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No idea. Haven't started digging into it yet

27:1 kd would be accused of cheating in video games.

Because this stat isn't really a stat and isn't hyped or published, I'm going by DDG AI assist which suggests US k:d in Iraq is 44:1

The U.S. military suffered approximately 4,492 deaths and around 32,292 wounded during the Iraq War, while estimates suggest around 200,000 Iraqi civilians were killed. This results in a rough kill-to-death ratio of about 44:1, favoring U.S. forces, though this does not account for all combatants and the complexities of the conflict.

Considering that Ukraine isn't killing civilians... Classic AI bullshit uselessness.
If I killed 27 enemy aggressors while defending my country, I would die happy. I don't ever want to be in that position, I don't think anyone should ever be in that position. But that is an achievement, under the circumstances, to be proud of

TIDALs continued awesomeness suggests suitable alternatives.
Spotify pays Joe Rogan how much? And pays artists how little?
TIDAL does music.
I changed a few years ago, and all I miss are the integrations.
I'm lucky that I have decent speakers & dac on my desktop, and decent IEMs. So I can listen to music where I want.
But I can't buy a "tidal speaker" in the way I could buy a "Spotify speaker".
But I'm arrogantly confident enough to waste some money solving this with home assistant, some rpi/nucs, and some speakers. I feel I don't need (I actually don't want a vendor locked in) "just works" solution, and I'm happy rolling my own.

And so it begins

Yeh, either proxy editing (where it's low res versions until export).

Or you could try a more suitable intermediary codec.
I presume you are editing h.264 or something else with "temporal compression". Essentially there are a few full frames every second, and the other frames are stored as changes. Massively reduces file size, but makes random access expensive as hell.

Something like ProRes, DNxHD... I'm sure there are more. They store every frame, so decoding doesn't require loading the last full frame and applying the changes to the current frame.
You will end up with massive files (compared to h.264 etc), but they should run a lot better for editing.
And they are lossless, so you convert source footage then just work away.

Really high res projects will combine both of these. Proxy editing with intermediary codecs

I'd rather they u-turned shitty ideas than waffle-stomp them through.
How the fuck the OSA seemed to just drift through is astounding

I think it's the take(10) that makes it performant.
I guess things like any() will also short-circuit having to process the entire array through a chain of operators before acting on a subset of the final processed array.
If that makes sense....

But if you are filtering then mapping an array, an iterator won't help. You need to go through every element of the source array (to filter) then every element of the filtered array (to map) anyway. There is no opportunity to short circuit, so an iterator won't help.
Edit: and I bet there is overhead keeping iterators active/alive and context switching as each new iteration gets requested, instead of batch processing an array then moving on to the next batch process.

What I'd recommend is setting up a few testing systems with 2-3GB of swap or more, and monitoring what happens over the course of a week or so under varying (memory) load conditions. As long as you haven't encountered severe memory starvation during that week – in which case the test will not have been very useful – you will probably end up with some number of MB of swap occupied.

And

[... On Linux Kernel > 4.0] having a swap size of a few GB keeps your options open on modern kernels.

And finally

For laptop/desktop users who want to hibernate to swap, this also needs to be taken into account – in this case your swap file should be at least your physical RAM size.

I've been using EndeavourOS for 12 months now.
Very light steam gaming. Office stuff is basically web browsers (occasionally I have to swap to windows boot for silly excel spreadsheets that don't work online). Programming is delightful.
It's been solid, and the installer was great.
The major issues have been from dual booting windows (disable fast boot!) and from not updating frequently enough (keychain issues, tho endeavouros has plenty of "newb needs to update" helpers).

I love it. It's mine, I own that laptop, and endeavouros works for me. I feel so much more in control than I ever did on windows.
I do have some basic experience running Debian servers (VMs for single service, or docker stuff), and I do programming.

I did this my my new pixel 8 pro. I loved it.
It was so easy, it worked, I was in control of my device.

Contactless payment didn't work.
Which is a deal breaker for me.

I looked at some fin-tech solutions, I even bought a pixel watch (which didnt work because I have a workspace account). None of them let me work around the issue. Contactless just wouldn't work.

