TCB13

TCB13, 8 months ago

Raid is more for an always-on solution, but not great for safe backups. They still might get damaged at the same time

Yes.

I believe it really depends on the amount of data you write to the disks. From my experience: if you’ve two disks, same model, same brand, same powered on hours they might fail at the same time and you end up with nothing thus for most people it might not even be worth to RAID at all on a home NAS. Have a main disk for always online to write / read from and a second disk that is turned on once a day to rsync all data is. Most likely safer and more reliable, you also get extra protection against accidental deletes.

TCB13, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

And then you get studies like this: Study Predicts 45% of Women Will Be Single by 2030

medium.com/…/study-predicts-45-of-women-will-be-s…

TCB13, 8 months ago

😂 😂 😂 😂

TCB13, 8 months ago

If we exclude all cloud providers who sell ARM like Google, Amazon and Oracle. Facebook actively uses ARM at scale and I personally have seen medium size companies (~200-500 employees) using it simply because their backend run fine and it’s cheaper.

TCB13, 8 months ago

there’s usually no good reason to pay extra for x86 hardware especially since most of the intricacies are handled by AWS. (…) all those little pain points mentioned above that you’re “left to deal with” which isn’t cheap either. (but that doesn’t show up on the AWS bill, so management is happy to report cost savings)

Exactly my point above when people start shouting about upgradability compatibility and whatnot.

TCB13, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

Look, I’m not saying C is important nor that people aren’t using it but… Let me ask you one thing, if you look at the majority of the web (not specific cases) you’ll find that 76% of it is PHP. Furthermore if you think that everyone is moving to mobile apps you’ll get a mix of Java/Kotlin, Swift and a very strong move to towards cross-platform stuff that is, in most cases, based on Javascript. To make things worse bootcamps for wanna be devs have been teaching node as a valid backend solution for quite a while now. We see startups going that route and things going perfectly well.

Since we’ve that huge market for higher level that run perfectly well on ARM do you really thing that stuff made in C really dictates the future of the market? The “issue” I see with the link you’ve provided is simple: nobody is developing “run of the mill” solutions with C anymore like we used to and those are the solutions that have the numbers to move the market. Nowadays C is operating systems, libraries for higher level languages, engines such as the JS V8, a ton of IoT devices (that ironically are ARM), low level electronics, industrial automation and financial use cases where performance is really important.

C is going to stay on specific places but nobody develops websites, desktop and mobile applications with hence my simplistic “the software development market evolved from C to very high language languages such as Javascript/Typescript” conclusion.

The market is moved by the large masses and the masses use technologies that are not bound anymore to architectures like other used to be.