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StrangeDoctor commented on The unlikely revival of nuclear batteries   spectrum.ieee.org/nuclear... · Posted by u/purpleko
zparky · 3 days ago
oh man i read that medical report [1] a while ago. nightmare fuel, with nightmare pictures included.

https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/Pub1660web-81...

StrangeDoctor · 3 days ago
There’s something especially bad about radiological burns. Not necessarily knowing severe damage is being done, we don’t have a feedback loop to even know we should get away. And beyond the metaphysical and psychological aspects for me, they just look wrong.
StrangeDoctor commented on The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through the Years   sigwait.org/~alex/blog/20... · Posted by u/henry_flower
wanderingstan · 3 days ago
Yes. Log scale seems like a poor choice, given that the point is to show the relative size disparity.
StrangeDoctor · 3 days ago
For a technical audience, it’s probably one of the better choices, it’s probably a poor one for mass consumption.

A purely linear graph would absolutely crush their pdf installer and the first 15 years of adobe into a flat line

StrangeDoctor commented on Starlink announced a $5/month plan that gives unlimited usage at 500kbits/s   twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack... · Posted by u/tosh
StrangeDoctor · 13 days ago
What exactly is the point of abusing the word “unlimited” here?

You’ll never be able to go over 168GB, let them call it the 169.69 plan

StrangeDoctor commented on Benchmark Framework Desktop Mainboard and 4-node cluster   github.com/geerlingguy/ol... · Posted by u/geerlingguy
kadoban · 21 days ago
Threadripper very rarely seems to make any sense. The only times it seems like you want it are for huge memory support/bandwidth and/or a huge number of pcie slots. But it's not cheap or supported enough compared to epyc to really make sense to me any time I've been specing out a system along those lines.
StrangeDoctor · 21 days ago
I bought a threadripper pro system out of desperation, trying to get secondhand PCIe 80G A100s to run locally. The huge rebar allocations confused/crashed every Intel/AMD system I had access to.

I think the Xeon systems should have worked and that it was actually a motherboard bios issue, but I had seen a photo of it running in a threadripper and prayed I wasn’t digging an even deeper hole.

StrangeDoctor commented on Do LLMs identify fonts?   maxhalford.github.io/blog... · Posted by u/alexmolas
squigs25 · 24 days ago
WTF is often wrong, and actually, I don't think your answer in the 2 year old thread is correct
StrangeDoctor · 24 days ago
I agree I feel like it’s just blatantly funneling me into those dubious buy this font sites. I have somewhat better success with http://www.identifont.com/ usually

I don’t think the proposed font is correct either, I’m not even sure the concept of font works for that example though. Mainly the arches on the m are wrong, too arch like and whereas the example is more teardrop.

StrangeDoctor commented on Migrating a ZFS Pool from RAIDZ1 to RAIDZ2   mtlynch.io/raidz1-to-raid... · Posted by u/mtlynch
commandersaki · a month ago
I think also that ZFS supports online rebuild. I remember in my data centre days that a few of the RAID5 products only did rebuilds offline. The HP/Compaq Smartarray stuff was the bees knees though; reliable stuff.
StrangeDoctor · a month ago
Almost all “normal” damage is and should be repaired online with zfs. Those offline repairs meant the hardware controller had no idea how to interact with filesystem directly, probably for the best. Level of abstraction purists don’t like this aspect of zfs.

If something particularly bad happened, or you tried being really “clever”, you can get into a rare situation of not being able to import the pool or have it import in read only mode. There are tools to help repair that kind of metadata damage. Then proceed with the normal online repair if needed.

StrangeDoctor commented on Migrating a ZFS Pool from RAIDZ1 to RAIDZ2   mtlynch.io/raidz1-to-raid... · Posted by u/mtlynch
commandersaki · a month ago
Hi can someone tell me the difference between RAIDZ1 and RAIDZ2 in a practical sense like you were on the field, rather than the theory.

I know RAIDZ1 is ZFS variant of RAID5 and RAIDZ2 is ZFS variant of RAID6; I will use all these terms interchangeably because I'm not too interested in the ZFS special sauce here.

In the early 2000s, a lot of people were pushing RAID5. Having worked in a hosting / colocation data centre for many years I had witnessed many RAID5 failures. What would happen is an array would degrade, and more often than not a secondary drive will fail due to undue load on the array as part of the degraded status. Also a lot of times failure would happen on the rebuild process because a lot of the HW implementations were flakey -- but again also the undue stress on all drives as you rebuild. This is why I would suggest a RAID10 setup at the time because of the double lucky failure, and more importantly because you can trivially use a software implementation which is much more safe. Also a lot of the motherboards at the time were offering RAID but this was really just a binary blob in the kernel doing software RAID with a facade of making it appear like hardware which fooled a lot of people.

