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> […] of weak, corrupt, divided and authoritarian alternatives.

Is the US included in the set of alternatives/possibilities with these attributes?

> And the government buying 150 F35's is just a slap in the face when there's a massive chunk of the population that is, very quickly, going to need extra care.

Japan is looking to increase defence spending to a whopping… 3.5% of GDP:

* https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/09/15/japan/japan-def...

Meanwhile social security spending is currently about a third of its budget (and debt servicing a quarter):

* https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h00895/

> There isn't a country as infamous as Japan for starting wars it cannot win.

Except against Taiwan, Korea, Russia (1905), Manchuria.

> What has China done new?

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

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

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Indian_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Indian_border_dispute

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_conflicts_(197...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Chinese_military_exercise...

* https://www.channelnewsasia.com/east-asia/philippines-south-...

> Maybe because of Japan's history of horrific war crimes and occupation in China?

I'm sure Uyghurs and Tibetans have an opinion on the pot calling the kettle black.

> See the comment of vocx2tx

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49750698

To:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44264958

* https://jasone.github.io/2025/06/12/jemalloc-postmortem/

Related, from three days ago, "Comparison of Malloc() Algorithms":

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49715318

> Running it for more than two years now, without any hassles. On single SSDs though. But still, waddya even talkin about?

Running ZFS since it was originally released on Solaris (June 2006) with zero problems (then FreeBSD, then Linux), including on RAID-5/6 (RAID-Z1/2) configurations, which btrfs still does not recommend using all these years later:

* https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/btrfs-man5.html#raid5...

What have the btrfs developer(s) been doing for the last decade(+) that the code is still of debatable dependability?

> I don't mean a literal trim command to the block device, but hints that get passed to the RAID layer to mark how blocks should be spread among the backing devices.

At this point in software/file system history, having some kind of TRIM functionality I think is pretty important: either built in, or a separate utility (like fstrim(8) for ext4, etc).

Are you planning to (eventually?) do a RAID (or at least mirror) layer, or will this strictly stick do file systems?

> The high inflation since Covid and $40 trillion in debt didn’t happen under one party

Between his first term and his second term to date (2+ more years to go), Trump is responsible for more that one quarter (29%) of US debt (USD 11.6T / 40T):

* https://time.com/article/2026/08/21/national-debt-trump-bide...

There was a bit of a mitigating circumstance of COVID (for Trump and Biden), which caused the debt to jump for many countries as well (and not just the US), but it's not like Trump et co are helping the math along with all the tax cuts and asking for a US$ >1T military budget.

But I would say a large reason why the US is in the fiscal position it is now in is because of Trump and a GOP Congress. (See also tax cuts under Bush 43 and Reagan; Bush 41 raised them a bit.)

> There's also the issue that the names they're actually disproportionally told and taught about are people who "innovated". Who pushed a marginally new style.

Is Palladio not taught? Christopher Alexander (of A Pattern Language)? The classical order of columns?

Brent Hull (for one) has done a whole bunch of stuff with his restoration work on trying to teach people about proper proportion:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arca0o5KyTo

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9JWBWiEKWQ

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpV7m1lU_Dw

* https://www.youtube.com/@BrentHull/videos

This was all standard stuff until the 1930s.

> […] but I also want to explore what adding trim-style feedback to a generic RAID layer may look like […]

TRIM commands sent to the block layer would probably help with SSD/NVMe wear leveling, as well as thin-provisioning in virtualized environments.

And the lack of RAID is not a critique: if you're mostly interested in the file system layer that's fine, and a useful area to solve problems in. My comment was more towards the comparison to ZFS and its "rampant layering violation" [1] and some of the trade-offs that happen when you focus on more or fewer parts of the stack.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20070602005153/http://blogs.sun....

Unrelated: and since you're surfing the comments, with regards to your superblocks [1], you may wish to look into some of the lessons learned by ZFS; specifically see perhaps Allan Jude's "Large Label and Blockpointer-V2" from the 2025 OpenZFS Dev Summit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tqOBv8BmXI

[1] https://orib.dev/gefs.pdf § 9.1

>> Plus, plenty of negative predictions turned out to be entirely true. And then it took a lot of time and effort to counteract them.

> Such as?

The ozone layer, Y2K. More recently, climate change (which humanity as a whole is mostly doing nothing about, so we'll see how that ends).

> If any past apocalyptic prediction had been true, you would not have been around to write this sentence and we would not have been around to read it. It’s not a very convincing argument when we cannot in principle observe the counterfactual.

Only one "apocalyptic prediction" needs to be true, once, for everyone to have a bad day. The fact that previous ones were avoid may be survivor ship bias and perhaps:

> The preparedness paradox is the proposition that if a society or individual acts effectively to mitigate a potential disaster such as a pandemic, natural disaster or other catastrophe so that it causes less harm, the avoided danger will be perceived as having been much less serious because of the limited damage actually caused. The paradox is the incorrect perception that there had been no need for careful preparation as there was little harm, although in reality the limitation of the harm was due to preparation. Several cognitive biases can consequently hamper proper preparation for future risks.[1]

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

Specifically "fletcher4":

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

* https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Basic%20Concepts/Data...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletcher%27s_checksum

* https://people.freebsd.org/~asomers/fletcher.pdf

* https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t...

