(phylum Arthropoda: invertebrate animals having an exoskeleton, a segmented body, and jointed appendages
basically insects, and spiders)
(phylum Arthropoda: invertebrate animals having an exoskeleton, a segmented body, and jointed appendages
basically insects, and spiders)
and what is wrong with the phylum Arthropoda? there is beauty there if you want to see it.
And? Why is it bad that I appreciate beauty in all its forms?
I've asked you that before, and you never answered me.
I might as well answer this... twice for reasons that will become apparent later.
IRL:
Online:
Long story about that split. I could be persuaded to tell it over PM if you are really interested.
The short version was i created Accalia as a means of escaping a very rough high school experience and kept her going pretty much constantly since then to the point that I'm not "me" online if i'm not Accalia.
TMI? nah, not unless you think so.
It's taken me most of my.... (does some hurried math) 28 years to figure it out for myself. and even now i'm only about 75% certain.
Is there a third distinct gender of humans now?
three? that number is not nearly high enough.
there are many gradients between the stereotypical male/female duality as well as at least a dozen named genders that fall well outside that "traditional" duality.
+ǒ
ah. a classic. well posted kind sir and/or/xor/nor madam.
+ד
I approve of this. This is also why i never install harddrives without reformatting the entire machine3.14159. Windows or Linux it's still good to reinstall occasionally to remove the cruft that builds up over normal use.
3.141.59: This is made easier by the fact that nonvolitile storage is kept on my specially set up server that controls my RAID, and i am extra super special careful to avoid FSCKing with that box.
what?! NO!
They might collapse but I'd get stuck supporting it!
NONONONONONONONONONO!
why isnt that an embed macro for this site?
that was ,y thought too.
gen. custer's last stand
yay! someone's using my script!
+7 internetz for you!
given that i explicitly told you not to trust my advice in a legal setting i think that's warranted.
no offence taken.
related: business lawyers are SCARY
true enough. I don't think you're going to get an install down to ~10GB without going bootleg.
although i'm a bit hazy on this (READ: TALK TO A REAL LAWYER) you may be able to use bootleg editions so long as you actually have the licences for the installed instances...
although i repeat: CHECK WITH A REAL LAWYER BEFORE YOU USE MY ADVICE HERE
if XP is an option there's tinyXP by eXPerience (i trust you can find the torrent yourself)
full install fits on a CD.
i think another team is trying to trim 7 down to fit on a DVD but i wouldn't call the result stable.
edit: i stand corrected. eXPerience made tiny7 and that's been getting good reviews. it is bootleg though so there's that.
actually i did. My boss was laughing when he said to give the product team what they wanted, via paper mail so there's a paper trail.
we've both dealt with that team before
Join! join! Join!
now that you clicked join fill out this ten page questionaire and all fields are required.
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and they wondered why i laughed when registration took a sharp down turn.
i TOLD you it was a stupid idea. I told you i was implementing it under duress, I TOLD you it would cause you to lose registrations!
"3 days ago"
in the middle of my autobot like clicker activity.
it's not actually crashed yet but it's taking ~30 seconds to scroll down every time now and ~60 seconds to load the next chunk.
EDIT: Got to the end eventually. last load of activity: ~3 minutes and 6 times chrome informed me the tab had gone unresponsive, i said to let it live, but chrome was not happy
/me facepalm
right, i did put that as my location.
i'm on the Mk VII
They built a few more cause they didn't like the question, so they though the previous machines had miscalculated.
You have confused me kind sir. Mark 1 or mark 2 what?
nope. that's just the site that popped up when i googled reversable usb.
there's also USB C connectors, but i'll believe those get adoption when pigs fly.
i admit the name does sound similar, but this Accalia is no Calli (or Kali for that matter)
well if Apple isn't a complete dick about the patent we may have a solution for those pesky USB devices soon...
A chemistry major i know assures me that this is the only chemistry pickup line that actually works:
Hey, does this smell like chloroform?
...
and he wonders why i never return his calls anymore.
I have, they do.
i've had to do it to about three dozen different individuals over the last several years. all of them very concerned that the person they bought the computer from was trying to (spy on|rob) them because of the missing hard drive capacity.
the ones that took the right branch on that conditional were more correct, which actually made it harder to explain.
Given that, only anal-retentives (and Germans, but I repeat myself) need the second prefix.
have you tried explaining to an octogenarian why when they bought a 500GB hard drive but their computer says it's only 475*GB. it's not easy.
*: i'm guessing here.that's probably not the exact number
+1
edit: PERFECT that's the CTRL character! (or an control character anyway)
If the fungus was such a fungi, why wasn't the party at his place?
/waitforit
because there wasn't mushroom!
What starts with F, ends in C-K, contains a vowel, and always means excitement?
/waitforit
a FIRE TRUCK!
i am familliar with <sup>, but i'm used to doing my math stuff in inline LaTEX.
jetpack for wordpress has spoiled me i guess.
