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pseudorandom name posted:because printing things takes time why do they need to store everything ever printed forever though like an 8G flash drive could probably store all the print jobs you could reasonably queue up at once i'm not sure why it needs a 120G+ hard drive in it
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May 11, 2018 06:39
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it might be a queue because its simply cheaper to swap to the drive than to pay for more RAM? no for SSDs because of write amplification/price/reliability/etc. and 120GB+ might be the cheapest, smallest, and highly produced kinds of hard drives they could get nowadays? crazysim fucked around with this message at 06:46 on May 11, 2018 |
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May 11, 2018 06:44
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it may just be a dumb file system that keeps deleted files around
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May 11, 2018 06:46
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ate all the Oreos posted:why do they need to store everything ever printed forever though office tech lags the bleeding edge quite a bit. i'm fairly confident that ssd for them is probably a 2017 and newer thing if anything. theyve had platters for 20 years
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May 11, 2018 06:48
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Jonny 290 posted:office tech lags the bleeding edge quite a bit. i'm fairly confident that ssd for them is probably a 2017 and newer thing if anything. theyve had platters for 20 years yeah i get that, but i'm not really wondering why they use a hard drive instead of flash, i'm more curious as to why it's apparently 120GB or more pseudorandom name posted:it may just be a dumb file system that keeps deleted files around it did sound like they needed "forensic tools" to recover the files so maybe 
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May 11, 2018 06:51
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ate all the Oreos posted:yeah i get that, but i'm not really wondering why they use a hard drive instead of flash, i'm more curious as to why it's apparently 120GB or more It's cheaper to make a bulk order for the smallest hard drive that's currently being manufactured and standardising on that, rather than trying to wrangle up a bunch of unsold surplus tinier drives.
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May 11, 2018 06:54
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also then you can upsell another $500 on a 12,000 copier by saying it can store 30 thousand documents instead of 10 thousand
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May 11, 2018 07:02
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lol, a popular twitter service called "Klout" has been running for years, keeps track of your """reputation""" by who follows you and how important your tweets were and your shared interests between all your followers and etc etc. basically just a lot of data collection; and now they're shutting down https://twitter.com/klout/status/994634099431165952 may 25, GDPR strikes again
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May 11, 2018 10:08
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Jewel posted:lol, a popular twitter service called "Klout" has been running for years, keeps track of your """reputation""" by who follows you and how important your tweets were and your shared interests between all your followers and etc etc. basically just a lot of data collection; and now they're shutting down owns
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May 11, 2018 10:20
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GDPR owns so loving hard just for stuff like this
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May 11, 2018 10:20
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ate all the Oreos posted:yeah i get that, but i'm not really wondering why they use a hard drive instead of flash, i'm more curious as to why it's apparently 120GB or more in addition to it being cheapest to just buy a bunch of whatever is being mass produced already, large copy jobs can be surprisingly large. the printers work with uncompressed files when possible to reduce processor load and 300dpi at 8bpp works out to be about 10MB per monochrome legal-sized page and 40MB for CMYK color. add in the OS and the expectation that the copier should be able to queue up other print jobs while Ralph from accounting makes copies of his manuscript and HDs of at least 10s of GB make sense.
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May 11, 2018 13:08
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Jewel posted:lol, a popular twitter service called "Klout" has been running for years, keeps track of your """reputation""" by who follows you and how important your tweets were and your shared interests between all your followers and etc etc. basically just a lot of data collection; and now they're shutting down were they actually used by anyone at all
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May 11, 2018 13:43
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ymgve posted:were they actually used by anyone at all i remember jokes about klout scores from however many years ago, but i honestly thought they shut down years ago
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May 11, 2018 13:54
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NoneMoreNegative posted:https://twitter.com/thememoryhole2/status/994641217957826562 There was a big gap in the 2000's where these things didn't know how to do secure erase correctly so they would just keep spamming documents all over the disk forever and dropping them from the MFT. They started changing them so that the drive kept stacking the jobs at the front of the disk if they didn't need to be stored so they were constantly overwriting each other and also adding functionality so sectors would be scrubbed on delete. The story has probably changed a bit since they probably all run on cheap embedded SSDs now.
