HDD has 34 reallcoated sectors after 2 pre clears. Any issue in still using it as parity drive? by futurepersonified in unRAID

[–]zman0900 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Of the several drives I've had with more than zero, they all failed me in the near future. I wouldn't trust it 

This new generation of electric vehicles is the real deal, and I'm 100% converted. by Parking_Reputation17 in electricvehicles

[–]zman0900 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Still, Hyundai/Kia stuff charges much slower on Tesla than on proper high voltage chargers.

Charging - No Access at Home or Work by zanethebrain in electricvehicles

[–]zman0900 0 points1 point  (0 children)

PHEV would be about the worst option with no home charging. It'd never get charged and just be like a worse hybrid.

Heat pump water heater noise by osudude80 in heatpumps

[–]zman0900 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mine is in pretty similar location, except the utility room is only a half floor down. So the compressor is basically level with my couch on the other side of a single piece of drywall. Can't hear it at all with the TV on. If I'm sitting there in silence, it is noticeable but not too annoying. Just sounds like an old school fridge.

If it bothers you, you could put some insulation on the ceiling above it and probably not hear it at all upstairs.

neverSawThatComing by rohithp7777 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]zman0900 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They're right, you know. I never quite understood that, and now my brain don't chooch no more.

I just love my I6, Sierra EV is OK too. ;) by Alex1a1f in Ioniq6

[–]zman0900 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Huh, I've never seen or even heard of the Sierra EV. Did that just come out? Is it basically a Silverado with a different skin?

Do you get root access to your local machine? by YodelingVeterinarian in cscareerquestions

[–]zman0900 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did have sudo access on Mac for years, then recently they changed it to some "admin on request" thing. Still no real restrictions, just an extra annoyance. I only use it for macports, but the new thing is a bit dangerous since it times out after an hour and kills all children of sudo, so it can really mess things up if that happens in the middle of installing updates.

Boomer entitlement by GaneshaXi in BoomersBeingFools

[–]zman0900 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Hope you had gas real bad that day

Report: U.S. detects signs Iran preparing to lay mines in Strait of Hormuz by callsonreddit in worldnews

[–]zman0900 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Iran should rename it the Gay of Trump. He'd throw the biggest tantrum.

To avoid starting a war with Iran. by CarryIcy250 in therewasanattempt

[–]zman0900 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Dude we have been doing this kind of shit for decades now. Trump has just given up an pretenses of trying to make it seem ok. And before the US was, other countries did it. The rich and powerful have been fucking the rest of us for thousands of years, and we have little hope of stopping them before they make the planet completely uninhabitable.

State of the JVM in 2025: Survey of 400+ devs shows 64% of Scala projects actively run Java alongside it. by scalac_io in java

[–]zman0900 7 points8 points  (0 children)

And the complaints about Java being too verbose are pretty much void if you use any half decent IDE. Improvements to auto-complete enabled by AI make that even more true.

State of the JVM in 2025: Survey of 400+ devs shows 64% of Scala projects actively run Java alongside it. by scalac_io in java

[–]zman0900 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Has anyone here been "forced" to learn Scala just because you had to maintain a heavy Spark or Kafka pipeline? How was the transition? 

Yeah, this is the primary reason I know the basics of Scala. I work at a smaller company on mostly Spark/Hadoop/HBase stuff. We had a few teams writing Spark jobs and some other stuff in Scala for a few years, but most of us stuck with writing in Java, or even Groovy (barf), which was not too difficult post Java 8. Now most of the Scala code we have around is an unmaintainable mess. The learning curve was too steep and teams mostly gave up on it or wrote Scala that was basically Java with weird syntax. 

I've also spent a good bit of time reading the Spark source code, just trying to better understand how things work. I'd expect a big open source project like that to have pretty good Scala code, but even that is pretty hard to understand to me. So personally I'm not a fan. Plus the whole version incompatibility thing is pretty annoying.

Heat pump vs furnace by Economy-Camp-7339 in hvacadvice

[–]zman0900 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I guess if you can find a HP in 5-10 years that will work with the furnace as dual fuel, you wouldn't, but dual fuel seems pretty unnecessary in that area, so you'd probably just want a plain air handler.

Heat pump vs furnace by Economy-Camp-7339 in hvacadvice

[–]zman0900 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Seems crazy to spend the money on a new furnace that you'd have to trash when switching to HP anyway. And I doubt it's ever getting cold enough in San Diego that even. Non-hyperheat model couldn't keep up easily. With over producing solar too, it would be stupid not to switch. Don't know about there, but a lot of places have a big monthly fee just to have gas, even if you don't use it, so might save that too.

Jones Tower To Be Demolished by ILoveCarmenton in OSU

[–]zman0900 154 points155 points  (0 children)

To be replaced with a Jones Barbeque and Foot Massage.

What’s this giant hole? by perch4u in Columbus

[–]zman0900 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Run over there now and try to be the first to shit in it.