Instead of cracking down they'd call the real gallon a giblon and allow gallon to mean whatever the hell anyone wanted it to mean.
also, if i could find a HDD manufacturer that used 2^(10*x) units for theur HDDs i would buy them exclusively. How would one go about making that a real thing?
they changes about the time that gigabytes became a thing for consumers.
some clever little dickhead in marketing figured out that they could sell a cheaper gigabyte drive if they defined a gigabyte as 1 billion bytes (using the SI prefix) rather than the computer science prefix ($$2^30$$)
edit: aww... i can write in markdown but i can't use inline LaTEX. THIS IS A BUG!
Hence why we should sue. if every techy did that we'd get some attention fast.
i thought of doing that meme, but i liked the subtle irony of a terra dollar.
which did i mean?
They should use proper names for proper units and call the silly ones HDD manufacturers use ketrobytes, metrobytes, getrobytes and tetrobytes.
we need to star an internet petition or something. or maybe a lawsuit suing for... i dunno loss of opportunity and wages as a result of deliberate, illegal misrepresentation of capacity.
we will sue for one teradollar.
I wish i hadn't burned my likes for the day on that userscript.
that literally made me laugh out loud!
thank you kind sir, you have made my day. for that i shall give you the keys to a kingdom. not my kingdom mind you, i found them on the street this morning, but they are surely keys to a kingdom..
+5 internetz
i don't think i've ever heard a person use that expression for 1024 pixels. A marketing department, yes, people, no.
actually there's an idea...
add an emojii "keyboard" to discourse. in 100$ js, no frameworks allowed.
that sounds like a fun weekend project!
Oh, there are characters beyond FFFF in Unicode.
technically yes. but when was the last time you saw a font for anything other than the basic multilingual plane?
your post id, the one i'm replying to is: 67428
outside the range of 0-65535 that unicode has codepoints for.
at least according to the markup, like i said i'll make it better after work today.
so i used the post number within the topic, not overall.
exactly, except it uses the post number in the topic, not overall. we're already past the end of the unicode codepoints and i didn't feel like inventing a mapping.
that does mean it doesn't get interesting for quite a while and there are a lot of posts that it doesn't produce a printable character, but it tries.
I'll make it better tonight after i've had a beer or two.
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My backups are pretty much 50/50 "device failure" to "I fuck up and hit delete". RAID (helps!) to solve the first 50% of the problem but is useless for the second 50%.
I hear that, done that myself too on occasion.
@i dunno some guy i met in the pub said:
Show me something foolproof and i'll show you a bigger fool.
I guess this is one of those situations where we'll have to agree to politely disagree.
You've obviously investigated your options and decided that "no raid just backup" is where the cost/benefit is post beneficial.
I've done the same and come to a different conclusion, likely because our workflows and situations are different.
I was not aware that you had investigated RAID previously (if you mentioned it i missed it, sorry) so i made my suggestion based on that.
Sounds like the start of a classic blakeyrant.
yeah. although my blakeyrants are usually just
include <blakeyrant.h>
everyone wins that way!
If you are willing to spend a little cash I highly recommend getting a good RAID device. They're not that expensive and can really save your ass when drives fail.
My personal favorite brand is QNAP. Documentation is a bit lacking but the web interface is intuitive and easy to figure out.
you can get a diskless 4 bay Qnap for ~300$USD
The one i linked supports up to 12TB of storage (4x4TB disks RAID 5). I'd get the disks separately if i were you (there's a heck of an upcharge to get the device preloaded). 4TB NAS certified drives are going for about 170$USD of sourse you can go with consumer grade drives in your raid array but that's asking for trouble as the consumer drives generally do not report all error conditions that the RAID array would actually want to know about so it can tell you to replace a drive before it goes completely bad.
I've also got SSDs for speed.
I have a fair bit of data on mine, but it's all backed up onto my RAID array so when the SSD fails (i've had 8 and only one has died before the machine it was in did) i can get all my data back.
Trust, but verify have redundancy
reading FTW.
Fiction to keep me interested. biochem textbook if i regret eating the onflight "meal", Law book if i want to sleep (my record for staying awake in one of those is page 5, of the intro)
unlimited data on a non grandfathered plan is expensive!
i priced it out and was going to spring for it, then i realized that because i'm almost always on WIFI my data usage per month tends to be about 1.5G, within all of the low end plans from carriers i'd be willing to use.
There's a Surface 3, but it doesn't come in RT variety. It's supposed to be super-slick, but it's also like $1200.
if you want the i5+ yeah, we went for the i3 at work :-( and those are only about $700. and only VP level and up gets them, so far (i haz plans!)
why contest the truth? they are barbaric.
Unless you are comparing them to Cable TV providers. Those guys can make anyone look civilized by comparison.