Hacker News: ewwhite

New comment by ewwhite in "What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph"

ewwhite — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 15:54:00 +0000

Do you know if those contributors were able to get their accounts back? I was a heavy contributor in a couple of technological subs, and my account was shadowbanned and then removed with no recourse or way to regain access.

New comment by ewwhite in "Jane Street Designed Its New Data Center: A Tour with Dwarkesh Patel [video]"

ewwhite — Sun, 17 May 2026 12:29:35 +0000

That was entirely digestible and an interesting view.

New comment by ewwhite in "The Metaslab Corruption Bug in OpenZFS"

ewwhite — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 14:47:42 +0000

This was user error and a major misunderstanding and mischaracterization of an issue that caused a bit of unexpected panic.

New comment by ewwhite in "iTerm2 critical security release"

ewwhite — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 10:48:53 +0000

It's insane and horribly disrespectful. I don't understand the animus either. I just sent a $ donation to the maintainer.

The response to this bug is completely over the top. He found a security issue in an optional feature, immediately fixed it over the New Year holiday, and provided clear documentation about who was affected and how to address it. That's exactly how responsible disclosure should work.

The level of hostility - especially over adding optional features that people can simply choose not to use - suggests this is more about bandwagoning than legitimate criticism. We should be supporting developers who maintain critical open source infrastructure, not attacking them over a prompt response to a contained issue.

New comment by ewwhite in "Why and how we’re migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs"

ewwhite — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 13:32:34 +0000

ZFS on Linux is absolutely fine in high-performance and critical computing applications.

I also owned a Thumper and Thor running Solaris in 2009. Much prefer Linux and the hardware solutions today.

New comment by ewwhite in "TrueNAS Core versus TrueNAS Scale"

ewwhite — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 01:41:02 +0000

This is a bit ranty.

ZFS is maturing on Linux and the codebase and general focus is on Linux today. Hardware compatibility and mindshare are also big factors.

It seems like a subset of the TrueNAS community reveled in the fact that Core was FreeBSD-based. Maybe just a bit contrarian.

I've had meh experiences supporting, repairing and transitioning installations away from ixSystems. I wouldn't advocate their offerings in the first place, but it does seem like you have unrealistic expectations from ixSystems.

WishTender Payment Disruption as Stripe Axes Support over Adult-Creator Content

ewwhite — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 11:36:29 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/WishTender/status/1754936348841021664

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39287284

Points: 1

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New comment by ewwhite in "My 2023 all-flash ZFS NAS (Network Storage) build"

ewwhite — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 17:31:25 +0000

It depends on the use case. For high-speed microscopes, I may get a request that says, "we need to support 4.2 Gigabytes/second of continuous ingest for an 18-hour imaging run." - In those situations, it's best to test with realistic data.

For general video and media workloads, it may be something like, "we have to accommodate 40 editors working over 10GbE (2 x 100GbE at the server) and minimize contention while ingesting from these other sources".

I work with iozone to establish a baseline. I also have a "frametest" utility that helps when mimicking some of the video characteristics.

New comment by ewwhite in "My 2023 all-flash ZFS NAS (Network Storage) build"

ewwhite — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 17:10:21 +0000

There are definitely better ways to benchmark.

I design similar NVMe-based ZFS solutions for specialized media+entertainment and biosciences workloads and have put massive time into the platform and tuning needs.

Also think about who will be consuming data. I've employed the use of an RDMA-enabled SMB stack and client tuning to help get the best I/o characteristics out of the systems.

New comment by ewwhite in "The ten year anniversary of the Healthcare.gov rescue"

ewwhite — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 21:11:29 +0000

We had the CGI Massachusetts state exchange business, which led to [additional exchange work](https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2014/02/25/mana...) in the lead-up. There were many last- minute changes and very little load testing, but I was instrumental in getting core VMware infrastructure onto HPE equipment instead of Supermicro. The firm was a private cloud and infrastructure services group, [LogicWorks](https://www.logicworks.com).

New comment by ewwhite in "The ten year anniversary of the Healthcare.gov rescue"

ewwhite — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 20:11:38 +0000

I was there and lead Linux engineer with the hosting firm CGI outsourced this effort to...

New comment by ewwhite in "Zrepl – ZFS replication"

ewwhite — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 19:37:46 +0000

Syncoid is the way. Zrepl was more fraught in my use cases and significantly more complicated.

New comment by ewwhite in "Show HN: Netdata got new impressive dashboard"

ewwhite — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 10:12:01 +0000

Oh, that's a bit cluttered...

New comment by ewwhite in "I/O is no longer the bottleneck"

ewwhite — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 15:48:18 +0000

Yeah, that's a myth now. It's not current advice.

New comment by ewwhite in "TrueNAS"

ewwhite — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 01:37:06 +0000

What about it?

New comment by ewwhite in "DJ Turntables: Buying Guide by Vekked (2016)"

ewwhite — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 09:38:36 +0000

Basically. I'm holding onto my 1999 1200's forever.

New comment by ewwhite in "Why 23.976 and not 24 FPS? (2016)"

ewwhite — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 11:54:44 +0000

MELS?

New comment by ewwhite in "I Listened to 1000 B2B SaaS Sales Calls"

ewwhite — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 03:30:16 +0000

Truth. And they scared much of their customer base away.

New comment by ewwhite in "Shimano Forces Hammerhead to Remove All Di2 Related Functionality From Karoo"

ewwhite — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 07:29:30 +0000

Yep, I remember those days.

Linktree Is Kicking Many Sex Workers Off Its Site

ewwhite — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 20:07:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgmjpk/linktree-banned-removed-inappropriate-use-sex-work

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29939634

Points: 5

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