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pvg @pvg.bsky.social · 14h

Thing I've wondered about things like the Runescape revival is whether part of it is the game's visuals instantly tell you it's ok to suck and you don't have to commit. I mean, I haven't tried it myself but there's something to the 'be sweaty only if and when you want' signal

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pvg @pvg.bsky.social · 1d

I nerdsniped myself while dunking - why do these nvme boxes get so hot? Like, I have a similar tb4 one and it gets hotter than any part of the mbp it's connected to.

NAND flash write voltages are high, says google, wonder if that has anything to do with it

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pvg @pvg.bsky.social · 1d

rule of claw

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pvg @pvg.bsky.social · 1d

Power an external fan with ur phone, says man who finds ligatures an unconscionably wasteful and affected frivolity

This USB C Magnetic SSD Enclosure+USB C Docking Station not only has an internal fan design, but also comes with a free silicone heat dissipation sticker in the package, and the material of the enclosure is made of silver-gray aluminum alloy, which ensures excellent heat dissipation performance for safer and more reliable operation.

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pvg @pvg.bsky.social · 1d

secretly, everyone knows those keys are useless unless signed by the King of Primes

pvg @pvg.bsky.social · 2d

Winner gets to define the precise meaning and pronunciation of 'boot' (in all contexts) for the time in which they hold the title

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pvg @pvg.bsky.social · 2d

I can't believe it's taken me so long to realize Ghostbusters is a an allegorical meditation on the administrative state

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pvg @pvg.bsky.social · 4d

tonguesten™, the trade name for medical grade tungsten

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pvg @pvg.bsky.social · 4d

> 'how do you know'

I ask the internet stranger with the problem, rather than get into some pointless spat with a different, entirely unrelated internet stranger

pvg @pvg.bsky.social · 4d

grep is a totally reasonable way to filter a file made of lines which this well might be. hence the 'might be able to get away with'. offering potentially usable simple solutions is uncontroversial, pedantry over 'WRONG TOOL', especially when key parameters are unknown, is super boring

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pvg @pvg.bsky.social · 4d

we don't know what the CSV is like, we don't know how big the file is, we don't know what the filtering criteria are, we don't know if this is a once-or-twice thing or 'I need to do this every day' thing, etc. we don't know what's right or wrong for what.

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pvg @pvg.bsky.social · 4d

Although the framing effectively selects for all the people who would only produce answers in the form of [do every conceivable thing to avoid using R][at the very end, use R because the question said R], whatever the technical merits.

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pvg @pvg.bsky.social · 4d

If they they're memory-ish+ big, you're usually better off pre-filtering them and like the other tweets say, you might be able to get away with just grep -v