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Trainguyrom

@ Trainguyrom @reddthat.com

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  • Seagate launches 30/32TB capacity Exos M mechanical HDD (30/32TB capacity)

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  • SSDs won’t hold data for much longer compared to HDDs

    Realistically this is not a good reason to select SSD over HDD. If your data is important it's being backed up (and if it's not backed up it's not important. Yada yada 3.2.1 backups and all. I'll happily give real backup advise if you need it)

    In my anecdotal experience across both my family's various computers and computers I've seen bite the dust at work, I've not observed any longevity difference between HDDs and SSDs (in fact I've only seen 2 fail and those were front desk PCs that were effectively always on 24/7 with heavy use during all lobby hours, and that was after multiple years of that usecase) and I've never observed bit rot in the real world on anything other than crappy flashdrives and SD cards (literally the lowest quality flash you can get)

    Honestly best way to look at it is to select based on your usecase. Always have your boot device be an SSD, and if you don't need more storage on that computer than you feel like buying an SSD to match, don't even worry about a HDD for that device. HDDs have one usecase only these days: bulk storage for comparatively low cost per GB

  • Seagate launches 30/32TB capacity Exos M mechanical HDD (30/32TB capacity)

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  • Seagate had some bad luck with their 3TB drives about 15 years ago now if memory serves me correctly.

    Since then Western Digital (the only other remaining HDD manufacturer) pulled some shenanigans with not correctly labeling different technologies in use on their NAS drives that directly impacted their practicality and performance in NAS applications (the performance issues were particularly agregious when used in a zfs pool)

    So basically pick your poison. Hard to predict which of the duopoly will do something unworthy of trusting your data upon, so uh..check your backups I guess?

  • Where did you learn that?

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  • Yup we teach our kids not to use "grownup words" and that they can use "grownup words" when they're grownups and can make the grownup decision of when and when not to swear. Because ultimately that both meets societies expectations related to swear words while fostering a healthy relationship with language.

  • what advice was great when you first heard it, but has aged like milk since then?

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  • the genetic adaptation is present in a minority of the population

    Yes a minority of the world population, but it is present in a majority of the American population (about 70%)

    How does the majority of humans manage to survive without drinking it in school?

    My point about the schools is that kids often have craptastic diets, be that due to poor parenting or just kids being picky eaters, and milk rounds out the diet and fills in the gaps since it's such a great source of nutrients

    Wake up, you’ve been had by a billions dollars multinational industry

    Bro I just think milk and dairy tastes good (plus it's full of good nutrients and pretty dang healthy) and you're being weird about pushing your personal preferences on others while making vague moral judgments.

  • what advice was great when you first heard it, but has aged like milk since then?

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  • The ability to digest animal milk is literally a genetic mutation that was useful enough to have spread to about 40% of the world's population. Milk is an amazing source of nutrients and before food was as secure as it is now it was a lifeline during long winters.

    You can talk as moral as you like about your personal preferences but the genetic record clearly indicates that our ancestors needed animal milk to survive. And in today's society with pasteurization making cow milk safe even in the midst of a H5N1 epidemic in cows it continues to be an amazing source of nutrients, giving a near complete baseline of nutrients for an individual's diet. There's a reason schools push kids to drink milk every day and it's not just the dairy lobby

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  • Oh yeah real talk they've got some killer datacenter chips, be that networking, CPU or GPU. They're continuing to work on bleeding edge technologies for hyperscalers, and they've got no shortage of insane potential. But when they release two generations of desktop processors with hardware bugs it really puts a heck of a stain on such a stellar portfolio and makes it a lot easier for enterprises to look at AMD for their datacenter and client processors (especially when they're absolutely killing it like they have been in both segments!)

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  • Ohh, all of our users are getting frequent BSODs? SMOKE BOMB!

    I read that in Krieger's voice

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  • …So whoever they hire as CEO now is probably there to just distribute golden parachutes and eat the company as it dies :/

    This is assuming there isn't some gold in the pipeline. Timeline on a new CPU design is about 8 years from first drawings to actual silicon hitting media test benches, meaning whatever was started in 2019 and 2020 could be absolutely killer and just cooking to perfection in the R&D oven...assuming R&D was kept sufficiently funded and the engineering talent retained to see such a process through

  • "I could really go for some authentic American food"

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  • You clearly haven't experienced the average person who thinks ketchup is a bit much and black pepper is too spicy

  • Ha ha I got seven hours of sleep and now I'm fucking dead tired for the rest of the day

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  • I've found my body is similar. Sweet spot for me seems to be about 7 hours consistently or a mix of 6s and 9s as they roll in.

