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KDR = 0.60
  • For sure, there could be one person with 1.1 and 10 people with 0.99, but the average will still be 1.0

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    KDR = 0.60
  • "Half our students are below average!" kinda vibes - KDR necessarily means that for every person with 1.5, there is someone with a 0.67, that's just how the math works. If I'm anywhere near 1.0, I'm happy.

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    YouTube Is Cracking Down on Gun Content, and 3D-Printed Gun Makers Aren't Happy
  • Absolutely, it's a fabulous engineering challenge, to make it work well on a hobbyist grade 3D printer with ordinary materials. Also a lesson in using the right tool for the right job (some parts are just better off milled or bought OtS)

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    YouTube Is Cracking Down on Gun Content, and 3D-Printed Gun Makers Aren't Happy
  • I used to frequent the FOSSCAD IRC ages back as a teen. This started during the post-Liberator panic, there were talks about regulating 3D printers to not allow printing guns, etc. Designed a few things, never actually printed any of it myself, but some others did. Really got me into engineering before I exited the scene, led to actually pursuing an engineering career. Was surprised to see 3D printed gun videos so openly shared, it was pretty underground for ages there.

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    Adults and teens pick dumbphones to curb social media addiction
  • I tried this myself, but it's hard for a few reasons:

    • Messaging actually takes more time (defeats some of the purpose)
    • No banking apps (inconvenient)
    • No proprietary 2FA (nonstarter for work reasons)
    • No "let me Google that real quick" moments (comparison shopping when in store, looking up a phone number for a restaurant, etc.).
    • Their cameras universally suck

    Some "dumb" phones still have a web browser and such, so you're not completely out of luck, but it's painful.

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    South Korea passes law banning dog meat trade
  • Can confirm, tastes good. This was in Papua New Guinea, the dog was donated to a function to be eaten because it kept killing people's chickens.

    What's funny is some tribes will eat dog and not cat, others eat cat and not dog, and they both think the other is weird for their choice.

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    NAS/Media Server Build Recommendations
  • Yeah, no data loss, rebuilt within 48 hours each time. 10TB is a nice balance that doesn't have such long rebuild times

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    NAS/Media Server Build Recommendations
  • The first two died within 30 days, the second one took about 4 months I think. Not a huge sample size, but it kind of matches the typical hard drive failure bathtub curve.

    I just double checked, and mine were actually from a similar seller on Amazon - they all seem to be from the same supplier though - the warranty card and packaging are identical. So ymmv?

    Warranty was easy, I emailed the email address included in the warranty slip, gave details on order number + drive serial number, and they sent me a mailing slip within 1 business day. Print that out, put the drive back in the box it shipped with (I always save these), tape it up and drop it off for shipping. In my case, it was a refund of the purchase pretty much as soon as it was delivered to the seller.

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    North Carolina pastor arrested after police say he tried to push wife's coworker into McDonald's deep fryer
  • I'm sorry we can't find at least some common ground on this - clearly we both feel strongly about our positions, and I respect that. Thanks for taking the time to discuss anyway.

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    North Carolina pastor arrested after police say he tried to push wife's coworker into McDonald's deep fryer
  • you're the only person that can come to self realize

    But you just made that determination for me? I'm confused, am I supposed to make my own decisions, or listen to others?

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    North Carolina pastor arrested after police say he tried to push wife's coworker into McDonald's deep fryer
  • This doesn't answer the question though - how can anyone know or decide for others that they are not brainwashed? I trust you've come to your own conclusion, as I've come to my own. It's a poor excuse to call anything contrary to what I believe as being brainwashed unilaterally.

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    NAS/Media Server Build Recommendations
  • I currently have 6x10TB of these drives running in a gluster array. I've had to return 2 so far, with a 3rd waiting to send in for warranty also (click of death for all three). That's a higher failure rate than I'd like, but the process has been painless outside of the inconvenience of sending it in. All my media is replaceable, but I have redundancy and haven't lost data (yet).

    Supporting hardware costs and power costs depending, you may find larger drive sizes to be a better investment in the long term. Namely, if you plan on seeing the drives through to their 5 year warranty, 18TB drives are pretty good value.

    For my hardware and power costs, this is the breakdown for cumulative $/TB (y axis) over years of service (x axis):

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