z80 Computer: Design Guidelines and Application (1981)"

passthejoe — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 14:42:31 +0000

I used to have this book and loved it. Kid me could never have built this. Adult me couldn't either, but the idea that somebody could was pretty extraordinary.

New comment by passthejoe in "Ruby: A great language for shell scripts"

passthejoe — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 01:59:11 +0000

Golang's not so secret weapon

New comment by passthejoe in "Ruby: A great language for shell scripts"

passthejoe — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 01:58:18 +0000

This has bitten me many times

New comment by passthejoe in "EasyOS: An experimental Linux distribution"

passthejoe — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 01:07:11 +0000

Puppy was my first distro. Loved it back in the day.

I discovered so many great apps through Puppy, including Geany, ROX Filer and gFTP.

New comment by passthejoe in "Stack Overflow is laying off another 28%"

passthejoe — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 17:46:31 +0000

If I had a nickel for every SO thread that came up in my Google searches that could have answered my question if only the SO moderators had allowed it to be answered, I'd be able to buy a few steak dinners.

New comment by passthejoe in "The whole of the Whole Earth Catalog is now online"

passthejoe — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 00:41:38 +0000

This book was my World Wide Web as a kid

New comment by passthejoe in "The future of AlmaLinux"

passthejoe — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 02:14:45 +0000

Alma also has a live ISO.

New comment by passthejoe in "Red Hat Is Not Linux (2000)"

passthejoe — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 01:46:58 +0000

> Pay for RHEL or use Debian

In this climate, that is a solid philosophy

New comment by passthejoe in "Red Hat Is Not Linux (2000)"

passthejoe — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 01:40:14 +0000

The decisions seem rushed, not borne out of consensus, and not well thought out

New comment by passthejoe in "Red Hat Is Not Linux (2000)"

passthejoe — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 01:39:00 +0000

This exactly

New comment by passthejoe in "Apple Introduces M2 Ultra"

passthejoe — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 01:14:05 +0000

My 2011 iMac is screaming fast with Debian Linux.

New comment by passthejoe in "US court rules Uber and Lyft workers are contractors"

passthejoe — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 15:32:03 +0000

Labor unions seem to put that kidney dialysis measure on the ballot for every election, then they are outspent by more than 100-to-1 by the kidney dialysis companies on TV ads, and the measures never pass.

Money wins, and the unions could spend more but they don't in this case.

New comment by passthejoe in "Show HN: A version control system based on rsync"

passthejoe — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 15:25:39 +0000

I'm a big Unison fan, but it can be finicky. You need the same version of Unison on both sides of the sync, and that's sometimes hard to do.

However, it solves the problem of when there are changes on both sides and you want to reconcile them.

New comment by passthejoe in "'Nobody Wants to Work Anymore' Meme Cites Real Newspaper Articles"

passthejoe — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 18:29:01 +0000

GOML

New comment by passthejoe in "Kite is saying farewell and open-sourcing its code"

passthejoe — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 16:29:36 +0000

Smart.

New comment by passthejoe in "Programming Languages, Part A"

passthejoe — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 14:50:43 +0000

A very interesting approach, language-wise:

This course is an introduction to the basic concepts of programming languages, with a strong emphasis on functional programming. The course uses the languages ML, Racket, and Ruby as vehicles for teaching the concepts, but the real intent is to teach enough about how any language “fits together” to make you more effective programming in any language -- and in learning new ones.