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> Neglecting to do it or meaning to do it then getting pulled in to some meeting (or other important distraction) and then imagining you did it.

If your job is to make sure your file system and your database—SQLite, Pg, My/MariDB, etc—are tuned together, and you don't tune it, then you should be called into a meeting. Or at least the no-fault RCA should bring up remediation methods to make sure it's part of the SOP so that it won't happen again.

The alternative the GP suggests is using Btrfs, which I find even more irresponsible than your non-tuning situation. (Heck, if someone on my sysadmin team suggested we start using Btrfs for anything I would think they were going senile.)

> Defense is starting to get a blank check with fairly bipartisan support for the first time in at least 30-40 years and it's centered on semiconductor supply chains.

Really? Because:

> During Donald Trump's 2025 speech to a joint session of Congress, the president asked House Speaker Mike Johnson to “get rid” of the subject act.[190]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIPS_and_Science_Act#Subseque...

> ZFS isn’t viable for SQLite unless you turn off fsync’s in ZFS

Which you can do on a per dataset ('directory') basis very easily:

    zfs set sync=disabled mydata/mydb001

* https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/man/master/7/zfsprops...

Meanwhile all the rest of your pools / datasets can keep the default POSIX behaviour.

> SQLite on ZFS needs the Fsync behaviour to be off […]

    zfs set sync=disabled mydata/mydb001

* https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/man/master/7/zfsprops...

> Not sure why you'd need more than 10/8

Large organizations have moved to IPv6 because they, and everyone else, are using 10/8, and so when mergers and acquisitions happen trying to connect the networks together becomes a nightmare.

See this talk from Wells Fargo as an example:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzTWjNUb4H4

> Also talked about in Michael Lewis’s book Fifth Risk.

Highly recommend that book. Haven't gotten to his most recent Who Is Government?:

* https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/788713/who-is-govern...

But from the interviews it sounds interesting as well. Colbert interview from April 2025:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T30BF32qPgg

Yeah:

> "The Pentagon ... announced that we are eliminating woke climate change programs and initiatives inconsistent with our core warfighting mission," [Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell] said.

* https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/41...

See also "Pentagon Starts Purging Climate Change Measures":

* https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-pentagon-pu...

But from 2021 (during Biden), "Climate change is a risk to national security, the Pentagon says"

* https://www.npr.org/2021/10/26/1049222045/the-pentagon-says-...

> https://gizmodo.com/republicans-project-2025-would-end-free-...

John Oliver did an episode on this during Trump 1.0:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMGn9T37eR8

* https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11110660/

* s06e26: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Last_Week_Tonight_with...

* https://old.reddit.com/r/television/comments/dhmo0c/weather_...

> What red tape? Anyone can buy/rent a GPU(s) and train stuff.

Well previously the Chinese were not able to, but that was changed recently:

* https://www.wsj.com/tech/nvidia-wins-ok-to-resume-sales-of-a...

* https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/22/nvidia-chip-deal-us-chi...

"A policeman's job is only easy in a police state."

* Touch of Evil, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052311/quotes/?item=qt0321627

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_of_Evil

A lot of motion blur: have they tried adjusting the shutter speed…

> There are true facts, but a human observer can never be sure of them

See:

> Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that examines the nature, origin, and limits of knowledge. Also called "the theory of knowledge", it explores different types of knowledge, such as propositional knowledge about facts, practical knowledge in the form of skills, and knowledge by acquaintance as a familiarity through experience. Epistemologists study the concepts of belief, truth, and justification to understand the nature of knowledge. To discover how knowledge arises, they investigate sources of justification, such as perception, introspection, memory, reason, and testimony.

> The school of skepticism questions the human ability to attain knowledge, while fallibilism says that knowledge is never certain. Empiricists hold that all knowledge comes from sense experience, whereas rationalists believe that some knowledge does not depend on it. Coherentists argue that a belief is justified if it coheres with other beliefs. Foundationalists, by contrast, maintain that the justification of basic beliefs does not depend on other beliefs. Internalism and externalism debate whether justification is determined solely by mental states or also by external circumstances.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology

A philosophy joke:

> When I talk to Philosophers on zoom my screen background is an exact replica of my actual background just so I can trick them into having a justified true belief that is not actually knowledge.

* Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed, https://old.reddit.com/r/PhilosophyMemes/comments/gggqkv/get...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettier_problem

> Agreed, however, people with a good education _usually_ learn think intelligently about a variety of problems.

Depends on the problem you're trying to solve.

Perhaps it's "how can I get more for myself?" versus "how I improve the lives of humanity?".

> This administration has zero ability to build or bring people together […]

Someone observed a lot of stuff that Trump is doing is through Executive Orders because he really can't do deals. Of course when (some of) his desires overlap with (some of) others', we get:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Big_Beautiful_Bill_Act

which is mostly about implementing:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

> […] so there is plenty of time to chicken out.

TACO:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Always_Chickens_Out

* https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/02/dona...

(Being reliant on TACO may backfire at some point.)

So there exists a 'Excel World Championship':

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Modeling_World_Cup

* https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/2024-excel-world-champi...

Can't wait for this to start having 'e-sports' tournaments. :)

> Define disproportionately propagating far-right content.

How about:

> Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence firm xAI has deleted “inappropriate” posts on X after the company’s chatbot, Grok, began praising Adolf Hitler, referring to itself as MechaHitler and making antisemitic comments in response to user queries.

