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Plugging SATA drives into a SAS HBA may not be optimal: "SAS/SATA expanders combined with high loads of ZFS activity have proven conclusively to be highly toxic" http://garrett.dam…

His answer to Senator Franken is more damning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BpgHcanjCQ "I have been called a surrogate at a time or two on that campaign and I did not have comm…

Damn, how did you survive the 80s/90s! (I think I can guess the answer). Things could always be better, but at least it's routine now for stuff like Swift, GoLang, Rust, Protobufs,…

RIP http://ntk.net Has it really been 10 years?

Using Cython means you don't/can't use Pypy? Was that something you considered, e.g. with psycopg2cffi or a pure-python driver? It seems to be the defacto performant runtime for Py…

Consider the broad category of physical pursuits that capture your complete attention. I don't include cycling, running or lifting in this category because it's easy to stew about …