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BigMikeInAustin

@BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world

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BigMikeInAustin ,

Kudos on the 401K! Best of luck!

"The leopards won't eat my face" people are happy with a horrible life as long as someone else has an even more horrible life.

BigMikeInAustin ,

If they keep the porn, Texas Governor Abbott will block Reddit from Texas. Well, losing the MAGAts might help Reddit get better.

BigMikeInAustin ,

If WallStreetBets owns WallStreetBets, do we get a singularity?

Diamond hands!

BigMikeInAustin ,

To be fair, when are printers not broken?

How to Figure Out What Your Car Knows About You (and Opt Out of Sharing When You Can) (www.eff.org)

Cars collect a lot of our personal data, and car companies disclose a lot of that data to third parties. It’s often unclear what’s being collected, and what's being shared and with whom. A recent New York Times article highlighted how data is shared by G.M. with insurance companies, sometimes without clear knowledge from the...

BigMikeInAustin ,

Not with that attitude and those wimpy legs.

BigMikeInAustin ,

But I was so excited to watch Debbie Does Dallas #4,537. Ugh!

BigMikeInAustin ,

Wow, dude. Every time you look at someone younger than you all you do is think about sex?

BigMikeInAustin ,

50% of people younger than you make you think about sex? So are you perving on just boys or just girls? Or just those under 18?

BigMikeInAustin ,

Probably the politicians bought VPN stock just before this was ruled. Just like so many "randomly" happened to buy video conference stock just before the COVID lockdown?

BigMikeInAustin ,

It seems like 80% of your posts are down voted into the negatives. Maybe Lemmy isn't the place for you.

Appreciation / shock at workplace IT systems

After self hosting several services for a few users, with SSO, backups, hardware issues etc, I really appreciate how good the IT was in my old company. Everything was connected, smooth, slick and you could tell it was secure. I had very few issues and when I did, they were quickly solved. Doing this all at scale for thousands of...

BigMikeInAustin ,

Had one of those. Very convincing. Showed my boss. My boss also thought I could be real. So I clicked it. The landing page was an internal "you've been caught" page. Then I got the phishing-email training assignment.

BigMikeInAustin ,

The early US phone numbers were from a set of a few names, and the 5 digits, because they thought people couldn't remember 7 digits.

And now people have to remember several sets of at least 8 random symbols, and change them every 60 days.

BigMikeInAustin ,

What is the parameter to use that tells apps to not auto update once they are installed?

BigMikeInAustin ,

So that's how Nintendo keeps the price of their games so low! They have a secondary revenue stream!

/s

BigMikeInAustin ,

I've seen "xeet" from people outside of Twitter. Not sure what an X person would say. It's pronounced "shit" or "sheet".

BigMikeInAustin ,

There are like 3 or 4 main body styles. pick the one you like the most and find the best price from any of the random Chinese companies on Amazon that has more than 100 reviews. They are all made by the same place, as far as I can tell. You are just picking the middleman.

The well known brands are not better quality or better service, and sometimes fewer features. Definitely not worth that $200+ price.

Hopefully you are in a place that gives you easy access to an Amazon return. There will always be a random item damaged in shipping or that is DOA. I haven't been able to find a high DOA in the random Chinese brands.

BigMikeInAustin ,

I think OP is looking for a portable monitor, not a permanent desk monitor?

Some AI models get more accurate at maths if you ask them to respond as if they are a Star Trek character, ML engineers say (www.businessinsider.com)

Some AI models get more accurate at maths if you ask them to respond as if they are a Star Trek character, ML engineers say::Researchers asking a chatbot to optimize its own prompts found it was best at solving grade-school math when acting like it was on Star Trek.

BigMikeInAustin ,

Doh. This says to have the AI write the prompt for you, but it doesn't give any examples of doing that.

I don't want to get into a rabbit hole looking up examples from the wide internet.

BigMikeInAustin ,

With spinning disks, I preferred Seagate over Western Digital. And then move to HGST.

Back in those days, Western Digital had the best warranty. And I used it on every Western Digital. But that was still several days without a drive, and I still needed a backup drive.

So it was better to buy two drives at 1.3 x the price of one Western Digital.
And then I realized that none of the Seagate or HGST drives failed on me.

For SATA SSDs, I just get a 1TB to maximize the cache and wear leveling, and pick a brand where the name can be pronounced.

For NVME, for a work performance drive, I pick a 2TB drive with the best write cache and sustainable write speed at second tier pricing.

For a general NVME drive, I pick at least a 1 TB from anyone who has been around long enough to have reviews written about them.

