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This topic comes up often among teams with large systems. What are some good counterarguments?

Interactive Consistent HashRing Visualization

This is great! Another simulator that is interesting to explore M/M/1 queues is provided by Wolfram: https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/SimulatingTheMM1Queue/.

Thank you for the sharp eye!

The author does mention that the OS appears to be performing a sort of batching or aggregation of fsyncs after reviewing the test results and concludes that more than 1000 fsyncs are occurring per second. I’ve also confirmed this by running some benchmarking on EC2 instances with gp2 volumes: https://justincartwright.com/2025/03/13/iops-and-fsync.html

> You do have to conform to the communication norms of whatever group you're communicating with.

That's an excellent point. It does make sense to observe the way certain common forms of acknowledgement are being used within different context to understand the way that the group interprets them.

A thumbs-up can be used in a dismissive way at times. As one example, see the Giant Thumb Guy meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/giant-thumb-guy.

Do you have any type of text responses that you feel are ambiguous in terms of if there's any meaning behind them other than an ACK?