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Comment Re:Independent music (Score 1) 47

Artists deserve to be compensated more fairly for their work. Something that might encourage people to pay artists, not because they *have* to via music streaming revenue, but because they know that the majority of their payment will actually (gasp!) go to the artist, would definitely be something I'd take part in.

So head on over to https://bandcamp.com/. They got free streaming through their website and app, and if you want to buy the release (digital or physical) they take a 35% cut, the rest goes entirely to the artists.

Artists set the minimum price on releases, but you can pay more if you want to.

Lots of interesting artists, and they got a weekly podcast showcasing lots of different music, which can be a great way to explore new territory.

Not affiliated, just a happy customer.

Comment Re:Physicists are getting desperate (Score 5, Informative) 180

Now we're faced with a 2 sigma anomaly and the shouts of new physics are once again repeated. This is even more likely to be noise.

From what I understand the main difference between the 750GeV bump and this anomaly is that the 750GeV was a single bump which did not have a nice-fitting theoretical explanation while still being compatible with existing measurements.

This anomaly might only ~2 sigma so far, but it is ~2 sigma in several channels, so not just "one bump", and it seems one can rather easily and naturally extend the theory to match observations.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.09189

Comment Re:Math is about right (Score 1) 55

[useless] UHD

It's not useless. The bandwidth is significantly higher which leads to far fewer artifacts such as banding, which are quite visible on regular HD streams from Netflix.

HDR depends on the source material, for some stuff it's great, for other stuff you don't notice it as much.

While I might not always be able to tell a very good regular Bluray from a UHD Bluray, I can easily tell the difference between a Netflix HD stream and a Nextflix UHD stream, and that's why I'm happy to pay the difference.

Comment Re: bit rot (Score 1) 475

I'm not very familiar with ext4 nor lvm, but for me it's the fact that zfs validates the checksums on _reads_, and repairs corrupted data if needed, and that you can configure it to store N copies of each block. These two features work on a single disk (non-raid).

So if you have a single disk, you can set it to store say 3 copies of each block, and when reading the data and it finds that one block is corrupted, it will try to use one of the other two.

Comment Re:Stupid (Score 3, Informative) 64

SMB services should -never- ever be exposed to the internet, under any circumstances.

If it's like the last SMB issue, then the issue is not that they send packets to an SMB server, but rather get the machine to connect (outbound) to a malicious SMB server, which replies with malicious packets.

This can be done using standard phishing tricks.

This is why one should block outbound SMB traffic as well.

Comment Re:People go to movies? (Score 4, Informative) 142

With today's technology, why does anyone still go to a theater to see a movie?

Maybe because some live in smaller condos where big-ass projection screens and high volume is not an option?

I have a high-end 65" TV and a decent sound setup, but it cannot compare to the big screen experience. So I still go to the cinema for movies I really want to enjoy.

I guess it also helps that live in a country where, for the vast majority of cases, people are not idiots when going to the movies. Oh and the seats are numbered so you know you'll get a good seat if you order early enough.

Comment Re:No Man's Sky (Score 4, Insightful) 99

I find it particularly confusing how a game rated "Mostly Negative" still had the highest sales revenue.

Almost all of it was pre-launch purchases. Game was hyped into the 8th dimension. it was on the "top sellers" list months before launch.

However, many players spent more than 2 hours playing the game, waiting to find all those neat things they were promised, before they realized the game was not what they had been told it would be. And after 2 hours of game-time you can't refund the game anymore.

Others are still clinging on hoping the devs will fix the mess and release the game they showed the world during E3 and whatnot.

Comment Re:They can't dynamically figure this out? (Score 2) 164

The only way to get a correct figure would be to predict how many times I'm going to recompile in the future.

Or it could quote you a range: time remaining with light load, and time remaining with heavy load.

It could also figure out what is "light" and what is "heavy" by your usage patterns.

Comment Re:I still don't want it (Score 1) 280

You can likely take a .bat file, rename it to .ps, and have it run just fine. I've never had a problem doing so, at least.

Almost all my batch files, and most of my interactive cmd sessions involve "for" in various ways.

I just tried the following basic "for" statement in PowerShell:
for /d %a in (*.*) do ehco "%a"

I got this message back:
At line:1 char:4
+ for /d %a in (*.*) do ehco "%a"
+ ~
Missing opening '(' after keyword 'for'.
        + CategoryInfo : ParserError: (:) [], ParentContainsErrorRecordException
        + FullyQualifiedErrorId : MissingOpenParenthesisAfterKeyword

So for me at least, it seems highly unlikely that my batch files will work with PowerShell.

Comment Re:M.2 (Score 1) 108

Hell, I've even seen some short M2 cards that fit inside a 2.5" drive adaptor to connect to SATA.

That's because M.2 can carry different things, not entirely unlike USB-C:

Computer bus interfaces provided through the M.2 connector are PCI Express 3.0 (up to four lanes), Serial ATA 3.0, and USB 3.0 (a single logical port for each of the latter two). It is up to the manufacturer of the M.2 host or device to select which interfaces are to be supported, depending on the desired level of host support and device type. The M.2 connector has different keying notches that denote various purposes and capabilities of M.2 hosts and modules, preventing plugging of M.2 modules into feature-incompatible host connectors

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.2

Some early or cheap M.2 SSD's use the SATA, the "proper" ones use PCIe (NVMe). Plugging a NVMe SSD into a M.2 slot which only has SATA (like that 2.5" adapter likely has) won't work.

Comment Re:Headline VERY misleading (Score 1) 258

Gah, didn't like that less-than sign in the abstract and I missed it when previewing thanks to distraction. Yay.

Here's the full quote:

The analyzed records have an average twentieth century rate of approximately 1.6 mm/yr, but based on the locations of these gauges, we show that the simple average underestimates the twentieth century global mean rate by 0.1 ± 0.2 mm/yr. Given the distribution of potential sampling biases, we find that <1% probability that observed trends from the longest and highest-quality tide gauge records are consistent with global mean rates less than 1.4 mm/yr.

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