frezik

frezik , 1 day ago to 196 in Decades of chess rule

"Pawns can only move one space, except for their first move, when they can move two" - Statement by the utterly deranged.

frezik , 2 days ago to 196 in Dune rule

The Clone Wars movie also had a bar where the band was playing a bit schmaltzy. Schmaltzy Jizz.

frezik , 2 days ago to Comic Strips in Circle of AI Life [MonkeyUser]

Do they have to have their asses in the air like that? Does the sun god want to be mooned?

frezik , 3 days ago to Technology in Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs.

You keep doing this thing where you presume I don’t know about some issue

Maybe because you way overestimate the reliability of old drives. Yes, 10 year old drives can work. Doesn't mean you should trust them with anything other than getting the data off of it.

frezik , 3 days ago to Lefty Memes in Self-Regulation

If I didn't know it before, I do know it after you posted this little rant.

frezik , 3 days ago to Lefty Memes in Self-Regulation

A bunch of Marxist-Leninist governments turned out to be authoritarian, as well as fermenting cult-like behavior in smaller ML groups. That's a reason to drop that whole branch. Has nothing to do with leftism in the broad view.

frezik , 3 days ago to Lefty Memes in Self-Regulation

Because we know from long experience that these questions aren't made in good faith.

frezik , 3 days ago to Lefty Memes in Self-Regulation

Since leftists tend to also condemn those things, as well, what the hell are you on about?

frezik , 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to Technology in Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs.

Magnetic platters absolutely do break down from sitting around. Bearings and other mechanics can also go bad. For those things, a professional recovery operation could still get the data if you're willing to pay, but the drive itself should be thrown out.

Edit: keep in mind that with bit rot, the drive may superficially function just fine. Your data may even be 99% correct. That 1%, however, could cause unrecoverable problems, such as videos that glitch in the middle.

frezik , 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to 196 in the futrule if it didn't suck

They exist, but they're crude. Indoor farms tend to be labor intensive, meaning they have a lot of incentive to automate, but nobody has a really good system yet.

Knowing when a tomato is ripe and how to pick it off the plant is one of the better uses for AI image recognition and robotics, IMO.

frezik , 3 days ago to Technology in Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs.

I wouldn't trust it that way, no. They might last decades. They also might not. It's a gamble on any single drive, or even a few mirrored drives.

File system also matters. Modern ZFS has error checking that can handle some level of bit rot. Older formats generally don't.

If it's over 7 years or so, I want to get the data off of there.

frezik , 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to Technology in Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs.

- as opposed to +

WELCOME TO THE RABBIT HOLE

frezik , 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to Technology in Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs.

I upgraded my datahoarding server to a pair of 18TB hard drives on ZFS with mirroring a little while back. It'll be several years before I need to upgrade again, but I expect that when I do, SSDs will be cheap enough to go that route.

Already have a 10Gbps fiber connection to that server, so the hard drives are the bottleneck.

frezik , 3 days ago to Technology in Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs.

Commercially pressed discs don't last forever, but longer than burnable discs. IIRC, they used to say 50 years for CDs, but in practice, it was a lot less. More like 20 or 30 if you store and handle them nicely. Easily less than 10 if you don't.

Hard drives go bad over time; I don't like trusting spinning platters much over 7 years. They can be OK, but they can suddenly stop working whenever.

SSDs are about the same as spinning platters.

frezik , 4 days ago to 196 in rule

Most of the really out there Christian fundamentalists, the ones eating the brain of the US political system, are derived from the Protestant Reformation (or Anglican, which is sorta to the side of the Reformation). Even the more fundamentalist Catholics in the US have opinions that align to the Protestants around them rather than the Pope. Big Bang and evolution, for example.