We are still a democracy, the problem is that half of us are idiots.
Uhm, all of Trump voters, all of Hillary voters, all of Green voters, a good part of voters for other parties... and skipping the vote isn't smart either. That means assuming that only half of us are idiots is a gross underestimate.
Aye, especially a keyboard and a sane operating system are a must. You'd have to go over my dead body to take away my N900, even though it's getting really long in the tooth (like, no usable graphical browser: MicroB can't handle any SSL anymore, modern browsers can't run in 256 total RAM with only ~100ish left after Nokia's crap), but is good enough that sometimes I do several hours long hacking sessions in the bed without even bothering to get to the big computer a few meters away.
Neo900 is an expensive piece of vapourware with ancient specs. Keyboard attachments for Android dumbphones are useless. Proper replacements are also vapourware (Pyra, Minotaur One. I've gambled $380 for a Gemini, but there are doubts even whether they'll deliver, chances for a proper mainline kernel rivallling those of a snowcone in hell.
Why should US English be the only consideration of a multinational company?
Because I have yet to see a project, proprietary or free, translate a non-trivial piece of software in a way that doesn't make a native speaker wonder "what the hell this means?" for 2/3 or more menu entries/etc.
Yeah, mutt is awesome when communicating with anyone with a clue. For business people, though, you do need a HTML-capable client. Beside the obvious (reading HTML-only mails), there actually exist recipients who get spooked when they receive plain text.
The worst case used to print out my mails, mark up comments with pen, scan it, paste as a BMP image into a Word document, then send this as an attachment to a mail with no text titled "sending e-mail message" (Word's default?). I shit you not! After getting this multiple times, a cow orker conjectured that probably her mail client went into plain text edit mode when responding to a recipient detected as "unable to read HTML", this looked different enough from the HTML mode that she couldn't manage it and instead went for a way she knew.
Thus, while I use mutt nearly exclusively, I keep Thunderbird running as a glorified biff and a tool for viewing HTML mails.
more than a few Bernie fans who were so disillusioned that they voted for Trump in the end.
Even after seeing what he did during the first 100 days, I still think the cheeto was a slightly better choice than the Mother of Lies. And that both compare unfavourably to Cthulhu/Dagon.
The problem with you Americans is that your electoral scheme is made so no sane party is currently viable. You have a party that says attack helicopter is a gender and that straying a single word off their orthodoxy makes you worse than Hitler, and a party that says everything that disagrees with their sky fairy is wrong despite any evidence to the contrary. It's quite mind-boggling why a third party won't pop up and have 90% votes immediately (ie, anyone with a shred of brain left).
Do you mean for example Ireland? They keep bending over and ignoring their own and EU law to do as Apple wishes, I don't see them to raise the anti-trust issue.
In a sane country or in a sane time period, perhaps. Both Hitlary's and Drumpf's parties have their positions on that "anti-trust" thingy firmly set: pay your share of bribes^Wcampaign donations, and no anti-trust law can apply to you.
Uhm, no. Skim "milk" is made by separation, "whole" milk undergoes filtering but no separation. Here's a simplified graph.
And around here (a 50k town, Poland), shops don't even carry skim water anymore, and often don't carry 2% demilked "milk" either. Even poor people don't buy that crap. On the other hand, I wonder why UHT milk imitation products still exist...
skim "milk" is not milk, it's water with white colouring. So is that "1%" stuff. Even that 3.2% stuff what's the best of what's readily commercially available is nowhere close to actual milk.
Around my place, a couple decades ago, farmers tried selling milk directly to consumers, which got wildly popular but got cracked down on hard. As at the time it was still customary to boil milk before use, it wasn't unsafe, either.
The last version of Windows that obeyed your update settings was XP.
Current state is, after a forced or semi-forced update, you need to reboot (which takes half an hour), boot to Windows, wait an hour while "your PC is applying settings", then reboot to Windows again, wait another hour while it's "reverting updates".
Much faster to just do a block copy of the Windows partition and restore it from the backup whenever this happens. I don't give it more than 100GB so the restore goes fast.
A more interesting feature might be a firmware update to a spinning disk that cuts the drive capacity exactly in half. Basically a hard drive is going to have probably double the drive read heads as platters. Just store a copy of the data on a different head/platter surface, ideally, if possible, on a different platter. Add the firmware update to deal with the details. 1/2 the capacity, 1/2 the data rate, but some degree of added redundancy.
You're looking for btrfs -dDUP then. It does what you describe, and unlike any other filesystem except ZFS, the data is checksummed so it can be recovered even in case of a silent corruption (which happens way more often than people notice).
Obviously you want the same for metadata (-mDUP) which happens to be the default for rotational media. This pretty much renders the format described in the article pointless -- metadata corruption due to hardware failures that don't kill the entire disk is pretty much gone.