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May 11, 2018 14:22
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Jabor posted:It's cheaper to make a bulk order for the smallest hard drive that's currently being manufactured and standardising on that, rather than trying to wrangle up a bunch of unsold surplus tinier drives. for some reason i thought they were still making 20G hard drives since those were huge and cutting edge at one point so obviously they'll continue to be relevant forever, but of course they're not i'm just getting old 
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May 11, 2018 14:38
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ymgve posted:were they actually used by anyone at all there was a brief period of time where you could get coupons for free McDonald’s food or something equally idiotic if you were a tech journalist or whatever
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May 11, 2018 14:45
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ymgve posted:were they actually used by anyone at all really seems like the kind of thing exclusively used by SEO urchins and the kind of marketing team that lists the number of facebook likes their corporate site got as proof that they're the most popular brand of toilet paper
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May 11, 2018 15:05
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klout's sole value came from the amusement you got trying to figure out which tweet made it think you're an expert in diapers or whatever
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May 11, 2018 15:11
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pseudorandom name posted:because printing things takes time I figured they'd just use volatile memory for that poo poo.
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May 11, 2018 15:27
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akadajet posted:I figured they'd just use volatile memory for that poo poo. eh the copiers in question were probably designed sometime between 1995 and 2005 and gigabytes of ram wasn't exactly cheap back then
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May 11, 2018 15:34
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having room for a lot of jobs also makes sense in the context of badge release printing, my favorite kind of printing.
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May 11, 2018 20:47
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i saw some people on twitter talking about the free swag they got from Klout. a lot of it was little discounts and gift cards to stores and restaurants. the biggest-sounding one i saw was some guy who said he got a free car rental out of it e: the more entertaining tweets were from comedy accounts: https://twitter.com/pixelatedboat/status/994757397225787392 Lutha Mahtin fucked around with this message at 20:58 on May 11, 2018 |
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May 11, 2018 20:54
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 these are the topics which klout was somehow able to extract from my bot account which literally only posts textless screenshots from simpsons episodes
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May 11, 2018 21:16
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Lutha Mahtin posted:i saw some people on twitter talking about the free swag they got from Klout. a lot of it was little discounts and gift cards to stores and restaurants. the biggest-sounding one i saw was some guy who said he got a free car rental out of it
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May 11, 2018 21:25
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Meat Beat Agent posted:these are the topics which klout was somehow able to extract from my bot account which literally only posts textless screenshots from simpsons episodes it's probably folding in the characteristics of followers/followees lol at failing to rate as expert on comedy tho
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May 11, 2018 21:28
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Meat Beat Agent posted:
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
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May 11, 2018 21:30
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Zamujasa posted:The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration crazy powers of inference
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haveblue posted:lol at failing to rate as expert on comedy tho i mean, their tech wasn't totally inaccurate
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May 12, 2018 01:58
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i like that the simpsons is way down on the list, and not expert status
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May 12, 2018 02:05
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https://gizmodo.com/1825938208
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May 12, 2018 02:21
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solution: remove crash bars from all exits
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May 12, 2018 03:33
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May 12, 2018 03:52
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haveblue posted:lol at failing to rate as expert on comedy tho it rates me as an expert on Humor, which is short for Humor Simpson
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What programmer is working on this stuff? Who are these people??
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May 13, 2018 01:37
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Salt Fish posted:What programmer is working on this stuff? Who are these people?? look, im sure there's plenty of racist programmers. there's already plenty of sexist ones…
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Agile Vector posted:look, im sure there's plenty of racist programmers. there's already plenty of sexist ones… So when is the facial scan to determine penis size app coming out?
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Salt Fish posted:What programmer is working on this stuff? Who are these people?? Have you heard of "social media?" I hear you can make a buck or two creating profiles on people and selling the results.
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