Do you have an alternate theory as to what the various pots were made for? The techniques and resources needed to gather "a little fat/oil" and use them to make pottery seem, to me, to have a good bit of overlap with cooking.
Anything that happens only inside peoples’ minds is in a pretty tough realm to study. It’s okay to be afraid of it or to assume it doesn’t mean anything, but it would be really stretching “skepticism” to say that people don’t have visions/hallucinations of all kinds in response to meditative practice. You’d just be using “falsifiability” to avoid feeling uncomfortable.
I didn't get the impression that the author was suggesting to throw out the old APIs. It seems to me like the article is a proof of concept of new approaches that could be added as new APIs, only expected to be used by people who need them, using an approach that takes advantage of modern storage technology.
> "Random access may have to wastefully read larger blocks of the data than are actually requested by the application. The unused data gets cached, but if it's not going to be accessed any time soon, it means that something else got wastefully bumped out of the cache. Sequential access is likely to make use of an entire block."
I may have misread it, but I thought he addressed this in the article.
> "Random access files take a position as an argument, meaning there is no need to maintain a seek cursor. But more importantly: they don’t take a buffer as a parameter. Instead, they use io_uring’s pre-registered buffer area to allocate a buffer and return to the user. That means no memory mapping, no copying to the user buffer — there is only a copy from the device to the glommio buffer and the user get a reference counted pointer to that. And because we know this is random I/O, there is no need to read more data than what was requested."
Modern usage of “evolution” sometimes conflates “change of the organism over time or a lineage between generations” with “Darwinian selection”. Sexual selection is an easy example of evolution that’s not due to Darwinian “natural” selection.
How does the body "up there" manage itself without being able to sense and interact with the physical (and chemical) world?