I'm finding it nearly impossible to search for information about running vSphere Replication and snapshot based backups simultaneously. Can anyone confirm for me if or if not a backup job using snapshots (such as a Veeam backup job) will interfere/collide with vSphere Replication syncing?

I have just configured a very large VM to use both of the above and it appears VSphere Replication does not attempt to sync while a Veeam backup job is running. Specifically when Veeam is running a snapshot deletion.

I'm sure vSphere Replication is making invisible snapshots on the source to enable syncing and am guessing that while snapshot deletion or consolidation processes are going out can't make snapshots in order to sync. I would just like anyone's assistance to confirm they've noticed this behavior and, if possible, found the VMware documentation pointing this out.

Thanks for your help.

From: @TheBSD405 Bus routes may be delayed due to a backup on coal creek and southbound 405 after an earlier collision. All students are safe and any tardies will be excused. http://twitter.com/TheBSD405/status/1204071950529769477

I was recently stuck in stopandgo freeway backup traffic early on a Sunday afternoon. At the front of it, there was a car on the side of the road, but nothing else to explain the congestion. Almost an hour later, traveling back in the other direction, I saw the freeway congestion was still there. It made me wonder. Normally, if a collision on a freeway causes a backup and then the colliding cars are removed, roughly how long does it take for the congestion to dissipate?

(Confidential to the bot that removed my post because it wanted more context: "A title is required, but expanding further in the text field is not. ")

~/.vim/swap and ~/.vim/undo are using unique file names like:

%tmp%test.swp

But ~/.vim/backup only uses the file name without the path:

test~

Editing another file named test will overwrite the previous backup file named test~ which, of course, is the backup of another file.

How can I make Vim add paths to the file names of backup files in order to avoid naming collisions?

I have these lines in my .vimrc:

set directory=~/.vim/swap//,/var/tmp//,/tmp//,.
set backupdir=~/.vim/backup//,/var/tmp//,/tmp//,.
set undodir=~/.vim/undo//,/var/tmp//,/tmp//,.

The double slashes cause the swap and undo file names to be in this format:

%home%username%.vimrc.swp

Great because no name collisions can occur! But it does not work for file names in the backup directory:

.vimrc~

Editing multiple files named ".vimrc" will cause a name collision and only the backup of the latest will be retained.

Anyone enlightened enough to explain this to me?

Another snapshot is now available. We've added new world generation below existing chunks, and blocks and fluids are now also part of the simulation distance setting. We also fixed a few bugs. Enjoy!

Keep in mind that we're still working on the world upgrades, so making a backup before upgrading is still a good idea.

This update can also be found on minecraft.net.

If you find any bugs, please report them on the official Minecraft Issue Tracker. You can also leave feedback on the Feedback site.

New Features in 21w44a

• New world generation is now inserted under existing chunks when upgrading a world to the new world height
• Added an Online options screen where you can now find the Realms Notifications option and Difficulty when on a server
• Added an "Allow Server Listings" option to opt out of having your name displayed in server listings

Changes in 21w44a

• Sleeping now only resets the weather cycle if it was raining
• Blocks and fluids are now also affected by simulation distance. It might be a good idea to test that the behavior of your redstone contraptions remained the same
• Optimized entity collisions

Technical Changes in 21w44a

• Servers can now set property hide-online-players to true in order to not send a player list on status requests
• When JFR profiling is started from an external source, the JFR events for network packets are now aggregated instead of one event per packet

Bugs fixed in 21w44a

• MC-63340 - Sleeping always resets time until rain
• MC-170551 - Foxes can't spawn on podzol or coarse dirt
• MC-200494 - In mineshafts, torches can generate attached to blocks other than the wooden supports
• MC-216432 - Mineshafts can generate with light but without any torches
• MC-216561 - Torches not spawning in abandoned mineshafts under y=0
• MC-217038 - Large dripstone structures can be generated outside the caves
• MC-236701 - New mountain biomes don't count towards "Adventuring Time" advancement
• MC-236938 - /jfr stop output does not

Users may need to close out of Steam and relaunch the application to see the update take.

