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If it can be made small enough for use in mobile devices, I wonder whether the need for air/oxygen might require compromising on water-tightness. Would an oxygen permeable waterpro…

That's essentially how mega.io works. The browser encrypts before upload, and the key is added to the download URL. When downloading, the browser uses the key in the URL for local …

Yeah, my guess is that they roll out the updates to every client at the same time, and then have the client implement the n-1/2/whatever part locally. That worked great-ish until t…

Also, screwing over the minnows who are willing to spend some money is a huge gift to the competition. If another product grabs a large portion of the market, and now has more reso…

Possibly desirable for optimal image quality, sure, but taking pictures is not the only use for a telescope. Many things just require knowing how much light is present, and how tha…

For #2 - Assuming it's not a spotting scope or similar, filtering IR wouldn't have much benefit. An IR filter might even hurt for the typical star gazing type usage, depending on t…

ESXi needs the RAID to be handled by another device, the simplest case is a hardware RAID card with disks locally attached to it. You can also attach remote disks/volumes from othe…

It's not as easy as playing with more 'normal' stuff, but I usually use VMs on a local hypervisor like ESXi, or a bunch of old desktop/server hardware if I have enough space/power/…

Think of all the monetization possibilities - The AI could secretly teach your parrot to speak about how it would prefer a different (specific) brand of food, or that you should re…

My experience is similar; I have my personal email, which has been in use since the early 00s, in almost plain text (@ replaced with ) on the about page of a fairly popular site wh…

The $30-50 zenni glasses/lenses in my experience are actually substantially clearer than the (absolute ripoff) $400-500 rayban ones. Same prescription, and the zenni ones even arri…

Haven't looked into it, but it sounds like it would work similarly (with some nice benefits such as also being able to easily store other metadata/etc). Feasibility would depend on…

I do exactly that for storing the result thumbnails for some of the dbs in my reverse image search engine (SauceNAO). Non compressed zip files allow quickly/easily seeking to and a…

May be more directly related to the CPU/etc load and HW age rather than software. If the phone's battery is older, it may not be able to keep up with the bursty power draw, which c…

From what I understand, there is significant variance in how bitter it is to different people. As an example, I can lick a switch cartridge and just get a slight tingly sensation, …

In the case of botulism toxin, it's actually the opposite. The spores are extremely resistant to temperature, but the toxin can be destroyed by boiling at normal temp/pressure unti…

Just 'spitballing', but if the restraints are adequate, the compression of flesh may act to slow down and spread out the force of the accident to a certain degree. Bruising may be …

I know mine was chronically low in Magnesium. The first indicator which got my attention and pointed to a potential problem was that taking a multi vitamin would make me feel _much…

Getting and storing the content is one of the main challenges, and it's getting harder by the day with more and more sites using anti bot stuff from companies like Cloudflare. With…

It's far worse than just being able to listen to music, with the right receiver and software you can decode the image from the monitor. Here's a quick overview. https://hackaday.co…

But they are though, the parity data calcs being corrupted in that first example caused data corruption during a scheduled array check while the system was under unusually heavy lo…

A lot of things in computing are overwhelmingly stupid or assume everything will work as expected. I have experienced several data corruption events related to parity data being re…

I was thought I was replying to a general comment made about behaviors of filesystems in general and was attempting to clarify that. We obviously disagree about how safe and reliab…

I did not mention ZFS specifically. If ZFS has better handling of this kind of thing, that's great, but if you can't trust your memory to be correct you can't trust the data in buf…

I did not specifically mention ZFS anywhere in my comment, bad memory corrupting data being actively changed remains a problem for any filesystem. If the filesystem is actively cha…