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And rank all the flavors. Super Fast Wide Deep Ultra Magnum Jeroboam
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GreenNight posted:Eh just ask what does SCSI stand for if you're going to ask for useless knowledge. Small Computer Set Interface. Is what my brain says, firing ancient neurons that last had electricity through them in 1998. I'm not going to look it up to see if I'm right because who gives a poo poo at this point, yeah SAS is SCSI over SATA but unless you work at a SAN manufacturer (or are that increasingly endangered animal known as a storage admin) you will never need to deal with SCSI in the modern world, aside from the very minor case of knowing you can only put 14 devices on a VM's virtual SCSI controller before you need to add another one. edit: I succumbed to curiosity and looked it up, I'm wrong on one word but I literally could not care less. Assorted Gubbins fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Dec 6, 2020 |
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Assorted Gubbins posted:Small Computer Set Interface. I was gonna correct you, but I see my work is done 
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Assorted Gubbins posted:Small Computer Set Interface. That first part is such a misnomer. When have the computers that SCSI is on ever been small? 
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For reasons I don't care about my old Seagate Barracuda SATA drive reports as SCSI to Windows.
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The Xbox counts as a microcomputer and it is hueg
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GreenNight posted:Eh just ask what does SCSI stand for if you're going to ask for useless knowledge. wait i know this it's the name of foone's cat https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1333293332303282181
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RFC2324 posted:Makes perfect sense, but basing someone's hireability on their ability to memorize stuff that actively makes your brain not memorize stuff anymore is kinda poo poo, don't you think?
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Dec 6, 2020 06:27
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Arquinsiel posted:For reasons I don't care about my old Seagate Barracuda SATA drive reports as SCSI to Windows. It's because Seagate drives are utter garbage. I've never had one that's lived longer than maybe a year or two with regular use.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:It's because Seagate drives are utter garbage. I've never had one that's lived longer than maybe a year or two with regular use. Bad luck for you so. This one was bought in 2010 and has been where games are stored since then.
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Please, let's not have this discussion (again)  The Backblaze numbers put most of these discussions to bed anyway.
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Dec 6, 2020 12:39
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Arquinsiel posted:I've seen that happen with myself TBH. I used to know the D&D 3.X rules by heart. Anything in the three core books I could tell you with a few second's thought. Now I'm lucky if I can remember how basic combat works in a much simpler game. The half-orc is the only playable race that can be a fighter/assassin in AD&D. But I have no idea how saving throws work in 5E. For some reason 5E breaks my brain in places.
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5E is so much simpler that it doesn't really make sense to me, although that may be not having actually played it yet. I went into building a character going all "Oh, I want to try this build" and then that mechanic doesn't exist anymore. "This build?" mechanic also doesn't exist.
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Agrikk posted:The half-orc is the only playable race that can be a fighter/assassin in AD&D. 5e is way easier and more fun to play than any D&D. Combat wise anyway.
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I just started playing 5e on roll20 with some friends It’s pretty enjoyable, use the character generator, click button to roll die, dm tells me what to do
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spankmeister posted:5e is way easier and more fun to play than any D&D. Combat wise anyway. Saving throws aside, I agree with you. I think it was 3E where you got an extra attack every +5 you had, so combat at high levels got stupid when you had +37 to hit. And god help us with THAC0.
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5e is much simpler but there are a lot of stumbling blocks you run into when you come from 4e due to the way things work, that it's probably easier to transition from 3.5 to 5 than 4 to 5.
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Agrikk posted:Saving throws aside, I agree with you. I dunno about based on your +s, but a buddy of mine roll a 2nd ed players option character that got 15 hits per round at +20/+20 before he got any magic gear.
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What was dumb about the descending bonus system is that in this example you swung at +39, then +34, then +31 all the way down, even though you were fighting a dude with 50 AC meaning that only the first two attacks had any meaningful chance to hit and the next seven were basically hoping for a nat20. It gummed up the game big time. But the D&D thread is that way and I’ll stop now.
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Kurieg posted:5e is much simpler but there are a lot of stumbling blocks you run into when you come from 4e due to the way things work, that it's probably easier to transition from 3.5 to 5 than 4 to 5. RFC2324 posted:I dunno about based on your +s, but a buddy of mine roll a 2nd ed players option character that got 15 hits per round at +20/+20 before he got any magic gear. Players Option poo poo doesn't count. That was D&D fanfic.
