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I have two unopened jars that I've been thinking of trying, but I never have bread. but I just recently got a salmonella recall notice for them... so I guess so much for those.

Dmess85 posted...

For RAID 10, do all the drives have to be the same size?

it may depend on the RAID controller. when I started I was under the impression that all of the drives had to be the same model not just size, but that doesn't seem to be the case. reading, some sources say that even if they have different sizes, the smallest drive will determine the size of the volume.

something I'll point out is, it is a bit cumbersome to implement. you do actually end up with 4 drives and 4 power cables going to them, and 4 data cables, and if one of the 8 data cable ends comes lose you will lose a drive and have to figure out which port is which drive to fix it and then rebuild the RAID after. and annoyingly SATA cables don't attach very securely. (maybe modern ones are better than the ones I have.)

also, depending on the hardware you have, hard reboots will result in long rebuild operations. (supposedly one of the benefits of "hardware RAID controllers" is that they have batteries and prevent this issue. can use UPS instead to protect against power outages, but that's not the only kind of hard reboot.) (rebuild is basically 1-2 hours running in the background. your computer is slower for those 1-2 hours. for NAS maybe it wouldn't matter since it wouldn't be the PC you're using.)

McDonalds has all day breakfast... except for hashbrowns. so they might as well not have all day breakfast.

sort of. I happened to move closer to work but that was out of my hands. I'm more hesitant about driving 45mins to visit family I guess.

"that escalated quickly". how did this turn out? losing your machine just from crackling wireless audio would not be great.

RAID 10. need 4x drives, but theoretically get 2x performance and redundancy, and 2x 1 drive capacity. (4 1TB drives -> 2TB total storage.) can lose any 1 drive, and even a second drive if it's not the wrong one (the mirror of the first, 1/3 chance). (I personally have 2 machines with this and really is how I've had the same volume for 10 years now; I've replaced a drive twice in those 10 years I think.)

friend of mine likes RAID 5 the most. Can't remember exactly, but I think you need 3 drives or more. 1 drive is parity drive. get (n-1) capacity (4 1TB drives -> 3TB total). can lose any 1 drive. I think performance increases linearly based on number of drives, but apparently there is a large write penalty since it has to check parity before writing and then update parity after writing.

Wordle 352 4/6

PLATE
FLOWS
BLOOD
GLOOM

Lokarin posted...

https://www.insider.com/bees-officially-type-of-fish-california-judges-ruling-endangered-species-2022-6

that's funny since I think humans are fish but bees are not

ParanoidObsessive posted...

an overhyped, overrated game

it's not just overrated, it's actually bad

I'm not sure if most people notice, but the game has no AI and the entire world depends entirely on scripted events. enemy AI literally consists of: if out of range, path into range; when in range, stand still and shoot. that's like placeholder AI that you would write as you're developing the game before writing something more substantial later. (and this is supposed to be a pure FPS game...)

and then the utter tedium of fighting those tripod and helicopter things...

I think the only thing it had going for it at the time was a sense of realism that came from the high-res textures and atmospheric sounds and art style. it does sort of authentically feel like you're in the rural parts of an east european country.

oh and the "story telling"... just about every character in the game from the beginning to the end gushes over the main character which is the most revolting thing ever.

it's basically just a tech demo for the source engine which apparently focuses too much on scripting and not enough on actual gameplay.

System Shock 2 is 1999 and Deus Ex is 2000 (and Thief was 1998 though maybe it's not quite an FPS)

Lokarin posted...

I don't recall Doom 2016 even having a story...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm26tEVSIpc

but Borderlands 2 was my initial suggestion

also there is Deus Ex and System Shock 2 unless they are not pure-FPS enough

another one is Wolfenstein: The New Order

no? trying to say "I f***ing hate that game" nicely but I can't think of a way.

have you played Borderlands 2? that's a way better FPS with way better story. or what about Doom 2016 and Doom Eternal?

Wordle 351 4/6

BREAD
MENDS
DEPOT
DEPTH

Lokarin posted...

Strategy-wise, what are your guys's most common starters?

almost no strategy in my first pick, I try to either pick a word that relates to what I was just doing, or else just pick the first word that comes to mind and doesn't have repeat letters (or maybe even ones that do). (it's basically my preference for RPing over power gaming.)

a really big static shock or like one of those arcing science things

here's a guy trying to make ~500k volt arcs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dje7uhyW23o

Wordle 350 4/6

COULD
NOISE
TAROT
FROTH

hard to say whether I won since often times a good hand just leads to disaster (in texas hold'em anyway). can't remember for sure but I think I've had a straight flush a couple of times. I don't recall them turning out great though.

omg bacon. it's on everything and basically just adds a ton more salt on already salty food. yes I should eat better.

Wordle 349 4/6

LUCKY
WRIST
PASSE
PHASE

Wordle 348 5/6

GOING
FLOAT
DROOP
CHOKE
SHOWY

Wordle 347 5/6

MOUTH
DRINK
BRASS
FREAK
CREAK

I guess I missed 346 so there goes my streak

FatalAccident posted...

