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Comment Is there any real uses for it? (Score 2) 107

Outside pfsense type use, is there any real reason to use BSD instead of Linux? Mostly companies just want something that runs their webservers or dockers whatnot. BSD doesn't make it that much better and has worse hardware support. Even more so with AI workloads.
The only real benefit I see is lack of Systemd, that is a great win for sysops.

Comment Re:By the way (Score 1) 107

You can also take GPL code, modify it, sell it to customers and keep the code yourself. Done that for 25 years now with great success. Most companies don't want me to give them the source to prevent it ever getting to their competitors. And their employees don't have rights to request for the source as the license allows the company/organisation to act as the entitity for them.

Comment Re:C Was Made to Make Linux (Score 2) 137

I don't think there is much danger of that happening. Most likely almost all Rust code will be limited to drivers, and there will always be C drivers too. So anyone wanting to implement a new driver can pick C or Rust based on their preferences. And for fixing bugs, most of them are simple enough that any competent programmer can fix them in both languages.

Comment Re:If you spend too much time in random... (Score 1) 86

Well application code can fetch extra entropy from many external sources if it doesn't trust the OS or HW.
And the randomness will quickly diverge in cloned system, and again, if you feel that is an issue for your app, include external sources of entropy and also perhaps mix things like MAC address into the pool so when the VM is cloned, the MAC must change (if it doesn't, then the clone is technically invalid to interact with the external network).

Comment Sounds like correlation and not causation (Score 4, Insightful) 79

Or perhaps people who are capable of doing 22 mins of exercise are in better health than people who cannot.
It seems to be a meta-analysis, so can't tell if they had randomized trials of people who did 22mins and reduced that to under 22 mins and another group that extended theirs to over 22 mins.

Comment Re:Aspartame (Score 4, Informative) 71

It isn't that simple. It all depends how sweeteners are used. Studies have shown that people often order bigger meals and then take diet coke to "offset" the calories and that doesn't work. But if someone (like me) is drinking 1.5+ liters of sugar coke per day and switches to diet coke, you do lose weight. I only changed that in my diet/life and lost 20kg.

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