To whatever extent the senate vote was pure idiocy, IMO it still doesn't quite topple the Indiana Pi bill.

That's a no op for me since I've always avoided using switch/case statements anyway. I always saw switch statements as an omission of poor design...

Please describe a construct that you can do in C that you can't do in python?

He could have simply made the book 260 pages instead of 240 and put in a 20 page chapter on ZFS right after RAID. The first couple of pages would be about the design philosophy of ZFS. Next introduce the concepts of vdevs, pools and pool types (in relation to what the reader just learned about RAID), sub file systems, snapshots and file system attributes. Next layout some scenarios using 8 disks in a JBOD. Create a raidZ, raidZ2 and a raid10. Next talk about tacking on another 8 disks and what the options would be for expanding a raidZ, raidZ2, raid10 set. Next talk about the pros and cons of read caches and ZIL's and ways to tune ZFS to be more performant. Lastly, talk about scrubbing and replacing failed devices.

I'll stand by my original argument... ZFS is essential to building scaleable networked storage devices with FreeBSD/Solaris and likely soon Linux. Yes, you could write the end all book on ZFS. Yes, someone like me would likely buy such a book. However, for your average sysadmin who knows nothing about ZFS this chapter plus google would give them a good starting foundation for building a storage device.

Naming a book "Storage Essentials" and then not talking about ZFS was a mistake. If you're going to be building any type of NAS, you're going to want to use ZFS for it's scalability, reliability and stability. While you might get away with UFS for a couple of terabytes, you're going to have a bad time of it when you've got 40TB worth of storage space to manage.

SpaceX has modeled the hell out of it. It's just really really hard. Honestly, I'd rather they fail in spectacular fashion and explore all the dark corners of their design before they stick people on the top of it. What's great about this is it's all gravy at this point. Once they work all the kinks out, it's going to eviscerate the competition when it comes to cost to orbit per ton. I can only imagine every other commercial launch company must look at SpaceX with a mix of horror and amazement.

Exactly. If the police get to unilaterally characterize what happened up to the point of tasing, what the hell does it matter that we've got footage of the hapless subject on the ground convulsing? How about if we throw the police in jail and start recording the court proceedings as soon as the iron door has slammed shut on them as they start their sentence, sounds like about the same thing.

Yeah, because in the 60's we were building reusable rockets that were autonomously landing on robotic ships in the ocean... oh wait.

Every magazine and newspaper in France should publish the offending cartoons on their front pages. Show these assholes that they wouldn't silenced with violence.

Like that one time a guy peed on his girlfriend's pregnancy test, got a positive result and posted a picture on Reddit.

Someone pointed out it was a sign of testicular cancer and saved the dude's life.

Genghis Khan really, really didn't want anyone to know where he was buried. The soldiers escorting his body to its final resting place killed everyone they passed, killed the people who built the tomb, and then were killed themselves.

First guy: Hey dude, do you know how to find Genghis K's tomb?

Second guy: Yeah, just follow the trail of blood and dead bodies.

Agreed. I think the couple of days is due to orbital mechanics more than anything else. It could also be that because this resupply is so critical they're going to do some additional testing.

From what I know about SpaceX their testing regime is pretty insane already.

I've read both the offending article and the response from Krauss and frankly Krauss is right on the money. The article is so painfully full of woo and so devoid of fact I can only come to the conclusion that the editors at the WSJ are a bunch of biased religious pandering idiots. What's even more enjoyable is how the refused to print his rebuttal because in doing so it would have show how painfully shotty their editorial process is.

Dr. Krauss has done us a service by clearly demonstrating the WSJ is good for nothing more than lining the bottoms of bird cages where it can get treated with the respect it fully deserves.

Recreating my machine from install media isn't that gruesome either. However, I'd rather do it on my terms then have to suddenly deal with it. Murphy's law dictates it'll happen two days before a deadline or in the middle of something critical.

All the stuff I care about I make incremental offsite backups.

If you find yourself resorting to baking your motherboard in the oven to fix it, this is an act of desperation. Yeah the guy managed to get some more life out of the motherboard but this isn't a fix, this is a temporary hack.