In other news today...
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Google's homepage somehow takes up about 420kb of data and it isn't all the image.
Well, that's all the Script. It's pretty tiny by today's standards.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Google's homepage somehow takes up about 420kb of data and it isn't all the image.
Well, that's all the Script. It's pretty tiny by today's standards.
I've gotten to the end of the Getting Started guide for the web app I mentioned, which essentially consists of a fake login form that does literally nothing.
Guess how big it is?
Oh, that's the "development" build? What's the "production build" look like then?
Fuck this shit, I'm halfway out...
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@Benjamin-Hall If you know how to write the word in the first place.
I asked my wife to translate a page from a dash-cam's manual, since I was unsure of the pictogram. She couldn't, as she didn't know half the characters in it.
I gather this is also why most Chinese don't read the manuals of the stuff they buy.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
TLDR : Google's homepage somehow takes up about 420kb of data and it isn't all the image.
Curious. Way back then, the appeal of Google as a
startsearch page wasn't just that it had way better search results, but also that it was just the image and search box, compared to all the cluttered bullshit you got everywhere else.Still, being on dialup, I remember typing
http://www.google.com/search?q=whatever+i+searched+for
into the address bar to skip one useless page load.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
TLDR : Google's homepage somehow takes up about 420kb of data and it isn't all the image.
Curious. Way back then, the appeal of Google as a
startsearch page wasn't just that it had way better search results, but also that it was just the image and search box, compared to all the cluttered bullshit you got everywhere else.Still, being on dialup, I remember typing
http://www.google.com/search?q=whatever+i+searched+for
into the address bar to skip one useless page load.It's built into most browser bars now. I'm actually a little curious how much bandwidth that saves google. Probably fuckall in the scheme of things but I suspect its somewhere in the range of maybe gigabytes a day.
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It's cute that Crapita thinks they still have a reputation to burn. Speaking of burnings...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Oh, that's the "development" build? What's the "production build" look like then?
Well at least you could fit the dependencies on a floppy disk..
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@PJH Why did they not offer camel hunts? Or were camels just not mentioned?
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This is like a month's work and a huge pr win for them. No lets go to the supreme court.
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
@PJH said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Fiona Onasanya becomes first sitting MP to be jailed in almost 30 years
For "3 months." After lying continually about it.
Now that she's served her time and is back in Parliament, next up: the Solicitor's Regulation Authority's turn (she's also a solicitor as well as an MP):
Struck off.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
I asked my wife to translate a page from a dash-cam's manual, since I was unsure of the pictogram. She couldn't, as she didn't know half the characters in it.
Sounds like it might be using Taiwanese Chinese script, which hasn't had the simplifications applied to it that the mainland has done.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
I asked my wife to translate a page from a dash-cam's manual, since I was unsure of the pictogram. She couldn't, as she didn't know half the characters in it.
Sounds like it might be using Taiwanese Chinese script, which hasn't had the simplifications applied to it that the mainland has done.
The camera was bought from a market in the middle of Tianjin, so I doubt that would be the case. Especially considering China's policies towards Taiwan.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
China's policies towards Taiwan.
China's policy towards Taiwan might be directed by that they can't get over Taiwaneese owning some of the largest factories in China.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
China's policies towards Taiwan.
China's policy towards Taiwan might be directed by that they can't get over Taiwaneese owning some of the largest factories in China.
Maybe. Maybe not. I try not to psychoanalyse politics; I find it depressing.
I just meant that due to actions of PRC government, anything with visible signs of Made in Taiwan may earn the shop selling it a boycott and/or an angry mob. Or worse, negative online reviews.
Plus, with 3M potential car-owning customers in Tianjin alone, it makes business sense to make the manual as easy-to-read as possible for the mainland Chinese crowd. So, no, I doubt that the manual contains anything else than perfect Simplified Chinese.
And my wife not being able to read it, is most likely due to the subject area, and hence the characters, being unfamiliar to her. That's the problem with a written language like Chinese:
Altogether there are over 50,000 characters, though a comprehensive modern dictionary will rarely list over 20,000 in use. An educated Chinese person will know about 8,000 characters, but you will only need about 2-3,000 to be able to read a newspaper.