[…]

> “The white man stands for innovation, grit and not bending to PC nonsense,” Grok said in a subsequent post.

* https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/09/grok-ai-p...

Or:

> In a series of posts – often picking up language from users or responding to their goading – Grok repeatedly abused [Polish PM] Tusk as “a fucking traitor”, “a ginger whore” and said the former European Council president was “an opportunist who sells sovereignty for EU jobs”.

* https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/08/musks-gro...

Or last month's

> Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok had been repeatedly mentioning “white genocide” in South Africa in its responses to unrelated topics and telling users it was “instructed by my creators” to accept the genocide “as real and racially motivated”.

* https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/14/elon-musk...

> What constitutes illegal algorithm manipulation? What obligations to impartiality do digital space providers like Musk/X have?

From another comment that found the statute (in French):

* https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/id/LEGISCTA000006149839

Is this different than the investigation that was opened on July 11?

* https://www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/article/2025/07/11/france-p...

* https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/11/france-is-investigating-x-...

* FR: https://www.tribunal-de-paris.justice.fr/sites/default/files...

> […] or moronic cable thieves to access and damage infrastructure

Manufacturers should print on the sleeve "fibre optic only. no copper". :)

> [Buried pros:] Drunk drivers are no concern, and so are cable thieves or terrorists.

Except for that one old lady who took the country of Armenia off the air:

* https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/06/georgian-woman...

Eventual replacement:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Warning_System

An upgrade was recently announced with a collaboration with Australia:

* https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/canada-early-warning-de...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jindalee_Operational_Radar_Net...

> Hadn't thought of that, but it might not be a huge savings unless you were to go ipv6 only.

Even a small number of devices/services not supporting IPv6 can have huge costs:

> Our [American Indian] tribal network started out IPv6, but soon learned we had to somehow support IPv4 only traffic. It took almost 11 months in order to get a small amount of IPv4 addresses allocated for this use. In fact there were only enough addresses to cover maybe 1% of population. So we were forced to create a very expensive proxy/translation server in order to support this traffic.

> We learned a very expensive lesson. 71% of the IPv4 traffic we were supporting was from ROKU devices. 9% coming from DishNetwork & DirectTV satellite tuners, 11% from HomeSecurity cameras and systems, and remaining 9% we replaced extremely outdated Point of Sale(POS) equipment. So we cut ROKU some slack three years ago by spending a little over $300k just to support their devices.

* https://community.roku.com/t5/Features-settings-updates/It-s...

* Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35047624

Sadly the post is now behind a login: what happened later was Apple donate a bunch of Apple TV devices to the tribal ISP and that cut their IPv4 usage by an order of magnitude (or some ridiculous number) and there were major savings. The ISP then recommended AppleTV to all of their customers to get the best viewing experience (because of the latency/overhead of CG-NAT when streaming video).

So the more you move over the more headroom you have for the broken IPv4-only systems. AIUI, the rollout of MAP-T/E has helped in that things are more stateless, and more work is done at the CPE, but there's still overhead.

> IPv6 needs something more to motivate it, a web destination or application that is only available on IPv6.

How about not having to pay for (as) beefy CG-NAT hardware because people that go to Youtube, Netflix, MetaFace, TikTok, etc, can directly connect via IPv6.

A presentation from 2020 NLNOG by Jared Mauch who did something similar in Michigan community:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASXJgvy3mEg

2020 NANOG:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twe6uTwOyJo

> true but then it always goes back up 100%...

So far.

It took gold, another popular 'store of value' commodity, several decades to reach its previous peak originally reached in 1980 (blue line):

* https://graphics.thomsonreuters.com/11/07/CMD_GLDNFLT0711_VF...

There was ~20 years of it not doing much. Then ~10 years post-GFC of it not doing much. A lot of folks are looking at headlines and making long-term conclusions that certain things are inevitable:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recency_bias

> ...which is why its not gonna plunge anymore. too many people have "seen" the pattern now […]

And how many times has the 'stock market plunging pattern' have we seen? Does that prevent people from panicking? As someone who has been in /r/PersonalFinanceCanada for many years now, the panicked posts of March-April 2020 were very real.

There is an entire field of study examining how people act badly when it comes to money:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_economics

People still think they can pick winning stocks and beat the market consistently over the long-term:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Random_Walk_Down_Wall_Street

> And there is no other asset that does that with as little inflation and risk as Bitcoin.

LOL. Having 30% drops is not 'little risk':

* https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/19/bitcoin-btc-price-plunges-bu...

Or 50%:

* https://www.nbcnews.com/business/markets/bitcoin-whats-going...

I want a 'store of value' to be fairly predictable, and even with inflation (generally 0-4%) fiat currencies have that (I can plan around that by investing in bonds and equities, or even some bank savings products).

> And of course just a storage of value.

See also gold.

At some point it did make sense as a currency because of its hard-to-fake nature, but once governments became stronger and regulations and documentation became more strict, gold was not needed anymore. (And gold has all sorts of downsides [1] too.)

But there seems to be some 'nostalgic valuations' for it, and Bitcoin now has the same psychological appeal.

[1] https://archive.is/https://www.theatlantic.com/business/arch...

> […] install all the necessary ductwork in a giant, multi-chambered old building that wasn't built with AC in mind.

You do not need to run ducts, just piping for (say) mini-splits.

See also perhaps "Inside the World’s Biggest Nuclear Plant":

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM61idKNWtg

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Nuclear_Generating_Stati...