Me following @winnielinnie on any post he does:
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“Software devs are some of the brightest people I know!” 
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The last example reminds me of a certain Californian family and business…
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There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
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I have a love-hate relationship with this because on one hand, it made hardware purchases so expensive, but on the other hand, my stocks are making a killing.
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How much longer though. I expect the AI bubble to start deflating as the cost of tokens has to be raised to start covering extant investment costs.
A lot of capacity is coming online as well. Combine that with less expensive but good enough compute emerging in China and I wonder where the explosion of demand is supposed to come from, other than three letter agencies?
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Saying Winnie is just pure sarcasm doesn’t do him justice. I honestly take my hat off whenever I read his posts, when someone is in bad trouble with TN or ZFS…
Though thankfully, catastrophic data loss isn’t a daily thing… so we mostly just get the monster side ahahahah 
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If anyone is looking for help on how to cool their HBAs without resorting to the crude methods seen in previous memes, they might want to check out this private seller:
(translated for you from italian)
and this is the high level custom cooling solution:
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You laugh.
The old NAS had a printed solution holding a 80mm fan over the CPU skin also. Works great.
That’s arguably one of the best file-server oriented motherboards held inside likely the best 11-drive tower ever made. Thank you ixsystems for the former and eBay for the latter.
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I didn’t mean to disparage good old zip ties (I’m the last person who could do that haha); it just really cracked me up how the seller hyped up that solution 
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