Remarkably, that somehow makes it slightly less ugly, if inly for breaking up the optical lines and making it look less like a drivable polygon. Then again, anything from a 90s geometric pattern to WWI dazzle camouflage would’ve had the same effect while being more dignified.
Okay, perhaps not dignified. It’s a Cybertruck.
Interesting in principle but they could’ve hidden their LLM use better. This passage is a bit of a giveaway:
Here’s a polished section you can insert into your article (it fits naturally after the Sync Phase section):
Of course since the writer has a company called “SQLite AI”, they probably think of LLM fingerprints as a sign of quality.
GUI disk space analyzers are absolutely amazing.
For those who prefer KDE and/or donut graphs, Filelight has you covered.
They’re not all that afraid of what’s out there. They spend most of their time trying to make friends and messing things up by acting like American tourists.
In fact, most of the reason for why humanity is so powerful towards the end of the show is that several of the powerful species have befriended humanity and have given their tech to them.
It’s still milprop but milprop that places a surprisingly large emphasis on diplomacy and dealing with people in good faith. You know, what the USA typically don’t do.
The annoying bit is that sharing a series of cryptic shell commands is typically the most efficient way of telling someone how to get things done and of keeping them from wandering off in the GUI and doing something else instead.
This…
# dos2unix your-file.ini | crunchmeister-cli frobulate -d 9 --exclude-preflight alpha,delta --wank > ~/.config/somethingd/frobulated.dat && systemctl --user restart somethingd
…could be the equivalent of this.
- Convert your raw data INI file to UNIX file endings using an appropriate tool (outside the scope of this tutorial)
- Launch CrunchMeister
- Enter the Frobulation section and navigate to Custom Frobulation
- In the Input Data tab, upload the UNIXified INI file and set the data level to Full, with semicolons
- In the Preflight tab, ensure that the Alpha and Delta packages are deselected. Starting with CrunchMeister 5.7, the Delta package is found under the Additional packages expander
- In the Frobulate tab, enable wankness and hit the Frobulate! button
- Save the resulting file to your disk
- Launch Something Service Manager (install first if nor present)
- Click New frobulated data file
- Select the file you saved in step 6
- Click Reload service
It’s still cryptic, though. You can’t have everything.
I saw the term “bio resonance” and immediately knew that this ostensible medical practitioner couldn’t get in touch with reality if they used a special reality-seeking pole constructed from a thousand dousing rods.
I used to work adjacent to the medical field, close enough to have to deal with a certain kind of medical practitioner a lot. For some reason, that part of medicine attracts people who believe in the supernatural so I’m familiar with bullshit from anthroposophy to quantum healing.
That shit gets real wild real fast. Bio resonance is already terrible (it’s basically the same kind of bullshit Scientology’s “E-meters” pretend to do but now as a “therapeutic” device with thirty buttons). But the worst must be quantum healing.
In quantum healing, actually seeing the patient in person is not necessary. Neither is knowing a lot about the patient. In fact, the less the practitioner knows, the better. Just give them a picture and a really vague description of the symptoms and the person (or pet; it “works” for those, too), and the practitioner will do something at some point in the future that will have some positive effect on either the person or the universe as a whole, even if it’s not obvious. Source: Trust me, bro.
And they charge real money for that shit. Real medical practitioners who went to real university and have a real degree in human medicine.
Absolutely incredible.
I run Garuda because it’s a more convenient Arch with most relevant things preinstalled. I wanted a rolling release distro because in my experience traditional distros are stable until you have to do a version upgrade, at which point everything breaks and you’re better off just nuking the root partition and reinstalling from scratch. Rolling release distros have minor breakage all the time but don’t have those situations where you have to fix everything at the same time with a barely working emergency shell.
The AUR is kinda nice as well. It certainly beats having to manually configure/make obscure software myself.
For the desktop I use KDE. I like the traditional desktop approach and I like being able to customize my environment. Also, I disagree with just about every decision the Gnome team has made since GTK3 so sticking to Qt programs where possible suits me fine. I prefer Wayland over X11; it works perfectly fine for me and has shiny new features X11 will never have.
I also have to admit I’m happy with systemd as an init system. I do have hangups over the massive scope creep of the project but the init component is pleasant to work with.
Given that after a long spell of using almost exclusively Windows I came back to desktop Linux only after windows 11 was announced, I’m quite happy with how well everything works. Sure, it’s not without issues but neither is Windows (or macOS for that matter).
I also have Linux running on my home server but that’s just a fire-and-forget CoreNAS installation that I tell to self-update every couple months. It does what it has to with no hassle.
To quote that same document:
Figure 5 looks at the average temperatures for different age groups. The distributions are in sync with Figure 4 showing a mostly flat failure rate at mid-range temperatures and a modest increase at the low end of the temperature distribution. What stands out are the 3 and 4-year old drives, where the trend for higher failures with higher temperature is much more constant and also more pronounced.
That’s what I referred to. I don’t see a total age distribution for their HDDs so I have no idea if they simply didn’t have many HDDs in the three-to-four-years range, which would explain how they didn’t see a correlation in the total population. However, they do show a correlation between high temperatures and AFR for drives after more than three years of usage.
My best guess is that HDDs wear out slightly faster at temperatures above 35-40 °C so if your HDD is going to die of an age-related problem it’s going to die a bit sooner if it’s hot. (Also notice that we’re talking average temperature so the peak temperatures might have been much higher).
In a home server where the HDDs spend most of their time idling (probably even below Google’s “low” usage bracket) you probably won’t see a difference within the expected lifespan of the HDD. Still, a correlation does exist and it might be prudent to have some HDD cooling if temps exceed 40 °C regularly.
Hard drives don’t really like high temperatures for extended periods of time. Google did some research on this way back when. Failure rates start going up at an average temperature of 35 °C and become significantly higher if the HDD is operated beyond 40°C for much of its life. That’s HDD temperature, not ambient.
The same applies to low temperatures. The ideal temperature range seems to be between 20 °C and 35 °C.
Mind you, we’re talking “going from a 5% AFR to a 15% AFR for drives that saw constant heavy use in a datacenter for three years”. Your regular home server with a modest I/O load is probably going to see much less in terms of HDD wear. Still, heat amplifies that wear.
I’m not too concerned myself despite the fact that my server’s HDD temps are all somewhere between 41 and 44. At 30 °C ambient there’s not much better I can do and the HDDs spend most of their time idling anyway.
When I first read that I read it as lobsters hunting teeth.
Please don’t crack open my molars.
It’s important to learn your definitions.
Aro ace: Aromantic, asexual.
Aero ace: Shot down five other planes in war while flying a plane.
Arrow ace: Acquired every skill known to man by spending five years on an abandoned island, most of which wasn’t actually spent on the island.
No, poppers are various alkyl nitrites. Hydrofluoric acid is a different thing altogether. It has no psychoactive properties but will give you nasty chemical burns.