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Number of newborns in Japan falls to record low in 2019

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The number of babies born in Japan totaled 865,234 in 2019, down 53,166 from the previous year and marking the lowest level on record, government data showed Friday.

The nation's total fertility rate -- the average number of children a woman will bear in her lifetime -- decreased 0.06 point to 1.36, according to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.

Meanwhile, the number of deaths in the reporting year stood at 1,381,098, the highest since the end of World War II.

As a result, the number of deaths outnumbered births by 515,864, marking the biggest margin of fall since comparable data were made available in 1899.

@Dashrender said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@nadnerB said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

I don't know why, this reminds me of The Fifth Element

Because that was the name of the priest?

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

I saw every episode of that as a kid.

Same

Maybe these will also help (a bit older though):

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1006810 (speaks to VMFS 3 and 5 but not 6)

http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2011/03/08/thin-provisioned-disks-and-vmfs-fragmentation-do-i-really-need-to-worry/

So each VM is NOT a single file in VMFS. Each VMDK file is really just a virtual disk characteristic file. The data disk is a -flat.vmdk file (even though we usually don't think of having both of these files when we say VMDK).

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc/GUID-CEFF6D89-8C19-4143-8C26-4B6D6734D2CB.html

Paging @StorageNinja for insight on this one...

Trying to get to the boot menu of a Dell PowerEdge 2650.

@Grey said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

I saw every episode of that as a kid.

I added them to my plex.

Oh shit, now I have plans for tonight!

@Grey said in Growing VM disks:

At what point is there a diminishing return?

There never is one. Unlimited fragmentation is assumed in modern storage systems. The overhead of it, if there is any (generally there is none) is already absorbed.

Powering down a Windows Server 2003 R2 host and it is suddenly trying to apply.... TWENTY FIVE updates.

Holy crap, WTF.