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Hmm, I hadn't considered that doubling the drive size doubles the resilver time and therefore doubles the exposure time for risk of array loss. I guess the math gets complicated de…

Of note, assuming that decommissioning of drives is driven primarily by e.g. space concerns rather than signs of impending individual drive failures (which seems to be the case bas…

If hard drives increase in capacity while maintaining the same MTBF, does this count as an improvement? If you previously stored your data on 10 drives and now you can store the sa…

I thought that it was a log10 scale, so each increment of 1 on the scale is a 10-fold power increase, not a 10^1.5-fold.

In a similar vein, some of my colleagues have been feeding their scientific paper methods sections to LLMs and asking them to implement the method in code, using the LLM's degree o…

The author notes that the resulting Rust port is not very "rusty", but I wonder if this could also be solved through further application of the same principle. Something like telli…

DNA methylation means adding one or more methyl groups to the DNA, so technically it is an alteration. But most people would assume that altering a gene specifically means changing…

I can't speak for every institution, but our PR department does as many back and forth passes as it takes for the scientists who did the work to sign off that any edits made still …

Describing a change to DNA methylation "alters" a gene is technically correct in the sense that it is an change to the molecular structure of the DNA that makes up the gene, but is…

Imagine you have the text of a book in a word processor. You can change the text by typing new words or deleting ones that are there. You can also change the font, size, alignment,…

I think they're also confusing power and energy, or at least not clearly distinguishing between them, with phrases like "enough to power X houses".

Are they breaking the law? I don't love that they're requiring either payment or allowing cookies, but at least they're fully disclosing that and giving you the choice. I'm pretty …

Did you roll your own die or just trust that Randall's original die roll was sufficiently random?

There actually are checklists you have to fill out when publishing a paper. You have to certify that you provided all relevant statistics, have not doctored any of your images, hav…

Does anyone know where I can see one of these screens in person? I'm interested in potentially owning one for reading comics, graphic novels, etc., but I'd really like to see what …

It has an alternate low-power mode that only provides a few basic functions (presumably phone, text, maybe a basic web browser?). When running in "regular" Android mode it won't re…

I believe the equivalent term used in English (exhibited in the new translation) is "natural", short for "natural expansion", which refers to the obvious location where the player …

Presumably it's directed at anyone writing an article for public consumption.

> car thefts To be specific, I don't think the cities are suing over the car thefts. If I understand correctly, they're suing because the availability of easily hacked Kia cars ena…

Unfortunately KDE Connect prevents one of my devices from ever sleeping (IIRC it was my Tab S6 Lite w/LineargeOS), resulting in only a few hours of battery life, so I had to stop u…

Are you arguing that property rights should be based exclusively on calling "dibs" by building something on the land? If I see someone not using their front lawn, should I build my…

It's not just unstable, it's a security issue because control over CPU voltage allows someone to use that instability to compromise computations that are supposed to be performed s…

I don't know what the typical usage pattern is, but when I've used Perplexity, I generally do click the relevant links instead of just trusting Perplexity's summary. I've seen plen…

I dunno what the interface looks like, but couldn't they hand the AI the entire stack of resumes and tell it to give them the N best ones?