Update Size 1.8 GB on Steam

Hello Park Managers!

Thank you for joining us on our journey through time to look for dinosaur and reptile fossils! We've returned to the modern era and we are just in time - the Early Cretaceous Pack and Update 1 are now available! Update your game to ensure you get access to everything.

The Early Cretaceous Pack introduces two new land dinosaurs, one new flying reptile, and one new marine reptile to Jurassic World Evolution 2, all hailing from the Early Cretaceous Period. Research and locate the dig sites for the mighty Wuerhosaurus, the miniscule Minmi, the soaring Dsungaripterus, and the powerful Kronosaurus. They are sure to bring even more guests to your parks!

Wuerhosaurus

Wuerhosaurus is a herbivorous stegosaurid originally discovered in Xinjiang in China in 1973. Like other stegosaurids, they prefer to eat Ground Fibre and Fruit in their enclosures, and can get along well with other herbivores, mainly hadrosaurids, pachycephalosaurids, and sauropods. If a fight breaks out they will use their powerful tail spikes to try to injure their opponents.

Minmi

The Minmi is a small ankylosaurid discovered in Australia in 1964. While they lack the thick tail club of their Ankylosaurus cousins, their bodies are still armoured, offering some protection from predators. We wouldn't recommend placing them in an enclosure with a carnivore though. Make sure they have Ground Fruits and Nuts, as well as a bit of water, and they should be happy and healthy.

Dsungaripterus

Dsungaripterus also lived in China, and was discovered in the Junggar Basin in 1964. It had an average wingspan of around 3 meters, and a rather robust skeleton. If you decide to house them in an Aviary, they will need plenty of fish, as well as some rock and sand in their environment, making them a good companion for the Dimorphodon

Kronosaurus

This marine reptile is named after the leader of the Greek Titans, and was first discovered in Queensland, Australia. The Kronosaurus is a predator, preferring mainly to live with its own kind. Keep them away from the smaller marine reptiles, or they just might make them into their dinner!

All of these new dinosaurs and reptiles can be customised by modifying their skin colour and pattern colour to give them a unique look. All will be available in your game immediately after you've p

Do your worst!

r/SpaceX Discusses and Megathreads

#Double Asteroid Redirect Test NASA's Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART) will demonstrate the use of a kinetic impactor to alter an asteroid's trajectory, an intervention that could be used in the future to prevent devastating Earth impacts. The target system consists of Didymos, 780 meters in diameter, and its moonlet Dimorphos, 160 meters. The DART spacecraft will intercept the double asteroid, using autonomous guidance to crash into the smaller one. Moving at about 6 km/s, the transferred momentum should alter Dimorphos's 12 hour orbital period around its companion by several minutes.

The mission tests several technologies, including the Small-body Maneuvering Autonomous Real-Time Navigation (SMART Nav) used to differentiate and steer toward the target body and Roll-Out Solar Arrays (ROSA) with Transformational Solar Array concentrators. NASA’s Evolutionary Xenon Thruster — Commercial (NEXT–C) ion engine will also be demonstrated, although the spacecraft's primary propulsion is hydrazine thrusters.

DART should arrive at Didymos in late September 2022, when it is about 11 million kilometers from Earth. Ten days before impact, the Italian Space Agency's cubesat LICIACube will be deployed to observe the collision and ejecta with its two cameras. Earth-based telescopes will be used to measure the altered orbit.

Acronym definitions by Decronym

Links & Resources

• DART website - NASA.gov
• [Viewing and Rideshare](https://join.slack.com/t/spacexmeetups/shared_invite/enQtNjY4ODM0NzMwODM5LWI1NzRkOTM5MzJiZGYzMDBkODdjMDJjYzBjZmJl

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

The second Caves & Cliffs: Part II snapshot is here! This snapshot mostly contains tweaks and bug fixes, but there are also some new technical additions such as a separate simulation distance slider and an increased thread count (no I'm not talking about the fancy sheets you're thinking about buying).

