There’s a limit for file size on the Usenet

No, there is no limit on the file size on usenet. There’s a limit on the individual article size, but larger files just require more articles.

The reason why files were split on usenet was completion and corruption, and probably also media size originally. Say you need to post a 700MB file to alt.binaries.erotica.grannies.diapers, then you could just split those 700MB into 477867 articles of 1.5kB each, but if a single article is then corrupted or dropped, then nobody can get the file. If you split the 700MB into 35 files of 20MB each, and each 20MB file into 13654 articles, then a dropped article only corrupts a single file. Add to that, that completion issues often occured (or is it occurs? it’s been a long while since I got my Linux iso files from usenet) close to each other. So there might be a bunch of corruption in a single file, but everything else is fine. This is useful if your main provider was your ISPs complimentary usenet server, and you only got the rest from a pay by download service.

About the media comment earlier, I can’t be sure. I wasn’t around in the early days, but I know that the 700MB file size for movies came from the limitations of CDs. Splitting files can quite possibly stem from some similar restrictions on a removable media.

You can thank WinRar for powering the entire sharing scene for decades

And the saints behind winrar for only bugging you to pay. TBH first time installing 7z on a new windows install, instead of winrar, felt a bit sad.

And that’s when you learned about parity files…

When par2 came out that was huge for me. Didn’t use floppies anymore, but the ability to only download the required amount of parity blocks was great.

Or commas, and better grammar, would have done wonders, too.

“Hail, the size of energy drink can[s], pelt[ed] Texas […]”

Some will, but some will also just not feel as engaged and stay home.

Real question is, how large a percentage of potential Trump voters will be demotivated enough to stay home, vs how many potential Biden voters are being turned off by his age and ball-less stance on the war crimes in Gaza.

The first line took a while to read. First try I got what could be written as:

“Sizes of energy drink can pelts, we salute you”

I mean “drink can pelts” is a weird way to say aluminum

W11 even enterprise users are all tied into autopilot, Intune MDM, and/or a microsoft account

The “win 11 business editions 23h2” iso that I got from visualstudio.com yesterday, did no more than the usual amount of crap to make it difficult to find the “join a domain instead”, allowing me to make a local user.

I wouldn’t mind one in my basement… If I had a basement. But I do have a nice shed, where a 30MW reactor would fit nicely.

Nukeheads are insane

That’s your opinion. My opinion is that we need distributed power generation that can handle baseload. And neither solar nor wind can do that. My personal experience is, that our wind turbine usually doesn’t spin for several periods of up to 10 days in December through March. And energy storage with the required capacity still doesn’t exist either. Thus the power plants will be burning LNG, biomass, garbage or oil and coal, for the foreseeable future.

A centrally controlled, well regulated, network of small reactors will solve the problem.

7? to goddamn 5? I’m not in at 7, and out way before 5, and if the boss don’t like it, then that’s not a me problem. 10 hours each day as in a 50 hour work week? That would be illegal in the EU, where you can’t work more than 48hours on average per week over a period of 4 months https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/human-resources/working-hours-holiday-leave/working-hours/indexamp_en.htm

I think I understand now. I’ve taught intro to electronics for years, and I’d recommend you start out experimenting with resistor networks and measurement techniques. In that case you really don’t need to spend much. All you need is:

• breadboards, plural
• a resistor kit
• some battery holders or clips
• jumper wire, just get the cheap bundles with only plugs and no sockets.
• pliers and sidecutters. Spend more than 3usd on the sidecutters, and do not use them for anything but thin wire and component leads.
• a decent entry level multimeter, a unitrend ut33a can be had for about 20usd plus shipping on ebay, and is fine for starting out.

Try designing networks of resistors with pen and paper, calculate voltages across the individual resistors to get familiar with Ohm’s law and Kirchhoff’s circuit laws (BTW don’t attempt to understand Kirchoff using Wikipedia, someone wanted to flex their brain when writing that article). Build more and more advanced circuits, start out with series, then parallel, and finally mix series and parallel resistors. Try to work out the power draw of each resistor, and just once try to blow one up… On purpose, that is :)

When you’ve sorta got the hang of it, you can progress on to adding capacitance and inductance in you circuits, or digital logics, or what ever you like. But getting the hang on basic circuit theory? well, that can take some time.

