Hacker News: williesleg

New comment by williesleg in "A 10-second video clip sold for $6.6M"

williesleg — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 14:59:07 +0000

What a waste.

New comment by williesleg in "Journalism, particularly at the highest level, is about raw power"

williesleg — Sun, 14 Feb 2021 23:30:00 +0000

Journalism is dead. Learn to code.

New comment by williesleg in "OpenZFS Merged to FreeBSD"

williesleg — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 12:43:28 +0000

Zfs does not work well on sparse volumes, it loves new blocks. That's why you don't see it much in a VM or on storage that is sparse (go nimble, NetApp, etc)

Also it's pretty much impossible to grow a zfs pool and there are no consistency check tools or repair tools. So when you actually do get corruption, you lose it all.

Might have been a breakthrough around 2000 but it's time for something new.

New comment by williesleg in "Drug overdoses are soaring during the coronavirus pandemic"

williesleg — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 21:46:12 +0000

No kidding, just read all the shit in the news and here on what's supposed to be a tech news site, it's enough to make anybody do that.

New comment by williesleg in "WD Red DM-SMR Update: 3 Vendors Bail and WD Knew of ZFS Issues"

williesleg — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 19:10:12 +0000

So tired of seeing this. The problem is you don't want to do ANY striping on ANY SMR drives. It's not a ZFS problem. It's not a SMR problem. It's STRIPING on SMR. PERIOD.

Once upon a time people knew what they were talking about. Now everybody's an EXPERT NPC.

New comment by williesleg in "Carnival Executives Knew They Had a Virus Problem, but Kept the Party Going"

williesleg — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 13:00:26 +0000

So did china.

New comment by williesleg in "Candidate to Lead the W.H.O. Accused of Covering Up Epidemics (2017)"

williesleg — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 20:25:06 +0000

Why do we get links from hacker news to paywalls? Oh, right....

New comment by williesleg in "Early humans in Africa may have interbred with an extinct species: new research"

williesleg — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 18:28:05 +0000

I love hacker news! So much tech going on here!

New comment by williesleg in "Over 100 PBS local stations start streaming on YouTube TV"

williesleg — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 00:31:17 +0000

Pluto tv reminds me of those telemarketers that won't stop calling. Once I signed up I got endless spam and phishing attempts in my inbox making it almost unusable.

New comment by williesleg in "Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet"

williesleg — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 03:08:27 +0000

Just give me what I search for, no filters, no bullshit.

New comment by williesleg in "‘A Powerful Signal of Recessions’ Has Wall Street’s Attention"

williesleg — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 00:11:59 +0000

Not likely. All the new jobs and lower taxes will keep it boosted for a long time.

New comment by williesleg in "Intel Launches 4k-enabled Quad Core NUC"

williesleg — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 22:05:41 +0000

Yeah pretty slick, but the fans kick in when you're doing heavy workloads, I guess that's better than melting.

New comment by williesleg in "ZFS: Apple’s New Filesystem That Wasn’t"

williesleg — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 22:04:05 +0000

ZFS is fantastic until you try to grow a volume. Emphasis on fantastic.

New comment by williesleg in "Scientists discover the world contains dramatically more trees than was thought"

williesleg — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 11:31:56 +0000

Now that's an inconvenient truth!

New comment by williesleg in "The lottery is a tax, an inefficient, regressive, and exploitative tax"

williesleg — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 23:33:31 +0000

I thought lotteries were where money gets laundered legally.

New comment by williesleg in "The lottery is a tax, an inefficient, regressive, and exploitative tax"

williesleg — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 23:32:22 +0000

Absolutely. Fully agreed. And so are casinos. You notice they're built near high concentrations of poor people so they can get back all that welfare money rather than cutting it.

New comment by williesleg in "Stocks Off Sharply as Market Upheaval Grows"

williesleg — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 17:16:06 +0000

Usually happens before a big political shift. Buy the viix.

New comment by williesleg in "Windows 10 IoT Core for Raspberry Pi 2"

williesleg — Wed, 12 Aug 2015 00:30:39 +0000

Why would anyone want to put such closed-source bloatware licenceware with no future on anything?

It's a trap!

New comment by williesleg in "How much we still don’t know about Watergate and the Nixon Administration"

williesleg — Wed, 12 Aug 2015 00:28:23 +0000

Who cares?

Still don't know anything about Benghazi either.

Point is, you can find out a lot about a person by whether or not they are angered by Watergate or Benghazi. But in reality, it's the jobs, stupid. Taxes. The American Dream. Get over it.

New comment by williesleg in "The worst impacts of climate change are starting to happen faster than expected"

williesleg — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 23:40:18 +0000

That's wonderful!

Can't wait to get my beach front property once I finish shoveling all this snow.