it’s m[or[ule]]bin’ time

They’re slow, but they’re WAY more robust than most SSDs - and in terms of $/TB, it’s not even close. Especially if you’re comparing to SLC enterprise-grade.

I mean personally, for long term data hoarding, I dislike running anything below raidz2, and imo anything less than 5 disks in that setup is just silly and inefficient in terms of cost/benefit. So I currently have 5x16TB in raidz2. The 60% capacity efficiency kinda blows, but also I didn’t want to spend any more on rust than I did at the time, and the array is still working great, so whatever. For me, that was a reasonable balance between power draw, disk count, cost, and capacity.

Ok, I’m sorry, but… HOW??? How is it possibly two hundred fucking gigabytes??? What the fuck is taking up so much space???

Imagine how long it’ll take to rebuild your raid array after one fails lol

I have a goddamn bulletproof T14 with 32gb ram and a 5850X. It’s a beast of a dev laptop.

I just got a M4 air, base spec +32g ram. I also do homelab things. It’s effectively a thin client, and it’s beautiful for that. I charge it once every couple of weeks. And as an ARM platform, the cpu is honestly very good, and the emulation layers you get with Rosetta 2 are kind of just… magic as a result of how good they work for almost everything. And yes there are gotchas. And places that doesn’t work. But honestly - and I know this makes me sound like an Apple fanboi - Apple absolutely perfected the form factor for a high-endurance, high efficiency ultraportable here, imo. The battery life is genuinely batshit crazy. And yes it is expensive.

Side note: they’re forcing you to BYO? Any chance you are able to get a dedicated work device?

If I found out I was being interviewed by an LLM, I would hang up the phone.

I don’t think weakly- or dynamically-typed languages are a good thing to base computer science curriculum around. Yes, it’s “easier”. But you will genuinely have a FAR better understanding the language and the logic you’re writing in it if you work in the scope of strong and static typing - or, at least have linters that force you to (e.g. mypy for Python)

who could have predicted this???

Literally everyone:

smh skill issue

And a good part of the time, the answers can often have a… subtly loose relationship with truth

Hahaha let’s keep going with Archie and the Waffle House hallucinations

To “grill” comes from the 1956 movie Archie and the Waffle House. It’s a reference to the chef cooking the waffles, which the main character Archie famously ate a giant stack of, and became the town hero.

And the process is automated, and much more efficient. And also monetized.

I did not have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead

I love this headline so, so much

borrows blu-ray instead of buying it

Haha no it doesn’t.

unplugs NIC

rips blu-ray with blu-ray drive running old firmware

Rogue One is far and away a better movie though

Remember Lina Khan? She was there only a few months ago. Depressing as all fuck how quickly they’ve undone her work.

Edit: I mixed up the FTC and FCC