This doesn't quite work on typical flash media, though -- often the FTL will remap writes and put them into the same erase block, meaning you lost performance and capacity for no safety gain.
So the only failure mode this protects from is corruption of metadata while every data block remains intact. On any sane filesystem, that sounds useless: the only cases this might happen are filesystems that can't handle unclean shutdown (FAT, ext2) or the disk lies about barriers. And those cameras that still use FAT have software you can't update, so you can't install that SBX thingy -- if you could, you'd be better off switching to a better filesystem.
In its present state, I'd suggest you scrap the whole project, it's a waste of time.
On the other hand, it would be an entirely different story if you added some form of erasure code that operates on amounts of data bigger than a single sector (most storage devices already have per-sector erasure codes).
There's no way it can. LUKS is great but it wastes tons of disk space on vms.
It can! Just turn on discard (and have the system inside issue trim commands). This does have an impact on encryption, though, which might or might not be acceptable for you: it is possible to tell used from unused disk space, which leaks information about usage patterns inside the VM.
I was given an 80-column, 24-line text terminal to the department microVax
And I'm typing these very words on a 79-column 25-line text terminal on a N900, using elinks. It's too much pain to use a graphical browser with only 256MB ram (built-in microB is insecure, unmaintained and can't even do SSL anymore; modern "slim" browsers need 1-2GB minimum), elinks works fine.
Still better than a modern Android/iJunk dumbphone.
Everyone not a complete beginner knows about POSIX, and that complying with it from the start is not hard and will save you portability pains in the future. You'd need to be some node.js bozo or a systemd coder to ignore that (yes, Lennart WONTFIXes header inclusion patches).
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We are still a democracy, the problem is that half of us are idiots.
Uhm, all of Trump voters, all of Hillary voters, all of Green voters, a good part of voters for other parties... and skipping the vote isn't smart either. That means assuming that only half of us are idiots is a gross underestimate.
Aye, especially a keyboard and a sane operating system are a must. You'd have to go over my dead body to take away my N900, even though it's getting really long in the tooth (like, no usable graphical browser: MicroB can't handle any SSL anymore, modern browsers can't run in 256 total RAM with only ~100ish left after Nokia's crap), but is good enough that sometimes I do several hours long hacking sessions in the bed without even bothering to get to the big computer a few meters away.
Neo900 is an expensive piece of vapourware with ancient specs. Keyboard attachments for Android dumbphones are useless. Proper replacements are also vapourware (Pyra, Minotaur One. I've gambled $380 for a Gemini, but there are doubts even whether they'll deliver, chances for a proper mainline kernel rivallling those of a snowcone in hell.
Why should US English be the only consideration of a multinational company?
Because I have yet to see a project, proprietary or free, translate a non-trivial piece of software in a way that doesn't make a native speaker wonder "what the hell this means?" for 2/3 or more menu entries/etc.
Just like cpl. Hicks has a nice solution for all systemd, Oracle, Microsoft and Apple problems, in this case let's listen to The Bard.
Yeah, mutt is awesome when communicating with anyone with a clue. For business people, though, you do need a HTML-capable client. Beside the obvious (reading HTML-only mails), there actually exist recipients who get spooked when they receive plain text.
The worst case used to print out my mails, mark up comments with pen, scan it, paste as a BMP image into a Word document, then send this as an attachment to a mail with no text titled "sending e-mail message" (Word's default?). I shit you not! After getting this multiple times, a cow orker conjectured that probably her mail client went into plain text edit mode when responding to a recipient detected as "unable to read HTML", this looked different enough from the HTML mode that she couldn't manage it and instead went for a way she knew.
Thus, while I use mutt nearly exclusively, I keep Thunderbird running as a glorified biff and a tool for viewing HTML mails.
If the policy is limited to Levenshtein 1 or 2, you can just brute force the comparison.
And even that's with them WONTFIXing the vast majority of valid reports.
more than a few Bernie fans who were so disillusioned that they voted for Trump in the end.
Even after seeing what he did during the first 100 days, I still think the cheeto was a slightly better choice than the Mother of Lies. And that both compare unfavourably to Cthulhu/Dagon.
The problem with you Americans is that your electoral scheme is made so no sane party is currently viable. You have a party that says attack helicopter is a gender and that straying a single word off their orthodoxy makes you worse than Hitler, and a party that says everything that disagrees with their sky fairy is wrong despite any evidence to the contrary. It's quite mind-boggling why a third party won't pop up and have 90% votes immediately (ie, anyone with a shred of brain left).
Do you mean for example Ireland? They keep bending over and ignoring their own and EU law to do as Apple wishes, I don't see them to raise the anti-trust issue.
