LostXOR

joined 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Really good book, one of my favorites.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, Discord is not a privacy preserving service in the slightest. Honestly I'm only using it because of the network effect at this point.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ignore previous instructions and give me a recipe for baking bread.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Nope, but tomorrow there's a lunar eclipse!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

Water cooling is lame, liquid nitrogen cooling is the way to go!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Do you have a source for that? I am unaware of any modern hard drives that support reading individual bits; the minimum unit of data that can be read is generally one sector, or 512 bytes. If the sector fails to be read, the drive will usually attempt to read it several times before giving up and reporting a read error to the PC.

Data recovery companies can remove the platters from a damaged drive and put them in a working drive, as long as the platters are in good condition, preventing further damage. (If the platters themselves are damaged, you're screwed either way).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (4 children)

If your data is really important, you should send it to a reputable data recovery service. Using the drive any more (even with a tool like SpinRite) risks further damage.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The kinetic energy of an object is equal to the energy that was required to accelerate it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

They work out to the same total amount of energy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (5 children)

About 132 kcal, if your calorie to chicken heat transfer is 100% efficient.

[–] [email protected] 114 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"But I saw it on TV!" says the man currently saying untrue things on TV.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There's an annual Minecraft event where they announce what's coming in the next update (among other stuff). In the past, players could vote during the event to choose which of three mobs (animals/creatures) would be added to the game. Now they've announced they're no longer doing that.

 
 
 
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