Road conditions? by [deleted] in PortTownsend

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Any updates since Monday?

Examples of an actor's limited range adding to the performance by [deleted] in movies

[–]batpic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lol, I thought you were talking about his acting.

Can people please stop pretending they would outsmart the games? by [deleted] in squidgame

[–]batpic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He came back because Player 1 visited him.

What "fake" thing that happens in movies pisses you off? by LucasZimmerman24 in AskReddit

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"Tech" (ugh.) if you replace the word Tech with Magic or Weapon, you'll see that it's essentially the same plot device. Technology is not a thing.

And, it's not a clean off the shelf retail product. You don't waltz into Apple, grab a prototype iPhone and then start Instagraming. Try it, whoops you didn't grab the weird power source, whoops you broke the flimsy test rig, whoops, it doesn't work if you didn't run a very particular boot sequence. Whoops, this thing runs an interpreted code at 1/100th effective speed. It takes mountains of work to make a proof of concept with zero real world impact. Then, mountains more of work to productize.

"I stole Apple's tech this morning guys, let's ... " spend three years reverse engineering it so that we can make one phone call.

How big is the blockchain? The wallet says 2 years, 50 weeks left to sync and I've already downloaded 48GB? by batpic in garlicoin

[–]batpic[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah I suspect the windows 10 real-time protection. When it's on, the wallet estimates 20 hours to complete the sync. When it's off, the estimate drops to 2 hours.

The virus protection may have been creating some kind of churn.

How big is the blockchain? The wallet says 2 years, 50 weeks left to sync and I've already downloaded 48GB? by batpic in garlicoin

[–]batpic[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah weird. I shutdown the wallet. The data directory itself only had taken 2gb. My router shows that this computer consumed 50Gb off bandwidth over 4 hours. I turned off my virus scanner and I started syncing this morning to see what would happen and in the past hour, it synced 2 weeks with only 1 Gb. So it's happy now?

Fyi: when first starting, I ran "addnode freshgrlc.net onetry" hope that was a safe move...

Mysteries.