Hmmm wonder if it's due to sudden influx of ketamine on the dance floor ... warning for those who don't know, ketamine is also linked with bladder wall destruction.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/30/surge-in-ket...

SMT can be disabled on the Linux bootloader command -nosmt

A bit of a meme, but why do endurance bikers look so old?

I'd go with very low fat percentage. I had a friend who ran marathons regularly, and he looked older because he was superlean and wiry.

Regular people can look older too just by losing weight rapidly: https://www.drugs.com/medical-answers/ozempic-face-3572731/

Long rides in the sunshine are rough on your skin especially if you aren't constantly applying sunscreen.

The last bit about the heart surgeon, turns out you actually want the surgeon with the best outcomes not the one who does it the quickest. It seems like we're quibbling over surrogate measures for important outcomes.

You're confused about the definition of addiction... breathing is an addiction too by your logic

don't be silly. next stop is to reduce pooping.

but yeah, exercising can be an addiction? as sex. now doing these daily is fine. it turns into addiction when you can't stop or interfere negatively with your routine

Seems to fall into the difference between "addiction" when used as a common, everyday word, and the alternative medical meaning.

Ah, I am a bit biased to the medical meaning

Honestly a lot of these problems are because they don't test a staging environment, like isn't this software engineering basics?

Space computers are generally in 3 with a hot spare

Space shuttle had five.

Four of them operating in a redundant set and the fifth performing non critical task, as descripted in [1]. The fifth is also programmed by a different contractor in a different programming language: #1-4 running the Primary Avionics Software System (PASS) programmed by IBM in HAL/S and #5 programmed by a different team of Rockwell International in assembly. [2]

[1] https://people.cs.rutgers.edu/~uli/cs673/papers/RedundancyMa...

[2] https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20110014946/downloads/20...

I've recently shucked some Seagate HAMR 26Tb drives hopefully they last

I won that lottery with 3x 26TB Exos shipped. I decided to try and get two more but they ended up being HAMR (returned). Then I managed to find two more earlier manufacturing dates in store stock at a somewhat-far Best Buy that I was driving past anyway.

It felt like an unnecessary purchase at the time (I'm still waiting to CAD a CPU cooler mounting solution for the build in a new case that has room for the drives). But it seems like that deal is going to be the high water mark for a few years, at least.

I don't know- apparently for many years the helium levels stay at 99%, if we extrapolate they will probably last for a few decades. So my concern over helium might be a bit too much

Bought some 26TB HAMR drives recently. It uses solid state lasers to heat up the drive before writing. I shucked them from some Seagate external drive enclosures so we'll see how long my data will last. They're so new there's no failure data on them

I remember when I bought my first hard drive. It held 20MB and I was sure I’d never fill it.

I mean you still depend on authoritative dns servers no?