vithigar

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[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Although I want a phone that folds half the size of a normal phone, not a normal phone size that folds out to a tablet.

You already got a joking reply to this with someone mentioning a regular flip phone, but Samsung does actually make what you're asking for, the "Z Flip" line of phones, which have been developed in lock step with the more popular Z Fold series. Most recent is the Z Flip8 from this year.

Image of graphite coloured Z Flip8

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

Caporael’s paper introduced the theory that the visions, convulsions, and distress the “afflicted” girls reported might not have been supernatural after all.

...you don't say.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 23 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Yes. Or at least I hope so. Presumably there are no criminal judges here as they seem to be the most inclined to the opposing viewpoint.

It is insane to me that this gets hauled out as a reason for light sentencing over and over again. Having an impact on a person's life is literally the point, and here they are openly sidestepping it.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

They don't need to have been used routinely, just knowledge of their use had to be common. In the same way that "shooting yourself in the foot" makes sense even to people who have never used a gun. It was enough to know what "hoist" and "petard" meant to piece together the intent of the phrase. Then once the phrase itself became common the specific knowledge was no longer necessary.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

I'd like to see someone get these working: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_airship

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 77 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I actually closed my eyes and took a moment to prepare myself after reading the first sentence because I knew I was about to read the most brain-dead take imaginable.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The Epic store shopping cart died for this.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Steam update has been available in the beta client for over a month. This wasn't a response, they had already done it.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 weeks ago

Fun fact: Nothing that ICE enforces carries a death penalty, nor are any violent offenses part of their mandate. So why do they need guns at all?

Obviously I'm asking this sardonically, since we know the real answer. Just felt like pointing it out.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 39 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

The win from CRAM is that it is not swap, and operates using mostly normal RAM semantics. If it works as advertised you should be able to allocate most (all?!) of your RAM as CRAM.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 110 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

It's a little better than your read. The ~400x speedup is in comparison to using ZRAM, which, in very brief terms, compresses memory by creating an in-memory compressed block device and assigning that as your swap space. So your "swap" is actually a compressed chunk of RAM, not on disk.

This was significantly slower than normal memory access because page faulting when looking up something in memory then fetching from swap was, itself, expensive. Regardless of how fast that swap was. When your swap is on a storage device that overhead is comparatively tiny, but when it's just another chunk of memory suddenly it's what you're spending most of your time on.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 119 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Completely insane that there are comments here assigning any degree of blame to her for this situation. The fact that it was 2 in the morning isn't an invitation to rape or be otherwise assaulted.

Hell, I don't care if someone were nude and fixing a sign that advertised their services as a prostitute. Still not "asking for it".

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