Oh, and you also seemed to enjoy Strongholds quite a lot, so we decided to add them back into the game. Enjoy!

This update can also be found on minecraft.net.

If you find any bugs, please report them on the official Minecraft Issue Tracker. You can also leave feedback on the Feedback site.

Known Issues in 21w38a

• This snapshot is still not compatible with older worlds - to play in this snapshot, you will have to create a new world
• World saving can sometimes take a very long time - if you see the world stop moving for a time, this is why

Changes in 21w38a

• Sprinting is no longer reduced to walking when gently brushing your sleeve against a wall
• Fixes for the distribution of ores

Ore distribution

• Copper ore generates up to y 95 (as originally designed)
• Increased the amount of copper
• Lapis lazuli generates in blobs, like other ores (instead of spread out)

Sprinting

• Previously, any collision with a block would reduce sprinting to walking. Now, for very minor angles of collision with a block, players retain their sprint. For larger angles of collision, the old behavior is retained.

Technical Changes in 21w38a

• A new setting has been added: "Simulation distance"
• Maximum amount of background threads increased
• Added telemetry for world loading

Simulation distance setting

• Entities will not be updated outside of simulation distance
• Allows higher render distance with less CPU load
• A new slider in video settings on the client
• A new simulation-distance property in dedicated server properties
• We will continue working on it with a goal of simulation distance also affecting block and fluid ticking

Maximum amount of background threads increased

Various background tasks including worldgen are executed on a background thread pool. Its size equals the amount of available CPU threads minus one, but there was an upper limit of 7. Now this upper limit is 255. This should help higher-end machines with world-gen performance.

The upper limit can be overridden by `max.bg.threa

Pilot on me!!

/r/Hockey NHL Power Rankings Week Nov 22, 2021 - Nov 28, 2021

Thank You

Thank you to all of the volunteers doing the power rankings. Each ranker has their own system and have their own reasonings and analyis. It truly is a lot of work.

Rankers

>!/u/jeruslam77 /u/silkeystev /u/lang14 /u/thatmikeguy429 /u/dsnake91 /u/mcrsft3brdev /u/rawrberry_ /u/recockulous /u/doktortimo /u/maxpowr9 /u/hrint /u/nodessb /u/mdvsronamisinfo /u/rasera /u/eqoisbae /u/homicidal_penguin /u/sandman730 /u/kingclam2 /u/mdlt97 /u/steckums /u/hockeycross /u/dagetawayman421 /u/offraindrop13 /u/brolil /u/timmablimma /u/philbob99 /u/arunatic5 /u/blueferret98 !<

Organizers

>!/u/lang14 /u/keepitsteadyidiots!<

Visualization

The visualization contains historical data, so you can see how your team has done over time. Hopefully, we can run this for many years in hopes that we can see the rise and fall of teams by /r/hockey opinion.

It automatically updates so feel free to bookmark. You can find it here

Process

How does this work? Throughout the course of the week rankers are able to access an app that will allow them to rank teams. At the end of the period we calculate the average ranking for every team and collate all of the analysis provided by rankers.

The app then generates a post that is first proofread and then posted to /r/hockey!

Rankings

Hey Sysadmins,

Happy New Year and hope you're all doing well.

I'm posting for a bit of a sanity check on a deployment - I'm generally pretty quiet around here and do more lurking than posting but was hoping you'd help me out with some thoughts on my situation.

I'm taking over a small business (approximately 12 workstations/users) in the collision repair space and as much as I'm all about M365/InTune I'm thinking about deploying the following - tell my I'm not totally crazy?!

