So we built a harness that drives fleets of Sprites through write, checkpoint, sleep, wake and restore, over and over, verifying every byte that comes back. We pointed it at 400 JuiceFS Sprites for about 5,000 cycles. A nonzero number of them permanently lost the ability to checkpoint. Well … fuck.
Enter: the Sprites Block Device (SBD). It takes a bucket and presents it to the Linux kernel as a block device, over NBD. The Sprite formats that device as ext4 and mounts it, the same way you’d mount a disk on any Linux box. Duh.
This blog has has a strange vibe like "the last BRAWNDO we made in a bathtub may or may not have killed some customers lmao, try NEW BRAWNDO 2.0 TODAY!" that I didn't realize could work for corporate messaging around an in-house CoW cloud filesystem.
dangoodmanUT•1h ago
Except seeing sentences like this:
> The difference is that a Sprite now stops and says so instead of carrying on with a disk it can’t vouch for
Makes it feel distinctly LLM written. Maybe I'm being RL'd to identify LLM authorship, maybe the author was RL'd to write like that by reading so many Claude-written works, but I'd like to see the humanity of fly.io blog posts come back.
pixl97•1h ago
People seem to forget that LLMs copied human writing. They also tended to copy people with more proper or formally trained writing styles. There are so many journalists and writers that talk about how they've had to 'stupify' how they write so they don't get accused of being an LLM.
It's like we're running idiocracy on fast forward.
Banditoz•56m ago
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masfuerte•20m ago
yodon•43m ago
Remember how pre-AI everyone used to complain about hating how this or that website hijacked scrolling? Countless words were written about hijacked scrollbars and back buttons. Zero conversations were improved by the comments and zero websites were changed as a result. It was just complaining.
"Boo hoo AI" is the same kind of low-effort, complain about everything while adding nothing to the conversation post.
Instead, try to say something more substantive than "I found a word or phrase that I think was AI."
pixl97•34m ago
It's just ironic to me how so many people are confidently incorrect about it, we are the LLMs in this case spouting 'facts' that we are sure of.
tom_•25m ago
bmacho•9m ago
I wish we got more such replies like that to articles. This is a confusing times, and social interaction helps in several ways.
> People seem to forget that LLMs copied human writing.
This is literally not true, but more importantly the conclusion you use it for is blatantly false.
dspillett•1h ago
As anti-AI as I am, people pointing out that they've spotted an AI are getting quite tiresome too. If you think people won't spot it without you telling them, then it is good enough for them no matter who or what generated it.
0gs•56m ago
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jedbrooke•15m ago
*: Except for the “Random label: sentence that has nothing to do with the label” construct. That one drives me crazy and it makes no sense
direwolf20•13m ago