Low level formating is how the data tracks are layed out on the disk platters, it’s what the drive firmware sees. hdparm and sg_format instruct the disk to rearrange those tracks. High-level formatting is what the OS sees when you run mkfs. It creates a new file system or replaces an existing one.

Use sg_format to run a low level format on the disk. 512E vs 4kN isn’t going to change much in a homelab environment. If you create a filesystem with 4k clusters, Linux will send 4k wrudte blocks to the disk. The firmware on the disk will write that out into 8 logical disk sectors, usually in a single 4k physical sector. I use my storage mainly for media and there’s no performance difference between my 512E disks and my 4nN disks. I simply don’t have an intense and sensitive enough environment to show the performance gain. I’d say leave the low level formating alone and just write a filesystem on top of it with 4k blocks.

Powerless is about unpowered characters in a super hero universe.

That’s an interesting thought. Genetics is largely a mixing and copying process with occasional “hallucinations” in the form of transcription errors. Most of these errors result in the termination of the hallucinated code. Hallucinations that damage the termination process result in cancer. In the larger sense of evolution, there’s a robust external “review” process. Environmental pressures, predation, and resource availability weed out most of the mistakes and selects the results most likely to succeed.

Nope, pedant away. That’s a better way to convey what I was trying to say. Thanks.

“Generative” is a misnomer. It will never generate anything new, it can only regurgitate existing ideas based on patterns that already exist. It’s very good at pattern recognition and summarizing, but lacks the ability to form a distinct new idea.

Ow! My Balls!

Thank you. I didn’t remember that scene in Innerspace or Cells at Work.

The Plex loading spinner.

How do I reliably tell an unlockable bootloader from just a carrier unlocked device that may still have a carrier firmware that prevents bootloader unlocking?

Ovaltine? A crummy commercial? Son of a bitch!

Crap, you’re right. That’s what I get for replying based on visual memory and not confirming it first. Thanks.

Isn’t that just a satyr?

It’s because law enforcement needs way less oversight to search a database through a subscription service than to get phone data from the telcos.

says Thomas Talhelm, a graduate student at the University of Virginia

I feel like Rice University missed an opportunity here.

Click-bait views and ad impressions. Why else is anything on the Internet?

What if they are generated in base 16, but numbers containing a-f are discarded. Did you think about that? Huh?

Assuming similar input effort, a trebuchet is more durable and efficient. Better for throwing more CEOs while consuming fewer resources.

The volume doesn’t change. It’s still the same amount of CO2 in the same volume. There’s just more of the other gasses in that same volume.

Well, it’s roughly the size of a two-year old child, if the child were liquefied. It’s a real bargain!