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Agrikk posted:Saving throws aside, I agree with you. Sorta. You got an extra attack for every +5 you had in your base attack bonus, at +6, +11, and +16. You'd only ever get up to four attacks from that.
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woof got to explain the concept of botnetting to an old lady who we had to inform had her IP blocked by Sony and that she should probably find someone there to clean her computer which felt bad but i'm not gonna teach an old lady how to reinstall windows lol
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Dec 7, 2020 16:11
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PirateDentist posted:That first part is such a misnomer. When have the computers that SCSI is on ever been small? Late to the party, but Macs until the late ‘90s.
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Thanatosian posted:Players Option poo poo doesn't count. That was D&D fanfic. Oh come on, Players option, Combat and Tactics, had the best crit tables at the end...
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PirateDentist posted:That first part is such a misnomer. When have the computers that SCSI is on ever been small? Tons of the SPARCstation line was quite small, but notably the IPX/IPC.
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Darchangel posted:Late to the party, but Macs until the late ‘90s. Especially the powerbooks!
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I had bad experiences with powerbooks. I tried buying one online and the rear end in a top hat sent me a three-ring binder.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:I had bad experiences with powerbooks. I tried buying one online and the rear end in a top hat sent me a three-ring binder. 
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Sheep posted:Tons of the SPARCstation line was quite small, but notably the IPX/IPC. I grabbed one of these when it was being thrown away 7 or 8 years ago at work, been sitting in my basement ever since. Just need the right project to put inside of it.
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I had a whole stack of IPXes, an IPC, an LX, and a few SPARCstation 1/2s. Utterly useless even back then (mid-2000s) because of how slow they are, but cool nonetheless. You could maybe fit a miniITX board in one with some creativity? Edit: forgot I also had one of those SPARC laptops, Brite Lite or something like that? I bought a lot of computer stuff at state surplus auctions in the late 90s/early 2000s. Sheep fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Dec 7, 2020 |
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IPXes were useful for Xkernel for a little while, but by the late 90s they weren't even toys.
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shortspecialbus posted:
this is a great question that I will be stealing in... two hours or so What are some of y'all's favourite sysadmin generalist questions to ask? I really like "explain how the internet works". Gives them an opportunity to go up and down the OSI model, or dip in and out of areas where they're most comfortable.
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The Iron Rose posted:this is a great question that I will be stealing in... two hours or so I got the “Tell me what happens when you go to a website” question in an interview this summer and I liked it. Gives the interview a chance to touch on a lot of different technologies, how they work together, and deep dive on parts they’re most familiar with. Might be useful to ask pointed questions along the way if you want to get information about specific areas, but as an interviewee I liked the open ended question giving me an opportunity to talk about skills that I wanted to showcase.
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The Iron Rose posted:this is a great question that I will be stealing in... two hours or so In the same vein, I ask them how applications work. Explain API's to me. Tell me in your words the value prop of cloud platforms. Explain how the internet works is a good one. The best interviews turn into a back-and-forth on these topics. You can get a feel for someone's attitude towards ambiguity in the way they either just dive in or seek to pare down the topic. The best of the best are where the interviewee teaches me something I didn't know. Honestly you can weed people who don't know what they're talking about out fast with the generalized questions. I prioritize people who are smart and understand IT conceptually over people who have specific knowledge though, not sure everyone is looking for that necessarily.
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A fun question I got once was "Is there any reason the company should consider buying some bitcoin?", but there was a very specific answer being looked for there.
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Arquinsiel posted:A fun question I got once was "Is there any reason the company should consider buying some bitcoin?", but there was a very specific answer being looked for there. "So they have the random ready when I manage to get the whole network crypto'd"?
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BallerBallerDillz posted:"So they have the random ready when I manage to get the whole network crypto'd"? Like someone who pre-buys crypto currency for this situation would put the wallet anywhere other than a share that gets hit.
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Thomamelas posted:Like someone who pre-buys crypto currency for this situation would put the wallet anywhere other than a share that gets hit. 
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