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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • Hear local bands on H street. Join a kickball game on the PedMall. Buy art+mj from Gallaudet students. Try the firecracker calamari at Cantina Marina, pair it with old bay cheladas. Buy from an oil man on the red line. Grab coffee at the portrait gallery courtyard cafe. Create a peanut shell massacre at a Nats game then play flip cup with lightweights at the yard. Count whitehouse roof snipers from the Vue on hotel Washington. Try the eggs Benedict at the tabard inn. Ghost/night-tour Arlington cemetery. Get demolished by GM Thomas at DuPont Circle. Before sunset buy a bag of oysters at the wharf and picnic on the shore of the tidal basin. Supposedly there are also a few museums.














  • Maybe yeah. Also got the sense from the strong opinions that this is a preexisting debate, presumably in the context of continuous workloads or cached arrays with minimal spindown intervals. In that context it’s true that rotational disks still often win in energy efficiency and robustness (assuming we’re comparing them to consumer SSDs and not the latest enterprise u.2 stuff that’s rated for continuous work).


  • Not sure what everyone is arguing about here. Clearly SSD is better for intermittent r/w, whereas HDD can be more efficient at continuous r/w (especially in terms of watts/TB)

    Just looking at specs should be enough to see that. SSDs can idle in ready state at close to 0 draw (~0.05w) whereas HDD requires continued rotation to remain ready. So consider an extreme case of writing for 1 minute then maintaining ready state for the rest of the day. For that the SSD will be far more efficient, obviously.


  • Yes, not terribly common, but frequent these topics, especially outside community-moderated spaces, and you’ll meet them. They’re sometimes used as examples of rabid attack-dog liberalism. I’m not sure of their motivation, but it might be similar to those who impersonate police, just the terminally-online version of hammers looking for nails.

    Where they miss the plot is that the ultimate goal should always be kindness and respect, not appeasement or rule-enforcement. Education is part of it of course — understanding our implicit biases, where they come from, what the symptoms look like, etc — but the reason we learn to be better to each other is because that’s how we ourselves would like to be treated, not to avoid getting flamed, brigaded, “cancelled,” or what-have-you.

    Anyway, thanks for putting in the effort to learn. I think you’ll make a good ally.