LordOfTheChia @ LordOfTheChia @lemmy.world

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This is also meant to compete with LTO tapes. To my knowledge, the current best is LTO9 with a max uncompressed storage of 18TB per tape.

100-200 TB on a disc would be huge as they could replace 5-11 tapes with one disc and have better random seek times.

Hopefully this does not end up like HVD which was promising but ended up dying due to the initial cost:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc

To supplement your point:

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-property/

Russian elite invested nearly $100 million in Trump buildings

...

The tally of investors from Russia may be conservative. The analysis found that at least 703 – or about one-third – of the owners of the 2044 units in the seven Trump buildings are limited liability companies, or LLCs, which have the ability to hide the identity of a property’s true owner. And the nationality of many buyers could not be determined. Russian-Americans who did not use a Russian address or passport in their purchases were not included in the tally.

And

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/05/eric-trump-russia-investment-golf-course

“So when I got in the cart with Eric,” Dodson says, “as we were setting off, I said, ‘Eric, who’s funding? I know no banks—because of the recession, the Great Recession—have touched a golf course. You know, no one’s funding any kind of golf construction. It’s dead in the water the last four or five years.’ And this is what he said. He said, ‘Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.’

AND

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a43329318/russian-investment-trump-media/

Towards the end of last year, federal prosecutors started examining two loans totaling $8m wired to Trump Media, through the Caribbean, from two obscure entities that both appear to be controlled in part by the relation of an ally of Russian president Vladimir Putin, the sources said.

AND

https://www.axios.com/2023/02/18/gop-operative-sentenced-scheme-russian-money-trump-campaign

A Republican strategist was sentenced Friday to 18 months in prison for his role in helping funnel illegal foreign campaign contributions from a Russian national into former President Trump's 2016 campaign, per the Department of Justice.

AND

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/trumpinc/episodes/trump-inc-trump-deutsche-bank-its-complicated

The New York Times reported that anti-money-laundering specialists at Deutsche Bank internally flagged multiple transactions by Trump companies as suspicious. (A spokesperson for the Trump Organization called the article “absolute nonsense.”)

The remarkably troubled recent history of Deutsche Bank, its past money-laundering woes — and the bank’s striking relationship with Trump — are the subjects of this week’s episode. The German bank loaned a cumulative total of around $2.5 billion to Trump projects over the past two decades, and the bank continued writing him nine-figure checks even after he defaulted on a $640 million obligation and sued the bank, blaming it for his failure to pay back the debt.

All from just 5 minutes on Google!

Also this:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2022/07/29/donald-trumps-great-escape-how-the-former-president-solved-his-debt-crisis/

Would still make salamander babies with them.

Johnson! Why the hell is your report the most unintelligible thing I've read since nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hеll in a cell, and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer's table.

If they complain about food prices, just show them what happened to wheat prices right after the Feb 2022 invasion:

https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/wheat

Switch the chart to 5 year chart for a full picture.

The price has somewhat stabilized only through the sacrifice of Ukrainians who are still doing everything possible to get their crops out to the world despite Russia's best attempts.

And the clouds are the same rock, just textured white.

They help the tires move phlegm from the inner to the outer treads.

I would check two things:

1. Is it a QLED tv? Those are very efficient with the backlight power. QLED only have a blue led backlight and the "quantum dots" in the panel between the backlight and the LCD panel absorb the blue light and emit the red green and blue needed to create the full color spectrum.
2. How many nits of brightness does it produce? I'd check for the specific model on RTINGS. It won't help OP much if the TV is efficient, but so dim that it's unusable in their case.

Reflectivity also helps with brightness when viewed in a bright room. The less reflective (matte) the less brightness the TV needs to overcome distracting light sources reflecting on the screen.

Edit: Had to look it up to be sure, normal LED panels use filters that filter red, green, and blue light from a white light source. This means roughly 1/3 of the light from the backlight is filtered away, hence the energy inefficiency vs QLED which uses the energy from the blue light to create the colors.

Intestingly, some DLP projectors use alternating red, green, and blue light sources which strobe on the DLP chip which takes turns modulating the intensity of each color. Less efficient (and bright) DLPs use a single white light source and a color wheel (rotating color filter).

Link, get started now!

https://piped.video/watch?v=NcOb3Dilzjc

The Razzies should also add a casting award and retroactively nominate "Valerian" for a lifetime achievement.

Was just about to link it:

https://youtu.be/jAdG-iTilWU

So the ones I've seen were a combination of social skills/ emotional intelligence tests and the same type of questions you'd find in an IQ test.

So having a degree shows you have the dedication to see your education through. Having a high GPA can indicate you delivered a consistent and honest effort. But the extra test (especially if it's timed) can show how good you are at quick thinking. One test I took for a job, you would have about 20 seconds to answer each question if you wanted to get through them all.

