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by Latty 4y ago
Using common, well-understood terms is bad writing?
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by Latty 4y ago
Looking at Backblaze's stats, it's true WD are a little better off, but not by a huge amount. If you care about a single drive dying, then yeah, buy WD I guess, but at the same time, I can't imagine a sane case to rely on any
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by Latty 4y ago
WD was kinda the worst for putting it into their NAS product line though, I don't think any of the others were that bad. You are right though, hard drives are kinda all much the same.
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by Latty 4y ago
> I am so sick and tired of the copyright laws that play counter to productive creation and stymying efforts to preserve anything. Very much this. Copyright was a hack that was meant to encourage creation. I feel like it often does the
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by Latty 4y ago
For consumer devices that don't need much RAM, that makes sense, but for servers, I imagine it'll end up as more of an (optionally) tiered set-up, if you look at the Sapphire Rapids chips with HBM on, they can be run with only tha
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by Latty 4y ago
For sure, not saying there are no issues (sound, shadows, etc...) especially when very close, but some people object to them literally just being in sight, which is wild to me.
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by Latty 4y ago
Often the kind of thing people hate for a while, and then with enough time becomes iconic and you'd probably end up with an article about how they were debating whether to preserve it or not as it aged. I think about this a lot when it
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by Latty 4y ago
Just as Valve are making Linux way more viable for gaming, there are still pain points if you are into certain stuff with anti-cheat that doesn't like it, as I understand it, but for my use case, my Steam Deck plays everything I pers
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by Latty 4y ago
It isn't really true that DHCP and DNS are coupled, it's just a common feature for power user routers as it's convient. There are options for IPv6: PFSense, as an example, has "Assisted" RA mode where devices can us
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by Latty 4y ago
Graphite thermal pads are available for consumers (e.g: Thermal Grizzly Carbonaut, IC Diamond Graphite) which offer similar performance (within 5°C) to paste without this issue.
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by Latty 4y ago
Fair, although given M.2 is just PCI-E, a quick search on aliexpress shows adapters for under a fiver, might be the best route to a known good option (assuming those adapters aren't problematic themselves, but they should be simple, al
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by Latty 4y ago
I mean, my experience has been that they tend to come with ones that have good support, but I accept this may be a lack of familiarity with the low end of the market, although given how cheap the Intel ones are, I'd suspect the low end
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by Latty 4y ago
I feel like this used to be a bigger issue, now virtually all motherboards have an M.2 A/E key slot for a wifi card and the Intel ones are pretty bulletproof and dirt cheap, in my experience.
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by Latty 4y ago
I don't think comparing chiplet sizes by summing the area is a good way of doing it, because smaller nodes cost more and have lower yield, and smaller individual chiplets mean way less loss per-wafer, as the bigger the size of a single
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by Latty 4y ago
Hence AMD using different process nodes for the stuff that scales and the stuff that doesn't at the same time with their chiplets, so they can get the best of both worlds.
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by Latty 4y ago
The thing is, it's not v6 or v4, it's v6, v4 with a price premium, or v4 with CGNAT. CGNAT sucks. Stuff blocks you because you get lumped in with other users. You can't take inbound connections. Average users don't know
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by Latty 4y ago
Gender expression (the norms you talk of) is distinct from both gender identity and biological sex, and identity doesn't prescribe them. The difference is you are saying identity has to be prescribed by biological sex. If you want to g
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by Latty 4y ago
Why? If someone said that about adoptive parents, would you just accept that?
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by Latty 4y ago
Have you come to the same conclusion for parenthood? Are adopted children not real, and we must not refer to their adoptive parents as "parents"? You understand why that is hateful, right? Biology may be a fact, but we can, and do
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by Latty 4y ago
When it comes to medicine, people not realising something applies to them can have negative health outcomes. Trying to produce the language that ensures everyone can understand if something applies to them is valuable. To be clear: I don&#x
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by Latty 4y ago
Whenever people make this big deal about undermining the meaning of biology by using gender identity as the center of everyday language, all I can think is it's literally no different to adoption, which we all accept. An adoptive paren
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by Latty 4y ago
Indeed, literally no one is saying people can't use these words if they identify with them either, it's just about using the most inclusive terms in the general sense by professionals trying to communicate with broad groups that w
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by Latty 4y ago
My instant thought is that this is an accessibility nightmare of an idea.
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by Latty 4y ago
Clearly it's not a huge deal, but it's still preferable. Not having to route for SATA drives thanks to the rise of M.2 is often praised by people who build PCs, and it's a similar kind of deal. A new spec that is more conveni
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by Latty 4y ago
I get that, but if we can provide a safe single cable option, it's clearly preferable for a number of reasons. I don't believe this converter being badly made means the whole spec is not viable.
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by Latty 4y ago
The dongle is a short-term conversion because people have old PSUs. In the long term this standard will be built into modern PSUs and it becomes a single cable.
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by Latty 4y ago
With the context of Elon saying it, yes. Diverse views where the views are all reasonable is one thing, allowing extremists a platform to misinform and radicalise is not. Elon has made it clear he thinks extremist rhetoric such as Trump&#x2
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by Latty 4y ago
Ah yes, the classic "MOLEX to SATA? Lose your data!".
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by Latty 4y ago
Buildzoid is great, but worth noting he has a very specific perspective which is that of a hardcore enthusiast (hence the name of the channel), and he often points that out, but here I think he ends up kinda just saying "why not just s
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by Latty 4y ago
I mean, firstly just that consumers hate having to plug in a ton of cables: it's bad for aesthetics, it's annoying to manage the cables, etc... The bigger reason is probably to save board space as nvidia have been shrinking the fo

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