Originally documented in the paper "An Arithmetic Checksum for Serial Transmissions" (referenced also in RFC 1146, in the context of TCP).

From NYC*BUG† May 2023, "GEFS, A Good Enough File System" By Ori Bernstein:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juFndFy72gI

September 2026 EuroBSDCon presentation from Sunday:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPoU4QEv_u8&t=49m43s

† BSD User Group

> It's got CoW, snapshots, and data checksums. Therefore, it's good enough to compete with ZFS while being way smaller and permissively licensed.

Does it have a built-in RAID layer? Because if it doesn't, then it can't compete with ZFS in many use cases. For example, what does "data may then be recovered from […] RAID restoration" mean?

With ZFS, if you have a (e.g.) mirrored/RAID-1 configuration, and you fetch some data from one drive and the checksum is wrong, ZFS can check the other drive, and if that checksum is good it can (a) pass the good data up, and (b) use the good data to fix the bad data. Most mirroring systems can't do that both-drives checking: ZFS is self-healing.

(This isn't to say that GEFS won't be useful in many other situations.)

Perhaps also worth noting that while the US generally uses 277/480V for distribution (before stepping down to 120/240-208), Canada (also) uses 347/600V in many places: more power for the same copper cable thickness (or less copper for a given power, due to less amperage).

He created a 'periodic table' for plugs himself, though there's also a handy chart/illustration at:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEMA_connector#Nomenclature

> Democracy is when the government does what I want!

One can (should?) tolerate a lot in an open, democratic society, but not (necessarily) everything:

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

Then there's H.L. Mencken old line:

* “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”

If they want the default to be non-GPLv3 Rust-based that's fine, but some of us don't care (and want the same behaviour everywhere, like on RH-based systems we may also have) and they should leave the GNU as an option. Potentially both could be installed at the same time (it's what update-alternatives is for after all).

> For now you can list dependent packages manually in apt-get install: https://packages.ubuntu.com/resolute/build-essential

I'm don't quite understand what this means: you can say that you want GNU coreutils when you install build-essential? How does that work on the CLI?

> But I don't think it will affect many users, I mean who has a 32000 -evels deep directory on their system?

When the GNU coreutils version doesn't have this bug and thus affects zero users, why should I bother with the Rust version?

> Had you ever been to a college and used wikipedia link as a source reference when writing a paper you would've known.

Some of us went to school before Wikipedia was invented. And even if Wikipedia itself cannot be used as a source directly, going to the references cited in a Wikipedia article and citing those I'm guess is another matter.

If those people did not have integrity they could have enriched themselves as much as Trump et al are doing while in office.

> Examples where former presidents firing people for lack of loyalty, here is a list of them

* Nixon is not an example that helps your case

* Truman fired MacArther for insubordination (and nearing starting WW3): generals do not get to set policy

* essential workers are not allowed to strike: police and firefighters would be fired too

* Ford (Nixon's VP in case you didn't know) isn't helping your case either

* firing a personal chief of staff different compared to a Senate-appointed position, especially one that's supposed to be work independent (like the AG is also supposed to be)

* again, a general that does not get to set policy over a President

Comey was fired for no other reason that he would not cow-tow to Trump. Compare-contrast with another FBI Director's firing:

> However, Sessions’ ethics came into question just before then-President-elect Bill Clinton was inaugurated. Sessions was accused of improperly using an FBI plane to visit his family as well as reportedly installing a security fence around his home on the government’s dime. A Justice Department report found that Sessions had avoided paying taxes on the use of his FBI limousine for his daily commute.

* https://abcnews.com/Politics/president-clinton-fired-fbi-dir...

> So you're fine with any other crook, but not Trump. Got it.

Yes, all those are crooks…

> Further, wikipedia is not a credible source link in-case you didn't know. Anyone can edit the pages there and somethings are verified and sometime once could even make up facts and link to fake articles.

Feel free to click "edit" yourself to remove the made "up facts and link to fake articles."

> One has to be a zealot to believe that there is a God who wants humanity to follow certain mandates and rituals.

Why does one 'have to be a zealot' to believe this?

> Language.

Technology is generally considered to be something that is invented: there's a debate in whether language is invented/created or whether it is innate to humans (you wouldn't say sight or hearing are technologies).

Also a debate on whether math is created/invented or discovered (IMHO hard to argue that pi (π) is invented).

Another quotation I ran across semi-recently:

> Reputation is a technology. We solve a lot of problems in the economy by turning one-shot games, in which people literally take the money and run, and turn them into repeated games, in which people have an incentive to behave well in this period so that you will trust them next period, and so on, into the future.

* Paul Krugman, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_IYGeZLLhI&t=10m30s

> There are certain bodies of human knowledge and practice which aren't usually referred to as "technologies", and I think that leads us to underestimate their complexity and importance.

“Technology is the active human interface with the material world.” — Ursula K. Le Guin, https://www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about-technology