Emphasis mine.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
I try not to psychoanalyse politics; I find it depressing.
Agreed.
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@Dragoon Unsurprisingly:
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@hungrier
And yet, the Seagates which are so terrible represent 80% of Backblaze's installed baseSo either they're just THAT MUCH CHEAPER, they have much better warranty support to help through failures, or Backblaze is an idiot and you should never do any business with them.
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@izzion That's just statistics based on 3 months of data though, here's one calculated based on the data they've been keeping since 2013 and the models which are still in operation:
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@JBert
Yeah, I saw the graphic at the bottom of the linked blog post. But for as much as people love to drag on Seagate drives as being poor quality, and use BB’s stats to “prove” that, I think they’re kind of missing the plot, since BB has consistently been using a drive mix that is substantially tilted toward Seagate drives.So either they know something not being reported in those stats that is enough in favor of Seagate to outweigh the higher MAFR (cost, support quality, operational performance), or they’re idiots. In the former, their data doesn’t show Seagates are the worst option, it shows they are the best option. In the latter, how much can you trust the data of an idiot?
And since they’re neither out of business or on the verge of failure, I’m inclined to think they’re not idiots.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla beat me in the garage with the lead pipe.
FTFCluedo
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Looks like this guy got lucky:
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Linux for the desktop in 2019:
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This benign tumor is a goldmine for dentists:
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@JBert In related news, the Tooth Fairy today filed for bankruptcy.
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
Well at least you could fit the dependencies on a floppy disk..
Only if it's actually 1.4 MB as it claims and not 1.4 MiB, which it usually is.
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@JBert Nope thread is
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@PJH said in In other news today...:
Well at least you could fit the dependencies on a floppy disk..
Only if it's actually 1.4 MB as it claims and not 1.4 MiB, which it usually is.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@PJH quoted in In other news today...:
Is this the beginning of the floppy disc comeback?
No.
Betteridge strikes again....
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@PJH said in In other news today...:
Well at least you could fit the dependencies on a floppy disk..
Only if it's actually 1.4 MB as it claims and not 1.4 MiB, which it usually is.
Actually a typical 3.5" diskette is 1440 KiB. 1.4 MiB is 1433.6 KiB, so that should fit.
Real floppies, whether 5.25" or 8", are of course lower capacity and won't fit.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@PJH said in In other news today...:
Well at least you could fit the dependencies on a floppy disk..
Only if it's actually 1.4 MB as it claims and not 1.4 MiB, which it usually is.
Actually a typical 3.5" diskette is 1440 KiB. 1.4 MiB is 1433.6 KiB, so that should fit.
That seems correct from what I can find.
I remember the displayed free space to be 1.38 MiB, which coincides nicely with 1.44MB. Maybe the filesystem itself used up the difference on an empty dish. (Or I just don’t remember correctly)
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@PJH said in In other news today...:
Well at least you could fit the dependencies on a floppy disk..
Only if it's actually 1.4 MB as it claims and not 1.4 MiB, which it usually is.
After a slight adjustment to the connector pins in the computer and a rewiring
Meh. What would have been really impressive would be to somehow modify the SD card so that its contact act as a magnetic track and can be read by the original floppy reader.
Yes, I know, it's likely impossible. Still, would be better than hiding an SD card reader inside the casing of a floppy drive.
(unrelated: did you notice that the URL you posted is https://mashable.com/2016/02/26/floppy-disc-upgrade/?europe=file_not_found???)
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@remi said in In other news today...:
did you notice that the URL you posted is
That was noticed quicker than I expected....
It was originally
=true
, and I started messing around with it.
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@remi said in In other news today...:
Meh. What would have been really impressive would be to somehow modify the SD card so that its contact act as a magnetic track and can be read by the original floppy reader.
Yes, I know, it's likely impossible. Still, would be better than hiding an SD card reader inside the casing of a floppy drive.I know things like that have been done with audio cassettes.
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@remi said in In other news today...:
Meh. What would have been really impressive would be to somehow modify the SD card so that its contact act as a magnetic track and can be read by the original floppy reader.