It can also gauge if you're lazy (you guess your way through most questions just to get through them) or dedicated (take your time to answer each question correctly even if that means you won't get through all 60 or so questions before the 20 minutes are up).

The social skills/emotional intelligence tests (if that's the right name for them) I've seen were basically matching faces to emotions and trying to gauge reactions to events.

So for the "IQ" tests, they want people who are not only educated but swift thinkers (more PC way to say it).

For the social/emotion tests, I've seen where otherwise smart and educated candidates can be grating to other employees and even drive other talent away.

I ran into that situation. I've even personally blacklisted jobs that might be in the same "team" with a specific person at a very big contractor because even if they're brilliant, they're frustrating to work with and have no gauge on how to treat fellow professionals.

I use "team" in quotes because despite there being enough work for 3-4 full time developers, I've only ever seen that one person on that team. After having worked with them, I have a really good idea why.

linking your chicken purchase back to a wider consumer profile of you from other ad activity on the internet.

Based on the time spent on KFC.com, the lingering cursor sweeps over the images of chicken, and the occasional clicks to purchase but failure to put payment information, we have determined that user mozz is a fox.

Implement a 1 in 1 out policy

What if... Captain America sharpened his shield and gave it a good spin before throwing it.

While I've seen many binary choice questions that are loaded questions, I think the above is a good example. A follow up (or two) if the person balks at the question itself is the following:

Do you know what fascism is and how to spot it?

Do you think antifa is a single entity and not a general ideology?

If it's an entity, can you name or even lookup it's leadership?

Do you believe everyone who espouses an anti fascist value system is a member of that org?

Good binary questions can help guide a discussion and expose biases and misunderstandings held by each side in the discussion. Seemingly paradoxically, nailing down specific stances using those types of questions, you can explore the nuance of certain positions.

Ex: on abortion

1. Are you for or against the government mandated birth? (Seems loaded, right?)
2. Are you for or against the government spending resources and citizen time investigating all miscarriages? 2a. Do you know how common miscarriages are? 2b. Do you know what the medical term is for a miscarriage?
3. Are you in favor of the law punishing equally anybody who causes a spontaneous abortion or increases the likelihood of one? Even coal power plants?
4. Are you for or against all abortions including those that are medically necessary to prevent undue suffering and/or injury to the mother? 4a. Do you believe an ectopic pregnancy is a condition that warrants an abortion?
5. Are you for or against politicians making medical decisions on your behalf in the name of their ideology and/or gaining political points OR should the decision be left between the patient, their doctor, and the medical field's understanding of the best standard of care?
6. Are you in favor of all abortions at any time? 6a.. Will a hospital in the states with the most liberal abortion laws perform an abortion on a woman with a healthy pregnancy at 8-9 months? 6b. If a fetus lacks a brain and no chance of survival, should the woman be denied the appropriate care?

Question 1 may just be a way to reframe the stances from "pro-life" / "anti-life"

Q2 helps bring the reality of what enforcement of that person's stance may entail.

Q3 shows that big companies go unpunished for the same (or worse) violations of restrictive abortion laws and other laws that are used to punish women who miscarry.

Q4 helps bring focus on the fact that anti-abortion laws that are currently being passed and enforced are written so poorly that they are forcing doctors (through threat of imprisonment) to deny what would be routine procedures which would otherwise prevent suffering and permanent injury to women.

Heck yeah, the fight music and the special track when fighting Big Duo were pretty awesome:

General fight music: https://youtu.be/Ue1DTQTJxpM

The Big Duo fight: https://youtu.be/CcKE_JipPPc

A bonus, I'm pretty sure (in the dub) the american voice actor for Spike (Cowboy Bebop) voices the protagonist.

Edit: Found the second track. It's called "Sure Promise"

https://youtu.be/MSBTou15zNo

What are you saying? This has nothing to do with the current republican party or their talking points!

Mohn also calls for the end of “all woke and gender ideology propaganda in schools and other public places

I'm sure it's a coincidence...

Mohn spouts several far-right talking points, including:

"America is rotting from the inside out as far-left woke mobs rampage our once prosperous cities, turning them into lawless zones."

" A fifth column army of illegal immigrants infiltrates our border"

Oh...

55 Billion is a little more than Tesla's gross profit from 2023, 2022, 2021 combined. 3 years of gross* profit!

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TSLA/tesla/gross-profit

Maybe the board was proposing to Musk?

"They say you should spend 3 years salary."

Gross profit is revenue without subtracting manufacturing or production expenses. Net profit is gross profit minus the cost of all business operations and non-operations.

Edit: Tesla's total net income from 2010 to 2023 looks to be less than 46 Billion:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TSLA/tesla/net-income-loss

So take all the money Tesla has made since 2010 (without subtracting the years they've lost money), take another 9 Billion dollar loan, that would equal 55 billion.