NaibofTabr
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- Comment on It was only a fish! 6 days ago:
So long and thanks…
- Comment on How to get the attention of a low life not paying their bill 1 week ago:
Time to lay some pipe.
- Comment on I got a feeling.. 1 week ago:
Lump
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 1 week ago:
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- Comment on Neuralink competitor Paradromics completes first human implant 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on 250 Million Honeybees Escape After a Truck Rolls Over in Washington State 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Wanna Ride This Bussy? 2 weeks ago:
Only if you take her with it.
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- Comment on Black Mirror AI 3 weeks ago:
The ars technica article: AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt
AI tarpit 1: Nepenthes
AI tarpit 2: Iocaine
- Comment on On trees... 3 weeks ago:
evolution intensifies
- Comment on Mt. Rainier Sasquatch 4 weeks ago:
thoroughly
- Comment on Sensible 4 weeks ago:
Inside you there are two muppets…
- Comment on China begins assembling its supercomputer in space 4 weeks ago:
Skynet is Made in China. That figures.
- Comment on If there's two Greeks in you, you're probably gay anyways 4 weeks ago:
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May your marinara never stick to your spaghetti!
- Comment on Squint those eyes 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Blankets are always good 4 weeks ago:
I want infinite comfort items.
The basis of the modern consumer market.
- Comment on What can US citizens do to fight/prevent their country enabling genocide? 4 weeks ago:
You can get anything you want
- Comment on Become ungovernable! 4 weeks ago:
Become illegible?
- Comment on Heheheh my secret door of secret knowledge 4 weeks ago:
Hmm, I’ve always found the exposed bits of machinery and the genuine work areas to be a lot more interesting than the safety-padded candy-coated consumer-facing side of things.
- Comment on Games on my PC start stuttering pretty badly when they aren't the active window for a while. Have to close the game and restart to resolve the stuttering issue. What exactly is causing this? 5 weeks ago:
but it still is different from virtual memory. that’s a broader thing.
Of course, that’s why I said…
the function is called Virtual Memory in Windows
because that’s how it’s labeled in the Windows Settings menu.
then open the control panel and fix the swap setup. and then enjoy your more ram. the solution to this problem does not seem to be not upgrading to have more ram.
Adding more RAM is not a solution to OP’s described problem in any way. In the context of moving data from active memory to the pagefile, Windows doesn’t care how much RAM you have, only how long the data in active memory has been idle (which is not configurable). Adding more RAM to the system will do nothing to change that behavior.
However, adding more RAM might make retrieving data from the pagefile slower. Yes you could adjust the pagefile settings to address this, as you said, but it still doesn’t do anything to address OP’s problem.
- Comment on Games on my PC start stuttering pretty badly when they aren't the active window for a while. Have to close the game and restart to resolve the stuttering issue. What exactly is causing this? 5 weeks ago:
that also gets used when no swap file was set up.
The swap file or pagefile is automatically set up in Windows 10/11. You have to do something manually to prevent it.
I agree that adding more RAM won’t necessarily make the problem go away as windows might still swap the game out if it deems it more important to cache more files in RAM, but I don’t see why that would make it worse.
By making the swap file larger, which may be an issue if the hard drive doesn’t have enough space left, and if not it will still increase the amount of time needed to recover data from the swap, because it’s larger.
- Comment on guys what the heck theyre putting micro chips in the cheese and using blockchains to track the micro chips 5 weeks ago:
QR codes are just symbols in a camera readible way and barcodes numbers in a camara readible way.
A storage medium for 0´s & 1´s like a USB stick or a disc but way less storage.Yes, a QR code is a representation of digital data. There are different versions which can represent different amounts of data. The represented data can be anything that you want, as long as the scanning device can interpret that data as something useful.
They dont add any security,
An RFID tag holding a blockchain token string also does not add any security, it’s just a different thing holding an alphanumeric value. They could just use RFID tags without the blockchain, the result would be the same.
