@scottalanmiller said in What I found while looking for people who agree with me:

@tonyshowoff said in What I found while looking for people who agree with me:

How is it helpful to create this reverse standard so that now any historical measurement or older way of measuring is automatically wrong? That's moronic even if you think the system should be divisible by 1000, changing one which exists serves to do nothing but to cause problems.

Yes... we had only one standard before and everyone knew what it meant. We were all taught and trained and it was obvious. Suddenly there is all this confusion for no reason. We've just made ourselves dumber.

It's like changing foot is, say it's now 10 inches and an inch is now 10cm, and saying that traditional 12 inches is now "pedifoot" and 1 traditional inch (as in 2.54cm) is "unciainch", those being the Latin words for "foot" and "divisible by 12" respectively.

Damn, I may be on to something. Watch out you Americans and English.

Edit: and a mile is 1000 feet, which actually make since because it comes from milia meaning 1000, not 5,280 feet. So, maybe rename the old one to quinquemilamile? Perhaps mebimile?

@xrobau said in Revisiting ZFS and FreeNAS in 2019:

"What?" I hear you say, "why would I want to compress and decompress my data, surely that will add an immense CPU load to my NAS!"

Holy shit dude, you're talking like Devil Bill pushing a nerve tonic at a carnival at the end of the 19th century. Do you have a top hat and magic wand too? You ignore why these things are myths and reiterate them as though they were actually true or truer (in the sense that something else also doesn't do the same). Plus you're just condescending as hell and doing so many cringy, classic bad debate tactics with people who know how to check facts, or, you know, read shit you intentionally misquote.

It's bafflingly insane taking things are said to be myths and then saying they're not myths by reiterating the myth itself.

As a major early user of ZFS, not because I believed zpool to be some fault tolerant pixie dust bullshit, but because btrfs was behind and we kept running out of inodes rather than disk space, mostly due to image storage (I ran the 4th most popular porn site on the Internet, but at one time it was 2nd).

ZFS is cool, but you have to watch it like a hawk, and that's something people like you like to essentially act like isn't the case. Since ZFS isn't like a good hardware RAID, all of your reads go right into system memory, so if you ever have any bad RAM all the magic of ZFS won't make a damn bit of difference, it will write that stuff straight to disk without any checks or just fault and degrade it's own metadata no matter how big zpool is. Snapshots! Well too bad those are broken too. Ask me how I know...

What also really sucks is you can't add disks to VDEV, but lower than that, for example with RAID 6, you can add disks and expand the RAID without destroying all your data or having to create a virtual array or something. This and the concept of resilvering drives to expand storage space is both time consuming and fraught with potential danger of fucking it all up like February.

For a filesystem which people want to claim is a good replacement for RAID (typically by acting like things it does, RAID can't do, when often RAID actually does them) that is a real pain in the ass, especially for my situation. If you have expanding data, can't get rid of it, it really sucks to have to go through hoops to expand rather than just adding another disk.

I've been dealing with it for years in a real world environment, and I'm also not IT, I'm a developer, so I don't care about the "come one, come all, take a gander at the fantastic, frip-frappity-doo-da" shit show about why since Jesus Christ and Muhammad the best thing is... ZFS. It's great, but it's not that great.

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller Have you seen it in the tv series?

I just don't get the logic applied.

If IT people were stuck in a zombie wasteland, we would immediately end it with logic. I swear Michonne was an IT person before this all went belly up.

Most IT people I've known would be dead, rarely ever do they think with logic. It's the only outcome of a thought process such as "I changed my grandma's video card, therefore I'm a computer expert now because she says I am." In other words, people who think they're smart, rarely ever are and will be the first to die because they think their decisions are informed and infallible. I can tell you having lived through an actual war myself, "smart" people tend to be those who move around a lot, know how to hide well, and don't take sides. I imagine a zombie situation wouldn't be that much different. Additionally because I did take sides in said war and had close calls, I can assure you I am not smart.

Additionally still being smart has no bearing on one's ability to properly dispose of human waste or find good drinking water. I learned how to do that in the military, I sure as hell didn't learn it in any of my Computer Science courses whilst I was studying for something completely unrelated I couldn't find a job in. On that thought, side note, most of the people on that Preppers show would die too, they're all really, really stupid, and the fact they'd go on the show is the #1 reason.

I think there's mixing of terms and protocols here. SPDY or HTTP/2 is faster period, whether or not there's SSL, however SSL combined with SPDY or HTTP/2 is faster than standard HTTP for modern web 2.0 web sites, but your standard HTML page with basic info will always be faster without SSL, and so long as there are no other connections to be made, there wouldn't be a difference between HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2.

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

The real thing here: Unless you have actually used survival skills in a real setting (reading about them doesn't count 99% of the time) the chances of you actually being able to survive a stressful situation are pretty slim. Book smarts will not do you a whole lot of good in bad situations where you have to react quickly.

Yup, pretty much the military will be who survive. Only people trained AND experienced in anything even remotely similar. A few others will survive, but the first hours will wipe out essentially everyone. No matter how many great ideas you have, those first hours will kill you almost certainly so no amount of "you know what would work well" will help.

I was in the military. All of your meals are provided. It's not like they really teach your survival in the traditional sense. My AIT wasnt mountain man

I imagine it also depends on which military, I came from a newly formed country which was extremely poor, but the Americans did drop some MREs from time to time. That's how I discovered the other love of my life, Tabasco sauce.

@RamblingBiped Unless it's me or two other people posting, you'll generally get bad programming advice on Spiceworks. It may just descend into people telling you to get some weird certification nobody cares about or for you to focus only on VB.NET since that's what they've done for 12 years.

