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Scrubbing the entire raid volume is significantly different from scrubbing every piece of data as it gets written/read. First, in between your monthly/weekly scrubs your disks/cont…

A corrupt file in ZFS indicates multiple broken disks. Copy the file in from a backup, use raidz3 and/or set copies=2 for critical zfs volumes. https://blogs.oracle.com/relling/ent…

This is one of the key strengths of ZFS. Your log file would be silently corrupted without checksumming.

Sure, it's not as free as platforms in niche markets. I don't have access to much of the equipment I own, but I don't care about a lot of that. My phone falls into that category. A…

For the first point, perfect is the enemy of done, and that's (to me) quite evident in the progression of iOS and Android over the years, those platforms having different threshold…

Couple of problems here. You forgot about battery life, which is the primary reason to lock a platform down. The supposedly empowering aspects of instability and insecurity make th…

Yeah, a stack machine. https://github.com/dsturnbull/stack_cpu What I mean by missing files is that it's so clean that at first glance it didn't look like the whole deal :)

Very concise implementation. I keep thinking there's missing files or at least I'm missing something in my understanding. :) I wrote a 0-operand VM in C a few years ago that used a…

Python and Ruby are just as bad as Perl for this. Python being the least fluent of the three for scripting. If you want a proper language to support your scripting goals, then if y…

ZFS is not limited to your concept of a file system either. Any change is represented by the addition of a series of one or more blocks, which can be seen as direct equivalents to …

One argument you might make is that the democracy peace theory is really just the Anglosphere. As Bismarck put it, "never underestimate the fact that Britain and America speak the …

I'm not quite up to speed on how bad the UK's and US's electoral systems were at the time, but a lot of the British Empire had universal suffrage, e.g. AU, NZ. Germany had tiered s…