I agree. I just fell like there were still places they could have gone with it. Apparently, even with promotions. Getting a half pip, or even a full one, doesn’t necessarily automatically get you out of lower decks… and how fast do promotions come? Once every year or two - no faster, certainly.

And if we can have shows about the bridge crew, and shows about lower decks, we could certainly have shows about the in-between strata. An (original) Enterprise class had a crew of CA 400 people. Most of this didn’t spend any time on the bridge; bridge crew was, what, 3 dozen people, max? The Ceritos is a California class; I’ve seen estimates of a crew compliment of 160. If we assume a max of 40 bridge crew (on rotation, with alternates), that leaves 120 people in other categories. Plenty of room for new assignments, duties, experiences; hell, except for re-assignments to other ships, they could drag the show out indefinitely. The bridge crew characters would take the most attrition.

I think there may also be some medical consequences. I really don’t know of there’s long-term effects, but being in water constantly dehydrates you. It’s the reason your skin gets wrinkly when you’ve been in the bath a while: your body thinks you’re over-hydrated and tries to expel water through your skin.

Take that with a grain of salt; I read it somewhere years ago, and really have no idea of it’s accurate, true, or whether it’d make a difference health-wise in any case.

You could just put “(with vim bindings)” after everything, including EMACS. I have them on in Firefox.

100%. And the funny episodes feel forced. Like, everyone remembers the Trouble with Tribbles episode for the Tribbles, but they were almost a side story; there was an entire main plot revolving around the Klingons.

I agree. Maybe it’s the audiences, maybe it’s the studios, but your Marvel simile is apt.

That article is an excellent resource, BTW, thank you. However, it nowhere says anything about swapping being used when you have more memory than you use.

1TB of memory is not a lot, for many applications, so just saying “this guy has 1TB memory and look what he thinks of swap” doesn’t mean much. If he’s processing LLMs or really any non-trivial DB (read: any business DB), then that memory is being used.

Having space in memory so that you never have to swap is always better than needing to swap, and nothing in Chris’ article says anything counter to that. What he mainly argues is that swap is better than OOM killers, having configurations that lead to memory contention in the first place, or seeking alternative strategies to turning off swap.

The fact is, I could turn on swap, but it would never get used because I’m not doing anything that requires heavy memory use. Even running KDE and several Java and Electron apps, I wouldn’t run out of physical memory. I’ll run into CPU constraints long before I run into memory contention issues.

Frankly, if my system allowed me to have, say, 40GB instead of 64, I’d have done that. I only want to not have to use swap - because never using swap is always preferable to needing it - and slightly more than 32GB is where I happen to land. But I can only have symmetric memory modules, and all memory comes in powers-of-2 sizes, and 64GB is affordable.

Again, Chris’ essay says only that swap is better than many alternatives people seek; not that swap is better than being able to not exhaust physical RAM.

As a final point, the other type of swapping is between types of physical memory - between L1 and L2, and between cache and main memory. That’s not what Chris is talking about, nor what the swappiness tuning the OP article is discussing. Those are the swapping between memory and persistent storage.

Yup! And it’s glorious.

It’s far better to have too much, than too little.

Don’t get me wrong; I love this. This is fantastic. However, I have only one thing to say: mhwahahahahahhaa!

The last time I upgraded my desktop computer, I said “F it” and maxed out the RAM and put 64GB in it. It’s an AMD with integrated GPU that immediately takes over 2GB RAM – and I still have yet to do anything that has caused it to drop below 50% free memory. It’s exhilarating.

TBF, I spent years on a more memory-constrained laptop and my workflow became centered around minimalism: tiling WM, no DE, mostly terminal clients for everything but the web. When I got the new computer, with wild abandon I tried all the gluttons: KDE, Gnome… you know, all of them. The eye candy just wasn’t worth the PITA of the mousie-ness of them, and I eventually went back to Herbstluftwm and my shells. Now, when I do run greedy apps - usually some Electron crap - what bugs me is the constant CPU suck even at idle, so I find a shell alternative.

I guess it’s an irony that I live in a land of memory plenty and never need more than half what I have available. But I still get a little thrill when I do notice my memory use and I’ve got 70% free. Makes me want to code up a little program with an intentional memory plenty leak, just for fun, y’know?

Your neighbors must have loved you. What’s the terminal velocity of a potato?

I like the taste of cigarettes, cigars, and (especially) pipes more than I like the taste of coffee, and I really like coffee.

All those things you mentioned were big losses; I really do think there after-meal smoke was the hardest to let go of. Someone posted something about how cigarettes are actually bad for your digestion, but it doesn’t feel like it. In fact, it feels like the opposite.

Aw, man. If I survive my wife, I’m going to take smoking back up again. By then, cancer from smoking is statistically unlikely to be what gets me.

What did it do?

The artist has an Elektra Microcasa A Leva.

I mean no shade, but I was honestly expecting as I scrolled down that this would be posted in c/ABoringDystopia

If you find it, post it!

It’s not really an inconvenience for me; I set it up, let it brew overnight; easy-peasy.

It’s a great backup to have, that’s for sure. I drink mostly cold brew, but sometimes I run out and there are a few days before I brew more. Aeropress is a fantastic way to brew a quick cup.

I’ve read it’s the undercoat. Short hairs have an undercoat, and it sheds a lot. Longhairs don’t (or don’t have as much a one?) and so don’t shed as much.

I don’t care; I’d take a bullet for any of them.

Look out, guys, we have a pro here

Oops you did it again, you played with my brain, made me smoooke again. Oops you gave me lung cancer, and emphysema, and I diiieed!

Tee hee

I was one of the lucky ones. Quitting wasn’t hard; I just went cold turkey. In the past 25 years I’ve smoked maybe 6 or 7? Half of those, I was out in Singapore with a bunch of sales people from my company, and seriously, they just kept offering them and eventually I smoked a couple. But, I’ve never been prone to addiction, thank goodness, because I have no willpower to speak of.

For me, it’s situational. At first, it’d be after dinner was the worst cravings, but also seeing people light up in movies - only in movies theaters, though. But just random. The last time I had a craving was probably 6 or 7 years ago… until this series of ads. And it’s been bad, because I mainly smoked Camels, and Lucky Strikes when I lived in Germany. If these ads had been for Marlborough, or some other brands, it wouldn’t be so bad, but OP’d been choosing my favorites.

Of you’re 8 years out, you can do it. Especially if you stay away from situations where people offer them to you. It’s way easier, for me at least, to not buy a pack than it is to turn down a friendly offer.

You know, I never dream about smoking. Maybe I use to; I don’t remember. But good luck! You’re going great.

This is one I wish I hadn’t stopped to think about.

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