Another recent hypothesis is that dogs were domesticated for food.
That does not make sense, dogs are carnivores and thus compete with humans for food, twice even, first the food which feeds their prey, and then the prey.
Pigs who are omnivores and can't digest cellulose are already problematic, probably why Judaism and Islam forbids eating them.
Keeping and domesticating dogs in such early stages of civilization just to eat them them seems unlikely. Still the variation of dogs in southern China could be from breeding, but at a much later state when it became a luxury good, think Conspicuous Consumption. Which is another explanation for the mentioned pig-taboo: Too many farmers imitated the few wealthy ones that could afford holding pigs, thus resulting in a famine since no one wanted to be the first to give up pig farming. And to stop this race to the bottom (I think that is the game theory name) in the end "God" via a wise prophet commands them to stop this silliness.
What's scary about that number is that I had *nothing* to drink in the last 3 hours, and no booze at all that entire day... So where did the
Apart from a miscalibrated reader, fermentation in your digestive tract or already in fruits that were not cooled. Microorganisms which know how to metabolise sugar in the absense of oxygen are everywhere, and alcohol is often the wasteproduct there.
You might have heard the stories about wild animals getting drunk after eating fruit - how do you think humans got hooked onto the whole booze thing in the first place?
I once at an apple and a few hours later was tested with a BAC of 0.01 per mille.
Fortunately, the drives with the newer [non-TRIM] firmware don't seem to suffer from much performance degradation, so I'm not really obsessed with TRIM anyway.
I wonder how they managed that without the TRIM command, i.e. without the OS telling the HD which parts can be nulled because they are not needed anymore. Did they hide more pages from the OS which are then nulled regardless to hack together something like a buffer? But that would still show terrible write performance once that overflows. Did they implement deep-data-inspection for the most common filesystems so the HD now knows when something is deleted?
At that point I'll put together a new desktop that only uses SSDs, and turn my existing desktop into a 4TB RAID 1+0 file server to handle all the big files... the perfect balance of SATA & spinning media.
I'm planning the same thing once the prices are right and TRIM is supported, though I'll probably keep the old spinning-platter drive local. Then we are one step back/forward to the old unix days where
As with virtualisation (ok, more mainframes than unix there), everything old is new again - can't wait to use the underrated Sys-Req key to switch between Linux and Windows instances that are virtualized by the hardware!
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