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Gene Wolfe. Somehow resolves or explains every seemingly random occurrence throughout the story, even if the first person narrator is extremely unreliable and doesn’t make the conn…

One of my favorite books, The Systems Bible would agree with your prediction.

I grew up there in near rain forest area (just slightly short of the technical rainfall requirement). There aren't really any poisonous snakes on the island, just one type that has…

what struck me about Hawaii on my last visits though is the juxtaposition against Puerto Rico (the lost opportunities). Very similar in a lot of ways- but hasn't nearly leveraged t…

many islands have similarly diverse environments packed closely together; doesn't make Puerto Rico any less beautiful though.

Thanks for the DD, I spent 30 secs scanning the article before thinking "this sounds like drivel, I'm going to check the comments"

I also like to point out in a few similar contexts: even if you could measure all the things, and you could create a perfect/optimal cost function, there would still be no guarante…

Reminds me a bit of one of my favorite books to chuckle over: systemantics

I am a researcher in academia that handles most of my system admin needs myself. It’s way cheaper to do yourself than some of these comments here make it sound (if you have good se…

It's a bit on a non-sequitur, but I am also looking at using MinIO as a S3 interface to a ZFS filesystem. Would be interested to hear from others about this use case for MinIO and …

I think deletes in ZFS are just slow, my guess is it is doing work to update/coalesce free segments lists so that future writes stay fast.

BeetleB is being disingenuous, the GOP fled and would not return until they were sure the bill died. There were other things that needed voting on- the climate bill was publicly dr…

My guess is that ZFS is already pretty slow at deletes, your pool was pretty close to capacity and fragmented.

This was the first book I read of his, and it blew me away. Gene Wolfe has been my favorite author ever since. His writing was at just the right level of sophistication where it wa…

My Mazda 6 manual has a very smooth and light clutch and “hill assist” where the car will brake for you on hills as you ease into gear. It’s an awesome combo and I get virtually no…

What amazed me the most from the first Snowden leak was that the NSA was vastly more effective and competent in their efforts than I had expected.

I've seen this nonsense spouted a few places now. Personally, I think there is a big difference between the two, one focused primarily on cheerleading to get out the vote, the othe…

Just last week Google maps directed we take a turn going down the wrong way of a one way street that was already clearly marked as one-way on the map- yeah, I'm not too worried abo…

Yes. I was going to add that the lines in the original image are more likely due to the discontinuity between the top, bottom, left, right edges. The other comment wasn’t mine, but…

The very strong 45º lines in the rotated image are probably mostly artifacts caused by the image edges seen in the rotated version. A rotation in real-space is equivalent to one in…

It also consumes lots of CPU to scan memory this way, so just be on the lookout for webpages consuming lots of unexpected CPU.

Are they running on bare metal? I'd say don't patch and only run pg and redis on the machine. They should still be secure, no?

I wrote up this analogy, but basically it only checks after it has done the work of verifying a conditional, and the result of that conditional is to cache something you have can c…

Yes it does because javascript execution has had to become very fast. Fast means you can run a very tight loop that updates a counter to create a fairly high-resolution clock.

yeah, I don't think it is a perfect analogy for Meltdown, I'll try one, someone correct me if I'm misunderstanding Meltdown. Let's say you want to know if your boss is away on vaca…