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by ak217 5y ago
That's exactly it. I've used btrfs in production since Ubuntu 10.04, at scale since 12.04, and had nothing but great experiences with it - especially with the seed volume functionality, which allowed me to build the foundation for
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by ak217 5y ago
xfs dynamically allocates inode storage space. A very typical failure scenario of ext4 is to run out of inode quota while there are plenty of free blocks available. This scenario is not possible with xfs. This alone makes it more dependable
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by ak217 5y ago
Modern SSDs, and especially NVMe drives, have extensive logic for reordering both reads and writes, which is part of why they perform best at high queue depths. So it's not just possible but expected that the drive will be reordering t
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by ak217 5y ago
Mermaid is fantastic. Aside from mermaid, I've recently been introduced to nomnoml ( https://nomnoml.com/ ) and it is fantastic as well. My wish is for Mermaid and nomnoml to become universally supported among Markdown w
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by ak217 5y ago
But Trader Joe's uses a very different strategy compared to ALDI. It caters to an audience that demands a much more upmarket experience, and puts a lot more effort into team culture, store decor/experience, and sourcing quality wh
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by ak217 5y ago
They are being pursued, just not given the same resources as the emergency effort to get the original vaccines approved: - https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.24.477597v1 - https://www.scien
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by ak217 5y ago
It depends on the location. There are plenty of city intersections where 4-way stops are completely appropriate, and a roundabout would be impossible because it would have a much bigger footprint (and would block trucks and emergency vehicl
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by ak217 5y ago
We have a heavily trafficked roundabout in our neighborhood and it's a big hazard to pedestrians because drivers take it way too fast and fail to yield to pedestrians in the crosswalks around it. Aside from that, the roundabout is grea
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by ak217 5y ago
At least as long as their main competitor, which currently has a phone that has been supported for 6.5 and will probably remain supported up until 8 years from its release date (iPhone 6S).
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by ak217 5y ago
Thanks for the clarification. Let's fix it in PyYAML then :) Speaking of PyYAML, I recently ran into an issue where I had to heavily patch PyYAML to prevent its parse result from being susceptible to entity expansion attacks. It would
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by ak217 5y ago
Thanks, I'm finally able to reproduce this. It would be great if instead of the histrionic message on CPAN (which amusingly accuses others of "mass hysteria"), the author would just say "YAML documents can't start w
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by ak217 5y ago
I wasn't able to reproduce any of the issues listed on that page. Does anyone have an example?
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by ak217 5y ago
This parses fine as YAML in all the tools I've tried. Can you provide the specific versions of the libraries you're using?
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by ak217 5y ago
That's a terrible excuse. MySQL should have fixed this in a major release. I had to work with a production system that had all kinds of issues because of this bug (engineers assumed, with good reason, that UTF-8 meant UTF-8, when it di
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by ak217 5y ago
JWST, like many other spacecraft, has reaction wheels to orient itself. The reason Kepler ran out of fuel when it did was that it was expending more maneuvering fuel for attitude control because two of its four reaction wheels failed. Hubbl
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by ak217 5y ago
It's absolutely true that bats have an exceptional immune and metabolic system, unique among mammals and dangerous to other mammals. The flipside is that bat biology also provides an enormous amount to learn about immune system modulat
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by ak217 5y ago
Enabling the high metabolic flux required to fly. As the only flying mammals, bats have the highest metabolism among mammals while also being more biologically compatible with us compared to e.g. birds.
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by ak217 5y ago
This line of thinking is how we end up with nonsensical UX like having to select "America/Los Angeles" to get US Pacific time. There are many use cases for datetimes and timezones, not all of them need a location and in some
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by ak217 5y ago
> a lot of that went away in order to protect consumers As I and the parent poster were discussing, the consumers are not being protected. Every single player is just compartmentalizing the areas in which they cover their ass. As a custo
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by ak217 5y ago
The state of that industry is absolutely incredible to me. Throughout the whole home purchase process all I can see is people trying to cover their ass and do the absolute minimum amount of work possible. I understand that they want to avoi
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by ak217 5y ago
You can search "lastpass project zero" to see a pattern of specific examples of how LastPass does not seem to have a well-organized approach to security.
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by ak217 5y ago
It's both. GnuPG has very poor UX and it's also so old and so well-known that it kills a lot of the "unknown upstarts". I think on balance GnuPG reduces the security of network communications and the appeal of a web of t
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by ak217 5y ago
There is a difference between acknowledging privilege and feeling guilty. I got a fantastic education at two of the best public universities in the US, mostly funded by public money. Do I feel guilty about it? No. But I acknowledge that it
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by ak217 5y ago
I would urge you to reconsider the car thing. There's a difference between being able to fix your own car/house (which I also derive a great sense of satisfaction from) and routinely taking the risk of debilitating lifelong health
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by ak217 5y ago
I don't mean to downplay people's problems, but this very much depends on the car, your local climate, and your ability to spot problems before they become serious. Lots of Toyotas out there that you only need to budget oil and ti
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by ak217 5y ago
Back when BIOS chips were socketed, I once flashed the wrong BIOS onto my motherboard's chip, so it wouldn't boot. Luckily I also had an older motherboard with the same BIOS chip model. So I booted up the old one, pulled its chip
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by ak217 5y ago
The Wellcome Trust, HHMI, Allen Institutes (there are several aside from Allen AI), Gates Foundation, and CZI/Chan Zuckerberg Biohub are all important prior efforts in this space that each made significant innovations in funding and ev
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by ak217 5y ago
Not being able to open links is pretty high on the list of huge issues for a browser.
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by ak217 5y ago
There is nothing "correct", "intrinsic", or "functional" about aging. That's conflating evolution with lack thereof. We evolved to sustain a reproductive cycle and propagate ourselves. That evolutionary op
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by ak217 5y ago
Sorry, I don't think what you're saying makes sense. A key strength of AWS is that they don't use a "black box" approach when thinking about customer needs, and provide documentation and good defaults to help custom

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