Well we've finally done away with hardware / proprietary RAID and we have ZFS, mdadm, etc. I've normally dismissed RAID6/RAIDZ2 because of the parity/rebuild process and concerns of putting undue stress on the drive. But I think maybe this is premature and that I didn't really understand the consequences of a single drive failure versus a double drive failure. So this is kind of what I want to know:

1. When a single drive fails, is there any undue stress on the array, or because the array can pretty much operate unaffected, there's actually no performance degradation until you rebuild the missing drive, and in the case of software it's really just a negligible hit on the CPU if it has to do hashing/erasure coding/etc. I guess the rebuild process is really just the cost of a zfs scrub at this point but at least it is on a healthy array.

2. The good news of RAID6 over RAID10 is you can always survive two drive failure; but I think this is where things are concerning because the rebuild across two drives places a lot of undue stress on the remaining disks, and if any of those disks die then you're shit outta luck. This scenario is much more similar to a single drive failure in a RAID5 failure. But again, I think the rebuild cost is that of a zfs scrub but with the minimal set of disks. So RAIDZ2 would be a much more solid choice over RAID10 right; at least you will always know you can survive a two drive failure?

StrangeDoctor · a month ago
raidz doesn't work exactly like raid, but conceptually it's helpful to carry over that knowledge. the biggest difference is that all drives can potentially have parity blocks on them.

1. If a drive is missing, and it contained a data block you want to read, then you have to do parity calculations to recalculate that block. this means potentially all drives must use their read capacity for this calculation. I think this would be considered stress and max read throughput is significantly reduced. If your block size is very large, or your files much smaller you might get away with minimal performance hit but you're also wasting a lot of capacity/benefit of z2. (In certain pathological cases z2 can have the storage profile of a double mirror, but with all the complications of z2) The rebuild process will require a recalculation for every missing block type, basically every drive will need to perform a read for each restored block. Writing new data to a degraded z2 pool can force zfs to be quite wasteful. For example, a 5 disk z2 pool with 1 drive missing will mean a maximum of 2 data blocks with 2 parity blocks, instead of the expected 3 and 2. restoring that drive will not automatically restore that capacity unless the files are written again to the restored pool. The drives will be filled unevenly, this has performance and storage efficiency penalties.

2. If you replace both degraded drives at the same time, and you aren't using resilver_defered, it should only need to read all other drives once and write to both new disks. But you might not want this, depending on many complicated factors.

StrangeDoctor commented on AI coding tools can reduce productivity   secondthoughts.ai/p/ai-co... · Posted by u/gk1
AllegedAlec · 2 months ago
> the metric itself doesn't become a subject to optimization

By making the metrics part of a sustaintable company-wide goal. If there's a company-wide goal to increase X kind of revenue by Y% making actionable targets on how a team can contribute (not lazy shit like "our changes should contribute Z% of that Y%"), and within that create for a person another smaller metric based on that.

StrangeDoctor · 2 months ago
This would be difficult to apply to R&D orgs or anything seen as a typical cost center.

Also, medical facilities… you certainly could define it as profit, but that bothers me and many other people.

You could define it as patients seen, or “cured” but that incentivizes very quick but probably poor care.

You could define it as intensity of treatment or amount of care given, but you’d probably end up in a situation where 1 incredibly sick person has every doctor treating them.

You could define it as…

StrangeDoctor commented on China is increasingly a home to major brands   musgrave.substack.com/p/o... · Posted by u/anigbrowl
__rito__ · 2 months ago
I have always thought that this is largely due to the fact that Chinese people still cannot inherit their parents' wealth, and that is why Chinese middle class and upper-middle class people travel a lot more than their Western counterparts. Is it not the case?
StrangeDoctor · 2 months ago
I’m not sure what you mean, they have a 0% inheritance tax, and a fully codified succession framework mostly through civil laws.
StrangeDoctor commented on US Streetlights Are Turning Purple   scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
Zak · 2 months ago
There are 1800K white LEDs as well as phosphor-converted amber made to approximate the look of the classic amber low-pressure sodium.

1800K white can render colors surprisingly well depending on the phosphor mix. I recently put one with claimed (and measured) CRI over 90 into a flashlight and was surprised to see that it actually can render blues reasonably well.

I'm inclined to think those are better choices for street lights than anything daylight-ish, but I also think we should use far fewer street lights. Their presence often reduces the contrast car headlights provide, making it harder to spot hazards while driving.

StrangeDoctor · 2 months ago
Each CRI is referenced to an ideal black body radiator at the same temp below 5000k. And there are 7 (or 14) sample points.

I’m not disagreeing with you, I agree that a high cri 1800k would be a nice night light. I just recently deep dived into this last week when my kitchen lights all died last week

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