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Falsehoods programmers believe about time

This is a compiled list of falsehoods programmers tend to believe about working with time.

Don't re-invent a date time library yourself. If you think you understand everything about time, you're probably doing it wrong.

Falsehoods

There are always 24 hours in a day.
February is always 28 days long.
Any 24-hour period will always begin and end in the same day (or week, or month).

ProxMox Cluster - Soup-to-Nutz

aka what i did to get from nothing to done.

note: these are designed to be primarily a re-install guide for myself (writing things down helps me memorize the knowledge), as such don't take any of this on blind faith - some areas are well tested and the docs are very robust, some items, less so). YMMV

Purpose of Proxmox cluster project

Required Outomces of cluster project

Running Plex in an Unprivileged LXC with Intel QuickSync Passthrough

First setup an unprivileged Ubuntu container with Plex Media Server installed. Inside the container take note of the id of the plex group.

# Your Plex group's ID may be different
$ getent group plex | cut -d : -f3
998

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	# Default values for percentages
	DEFAULT_WIRED_LIMIT_PERCENT=85
	DEFAULT_WIRED_LWM_PERCENT=75

	# Read input parameters or use default values
	WIRED_LIMIT_PERCENT=${1:-$DEFAULT_WIRED_LIMIT_PERCENT}
	WIRED_LWM_PERCENT=${2:-$DEFAULT_WIRED_LWM_PERCENT}

	replace: XCTAssertNil\((.*)\)
	with: #expect($1 == nil)

	replace: XCTAssertNotNil\((.*)\)
	with: #expect($1 != nil)

	#!/bin/bash
	VIDEOS=$(ls *.mp4)
	for VIDEO in $VIDEOS
	do
	ffmpeg -i $VIDEO -vcodec libx265 -crf 28 -f mp4 ${VIDEO%%.*}_compressed.mp4
	done

	import kotlinx.serialization.json.JsonObject
	import kotlinx.serialization.json.jsonObject

	fun JsonObject.addUpdateJsoObject(updateJsonObject: JsonObject): JsonObject {
	return JsonObject(
	toMutableMap()
	.apply {
	updateJsonObject.forEach { (key, je) ->
	put(key, je)
	}

	#!/bin/bash

	function die() {
	echo "${1}"
	exit 1
	}

	which printf > /dev/null 2>&1 \|\| die "Shell integration requires the printf binary to be in your path."
	which sed > /dev/null 2>&1 \|\| die "Shell integration requires the sed binary to be in your path."

	// Chi-like syntactic sugar layer on top of stdlib http.ServeMux.
	package main

	import (
	"net/http"
	"slices"
	)

	type (
	middleware func(http.Handler) http.Handler