stoly
@stoly@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions? 2 days ago:
Back in the day, you scanned the disk. Folder by folder, file by file. If what you were looking for appeared early in your search, you were golden. It turns out, though, that scanning a filesystem is computationally very complex and takes a long time. Not something you might notice so much on a PC, but something that you would notice on a server. So, instead, you want to index the disk, slowly and over time, and then you search against the index. This works well in a server, but no so much on a workstation. Well there’s really no difference between Windows 11 and Windows Server 2024 except for some fine tuning of resource allocation. Essentially, you get the very (for desktops) ineffective server version.
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 3 days ago:
Sorry I work in tech and may take things for granted.
- Comment on Hurdler Wins 400-Meter Race Despite His Dick And Balls Falling Out Several Times 4 days ago:
Those are some reasonable parts, congratulations.
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 5 days ago:
Of course it was. I had it.
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 6 days ago:
I have thought about this over the years. If I am in a loop, it’s “which PhD am I doing this lifetime?” or “so I guess I am going to be the world’s best cabinetmaker this round.”
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 6 days ago:
holy cow, I lived the afternoon half of that
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 6 days ago:
OOOH Look at Mister FANCY PANTS with his dial up internet. You must be rich, Mister Fancy Pants.
I think I had AOL at the time…
- Comment on Who's up for some hotdickle? 6 days ago:
Why is the pickle circumcised?
- Comment on As you are doing it you never realize 3 weeks ago:
I think for me it was before I moved counties and my disc was full so I put all my torrents on a couple DVDs. Early 2009.
- Comment on No context needed. 4 weeks ago:
Get a metal colander.
- Comment on Lawsuit: Wikipedia fired transgender worker who complained about harassment 5 weeks ago:
Why are you posting this everywhere you possibly can?
- Comment on X Suffers New Outage Following Oregon Data Center Fire 5 weeks ago:
How are those cost savings going, Elon? Some redundancy would look pretty good right about now.
- Comment on Partner has ADD, do I have misophonia? 1 month ago:
Can’t the conversation be on volume levels? You can say that you find it distracting and difficult to enjoy your own activities.
- Comment on Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says Reddit will work with “various third-party services” to verify a user's humanity, after an unauthorized AI persuasion experiment 1 month ago:
#2 is the most likely outcome
- Comment on Not difficult to understand 1 month ago:
Also these first impression moments are good because you can predict how they would treat you if you worked there. I walked away super annoyed and didn’t care that I didn’t get called back in. I was way overqualified for the position but was also desperate for one since I had just moved back to the country and needed to sponsor my spouse for residency.
- Comment on Not difficult to understand 1 month ago:
Based on the context and my own personal experience as a person who has interviewed hundreds as a hiring manager --not syaing I do this, just that I understand-- they said “HEY FRANK WE NEED YOU TO SIT IN THIS INTERVIEW IN 30 MINUTES. K THANKS” and Frank showed up and tried to pretend that he knew what was going on.
- Comment on Not difficult to understand 1 month ago:
An idiot asked me that once when I had just finished my masters. Like did you read my resume?
- Comment on Jeremy Renner Turned Down ‘Hawkeye’ Season 2 Because He Was Offered ‘Half’ His Season 1 Salary: ‘Did You Think I’m Only Half the Jeremy Because I Got Ran Over?’ 1 month ago:
That screams narcissism for sure
- Comment on Feds Threaten Wikipedia After Right-Wing Media Uproar 1 month ago:
It’s not that there is no danger, but I don’t see anything immediate.
- Comment on Feds Threaten Wikipedia After Right-Wing Media Uproar 1 month ago:
Does Wikipedia receive federal funding? If not, people can shut right up.
- Comment on Anomalocaris 1 month ago:
Are they chelicerates?
- Comment on Puma picks colors and shades at random it seems. 2 months ago:
If they were different when new then it likely has to do with what threads were available at the time of production.
- Comment on White House to Ask Congress to Rescind $1.1 Billion From NPR and PBS 2 months ago:
It’s notable that conservatives think that he’s literally an evil man. It’s very strange.
- Comment on Harvard’s Decision to Resist Trump Is ‘of Momentous Significance’ 2 months ago:
So affirmative action?
- Comment on So this is it, is trump god? Will Republicans sacrifice their own well being to own the libs? 2 months ago:
Yes. They will also sacrifice their own children and their wellbeing.
- Comment on People giving swags 2 months ago:
LOL at that first person taking the bait (or being a bot).
- Comment on Important information about compatibility of Nintendo Switch games with Nintendo Switch 2 2 months ago:
The ones that require you to insert the switch into them make sense. There are no excuses for the remainder.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 3 months ago:
- A good engineering pencil can be used for anything.
- Comment on 3's grip looks the most comfy 3 months ago:
Error: fountain pen not found
- Comment on The lost Family Guy pilot (1998) has been found 3 months ago:
This wasn’t lost. It’s been on YouTube for a very long time.