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Exactly.

About time. Can they do it retroactively, or does this just mean no more security updates?

… just the most SouthEastern part of it :D

Often, guilt. Sometimes, distraction or the inability to prioritize.

And sometimes, not being honest with yourself that you find something else more enjoyable.

Indeed. And that goes for various social media apps too.

The only worrying experience I’ve ever had with skunks was when I was walking along a path and saw these two little faces pop out from some brush at the side of the trail— baby skunks. I backed away slowly, and took a different route. Last thing I wanted was their mother getting defensive because they were too forward with a human.

I have no idea where the manual release is on my car that I’ve owned for 13 years. Nobody ever engages the child safety locks, but if they did, those doors are effectively unopenable from the inside.

Just wait… they’ll die eventually.

If you want long-term, look to the liver. Alcohol will destroy it over time, but so will viral hepatitis. Have you considered slow acting diseases like hepatitis or HIV? Or something intensely carcinogenic?

Came here to say this; cremation is the cheapest that leaves your family with an object; leaving your body to science can be zero-cost (costs paid by the institution of choice).

That gave me a very odd image of vend-a-leopard-eating-your-face.

Especially when they think your views are the problem.

I have one word:

Eggs.

Ahh… THAT is the difference.

In the US, most of the media is complicit in what’s being protested. And online social media coverage is being contained to small bubbles.

I use a dry steam mop. It’s the only thing I’ve found that gets the gypsum off without damaging the surface.

Elephant.

It’s always elephants.

Abusive people are generally selfish and manipulative. As such, they know that abuse has to be 1:1, with the appearance of normalcy to everyone else. Being rude in public would cede their abusive power over any individual.

EXCEPT

When abusive people gain a critical mass of followers in public, the behaviour reserved for 1:1 interactions goes public, and they start behaving in public like they always do in private.

A good example of this is Donald Trump.

Iso is a container format; it’s a 1:1 mapping to how the bits are stored on disk with a header at the start describing the structure. Bin/cue separates the header into a separate file and can include data structured in ways that don’t comply with the ISO-9660 standard.

WinRAR is a compression/decompression program. It supports multiple archive types and compression formats.

Depending on the type of data you are compressing and whether you want lossless or lossy compression, you’ll want to select a different compression algorithm.

Depending on how you plan to use the files, you’ll want to use a different archive format.

Assuming you use the rar archive format, you still have a lot of options to consider. Should the data be encrypted or not? Should the directory structure be encrypted or not? Do you want parity files and segmented archives, so that if one of the parts gets corrupted (or goes missing), you can still extract the original data in a lossless way?

Beyond all that and selecting the compression algorithm that best compresses the type of structured data you’re storing, the general rule is that if you’ve got lots of data, using the largest dictionary and the largest compression window you can will result in the best compression.

So the dictionary is essentially a code book that says “when I see data x, represent it with data y in the file”. The compression window is how much of your original data is loaded into memory at any given time for the dictionary to look at and compress.

[edit] if you’ve got video, the best compression format commonly available today is H.265. This is a lossy compression format, meaning you’ll never be able to precisely recreate the original file. But it’s close enough not to matter at the right compression settings.

And if you’re using H.265, the best container format to stick it in is an MPEG-4 archive (typically with a .mp4 extension).

The result is a highly compressed and structured file. Loading chunks into memory for rar compression will usually result in a larger file, because the data is already compressed in a structured manner that a general compression algorithm can’t match… meaning that you’d get the input of xxxxx resulting in output of yyyyyy.

Having accounting training is beneficial even if you hate accounting. Even if you only get through the first year and decide to switch, having that initial training means you know what’s what later in life when dealing with accountants and auditors.

Plus, it’s useful to be able to manage your own personal finances.

I had the same question for over a year, and even tried getting my IT department to recommend something.

Eventually I gave up and bought these: https://a.co/d/1o00jkt

They have a slight lag, but work reasonably well and sit well for long calls. And they’re cheap.