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by asksomeoneelse 3y ago
More than 2 HDDs starting to fail at the same time would be really bad luck. Maybe the issue is elsewhere, like the HBA or the motherboard ? For the story, I have a NAS with an AMD B550 motherboard and some Asmedia SATA controllers with a b
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by asksomeoneelse 3y ago
2K ? I learned the hard way that Firefox has a limit of 8000 tabs per window when reloading a previous session. Wrote a small app to split the tabs to save my decade-old session. The day I close a tab without having read it hasn't come
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by asksomeoneelse 3y ago
I think GP was making a math joke; "a group is a non-empty set [...] in such a way that [...] every element has an inverse". [0] [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_(mathematics)
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by asksomeoneelse 3y ago
Ah yes, the monday morning little ritual: try to move down a dozen lines, maybe half a page, scroll a bit and realized I moved 3 pixels. Try again scrolling a bit faster and end up zooming by 3 pages. Repeat in the other direction. Use the
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by asksomeoneelse 3y ago
I made a storage server a few weeks ago. I experimented a bit with various HDDs before choosing, and the difference in noise seemed kinda massive depending on what model you go with. I tested with some Seagate IronWolf Pro 20TB and WD Red P
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by asksomeoneelse 4y ago
I feel like there is some additional context missing. It's not like HN readers were spamming him, or flooding his platform. It's just, from what I gathered from this mastodon thread, that the people didn't read the article, r
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by asksomeoneelse 4y ago
So obvious it's not even fun, right ? And yet... there is a twist ! I don't want to spoil the ending. I encourage people to run the code on their own after they made their guess to compare.
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by asksomeoneelse 4y ago
One of my favorites; guess the difference between the output of that code: byte a1 = 0x40; byte a2 = (byte) 0x80; a1 >>= 1; a2 >>= 1; System.out.printf("0x%02X\n", a1); System.out.printf("0x%02X\n", a2); And