Business needs are general MS Office productivity software, web browsing, one SQL based LOB application, QuickBooks Desktop (no desire to move to cloud) and storage of a fairly large number of not that high resolution photos and PDFs for documentation purposes. They're generating about 50GB or 70k files/month and should continue at about the same rate. Retention needs are approximately 10 years so the total dataset should hover around 6-7 TB. I'm concerned that OneDrive/Dropbox/Google Drive/Box would struggle with this number of small files (~8.5 million). In my testing, I've also noticed that all applications except OneDrive don't show thumbnails for "online only" files which is an issue for usability so using SharePoint sites would be the only viable option.

The big decision-maker - the physical location has sub-par options for internet connectivity and the best thing available outside of a considerable outlay for trenching in fiber is 25/5 DSL.

There's little to no work from home due to the physical nature of the work so everyone has a desk at the physical office. With all of this considered I'm thinking of deploying the following:

• HP MicroServer Gen 10 Plus (Xeon E-2224, 16GB Memory, 2x500GB SSD, 2x14TB HDD, Hyper-V)
• Netgate SG-2100
• Ubiquiti 48 Port POE Switch
• Ubiquiti Cloud Key Gen 2 + (NVR and WiFi Controller)
• Synology DS 420+ NAS for Veeam and M365 Backup Storage (4 x 14TB HDD)
• Windows Server 2019 Essentials as the only VM in Hyper-V
• Veeam B&R --> Synology --> Cloud Connect for 3-2-1
• OpenVPN --> Workstation RDP for out of office access to workstations (1 or 2 users only)
• Corporate LAN in VLAN, VoIP phones in VLAN, Ubiquiti IP Cameras in VLAN, Guest WiFi in VLAN
• M365 for Email/Office Apps/Teams/OneDrive with AD sync to Server Essentials 2019

It feels really counterintuitive in 2022 to deploy something like this but it still seems like the best choice to me given the business needs and connectivity situation. If the connection was bette

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

Introduction

This is a postmortem for my first game, Squirrels Need Acorns. I will go over the things I feel like I did right, things I feel like could be improved, and mistakes that I made. I'll focus mainly on the design challenges, but touch on a few of the technical challenges that I believe could be helpful to newer game developers.

​Overview

Squirrels Need Acorns is a mobile game where the player flies a squirrel through a level to collect acorns and reach the end as fast as possible.

Squirrels Need Acorns began it's life part of the Beginners Circle Jam #3 game jam using the GameMaker Studio 2 engine in October 2020. For those that aren't aware, a game jam is an event where people create a game in a certain amount of time under a specific theme. In this case, the game jam went for 2 weeks under the theme "A different planet". I was able to finish the game with a very simple menu screen, a single level, as well as a high score system.

This game jam version only received 6 total downloads at the writing of this after release review. I believe the low amount of plays is due to this version being an executable that had to be downloaded. Had this version been a game you could play in the browser (HTML5), I believe this would have been much more successful.

After Squirrels Need Acorns was submitted to the game jam, I started working on improving the game and after several iterations over the course of year the game was finally finished in December 2021, releasing on iOS and Android.

Squirrels Need Acorns is currently available on the iOS App Store and on Google Play. The game has no ads, no in app purchases, and it's completely free. There's no way for me to make any money on this game at all, I just wanted to see if I could make and ship a game. If you'd like to try it out, I would appreciate it if you would give it a play and a rating/review!

App Preview Trailer

iOS App Store

Google Play

What Went Wrong

• Scope creep - I kept adding features that added complexity to the game development. For example, I built a whole custom collision system to find what part of an object was interacted with. This took me several weeks to b

I won't be doing that today!

You take away their little brooms

There hasn't been a post all year!

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

Good day! I believe, I'm not the first one who is trying to run Database, MySQL in particular on top of BTRFS and would be glad to hear recommendations, NOT DOs and such.

