Shdwdrgn

@Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz

A person with way too many hobbies, but I still continue to learn new things.

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Shdwdrgn,

So who do they think they’re going to vote for? Trump has also continually vowed his support of Israel and wouldn’t have done anything different (except maybe sending even more weapons to them), while at the same time not supporting Ukraine at all.

Shdwdrgn,

I want to see a federal bill that states anyone who has sought to remove the rights of others (whether through lawful or political means) shall have their own rights taken away. Enough of these BS claims from politicians that they are merely pursuing the wishes of their constituents, there needs to be severe consequences for trying to trample on other people.

Shdwdrgn,

I have an MFC-9340 and have also run into this problem. The drivers available in cups allow me to either print two-sided in b&w, or print single-sided in color (at least for the drivers that work at all with the printer). I finally broke down and installed the binary from Brother to get it working fully, but it’s annoying that I can’t just use a generic driver with this printer.

Shdwdrgn,

Since it hasn’t been mentioned yet… Yes a failing drive will significantly slow down a computer. Drives are built to be fault-tolerant, so if it reads a block of data and that doesn’t match the block’s checksum, the drive will attempt to re-read the same data until it gets what it believes is correct data, or until it gives up and sends a failure to the computer.

So now imagine your drive is in a state where nearly every block is having trouble being read, so it re-reads each block several times, adding a significant amount of time to every operation. A scan of the drive may indicate everything is working correctly if the drive does eventually return valid information, but the drive itself is having to work very hard to get this data.

One thing you might try to check for internal errors is running a read/write test of the drive, and recording the speed these operations were performed at. If that number is close to the parameters of the drive (you can check with the manufacturer or online reviews to find real-world drive speeds) then the drive is probably ok. However if the test is running a lot slower than the expected speeds, it’s a good bet that your drive is failing and you will want to back up the data as soon as possible.

Shdwdrgn,

Sectors that cannot be read reliably will get marked out, but I’ve seen plenty of HDDs that tested fine but still had obvious issues when reading data from certain areas. If your OS happens to be within that area then it becomes a problem very quickly, and you’ll probably lose data before the drive marks those sectors as bad.

Shdwdrgn,

A lot will depend on your preferred workflow, and since you mentioned SolidWorks I assume that means you prefer a more GUI-oriented approach. However as an alternative, if you are comfortable with more of a programming approach, you might look in to OpenSCAD. Most things are done from a more primitive standpoint in how you create each part of an object, but I like having the direct control over every aspect.

Shdwdrgn,

I played around with it in the early 2000’s to learn more about Linux. Eventually used it to build a micro-release of a firewall running samba, cups, apache, and postfix, all crammed onto a bootable zip-100 disk. You can do quite a lot when you understand the bare minimum requirements to get a system running.

Shdwdrgn, (edited )

I bet Johnson hates it when Biden supports anything he says. Watching him behind Biden during the last SotU address, Johnson looked displeased with everything that was said, even the things that both sides should have been cheering for.

James Webb telescope confirms there is something seriously wrong with our understanding of the universe (www.livescience.com)

Astronomers have used the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes to confirm one of the most troubling conundrums in all of physics — that the universe appears to be expanding at bafflingly different speeds depending on where we look....

Shdwdrgn,

I predict bubbles warping time but not space, thus distorting the apparent speeds of objects we see through them. Star Trek taught me that anything is possible. 😆

And just imagine the new fields of math such a discovery would create…

Shdwdrgn,

Normally yes, but if an exception was found then that too would fundamentally change what we think we know. I doubt it will come down to anything quite that simple, but on the other hand gravity is one of those forces that we still don’t completely understand and when dealing with things on a galactic scale perhaps this new observation will start to crack open that particular mystery. It’s easy to speculate at this point, but really my hope is that this will lead to a better understanding of something huge. I think the most boring outcome of this would be something like “oops we made a mistake in our math.”

Shdwdrgn,

The Intel floating-point math error strikes again.

Shdwdrgn,

A quick search suggests that something as small as 5 meters can survive hitting the ground, however there are a number of calculations to consider including the speed it is traveling, the entry angle, and the material it is made of.

Shdwdrgn,

SPOILER ALERT: This story discusses major plot developments in Season 5, Episode 1 of “Star Trek: Discovery,” now streaming on Paramount+.

Guess I won’t be reading this until after I get a chance to watch the episode.

Shdwdrgn,

Screwing over a large number of people to benefit a small number of people. Religion and corporations immediately come to mind.

Shdwdrgn,

“heavy-handed regulation will not just hobble network investment and innovation, it will also seriously jeopardize our nation’s collective efforts to build and sustain reliable broadband in rural and unserved communities”

They said exactly the same thing when the first net neutrality laws were getting put in place, then after the laws went into effect the companies went on to invest record amounts in innovation and infrastructure. Funny how their words are completely meaningless.

Shdwdrgn,

You mean like “innovating” faster connections speeds that they’ve been withholding from us for decades, but can suddenly flip a switch and advertise faster speeds when another provider competes with them? Yeah, I wouldn’t know anything about that… ;-)

Shdwdrgn,

Uhh… have they not been paying attention to the bans against Threads? Somebody over there isn’t doing their job.

Shdwdrgn,

That sounds really familiar, is that a quote from somewhere?

Shdwdrgn,

Haha fair enough!

Shdwdrgn,

Funny how, despite all their screaming about the subject, Republicans are the ones who we keep catching in the act of voter fraud.

Shdwdrgn,

Ugh I had not heard of these cases, but yeah that sounds about typical under the eye of the people who are actively trying to destroy democracy just so they themselves can have their rights taken away.

Shdwdrgn,

I feel like I want to agree with you, but on the other hand what would happen if everyone were free to use any dead celebrity’s likeness any way they wanted? Keeping in mind that Sinéad O’Connor’s estate just sued Trump for using her music without permission at a rally that goes against everything she stood for, if we weren’t allowed to keep a tight reign on these things then it would unleash some truly unspeakable horrors. For example, what if a speech from MLKJ were allowed to be twisted by white supremacists to spread hatred? It could get out of hand so quickly and the good deeds done by these people could be white-washed. I think we just need to accept certain restrictions in order to safeguard the strongest voices that speak up for the rest of us.

Shdwdrgn,

I see… So you think my comment is a knee-jerk reaction and I’m anti-AI? Boy aren’t you an idiot.

Shdwdrgn,

Hey if a fscking mouse can be copyrighted for 100 years, why shouldn’t the work of real people also be protected? Of course neither of the examples your cited would still have copyrights even under those extreme terms.

Shdwdrgn,

I do actually agree with that, these lengths of times are pretty ridiculous.

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