Ed Maste

We won 🚲

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We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.

The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

They *should* be here: freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/jou...

Older issues have per-article PDFs but not the entire issue, a couple of 2015 issues are broken, and the issues from 2014 are missing. I'll check on it; let me know if there's something specific you're looking for.

There's a comment now cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?...

I'll try to look into the process fd limit.

Saw a comment about the somewhat odd `len = len * 4 / 3;` - the first call with len set to 0 returns no data but provides the required buffer size, and the 4/3 is intended to provide additional buffer space in case additional files were opened between the calls.

All processes -- kern.proc.filedesc.<pid>

That is awful, but also don't do it like that. The kern.proc.filedesc sysctl tree can be used to examine a process's fd table.You can take a look at the (C) implementation of kinfo_getfile(3) as a reference.

Incredible!

YouTube video by FIRST Ontario Qualification 10 - 2025 ONT District University of Waterloo Event

Here's a clip of some game play, ending with our robot climbing in the last few seconds of a match www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-on...

My son's on the team this year, and I'm a mentor.

Black and red robot with a square base, vertical and diagonal structures, with wheels, pulleys, wires, connectors and other parts visible. A cropped person behind the robot gives a sense of scale, about 75cm x 75cm x 1m tall.

Congrats FIRST Robotics Competition #FRC Team 2702 on placing 3rd at the Ontario District University of Waterloo event last weekend and clinching a spot at the provincial championship in April. High school students and adult mentors design and build a robot and compete in a new challenge every year.

It's small potatoes in the face of everything else, but I hope every convention that can be international goes to locales other than the U.S. for the foreseeable future. I hate that it's this way. But it's simply unsafe for travelers.

YouTube video by MyNBC5-WPTZ 'Canadians are canceling their vacations': Vermont inns share tariff concerns

This is exactly why Canadians are fed up with US media.

A segment on Canadians cancelling Vermont vacations. Mentions tariffs but not (1) who started the trade war or (2) that the US is constantly threatening to ANNEX our country!

This isn’t MAGA. It’s not FOX. It’s a random NBC affiliate.

America is over. There is no coming back from this.

If we're lucky maybe we claw back some small-l liberalism for our daily lives. But even that might be too much to hope for.

The rest of the world has to move on from us.

They now know that the American people can't be trusted.

They're right.

I'm surprised it's only landing in Linux now, kp@ added OpenVPN DCO to #FreeBSD at the beginning of 2022.

ISO images have been hybrid since 2018, so as of FreeBSD 12.

I'm very interested in hearing about cases (if any) where the memstick images work, but ISO images written to a USB stick do not.

Yep, it's a special kind of carelessness to pass an LRT and then make an illegal U-turn in front of it.

I'm not sure how you'd do a barrier that still allows left turns into / out of Central Fresh though.

Response to Bill 212: Why We Need to Rethink Bike Lanes and Embrace Multi-Modal Solutions In Ontario, we are facing an increasingly complex transportation challenge. 80-90% of personal trips in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) are made by single-occupant vehicles, and transport...

The Ontario Society of Professional Engineers comes out against the removal of cycling infrastructure. "Bill 212 disregards the safety of vulnerable road users, which is not only unacceptable; but dangerous" ospe.on.ca/advocacy/res...

👍 Dan and glad to find you over here!