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Not only is the museum itself awesome (and free), they are also responsible for almost every US warplane on display around the world. You can download a spreadsheet from their website showing where planes are on "loan".


The is called privatizing profit and socializing risk. Current management philosophies are all about mining assets and when the mine is empty, move on. It used to be about growing assets.


another way to articulate that dichotomy is through the lens of industrial vs financial modes of capitalism.


For wood workers, Lost Art Press is great. They have some truly unique books in their collection.


Go forth at your peril, getting into Lost Art Press is a good way to double the cost of your woodworking hobby. Truly beautiful books!


What you say is true but it doesn't take into account end-users. I always do soft deletes because I have to support undeletes. Mistakes happen and I get rewind an audit log to fix things.


Cisco's OS is a fork of BSD.


Which one? They have dozens of “OSes” across their various products.

Cisco IOS is absolutely not based on BSD - it is a proprietary kernel, and such that it even has a “userland”, a proprietary userland.

IOS XE is based on Linux.

Most of the voice stuff is Linux.

Perhaps you are thinking of Juniper’s JunOS, which is based on FreeBSD?


ASyncOS is a fork of FreeBSD.

It is used in Cisco's email and web security appliance, which is also their hosted offering. This appliance was previously known as IronPort, before being acquired by Cisco.


I'm sure that's definitely what the parent commenter was thinking of.


I don't know. But if so, what?

Have you caught anyone deciding to go with Cisco instead of BSDs on their servers or their laptop?

I'm serious here: Open source isn't a zero sum game.

Partially thanks to the permissive license of BSD we now have both Mac OS and JunOS (edited: it said Cisco first), which is a good thing, not a bad thing.

The problem with Chrome isn't that it exist but that it has been forced upon us and the fact that we know they have used questionable methods to establish it as the dominant browser.


It would be useful to see memory utilization while performing the benchmarks. Historically GraalVM used ALOT of memory.


And a B-2 air frame.


How many programmers does it take to change a light bulb?

None. The light is working in here so it must be working there too.


How many programmers does it take to change a light bulb?

None. The light's on in here so it must be on there too.


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