I once invoked shutdown right after moving a lot of stuff (> 500GB) on HDDs and the thing timed out before the HDD could finish its thing.

How do you ‘stop’ a stop job at that point and make the system wait longer before shutdown?

Perfume will only make one unable to know that they are being poisoned.
It’s like adding Aspartame to rat poison.

you think this distracts them?

This distracted me back then. This distracts me now.
Who would’ve guessed that people who filled everything with scented stuff in school would grow up to be adults that use scents to fix all problems?

• Minor body odour distracting the guy next to you? Fill your body with odorant that now makes anyone in the whole room nauseate.
• Body stinks of whatever you smoked during the break? Noone can tell if everyone’s nose is blocked.
• Chinese mousepad made out of non RoHS compliant rubber, has residual industrial volatile compounds causing nausea? Well, the room “freshner” can cause more nausea. Fill godowns with the perfume and nobody will notice the Chinese rubber.

It’s not deodorant, it’s odorant.

Yeah.
I have even seen them. Those machinely metal bones with multiple hinge and pivot joints hold the flimsy duralumin wings together while providing much needed actuation, using hydraulics.

tl;dr No to boneless wings

Wings without a structural element are pretty useless for flying.
Even mosquito wings have structural elements, enabling them to not only flap, but also rotate.

For a human wing to work, it would require extremely strong structural elements to sustain the loads required to lift the human.

Well guess what?

#include <string.h>
#include <iostream>

int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
	const int which = strcmp ("zsh", "bash");
	std::cout << which << std::endl;
	return 0;
}

Output
1

I’m guessing “Grip 6” is a particular brand, but I have used buckles with grip action (on normal leather (or were they some fake leather? dunno but not nylon) belts without holes) quite a bit and I liked them.

Making your own holes in a holed belt might cause a greater structural weakness than it can handle, depending upon how tight you like it.

I recently got a knitted-ish belt (this is probably nylon or similar stuff) and you can insert the anchor at ~5mm intervals (thickness of the rope used to knit it) and that seems like a good idea too.

When you’re talking about the PCIe peripheral, you’re talking about a separate dedicated graphics card or something else?

Yes, similar to what a PCIe Graphics Card does.
A PCIe slot is the slot in a desktop motherboard that lets you fit various things like networking (ethernet, Wi-Fi and even RTC specialised stuff) cards, sound cards, graphics cards, SATA/SAS adapters, USB adapters and all other kinds of stuff.

I guess the main point of NPUs are that they are tiny and built in

GPUs are also available built-in. Some of them are even tiny.
Go 11-12 years back in time and you’ll see video processing units embedded into the Motherboard, instead of in the CPU package.
Eventually some people will want more powerful NPUs with better suited RAM for neural workloads (GPUs have their own type of RAM too), not care about the NPU in the CPU package and will feel like they are uselessly paying for it. Others will not require an NPU and will feel like they are uselessly paying for it.

So, much better to have NPUs be made separately in different tiers, similar to what is done with GPUs rn.

And even external (PCIe) Graphics Cards can be thin and light instead of being a fat package. It’s usually just the (i) extra I/O ports and (ii) the cooling fins+fans that make them fat.

I guess an NPU is better of being a PCIe peripheral then?
And it can then have their specialised RAM too.

A cube-Earther aiming for the stars?

I was expecting it to be about GUI programs just waiting for an input.
Because when it hangs, it’s most probably either doing something long, or something that got elongated due to external factors, which ended up being programmed into the GUI thread. So definitely not idling.

If your goal is to enchant the cable with fireball, then you are on the correct path.

What’s costlier than increasing RAM?
Getting a GPU with higher RAM.

I’d say, we need to optimise for VRAM usage much more.

When I got my 64GB kit 3.2GHz, I was considering saving up for a 128GB 3.6GHz one.
I should have just bought the 128, then and there.

Even if someone spat spit, I won’t want to stand in front of them.

Aren’t there already regulations for casinos and the like?
Might as well apply the same to these. Then all lootbox games will become adult only.

So I saw a post where the body text said, “Title”.

Makes sense, considering DDR4 has only gone up 2x.
Though now I need to but the motherboard sooner than later, lest there be no good stock by the time I get to it.

Reset all passwords every 3 months, I guess?