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Comment Synology NAS vs Homebrew Linux Fileserver (Score 1) 359

by rlp (#61239292) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Is a Software RAID Better Than a Hardware RAID?

I've been using various homebrew Linux fileservers at home for over a decade. Recently I was looking to upgrade from an old fileserver using Ubuntu + multiple 2TB drives configured for RAID-5. I decided to go with a Synology NAS DS218 and (2) 8TB drives.

I'm never going back to homebrew. The Synology pretty much works out of the box with fairly minimal system administration. It comes with free add-ons for serving up video, transcoding, photo management and a whole lot more.

Comment Confidence from investors (Score 4, Insightful) 79

"This funding is a strong sign of confidence from investors"

As in - the billionaire owners of the hedge funds express their thanks to Robinhood execs for assuring that the average investor continues to lose and learn "their place".

Robinhood might want to rebrand as "Dennis Moore" (ancient Monty Python reference).

Comment My Problem with BitCoin (Score 1) 67

by rlp (#60793596) Attached to: On December 31, 2021, the price of Bitcoin will be:

If you want a commodity to speculate on (such as tulips), BitCoin is perfect for that. On the other hand with it's price bouncing all over the place - it's less than ideal for use in commerce. It would be far better to back a cryptocurrency with gold (as first suggested by Neal Stephenson) or perhaps a basket of currencies to give it price stability.

Comment No need for workstations (Score 1) 122

by rlp (#60679800) Attached to: The Untimely Demise Of Workstations

Back in the day I used Sun workstations. Compared to my desktop workstation, my home PC was an under-powered toy.

Today I you can use a laptop that is many orders of magnitudes more powerful than my old Sun workstation. For enterprise computing tasks you can access servers including configurable on-demand cloud-based servers. There is no need for desktop workstations.

Submission + - SPAM: Why False Positives Matter, Too

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schwit1 writes: “Although false positives may seem relatively harmless in comparison with their false-negative cousins, ‘people can absolutely get hurt,’ said Dr. Benjamin Mazer, a pathologist and diagnostics expert at Johns Hopkins University. . . . In places where the virus is relatively scarce, false positives may even outnumber actual positives — eroding trust in tests and, under some circumstances, prompting outbreaks of their own. A positive result on a coronavirus test sets off a cascade of consequences. According to guidelines published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, people who test positive should immediately isolate for at least 10 days after their symptoms start (if they experience symptoms at all). That is 10 days spent away from friends and family, and 10 days of potential productivity in a school or workplace lost. . . . False positives can also be disastrous from a treatment standpoint, said Linoj Samuel, a clinical microbiologist at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit. People with the flu or Covid-19, for example, often show similar symptoms, but may only be tested for one of them at a time. If a patient is given an incorrect diagnosis of Covid-19, that person could be deprived of treatment that could alleviate their illness, or be given a costly therapy that does little to speed their recovery.”

“As testing in the United States continues to increase, experts have expressed concerns that frequent and high-profile diagnostic errors could seed disillusionment among the general public.”
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