Everyone knew that HashiCorp's odd #opensource licensing moves were designed to make it more attractive to buyers. What we didn't know was that IBM would be the buyer.
How in the world was alienating the entire user community and tanking its own market share (by way of being forked) supposed to make it attractive to buyers?
And these money people somehow don't notice that the hyper-cloud providers are (1) not paying big bucks, and (2) leaving HashiCorp and its now-proprietary products to rot in irrelevance?
3 to 5 years? 🤨 I've got multiple decade-old drives in service, including one that's 15 years old, still working perfectly. No reallocated sectors or other unexplained failures on any of them.
I have lost very few hard drives in all my years. Truly impressive machines, considering how delicate their mechanisms look.
Back in the 1980s, though…yeah, those old MFM/RLL drives fell apart pretty quick. Some of them still work today, but most are long dead.
One problem in particular is sticktion: a head would get stuck to the platter while the drive is powered off. Next time it's powered on, the spindle motor starts rotating the platters, which tears off the stuck head.
i’m trying to figure out what annoys me about this ad, and i think it’s making the public landscape even more unintelligible for the vast majority of people.
This ad also annoys me because they're trying to lure me into yet another vendor-lock-in trap. Obviously that's not going to happen, but I'm kind of offended that they tried.
It insane to me how often women are not given pain management for gynecological procedures, because many many years ago a male doctor who's never had a vagina, cervix, or uterus decided that there weren't enough nerve endings up there to hurt significantly. I think it's time to put this fallacy to bed. It most definitely does hurt, and people who have literally no experience with female equipment don't get to decide this for me. Trust me docs, you don't want to taste your own medicine on this.
Why is natural gas that much cheaper than electricity? Electricity is often made from natural gas, and yet, from what you're saying, electricity is somehow at least twice the price per unit energy (because heat pumps are at least twice as efficient). That does not add up. 🤨
Edit: I see you live in California. Your problem is that PG&E is scamming you. The solution is political (vote out the DINOs), not technological (gas heating).
Computers as tools for humans are so useful exactly because they can’t think and do tedious work like calculations or information storage and retrieval for humans in a deterministic way.
It took like nearly 90 years of digital computers to make them powerful enough to run a wasteful algorithm that pretends to think (but doesn’t) and to deliver bullshit non-deterministic results while using absurd amounts of computational and environmental resources.
Note: by that they mean they're going to use it as a way to fire everyone.
The intention of building AGI is not to improve the human condition, or to create a new, better kind of person. It's to create the ultimate slave, and leave all humanity to starve in poverty.
Cloud is popular because a lot of organizations don't even want to employ an IT department, let alone security specialists. It's the “cost center”/“profit center” brain worm that afflicts capitalists these days.
The thread is now so long it is increasingly breaking Mastodon, so I am making a new thread, starting here.
To recap, here's the entirety of the year-one thread in the most impractical possible format: A YouTube playlist containing 246 songs and running for just over 47 hours:
I would think that playing tracker music without hardware assistance (not everyone had a GUS) would impose more CPU load than decompressing MPEG.
But memory was still fairly expensive back then. Keeping an MPEG audio file (~3MB) in RAM would have used a significant fraction of the machine's total RAM (only 16MB). Most of Unreal's tracker songs are below 1MB.
That said, one of them, ENDEX.IT, is 3MB and plays for only 0:46. An MPEG version would have been significantly smaller!
I vaguely recall that MP3 decoding was royalty-free, and you only had to pay to encode. I'm not at all sure about that, though.
I could also be mistaken about the CPU load of MP3 decoding. Could've been too much.
And yeah, if that kind of compression couldn't be used for whatever reason, then you were pretty much stuck with either tracker music, MIDI, or CD-DA. Most games of that era used CD-DA, but Unreal and UT had a lot of music, probably too much to fit on a single disc.
The only other game I remember tracker music being in is Terminal Velocity. I gather a lot of Amiga games used it, since Amigas had hardware support for playing it, but I was on MS-DOS/Windows, where tracker music usually had to be played in software.
Some people had a GUS or AWE32/AWE64, and could play tracker music in hardware like on an Amiga, although the AWE32's 512kB of RAM meant that almost none of Unreal's tracks, and none of UT's, would have fit.
Didn't games at that time usually require the CD to be inserted for copy-protection reasons anyway? I know Quake 2 did, but I don't remember if UT did.
