Maybe, look for "Butterfly effects[1]" happening around you, i.e., small insignificant events that have huge, enormous after-effects.

Essentially, if there were a system that could send information from the future to the past, the future agent would want to be "as discreet as" possible, while still achieving "nearly perfect" outcome. Note that the future agent has the advantage of reiterating over and over his/her choices, because, well, the "future-future" he/she can still send a signal to his/her past about want went wrong the previous time.

This happens to be a common plot for a lot of various time-travel movies and TV shows like Dark, Umbrella Academy, etc.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect

> While education systems in west are focused towards collaboration, Indian education system makes them compete against each other like wild dogs.

P.S.: the "competition" is just for entrance to these premier Indian colleges. I guess, the same would hold true if you want to enter prestigious U.S. colleges like Stanford, Harvard, Yale, or any other Ivy League colleges. Of course, in India, the number of students applying is vastly different, which is what makes it super competitive.

> "However, when I am searching for a pressure cooker, it would be great to go to a centralized repository of ads and look through who markets this sort of thing the best and may be have some objective reviews along with it..."

Isn't this similar to what Amazon Marketplace does? Of course, they do allow advertisers to promote their stuff, but apart from a top few sponsored content, rest all are ranked by reviews (or so they say).

Funnily enough this kind of advertising has an adverse effect on me: Showcasing your product as sponsored content at the top of the search results at Amazon, as well as Google or the App Store, suggests that this is a subpar product that needs to pay to be relevant. I’m not sure how common this attitude is, but by now I subconsciously ignore these ads.

Of course there are also brands and products I know and like, which appear in these ads, but I see them as an exception, as a shining pearl in a sea of mediocrity, and continue to regard sponsored content as a strong indicator for lacking quality.

Great post! In my own experience of working with NFS version 4 servers, we discovered several bugs that have been actually fixed in latest version of kernels. The unfortunate thing is that most enterprises still run old CentOS / Redhat release kernels that although are stable, but yet lack several of these fixes.

I don't have a lot of experience with NFS aside from a few machines that don't see insane use, but it's surprising to me how v4 implementations seem to introduce such instability. I had an experience a few years ago with a Mac client, quitting vim would cause a kernel panic. NFS v3 did fine.

Red Hat usually backports those sorts of fixes to their old-looking kernel versions.

NFS is normally fairly modern, as thats the reason that you pay for a RHEL licences, its the host fix should you run into a bug like this.