agapon

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by agapon 9mo ago
With HDDs, it's also mechanical wear and increased chance of a failure. SSDs are not fully immune to increased load either.
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by agapon 9mo ago
Generally, it's possible to have data which is not corrupted but which is logically inconsistent (incorrect). Imagine that a directory ZAP has an entry that points to a bogus object ID. That would be an example. The ZAP block is intact
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by agapon 10mo ago
Even RDIMM / LRDIMM prices have recently started going up. And I thought that those would be safe, because neither "big AI" nor regular consumers need them.
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by agapon 10mo ago
Used RDIMM / LRDIMM prices have also started going up, quickly.
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by agapon 11mo ago
I remember it as borsch with nettle. Nettle was one of the first green things in the spring, just after snow melted. Nettle borsch was cooked just like the regular one but with nettle instead of cabbage.
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by agapon 11mo ago
In practice, it's not as easy as it may sound.
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by agapon 1y ago
Yeah, in a place where they live. Whatever it happens to be (and doesn't have to stay the same).
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by agapon 1y ago
I agree that it's most stupid and most annoying kind of localizing. I search for some specific product (or other information), get a link to an English version of the page (and perhaps the only one). But when I follow the link I get r
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by agapon 1y ago
Protecting children from real or perceived threats, temptations, evil things, etc was much easier in the physical world. In the virtual world it's much harder to put up fences.
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by agapon 2y ago
ZFS is part of the OS on FreeBSD. Integrated more tightly in every respect.
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by agapon 2y ago
That was back then when people believed in their country, in republic and democracy...
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by agapon 2y ago
> If you own a house you are part of a Ponzi scheme in most developed nations. Not unless you explicitly choose to. If you own a house to have a roof above you, to have a comfortable and safe place for you and your family, if you love an
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by agapon 2y ago
100 cable "faults", but only 2/3-rd are from ships. And, then, how many of those have been in the Baltic Sea in prior years? 66 incidents per year sounds like a lot, but there are so many cables and shipping lanes all over th
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by agapon 2y ago
Rad idea: limit H-1B to product companies, exclude consulting / body-shop companies.
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by agapon 2y ago
Want you or not, there will be a Putin's successor. No one is immortal.
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by agapon 2y ago
You may find esp-link interesting: https://github.com/jeelabs/esp-link I've built a WiFi<->RS232 bridge using the firmware, ESP8266 and a UART<->RS232 converter module. All hardware is very cheap.
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by agapon 2y ago
Those wars do affect climate. They do affect global economy.
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by agapon 2y ago
The point was probably to reduce accidental casualties. Also, the wounds can be quite severe. Finally, a device like a pager cannot hold a lot of explosive substance in its spare space anyway.
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by agapon 2y ago
Hamas terrorists boarding commercial airplanes? With their secret pagers on them? Somehow I don't think so.
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by agapon 2y ago
Well, if growing or breeding bigger oxen were as feasible as building bigger (mower powerful) computers was/is, perhaps people would take a different path? In other words, perhaps the analogy is flawed?
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by agapon 2y ago
Telegram blah blah, according to Telegram.
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by agapon 2y ago
Pavel Durov is a social media? I thought he was a human being.
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by agapon 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdV0AdgjPgo
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by agapon 2y ago
How much would you value a soldier riding one of those?
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by agapon 2y ago
E.g., to press Ctrl-(Shift)-V and replace the selection with something you copied (to the buffer / clipboard) earlier?
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by agapon 2y ago
There have been several Latin based scripts proposed for Ukrainian over many decades. So, if you haven't heard, you just haven't been interested. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Latin_alphabet
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by agapon 3y ago
Hope you find comfort in fact that smart guys in China don't have such reservations and smart guys in North Korea don't have any options.
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by agapon 3y ago
Does Taiwan claim sovereignty over mainland China?
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by agapon 3y ago
> the war machine Your country's war machine, right?
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by agapon 3y ago
Interesting that in Ukrainian робота and праця are synonymous. Although, some derived words are different in meaning. Like робітник is a worker but працівник is an employee. I see in another comment that the same is true in Polish.

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