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I ran a FreeNAS from 2014 until recently for my home network with zero issues. A few months ago I purchased a new system direct from IXsystems and installed the TrueNAS Scale beta. There were a few issues, none critical. It has been upgraded to the Scale GA and pretty much just works. I have better things to do then mess with / debug stuff. It just works.

This! 100%. Last startup when I was promoted to an e-staff level I said "here is what I need not to have to think about anything but making us a success."

I have a new startup, and I picked the lowest number that makes me not worry about the bills.

Not sure your point here. The submission title is based on the interest of someone that is well known for writing from a conservative point of view but changed his established view point based on other factors. It was not clear to me if most people would known who he was. The title was picked in order to provoke interest in a person that had a great deal of influence on a generation. The first comment proves that. The title 100% reflects the content of the story linked.

He was conservative old school style. The kind where you could disagree without abject hate. Not this Trump s@&$: show.

I read his books as a young adult and there was a ton that rang true...and also damn funny.

I am sorry, but are we so jaded that we really believe that the Illuminati are controlling things based on the will of the military industry? If this is really the state of mind of most people, I would like to nope the f&*% out of here now. How the heck did this make it up this high on the page!?

It has been my experience and my expectation that Sr. roles in engineering have a grasp of the business and the impact of what they deliver has on it. Jumping roles at a certain level at the likes of a FAANG 100% require that you have created / managed / delivered a project that had business impact.

A 409a should be a true measure of the value of a company, but in reality it is something that can be manipulated. There is a balance between valuation for the purposes of funding and raising your stock value so high that it can impact hiring as a function of perceived upside. Getting wrong on the high side can effect the next round, devalue shares issued existing staff causing a repricing or the need to issue more shares to existing staff to keep them around.

Impressive article, well done, especially given the writer not speaking Japanese. Google translate of older documents is not very good.

If you live anywhere in the Tokyo metro area owning a car is silly. I had a friend they paid near $800 a month to park because he liked to drive outside of Tokyo once a month. I looked at him and said "you can rent cars in Japan, correct?"

The 8-bit guy is building this:

https://www.commanderx16.com/forum/index.php?/home/

Which might fit what you are looking for.

I am sorry but there is little fact in this post. It starts with the religious crap about licensing, then inaccurate statements about symbols, statements about performance with zero proof, misunderstanding of layering, dumb statements about memory cache and how it works the ARC, some shock about dedup requiring lots of ram (duh)....etc. This is written as well I feel this way so here is my Cherry-picking set of items (without clear understanding) to backup my view.

Dave Plummer...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Plummer_(programmer)

...on this exact topic including a follow up where Bill answers his email about it.

Story:

https://youtu.be/HsNbH_ohKxA

Answer from Bill Gates on it:

https://youtu.be/VjPAfdkBprk

Stuff like this is why I love this site.

In our last remodel we put in a damn expensive Wolf range and a tankless water heater, both propane fueled. Both work great. That being said, all the press on NO2 have made us always turn on the vent when cooking, something we did not do before.

My previous dealing with induction was crap. Yes I understand the pan makeup part. That was years ago. The technology has progressed since then and next kit will be induction and electrical powered water heater, driven by a solar backed power wall type system.

I spent a week or two in Japan every month for 12 years. I have not been there for 2 years now and miss it terribly. It is such an amazingly unique place.

The sinking of a US fleet would result in the same public reaction as that Pearl Harbor. The US would not backdown and China knows that, which is why the current status will likely not change.

The ability of the US to pay for all of this is a function of our ability to be the strongest kid on the block both economically and military. Your supposed return value of money would go up in a puff of smoke if the US did what you suggested. The dollars place as a reserve currency is key and moving away from that as you suggest would leave zero for the programs you suggest as the economy would collapse. I am not making a judgement on the value of greater investment in social wellbeing, which I generally support, however I am pointing out that our ability to do this is strongly linked to our place in the world order and can’t be so simply disconnected. Your moral outrage, correct or not, does not change the economy reality.

Thanks for answering!

Here is the fun take -

https://youtu.be/RXJKdh1KZ0w

And the original -

https://youtu.be/Ac7G7xOG2Ag

Also curious as this was on Twitter the other day...how social mixed if this is the OPs reason for sharing.

