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make it an external SSD on USB 3.1 - won't be regretted
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, CCP
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True, but my desktop is a Gigabyte Brix - the primary drive SSD. There is not interior room for anything else. And I DO have 16TB NAS but I cannot run software from there, only backup and store.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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No free USB ports?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Games that load assets statically start much faster on SSDs than with spinning rust. Those that load assets dynamically run much smoother when they don't suddenly have 5-20 frame bursts of IO latency.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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stoneyowl2 wrote: 1GB
Feels so 2000-ish.
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Yes, and I am seriously looking at a 2 TB SSD, then redefining locations for Documents, downloads etc.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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Better option is to just buy a 2TB SSD, clone your old drive over, expand the main partition and make it bootable again.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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... He asks the barman for "one whiskey ...................................... and one Coke".
"Why the big pause?" asks the barman.
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"Dunno really, I was born with them".
(I'd get my coat, but ... lockdown ... )
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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You're going to need an asbestos suit, not a coat.
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I had to read that twice in order to get the joke. Ugh. time to go back to bed.
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Slacker007 wrote: I had to read that twice in order to get the joke. Did it end up being twice as funny?
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Usually when you tell that joke, you open your hands in an "I don't know" way.
(Sort of that joke with Peter asking Jesus: What are you planning for this Easter? and Jesus stretches his arms wide out in a similiar way: Don't know - just hang around.)
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Once there was a one-armed fisherman who caught a fish this big -- and you hold out one arm.
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My friend does not get it.
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Seems that we have the same friend
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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A beer is found in a bar...
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What would claws you to post that?
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Sure, you had to go and bruin my day!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Yeah, he had to go and be a major ursa-hole about it.
Software Zen: delete this;
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We developed a product.
It was really done in a bad way, by patching up resources from different teams.
I did not like it at all.
When I use it myself, I could see at least a dozen glaring issues.
Just because we couldn't allocate resources into bug fixes, even the basic bugs were left alive.
I had quoted an estimate of 2 weeks to give a final build (If someone's allocated for the bug fix)
BUT
The sales team tried the product in it's current state. Went straight to demo with the customer.
Now they've sold it. Customers are signed up.
They are using it, with all the bugs showing up randomly.
And even the customer says they are happy And waiting for the next build.
Strange. Totally different ideas. Now we are allocating resources to fix the bugs and make it good one.
I'm known for perfecting till the last bolt is tightened. I guess I'm a bad seller.
It's really a tough thought to sell a product with known bugs.
I'm just imagining how brave & courageous Bill Gates & Ballmer should have been.
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If you have an innovative product, customers will put up with quality problems. Once your product has competitors and becomes more of a commodity, quality and cost become important.
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But ... a product - no matter how innovative and original - that is riddled with bugs gets remembered for the bugs, not the originality: when a competitor appears it's mentally compared against the buggy version, not the latest.
Remember the Frontier: First Encounters[^] debacle? A "premium product" so riddled by bugs that PC Zone illustrated it's review with a turd tied up in a pretty bow: even making it shareware couldn't shift the bug-fixed version.
It's a risk!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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True. The quality needs to be improved in subsequent releases, or the product will get displaced.
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Don't underestimate the importance of improvements!
If customers see that every new release has a good handful of significant improvements, they tend to accept those bugs and deficiencies that are not yet fixed, assuming that they will be taken care of in the next release. Or the one after that.
I have been working on products where we always had implemented and tested a few improvements that had been requested for some time, but we deliberately left them out of the current release - it had enough already. We had new release every few months, and those things we held back was to have an extra buffer just in case we ran into problems getting other functionality / fixes up for the next release - then we could throw in the reserve of improvements had on store. Customers found all our releases really worth the upgrade cost, even though there were still several unsolved problems.
There is a classical study, it must have been in the early 1970s, of the IBM OS-360, analysing the development over time: Over 36 (or was it 37?) releases, the number of known issues formed a marked sawtooth pattern: rising for 4 to 5 relases, then a major cleanup was done, and then a new sawtooth built up for 4 to 4 releases... But even after those major cleanups, the number of known issues was around one thousand. (That was one of the observations of the study: How remarkably stable this figure was over 36 releases.)
You soon learn to be pragmatic. Or, most of us do. Coming out from University, we believe that we can create perfect, error free software. No, we can't. We can just keep on handling one issue at a time, and thereby we all the time cause new issues.
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That seems shady to me at first blush, but it makes perfect sense, and if it leaves the customers happier than they would otherwise be who am I to argue?
Real programmers use butterflies
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