I don’t understand the list, the first don’t have a question mark, but then they do. Does that mean that the first items are already in your possession and you imagine needing the rest?

If you have all the stuff on your list, I get a book. Practical Electronics for Inventors by Paul Scherz is a terrific resource. With that in hand you can start dreaming up projects and realizing them.

If the question mark is the stuff you expect to need, I’d say that a lab power supply is almost a must have. Nothing fancy, something that’ll do 20 or 30V and a few amps, if you’re looking for something a bit more, then same specs but with current limiting. Something like this https://www.reichelt.de/de/en/laboratory-power-supply-0-30-v-0-3-a-risu-compliant-mcp-lbn-303-p324544.html but see if there’s a second hand market for this stuff in your area.

Some basic components kits like a resistor and a capacitor kit. Maybe assorted diodes and transistors. Maybe get some voltage regulators, 7805 7809 and 7812, they can come in handy, when you’ve only got a single output on the psu and need different voltages.

That should be enough for a few months of fun. Next you’ll maybe play with timing and triggers. So a pc scope opamps and some 555s.

What happened to Adam Conover? I used to actually like his content. I probably agree with his message, but IDK because I only managed to get 2m45 into the video by skipping and playing double speed, and I’m not watching the rest.

I don’t remember him being so loud and aggressive. What the fuck’s up with the poop jokes?

Youtube must really hate those guys…

Makes you wonder how long it will take, before Raymond Hill plummets to his death from a basement window.

Guessing that you don’t want to see the dead rat I got the other night with my airgun, I present you with this instead.

Agreed, why not return low level joblistings for the area where the return address is. Add a few sassy stickers you got from temu as a gift and some information on starting a union.

Don’t be an ass to wage slaves, they’re not your enemy, they’re your peers, show them the way instead.

Arise ye pris’ners of starvation
Arise ye wretched of the earth

Why? It seems like the most effective way of unsubscribing to junk mail.

Besides, “if you believe in something, you sign your name to it” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GujKyNduy0c&t=69

You don’t have to be an ass to the wage slave opening the return mail, but you can still send them a message. Print out joblistings for the return address area and return them. Maybe add a few Bible quotes. But make sure you are remembered by getting a stack of sassy stickers from temu and putting a few in there as a little gift.

Goes to show that he doesn’t sing about personal experiences in Luang Prabang, because that takes balls

I still haven’t warmed up to using it for currency either, for me it’s a command on Cisco’s IOS. Which, BTW, I have to make clear is made by Cisco and make my phone write with a capital i.

I understand that the world evolves, and that languages do as well … but I do have a problem with the speed which it evolves with, as well as it seems like the ignorant use of existing terminologies, is the main evolutionary factor these days.

We already have one for the Danish government’s apps. It’s called 2.1 stars. /s but also not really /s because most of our official government apps are actually rated rather poorly.

But seeing how the best rated app by the Danish government is actually rated 4 stars on play store, a badge may be in its place.

First off, 9gag? Really? Are we getting that desperate?

Secondly, what kind of wonky-ass way is that to define a circle? “since you can’t do $sqrt{-1}$ we’ll just let that limit the graphing, so let’s just do that fucking twice to make a circle”

What happened to the easy to read oneliner $r^2 = (x−a)^2 + (y−b)^2$?

TIL: markdown supports embedded latex math, but my client (boost for android) doesn’t. Does your instances/clients show the formulas?

In 2002 the late Robbin Williams did a stand up special on HBO. This is a quote from said special:

Two weeks ago, the Supreme Court banned the execution of retarded people. People in Texas are going, “Shit, where’s the fun in that?” Man, they were zapping retarded people every other week. It would be like, “OK, go sit on Santa’s lap, Timmy.” BZZT.

That was 22 years ago, and Texas is just catching up now? That smells an awful lot like eugenics TBH.

BTW the entire show is on youtube https://youtube.com/watch?v=HYSd6sjlufM (but use the link that I’m sure will be in a comment shortly)