Ive just done a quick Google and apparently its when you offload tasks to a GPU or a sound card instead of just the CPU.

yeah. basically maybe the interference comes from the GPU, so theoretically turning HW accel. off could improve it. just random things I would try if I had the problem.

FatalAccident posted...

No crackling when I use WMP or itunes to watch movies or listen to music.

What the fuck is going on? Wtf is it about sound from YT or games that makes it crackle but not sound from music or movies?

theoretically it would be which part of your computer it was passing through or how much is passing through.

but if youtube does it but playing a video file doesn't, that's definitely odd. I would guess that one of the two is hardware accelerated and the other isn't, or one is very high bandwidth and the other isn't. could also be that one is being played off a noisy drive and the other isn't. (though that would probably be the reverse of what you describe unless YT buffers video to the drive).

if games do it, then maybe it's hardware acceleration. (I know on mine that graphics and video playing both compete for graphical throughput and if I watch a video at 1080p60 my load times in games will be 10x longer and stuff will start failing to load into the game world.)

if it was me I would find a youtube video that did it and then download that video and try playing it off different drives, and I would try to find hw acceleration toggles in programs to see if that made a difference or not. also try switching between hi-res and low-res video.

(chrome hw accel. toggle is at Settings -> Advanced -> System. interestingly mine is off.)

yeah it's the text cursor I think. I keep seeing a glitchy text cursor in chrome too. it keeps leaving it on top of elements that aren't text inputs.

Judgmenl posted...

You probably have caret mode enabled.

ok yeah it seems to be that. both chrome and firefox have it. toggle with F7.

it's barely been 70F here and I'm already finding it a bit warm. I dunno how I'll cope with summer. I think I'm losing temperature tolerance in general as I get older. I feel like I'm gonna die now when it's too cold or hot. I used to feel basically immune to cold.

FatalAccident posted...

Im wondering if its the GHz interference thingy, how come when I used my phone from the same location theres no crackling?

certain frequencies are reserved for certain things. cellular seems like it's using a wide variety of frequencies that are less than 2GHz (with the odd one being above 2GHz). bluetooth and WiFi are both specifically using 2.4GHz (which really means something like 2.40-2.48 GHz). I don't have any direct experience with them interfering, it's just what comes up when researching this.

it may also just be coming from your PC directly. I know I've used a lot of computers where you could hear mouse movement and hard drive activity in the sound system, for example.

(one thing I wonder is how bluetooth would pick up interference if it's a digital protocol. I don't know enough about the protocol to know one way or the other, but it could mean that the interference is only present at the analog level, which I guess would be in the earbuds/headphones themselves. but I don't know and have nothing to test.)

EM interference

sounds like bluetooth uses the same frequency as some WiFi (2.4GHz) and that can be the culprit (if you have one of those dual setups with both a 2.4GHz and 5GHz network and only use the 5GHz you could try disabling the 2.4 one.)

other things can be microwaves or fluorescent lights. maybe try moving the dongle if it's near something in particular with a large EM field around it like a powerbar/wall adapter or something.

was watching a guy a couple days ago who started ranting about how much he hates it that everyone tries to make it political when "now is the time for mourning". I was liking his channel a bit before that.

Far-Queue posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/4/6/AAZslrAADSHm.jpg

I'm not 100% up to speed on the issue, but from what I've heard wasn't it even worse than that? more like "we're not going in there and neither are you".

if I knew I had it I would follow all the rules that my workplace says I should follow. the problem is knowing whether I have it. "probably" I had some form of it, but I'll never know.

Wordle 345 3/6

CURBS
FLOAT
ATOLL

the age of that site reminds me of Koolbear, but I guess his site is long gone. can still find it in archive.org though. seems like it lasted till about 2011/2012 when it was hacked and I guess he gave up on it after that.

Lokarin posted...

why does that url sound so familiar...?

vandelay industries?

Lokarin posted...

But the rate of land development and housing (divided by average family size) is growing faster than the rate of population

edit: IE housing is now LESS scarce

not sure if true, but _space_ is scarce and the value of the housing would be based on the value of the space it occupies.

HornedLion posted...

The average cost of a home during the Great Depression, translated in todays money, would be about $70,000. The average cost of a home today is $400,000.

just armchair hypothesizing but doesn't it make sense for housing costs to rise over time (independent of inflation)? space is scarce, and population centers just grow and grow in land value.

it's a problem, not sure what the solution is.

media conflates robots, androids, and AI way too much. if anything will get rights it will be AIs, regardless of what form it has, but not for a while yet.

no but I might if they were more common. I still dream of being able to turn my lights on and off from my computer. (I think I could for a lamp with those smart wall adapters.)

Wordle 344 6/6

MINUS
FLUTE
PUNCH
URBAN
DOWRY
BAYOU

ok that was a tough one

Lokarin posted...