BigMikeInAustin ,

In general and simplifying, my understanding is:

There is the area where data is written, and there is the File Allocation Table that keeps track of where files are placed.

When part of a file needs to be overwritten (either because it inserted or there is new data) the data is really written to a new area and the old data is left as is. The File Allocation Table is updated to point to the new area.

Eventually, as the disk gets used, that new area eventually comes back to a space that was previously written to, but is not being used. And that data gets physically overwritten.

Each time a spot is physically overwritten, it very very slightly degrades.

With a larger disk, it takes longer to come back to a spot that has already been written to.

Oversimplifying, previously written data that is no longer part of a file is effectively lost, in the way that shredding a paper effectively loses whatever is written, and in a more secure way than as happens in a spinning disk.

BigMikeInAustin ,

An analogy is writing everything on one piece of paper with a pencil. When you need to change or remove something, you cross it out, instead of erasing, and write the new data to a clean part of the paper. When there are no more clean areas, you use the eraser to erase a crossed off section.

The larger the paper, the less frequent you come back to the same area again with the eraser.

Using an eraser on paper slowly degrades the paper until that section tears and never gets used again.

BigMikeInAustin ,

That would be called under-provisioning.

I haven't read anything about how an SSD deals with partitions, so I don't know for sure.

Since the controller intercepts the calls for specific locations, I'm inclined to believe that the controller does not care about the concept of partitions and does not segregate any chips, thus it would spread all writes across all of the chips.

BigMikeInAustin ,

From the drives I have seen, usually there are 3 write-cache sizes.

Usually the smallest write-cache is for drives 128GB or smaller. Sometimes the 256GB is also here.

Usually the middle size write-cache is for 512GB and sometimes 256GB drives.

Usually the largest write-cache is only in 1TB and bigger drives.

Performance-wise for writes, you want the biggest write cache, so you want at least a 1TB drive.

For the best wear leveling, you want the drive as big as you can afford, while also looking at the makeup of the memory chips. In order of longest lasting listed first: Single Level, Multi Level, Triple Level, Quad Level.

Google CEO says Gemini AI diversity errors are ‘completely unacceptable’ (www.theverge.com)

Google CEO says Gemini AI diversity errors are ‘completely unacceptable’::In an internal memo, Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees that the historically inaccurate photos generated by the company’s Gemini AI were ‘completely unacceptable.’

BigMikeInAustin ,

Well, Americans think Jesus was white with blue eyes. So it was just being human.

BigMikeInAustin ,

https://lemmy.world/post/12508219

Fast food restaurant Wendy’s plans Uber-like surge pricing, with digital menu boards that change prices depending on demand (edition.cnn.com)

Fast food restaurant Wendy’s plans Uber-like surge pricing, with digital menu boards that change prices depending on demand::The price of a Wendy’s Frosty could soon fluctuate throughout the day as the chain looks to introduce Uber-like surge pricing on its menu.

BigMikeInAustin ,

Maybe workers would be able to upcharge rude customers, at least.

BigMikeInAustin ,

Well, the 5G signal itself is better.

It is different from 4G, so it does require reevaluating infrastructure placement.

The same thing happened with 4G. It is weaker than 3G, but faster.

Same thing with 5Ghz wifi. It is weaker, but faster, than 2.4Ghz.

A motorcycle gets better gas mileage, more nimble, and less space than a car or truck. But there is a lot you can't haul on a motorcycle.

BigMikeInAustin ,

Ha, that's what I was about to write!

Crimes against the rich are viewed differently.

BigMikeInAustin ,

This seems to just be a list of Amazon affiliate links.

BigMikeInAustin ,

So Reddit charges users to create content (paid premium or by showing ads). And then it sells that content.

Making money both going and coming.

BigMikeInAustin ,

"If we stop counting, then the problem will stay small." - an "unpresidented" cheeto

Mark Zuckerberg: Tech layoffs in 2024 have been a natural response to pandemic-era over hiring (www.itpro.com)

Mark Zuckerberg: Tech layoffs in 2024 have been a natural response to pandemic-era over hiring::Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes companies are still readjusting to pandemic-era hiring tactics amid a flurry of layoffs across the industry.

BigMikeInAustin ,

They had to hire a consultant to come up with ways to force people to quit because laws prevented even bigger mass firings.

Such a horrible life... /s

BigMikeInAustin ,

Because the phone company's profits would go from $99.99 billion to $99.98 billion.

BigMikeInAustin ,

Oh, a timed block list is a great idea! (Not sarcasm)

BigMikeInAustin ,

Some of the best and worst decisions people have made started with, "I was bored." Ha!

BigMikeInAustin ,

A sucker is born... once a month in a whole country.

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