    I've also learned that I can do 6 hours for about 3 nights in a row and no more than that.

    Whenever my kids let me sleep like a sane human I might become more consistent with my sleep

  • What's your "weird flex"?

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  • Yeah it was a pretty rough period of time and I absolutely felt the "work hard, play hard" pendulum swing where as hard as you work you have to relax equally hard, but I tripled my pre-college income in just 2 years (which isn't hard when I was only making $12/hr) so in the long run it worked out but I wouldn't recommend such a grind to others if they can help it

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  • We actually already have hearing protection headphones for the kids, but they're bulky and I usually don't want to risk them getting messed up in the bathroom on a trip

    We try to balance both giving her the tools to be successful but also not having her entirely rely on the hearing protection as a crutch

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  • My daughter is extremely noise sensitive and can't handle the noise of those either. After a really rough 2 hour drive involving 3 gas station stops because she refused to even try to use one due to the auto-flushing toilet my wife suggested "making an app to track public bathrooms with air dryers and autoflushing toilets" and I've been debating if I want to start tagging every public bathroom I visit on Open Street Map with the toilet flush mechanism and existence of air dryers. And if i did so I'd probably also mark what changing table amenities are available and if there's more/less changing table amenities in the womens' or mens' rooms.

  • What's your "weird flex"?

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  • A. I got to drive a train when I was 9 (a family friend charted a Chicago Elevated train for his graduation party and as the youngest person on the train one of the operators said "hey you wanna drive the train" and so I got to drive the train for a bit

    B. I went back to college a few years ago and managed to complete a 2 year degree with a 3.71 GPA while attending college full time, working 20+ hours per week at times as the sole breadwinner while my wife was pregnant with our second child and I had to commute about an hour each way to school and work. I literally started my second semester the day after we returned home from the hospital after his birth. Unlike driving a train I don't intend to recreate that experience ever again...

  • Intel Announces Retirement of CEO Pat Gelsinger

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  • They've been smart in continuing to invest in datacenter cards and investing in open compute tooling to support them. Nvidia is at the top of the world and has a long way to fall, so if they start restricting supply of datacenter GPUs or simply charging too much that leaves plenty of market for Intel and AMD both to feast on and build up healthy product stacks to eventually surpass Nvidia.

    On the flipside Nvidia is smart to be diversifying right now. Their forays into GPU servers with custom ARM CPUs might become fruitful in the long term, plus their networking investments really allow them to build a unique and compelling datacenter package

  • Intel Announces Retirement of CEO Pat Gelsinger

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  • VMware had some pretty cool stuff in the pipeline related to DPUs that would've been killer in hypervisor networking but I'm pretty sure that's out the window post-acquisition.

    Honestly with how good kvm and qemu have been getting and the number of competitors building hypervisor off of open source virtualization technologies it was probably a ticking time bomb before it fell to cheaper, freer competition. This way we have a bad guy to blame and not just pure corporate hubris

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  • Hey small world (wide web)!

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  • Entirely offtopic but you're not by chance the same ryannathans that's involved in the 2009scape project are you?

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  • My dad joined a local celiac group in the early 2000s not long after his sister developed celiac through pregnancy and his doctor suggested he start the diet out of an abundance of caution. At the time there were about 10 people in the group local to a city of ~250k. They'd swap menu hacks to get safe(ish) food while out and about and trade recipes. Then some specialty stores started carrying more safe stuff as the fad was starting to gain traction and it definitely went mainstream when mainstream groceries and restaurants started officially offering safe options. Needless to say, that gluten-free diet support group no longer exists.

    Most interestingly, his other sister tested negative on the celiac blood test and neither I nor my dad have ever had that test done, so there's a good chance we're in the clear after all.

    I can't remember now why I felt compelled to share this, or how it tied into your comment but I hope it's at least interesting!