mindbleach

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mindbleach,

“Why does btrfs get a huge perf hit with background IO work?”

mindbleach, (edited )

I blame explanatory headlines. If you searched “why does [blank] happen?” you’d get articles like “why [blank] happens.” ESL speakers (and under-educated native speakers) bungle the difference. (They’re already trying to solve some technical crap. Their [blank] stopped working.) As this spreads, reddit and Stack Overflow start displacing tech-support blogs, and suddenly the headlines themselves are wrong.

mindbleach,

as though they knew him from his brief period as a vorlon or whatever.

You are really crossing the streams on this one. But fuck, it was a missed opportunity not to have John de Lancie as a cameo in that diner.

Oh, and I really hope Jellico is visiting the station.

“O’Neill - you punched an admiral?”

“I mistook him for someone else. A real sonofabitch.”

“Who’s he a mirror of in your timeline?”

“The vice president.”

mindbleach,

They’d presumably talk us into favoring zats (and those red stun rounds that only showed up in a few episodes) over lethal force that’s only equally effective.

We’d make exceptions for replicators. They’d understand. They fight the Borg on the regular.

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