Wait till you hear about zfs anyraid. An upcoming feature to make zfs more flexible with mixed sized drives.

Not sure where you’re from, but it’s pretty common here in Australia. I think there are a few things to addresses.

There are two mechanisms a company might make you take leave.

1. A company shut down period. Eg company is closed over Christmas to new years and requires employees to take a week of leave then.

2. Over a threshold of leave. Leave won’t evaporate at the end of a calendar year, it builds each day and can only be used or paid out. Companies will often have a threshold, for example 8 weeks of leave before they may require you to create a plan to use it, or pay it out. The reason an employer does this is staff leave is a liability on the books. Eg If you make $100k, 8 weeks leave is approprimately a $16k liability for the employer.

Many phones support it. My old mid range Samsung galaxy phone from 2020 had it, as does my Pixel 9a.

Inconsistent within the same airport.

One time the line split into two, with announcers for each line shouting different instructions. One had you take all electronics out of bags, the other didn’t. One lines instructions included taking your shoes off, the other didn’t. The line without shoes off instruction had agents insulting people for taking their shoes off for not listening to instructions. 10M away there is an agent shouting at people to take your shoes off.

And won the GOAT (greatest of all time) tournament against James Holzhauer and Brad Rutter.

Wow that’s crazy we had such different experiences. I think mine locked up once in 5 years.

If Samsung came out tomorrow and said “we’re bringing it back into support for the next 2 years” I’d probably go back to it and put my pixel in a drawer.

I used the A71 early 2020 till about a month or two ago, and it was a fantastic phone. Only reason I moved was it’s out of support, so no more security updates.

The battery was still rated at >90%. And I’d believe it, I never had to worry about it lasting a whole day. My only complaint about the phone was even during its support period the security patches were infrequent.

I contemplated Samsung again but chose a Pixel 9a due to the monthly security updates for 7 years. And in doing so I’ve given up dual sim, headphone jack and sd card slot (but few phones have all those features now).

I’m curious what made your experience with the A71 so terrible?

I don’t have asthma, but can find what’s normal in Australia. On a pharmacy website

Zempreon 100mcg CFC-Free Asthma Inhaler with Dose Counter 200 Doses - Salbutamol (S3)

One of those inhalers is $9 AUD, or about $6 USD

FYI there’s a New York to Toronto train as a partnersg between Amtrak and VIA Rail Canada.

I’m curious what car charges at 1.3MW. Most I’ve heard of is closer to a quarter of that, and that’s only for 20-80% before it drops back significantly because it generates significantly more heat gain the upper 20-30%

Pictures of me as a kid I look a lot like my Mum, you would have clocked us as siblings if given pictures of us at the same age without context.

Then testosterone kicked in.

If you’re in Google Cloud, you should have data backed up in something other than Google cloud, this is no different to having all your data in a basement which could be hit by natural disasters, randomware etc.

Hopefully the Unisuper example provides a good enough example for IT professionals to argue for funding for external backups and that the cloud isn’t a reason to not have them.

I have the same problem with shirts. If it fits across my chest it’s too short, if it fits length wise it is baggy across chest and stomach.

Recently I found a brand that offers a extra long sizes. Eg if the sizes are Small, medium and large they offer small+, medium+, large+. The only difference is the cut is 5 cm longer.

And other Chinese brands!. The MG4 is super popular in Australia too. Can get it for about $38k AUD ($25k USD).

Even if Tesla wasn’t tarnished by association with Musk, they have absolutely nothing at the budget end of the market. ie for buyers that traditionally bought corollas, little Mazdas and Hyundai’s.

And BYD has the whole range, if I want a luxury sedan the BYD Seal goes toe to toe with the model 3.

I think China is going to eat everyone’s lunch here in the same way Japan did in the 70s/80s, and Korea went in even cheaper in the 90s and 00s (how many Hyundai Excels/Accents were there in Australia in late 90s early 00s).

The PS5 SKUs with a disk drive are staying the same.

What SKU still has a disk drive? I thought both the slim and pro were optical disk-less?

Chinese brands are dominating the Australian EV market. BYD has a multiple compelling options, MG with their MG4.

If my car was written off tomorrow I’d be test driving a BYD.

I’m not even aware of any American EV here despite a recently strong presence in the yank tank market (eg Ford ranger).

I always thought you at it like an Apple like then Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott did not just once, but two occasions. One example

And this man is the pinnacle of manliness

One of the biggest bottlenecks in many workloads is latency. Cache miss and the CPU stalls waiting for main memory. Flash storage, even on an nvme bus is two orders of magnitude slower than ram.

For example L3 cache takes approximately 10-20 nano seconds, ram takes closer to 100 nano seconds, nvme flash is more than 10,000 nano seconds (>10 microseconds).

Depending on your age you may remember the transition from hard drives to ssds. They could make a machine feel much snappier. Early PC ssds weren’t significantly faster throughput than hard drives (many now are even slower writing when they run out of SLC cache), what they were is significantly lower latency.

As an aside, Intel and Microns 3d xpoint was super interesting technically. It was capable of < 5000 nano seconds in early generation parts, meaning it sat in between DDR ram and flash.

Gigabytes plural? Maybe a while. Gigabyte singular? Already a thing. AMD EPYC 9684X(https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/server/epyc/4th-generation-9004-and-8004-series/amd-epyc-9684x.html)

I think “long covid” is something that has existed for a long time, well not long covid specifically but long term side effects of colds and flu.

A few years before covid I got a terrible cold or flu. Name a symptom of the flu and I probably had it, it was hard to even get myself to the toilet.

But what was so unique is even after the aches, the cough, and sore throat etc symptoms disappeared I didn’t recover. I was exhausted. Even weeks later I’d fluctuate between days of being fine to the next barely able to get out of bed.

It took at least 3 months after traditional flu symptoms had finished till that started to taper off. And at least another 3 before I started feeling truly myself again.