The anti-trust implications
In a sane country or in a sane time period, perhaps. Both Hitlary's and Drumpf's parties have their positions on that "anti-trust" thingy firmly set: pay your share of bribes^Wcampaign donations, and no anti-trust law can apply to you.
Uhm, no. Skim "milk" is made by separation, "whole" milk undergoes filtering but no separation. Here's a simplified graph.
And around here (a 50k town, Poland), shops don't even carry skim water anymore, and often don't carry 2% demilked "milk" either. Even poor people don't buy that crap. On the other hand, I wonder why UHT milk imitation products still exist...
skim "milk" is not milk, it's water with white colouring. So is that "1%" stuff. Even that 3.2% stuff what's the best of what's readily commercially available is nowhere close to actual milk.
Around my place, a couple decades ago, farmers tried selling milk directly to consumers, which got wildly popular but got cracked down on hard. As at the time it was still customary to boil milk before use, it wasn't unsafe, either.
The last version of Windows that obeyed your update settings was XP.
Current state is, after a forced or semi-forced update, you need to reboot (which takes half an hour), boot to Windows, wait an hour while "your PC is applying settings", then reboot to Windows again, wait another hour while it's "reverting updates".
Much faster to just do a block copy of the Windows partition and restore it from the backup whenever this happens. I don't give it more than 100GB so the restore goes fast.
"Airat Bashirov" sounds a bit different from "Dmitry Bogatov" to me. I also suspect the former might be not quite the real name of the poster.
Yeah, I should have had it archived in three different locations, but who actually does that for personal data?
From what I've seen, a typical intelligent person learns about the importance of backups after around 30 data loss events.
A more interesting feature might be a firmware update to a spinning disk that cuts the drive capacity exactly in half. Basically a hard drive is going to have probably double the drive read heads as platters. Just store a copy of the data on a different head/platter surface, ideally, if possible, on a different platter. Add the firmware update to deal with the details. 1/2 the capacity, 1/2 the data rate, but some degree of added redundancy.
You're looking for btrfs -dDUP then. It does what you describe, and unlike any other filesystem except ZFS, the data is checksummed so it can be recovered even in case of a silent corruption (which happens way more often than people notice).
Obviously you want the same for metadata (-mDUP) which happens to be the default for rotational media. This pretty much renders the format described in the article pointless -- metadata corruption due to hardware failures that don't kill the entire disk is pretty much gone.
This doesn't quite work on typical flash media, though -- often the FTL will remap writes and put them into the same erase block, meaning you lost performance and capacity for no safety gain.
So the only failure mode this protects from is corruption of metadata while every data block remains intact. On any sane filesystem, that sounds useless: the only cases this might happen are filesystems that can't handle unclean shutdown (FAT, ext2) or the disk lies about barriers. And those cameras that still use FAT have software you can't update, so you can't install that SBX thingy -- if you could, you'd be better off switching to a better filesystem.
In its present state, I'd suggest you scrap the whole project, it's a waste of time.
On the other hand, it would be an entirely different story if you added some form of erasure code that operates on amounts of data bigger than a single sector (most storage devices already have per-sector erasure codes).
There's no way it can. LUKS is great but it wastes tons of disk space on vms.
It can! Just turn on discard (and have the system inside issue trim commands). This does have an impact on encryption, though, which might or might not be acceptable for you: it is possible to tell used from unused disk space, which leaks information about usage patterns inside the VM.
Thanks! Now I know I can trust ftp:// and gopher:// links to be safe!
I was given an 80-column, 24-line text terminal to the department microVax
And I'm typing these very words on a 79-column 25-line text terminal on a N900, using elinks. It's too much pain to use a graphical browser with only 256MB ram (built-in microB is insecure, unmaintained and can't even do SSL anymore; modern "slim" browsers need 1-2GB minimum), elinks works fine.
Still better than a modern Android/iJunk dumbphone.
OOXML is also an "ISO standard", and it's both about as standard or useful as Adobe XMP.
Everyone not a complete beginner knows about POSIX, and that complying with it from the start is not hard and will save you portability pains in the future. You'd need to be some node.js bozo or a systemd coder to ignore that (yes, Lennart WONTFIXes header inclusion patches).
taxi company
There. FTFY.
Nope. Uber is very scummy, but still worlds above any taxi company. Those bastards need to die.
Piracy sites -- they deserve special protection, as they're very likely to be disappeared against their owner's wishes.
Image boards -- a glimpse into ephemeral content is worth keeping, even if you miss most of it.
Domain parking -- I agree with you, they're 100% spam. But they're the primary reason such deletion must not be retroactive.
Needs Java. That's a show stopper
Not needs. It has some extra Java doodads that you could install had you a nasty mental breakdown.
On Debian, it's not even a Recommends but a mere Suggests. On Windows, the checkbox is ticked by default but you can clear it.