No worries… It’s a pretty obscure math joke anyway :⁠-⁠P

Maths - sin, tan and cos are all factors of the rotation of a circle, hence pi being on there. I’m not a mathematician, I just watch standup maths and can recommend his book, “love triangle” to explain this sort of stuff.

people wouldn’t have to masquerade as much behind legitimate business.

Yes, that’s the point - they’d BE a legitimate business anyway. Sadly, the concept of it being not so, is so ingrained in Western (American and British, at least) culture that even comments in support reveal an unconscious bias that’s hard to overcome.

ROCK AND STONE, BROTHER!

And… Wine stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator, too.

Ok. But also - no it doesn’t.

“The mother acetifies the wine into vinegar.”

Not oxidises. Acetic acid is vinegar, formed from wine by the aerobic action of bacteria.

“My” source?

That means it’s an aerobic bacterial process (aerobic - operating in the presence of air, or specifically oxygen in this case). Not oxidation, which is specifically the interaction of oxygen interactions with the molecule to bond preferentially over the existing bonds, “rusting” them in common parlance.

Well, now you’ve called it out, I’ve got to updeet it.

“Kei modernized their truck”.

Kei is a style of vehicle. This is like saying, “pickups modernized their truck”. So let’s try and understand what this misguided individual meant.

“The small vehicle that I saw had poor crash handling”. Perhaps, but that’s going to be on the individual vehicle, not a class, in the same way some small vehicles handle really well, and some fall over (remember the Mercedes A class, anyone?)

“The style of vehicle that is categorised by kei is impossible to secure, and all of them score zero”. I’d love to see evidence of this, if you’ve got any. A modern kei-style car, the Honda E 2020 has a euro NCAP 4* rating - not the best, but not zero, and that’s just the first one I found.

Sadly, kei trucks are not commonly for sale in the UK or US, so I can’t find ratings for them. There’s no reason they can’t be made as safe as other small vehicles, only a market preference for larger vehicles.

That’s a bit stretched…

According to the man(8) page, it will avoid touching any blocks that have the chattr -f flag set, which is XSR_XFLAGS_NODEFRAG… So I think if the docs are still accurate to the code, yes.

A lot of ifs in that assumption.

I understood that XFS automatically mounted SSD’s with XFS_XFLAG_NODEFRAG set? Is this not the case?

That’s because the drive was written to its limits; the defrag runs a TRIM command that safely releases and resets empty sectors. Random reads and sequential reads /on clean drives that are regularly TRIMmed/ are within random variance of each other.

Source: ran large scale data collection for a data centre when SSDs were relatively new to the company so focused a lot on it, plus lots of data from various sectors since.

I always remember that it’s eXtract Ze File, tar -xzf… But I’ll be honest, I’ve not used it in years and years

Point, well made.

Curse you autocorrect!

So that’s a no, because you didn’t overanalyze you’re response to that question, leading to me having to do it for you and therefore failing your implied social contract.

Yep, took a couple of days with a hex editor, but was a good learning experience

The old Chernobyl virus did this. I caught it. Had to restore the MPT of a FAT32 drive - fortunately, the MPT and first FAT fell outside the boundary of the destruction, so I was able to use the 2nd FAT to restore the files and get pretty much everything back. Was stressful - lots of running to the second computer to get details of how the hex structure of the MPT was built and recreate it because using a tool would have formatted/erased what was there (This was early 00’s, off an old magazine cover floppy disk). Fun times, and not something you want to do with a business machine or with critical software (Though, why haven’t you got it backed up in an air-gapped way if it’s that critical?)

Oh definitely, I just have a playlist with all the albums sequential, I’m not a barbarian!