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by mrjin 4y ago
Remember the story in Cuba decades ago? If USSR did not back off, US would have. This would be exactly the same story.
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by mrjin 4y ago
I seriously doubt US will directly engage Russia if Ukraine get nuked as it's simply doesn't make sense per the "America First" or now "America Only" playbook. The only question really should be whether Putin d
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no longer the case
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Yep, I was about to reply with similar stuff but yours posted first. So it's the case when PC came out, but now as you said, modern PCs are already clusters of computers with dedicated functions. The main differences between PC and Mai
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Ask yourself that can you master something without understanding it?
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1.5 TiB is not much really. Any mobile HDD will do. I've a whole bunch of them. Oldest were over a decade, no issues at all. The only issue is that they have to be labeled clearly, or you are going to have a hard time to find whereabou
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by mrjin 4y ago
If you keep a domestic model running 24x7, you are probably right. But if you just do cold archive, my last check were after around 12 years, all drives spinned up normally without any issue. No noticeable data loss at all.
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by mrjin 4y ago
Me seemed to be a little bit luckier as only 80% seemed problematic after around 10 years. But the result were the same, I had to dump all of them directly except those I did not wish to lose. But even after multiple attempts, still suffere
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by mrjin 4y ago
Chose CD/DVD as archival medium was one of the big mistakes I've ever made. Most CDs/DVDs failed just after around 10 years. HDDs seem to be much more reliable.
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Not much point, way too time consuming. I dumped hundreds of CDs/DVDs as most of them were unreadable. 20% of them might still good, but really no longer had that energy to savage them.
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by mrjin 4y ago
Nah, my personal experience told me it's highly unlikely that long. Last time I checked my CD/DVD archives of around 10 years old. Checked some random 20% of all, 50% were completely unreadable, 30% readable but with noticeable lo
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by mrjin 4y ago
I have been using Windows/Linux/BSD in parallel for decades. Now I'm at the verge to ditch Windows. Linux/BSD were barely usable on PCs when I started using a computer. Now to my surprise, they are, especially Linux now
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by mrjin 4y ago
Cryptos were *Catch-22* created without understanding the real problem, why centralized institutions are there, and naively thought fraud was all about trustworthy of the records. So they made the ledgers open and let *ALL participants* run
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by mrjin 4y ago
The only thing we learnt from history was that *we learn nothing from the history*. For the past decades, what were the central banks all over the world doing? Nothing but printing money. Whenever there was a (economical) crisis, the only m
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by mrjin 4y ago
To be fair, have western media ever stopped trying to demonize the Chinese government, no matter what it did? I thought I knew where Xinjiang was until I saw the CNN news regarding it with a map showing it in somewhere near Guangdong. Anoth
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by mrjin 4y ago
This is very unlikely related with drug trafficking but really to stop fraud activities. The reason is really simple, crimes associated with drugs in China can lead to death penalties and the threshold is very low. So in most cases people c
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by mrjin 4y ago
It's all by design as a good maintainability is not good for business for obvious reasons: 1. It's require much more efforts in designing and manufacturing and thus cost would be much higher. 2. It reduces failure rates dramatical
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by mrjin 4y ago
When I was a kid, I was so naive and asked questions like "where there were so many obvious problems and they let them be for years?". It's a shame that I did not realize it was never about right or wrong but rather interests
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by mrjin 4y ago
I have nothing to hide indeed, but I have nothing that I want to let THEY know neither!!
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Hmmm, worst thing ever used. Glad it's getting retired in our organization.
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by mrjin 4y ago
Went to IKEA once and did not find what we wanted but did buy something small gadgets. Unfortunately, the very 1st time experience just taught me I should not trust them for anything. In those items, there were 3 looked very similar, two we
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by mrjin 4y ago
It's not really the naming causing issues but rather way too much has been put into the single standard which in turn leads to chaotic naming. I don't really know if there would be enough colors for that. USB-C was meant to fit fo
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by mrjin 4y ago
Cannot agree more. I returned 3 USB-C docks in a row. It didn't matter cheap or expensive, none worked fully as expected.
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by mrjin 4y ago
There is simply no such a thing as one size for all but unfortunately USB-C was created for that. Differences between all those different standards and/or variants are huge and thus doesn't really matter how you name them, it&#x27
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by mrjin 4y ago
When animals are stressed, they stop breeding. So why we are surprised to see exact the same behavior on ourselves?
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Sure, you can buy it. But should you buy it? Especially when there are far better and much cheaper alternatives.
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Yes and no. No customers and no owner to serve soon.
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How hard is it to switch payment provider? And in particular, how hard is it to get corporate cards from banks? No offending, just curious the reason behind all this.
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Somehow I feel those security companies are the source of the security problems.
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Exactly. For competent developer, such tool is nothing but wasting time. The reason is simple: if they don't know what they are doing or cannot be trusted, they shouldn't be hired in the first place. But I do understand why those

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