Spuddaccino

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[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I taught my cat how to speak. Now he doesn't shut up.

I also "taught" him to tolerate being cradled on his back like a baby.

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 1 points 2 years ago

I agree that Meteion being built up more would have helped. Maybe even just having had references in a previous expansion.

Hell, we could have found out stuff in the First during Shadowbringers, since Meteion's song is what lead to the split happening in the first place.

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 4 points 2 years ago

For SSD's, it's 100% a logical table, because data is stored all over the place for load balancing purposes, so it already uses a logical table to keep track of what each block is for at any given point in time.

For HDD's, historically they were physically separated, and they mostly are still, but there's still a logical table, and there's no reason the logical table can't say "Blocks 0 through 1234 and 2000 are part of partition 1" if you have something somewhere else that you want on that partition.

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago

The specific interpretation is how I use it: if it's bread bits cooked inside something, it's stuffing, and if it's bread bits cooked outside something, it's dressing. If it's bread bits cooked on its own, it's croutons and is now reserved for salads.

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I think the idea comes from "HDD slow," as he was impressed with the speed it was happening at, especially if you think of it as requiring data to be moved around on the disk. It's not really intuitive to think of it as just a table on the disk somewhere that says which regions belong to which partition, and having those regions be anywhere on the disk.

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 43 points 2 years ago

"Hey, guys? I really need you guys to come back to work now, all the not working is starting to eat into my profit margins."

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That is correct. It's a vet office in Mexico City, from what I can gather. The picture strikes me as more of a pet shop, but I don't immediately see any reason why you can't have both in one place.

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago

Let's talk about orbital mechanics for a bit, and we'll get back to electrons and protons.

Orbits happen because two objects are attracted to each other, but are moving too quickly in relation to each to actually collide with the other object. The faster the objects are moving, the wider the orbit, because they're missing by a larger amount.

In order for an electron to get closer to a proton, you have to either increase the pull between them, such as with an electrical field, or slow down the electron somehow. Your answer depends on which of these things is happening.

If you push on it with something like an electrical field, the moment you stop pushing the orbit will correct itself, unless you pushed it so hard you got the electron to collide with a proton in the nucleus, in which case you get a neutron and a neutrino emitted. At some point in the future, it'll probably decay into a proton and an electron again.

If you somehow just slow down the electron, you get a closer orbital shell, and it'll stay there until something changes it's velocity again. If you slow it down enough that it hits a proton in the nucleus, the same thing happens as above.

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 22 points 2 years ago

I think it's mostly an unintended benefit. These scams are usually run out of countries with English as a second language, so you get some grammatical errors in translation. It does increase the conversion rate, though, so they don't bother spending extra money getting a native English speaker to copy edit.

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The dude could probably take out your lungs and heart with his eyes closed.

To be fair, so could I.

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago

I just make sure there are some consequences, even if it's something like "There are other things that live in this dungeon you're camping in, and they just found the pile of bodies you've left strewn about and have raised the alarm."

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