coderanger

22718 pts ยท January 5, 2013


Eric Perlmutter ftw

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Sadly this got less funny when the world learned (shortly before his death) that the original guy, Jack Karlson, was a Nazi

3 months ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 2

Stage crew does it in the dark.

4 months ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 1

It cleans the oil out of the stone, natural emeralds are always fractured and saturated with oil to make them look nicer.

4 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Just remember, never on an emerald.

4 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

You don't have to look hard to find cute stories about swans or penguins adopting the other gender's usual child rearing role. Is that the same thing? No idea.

4 months ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 2

So if sector 5132 fails some internal health check, the drive's firmware can say "now any time you try to read/write sector 5132, instead I'll send that to backup sector 4". Windows doesn't know this is happening and if by very bad luck there was something sensitive originally stored on sector 5132, now it's just there forever and you can't erase it. In a perfect world we assume it was damaged such that reading it is impossible but usually there are still ways to recover it and then game over.

5 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Even before SSDs, the underlying storage media for anything can have "bad sectors" for lots of reasons, usually a small scratch or a particle of dust which got through all the air filters at the factory. With SSDs it became more common because each storage "chunk" is a complex bit of circuitry rather than a bit of rusty plastic, more things which can go wrong. So all hard drives keep a reserved set of extra bonus storage to take over for damaged areas, and they do it transparently.

5 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

SATA does have a standardized "ATA SECURITY ERASE UNIT" command which does the thing you describe just internally on the drive controller. The issue isn't usually wear leveling so much as the bad block replacement system which can transparently remap degraded areas of the SSD, but anything which supports secure erase would be fine.

5 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Lavarand was invented by SGI in 90s and Linux support for it dates back to 2003. Cloudflare was a decade late to the party :) Also for the last ~10 years, server CPUs all have hardware RNGs built in to the die but there's persistent concerns about an NSA backdoor in it so most OSes use it for only a small part of the system entropy pool.

5 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

She likes how she looks, or at least says that often in public and I know of no reason to doubt. I can understand you having an aesthetic preference in others, perhaps try to spend that energy on seeing through others' eyes and enjoy that they enjoy things? There must be a line, if someone else enjoying things is causing harm then call it out. Perhaps you think that's the case here, that she is creating harmful visual stereotypes for girls? But then say that part rather than focusing on yourself

6 months ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

Reminds me of Trash Riot.

6 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I am the Black Mage! I casts the spells that makes the peoples fall down!

6 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Everyone's favorite wasp-containing treat!

6 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This shows a remarkable amount of willpower. My hat is off to you.

6 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

60 days and they do send you an email beforehand. Also if you want to be sneaky you can have another cron job that pushes a junk commit to the repo every 30 days or similar :)

7 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

1920s would almost certainly be something hand cranked so the frame rate wouldn't be perfectly stable.

7 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Fun fact, before this image algorithm was used for cancer, it was used to identify pastries at a Japanese bakery.

7 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Outside guess but probably water.

8 months ago | Likes 39 Dislikes 0

8 months ago | Likes 113 Dislikes 0

This seems like a good use for it, no human should waste their time on these people even for a joke.

8 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 3

Guessing this is an anti-fraud check in the point-of-sale system itself. This text doesn't appear in any IKEA source repos that I can search :)

8 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

We also kept cancelling ships with enough power output to actually run them.

8 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Doesn't look like AI so much as quick clone-stamping all from the same original prongs because it was a joke :)

9 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Meria go brrrrrrrrrr

9 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Lexx was like that for me when I was a teenager.

9 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Cats have TRPV1 receptors, you are either thinking of cats not tasting "sweet" (due to a faulty Tas1r2 gene) or that birds (and all non-mammals) lack TRPV1 and so don't react to capsaicin.

10 months ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

I say the same thing about the Scarlett Johansson reboot Ghost in the Shell. It's got a very different point to make than the original but it does have a point.

10 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0