For a Windows 11 machine 8GB is getting to be a limitation. Basically for right now its fine, but very soon 16GB will be the new minimum

Fiber can deliver a single 800gigabit connection over a single strand of fiber, and if you have multiple connections you want to run over a single fiber you can use different colors for each connection and run theoretically up to 2048 different connections over a single strand of fiber. (Currently most commercial deployments top out at about 160 connections per fiber strand)

Since these various connections are all made up of specific wavelengths of light, they can be “switched” by simply running the light through a prism, meaning a ton of your network infrastructure is entirely passive and doesn’t require any electricity to operate, reducing downtime, complexity and cost

One downside of fiber is you generally need one connection for uplink and one for downlink, but there are bidi transceivers which either use 2 wavelengths, one for uplink and one for down, or will time share uplink and downlink. Or since each of these individual strands of fiber are incredibly small, literally about 7 microns across, you can pack hundred or even thousands of strands of fiber into one cable.

Fiber also operates at literally the speed of light, meaning the connection to the Internet is incredibly low latency. Fiber also doesn’t rust like coax or telephone wires. As long as the actual fiber isn’t broken you can keep replacing the transceivers at each end indefinitely to upgrade the connection

I will agree though, it is super cool that multi-gig connections ultimately are possible over existing coax networks. I didn’t think I’d see it but here we are!

Edit: I was a little out of date. Currently up to 1.6Terrabit over fiber

Roblox: finally a place where kids too can experience sexual harassment, workplace discrimination, pay disputes and make risky investments in an unregulated commodities market

At least when RuneScape did it it was entirely limited to within the game and didn’t yet have a first party currency conversion system

How hard is it to simply show a rough estimate of how much storage space a game will need before downloading? I’m not talking groundbreaking stuff here…

Two weeks is good practice especially as you move into more professional roles. Depending on the role additional notice might be preferred or even required since some roles in some businesses are critical enough to potentially impact business continuity if you leave unexpectedly

For a shitty retail job though? Give a few days notice so the schedule can be updated and leave it at that, barring other obligations

A few days ago my mom made a “joke” that clearly having good kids skipped a generation right after commenting about how well behaved my kids were.

With my own kids now I’ve been realizing how many of the “behaviors” my parents would complain about and expect me to improve upon were just normal kid stuff

I’ve started handing my 5 year old the handheld vacuum and she seems to be on the fence about admitting she enjoys it. I remember using a corded handheld vacuum to vacuum the stairs as a kid with some regularity too

Holy crap the more I learn about MGS V the more I learn that I really need to actually put some time into it. I got it for free with my first GPU (a GTX970 a couple of months after the 3.5Gb scandal got big) and it was my first steam game. I’d never played any games of the genre (or related genres) or scope before (I’d grown up playing tons of Sid Meier and Maxis titles on disc) so the whole thing was kinda a culture shock for me

Except most people just click a link on their desktop that goes to a thing they have a completely different name for anyways. If you don’t tell them anything (or just say it’s a new version of Windows) they likely won’t notice the actual differences, just complain about missing a specific icon for something without being able to correctly name what it is

I’m now seeing firsthand why folks across the pond keep making snarky comments about The Independent being a Tory tag…

Is it sad that my first suspicion is that it simply doesn’t meet the local legal definition of a hate crime because the laws are probably written to protect white people only?

we don’t have an education system, we’ve got a babysitting system.

To be fair, have you seen what childcare costs?! No sense subsidizing that through taxes when you can just make kids jump through BS hoops in an adversarial system as a form of childcare (and then not even run it the entire workday because fuck you)

Honestly I suspect the question was phrased poorly. It should have simply said “who ate more pizza” not stated who ate more and request to explain how

Yeah I primarily buy frozen for that purpose and observe better texture from it, but I’ve got more cupboard space than fridge space, so keeping some cans for when I’m out of everything else has been good

I think its about the same? I haven’t looked too hard and typically purchase based on what I’m intending to do with the veggies, but I do like to keep a few cans of veggies in the cupboards for a rainy day (or more accurately for when the whole family is sick and none of us have the energy to go to the store, which happens at least once every winter thanks to having young kids)

I mean the island of Sark was unsuccessfully invaded by a single dude in 1990 (apologies for the terrible linked source, its just one of the first search results that wasn’t a random reddit thread or other even less reputable source)

The local volunteer Constable, the only law enforcement on the island, being informed of the invasion thanks to the notices, decided to take the threat seriously. On the morning of the invasion, Constable Perrée began to plan the island’s defense, which was a two stage scheme. First, he went looking for Mr. Gardes. He found him sitting on a park bench in army fatigues preparing for the massacre that was about to befall this island. As the Constable approached the invading army (a.k.a. Gardes), he saw Gardes loading his automatic weapon.

The first “showing up” stage now complete, Mr. Perrée executed the second stage of the plan. He complimented Mr. Gardes on his choice of gun and convinced Gardes to remove the magazine and let him see the instrument of the island’s assured defeat, so the constable could better admire it. When Gardes acquiesced, the Constable took the gun and punched him in the nose. The invasion was over. The gun used in the attempted coup now sits in the Sark Museum next to old ships and a dedicated exhibit to one of the island’s two original telephone calls.

Edit: I’m a little disappointed there isn’t a Wikipedia article on the subject with a list of belligerents, details of the strength of forces and a tally of the casualties and losses like this:

Sir, !noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works is leaking out and beginning to spread

In the US, depending on the store carrots might be sold in bunches placed into loose unsealed plastic bags (and priced by weight) I can’t find any photos of this practice in a quick search, but I suspect its more for branding reasons than anything

Canned veggies are cheap and great for mixing into a pot of other stuff. For a really cheap meal, toss a can of veggies into a pot of ramen. Ma fairly filling meal that hits multiple food groups yet it only costs about a dollar. I imagine most people buying canned carrots are doing so for cooking with

instructions unclear, learned I enjoy a larger member than my wife does