My first truly well-paid job happened thanks to someone I met on the 'birdsite' referring me to a role in the company they worked for. I successfully made it through the interviews. It would have been nearly impossible to get an interview without that referral.

I can't find a lot of laptop SSD (m.2 NVMe) benchmark results online showing numbers for 4KB random write IOPS. Everyone seems to focus on seq read/write throughput values. Have they always been like this and I never noticed?

Finally I repeated the same test on a M1 MBP with 512GB Apple SSD. This one was surprisingly the worst of the three -- it only managed 20k 4KB write IOPS. This was running macOS Sequoia 15.7 with APFS FileVault turned on.

Next up is a 2018 Intel MBP with 512GB Apple SSD. This was also similar to the Win11 laptop. I was only able to do 60-70k 4KB write IOPS. This is macOS Sequoia 15.7 with APFS FileVault encryption turned on. Similar results with fio as well.

Then I wondered maybe this tool has a problem. I downloaded the latest version of fio and ran it and it only showed 70k 4KB write IOPS. It is a NTFS drive with BitLocker encryption turned on. So then I wondered if this is just a problem with this laptop.

How can one of the most widely used piece of software in the world have such obvious bugs?

I don’t remember Elizabeth Warren asking for a wealth tax on regular people having a 401k or brokerage account. This affects all shareholders not just billionaires.

Aren’t all distributed transaction implementations essentially just doing “message-passing” between the txn coordinator and the individual shards participating in that distributed transaction?

This would be the largest public lands sell-off in modern U.S. history and it's happening with no hearings, no debate, and no public input.

See what public lands would be available for sale:
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...