That is a box full of plastic. Some of it spilled.

That is definitely a pile of dirt. Sweet.

Good. Pay me. More. DR engineer!

Mmm. Ok.
Well, I’ve rarely heard a better use case for AI than to confound AI surveillance.
It could keep an eye on your current count and contribute extra ‘work’ if you are lagging.

3-2-1
Its really common for companies to not have an offsite backup. My own employer only offsites the customer data, not our core biz stuff. And I setup the offsite replication. It did not exist until I built it. (Proxmox Backup Server is tha best!)

I wouldn’t mind seeing lines of comments and external documentation as metrics. Perhaps as a ratio to functions or sections. I know, requiring it would just lead to crappy documentation, but that’s typically better than none at all, and there’s a lot of folks out there just too busy with their brilliance to write up what they just coded.

Good luck. Parts of it read like the Bible. A good deal is really, really dry.
On the other hand, you can open it anywhere and start reading. There’s no real start or end. It’s just too big and complex to be viewed sequentially.

Would they even be able to tell if you just submitted every prompt twice, and thus doubled your usage?

Ya, this is new in that it burns money much more quickly, but its very not new in that its one more way your boss crawls up your ass.
So you waste your time and burn their money.

I think the thing from a decade ago was about them emitting chemical messages through transpiration. Nova did a piece where transpiration and the fungal network in the soil were reconsidered as a whole communication system. I recall it was popularized using the same “scream” terminology in pop-sci rags.

Unfortunately, Mark passed away. One of the best. Ever. I saw him in Olympia a year or so before he died. Great show, but the man was nearly blind and looked pretty exhausted at the end. He hung out in the lobby signing stuff, must have talked to a hundred fans.

Maybe you should go find out? Bars are where the real people are.

Truth. Really. Don’t eat garbage.

Those were a couple really good vids. I’ve never been a storage specialist, but I do manage all the storage for a small MSP, so I’m not ignorant. Like, I know ZFS pretty darn well, and I apparently collect storage servers for fun.
That Wendell guy tho, he really knows his shit.
I don’t know that I got any final answers from him, but it left me with a lot to consider.

Honestly, a good chunk of what he had to say had me questioning my build with my Highpoint SSD7540 PCIe 4.0 x16 / 8x M.2 Ports NVMe card … on a completely different machine, a build I was quite satisfied with until now. (It’s on my gamer/server, my main box.)

I put a lot of research and performance testing into the Highpoint build. It’s an 8x card supporting Gen 4 NVMe in an (actually) 16 lane slot. I populated 4 bays. Each stick gets 4 lanes, which is great for Gen 4. (I figured some day in the future when NVMe gen4 is dirt cheap, I’ll fill the rest, and each stick will just get 2 lanes.) After some testing, I decided to use the hardware RAID controller on the card. Considering what old Wendell had to say, I suspect that perhaps it should be software raid instead … still, that would mean relying on Windows to run the raid, and I don’t trust Windows. And then there’s the fact that after reviewing all the spec sheets, I’ve realized there’s a lot I don’t know about the card. But the Highpoint smokes, and I mostly just store video games there. So maybe bit-rot isn’t a big deal anyway.

All very interesting stuff. Thanks.

Nah, I live alone. Just me, two cats, and my robots. I can turn everything off if I want.
I pulled the rails off today, packed those up. You know, so I don’t slice my leg open walking by them.
I’ll plug one in this week and get started with it.

Ya, the youtube comments are a bunch of old men like me expressing shock that the kids are still rockin. This is an outstanding song. People will cover this. Their other work is equally well produced.

"The Dollheads are a Las Vegas based punk band made up of Angela (Guitar/Vocals), Samantha (Bass/Backing Vocals) and Austin (Drums). Their debut album “What Teenage Angst?” was released in September 2022 and their follow up EP “Et Cetera” was released on May 6, 2023.

Their new LP “Adol-essence” came out on August 22nd on Fat Mike’s new label, Bottles to the Ground. (www.dollheadsmusic.com)"

Yes. They are siblings.

Ok cool. Ya we closed our office, and I work from home now, so my only bench is my livingroom table. It’s gonna be an interesting moment when I power the first one up, but I’m glad to hear they will probably run.

We run 120v in our colos. Standard plugs. I haven’t plugged it in yet, but I don’t think the cable or voltage will be an issue.

The drives … well I’ve got at least 50 drives here. (There were a few spares too.)
They are all WD Reds 4tb and above. Great for this application, but my homelab servers both have several TB of unused redundant storage, including SSD on each.
So I don’t need em, but that many drives … hell, if I sold just the drives as refurb on ebay, I think I could make like $2k.

I do anticipate selling the two devices with the drives as a complete kit.
I hope I can sell them locally (Portland OR). These beasts would be a b!tch to ship.

Kick ass. Thanks.

Fukin garbage. Everything they make is poison.
It would be great news if people were eating less of this crap.
But no. They are eating no-name crap instead.
Still poisonous trash.