Tumbleweed, at least per marketing spiel, is rapidly updated like a rolling release distro,(e.g. Arch) but has good testing and stability like a conventional fixed release distro.
It’s not quite lived up to that fully for me, but I’m pretty sure the times it’s broken have mostly been my fault.
Any hard drive can fail at any time with or without warning. Worrying too much about individual drive families’ reliability isn’t worth it if you’re dealing with few drives. Worry instead about backups and recovery plans in case it does happen.
Bigger drives have significantly lower power usage per TB, and cost per TB is lowest around 12-16TB. Bigger drives also lets you fit more storage in a given box. Drives 12TB and up are all currently helium filled which run significantly cooler.
Two preferred options in the data hoarder communities are shucking (external drives are cheaper than internal, so remove the case) and buying refurb or grey market drives from vendors like Server Supply or Water Panther. In both cases, the savings are usually big enough that you can simply buy an extra drive to make up for any loss of warranty.
Under US$15/TB is typically a ‘good’ price.
For media serving and deep storage, HDDs are still fine and cheap. For general file storage, consider SSDs to improve IOPS.
I don’t remember if they fully closed the loopholes, but there are inputs that programs cannot catch unless you actually replace the OS.
You don’t normally need to specify that the sides are parallel if you specify four right angles.
Here in NZ they do a factory reset on your calculator at the start of every exam.
Exercising eminent domain can mean a long and expensive legal and media process. I’m not sure about Texas (or the rest of the US, for that matter), but many projects in the first world do everything possible to avoid using it.
In a follow-up statement this afternoon, Potaka clarified that, in keeping with the Government’s policy, he’s changed his name to Tim Pawlenty.
*A current version of this story incorrectly referred to Tim Pawlenty as “Tama Potaka”
Yes, satire ‘news’ site, hence being posted to The Onion.
As with all good satire, there’s a very tiny kernel of truth at the bottom of it.
Boeing doesn’t make many of the parts in the aircraft, especially things like pressurization controllers. Those come from contractors like Honeywell.
What they do is design the systems around the parts, including selecting the desired level of redundancy, and commission the custom parts needed.
The 737 is still mostly a 1960s design built mostly to 1960s rules. There have been plenty of improvements but that’s not the same as a clean sheet design built to be entirely automatic even when stuff breaks.
When you download a torrent, you’re downloading it from someone else’s computer. That ‘someone else’ is usually an individual, not some file sharing site with redundant servers.
When you download a torrent, someone had to send it. It’s a small cost for individual torrents, but they had to pay for energy, internet connection, hard drives etc. If more people seed the torrent, you get a small bit of it from each seed, spreading the burden.
If no-one with the torrent has their computer on and seeding it, you cannot download the file, because there is no-one to download it from. If there are several seeds with the torrent, then you can still download it even if one or more seeds turn the computer off at night, delete the file, or are overloaded.
I didn’t notice until now that your characters sometimes slightly cover the text boxes! Very cool.
Even 95% is on the low side. Most residential-grade PV grid-tie inverters are listed as something like 97.5%. Higher voltage versions tend to do better.
Yeah, filters essentially store power during one part of the cycle and release it during another. Net power lost is fairly minimal, though not zero. DC needs filtering too: all those switchmode power supplies are very choppy.
However, the governor will not be apologizing for calling it ‘bags’ instead of ‘cornhole.’”
Mergers would work, too. Turn some of those tri-state areas into mono-state areas.
Most of the current ships are 60Hz which doesn’t work with the NZ grid.
The new ferries were explicitly going to be 11kV 50Hz to provide disaster response capabilities including power. Then they got canned.
Well, that’s certainly the answer.
I wouldn’t have thought you’d want to put a building quite that close to the waterfront even in a Fjord, but apparently they did.
I don’t think the US/Canada usually does that style of power pole, with three phases on a crossarm and no neutral below.
Barriers on what looks like a pretty low-traffic low-risk road too.
I would think somewhere Scandinavia or central Europe. NZ wouldn’t put barriers like that up.
Rock wall near bottom of picture screams old.
Indeed. Just need to remember that AI can and will hallucinate entire studies or court cases into existence.
‘Reckless disregard for the truth’ shows up sometimes, especially in e.g. defamation.
If the AI cites some legal case from 2015 or a random medical article, you probably need to ensure that those articles actually exist, and not simply assume that the AI is right.
If the AI said that a month’s supply of Fentanyl is the recommended treatment for a headache, no reasonable person is going to believe it. That means that if you say that you believe that, the court isn’t going to consider you a reasonable person.
IANAL either.
Even disregarding the orientation, people hate auto-next on YouTube, but will tolerate/accept endless scroll for shorts, especially because they’re short.