Notices by Mans R (mansr@society.oftrolls.com), page 2

@BeAware @mcc Some instances show nothing at all if you're not signed in. Whatever mechanism they use, the result is the same as those other sites that require login.

@LucasWerkmeister Surely swap really does become pointless if you have enough RAM, though enough is perhaps more than one might intuitively expect.

@LucasWerkmeister What about swap (and filesystems) on lvm/devicemapper?

@BeAware @mcc Look up "authorised fetch."

@ianb I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone accuse them of deliberately breaking Linux systems.

@kobajo The aggregate amount ought to be the same, but you obviously won't get a per-tab breakdown from the OS. OTOH, doing it from within Firefox would probably consume 100% of a CPU all by itself.

@drandrewv2 I've found that soaking the key caps for a few hours in ~15% isopropyl alcohol and a squirt of washing up liquid gets the grime off without fuss, no individual scrubbing needed.

@clacke The DRM race commentary on DRM uses DRM to avoid interception by the DRM, requiring DRM driver (kernel) support for decoding. Makes perfect sense.

@marklemley Or do they mean "god's candidate" in Latin? Wouldn't they see that as a good thing?

@clacke Which other two are you thinking of?

- Digital Rights Management
- Digital Radio Mondiale
- Deutsche Rallye-Meisterschaft
- Direct Rendering Manager
- Deutsche Reisemobil Vermietung
- Direction du renseignement militaire

@notclacke Had the first Bush served two terms, I could see the logic in using the phrase in reference to the second of those. He didn't, so it makes sense that it would mean the second Bush presidency, i.e. that of Bush Jr (first term or both). Having the phrase denote the second term of Bush Jr would be the least logical of all options, so that's probably what the Americans do.

@clacke @adwright Could be a bit of both.

@clacke @adwright Maybe it's easier to rise to the top if you're in a safe constituency.

@clacke The whole thing being fiction means there are two options:
1. The script writers are following some guidelines that call for this naming convention.
2. They just started doing it for no particular reason.

If it's in some guidelines, those might of course include an in-universe explanation that has never been explicitly mentioned on screen.

@juliank @ifixcoinops My previous workstation was a 6-core Intel something from 2010, and it was fine for web browsing and such. However, replacing it with a 16-core AMD EPYC with 128 GB RAM and NVMe storage made a huge difference for OpenEmbedded builds. Faster storage also makes a noticeable difference when working with large git repos like the Linux kernel. The new system also uses half as much power when idle (more under full load).

@clacke What's the real reason?

@dan Interesting encoding. I wonder how the decoder works.

@geoffl @Arcaik @j_bertolotti @johncarlosbaez I think it's fine to use a power of 10 (or whatever radix your number system has) scaling factor for convenience, at least in casual situations.

@geoffl @clacke @johncarlosbaez @j_bertolotti @Arcaik I'm going to start confusing people by using unusual units like decigram and hectometre. Or deka- anything (except decadence).

@johncarlosbaez It could have been worse. Imagine if a Frenchman, say, had been working on the same things at the same time, only with the opposite convention, and French physicists then stubbornly stuck with it to this day while everybody else followed Franklin.