I respect your perspective and personal experience, and I’m not trying to convince you (I’m not even downvoting you, as it’s not a disagreement button). I’m trying to convince whoever might come along and read this that the small extra price is worth it if their computer is going to hold data dear to them and be running 24x7.

ECC is extremely good at covering cosmic ray bitflips, which happen with extreme regularity on software that runs and modifies data on the fly- server software. Yes, even home run stuff. That’s just playing Russian roulette, it probably won’t break anything, but why take the risk at least 10 times every day?

It’s also great at catching failing RAM sticks and preventing them from doing horrible things to every bit of data running through them. This is the failure ECC caught for me at home twice.

I have only 2.5 decades in the enterprise server and software space, I won’t claim to your 4. But I know I wouldn’t take that risk at work, and I value my home data more rather than less.

I’m not a researcher or even a particularly well practiced rhetorician, so here’s probably a much more convincing argument.

Or this perhaps.

I’ll strongly disagree. Anyone who cares about the data they store in their server should care about ECC. There’s a specific reason it’s used so widely by servers, not just financial databases or whatever.

There’s also a ton of misinformation on the Internet about it, so don’t buy into the “ZFS write hole” or whatever. But ECC is very important in my experience. It’s saved my bacon in a material way twice now, and in ways that normal RAM would have just silently continued breaking things. Really that’s not much of a price premium if you’re willing to buy used, so it’s more a question of why not?

There are many computers (especially business line computers including low power SFF) that will take ECC or even ship with it from ebay or whatever. Or you can build rigs with ECC, I’ve done this route twice and had good results.

Agreed though, when they work they’re comfortable, responsive, intuitive. At their best they’re the best controller I’ve used.

But for $80+ these days they should have hall effect sticks and mechanical switches. I’ve started buying https://www.gulikit.com/ controllers, which have both and are much cheaper, but not as comfy or responsive.

I have serious stick drift on Dualsense controllers after using them on and off for just a year. 3 controllers, all with the same issue.

To be fair the values are ambiguous and not at all coherent or consistent page to page, and interpretations have managed to somehow adapt to the mindset of the ruling class for over 1500 years.

We have quite a few Paul Bunyans of notable size in Minnesota. If one awakens I hope they all do and become a weird US folklore version of the army of the ents.

I worked at Best Buy corporate offices for a minute. We nicknamed the 4 wings sandcrawler 1-4.

You have to understand that in the pre-classical era, Roman people had minor god cults throughout their small villages, and the Greeks did the same thing. The cults beliefs did some traveling over time, and reasonable people slowly began piecing together a shared mythos.

Over time, as the Greeks pulled together their culture into a power structure of loosely associated city-states, their religious cults from dozens and dozens of villages all were glued together into a more cohesive pantheon.

Romans then adopted and ‘latinized’ the Greek pantheon, mixing in several of their own superstitions and cults.

This means you will have a God of creation and a God of that pond over there, which might have later been rationalized into a nymph.

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It’s much the same in the Abrahamic religions. Yahweh was the god of storms/thunder, sort of second or third in command to El, had a wife etc. Later he was given domain over war and then later promoted to the one true God.

You can see small remnants of this in the Bible, in the conflicts with Baal (another diety of the pantheon) especially (theorized to be some of the oldest stories in the Bible). Yahweh often uses thunder and lightning in his signs, and in older records mention is made of his wife/children etc.

Before things were commonly written down and literacy was common Religious beliefs were messy, constantly adapting and re-adapting to changing times, rulers, and encounters with other systems of belief.

It looks like you interrupted a serious discussion.

Totally fair.

Seems like she’s seeking a spot with a preferred microclimate- not too hot, not too cold, enough shelter/cover etc.

It can be a sign of sickness or discomfort/stress. Or it can be a personality trait.

Maybe message a few herpetology forums or a vet and see if someone has some sage advice?

You’re unconvinced and so am I. Let’s agree to disagree.

But there’s no evidence if Norway had more representatives, or more people per representative, that their democracy would crumble.

I truly, honestly, believe a democracy doesn’t have to be small to be effective or social. There are many smaller democracies that don’t score well, such as most of South America, the Caribbean, much of Africa, etc.

I think that sets apart those democracies on the list you keep referencing is sane election policies, money and religion separated from politicians as much as possible, free journalism, an engaged voting base, a recall system, and basically any electoral system not first past the post.

So far you’ve provided examples, and I truly appreciate that. I also appreciate you being earnest and willing to have a real conversation about this. I’m truly not trying to be dismissive or disrespectful.

No, not proof. That’s hardly an argument. You pulled numbers out of your ass and pretended they’re the right ones with no further consideration or evidence given.

I could as easily say that 10 million per rep and 1000 reps should work with the right system and infrastructure. That gives me a number that I like… But it’s not evidence.

That doesn’t show that democratic socialism or social democracy won’t work.

Better than I expected.

But I also worry this is the first twist of the dial to boil the frog.

Birds never stopped being dinosaurs 🤷

Yep exactly. As soon as they announced they weren’t going to ramp capacity I thought the exact same thing. They’re taking advantage of the situation to pad their pockets as thoroughly as possible.

And if demand continues theywill ramp and say they “reevaluated the market”, and thus get the benefits of panic buying AND a larger sales volume.

And mark my words- prices will never fall back to where it was without enormous market distruption.

1. Homeless shelters, housing, and work programs.

2. Education, and especially special education and mental health support in schools.

3. Small business low interest loans and art grants.

Correlation does not imply causation. Show me a mechanism, with evidence. The mechanism I propose is that if a society looks even slightly too leftist the billionaire class does everything they can to destroy or sabotage it.

Also, there isn’t a crisp definition or delineation between a social democracy and a democratic socialist one. Again- quibble over definitions as much as you want. A social democracy is several important steps in the right direction.

And capitalistic centrism / authoritarianism is NOT “working” globally. It’s just managed to kick the can down the curb for a while.