PBondurant

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by PBondurant 3y ago
The photographer Michael Weseley did a number of long exposures (>12mths iirc) of Berlin during the 1990s as it was being transformed after the fall of the Wall and subsequent reunification. Viewed as huge prints in a gallery they were i
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by PBondurant 3y ago
I'm running a ZFS NAS with mirrored 2 HDD vdevs. I've set the HDDs to spindown after 20mins using hdparm -S and this works fine under zfs. The drives (Toshiba N300s) take ~15s to spin up when something accesses them, and ime zfs h
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by PBondurant 4y ago
> “It leads to a new philosophy of physics that rejects the idea that the universe is a machine governed by unconditional laws with a prior existence, and replaces it with a view of the universe as a kind of self-organising entity in whi
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by PBondurant 4y ago
For those who weren't aware, scintilla forms the basis of the popular Notepad++ Windows text editor.
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by PBondurant 4y ago
IMO title is clickbaity; it's a statement-of-opinion-masquerading-as-a-question. Effectively the parent is saying 'fan noise is up there with performance as my most important metric in a laptop'. This may be true for the OP,
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by PBondurant 4y ago
Unfortunately there have been recent issues with the 870 EVO series also: https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/samsung-870-evo-b... There may be multiple, different issues with Samsung parts at play here. Th
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by PBondurant 4y ago
The SSDs in these machines consist of NAND chips soldered directly to the motherboard; the controller aspect is handled within the main M* SOC. As such there's no way that a company could offer an internal 'upgrade' or expans
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by PBondurant 4y ago
Note that this code actually turns phase-updates ON. To turn them OFF: Update-Manager::Never-Include-Phased-Updates; APT::Get::Never-Include-Phased-Updates: True;
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by PBondurant 4y ago
A fuller instance of the first quote: "Through careful and thorough fault injection, we show that ZFS is robust to a wide range of disk faults. We further demonstrate that ZFS is less resilient to memory corruption, which can lead to
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by PBondurant 4y ago
The issue is not a cable thing. I have experienced the same behaviour on both a 2020 intel MBA and a 2021 M1 Pro; a 10GB/s rated Samsung T5 SSD only connects to either Mac at 5GB/s, despite being rated for 10GB/s. The same SS
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by PBondurant 4y ago
No, this isn't an example of Godwin's law being used as a tactic to end discussion; rather he was using hyperbole - a rhetorical device - to make a point. The slavery reference is not used to suggest that 'non-free software i
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by PBondurant 4y ago
fwiw the current Micro (2.0.10) certainly has these...<Ctrl-f> for search, 'replace' [search] [value] [flags]' and 'replaceall [search] [value]'.