Nollij

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I want to believe this. I really do. Maybe the surprise will be that it really did happen.

But I'm not confident. I'm expecting it to be razor-thin, with results unclear even days later.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

A lot of people have pretty well covered how to drive in snow and ice, but here's a little secret they won't tell you:

  • Over the summer, the locals forgot how to drive on snow, too.

The first big snow will bring the car fairy to sprinkle wrecked cars along the side of the road. Most of these are given by people with plenty of experience driving on snow.

Stay home that first time. If you absolutely must drive, be the one going too slowly. After that, you can kind of do as the Romans do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That might have been a reference to a very old Slashdot meme, ca. 2002. Sometimes those words were combined; there was a movie with the words + "from outer space"; and there was a trolling group GNAA.

Now, is that what they were going for? Only you can answer that. It's a pretty deep cut into a pretty nerdy corner of the Internet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Some places tried calling him "The Artist", but it never stuck. Not even "The Artist formerly known as Prince" stuck. But "Prince" has endured to his grave and beyond.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (3 children)

No idea what field you're in, but of course you have to adjust it regularly. This year it's brown m&Ms. Next year it's a bowl of only yellow ones. The year after, it's Skittles (no red ones). Kit Kats already split into individual bars. A bowl of Skittles mixed with corn flakes. Brown m&MS as decoy for people skimming for the clause, then later another one about 3 musketeers at the bar. I could come up with enough for an entire career without even leaving the candy realm.

It's meant to be a very simple, but specific task that is easily performed by anyone that actually read and followed the instructions. It could be a bottle of Dr Pepper (as someone else mentioned), or wearing a yellow shirt upon arrival, or calling the lead "Chief"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

You are comparing it to a hash, following some extra rules on what the data could be. You have exactly the length of hash before you can reliably count on duplicates (and collisions happen much sooner). In torrent v1, this is SHA-1, which has a 160-bit (or 20 byte) hash. Which means for every single additional random bit, you have doubled the number of possible matches.

If your torrent has an uncommonly small chunk size of 256KiB, that's 261,144 bytes. Minus the 20 from above, and you have a likely 256^261124 chunks that match your hash. That's a number so large that Google calls it infinity. It would take you forever just to generate these chunks by brute force, since each would need to be created, then hashed, then the results stored somewhere. Many years ago, I remember someone doing this on CRC32 (32 bits/4 bytes) and 6 byte files. It took all night, and produced dozens of hash-matching files. You're talking many orders of magnitude bigger.

But then what? You'd still need to apply the other rules on what the data could be. Rules that are probably more CPU-intensive than the hash algorithm.

The one trick that AI might be able to use to save the day is that it may contain in its corpus the original file. In effect, that would make the AI an unlikely seeder.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

They say economists are great at predicting recessions. In fact, they've predicted 8 of the past 3.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Beggar's night is not the same thing as Halloween. Some areas designate a specific date and time for the kids to do trick-or-treat, not on Halloween. This is beggar's night.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

While misrepresenting yourself or your credentials can be fraud, the title of PhD/Doctor (outside of MD) is not regulated, at least not in the US. It's almost like an endorsement from the university that you passed their tests.

But that's not very regulated either, and there are countless certifying boards (Boards of Regents, typically).

Falsely claiming to have a PhD in Neuroscience from Harvard, or an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Knox College, would be fraud. But just saying that you have a PhD without specifying anything more specific is not.

And it comes up regularly - an easy example is the author of Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Leaving you with 80% of the revenue you, yourself, directly generate is unheard of in this day and age. If you have anything like a 9-5, you're probably getting around 10-20%. The rest goes to all your bosses, and most importantly of all, the company shareholders.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

At a recent (niche) music festival, they said it takes 50,000 streaming songs to pay the artist as much as a single CD sale.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Run MemTest86 for 24 hours. If it fails at any point, you have a memory issue you need to resolve. You might need to adjust voltage, timing, or whatever else. You might even have defective parts. But keep tweaking until you can pass a 24 hour test.

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