Zandikar

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by Zandikar 4y ago
> Both can be true at once. Which is why I asserted both statements to be true side by side. It was in fact the entire point of my comment. Things are worse overall for the end user as a result of both divergent experiences being simulta
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by Zandikar 4y ago
> there has been a shift to prioritize the experience of the end users I was mostly on the same page with you till I got to this phrase. My immediate reaction to this was laughing in disbelief. The internet has never been more outright h
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by Zandikar 4y ago
> now nobody seems to care anymore, I presume you're talking about layman consumers here. > because endurance hasn't turned out to be a significant issue It used to be a big issue. Keep in mind SSD capacities were pretty s
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by Zandikar 4y ago
Samsung rates their QVO (QLC flash) at about 0.36 DWPD for 5 years which works out to over 600 disk mean writes before failure. Even if we half that that's still easily 3x high end HDD's, with superior drive health monitoring and
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by Zandikar 4y ago
That's what tape is for and not the usecase in question.
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by Zandikar 4y ago
No. Premium flash (Write Endurance optimized flash) is far far far superior to HDD's for endurance and reliability. And modern flash controllers are far better at providing granular and detailed health statistics of cells/device
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by Zandikar 4y ago
> I'd still get a hard drive for videos and backups rather than pay $25. So would everyone who's only motivation for buying storage is $/TB and nothing else. The vast majority of those people think 8 or even 80TB is alot
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by Zandikar 4y ago
Depends. If you're trying to use it as a drop in replacement for a Scratch/Boot/Database drive, sure. That'd probably not be a good plan. But if you consider HDD's are primarily deployed in WORM or WFRM (Write Few,
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by Zandikar 4y ago
That would be a death knell for hard drives if they could actually get it that cheap (~$25/TB). In addition to obvious benefits for consumers, More and more in the enterprise space (which is the dominant buyer of HDD unit purchase volu
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by Zandikar 4y ago
I mean, our X-15 was a manned hypersonic aircraft (by a good margin of the minimum 5x speed) in the 1960's, and ICBM's have been guided unmanned long range hypersonic munitions since a similar era, just to name a few. We have plen
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by Zandikar 4y ago
>That is totally unacceptable, nearly totally preventable loss of lives at scale. Agreed. > No, we don’t have to “live with it” as it currently hurts us. Yes, we do. That ship has loooooong since sailed and sunk. > Humans naturally
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by Zandikar 4y ago
Yeah, it has to be a joke right? Or this is a rather Stunning Dunning-Kruger case. I'll add to Django and NumPy that Python is a dominant presence in Machine Learning (pytorch for example) as another example of "something more int
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by Zandikar 4y ago
It does not. I typically like KSR's works and appreciate the "dry" technical detail he often injects, but not with MotF. The book stands entirely on it's first chapter. That first chapter is definitely worth the read, an
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by Zandikar 4y ago
Exactly. People asking for more penetration/range are asking for higher power devices that interfere with each other. In an increasingly interconnected and "smart" world, where even doorbells and light bulbs are networked, yo
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by Zandikar 4y ago
Agreed, I'd love to see some data on that claim, and for it to be in context with the friction a new design has against an existing userbase when a design change occurs. I get that as time goes on, functionality, usecases, userbases, d
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by Zandikar 5y ago
> You claimed the reason why Blu Ray won was mostly because it was bundled with the PS3 And Sony's partnerships with media companies, yes. Both of these are true. > PS3 sold about 87.3 million while xbox 360 sold about 84 million
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by Zandikar 5y ago
Being earlier doesn't mean it has a better value proposition. It just means it had an opportunity for entrenchment before a competitor can bring their product to market. Had they successfully leveraged that opportunity, that would be
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by Zandikar 5y ago
Bluray was generally superior yes. It wasn't flat out better in all ways, but it was at least on parity if not better to HD-DVD. Cost wise, it depends on what exactly we're talking about (Cost of disc, cost of licensing, etc), but
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by Zandikar 5y ago
completed in 1989, with a 6th reactor added in 1995. For what it's worth, the russian convoy is firing on the administrative building, not the power units themselves, but I don't know specifically what is in said admin bldg or wha
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by Zandikar 5y ago
https://twitter.com/AlexandruC4/status/1499546302786510853 more recent firing, from about 15minutes ago as well.
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by Zandikar 5y ago
> I'm sure Microsoft knew buying Activision would not give them any of Destiny or Bungie. Microsoft's first clue that they wouldn't be getting Bungie is that Activision didn't own Bungie (it was a partnership over the
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by Zandikar 5y ago
Yes. The connectors have different lengths, as some are internal and some are external interfaces, both of which are part of the chain in transferring data from storage device in one host to a storage device in another host. The point was t
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by Zandikar 5y ago
I've been ranting about this for a while tbh. Network interfaces used to be one of the fastest interfaces on a computer. Now they're one of if not the slowest save for USB2 or bluetooth. 1GbE networking is one of the slowest inter
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by Zandikar 5y ago
And just to follow up for anyone who may genuinely be wondering: Yes. Yes they were. Not quite as ubiquitous or well known as "9/11" is today, but they were up there with the statue of liberty as far as Icons of NYC and to a
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by Zandikar 5y ago
And? That's only relevant if it's their own name, or potentially if something falls under the purview of the Académie Française, and even then, that requires you to care what the Academy thinks. There is more than one canonical wa
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by Zandikar 5y ago
Indeed. I'm well aware of how the creator wants me to say it. I reject his reality and substitute my own.
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by Zandikar 5y ago
Best example for these juxtapositions is asking them how they pronounce "Gift" vs "Gif".
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by Zandikar 5y ago
Pretty much actually. Most layman regard Web3 as a joke at best, and more often a scam. Most of those same people know little, if anything, about Web3 beyond a general association with crypto, regardless of whether that association is merit
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by Zandikar 5y ago
You're making the flawed assumption that these other investors and players in the market have performed sensibly and are not in a similarly difficult position. This is probably not the case. The question is not only what the financial
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by Zandikar 5y ago
Correct, that has been my experience as well. It has nothing to do with the transaction/charge limit or them rejecting prepaids.

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