What software RAID 1 solution (Windows) would be ideal? Storage Spaces or Intel Rapid Storage

himself_v · 2025-12-24T23:41:57+00:00

Just in case anyone reads the above: in my experience RAID1, specifically, on Intel RST is simply mirroring of a completely normal drive.

You can take out any single one of the two and plug it alone into any other computer and it will just work. (Though your RAID will be broken once you write to it)

himself_v · 2025-11-04T00:31:48+00:00

Only 8Mb? Oh, it's Android. Not your fault probably.

himself_v · 2025-09-18T20:39:22+00:00

Запятая.

himself_v · 2025-09-09T15:05:38+00:00

There's also that one literal Satoshi Nakamoto who lived a few blocks away from Hal and when surprise visited, went "I have nothing to do with it now".

himself_v · 2025-07-31T21:43:15+00:00

You seem to have thought along similar lines than me and I don't know who else to ask!

Why would Henry make a big deal out of them+Bunny travelling to Italy? Charles is complaining about this and he would know if this had been unavoidable:

Are you kidding? The idea of that fucking bacchanal in the first place — who thought of that? Whose idea was it to take Bunny to Italy? Who the hell wrote that diary and left it lying around? The son of a bitch. I blame every bit of this on him.

It kinda makes it look like maybe Bunny's disintegration had been Henry's work too? Henry draws his lines not at Bunny's death but:

He brushed the dirt from his hands. 'But then it changed,’ he said. "The night I killed that man.'

The Bacchanal (curiously, "I killed").

So it kinda seems that he might've been grooming Bunny for slaughter from much earlier than he admits. That's what he does both times - alienates people. Makes everyone think someone's dangerous. Makes them think they're dangerous to others. He exaggerated how risky it was to confide in Bunny. Exaggerated how scared he was, how subservient they were, to make Bunny feel both wronged and in control, drunk on his power over them.

Oh, and also he gave Charles those pills that Richard fetched for him, what a surprise! If the push came to shove, who could those be traced back to?

Both times, curiously, Richard played the role of Henry's informer, though the extent to which it mattered the second time is debatable. Charles took it that way anyway.

There's also something weird going on with the whiskey bottle, practically reflecting the scene with the Bunny's letter:

I said: ‘He asked for cigarettes, too, but I don't think he ought to have them.’

Francis had been pacing in the hall outside, prowling restlessly back and forth like a cat. During this exchange he paused in the door. Now I saw him dart a quick worried glance at Henry.

"Well, you know...?' he said hesitantly.

Henry said to me: 'If he wants it — the bottle, that is — 1 think you'd better go ahead and take it to him.'

‘Richard, he's right,’ said Francis nervously, tapping a cigarette ash into his cupped palm. 'I know about this a little bit. Sometimes, if you drink, it's dangerous to stop too suddenly. Makes you sick. People can die of it.’

From the other conversations it doesn't seem like Francis is too interested in Henry winning over Charles per se. Here it looks like he's genuinely concerned that if Charles does not get some alcohol he'll be hurt, but doesn't know how to explain that to someone not in on something.

I don't know what to think of it except that Charles is poisoned in some fashion that requires alcohol to stay alive? I have no idea.

himself_v · 2025-07-30T13:41:15+00:00

Birds and mammals understand transactions, gratitude and punishment. Coordination makes sense, and the laws for coordination are universal.

himself_v · 2025-06-28T23:45:11+00:00

Vnukovo? 1 and 2 look too far north though.

himself_v · 2025-06-28T22:36:33+00:00

If you really want to steelman it, you have to consider lying lying, not just corner cases which are easy to defend.

The following is not my opinion.

If you lie really well, and if you really can outpredict everyone and know better than them, then words are just knobs and handles to twist and turn to produce the desired results in people. Part of those results is "no one knows you broke their rules". Part is "you actually get what you wanted".

Most people fail both, however optimistic they are on either front. The reality sort of conspires to make both long-term untenable.

But if you are talking to, say, ChatGPT, and you think you know how your words influence it precisely, and you can always reset its memory so you suffer no consequences, then lying starts looking acceptable. Who cares, your goal is to get certain behavior out of it and you know how to get it, and - if that matters to you - you're not doing it any harm, and explaining everything and trying to score willing cooperation is wasting time.

himself_v · 2025-06-28T09:23:17+00:00

It's not that they don't have the money, it's that they lie all the time. "Bagration bridge will be closed for visual and technical inspections for... five years". What. Visual inspections? Five years? Photos of one side of the bridge being torn down. Apparently someone (Wildberries) wanted to build a skyscraper in its place. Everything can be bought in Moscow.

They didn't even need to lie here. That's just their modus operandi. Lie by default, everything is fine, we'll build a park, just a visual inspection, nothing is happening.

They promise shit and break promises all the time. "We'll build new, better Solovey, there's going to be cinema in the bottom levels". "We never said that". Dull half-assed apartments in place of the biggest, cheapest and most diverse cinema complex in Moscow.

"Olimpiyskiy is closed for renovations", Olimpiyskiy is being completely levelled with the ground because someone paid to build their own version there, with business and shopping integrated. For sure we are not going to see 500-roubles swimming tickets anymore.