Yes, I know, it's likely impossible. Still, would be better than hiding an SD card reader inside the casing of a floppy drive.
(unrelated: did you notice that the URL you posted is https://mashable.com/2016/02/26/floppy-disc-upgrade/?europe=file_not_found???)
It might not be impossible, though miniaturizing a magnetic multitrack "write" head would be quite amazing.
It's however far easier to throw out the floppy drive entirely and replace it with a device that reads SD cards and mimics the floppy drive bus interface.
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@boomzilla They're failing to ask a key question: Was it flying there before or after the recent quakes?
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@PleegWat I was about to suggest that.
I assume a floppy disk version would be much harder to make, but still possible if there was a will.
Or you could get a Commodore 64 and just use that.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Nasa has a plane circling the San Andreas fault and no-one is sure why
Person at Nasa #1: why again do we have an airplane circling the San Andreas fault?
Person at Nasa #2: can't remember
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat I was about to suggest that.
I had one of those, when my car had an autoradio with tape but no CD reader (and I was not rich enough to buy a new autoradio). I was amazed the day I discovered they existed.
I assume a floppy disk version would be much harder to make, but still possible if there was a will.
The key thing (wrt TFA) is that it would have to be designed as such, you couldn't just hack an SD card to get to that...
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@boomzilla Man, almost every article in metro.co.uk's sidebar is garage fodder:
Hunt for Tommy Robinson yobs who dragged police medic to the ground
Dad called 'dirty Jew' in the street as he's forced to protect his toddlers
EasyJet passenger takes picture of row of backless seats on flight
Black man tied by rope and led through streets by white cop on horseback
Men are avoiding reusable bags in case strangers think they're gay, study saysAnd a Florida man lookalike to finish (it's actually at the top):
Bolt of lightning ignited fart gases in woman’s septic tank and made her toilet explode(also, fuck you metro for highjacking "copy" to put your filler garbage Twitter etc. link instead of just copying whatever I've selected)
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@remi said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla Man, almost every article in metro.co.uk's sidebar is garage fodder:
Hunt for Tommy Robinson yobs who dragged police medic to the ground
Dad called 'dirty Jew' in the street as he's forced to protect his toddlers
EasyJet passenger takes picture of row of backless seats on flight
Black man tied by rope and led through streets by white cop on horseback
Men are avoiding reusable bags in case strangers think they're gay, study saysAnd a Florida man lookalike to finish (it's actually at the top):
Bolt of lightning ignited fart gases in woman’s septic tank and made her toilet explode(also, fuck you metro for highjacking "copy" to put your filler garbage Twitter etc. link instead of just copying whatever I've selected)
Weak. https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/23424/dipshit-posts
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@remi said in In other news today...:
And a Florida man lookalike to finish (it's actually at the top):
Bolt of lightning ignited fart gases in woman’s septic tank and made her toilet explodeAre you sure that's not the Florida news item which I posted yesterday?
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@JBert No, but it's strikingly similar, hence my remark.
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The Ocho is on ESPN2 right now...
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@remi said in In other news today...:
Meh. What would have been really impressive would be to somehow modify the SD card so that its contact act as a magnetic track and can be read by the original floppy reader.
Yes, I know, it's likely impossible. Still, would be better than hiding an SD card reader inside the casing of a floppy drive.Yeah, not in the way you describe. It is possible though. I believe it would involve:
- moving the SDCARD reader into the floppy case itself.
- add battery to power it.
- generator to recharge battery off of the spindle
- Rotary encoder to determine which track is being presented
- mechanism to detect the position of the head and bar electromagnet stretching the length of the "disk", or an array of micro electromagnets (think like the LEDs in a scanner's bar).
- microcontroller to process the rotation and set the virtual sectors, listen for writes, and IO the floppy image on the sdcard.
- buttons to toggle which image the floppy is emulating.
- for fancy, an e-ink display "label" to show what image is used.
- for even more fancy, said display is pressure-sensitive (like the boogie board) and can save writing a new label image intuitively.
- oh, and naturally software that controls all of that.