I mean a backup of a RAID pool is likely just another RAID pool (ideally off-site) – maybe a tape library if you’ve got considerable cash.

Point is that mfg refurbs are basically fine, just be responsible, if your backup pool runs infrequently then that’s a good candidate for more white label drives.

I’ve had the same experience. The first HDD that failed on me was a Barricuda 7200.11 with the infamous firmware self-brick issue, and a second 7200.11 that just died slowly from bad sectors.

From then on I only bought WD, I have a Caviar Black 1TB from oh, 2009-ish that’s still in service, though it’s finally starting to concern me with it’s higher temperature readings, probably the motor bearings going. After that I’ve got a few of the WD RE4 1TBs still running like new, and 6 various other WD Gold series drives, all running happily.

The only WD failure I’ve had was from improper shipping, when TigerDirect (rip) didn’t pack the drive correctly, and the carrier football tossed the thing at my porch, it was losing sectors as soon as it first started, but the RMA drive that replaced it is still running in a server fine.

If you’ve got a RAID array with 1 or 2 parity then manufacturer recertified drives are fine; those are typically drives that just aged out before being deployed, or were traded in when a large array upgraded.

If you’re really paranoid you should be mixing mfg dates anyway, so keep some factory new and then add the recerts so the drive pools have a healthy split.

And the long term plan there is to strangle sites and take %100 of the adrev spend for themselves since users won’t ever leave the Google site. Either way Google as a search engine enters a death spiral, it’s already bleeding users.

Google used to provide a ton of traffic, they hoard it all themselves now through AI and summaries of content. Eventually the balance of cost/benefit will shift and Google will suddenly see itself rejected from scraping, furthering the product deathspiral.

Imagine the price hikes when they need to get that return on hundreds of billions they’ve poured into these models, datacenters and electricity.

EU should forge ahead and just wait for America to hopefully come to senses and end it’s entitled temper tantrum.

Some do, but a lot also use it with a touch pen for notes.

Honestly tablets are perfectly sufficient for most education related things, plus they’re thin, light weight, and don’t need to be plugged in constantly unlike the goobers who bring gaming laptops.

I would’ve sprung for an iPad and done the same (though used a BT mechanical keyboard instead a chicklet one) if I wasn’t in a CS degree that requires me to have a real OS that can run compilers, interpreters, multiple browsers, and uses a real folder structure.

As a student, yeah, I see lots of people using tablets for their work instead of laptops.

Echoing this, civilian GNSS is a passive system, and I’m all for redundancy, you should be using all four constellations for the highest accuracy and fastest lock.

Republicans are the biggest suckers there are. There’s a reason as soon as the jig is up grifters pivot to conservative talking points.

It’s easier to scam someone than convince them they’ve been scammed.

Art is people making stuff, without the people… it’s just stuff.

There are definitely folk who see obese people as an acceptable target because they can hide behind (valid) health claims, and then justify their moral superiority because they don’t have those “personal failures”.

The litmus test is if they think Semaglutide/GLP-1 is “legitimate” or obese people using it are “cheating”.

The recent boom in neural net research will have real applicable results that are genuine progress: signal processing (e.g. noise removal), optical character recognition, transcription, and more.

However the biggest hype areas with what I see as the smallest real return is in the huge model LLM space, which basically try to portray AGI as just around the corner. LLMs will have real applications in summarization, but largely otherwise they just generate asymptotically plausible babble, very good for filling the Internet with slop, not actually useful to replace all the positions OAI, et al, need it to (for their funding to be justified).

https://transform.tools/json-to-java

Writing tests is a good example. It’s not great at writing tests, but it is definitely better than the average developer when you take the probability of them writing tests in the first place into account.

Outside of everything else discussed here, this is something I disagree with on a fundamental level, flawed tests are worse than no tests, IMO.
Not to get too deep in to the very contentious space of testing in development, but when it comes to automated testing, I think we’re better off with more rigorous^[1] testing instead of just chasing test coverage metrics.

I keep getting told that AI is good at boilerplate code, and like, so is eclipse – if you know the kb shortcuts to autogenerate method stubs, classes, etc.

This was also my thought, though worth mentioning their air series low-profile boards also use LP switches which have less options for swapping in the future.

OP said they want clicky, and there’s some neat clicky options for MX style switches, like the Zeal Clickiez, and Kailh BOX Navy/Jade/Blue.

Turns out burning thousands of kW, cooling, building datacenters, and filling them with the most expensive shovels chips, is actually just more costly per real unit work than paying an actual person. It was a grift the entire time!