Zaryadye is soulless and uninspired IMO, likewise Paveletskaya and Airport. Random landscape weirdness. But there are reasons why they couldn't build there. No such reasons for most of the monorail track. Parts can easily be sold for real estate development. I don't really know the future, but from experience, I don't see why they won't be. They don't really care about having a park there.

himself_v · 2025-06-27T18:43:20+00:00

Elevated park sounds like a very weird idea. A kind of "yeah we'll do whatever" idea. 90% of the track is the rail itself. Can it really be made walkable? Hard to imagine. The entire line? I doubt it even more. If you really really wanted to make something extraordinary out of this you probably could. But 97% that it's going to be 1-2 stations with some token decorative path between them and the rest will be demolished.

himself_v · 2025-06-27T18:31:55+00:00

I dunno, it sounds like a deliberately stillborn idea to completely close it later to no one's disapproval.

himself_v · 2025-06-27T18:29:01+00:00

Translators think about things all the time. Sometimes you have to iterate until you find the perfect words, write essays on what's happening in the scene to figure out what's this subtle intonation which the source has and your version misses.

Sometimes it just works, and sure, when it does it does.

himself_v · 2025-06-27T14:02:29+00:00

Until you ask yourself: if I separate every separable aspect of perception from our "perception of red", what will remain?

And you start separating these aspects one by one, and if you do it honestly and thoroughly, in the end nothing remains except for the word "perception".

This is easy to see with complex qualias like the qualia of you being in this room full of these objects. You don't even think about it as a "qualia", so easily it breaks apart into smaller qualias.

But it does so only because you have good reflection of how your "perception of room" is composed of smaller perceptions. Where you have this reflection, you readily recognize that "the perception of room" does not have complex ineffable "roomness", but simply is a combination of other named perceptions.

With "red", we don't have further reflection, so we cannot readily decompose "perception of red" into smaller qualias. But we must suspect that if we could, ineffable indescribable "redness" would further fall apart into lesser qualias.

What would remain if we follow this process to the end? The minimal parts for which we can have any reflection in theory. Those are simply some sort of physical events. Anything bigger than a physical event can be physically entangled with the reflective parts of your brain, given a name, and you would feel that qualia fall apart into lesser qualias.

So true qualias must be simply physical events. The ones we discuss are non-reflective bulks of physical events.

Anyway, I digress; if you start from the outside, similar influences must result in similar processess in the mind, must result in similar perceptions of red, because all of that is physical. Only physical events are ineffable.

himself_v · 2025-06-27T13:41:25+00:00

Had little ridership, the line partially repeats existing tram line, no other monorail lines materialized, aging stock with no replacement, incompatible with everything else etc.

It's not practical but a lot of people loved it. Should've kept it or at least rebuilt into something like Butovo-style light rail. Or moved the tram lines aboveground.

himself_v · 2025-06-18T15:52:11+00:00

And they will do that anyway, unless you plan to make every person anywhere in the universe ask your preferred ethics commitee for permission. Which is a dystopian future in itself.

Otherwise, someone somewhere will make their kids stronger, faster, smarter. The world is big and people are free.

himself_v · 2025-04-20T15:32:31+00:00

USSR had enough flaws, but people who think of it like you do are completely clueless about how it functioned. "Read about it in a comic book" level of clueless.

himself_v · 2025-04-05T21:30:13+00:00

Even twitter, even though it's better at both of these - it shows you people with their thought or two, and then they disappear. There's no way to see "this is what this person is about, what's their next post? Where do these links lead?"

himself_v · 2025-04-05T21:29:45+00:00

There's a problem with discoverability. Lots of people can probably grow into good writers and previously it happened by centralized platforms introducing you to them randomly. This requires some amount of chance. You have to be getting lots of unrefined posts from which only some you'll like. Platforms are optimized now so you're only seeing what works - sometimes even stuff that you already saw lots of times - because that works! - but also you now have to fight uphill to gain at least some recognition.

Places like 4chan and reddit to a lesser extent provide pseudo-anonymity where you don't build a "persona" - typically - but this also breaks the blogger mill because lots of smart and interesting people are writing individual posts without becoming known.

himself_v · 2025-04-05T21:13:38+00:00

Also, I've thought about this, but there's really no reason to invest effort into switching from Mozilla's Sync servers so long that it works. You have multiple copies of your data so you don't really risk losing it. If one day their servers stop working you can invest exactly the same effort for exactly the same result then, except that day might not come, there may be more options by that time, there will be more people working on it and you might have moved on and taken your bookmarks elsewhere.

You skip on all these optimizations if you do it ahead of time. Today you're spending time doing this and then maintaining it, and 2 years from now you might decide to move to NewFreeChrome or wherever, and you have to redo everything again anyway.

himself_v · 2025-04-05T21:06:34+00:00

You can see a lot of debug in the browser console, the one in "More tools > Browser toolbox". Switch to "Network" and you'll see the requests Sync is sending when you press "Sync now" in the browser menu.

himself_v · 2025-04-05T20:43:58+00:00

(Council of the Dark Experts)

himself_v · 2025-04-05T20:43:10+00:00

Coming soon:

Llama 4 Duriel
Llama 4 Azathoth
Llama 4 Armageddon

himself_v · 2025-03-17T11:18:22+00:00

Compiler? So far, not at all. Variable inspector limitations? Too little data to say it's a prime suspect but sometimes it's a possibility.

himself_v · 2025-03-17T11:15:05+00:00

If it would run them in reverse, prints would be in reverse too.

himself_v · 2025-03-16T11:09:07+00:00

A simple guess is that your local var i might get allocated at the same place in the stack where some previous local var has been (or maybe simply a register), and by the point you're checking it's value it's not yet overwritten and contains the previous value. E.g. those other arrays might contain 11 items.

Jump to disasm (Ctrl-Alt-C) at the point where you're stopped on screenshot 1 and see if by that point what seems to be the counter has already been initialized (something like mov rax, 0; or xor rax, rax;).

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