So if between weeks you don’t retain any skills and the entire world resets, then the sum total of your existence is what you experience in a week and what you can store in 1 kB of data. Unlike groundhog day, where the protagonist knows and can learn.

The 1 kB would be the only thing that indicates that something is going on.

The irony is that your own memory of the 1 kB existing and how to write to it would also need to be retained.

(I’m a software developer, it’s all about the edge cases.)

My initial response with the expanded parameters, I’d probably store a GPS location and a timestamp. How far did you get in a week, assuming that your starting location also resets.

Seems like storage outside your brain is stable, so you can use your 1 kb of brain persistent storage to store a URL and credentials.

I rarely use a docker container in production that I didn’t write the Dockerfile for. Once you understand how it works, you can write your own and install exactly what you want in the way you want it.

For my shack where I move stuff around, testing gear, radios, switches, etc. I’ve standardized on SMA, on my feed line which hasn’t changed or been disconnected for a decade, F-type.

I saw that chart too. When you click on the F-type link you learn it’s rated up to 4 GHz. The summary table is off for several connectors.

You cannot argue that the mating is poor if it’s rated to 4 GHz.

There is nothing wrong with using the centre pin of the coax, it’s one less join in the chain and it’s rated at over 500 matings. It’s not for lab equipment, but if you want to connect something and leave it there for the next decade, there’s nothing better.

NOP ($EA) 😇

What’s your beef with the F-type connector? The centre pin is the coax core, compression tool to terminate the coax, solid connection, rated to some absurd frequencies, all round easy connector, no soldering or extra pin required.

Source: I installed two-way satellite dishes for a time and still use those connectors on my HF antennas as a radio amateur - yes, I know, 75 Ohm - can’t say it’s ever stopped my 10 mW beacon from being heard 13,945 km away.

This is waaay too close to the bone.

Source: I’ve been writing software since the 6502.

A piece of consumer electronics does not exist in a vacuum. Other models from other manufacturers are added and removed, affecting its value.

In my experience that only happened right before the new model was announced.

So, its value has reduced, or was it always overpriced?

You are forgetting that those data centres talk to each other using those cables in order to actually have a local copy that they send to the end user.

This caching behaviour will cease to exist if there is no internet connection between the centres.

1. This is not Mastodon, this is Lemmy.
2. There is no Server Selection Problem. You can pick a server at your leisure, or join the one your friend recommended.
3. Automatic selection of a server is solving the problem as-if the main criteria is related to technology, rather than a human one.
4. Any instance can talk to any other insurance as the communities in those instances interact.
5. This all seems to approach social media on Mastodon as if it were equivalent to picking a local Reddit cache. That’s not what the fediverse is about, it’s about creating human communities.
6. The aim of the fediverse is not to grow like traditional social media networks, it’s not about going viral or getting karma, it’s about connecting with other people.

In my experience Indeed is a very poor source of information. Picking the name of your city will invariably select all instances of that city name on the planet, making the quality of the result suspect if not outright misleading.

Source: I live in Perth, scattered across 17 cities in 7 countries.

In 1989 I was one of the participants in the (then) Guinness World Record Endurance Computing held at the Hobby Computer Club days (HCC dagen) in the Netherlands.

The record was for 63.5 hours, but I had a two hour or so commute in each direction and the event started (from memory) at noon.

I’m guessing that I was awake in total for about 70 hours. I fell asleep on the way home.

We published a newsletter called “Elephant News” every few hours. Time keeping was managed by official time keepers and it was entered into the Guinness World Records in the 1990 book. I have a copy somewhere.

At some point not long after, Guinness abolished all world records that only had a time component and as far as I know it still stands :)

For the same reason as people who believe in religion, comfort against the scary reality of the fragility of life.

You understand that this series is fictitious and intended to initiate self reflection in subtle and indirect ways.

Yes

It’s not limited to measles and abortion, the Avian Influenza A (H5N1) which recently jumped the species barrier a second time from birds to cows into veterinarians is being monitored by the CDC who just lost 10% of their staff.

Source:

• https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenza-bird-flu/cdc-3-veterinarians-had-recent-h5n1-infections-didnt-know-they-had-been
• https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/74/wr/mm7404a2.htm
• https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/situation-summary/index.html
• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-disease-detectives-doge-cuts-health-agencies/

In Australia they tried this on with iiNet who told them to get stuffed.

They were taken to court and iiNet won. The case was dismissed by the Full Federal Court. Then it was dismissed again in the High Court

See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadshow_Films_Pty_Ltd_v_iiNet_Ltd