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by effie 2y ago
What is an "HDD de-cluster algo"?
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by effie 2y ago
Observations of Gibson's style are all negative, except at the very end, praising the user interface. But that last element read more like a quick self-cleaning ritual for the author of the piece, rather than effort to provide a balanc
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by effie 2y ago
It is not the same app, he had a release 6.0 and 6.1 recently, and he deals with SSDs now.
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by effie 2y ago
Can you say explicitly here what exactly does Mr. Gibson or Spinrite software claim about the level Spinrite operates at? Because I've heared him say Spinrite uses either the slow BIOS interface, or his own (IDE,AHCI?) drivers. These m
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by effie 2y ago
I like how you're providing the knee-jerk haters with rational push-back, using facts, logic, and also quite an eloquent language. I strive to do the same when I can. I think this is important in discussions on many topics, including p
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by effie 2y ago
Did your disk get worse as a result of running Spinrite? My understanding is that the author and many people suggest using it to get the problematic drive work better, and be able to read data it couldn't read before. According to test
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by effie 2y ago
I never used Spinrite, yet I can clearly see many people online just jump on the takedown train and berate Mr. Gibson as charlatan, snakeoil salesman, with very poor arguments, often not giving any actual experience with the software, just
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by effie 2y ago
> Probably not best practice but how do I check the SSD is fine in the first place, especially a blank SSD? The only way that is certain to check the memory cells is to overwrite the whole drive, flush all disk cache (power cycle the sys
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by effie 2y ago
Wait, is this for real, or an hypothetical example? Where can I read the memoirs?
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by effie 2y ago
This was quite an unpleasant read. Long wall of text on data recovery from HDDs and SSDs and how they changed... just to set the stage for what seems to be the intended message of the article - the assassination of Gibson and his product Sp
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by effie 2y ago
Can you give some specific example of a claim that "cannot possibly be true" and explain why? And please do not just post links to an article by someone else, because I'm interested what claim you have found incorrect and w
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by effie 2y ago
Thanks for the reference. The BBC series is actually called "The Secret War": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_War_(TV_series) There is also a related book "Most Secret War": https:/&#
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by effie 3y ago
Another completely misleading article on gravity batteries. All the solid weight stuff is bunk, probably designed to suck out money from naive investors / corrupt state officials. Moving solid weights gives only a very small electric p
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by effie 3y ago
Which model do you have? Have you used it for work with lots of static windows, or just for movies/games?
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by effie 3y ago
> rather than slapping things that work on top of each other, mindlessly using magic like containers. I have exactly this problem. I need to run centos7-era binary application on rocky9, and of course, it does not compile on the new gc
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by effie 3y ago
That is surprising view to me. I tried to explain why naive anti-regulation talk is not helpful for getting more nuclear energy. The way to have more nuclear energy is to embrace and strengthen the state interest in nuclear.
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by effie 3y ago
Coal plants emit more radionuclides into atmosphere, but nuclear plants produce more radionuclides overall (burnt fuel). This coal nuclear pollution is however still very small to the point of irrelevance, the real pollution problem is with
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by effie 3y ago
I did not say black swan nuclear disasters are a civilization-ending danger. I said people are afraid of them much more than of climate change. Nuclear experts consider it safe because of existing regulations and because it is hard for sket
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by effie 3y ago
The only way to end burning is government action, i.e. regulation.
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by effie 3y ago
The black swan big disasters have to be taken seriously too. A nuclear accident creates a big and costly disaster suddenly. People don't like sudden big problems but can live with continuously growing ones. Burning hydrocarbons is much
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by effie 3y ago
Extreme events and subsequent changes are why it can be the "safest form of energy". After Chernobyl and Fukushima, regulation did change in those countries as well.
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by effie 3y ago
Commercial nuclear should be very hard, almost impossible. This seems to be the correct conclusion after all the accidents and the reasons for them - incompetent, self-serving management pushing dangerous commands on the personnel (Chernob
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by effie 3y ago
Why do we need that? CA system with TLS certificates works well, even while DNS is not trusted. It's a good solution for websites.
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by effie 3y ago
That depends on what the customer does, no? > However, z/OS also implements 64-bit Java, C, C++, and UNIX (Single UNIX Specification) APIs and applications through UNIX System Services – The Open Group certifies z/OS as a compl
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by effie 3y ago
> It's been tried many times before Can you link some specific example? That may be an interesting read.
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by effie 3y ago
You might be right. Dave is to blame.
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by effie 3y ago
I agree. But that's a problem. People are easy to impress these days and don't think through what the message actually is.
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by effie 3y ago
This is what IBM and people living off mainframes tell the world all day long, but I think you'll have trouble showing that mainframe's job can't be replaced by a few hi-end x86 servers under cost. Inertia, regulators, and co
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by effie 3y ago
Nope. They made great software , and not so good hardware. They went away because dot-com bubble burst and tech world cancelled orders of the hardware. Also, bad business decisions linking their success with sales of hardware, instead of s
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by effie 3y ago
Yep, it's a dinosaur concept nobody with tight budget wants to pay for, unless they already do and money is no object(big Fortune 500 companies).

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