My memory (alpha) is hazy, so it's possible I'm mixing elements of Star Trek TNG's Angel One and Firefly's Out of Gas

another one I thought of could be Galaxy Quest. If I recall, there's a roomful of aliens dying from suffocation in a locked room for way longer than makes sense. they're flapping about on the verge of death and then minutes later... they're still flapping about on the verge of death.

LinkPizza posted...

So far, it seems like arent that bad is the best people have to say about them so far

oh, my opinion was that Maridia is one of my favorite areas in any game ever made, not just "not bad".

I tend to like water themes in general, but it is true that many or most of them make you move painfully slowly and that kind of dampens the fun.

also there are some strategy games where you're on water rather than in water, and those I like too. I very often play games like that with an archipelago map when possible, or as the water race. (hence my name).

at home: logitech wired optical
at work: monoprice wired optical

I think I had a microsoft one at work for the longest time but it started to double-click on single clicks which is one of the most annoying problems, so I switched. although now the new one spontaneously right-clicks sometimes, not sure why. so far it's not enough to matter.

Ogurisama posted...

Other then the slow movement, Metroid ones arent bad

and with the Gravity Suit there isn't even slow movement.

Maridia ftw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv3IAbLJtUc

Lokarin posted...

you used the shield as a weapon but shooting meant you didn't have the shield for a sec...

probably not but makes me think of the "leaf shield" in Mega Man 2 from Wood Man.

Lokarin posted...

I remember people suffocating on a ship without life support, but they weren't freezing or low power or something, it was just the air...

how can you be sure it's not Star Trek? could even be Apollo 13.

HornedLion posted...

Imagine that?

I could see it being too dangerous (or even just physically impossible) to enter the building, even for firemen, and people inside not being able to be rescued. I don't think that is analogous to the current situation though.

I found there's a chinese place near here that has a "1-person combo". you get one of those aluminum containers filled with chicken fried rice, and choice of two dishes on top (and comes with a spring roll and fortune cookie).

it's only $15 for an insane amount of food (basically 2 days worth of food for 1 person unless you're reeeeeeeaaally hungry). it's basically "all you can eat" unless you're absolutely determined to eat until you pop.

I guess the advantage an actual buffet would have would be variety, where you could eat smaller amounts of more kinds of dishes.

does "an ethernet cable is out" mean you can't use a wired connection no matter what?

if it has to be wifi, then I would aim for WiFi 6 (aka 802.11ax). that one is 802.11ac (aka WiFi 5). might not matter too much, about 50% faster. (also depends what it's connecting to, but I presume the newer standard would be more reliable and have more longevity as well.)

aerospace seems way better than a gaming job

internal is better. pcie bus is faster and better than usb bus.

Wordle 343 4/6

LARGE
REMIT
CHERT didn't expect to be a word; also lucky guess
CREPT

Wordle 342 5/6

SUCKY
DREAM
FLAIR
POINT
TIARA

anagram of ATARI which was frustrating since I couldn't think of anything else

Lokarin posted...

My brain fell out

What I want. Ok, a roll of 1 doesn't count since it's an autofail. I want to take these data points: A 2 = 83% success, or 0.8333, 3 = 0.6666, 4=0.5, 5=0.3333 and 6=0.1666, since that's the normal pattern.... and make a formula so that I could figure out what would happen if you rolled a, say 4.1 or a 2.5 or whatever.

I think part of the problem is that the in-betweens are not defined. they could slope in all kinds of ways (possibly infinite ways).

it looks like there are sites that can do this for you. eg: mycurvefit.com

it seems like it's possible to do this linearly, and the resulting formula is y = (x - 1) / 6

I'm not sure if you have something backwards though saying that 1 = 0% chance of success but 2 = 83% chance of success. it makes more sense if 2 is an 83% chance of failure, and then 1 = 0 still fits linearly.

(1 - 1) / 6 = 0/6 = 0
(2 - 1) / 6 = 1/6 = 0.166...
(3 - 1) / 6 = 2/6 = 0.33...
(4 - 1) / 6 = 3/6 = 0.5
(5 - 1) / 6 = 4/6 = 0.66...
(6 - 1) / 6 = 5/6 = 0.833...

even if you have something slightly different in mind this is probably a good enough start that you could modify it as needed. the key thing here I think is that all of the %s are just x/6 values.

(unless you're looking for this in terms of S and T...?)

Wordle 341 4/6

HELPS
SAUCE
AFTER
ASSET

Lokarin posted...

In the rules as written if your S is 4 and their T is 4 you hit at 50%, 4=4' But all ranges between 4.01 and 7.99 would ALSO be in the 3+ category.

I want to granularize it so that when you are at half you still need a 6, if you are equal it's still 50/50 (4+) and double it's still a 2+ (83%) with the 3+ and 5+ options being in there somewhere...

did you actually state what you're looking for here? you say "I want to granularize it so that... [everything is still the same]".