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Many dead as lorry hits crowd in Nice
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36800730

Yeah that's pretty crazy. Two of my sisters are vacationing in a town about 10km or so from Nice, and so I tried to call them to make sure everything was fine. I couldn't get in touch with them at all. I didn't think they had gone over the Nice for the evening or anything, but after about three hours I finally got a hold of a neighbour I can't believe I still had the number for (they're in my house), he went over there and they were actually having a sort of pool-side party and their phones were inside.

Sigh

I haven't been able to sleep at all since, and that was hours ago. I'm thankful they're fine, but then you realise that a lot of people aren't going to call their families back. Truly horrific.

@RamblingBiped Frameworks aren't really fun projects, they're something you make in order to solve an issue with another project you're working on. Even Rails was invented so that 37signals could better make their stuff, not for the purpose of simply making Rails.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

My car isn't working.

Have you tried starting it?

No, it's off for a reason, I don't want to drive it.

Um... what?

About 10 years ago we had a customer who said his computer wasn't turning on and he didn't have internet access. Well, it was a bad power supply, easy fix. After it turned on I asked "so, what was your Internet issue?" and he said "Well, it'll go on the Internet now that it's turning on."

What? Really? Seriously? That's like saying your tires are flat because your transmission is shot.

@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Kissinger and Nixon were often found together as well.

That's a different story, though, they worked together, the other is just a coincidence.

Hitler was only in Vienna until May and he left, he didn't know any of the other people listed at all. Stalin left in January and visited Lenin in modern Poland and again didn't anyone on the list, except Trotsky. Tito was not in Vienna in 1913 aside from his required military training, then he was stationed in what is now Croatia, and yet again did not know any of the other people. Trotsky lived in Vienna at the time, but from September 1912 until almost the end of 1913 he was in what is today Bulgaria.

Vienna was a very open city which attracted all sorts of people, so it's like being surprised that Oswald Mosley, Alan Turing, Winston Churchill, and George VI were all in London in 1913.

I currently have 1,057... 1,058 as of typing this, and now +2 more as I am still typing, messages notifying me of new posts to the Q&A forum. This reminds me of a while ago when they repeatedly had a problem with similar Korean spamming. Clearly there needs to be some sort of CAPTCHA counter measures or something.

I don't mean to put down SW developers or staff at all (I respect them, seriously), but even my insanely popular porn site (more popular than SW) gets almost no spam at all, simply by having very basic checks on sign up, and also login. CAPTCHA (only on sign up or sign in throttling) and DNSBL/RBL (for everything) go a hell of a long way. We also make sure when people start posting for the first time, they have limits on the amount they can post... this on top of tracking the IP addresses across multiple accounts. Sounds like a lot, but the initial implementation took less than a day and it's served us well.

Now I'm up to 1,064.

I'd post this on SW, but I'm not sure anyone would see it for now. I don't understand why policies weren't changed with the whole Korean spamming thing a long time ago. This shouldn't be possible on a site so popular.

1,067.

I'm a veteran, but not of an American war, however Americans did help in our war to our benefit, so thank you American veterans!

I was going to get a torrent of Because of Winn Dixie for my daughter because she just finished the book, but Demonoid and TPB are down so I went back to working on my new, non-porn start up, that just makes it sound cooler than "web site."

@scottalanmiller said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@rojoloco said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

About to start some venison cube steaks in the crock pot. Onions and mushrooms, garlic, thyme, beef stock. Will finish with a little sour cream and serve over noodles.

Venison stroganoff?

After learning English, for years I honestly thought it was called "strokingoff" and thought it was just a poor choice in name. It seems so obvious now that it's clearly from "stroganov" but the pronunciation in English was just different enough where I didn't even catch it and I might have had I ever ate it, but because of the name, I never ordered it from anywhere or anything.

Everytime I see @scottalanmiller's face it surprises me. I know I've scrolled down too far though.

@JaredBusch If I've learned anything from cartoons, you should be able to roll it up like a newspaper, or fold it into a small square and place it in your pocket, only to have it fully expand and make your pants huge.

@DustinB3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

I believe the one on the left, but the one on the right, well, since it's America I imagine he has a fully loaded, huge Ford F-150 that he drives to and from his house in the suburbs through the rugged hills and terrain that a truck like that is for: the Henry Hudson Parkway. Sure, it's a 45 minute drive at 4am so he can beat grid lock, but hey man, he's a man, he's an American. He likes his job at ConEd though, until they destroy his 401k which won't matter anyway he cashed it out to redo the deck. Gotta keep it up though, his wife has a massive SUV "for the room" but the only have one kid and they never buy groceries, just take out every night. And they bought some crappy McMansion out in Westchester.

Sometimes, while at the top of that pole he solemnly looks into the distance realises that his coworkers don't have cars, sure they pay high rent in the city, but they just take public transport, and overall it'd be cheaper than gas, insurance, all of that because he needs full coverage you know.

Damn, he should have stayed in Bayside.

(This isn't meant to be some angsty post about American life, I'm just screwing around trying to capture the mirror image of the one on the left as far as reality of some people goes.)

@JaredBusch said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@tonyshowoff said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@JaredBusch said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@tonyshowoff Thanks. You just saved me a ton of money on more bleach.

I can post another picture of me at the water park if you want.

Jared, come on man, don't be a tease.

btw, you can blame @BRRABill for that

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Kids should be in politics more.

Doesn't sound much worse than the ideas adults tend to come up with, except unlike adult ideas they probably might actually work and aren't done out of spite and intentionally trying to be contrarian.

This is actually accurate for me