Wow, you are so wrong. The human body (and our microbial friends in our stomachs) are extremely good at digesting food. For any reasonable amount of food, KJ in = KJ stored + KJ expended.
It doesn't matter if it's fruit or Coke, you keep those calories. Plus, there is more energy in a banana than in the same weight of Coke.
One GREAT advantage it has over your bog-standards filesystems like NTFS and ext4 is its copy-on-write architecture, and the essentially free and near-instant snapshot system it provides.
When you take a snapshot of a filesystem, it simply makes a copy of the superblock. All of the space on the devices remain marked as in-use, and both snapshots share exactly the same physical storage.
When you make a change to one of the snapshots, it simply writes the changed blocks to a different location on the underlying devices and leaves the still-in-use original block alone.
This is completely correct. By having knowledge of all layers, ZFS is able to easily offer features that other systems don't.
One of my favourites what happens when you set a filesystem to keep two copies of a file. Instead of placing the second copy on a random device determined by the RAID layer, it will attempt to ensure that all blocks from one device are placed on the adjacent device.
The advantage of that is non-obvious at first glance, but what it means is this: When two devices in the JBOD fail, instead of corrupting all the files when *any* two devices fail, it means you will only have corruption when two *adjacent* drives fail.
In a 5-device JBOD, that means the chance of corruption when the second device fails drops from ~100% to 25%.
So with this API stuff, what you are proposing is that all systems should be divided up into functional blocks, where every block has a single logical purpose, and that savvy users are able to chain these functions together however they see fit to suit their purposes?
Where have I heard this idea before? Oh yeah... it's called The Unix Philosophy.
Indeed. It does seem like she is more likely to favour people more like her (ie. competant in their profession or hard-working) over those who had their success via luck or inheritance.
Apartheid itself was not a social contract. However, the dominant social contract of South Africa at the time was constantly violated to the detrement of black and coloured people. If the contract is violated by either party, it becomes void.
Or keep in mind the book's 1995 sequel, "I am Spock", where Nimoy acknowledges that the character of Spock was part of his identity, and explain that he hadn't realised how people would read the title without reading the book.
You say: projector screens, something bright enough
I say: wall, no matter what projector
Pray tell, what model of projector would work on say, a 50% grey painted wall and still give decent color reproduction? What house paint works as well as a projector screen?
What is this mythical reasonably-priced projector that will work as well as a cinema projector, in a normally lit room?
projectors cannot possibly do black
We just went over this... Once again, rather than pretending to be in an H G Wells novel, address the fucking argument. Do you have an example of a projector set up that gives better contrast than a modern TV in reasonable light conditions.
Uh, yeah, that's what we mean by 'contrast ratio'? We are saying that even if your room is pitch black, the contrast ratio between the the white wall and the white light will be WORSE than the contrast ration on any modern TV.
And you can of course easily provide some darker surface to project upon
Dude, do YOU understand how light works? If you have a grey wall instead of a while wall, it means that no matter what projecter you use, you will never have white.
True, except that in practice to DDOS any target of a reasonable size, you need to hack several thousand PCs to create a botnet. The alternative is you pay someone who has a botnet to DDOS for you.
In any case, a DDOS requires a hack, even if you were not the one to do it.
You do know a spellchecker is for spelling, right? As in it's hard to misspell camera-man as cameraperson, while at lease camerawoman has the same number of letters?
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You are not exactly wrong, just slightly. 10 000 kcal of bananas is about 10 kg.
10 000 kcal is 25 litres of Coke, or 5 kg of avocados, or 4 kg of Big Macs.
None of those amounts are reasonable to consume.
Wow, you are so wrong. The human body (and our microbial friends in our stomachs) are extremely good at digesting food. For any reasonable amount of food, KJ in = KJ stored + KJ expended.
It doesn't matter if it's fruit or Coke, you keep those calories. Plus, there is more energy in a banana than in the same weight of Coke.
No he's not, LEARN TO READ ffs.
When Chevy says that they're truck
He's saying that you shouldn't believe someone who says they are a truck. They are LYING to you, they are actually just a person in a truck outfit.
Wait, what?
