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when you need to store a bunch of data forever and don't need frequent access or rewriting. in fact no rewriting is a feature, not a bug. it can't be tampered with
That's my understanding anyway. It's kinda the digital equivalent of paper records.
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when you need to store a bunch of data forever and don't need frequent access or rewriting. in fact no rewriting is a feature, not a bug. it can't be tampered with
That's my understanding anyway. It's kinda the digital equivalent of paper records.
Yep. Sony recently developed a technology that can store 185tb on a single, HDD-sized tape.
Rubber duck debugging is totally a thing. I've had the sudden idea of how to fix a bug by talking about my code so many times.
I have done this with my sister. It basically goes:
"HEY SO I AM HAVING TROUBLE WITH THIS FUNCTION, IT IS TERMINATING EARLY WITHOUT RECURSING PAST THE TENTH TIME AND OH WAIT I GET IT THANKS SEE YOU LATER"
"Wait what's a function? uh ok whatever you're welcome?"
when you need to store a bunch of data forever and don't need frequent access or rewriting. in fact no rewriting is a feature, not a bug. it can't be tampered with
That's my understanding anyway. It's kinda the digital equivalent of paper records.
Yep. Sony recently developed a technology that can store 185tb on a single, HDD-sized tape.
and you can swap that tape out of the drive, and go store it in a crate somewhere without the expensive drive hardware
running a server farm just to archive a bunch of documents would be a huge waste
when you need to store a bunch of data forever and don't need frequent access or rewriting. in fact no rewriting is a feature, not a bug. it can't be tampered with
That's my understanding anyway. It's kinda the digital equivalent of paper records.
Yep. Sony recently developed a technology that can store 185tb on a single, HDD-sized tape.
Right, but my nostalgic Asimov reference was relating to the fact they all computer media was on tape in those books
And, when a character received the equivelent of an email, it simply printed out on a strip of tape
Overall, though? That entire world, starting with the I, Robot stuff, was amazing
Oh neat, thanks! Thinking about cleaning up an old .22 rifle as a favor, need resources.
CLP is pretty universally recommended as a solvent, lightly RemOil after
Old Marlin or something?
No idea to be honest. I don't think there's any brand markings on it but I'd have to check to be sure. I googled marlin rifle and it sort of looks like this
But without that little bit of metal to the upper left of the bolt handle. Otherwise it looks v similar, except the safety is in front of the bolt handle.
It fires pretty well and is way accurate. However, the safety is pretty loose, it needs a fair bit of force to chamber a round and, there's some rust on the outside of the barrel. I'd like to take it apart, clean it, and tighten the safety, but want to take a look at some how-tos before I go fucking around with it.
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Tell me about it. I'm in quarantine in a poorly-lit room with my cat. I never want to go to work again because my office is a constant petri dish for disease.
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Tell me about it. I'm in quarantine in a poorly-lit room with my cat. I never want to go to work again because my office is a constant petri dish for disease.
It's the first saturday night off in three weeks and I'm spending it just lying here watching the beginnings of dull bbc documentaries
Half of my saturday afternoons I feel like the slow intro buildup of "I Gotta Feeling" by the Black-Eyed Peas is playing, and the other half I feel lonelier than uh, like, my elbows, never having been tongued
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and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
A Canadian university study has found that using the Adblock Plus browser extension can save between 25 and 40 percent network bandwidth if deployed across an internal enterprise network.
The study tested the ability of the Adblock Plus extension, popular amongst web users who want to block ads being displayed, in reducing IP traffic when installed in a large enterprise network environment, and found that huge amounts of bandwidth was saved by blocking web-based advertisements and video trailers.
Considering clickthrough rates in the single digits, that's a pretty massive amount of bandwidth that is essentially wasted if you look at the purely technical aspect.
Can confirm. 40% is a high estimate, but I do regularly see measurable reductions in bandwidth utilization when we implement a web filter that includes ad-blocking. It's usually more in the 5%-10% range.
Generally this is done simultaneously with blocking social media - Facebook is almost always the largest source of web traffic in an organization, followed by YouTube. The combination of adblocking+Facebook+YouTube often reduces overall bandwidth use by 20% - 30%.
Blocking Youtube? That's just fucking mean.
It's a huge bandwidth sink. Most employees have smartphones - if you want to watch a video or stream music, use your own bandwidth.
Fucking around on the internet is part of the compensation package. It's what you get in return for being forced to stick around 9-5 5 days a week.
@shryke I'm taking this to chat because it's off-topic.
I'm a huge proponent of letting people use the interwebs at work for personal stuff. I always fight any effort by management to block sites like Reddit or ESPN, and usually I win those fights. But YouTube is not a hill I will die on.
The problem is that, in terms of financial impact, YouTube isn't like free coffee. It's more like stealing office supplies. If it were only one person taking a ballpoint pen home, once in a while, it wouldn't be a big deal. When it's everybody, every day, that becomes a significant cost.
The usual retort is "buy more bandwidth." What most non-technical employees don't realize is that 100Mb/s on your home Internet connection isn't the same thing as 100Mb/s on an enterprise Internet connection. Your home connection is best effort - there's no guarantee you'll get the bandwidth you're paying for on any given day. There's no guarantee that you'll get low latency and jitter. If it goes down, there's no promise it will be repaired in any given timeframe.
