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With HDDs, it's also mechanical wear and increased chance of a failure. SSDs are not fully immune to increased load either.

Generally, it's possible to have data which is not corrupted but which is logically inconsistent (incorrect). Imagine that a directory ZAP has an entry that points to a bogus objec…

Even RDIMM / LRDIMM prices have recently started going up. And I thought that those would be safe, because neither "big AI" nor regular consumers need them.

Used RDIMM / LRDIMM prices have also started going up, quickly.

I remember it as borsch with nettle. Nettle was one of the first green things in the spring, just after snow melted. Nettle borsch was cooked just like the regular one but with net…

In practice, it's not as easy as it may sound.

Yeah, in a place where they live. Whatever it happens to be (and doesn't have to stay the same).

I agree that it's most stupid and most annoying kind of localizing. I search for some specific product (or other information), get a link to an English version of the page (and per…

Protecting children from real or perceived threats, temptations, evil things, etc was much easier in the physical world. In the virtual world it's much harder to put up fences.

ZFS is part of the OS on FreeBSD. Integrated more tightly in every respect.

That was back then when people believed in their country, in republic and democracy...

> If you own a house you are part of a Ponzi scheme in most developed nations. Not unless you explicitly choose to. If you own a house to have a roof above you, to have a comfortab…

100 cable "faults", but only 2/3-rd are from ships. And, then, how many of those have been in the Baltic Sea in prior years? 66 incidents per year sounds like a lot, but there are …

Rad idea: limit H-1B to product companies, exclude consulting / body-shop companies.

Want you or not, there will be a Putin's successor. No one is immortal.

You may find esp-link interesting: https://github.com/jeelabs/esp-link I've built a WiFi RS232 bridge using the firmware, ESP8266 and a UART RS232 converter module. All hardware is…

Those wars do affect climate. They do affect global economy.

The point was probably to reduce accidental casualties. Also, the wounds can be quite severe. Finally, a device like a pager cannot hold a lot of explosive substance in its spare s…

Hamas terrorists boarding commercial airplanes? With their secret pagers on them? Somehow I don't think so.

Well, if growing or breeding bigger oxen were as feasible as building bigger (mower powerful) computers was/is, perhaps people would take a different path? In other words, perhaps …

Telegram blah blah, according to Telegram.

Pavel Durov is a social media? I thought he was a human being.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdV0AdgjPgo

How much would you value a soldier riding one of those?

E.g., to press Ctrl-(Shift)-V and replace the selection with something you copied (to the buffer / clipboard) earlier?