punkwalrus

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  All over the map: Barracuda, SkyHawk, Ironwolf, Constellation, Cheetah, etc…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Three companies, kept track, but not after I left. It was always funny to me that they bought out Atlas and Maxtor. “Of course they did. Why not dominate the market on shitty drives? lol” I am surprised they hadn’t bought Deskstar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but it’s Seagate. I have worked in data centers, and Seagate drives had the most failures of all my drives and somehow is still in business. I’d say I was doing an RMA of 5-6 drives a month that were Seagate, and only 4-5 a year Western Digital.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d compare LLMs to a junior executive. Probably gets the basic stuff right, but check and verify for anything important or complicated. Break tasks down into easier steps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oatmeal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Skyr. Nice, Nordic name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oatmeal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s awesome, actually, like a pun on the sound they make.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feet are as expressive as the face. Moreso because they are uncorrupted by intelligence.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  When I was in theater camp as a pre-teen, one of our actors was a very enthusiastic foot guy. I had heard of foot fetishes, but never understood them. But this guy was like an overexcited fan boy of feet. My curiosity triggered this guy into a huge brain dump, and one of the things he went on about about how feet were the “true expression of a person’s feelings.” Feet turned towards you? They like you. One foot pointed away? They don’t. He then showed me how girls’ feet would match their mood, so no matter what parts they were rehearsing, he could tell their underlying mood: anxiety, sadness, anger, happiness, etc… I have no idea if he was right, but that was my first exposure to another person’s fetish. I could only understand it abstractly, but I found it fascinating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instead of Orange Man doing Tariffs would it not have been better for him to talk about shopping locally and so forth. And giving more tax breaks to companies that stay and sell in the US?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I often think he’s a second grader lying on his oral book report.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I stop laughing at stupid shit all the time⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  These are two types of cartoon sounds when a character snores.

  The “Inside you there are two wolves” is the name of a proverb which began being parodied towards the end of 2018 and through the beginning of 2019. In the original proverb, a grandfather says there are two wolves fighting inside him, an evil one and a good one. His grandson asks, “who will win?” The grandfather replies, “The one you feed.” In parodies, the story is often simplified to “There are two wolves inside you. One is X. The other is X. You are X.” The proverb’s actual origins are murky. It has been attributed to Christian pastor Billy Graham in 1978, as well as the Cherokee Native American tribe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You'll end up in a van down by the river" if you do drugs, don't go to college, etc. advice never includes the warning: "Don't suffer major Depression that gives you complete apathy for existence."⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One of my best friends lost her place of living when her boyfriend of 4 years said the relationship had actually ended in his head 2 years previously, but he needed the rent. But then he found a new girlfriend to grift from, “opened the relationship,” and they edged my friend out. I am still mad they did that to her; she was so heartbroken and damaged from that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do residential skyscrapers always seem to include balconies that never get used?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I find them too windy and noisy half the time. They are also wet half the time, either from condensation or recent rain.