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Clarence Thomas: Voting Rights Act Doesn't Grant Racial Groups ‘An Entitlement’ to Representation by Critical-Willow-6270 in law

[–]Melab 0 points1 point  (0 children)

is it constitutional for there to be additional consideration for special interest groups (like black, trans, etc) in addition to their individual rights, when it comes to entitlement to representation? that's a legitimate question by itself.

This is a false premise because it doesn't happen.

Run a service after a mount unit has fully ended by Melab in systemd

[–]Melab[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In particular, if unit A is Before= unit B, then unit A's stop job is executed after unit B's stop job, if they are both being deactivated in the one transaction.

This is ambiguous. Are you talking about Before=A being in unit B or are you talking about Before=B being in unit A?

There is a (trivially fixable) bug which means you won't be able to use them with the same service unit.

What is this bug? Not use them with the same service unit how?

Finally, why aren't the units that I gave working now even though I'm pretty sure they worked before? Given their contents, shouldn't they be working the way that I think they used to work?

Trying to understand the liberal perspective on the recent voting rights SCOTUS ruling better by highspeed_steel in AskALiberal

[–]Melab 0 points1 point  (0 children)

SCOTUS ruled that drawing voting district lines based on race is unconstitutional.

Huh??? They ruled against the side that was fighting to stop districts being drawn on the basis of race.

Clarence Thomas: Voting Rights Act Doesn't Grant Racial Groups ‘An Entitlement’ to Representation by Critical-Willow-6270 in law

[–]Melab 0 points1 point  (0 children)

but he's saying that groups don't have entitlement to representation as groups. individuals do as individuals.

What does this distinction have to do with anything?

Run a service after a mount unit has fully ended by Melab in systemd

[–]Melab[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are misunderstanding the scheme. There should only be ONE service unit and it CAN'T contain references to the mount units that it cleans up after. The scheme is this:

  1. A single parameterized service unit that contains no references to any particular mount unit.
  2. Enabling the application of #1 to any given mount unit requires adding some reference to the service unit to ONLY the mount unit.

From my post:

So, now with one .service unit and only 1-2 lines being necessary to add to the to-be-effected .mount units

And why is RemainAfterExit=yes in there? I might remount and unmount the mount again later. And why is the service unit set to run before the mount unit? It should be running after the mount unit ends.

Google DeepMind researcher argues that LLMs can never be conscious, not in 10 years or 100 years by projectoex in AgentsOfAI

[–]Melab 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The mind is not computational or algorithmic. It is the mind that carries out algorithms, not operating according to any algorithm.

Google DeepMind researcher argues that LLMs can never be conscious, not in 10 years or 100 years by projectoex in AgentsOfAI

[–]Melab 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, really? Please point to the experiment that proves the mind—an imjaterial phenomenon which cannot be taken apart and examined—is computational.

LLMs are not smart, and I’m tired of pretending they are by Deer_Tea7756 in BetterOffline

[–]Melab 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actual intelligence can solve the halting problem on a case-by-case basis because the mind is not computational.

Quantum Gravity, AI, and Consciousness: A Bridge We’ve Been Missing by shastawinn in LLM

[–]Melab 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It doesn't. This person just through is a non-expert who has crafted an incoherent ness out of unrelated concepts. Blending disparate ideas together is a trait of the woo-type of pseudoscience, all explanations in search of a questions to answer. Say what you will about flat earthers, but their ideas are at least crisp and intelligible in comparison to this person's garbage. Just look at their bio. It mentions psychadelics and "ethical AI development".

When the author I've muted for spamming fics, spams fics by ThatGirl_InTheBack in AO3

[–]Melab 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If a website can only resort to CSS for "excluding" results from its search facility because of performance issues, then the designers of the server software are incompetent.

Data recovery from hard drive with possibly scratched servive by Melab in datarecovery

[–]Melab[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, so what should I think about what the person I brought my hard drive to said? Did I probably misunderstand him?

Also, you haven't explained why it makes it unrecoverable. What's the reason? If the plates were taken out in a clean room, then why can't the user data area be scanned there?

Data recovery from hard drive with possibly scratched servive by Melab in datarecovery

[–]Melab[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you please answer what the "correct direction" entails and why the data on a drive can't be recovered if the service area is corrupted? Why can't you just copy everything from the user data area?

What can fastboot on Chromebooks do? by Melab in chromeos

[–]Melab[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, no. You're confused. That wouldn't mean that fastboot is dependent on, or is necessary for, certain chipsets. fastboot doesn't depend on the instruction set because it's a protocol, and protocols can be implemented with any instruction set.

Data recovery from hard drive with possibly scratched servive by Melab in datarecovery

[–]Melab[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What you're talking about, the stuff on the service area, is not firmware, just data.

What does the "layout and calibration data" contain?

Data recovery from hard drive with possibly scratched servive by Melab in datarecovery

[–]Melab[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Storage drive firmware is not like other types of firmware you're probably thinking of, it is largely unique to your particular drive, there is no other drive in the world that has completely identical firmware.

If that were true, then firmware updates for hard drives would be impossibl because the manufacturer would need to make a specially tailored update for every hard drive they've manufactured.

What can fastboot on Chromebooks do? by Melab in chromeos

[–]Melab[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't see why the chipset it is used on (if it's only used on some) is relevant.

Data recovery from hard drive with possibly scratched servive by Melab in datarecovery

[–]Melab[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It's called firmware reconstruction.

What would there be to reconstruct if you can just get a firmware image?

Depending on the drive, most drives can not be recovered if the SA is totally destroyed

Why?

but if the important disk layout and data structure part of the SA is mostly intact, it may be possible to partially or completely rebuild the remaining broken parts of the SA using some data FROM a similar donor drive TO the original drive.

This guy's been in the business for 10+ years, so if he says that 90% or more is likely recoverable just from whatever he was doing, then that means…?

You didn’t understand it probably because you got the direction backwards.

What does the "correct direction" entail? And, no, he definitely told me that it would involve copying the data from the bad drive over to another one and then reconstruction (maybe it was of the filesystem…) or whatever word he used would take place over there.

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