This is very true. Cheap umbrellas are a community item. :)

This is Japan. If someone finds an item on the street it will be dropped off at the nearest Kōban box (small police station that are everywhere). I lost a pair of sunglasses once that were $$ that I cared about them. I had a rough idea of were I lost them. The next day I went to the local Kōban and sure enough they had them. Lots paperwork to get them back as it is Japan.

https://jref.com/articles/koban-japanese-police-boxes.199/

They have a driver.

Ack.

This is a bit tongue and cheek as sharing just that random bit of information on a true SCI program about the customer would cause “issues”. The customer is obviously DoD/DoE, however bug did not come from the SCI side. If Cray/HPE is the contractor to the customer in supporting this system and the software being used then it is their issue write the fix or pay for a bounty to fix it WITHOUT reveling the customer. Even as a joke as the customer I would be upset.

Any large tech vendor likely has some dealing with certain government agencies. It has been my experience that those customers are NEVER referred to by name in any communications by the vendor and always given generic names like “customer blue”. You may see a bug tagged as customer blue in your bug db, but you did not know what agency that mapped to.

The need to fax a form is just a giant “I am sorry, what?” The answer after a bit of back and forth and pushing (which to be fair is un-Japanese of me, even rude) is almost always 仕方がない which is a very fatalistic term meaning “it cannot be helped”. I thought it was cool to be a Gaijin have a Kanji version of my name (carefully argued over and by close friends to convey the right meaning) with the associated 判子 (hanko) stamp (a name stamp you can use for forms), but now I know better. Japan is so well organized. I love the rhythm of the subway, the perfection of the trains, the absolute cleanliness of it all; the flaw exposed by the ham fisted response to vaccination that done properly should have been sorted at every “konboni” (convenience store). Oh well. Still an amazing place full of wonderful people.

Ordering sampler, thank you.

I took my family on a trip around Japan. Kenrokuen was major highlight. We visited at the tail end of Sakura (cherry blossoms) season. It is a favorite memory for all to this day. Well worth the trip. Kanazawa is also known for the kani (crab) which is amazing.

So sample size of 1, but I have had the "Apple" LG 5K for 3 months now and it is great. I was able to drop the TB dock and wire my external USB-C HDs right to it. It is hooked to M1 Mac Mini running the latest MacOS. This monitor replaced the "Apple" LG 4K which I ran for ~2 years.

I have been there more then once. Most of the web outside of China is blocked. The government actively blocks VPNs and any long lived connections (more then a few minutes) that cannot be identified is dropped. Not sure why that is so hard to understand.

Physical. Look at what is behind the PHY.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SerDes https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XAUI

First 10G was 4x3.25G SerDes, so 4 traces to route on the board to the switch chip. There is some overhead in the signaling so you get 10G. If you plugged in a 1G, it just used one lane. Move to 40G, each lanes speed went up, 12G IIRC. At this point there was room for MAC/PHY so you go break each out to 4x10G. 256 traces to route to switch ASIC. Board routing is black magic. PHYless (no separate physical PHY chip required each set of 4 traces to be the same length down to the nm). Arista 7050 was first switch that shipped this. First 100G was 10 lanes, but lots of traces so smaller number of ports. Then they got the lanes up to 28G so you got 100G port for 4 lanes again, or 4x25G. So paired with MAC/PHY you could get 4x25G, 2x50, etc. and so on and so on as the speeds on the SerDes goes up. This is a simplified write up but mostly correct.

I have been using ls-go for awhile now.

https://github.com/acarl005/ls-go

alias ls='ls-go -alkSi'

My daughter is currently applying for collage. Harvard is on the list. Her GPA is a 3.9 (unweighted) with a ton of additional plus items (3 languages, 2 varsity sports, leadership roles, 12 years as a Girl Scout, etc.) She struggles with testing like the SAT scoring only 1350 (I scored higher back in the day, but we had a very different educational upbringing - mine was regimented, where I made a different choice in her upbringing with a focus on allowing her to explore). She is scary smart (not just a proud father talking, she really very impressive in how she thinks) and driven like I never was. She decided to not submit the SAT scores as all she sees is the numbers. I have done a bit of research on the admission at Harvard and it is clear that the interviews play a huge part. The interviewers look at are they a leader, can they add something to Harvard, and they even consider if they will make a good dorm roommate.

The internet hurts kids today as they can see the scores and the data without understanding it as they are still kids. It is discouraging as the raw data without digging does not show them that there are people with scores above the line that do not get admitted and those below the line that do. It is the whole package that really counts, and test scores are not a true measure.

Let see how this plays out.