13of40

29 ms·

361.
by 13of40 4y ago
Didn't there used to be a version of this that was RAM plus a mechanical hard disk it would get dumped to when powered down? ("hybrid hard disk" seems to mean SSD+Mechanical now.)
362.
by 13of40 4y ago
When I was a kid, my dad worked for the government in a handful of fairly remote places, and even though I could dial in to places like TOTSE and The WELL, it cost a ton of money in long distance fees. As a result, there was always incenti
363.
by 13of40 4y ago
I had a similar thing happen a few years ago when I bought my house. There was a guy the same age as me with the same name who had defaulted on his mortgage, and I had to sign a statement saying I wasn't him. The funny thing was, I l
364.
by 13of40 4y ago
> How do they work? A debugger is basically a very complicated exception handler that can, with the help of the kernel, intercept exceptions from other processes and access their memory. (This is for Windows, but I would guess that Linu
365.
by 13of40 4y ago
I'd go a step further and say that there will be times when you can sit across the table from a grown adult and explain to them the behind the scenes details of the performance review process, explain that you want them to do X Y and Z
366.
by 13of40 4y ago
I think a springloaded center punch to each of the chips would do a pretty good job of it. https://www.harborfreight.com/spring-loaded-center-punch-621...
367.
by 13of40 4y ago
...and how that compares to the energy loss you'd have from resistance in a regular cable.
368.
by 13of40 4y ago
Delete all the files then "dd" from the random device until the drive is full? Must we always jump straight to the hydraulic press?
369.
by 13of40 4y ago
I'm not sure it actually failed. These stores work by having AI track customer actions via camera, and over the last couple of years they've gotten a ton of data and domain knowledge from them. It isn't hard to imagine that
370.
by 13of40 4y ago
I'm struggling to see the world from your point of view. Do you honestly believe there's a room full of cigar smoking robber barons somewhere in Redmond who got together and told the devops guy who runs that site to break compati
371.
by 13of40 4y ago
I told it "Here is a shell prompt, try running a command..." then copied its command into the shell, copied the output back into ChatGPT, with the prompt "Here's the output, try another" and so on.
372.
by 13of40 4y ago
I just tried getting ChatGPT to interact with a command prompt on my machine. It managed to: 1. Create a directory. 2. Put a text file in it. 3. Try to move the file into a nonexistent directory. 4. Based on the error message, create the t
373.
by 13of40 4y ago
I think their point is the opposite - it's *not* trivial to make the computer click the correct "Download Now!" button to get Minecraft versus the other 4 that lead to malware.
374.
by 13of40 4y ago
IIRC, there were two kinds of cancellation ink - black and red. The black just dissolved in isopropyl alcohol, but red was permanent. Probably the result of some cost / benefit analysis.
375.
by 13of40 4y ago
When I was a kid it was an actual thing to know how to lift postage stamps off of envelopes with rubbing alcohol so they could be reused to mail pirate floppy disks to your friends. Try explaining that to a kid today and they'll think
376.
by 13of40 4y ago
This is a perfect use case for hyperlinks.
377.
by 13of40 4y ago
A little town I know has maintained their antique telephone exchange for going on 40 years, and one of the features is that they have a block of numbers that lead to all the error messages. (541-447-0054 for example) For a while I redirec
378.
by 13of40 4y ago
What you said got me wondering about whether you could fix that by adding some vinegar, which led me to this interesting article: https://www.clemson.edu/extension/food/canning/canning-tips/... Tl;dr yo
379.
by 13of40 4y ago
> But it wouldn't surprise me if it was found out that the culture of PIP and Stack Ranking helped to select for the ones that are best at navigating the corporate culture in the way I described above. Well, when you get down to it,
380.
by 13of40 4y ago
That's a fair point, but based on my experience I don't think most people are as deliberate as that. I've survived more layoffs than I care to count over the years, and it's always seemed like there were plenty of peopl
381.
by 13of40 4y ago
I think you're misunderstanding the point. "Social capital" isn't another way to say "happy workers". There's probably a ton of it in a gulag, for example. It's better for a prisoner to know who ca
382.
by 13of40 4y ago
Not saying whether I believe it or not, and I personally work remote 100%, but one of the arguments for RTO is that remote work diminishes "social capital" in a company, where the social capital of a company is the combined value
383.
by 13of40 4y ago
I'm not sure what it's like at Amazon, but I expect they're in a similar situation as the place I currently work, which is that probably a third of the talent has simply moved away and doesn't even have the option of com
384.
by 13of40 4y ago
I've always wondered if you could do something with dot-matrix-on-aluminum-foil. It wouldn't look the prettiest and the information density would be low, but it seems like it would be cheap and last forever.
385.
by 13of40 4y ago
Presumably they've refined the equipment by now, but this guy seriously injured his hands with x-rays around the turn of the previous century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihran_Kassabian
386.
by 13of40 4y ago
I stayed in Verdun for a couple of nights on a trip through France last year. I explored the forest a bit, and noticed there are two kinds of rocks on the ground: White, chalky ones and brown ones. The brown ones are fragments of artiller
387.
by 13of40 4y ago
Something else conspicuously missing from these services is a checkbox to make it never show me something again. Why do I have to scroll through an endless line of "nope", "nope", "nope", "definitely not&
388.
by 13of40 4y ago
If you carry a calculator in your pocket, but if you're just casually converting, 3 feet per meter is pretty good. 100 square meters is about 1000 square feet as well. Not legal for tax purposes, but good enough to understand how big
389.
by 13of40 4y ago
Funny story: I was in Spain several years ago and was talking to a guy I met about sailboats. I mentioned I had a boat, and he asked how big. I thought for a second and said "7 meters" so as not to be an ignorant American. He
390.
by 13of40 4y ago
Xerox comes to mind as well.

More ›