Had to go back to stock android.
I'm constantly checking in on their attribution/verification/whatever status that would allow them to offer contactless payment (currently offered by android/apple/banks, but no open source software).
I want grapheneos and contactless so badly!

Yeh, ventoy takes an extra step (but ventoy is itself an extra step): find the iso from a legit source instead of using the media creation tool, install software to edit iso, add unattended.xml to the iso, plop iso on ventoy drive.

Anyone playing around with or working with Linux/windows:
Check out ventoy. I think they've solved their issues of binary blobs and it is so useful.
Create a Ventoy usb drive. Drag any and all OS ISOs onto the USB stick. Boot from the USB, choose which ISO to actually boot.
Want to switch flavours of live Linux (or try another installer)? Boot from usb, choose different ISO.
Absolutely fantastic software

Yeh, the 16/32 in the screenshot and that 2 sticks are dead suggests they have 4x 8gb sticks, and lends credence that one channel is being messed with.
They said they tested the ram on multiple systems, but they might have just thrown both "dead" sticks in there at the same time - leading to a similar failure mode as they are both on the same channel.

I bet 1 stick is dead, and they could probably get away with 24gb of ram in a 3/2 channel distribution

Maybe 1 is causing the other to fail?
Could try the sticks individually.

It is strange that 2 sticks fail at the same time. It smells like a symptom instead of the root issue.

It's not that difficult, is it?

I mean, it's not like running a program on an already installed windows, or using the windows 11 installer to install from windows.
Otherwise, it's the basic steps for installing any OS except for creating the unattended.xml file.

Use the media creation tool to create install media on a USB drive, work through the generator (Google what you need to), drop the resulting XML onto the drive, reboot from USB and install as normal.

Use an answer file with W11 Pro.
https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/

I haven't noticed any AI bullshit, but I might be being protected by EU laws at the moment.

Writing reports is hard? Fuck paper work? Policing used to be easier?
Great, the reports are written for you and the paper work is done for you.
You are still fucking liable for their contents, as you are (or should be) for your actions.

Recorded and written reports are the backbone of accountability.

Don't want to get fucked by the legal system because you have neglected your duties? Don't neglect your duties. Do the reporting, do the paper work.

Using LLM in such reports should be equivalent of perjury. Use LLMs to create bullet points, turn that into a draft (or just submit the bullet points, because someone is likely to feed the report back into an LLM to turn it into bullet points).
But know that you are (or should be) accountable for every last word on that report!

While true, quantity of poop particles also matters.
Your body can fight off loads of bacteria. But once it gets to an infection point, it can't keep up and you become ill.

So yeh, poop is everywhere. As long as it's small amounts, it's fine.

Ordered with funding? Bad idea, but at least it's backed by government support. Maybe there is a bigger play here.
I can understand requiring coal plants to ensure & maintain grid stability until green alternatives have proven themselves. The government funding basically pays them to maintain but not operate - unless needed.
Hydro would make more sense. Some sort of fast-start generation with potential recovery during low demand.
But I could see coal being part of a black-start procedure or something.

Straight up ordered? No government funding? That's just a polluting bomb. High pressure steam in aging industrial equipment with no incentive to maintain that equipment. Still pumping out pollution, likely producing electricity more expensive than the average cost.
Disaster waiting to happen.
What the fuck.

Battle Royale.
Pretty sure it was the first foreign language film I've watched.

I don't refuse junk mail. I indicate my preference to not have it printed on paper, sent some distance, and hand delivered. I refuse it at the origin, not the destination.
Worst case, the postal service recycles it at origin instead of having to ship it.

Junk mail is junk.
It isn't a resource.
I don't think I've ever received something that meaningfully contributes towards a purchase that I actually want to make.
I buy what I need. I find what I want, I think about if I actually need it, I find local manufacturers, I find local suppliers.
I see if the price difference between local & inter/national is worth the saving (most of the time, it isn't and I'd rather buy from a local manufacturer or supplier, even at twice the price).
Then I decide if I should buy something.

Some paper shipped across the country and shoved through my letterbox is not going to influence my decision AT ALL.
In fact, it's more likely to negatively impact my purchasing decision.
Because here is a company that has excess profits to physical cold-advertise something to me, regardless if I have an interest in it or not.
What a waste of money, resources and time.