Trolls traditionally count like this: one, two, three…many, and people assume this means they can have no grasp of higher numbers.
They don’t realize that many can be a number.
As in: one, two, three, many, many-one, many-two, many-three, many many, many-many-one, many-many-two, many-many-three, many many many, many-many-many-one, many-many-many-two, many-many-many-three, LOTS
— Sir Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
Plotting a route to the peak of mount stupid, I suppose.
I’ve needed to change my computer within the next six months for the last five years, and the plan is to try out NixOS, because as a programmer it looks like a reasonable kind of OS, despite all the warnings to the contrary (shame it’s Linux and not BSD, though… the more I learn about Linux and BSD, the more reasonable BSD looks).
I haven’t significantly used Linux since I was studying over two decades ago, and I’m pretty certain the last time I set up a Linux system it was Slackware.
My plan is to read the allegedly insufficient documentation and try to figure it out from there. 🤷♂️
Wish me luck, I’ll certainly need it.
Ever seen a ferrofluid, which follows the shape of magnetic fields? Same thing, but with gravity.
Of course, that only accounts for a fraction of those 16 meters… but there’s a lot of ocean water. Get it moving (because the Moon and the Sun move, and the Earth rotates under them, and there’s a whole lot of ocean currents on top of that, due to differences in water temperatures and salinity, and coriolis forces, and winds, and whatnot) and it builds up a lot of inertia.
Push it into geography that keeps narrowing and narrowing like a funnel, and the only place it can go is in, and up.
Water gets in there, wants to get out, but there’s a whole damn ocean pushing it in, so it has no option but to keep accumulating into the funnel.
Also, having the geography look a bit like a Tesla valve that’ll easily let water in but not so easily let it out probably doesn’t help either; place’s bound to get close to overflowing, before it can empty itself out.
Not that I recall, no.
My first one was a 65MB (or was it 85MB?) 3.5’’ parallel ATA one, and while the enclosure might have been shaped around the platter(s?) (could have been a later one, though) I don’t recall the motor being distinguishable.
Whole machine (my first PC proper) was a 286, 16MHz with turbo on, possibly 1024KB of RAM (I recall setting up autoexec.bat to ask me if I needed extended or expanded memory on boot, but could’ve been in a later machine; pretty certain the memory was on socketed DIPs on the mainboard, not SIMMs, in any case, so it can’t have been much, and 640KB was supposed to be enough, anyway), CGA, 5.25’’ and possibly 3.5’’ floppy drive, DOS… 4.something, I believe.
Good times.
Nero burning ROM.
Meh, burning CDs… ever had to worry whether you’d parked your hard drive’s heads before moving it, child…?
(To be fair, neither did I, probably; my earliest hard drive was already IDE, I believe, and those seem to have already had autopark, but the old lore was that you parked your hard drives before moving them, or the heads would scratch the surface, so park them we did.)
Your snake has two heads.
Also, one of them shares an edge with the tail.
Aphids are frequently born pregnant, and give birth to live offspring (effectively clones of the mother).
Only about every 30 generations or so they produce males, who mate with the females, who then produce eggs.