35% is the kind of numbers I used to have on servers at work, which often feature >2TB of RAM.
(another similar percentage being the CPUs, 128 cores per socket doesn’t come cheap)
Seeing those numbers for desktop hardware, “holy fuck” is about right.
You wrote this all a lot better than I could have, but to expand on 2) I have no desire whatsoever to have a “conversation” (nay, argument) with a machine to try and convince/coerce/deceive/brow-beat (delete as appropriate) it into maybe doing what I wanted.
I don’t want to deal with this grotesque “tee hee, oopsie” personality that every company seems to have bestowed on these awful things when things go awry, I don’t want its “suggestions”. I code, computer does. End of transaction.
People can call me a luddite at this point and I’ll wear that badge with pride. I’ll still be here, understanding my data and processes and writing code to work with them, long after (as you say) you’ve been priced out of these tools.
Not that I know of, which means I can only assume it’ll be a timing-based attack.
With strategic use of sleep statements in the script you should stand a pretty good chance of detecting the HTTP download blocking while the script execution is paused.
If you were already shipping the kind of script that unpacks a binary payload from the tail end of the file and executes it, it’s well within the realm of possibility to swap it for a different one.
DVDs didn’t have that issue, fortunately.
In CDs, the recorded layer is directly under the label, in DVDs it’s mid-way through the thickness of the disc so there’s a layer of plastic between it and the label. A function of different wavelengths of light used to read them.
Bit rot due to degradation of the organic chemicals in the recording layer is still very much a concern though.
That, or the aspiring rich arsehole.
Not even a beneficiary, just a grossly misguided individual who hasn’t yet realised that will, in fact, not be them some day.
“Method and apparatus for insufflation of oxygen into a body by means of flexible permeable membrane”
Frankly an average tortoise has a good chance of outliving your grandchildren.
150 years is not an unreasonable upper bound for their lifespan, for the larger species.
Much as I don’t want to disturb your shitposting, the original news article I saw about this “phenomenon” linked to an amazing video.
The meaty thud it makes as it faceplants the pavement makes it all worthwhile.
Seriously.
Open-plan office dwellers everywhere: “Tell me more about this ‘cubicle’. Walls, you say?”
Presuming you mean 4x 2560x1440 there, you can have close enough to that pixel count today; one of the things Dell released at CES this year was a 52" 6144x2560 display (U5226KW).
Since it’s intended to be a monitor, you get a USB hub, DisplayPort, Thunderbolt, and other things you wouldn’t get on a TV, too.
I’ve been looking at it longingly, but I can’t quite justify that pricetag right now.
If you’re cold, they’re cold. Bring them inside.
My boy did, when he was between about 6 months and a year old.
These pipe cleaners were his favourite.
Honestly, I’d consider it.
If I was in the middle of a job and was about to run out of something, I’m looking at downing tools for a minimum hour round trip to the nearest (decent) hardware store.
There’s a good chance someone starting closer to the store can get that down to 35-40 minutes, and I can carry on working in the meantime.
Now “normal”, perhaps not, but unreasonable also perhaps not?
Having had one for almost our cats’ entire lives, I can confirm that they do not.
It also creates something of a pavlovian response; it doesn’t matter if there’s still food in the dispenser’s bowl or he’s literally just eaten, the sound of more biscuits dropping is enough to make him absolutely hoof it in the direction of the feeder. Sometimes doesn’t even eat anything, just has to run over to it.
Next time they (unnecessarily) reboot The Italian Job I can see this fitting right in.
Forget no more!
Coprolites might not be my favourite fossil, but they’re a solid number two.
But also at regular checkouts.
You’ve just stood there motionless for the last 4 minutes, while someone else (potentially two people) scanned and bagged your purchases for you.
How is it that JUST NOW is the time you’ve decided is right to rummage through your bag for your wallet/purse, or check your banking app on your phone to see if the account actually has money in it? What were you doing for the rest of the time that was so vitally important?
I swear you can just about hear the birds flying around in their head sometimes.
I was assuming that was supposed to be a cassowary.
So strongly, in fact, that I missed the platypus tail entirely 😄
Often it’s attached to a motor, but the pointy end hasn’t changed much.
Certainly juicing the likes of apples or carrots warrants a different kind of appliance, but squashing citrus is a fairly solved problem.