Getting an Internet connection with guaranteed performance and repair time costs enormously more than getting Internet for your home. Ten times as much, minimum. Sometimes more than that. Sometimes we have to pay thousands or tens of thousands of dollars just to get the local telecom company to run additional fiber to the building. And we're trying to manage this very expensive bandwidth across dozens or hundreds of users in each building.
Sometimes we can do clever stuff like bring in a cheap cable Internet line and segregate web browsing traffic onto it, leaving the expensive fiber for business-critical tasks. But then that becomes a question of: how much of the Cisco engineer's salary do we want to dedicate to making sure you can watch cat videos?
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
1) Citizen Kane starts with the immortal line, "Rosebud". Eagle-eyed viewers might see that this mystery is totally spoiled by the last shot of the movie.
There was a party I could have gone to. But I was very much not feeling that crowd. This is just a day where it's hard to be psyched about anything. If L wanted to hang that'd be something to be psyched about, but since she's busy, I guess I'll just be bored.
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this is not a post about masturbation fyi hth
when you need to store a bunch of data forever and don't need frequent access or rewriting. in fact no rewriting is a feature, not a bug. it can't be tampered with
That's my understanding anyway. It's kinda the digital equivalent of paper records.
CLP is pretty universally recommended as a solvent, lightly RemOil after
Old Marlin or something?
Yep. Sony recently developed a technology that can store 185tb on a single, HDD-sized tape.
I have done this with my sister. It basically goes:
"HEY SO I AM HAVING TROUBLE WITH THIS FUNCTION, IT IS TERMINATING EARLY WITHOUT RECURSING PAST THE TENTH TIME AND OH WAIT I GET IT THANKS SEE YOU LATER"
"Wait what's a function? uh ok whatever you're welcome?"
and you can swap that tape out of the drive, and go store it in a crate somewhere without the expensive drive hardware
running a server farm just to archive a bunch of documents would be a huge waste
Good. I need to backup my mixtapes.
Right, but my nostalgic Asimov reference was relating to the fact they all computer media was on tape in those books
And, when a character received the equivelent of an email, it simply printed out on a strip of tape
Overall, though? That entire world, starting with the I, Robot stuff, was amazing
And chew a bunch up. Then find a really big crispy chip. And put the chewed up chip on that big chip then eat the whole thing.
is that weird
Then you could fasten them together. Taped mixtape tapes.
And maybe you mess a few up.
Taped mistake mixtape tapes.
Hey you tried hallucinogenics?
affirmative
edit: no judging tho
No idea to be honest. I don't think there's any brand markings on it but I'd have to check to be sure. I googled marlin rifle and it sort of looks like this
It fires pretty well and is way accurate. However, the safety is pretty loose, it needs a fair bit of force to chamber a round and, there's some rust on the outside of the barrel. I'd like to take it apart, clean it, and tighten the safety, but want to take a look at some how-tos before I go fucking around with it.
I get in trouble for that
Tell me about it. I'm in quarantine in a poorly-lit room with my cat. I never want to go to work again because my office is a constant petri dish for disease.
Call your bosses nerds.
It's the first saturday night off in three weeks and I'm spending it just lying here watching the beginnings of dull bbc documentaries
Soldier just hopped through a window, then used a sword to dunk upon an enemy soldier who was smugly camping right outside
10/10 would XCOM again
That said, I still fucking hate them.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
nailed it
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Adult me. Wants to know. About it.
But
This guy really didn't like the Russian arts infrastructure of the day, did he
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maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
@shryke I'm taking this to chat because it's off-topic.
I'm a huge proponent of letting people use the interwebs at work for personal stuff. I always fight any effort by management to block sites like Reddit or ESPN, and usually I win those fights. But YouTube is not a hill I will die on.
The problem is that, in terms of financial impact, YouTube isn't like free coffee. It's more like stealing office supplies. If it were only one person taking a ballpoint pen home, once in a while, it wouldn't be a big deal. When it's everybody, every day, that becomes a significant cost.
The usual retort is "buy more bandwidth." What most non-technical employees don't realize is that 100Mb/s on your home Internet connection isn't the same thing as 100Mb/s on an enterprise Internet connection. Your home connection is best effort - there's no guarantee you'll get the bandwidth you're paying for on any given day. There's no guarantee that you'll get low latency and jitter. If it goes down, there's no promise it will be repaired in any given timeframe.
Getting an Internet connection with guaranteed performance and repair time costs enormously more than getting Internet for your home. Ten times as much, minimum. Sometimes more than that. Sometimes we have to pay thousands or tens of thousands of dollars just to get the local telecom company to run additional fiber to the building. And we're trying to manage this very expensive bandwidth across dozens or hundreds of users in each building.
Sometimes we can do clever stuff like bring in a cheap cable Internet line and segregate web browsing traffic onto it, leaving the expensive fiber for business-critical tasks. But then that becomes a question of: how much of the Cisco engineer's salary do we want to dedicate to making sure you can watch cat videos?
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Hmmm
This does face directly onto one of the rush hour main roads into Glasgow, though
Dear God what a lovely flat. If it's half as nice and bright as the pictures show, I'd say go for it!
12 movies that spoil themselves at the end
1) Citizen Kane starts with the immortal line, "Rosebud". Eagle-eyed viewers might see that this mystery is totally spoiled by the last shot of the movie.
ok, but then there will be judging
I won't be angry, just... very disappointed
Sounds reasonable.
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