But my point is mostly that this is already an entirely solved problem, you don’t need very many bits to store a useful unique ID code, you certainly don’t need a blockchain-token-value amount of bits, and a printed paper tag is cheaper, easier to manufacture, and less environmentally impactful than a microchip.
- Comment on Games on my PC start stuttering pretty badly when they aren't the active window for a while. Have to close the game and restart to resolve the stuttering issue. What exactly is causing this? 5 weeks ago:
Sure but this still requires going through the reinstallation process, compared to just plugging an NVMe drive into a PCIe adapter and sticking it into an unused slot - done in 5 minutes.
- Comment on guys what the heck theyre putting micro chips in the cheese and using blockchains to track the micro chips 5 weeks ago:
Barcodes and QR codes do not have enough information for unique identification. (Well they could but they start getting bigger and bigger)
This is not really true. A 16-digit decimal code gives you 10 quadrillion unique numbers. FedEx handled ~3 billion packages in 2024, so at that rate it would take them more than 3 million years to use up the ID space. You don’t need ridiculously long strings for useful package ID codes.
If you stored the 16 digits as ASCII characters (7 bits each) it would be all of 112 bits of data. The Micro QR format is more than enough to represent that data, with room to spare for error correction. If you used alphanumeric instead of decimal you’d have 62^16 unique IDs (UC + LC + 0-9), still only 16 ASCII characters (112 bits), and at that point you’re more worried about the sun burning out than you are about running out of package ID codes.
But the real issue is needing these codes tracked and audited in a public manner. Instead of having a third party company trusted with all the cheese, you use a Blockchain with a public ledger. This doesn’t even require much processing power since there’s no incentive to mine as many blocks as possible.
If you want the tracking to be useful, then every time a package passes through a handling station the ID needs to be scanned and the ledger updated indicating the transfer of the package ID from one station to the other. Then every node on the blockchain network needs to update their copy of the ledger with the new transaction data. Never mind mining, if you’re handling millions of packages per day then updating the ledger will create a stupid amount of network traffic and just eat processing power. Also, correcting any errors that get written into the ledger due to some handling failure will be extremely difficult if not impossible.
Without mining, what incentive would there be for anyone besides the actual shipping company to host a blockchain node for this? How would it not still be “a third party company trusted with all the cheese”?
- Comment on Sam Altman Wants Your Eyeball 5 weeks ago:
AI is a surveillance technology.
- Comment on guys what the heck theyre putting micro chips in the cheese and using blockchains to track the micro chips 5 weeks ago:
using blockchains to track the movement of goods, like from ports or for cheese, is probably their only non-BS use case other than volatile currencies
We already do this with barcodes and QR codes, which you can just make with a printer.
- Comment on Games on my PC start stuttering pretty badly when they aren't the active window for a while. Have to close the game and restart to resolve the stuttering issue. What exactly is causing this? 5 weeks ago:
This is the correct answer and the function is called Virtual Memory in Windows but is commonly known as the pagefile or swap. Adding more RAM won’t save you from this, as Windows will automatically move memory files into virtual memory if they’re idle for awhile, regardless of how much RAM is currently in use. In fact adding more RAM will probably increase the size of the virtual memory which may make the problem worse for you.
Here is a more complete explanation: Swap file in Windows 10 & Windows 11: How to use it to optimize PC performance (increase, adjust, deactivate swap)?
The pagefile is configurable. You can change which hard drive it gets stored on, how big it can be, and even turn it off completely. Turning it off has risks though, and may lead to system crashes (see the warnings in the article).
You could add an SSD specifically to serve as a pagefile location and nothing else, in which case you could just get a small cheap one (a 32GB SSD would be more than enough for 16GB of RAM) - assuming that you have a place to plug it in to your motherboard, and then turn off the pagefile storage on all other drives in your system. That would be an easy change as you wouldn’t have to reinstall Windows onto a new hard drive.
Ultimately though, the easiest and cheapest fix is to just change your behavior - close the game if you’re not using it for awhile and relaunch it when you want to play again.
