jmort253

I've often thought the same thing about someone pushing this information out there simply to push the stock prices down. I'm wondering if it all will eventually blow over and if it's a good time to invest in AT&T and Verizon...

Cool! I was in the process of reading the JavaScript version. Converting the book to various languages will help spread the concepts in this book to a larger audience.

I didn't know about the opium. He mentioned not getting addicted to things in the book. I bet he was talking about all of the things he had done wrong in his life. Do what I say not what I do.

When I read Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, the book was written in second person point of view (using you/your vs I/my or they/theirs).

It sounded like the former emperor was talking directly to me, but later I found he was writing to himself. He never intended for his works to be published.

With that in mind, it may be possible the blogger, Aaron Francis, in this case is also speaking to himself.

I think the best way to find a project is to scratch your own itch. What kinds of problems do you face that an existing tool could solve, if it just had that one feature? That is how I ended up contributing to maintaining Seleniarm for RaspberryPi and ARM machines.

Also, don't worry about asking questions. Most maintainers are more than happy to help new contributors. Many projects need all the help they can get.

> You can do that in Linux...

I think I _may_ have done that before. What I thought was interesting is FreeBSD just did that without any extra steps. When I "apt-get install" a desktop environment in Ubuntu or Debian and reboot, the desktop environment loads by default. In FreeBSD, I guess there's some startup scripts I would need to edit to start X and the desktop manager...

Exactly. I was on an M1 Mac, so trying to emulate x86/64 would have been painfully, unusably slow.

For simple console stuff on the terminal, it's ok. But when the GUI is involved, or anything with a lot of computation, having to translate all of the instructions from native ARM64 back to x86/64 and back takes a ton of resources and time.

On that note, maybe I should try the other BSD flavors then.

I tried FreeBSD on ARM64. I couldn't get the browsers, like Firefox or Epiphany, to load without crashing. I'm not sure if it was something I was doing wrong or if the ARM ecosystem just isn't well supported yet. I was also running in a VM with QEMU.

On the surface, FreeBSD sounds cool. I liked that I could boot directly to a console and then run the GUI only if I wanted to. Everything felt more modular. It reminded me of the days before Windows 95 when I could just use DOS to save precious memory and CPU bandwidth.

Only I'm not sure I'd be able to use it as a daily driver. I felt like I'd be spending my time administering the machine and nothing else. Maybe it was just because it was running in a VM. Maybe it was because it's ARM. Not sure. I'd love to hear others experiences with FreeBSD on ARM.

I like the example using well-named local variables to put together the regular expression into something really readable. It reminds me of the chapters in Uncle Bob's Clean Code book on naming using functions and local variables.

When reading the code, unless you're specifically debugging the regular expression, you don't really need to get into the details of validating what the regular expression is doing.

Glad to see the MagSafe back and the SD card slot. Reminds me of the 2015 Macbook Pro before they started pulling all of the ports.