Right.

Memes are literally older than the internet.

It’s fine until it’s not… The problem is you can’t really predict when it will fail.

Just make sure you back them up. Bit rot is real.

OK, that’s embarrassing… but my point still stands.

Gotta go back farther than the 80s to find a time when business school people weren’t in charge. A LOT farther.

How many JS codebases are over 30 years old? Can you name even one?

BASIC? That’s cute.

If you don’t think EE students learn how circuits (including ICs) work, what exactly do you think they’re doing while they’re in school?

OK, but that doesn’t really answer my question, and I’m getting the sense you don’t know how deeply some engineers understand how the hardware works. Plenty of embedded programmers have EE degrees, and can write VHDL just as well (or just as badly) as they can write C and ASM.

You think people writing C(++) for baremetal systems don’t understand how their hardware works?

Even things like HDDs that don’t become “obsolete” in 18-24 months get sold with plenty of life left (unplanned downtime is more expensive than new hardware), but obsolescence makes it happen even sooner.

Regardless of who owns it or what they do with it, those GPUs will get sold on the used market with plenty of life left. Older AI GPUs, networking equipment (eg 100GbE), SAS drives, etc have been easy to find on eBay and other sites for a long time, because data centers replace hardware long before it’s expected to fail.

It doesn’t really make a difference which wheels are driven seeing as the truck was braking, not accelerating. And having all of the weight in the front makes sense if the bed is actually used for hauling stuff.

Most people are recommending that you bury a conduit, and it’s good advice, but also be aware that direct-bury ethernet cable is available that can be used without conduit.

12gbps could be useful if you use port expanders to put dozens of drives on the same port, but without a port expander you’re right you wouldn’t saturate the 6gbps channel.

It’s not even about the size or complexity of the project - the code in question is wrapped in an unsafe{} block, so no one should be expecting it to have the guarantees you’d normally get from rust. It’s ragebait.

And if you prefer the cat | grep ordering, < file.txt grep foo is also valid.

LSI cards are generally easy to switch to IT mode. You should be able to find a guide on servethehome.com for your model.

This, but if you already have a SAS card in RAID mode you might be able to flash IT (AKA HBA) mode firmware instead of buying a new card.

Also, SAS cables fit SATA drives, but not vice versa. So no need to buy new cables.

I’m disappointed by the lack of Whose Line Is It Anyway references in this thread :(

“everything’s made up and the points don’t matter”