The addition of the scene with Jabba was because the original looked old?
The scene with Jabba was in the novelisation that George Lucas wrote in 1977. I was under the impression that it was filmed, but didn't make it into the original because they couldn't make it look anything other than terrible with the special effects at the time.
And the cylons with the red LED scanner, just like that Knight Rider car thing
At least this wasn't copied from someone else, as Glen A. Larson was the creator of both.
The reason that Apple disabled this is that a lot of SSDs have really buggy TRIM implementations. This observation wasn't unique to Apple: Microsoft and the Linux kernel defaulted to TRIM being off until quite recently. Apple could afford to turn it on for their own SSDs because they did extensive compatibility testing of those before shipping them.
Now, it doesn't really make sense, but enabling it automatically would likely burn some users, and bug reports about data loss lead to a lot more anger than bug reports about lower performance.
that might work in most places around the world where everyone lives on top of each other
Although the mean population density when you average across land mass is pretty low in the US, the modal and median population densities (averaged across people) are actually compared to most places in the western world. The problem is the batshit insane zoning policies of US cities that insist that people live on top of each other in one place and then work on top of each other somewhere far away, and shop on top of each other in a third place.
the entire build for amd64 and x86 has moved to the llvm compiler and clang
We flipped the default switch in 10.0, but 9.x shipped with a src.conf option to build with clang instead of gcc. We found quite a few LLVM bugs during this time and didn't flip the switch until we were confident that it would work.
Many FreeBSD devs run "current" on production servers at their own jobs.
A good example of this is Netflix. Because their infrastructure is designed to support server failures, they're quite happy to deploy random patches against -CURRENT on machines that saturate their network and disk bandwidth pretty much full time and report performance numbers. This has been a really good way of stress testing network and storage stack improvements recently.
The pf in FreeBSD is _seriously_ outdated
The pf in FreeBSD is not just a copy of the OpenBSD code that was then forgotten about. It has been worked on since it was imported, for example adding significantly better SMP scaling in the 10.0 release.
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