Context:

• system: Ubuntu 20.04.3, kernel 5.4.0-89-generic #100-Ubuntu, modules are from stock, nothing manually compiled
• medium sized db, raw space ~ 1.1TB
• INNODB engine
• running on top of MDADM raid0 of 2 NVMe drives
• slave (replica) of main DB server
• this is test/evaluation slave server setup so I can make some experiments with it (have another "primary" slave on XFS considered stable), if things go south it will be automatically disabled by LoadBalancer, so production is safe here

My main point of using BTRFS there for now is compression support - zstd:2 shows ~ 4 times compression ( 285GB/1.1TB) which is kinda impressive and possible allows me to grow DB 2-3 times without any need of changing disk drives.

My 2nd point would be snapshotting for backups, this part I've not tried yet.

Current observations:

• seems become heavily fragmented - left it for 3 days and got ~ 21,767,412 regular extents, while in defragmented state it's around 9 million
• after 3 days mysql wasn't be able to keep up with replication - that didn't happen with XFS in place, so I guess it's related to BTRFS, but not sure

Changes made:

• defragmented
• remounted with autodefrag flag
• running 1 hour for now extents keep growing, was: 9613372 regular extents (9621899 refs) , after 1h 9954296 regular extents (10075851 refs)

Disabling COW means disabling compression and that's not what my goal is (I can stick with XFS then).

If needed, some type of CRON job can be configured to run filesystem defrag on it - not much I like it as it will increase load and slowdown replication, but can be considered as tradeoff.

Update1:

Just noticed

03:04:44 AM   UID       PID   kB_rd/s   kB_wr/s kB_ccwr/s iodelay  Command                                                                                                                  
03:04:46 AM     0   4017181  76982.00 146816.00      0.00      67  btrfs-cleaner
03:04:46 AM     0   4017182   9656.00 119680.00      0.00      17  btrfs-transacti

doing something.

Also, simple internal DB stats commands to take LOOOOONG time (should be kinda 50 milliseconds, not 43 seconds )

| 46092 | exporter_user   | localhost       | NULL      | Query   |    43 | starting | SHOW SLAVE STATUS  |

Update 2:

Had a lot of stalls for show slave status. I gu

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

After all his first name is No-vac

Welcome to The (Not So) Daily Planet!

Comment below with discussion on the releases this week or the question of the week. Try to reply to others instead of starting new threads on the same topic. Keep the conversations civil and have fun!

Announcement: Keeping /r/Superman open and welcoming for all

Current Book Club: Superman Unchained: Deluxe Edition (The New 52) | (Nominate and vote for the next one!)

Question of the Week

Would you prefer Superman stories focus more on Clark Kent than they already do?

(Join our Discord to discuss further!)

Feel free to suggest future weekly questions!

#Comic Singles

Superman: Son of Kal-El #6 >Superman has recovered from the devastating attack against him. After the life-changing events of issue #5, Jon Kent and his new ally Jay Nakamura are ready to strike back. They are on a collision course with the type of power that is used to swatting problems out of the way. But Superman is not so easily swatted!

Preview

Justice League Incarnate #3 >Doctor Multiverse is caught in the clutches of Darkseid! To save her, President Superman, Flashpoint Batman, and the rest of the Justice League Incarnate team up with Earth-41 heroes Spore and Nimrod Squad; meanwhile, a villain from Multiversity returns to stake their claim on the crack in the Multiverse and the power that lies beyond.

Preview

Justice League Infinity #7 >The entity released from the Mirrored Room has accomplished its goal and is erasing the Multiverse and all of existence once and for all. In a last-ditch effort, using all his willpower, John Stewart saves what friends he can. Trapped in a construct bubble, the team works to formula

What, then, is Chinese rap?

Edit:

Notable mentions from the comments:

• Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits

• French/Finnish art

• Country/Canadian rap

• Chinese/Country/Canadian rock

• Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap

There hasn't been a single post this year!

(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)

Bob

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "