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by throw0101a 9d ago
> I don't mean a literal trim command to the block device, but hints that get passed to the RAID layer to mark how blocks should be spread among the backing devices. At this point in software/file system history, having some
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by throw0101a 9d ago
> The high inflation since Covid and $40 trillion in debt didn’t happen under one party Between his first term and his second term to date (2+ more years to go), Trump is responsible for more that one quarter (29%) of US debt (USD 11.6
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by throw0101a 10d ago
> There's also the issue that the names they're actually disproportionally told and taught about are people who "innovated". Who pushed a marginally new style. Is Palladio not taught? Christopher Alexander (of A Pa
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by throw0101a 10d ago
> […] but I also want to explore what adding trim-style feedback to a generic RAID layer may look like […] TRIM commands sent to the block layer would probably help with SSD/NVMe wear leveling, as well as thin-provisioning in virt
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by throw0101a 10d ago
>> Plus, plenty of negative predictions turned out to be entirely true. And then it took a lot of time and effort to counteract them. > Such as? The ozone layer, Y2K. More recently, climate change (which humanity as a whole is
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by throw0101a 10d ago
> If any past apocalyptic prediction had been true, you would not have been around to write this sentence and we would not have been around to read it. It’s not a very convincing argument when we cannot in principle observe the counterf
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by throw0101a 10d ago
Specifically "fletcher4": * https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/man/master/7/zfsprops... * https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Basic%20Concepts/Data... * https
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by throw0101a 11d ago
From NYC*BUG† May 2023, "GEFS, A Good Enough File System" By Ori Bernstein: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juFndFy72gI September 2026 EuroBSDCon presentation from Sunday: * https://www.youtube.com&#x
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by throw0101a 11d ago
> It's got CoW, snapshots, and data checksums. Therefore, it's good enough to compete with ZFS while being way smaller and permissively licensed. Does it have a built-in RAID layer? Because if it doesn't, then it can&#x2
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by throw0101a 11d ago
Perhaps also worth noting that while the US generally uses 277/480V for distribution (before stepping down to 120/240-208), Canada (also) uses 347/600V in many places: more power for the same copper cable thickness (or less c
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by throw0101a 11d ago
He created a 'periodic table' for plugs himself, though there's also a handy chart/illustration at: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEMA_connector#Nomenclature
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Every US Electrical Outlet Explained(practical.engineering)
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by throw0101a 11d ago
> Democracy is when the government does what I want! One can (should?) tolerate a lot in an open, democratic society, but not (necessarily) everything: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance Then the
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by throw0101a 11d ago
If they want the default to be non-GPLv3 Rust-based that's fine, but some of us don't care ( and want the same behaviour everywhere, like on RH-based systems we may also have) and they should leave the GNU as an option. Poten
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by throw0101a 11d ago
> For now you can list dependent packages manually in apt-get install: https://packages.ubuntu.com/resolute/build-essential I'm don't quite understand what this means: you can say that you want GNU coreu
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by throw0101a 11d ago
> But I don't think it will affect many users, I mean who has a 32000 -evels deep directory on their system? When the GNU coreutils version doesn't have this bug and thus affects zero users, why should I bother with the Rust
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by throw0101a 11d ago
> Had you ever been to a college and used wikipedia link as a source reference when writing a paper you would've known. Some of us went to school before Wikipedia was invented. And even if Wikipedia itself cannot be used as a so
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by throw0101a 11d ago
If those people did not have integrity they could have enriched themselves as much as Trump et al are doing while in office.
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by throw0101a 11d ago
> Examples where former presidents firing people for lack of loyalty, here is a list of them * Nixon is not an example that helps your case * Truman fired MacArther for insubordination (and nearing starting WW3): generals do not get to
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by throw0101a 12d ago
> One has to be a zealot to believe that there is a God who wants humanity to follow certain mandates and rituals. Why does one 'have to be a zealot' to believe this?
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by throw0101a 12d ago
> Language. Technology is generally considered to be something that is invented: there's a debate in whether language is invented/created or whether it is innate to humans (you wouldn't say sight or hearing are technolog
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by throw0101a 12d ago
Another quotation I ran across semi-recently: > Reputation is a technology. We solve a lot of problems in the economy by turning one-shot games, in which people literally take the money and run, and turn them into repeated games, in whi
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by throw0101a 12d ago
> There are certain bodies of human knowledge and practice which aren't usually referred to as "technologies", and I think that leads us to underestimate their complexity and importance. “Technology is the active human i
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by throw0101a 12d ago
> But isn't that the case? No. Has any other president fired the the FBI directory because he wouldn't swear personal loyalty to him (like Trump did Comey)? Did any other president try to do a (self) coup? * https:/&#x2
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by throw0101a 12d ago
> Who was the last president with integrity? Integrity not to burn down the system and/or enrich themselves? All of them: Biden, Obama, Bush43, Clinton, Bush41, etc (maybe Nixon the least). If Hillary Clinton or Harris would wer
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by throw0101a 12d ago
JPEG XL on the web does not arrive there ex nihilo : there is a production pipeline that creates and puts files on web servers and points to those files in HTML tags. That production pipeline may also be used to generate images for things
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by throw0101a 12d ago
> I think the need for lossless images within a web page is extremely niche. Sure, but if companies are going to put in the effort to support a format, you might as well work towards supporting the 'full capabilities' of it,
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by throw0101a 12d ago
> HEIF isn't an Apple owned format […] I'm also thinking the OP meant HEIC, but I know that it is not proprietary (though as noted patented), and wanted to make sure, as a lot of people of all sorts of assumptions/miscon
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by throw0101a 12d ago
In a similar vein, Spack and Easybuild are similar (more recent) build systems which are often used in the HPC space. * https://spack.io * https://easybuild.io
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by throw0101a 12d ago
> You can't let one Fruit Company's format be the thing either, so it's basically a L for engineering but a W for pleasing everyone TBF. What exactly is "Fruit Company's format"?

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