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The `-c` flag enables a fast "clone" of the file on APFS, Apple's current filesystem. That operation is very fast, as it is like a directory entry adding another pointer to the existing data. But unlike a simple "hard li
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I am not a gamer, so I encountered Christopher Tin's Civ IV soundtrack in an audio Humble Bundle, of all things. It's seriously among my all-time favorite albums. Tin followed that project with the phenomenal "The Drop that
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CSZ: Cascadia Suduction Zone "Cascadia" is a place name that can refer to the mountainous regions of the north-western US states of Washington and Oregon. PNW: Pacific Northwest
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The United States has a limited capability to track targeted cell phone communications anywhere in the world. The Orion-class Signals Intelligence satellites are claimed to be the largest in space, with a primary dish diameter of about 100
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https://dogsonthe4th.com/mystery-solved/
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Be honest, but use discretion in what you discuss. If your disability will directly impact job performance, say so. Otherwise, focus on experience and results. Disability hiring quotas are most effective for those with mobility impairments.
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> No other technology comes even close to the energy density of nuclear power. The dollar density is also huge. Trying to get new reactor design actually deployed in the US is brutally expensive. And figuring in the cost of nuclear was
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Both the ZIL and the L2ARC, plus a third "special" cache which aggregates small blocks and could hold the dedupe table. The ZIL is the "ZFS Intent Log", a log-structured ordered stream of file operations to be performed
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This archive was created as a dumping ground for all of my various computers, so a complete file by file dump of their system drives. While that obviously leads to duplicate data from files installed by operating systems, there's a lot
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I've used ZFS dedupe for a personal archive since dedupe was first introduced. Currently, it seems to be reducing on-disk footprint by a factor of 3. When I first started this project, 2TB hard drives were the largest available. My cur
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I don't know. Could it be result of solar storms we've had this past week?
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A major portion Federal Government debt is interest charges; the government pays for borrowing money. Interest rates affect the amount of interest owed. After decades of low interest, the past five years of interest rate hikes have dramatic
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In Larry Niven's "Known Space" universe of science fiction stories, ground-based lasers built for interstellar propulsion end up being used to fend off alien invasion. Example story "Madness Has Its Place" https:&#
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Where to go now? Chips and Cheese https://chipsandcheese.com/ Serve the Home https://www.servethehome.com/ Tom's Hardware https://www.tomshardware.com/
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How to say enough? Thank you thank you thank you CPU Microarchitecture analysis was the best, after Ars Technica cofounder Jon Stokes retired from his site: Anand and Brian Klug and Ian Cutress; I'm certain I've overlooked a few s
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I have the Dell TB dock because I was able to get two of them in an auction for a fraction of usual price. But I haven't tested it yet. I purchased the OWC Thunderbolt 4 dock when I got my M1 MacBook (not pro), and it seems to work ok.
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Short answer is "yes". Size of dish = sensitivity (brightness) Distance between array elements = resolution (sharpness) . It doesn't necessarily have to be a big telescope, but big enough to play with other telescopes in the
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A Whole Earth article by Stewart Brand about the crucial role of emergency preparation by the public, and the response of volunteers in response to major earthquakes, in the wake of the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake. Huh. After seeing so many
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Since I paid for the car without borrowing money, there was no need to insure it for damage; I only carry liability insurance. No "collision" (another car hits mine) or "comprehensive" (a coyote drops a safe on it) insur
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Right, so to be super pedantic: Dreamliner is the Boeing 787 passenger jet. Starliner is the spacecraft that has been on orbit for the past month, not cleared to return to Earth due to multiple attitude-control thruster failures.
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The flip side of the rapid tech churn of electric vehicles (and thus the popularity of leasing them) is that used electric vehicles are available for dramatically less money than new cars. I just purchased a ten year old EV for literally 10
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Scientifc American deep dive into plutonium pit production in operation at a new facility at Los Alamos: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/behind-the-scenes...
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I wonder how unknown (yet) malware will be wiped out or enabled before this is over.
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(Your user name is wonderful.) > It's akin to not renewing an SSL certificate. Your choice of analogies is a good one. I have done SSL type stuff since 1997. Doesn't matter: I would have to work a few hours very carefully bef
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I'm running Sonoma on mine with OpenCore Legacy Patcher. https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/ . Anything that hits the discrete nVidia GPU causes it to instantly pop up to 95 degrees C and the fans
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I bounce between Linux (servers, devops), Android (Kindle Fire), iOS (iPhone), Windows (help family members with their computers, my test bench computer), and MacOS for my primary platform, development. I keep one test mule beater PC, runni
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Intel's product name foe Thunderbolt was initially was "Light Peak".
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Oops. Thanks for the correction! It was PA Semi, indeed.
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Apple's core "Silicon" team was the Centaur Technologies chip design group. At the time, they had brought to market a PowerPC CPU chip that was a breakthrough in performance per watt -- for 32-bit PowerPC. Which had already l
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For Dell, the customer is corporate Information Technology departments and accountants. Most of their end-user kit is minimum viable brick for business use: if it isn't in the box, it can't break. I find their engineering impressi

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