Worst is when someone fucked up the DB time configs at some point and you have datetimes in a column that fall during the “nonexistent” hour in which clocks skip ahead for DST, and you have to figure out what the fuck actually happened there, and where in the data pipeline tz data was either added or stripped (sometimes it’s both, and sometimes it’s not just once), and undo the timestamp fuckery.

Source: did that this week. Was not super awesome.

He really is quite globular

Is this where we’re supposed to post when we are installing arch Linux?

Ah yes, bane of the T-🦕

No he’s from Star Trek

They support NVMe and have a PCIE riser; if you get the little adapter from Lenovo’s proprietary slot to standard PCIE, you can run it as a nic, or get an HBA with external SFF-8008 ports and then find a cheap enclosure to use as a custom DAS solution.

I would recommend:

• go on eBay and find some sort of cheap Lenovo/dell/hp thin client for your secondary node. You can find workable 1L-class boxes for around $100. You can get away with some of the older m700/710/900/910 tiny models, but the extensibility of the m720/920 tiny models is going to be much better.
• for your primary, I think you’d probably be best off finding an old server tower with 8 3.5” bays - if you’re lucky and on-the-ball, you may be able to snipe something like this, but shipping is of course going to be a bitch. An alternative is to pick up another one of those thin clients (making sure it’s a model with USB3, but preferably 3.1 or 3.2 whatever the gen is (side note: fuck anyone involved with the USB versioning scheme, because it’s absolutely indecipherable) that can actually support meaningful data transfer, and then just find a cheap DAS and connect it to that node.

Some foundational questions:

• budget?
• rough desired capacity?
• desired level of resiliency?

For my next trick, I will be teaching crabs to read

Yes, and it is the correct number of zeros to use. I find it helps to put things into scope. “Trillion” is an abstract magnitude to most people. Writing it out numerically makes it clear how absolutely enormous the number is.

Hey remember that one time where the country’s credit rating got downgraded due to political idiocy?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Two things:

• if you owe the bank $34,000, it’s your problem; if you owe the bank $34,000,000,000,000, it’s the bank’s problem.
• its a big club, and you’re not in it.

I was in London years ago and completely by accident came across the world championship of speed walking. It looks amazingly silly in person.

Incidentally, Japanese “kanji” (漢字) were more or less outright stolen from China roughly 1500 years ago

It’s morbidly amusing that in a lot of ways, we’re kinda defeating ourselves with our own culture.

A more aggressively American pronunciation would be bore-ge-oh-is.

Tankies != Communists

Tankies == Authoritarian Communists and Stalin/Mao/etc apologists

They are very different, despite sharing a word.

The lemmy.ml instance has been problematic for a while largely because it’s rife with tankies, but it’s gotten a lot worse lately, and the mods and admins are going kinda crazy over there banning people and censoring stuff.

This is the fediverse working as intended. An instance gets shitty, and people migrate away from it to a better instance.

The moderation issue over there is problematic, but at the end of the day, if that’s how the .ml admins want to play it, it’s kinda their call. There’s no appeal process - they are the ultimate authority for that instance. And the user base can stay or migrate, depending on whether they want to put up with that bullshit. In a way, it’s actually kinda cool to see the theory of fediverse user migration patterns actually play out in response to real life context.

BOW BOW

^{chikka chikka}

Realizing that the first C&C game came out 29 years ago: