We measured the same thing: a hardware raid controller performed better software raided, and the vendor would tell us "were were measuring wrong, here is a super synthetic benchmark that is faster".

My best guess is that the hardware raid inevitably collapsed all the disks into a single IO queue, so workloads with independent IO could be more independently scheduled and serviced in software raid. Alternatively, the software stack has more visibility to the topology and can default to better aligned data layout without the user having to manually tune.

I wondered if, theoretically, the hardware raid could have done better abstracting it to an nvme target. Ultimately though, just not worth the hassle.

Projecting an exponential curve out 60 years IS a calculation. It's just not a correct interpretation of the data.

Turns out people self-regulate their birth rate better than he thought. South Korea and Japan are experiencing a different problem: too low a birth rate. And China is now realizing their One Child policy was a mistake, as they trained their people to NOT have kids.

So some physicist that evidently doesn't understand a high school level logistic curve predicted the end of the world due to population growth.

Either it was stupid or it was satire, and sadly I can't really guess which is more likely.

I try to compensate for my built-in biases, but I have to admit that sometimes I undercompensate, and sometimes I overcompensate. It really is a difficult balancing act. The first step is understanding that we're all basically the same, with the same wants and the same imperfections.

Same thing I do, check out Google News the next day to see who won. My beach house doesn't get any broadcast TV reception or cable, so I literally can only watch content delivered over the internet. The only content I actually pay for is Google Plus, so I can't watch the Emmys regardless, and I could care less. I'm sure the good jokes will all be on YouTube.

If you're not planning on having sex with it, then it shouldn't matter!

Wait... are you planning on having sex with it?!?

Female porn stars get paid ten times as much as male porns stars! That's so unfair! I feel so discriminated against!

Have been a C programmer for 40 years, I am 100% in favor of rewriting all of Linux in Rust. Just sayin'. Once you get over the very frustrating learning curve, you realize it's the best language available for most problem sets.

Are the JPEG XL encoding and decoding algorithms encumbered by any patents, or can anyone use them for free?

According ot George Carlin, God put us here on this Earth because it lacked plastic. We have risen to the task and created massive amounts of plastic! Praise be!

The fact is, we are all wired to judge people by their appearance, and certainly race and gender do play into that implicit bias. What saddens me most is that even black people judge other black people as being more of a threat.

Hey! Don't call my sexbot a "clanker"! She hates it when you do that!

So they're violating Apple's MagSafe patent?

Does it have a Thunderbolt 5 port?

American exam or 100 year old German exam?