It’s not in my opinion. Look how wide the bottom is, so the laptop will rest diagonally across the bag which makes it not ideal to carry or put other items inside. I’m all for the perfect laptop bag, this isn’t quite it.
Google has been a hot mess for me lately. Ya, the AI is awful, numerous times I’m shown information that’s either inaccurate or straight false. It will summarize my emails wrong, it will mess up easy facts like what time my dinner reservation is. Worst is the overall search UX, especially auto complete. Suggestions are never right and then trying to tap and navigate thru always leads to an mis-click.
I got this ad, and ya, I was truly bewildered to get such an ad and then shocked that it came from my Wallet. I then spent the next hour searching how to disable this new marketing stream and it looks like nothing can be done. Anyway, glad to see I’m not alone here.
They have added an option to disable marketing messages in the wallet app..... in the new iOS 26 beta. which uh, really makes it look like they were not planning on doing this just this once.
So if you get less HTTP bytes than expected, then it’s a HTTP response error and you throw the whole thing away. For example, this sort of situation happens when streaming HTTP. The server first has to send the response headers, which would be a simple 200/206, then the data, which could have a much more complicated code path. If there is an error in that data code path, all you can do is close the connection and trigger an HTTP error since less bytes were delivered than advertised. Client needs to detect this and retry. While this may seem uncommon, this is well understood behavior for HTTP systems.
Or more likely for a range download, you use the bytes you got and keep making further range requests, to get the whole resource in however many tries it takes. And the 403 would come through as soon as you hit an uncached part of the resource.
This gist is that nomadic Romani people settled around Syria and wrote it. The language and writing is a blend of several languages and cultures. The evidence in the videos backs this up pretty well.
Thanks for sharing. I don't have the expertise to evaluate the claims, but it's certainly an interesting theory and a compelling story. Just wish he'd continued the presentation of his work.
A lot of people were speculating he would make his findings official and didn’t want to over share.
I do see a comment about his theory being debunked. That would be expected, the language used was a mashup of several existing languages, so it’s possible a lot of what was written is copy-pasta gibberish. However, the video points out of a lot of cultural aspects of the book which support a Romani origin.
I watched some of the videos in the link given by nyc_pizzadev, and recall seeing them when they were first released. He's continuing the work of Stephen Bax. Romani is convenient as it allows him to pick and choose words borrowed from various languages into Romani over a wide area, so if Farsi doesn't fit, maybe Bulgarian or Uzbek might, whichever is the most convenient. But until he translates some of the VMS (a few pages in different parts of the manuscript would suffice), and his translation isn't nonsensical, he hasn't solved it.
Check out Jason Ladanye. He’s a magician who uses shuffle math to place cards exactly where he wants them to be in the deck. Both impressive and scary.
Go see him in person. He’s now doing in person shows. I had to see it live in order to really believe he was doing what he showed on his social media. Absolutely mind blowing. He’s my favorite
Ha, came here to post about Ladayne. I’ve been watching all his 2-minute shorts and I still can’t wrap my brain around the mental/mathematical skill, or the astounding precision of his fingers.
Another takeaway is the jaw-dropping amount of practice he’s put into it, and his total dedication to perfection (zero mistakes allowed, ever). He speaks at length about this in interviews, and in fact part of his act is to explain that it is not magic at all, but his full commitment to mastering the craft. Something we can all reflect on.
High quality VOD (ie streaming a 4K movie). HTTP block file systems, each block needs to be streamed reliably to fulfill the read() call plus read ahead.
For VOD can I just open connection and send single message and then stream will continue forever? And HTTP is message oriented protocol. I can't just send infinite length HTTP message. Which would be processed as it arrives or can I? Meaning can I upload something not that small like terabyte of video data over HTTP?
One thing not mentioned often is that a lot of networks will drop UDP packets first when encountering congestion. The thinking is that those packets will not re-transmit, so it’s an effective means to shed excess traffic. Given we now have protocols that aggressively re-transmit on UDP, I wonder how that has changed things. I do seem to remember QUIC having re-transmit issues (vs HTTP1/2) years ago because of this.
Looks like a marketing piece publicizing that CERN is using WD HDD products at scale with no technical details. To make matters worse, the WD product links don’t even work!
CERN publicizing about their HGST Ultrastar use [0] in 2013 was what got me started buying their drives and I never had issues with them. HGST is now part of Western Digital [1].
The last time I had to buy disks I switched to Seagate Exos X and thought I'll continue buying them. I think it was one of the Backblaze Drive Stats which made me buy them. I like the drives.
So CERN is now doing again such an advertising campaign:
> When Bonfillou shared the requirements from the next generation collider, the team suggested testing the company’s new series of JBODs (Just a Bunch of Drives), the Ultrastar hybrid storage platforms.
Since the project is expected to start in 2029, add about at least 5 more years for CERN to collect data on the drive stats, that's a long time to wait.
Does anyone here know if WD's Ultrastar are still as good as back then, when HGST was HGST? Was it just a brand change and all the rest, R&D-team, design, production, was still the same, separate to WD?