> assuming that this might not have happened on the Moon
I can't find this quote anywhere in the summary or the story. Where did you get it?
One GREAT advantage it has over your bog-standards filesystems like NTFS and ext4 is its copy-on-write architecture, and the essentially free and near-instant snapshot system it provides.
When you take a snapshot of a filesystem, it simply makes a copy of the superblock. All of the space on the devices remain marked as in-use, and both snapshots share exactly the same physical storage.
When you make a change to one of the snapshots, it simply writes the changed blocks to a different location on the underlying devices and leaves the still-in-use original block alone.
This is completely correct. By having knowledge of all layers, ZFS is able to easily offer features that other systems don't.
One of my favourites what happens when you set a filesystem to keep two copies of a file. Instead of placing the second copy on a random device determined by the RAID layer, it will attempt to ensure that all blocks from one device are placed on the adjacent device.
The advantage of that is non-obvious at first glance, but what it means is this: When two devices in the JBOD fail, instead of corrupting all the files when *any* two devices fail, it means you will only have corruption when two *adjacent* drives fail.
In a 5-device JBOD, that means the chance of corruption when the second device fails drops from ~100% to 25%.
I run ZFS on any / every machine I can, server or not. That is one filesystem where the features outweigh all possible concerns.
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I thought Lisa gave the best answers, expecially to the basic logic questions.
precedes 11 previous ones in California in the preceding twelve months.
No grammar nerding needed, that sentence should annoy anyone with a basic understanding of English.
Indeed it was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So with this API stuff, what you are proposing is that all systems should be divided up into functional blocks, where every block has a single logical purpose, and that savvy users are able to chain these functions together however they see fit to suit their purposes?
Where have I heard this idea before? Oh yeah... it's called The Unix Philosophy.
No, you are not.
Thalidomide work great for almost all users. The unborn fetuses of the users were what was affected.
Except of course in the many European places where they require KJ to be displayed instead.
Indeed. It does seem like she is more likely to favour people more like her (ie. competant in their profession or hard-working) over those who had their success via luck or inheritance.
Apartheid itself was not a social contract. However, the dominant social contract of South Africa at the time was constantly violated to the detrement of black and coloured people. If the contract is violated by either party, it becomes void.
Almost... there are several ways to opt out of the contract, like renounce citizenship and move into a society that has no social contract.
It's not even the choice of tools, they seem to willfully misuse the languages to get poor results.
Or keep in mind the book's 1995 sequel, "I am Spock", where Nimoy acknowledges that the character of Spock was part of his identity, and explain that he hadn't realised how people would read the title without reading the book.
You say: projector screens, something bright enough
I say: wall, no matter what projector
Pray tell, what model of projector would work on say, a 50% grey painted wall and still give decent color reproduction? What house paint works as well as a projector screen?
What is this mythical reasonably-priced projector that will work as well as a cinema projector, in a normally lit room?
projectors cannot possibly do black
We just went over this... Once again, rather than pretending to be in an H G Wells novel, address the fucking argument. Do you have an example of a projector set up that gives better contrast than a modern TV in reasonable light conditions.
the BRIGHTEST aspects of the image are so bright
Uh, yeah, that's what we mean by 'contrast ratio'? We are saying that even if your room is pitch black, the contrast ratio between the the white wall and the white light will be WORSE than the contrast ration on any modern TV.
And you can of course easily provide some darker surface to project upon
Dude, do YOU understand how light works? If you have a grey wall instead of a while wall, it means that no matter what projecter you use, you will never have white.
They are called 419 because that's the law that makes them *legal*.
The number "419" refers to the article of the Nigerian Criminal Code dealing with fraud. So, no, that does not make them legal.
True, except that in practice to DDOS any target of a reasonable size, you need to hack several thousand PCs to create a botnet. The alternative is you pay someone who has a botnet to DDOS for you.
In any case, a DDOS requires a hack, even if you were not the one to do it.
He said:
Remember that SSDs are relatively slow at writing compared to reading
You said:
Relatively slow compared to what, it's own read speeds?
So... yes?
You do know a spellchecker is for spelling, right? As in it's hard to misspell camera-man as cameraperson, while at lease camerawoman has the same number of letters?