[U-3C]

Update, the HDD in my old laptop is actually a Hitachi one.

+1 for Hitachi it is.

Still, its really more of luck than anything else. Grab one from a good brand that's affordable, with warrenty and all that stuff from a non-sketchy place and back up anything important regularly just in case.

That's pretty much it.

 

[deadlylover]

Still, is really more of luck than anything else. Grab one from a good brand that's affordable, with warrenty and all that stuff and back up anything important regularly just in case.

Yep totally agree, best to treat them like consumables because it's only a matter of time until they fail.

Hmmm not following too much this season, just Fate and Made in Abyss.

 

[vantt1]

Bingo, I see you're well versed on dodgy eBay sellers.

My favourite is when they put the item location in Darwin to make you think it's normal for the item to take a while to arrive, but they drop ship it from Hong Kong instead...

Ah, classic. that way if you search for items in "Australia only" it will show up.

Psy-Phi (canceled Sega arcade game) - Sci-Fi
Psycho-Pass - Psychopath

Any more examples?

Yui's guitar "Giita" = guitar
Mio's bass "Elizabeth" = "Elizabass"

+1 for Seagate. My Momentus is doing just fine after 5 years.
+1 for WD. My brother's WD drive is still in 1 piece after 6 years.

H8ers gonna h8.

 

[miceblue]

Wow, that was on Antique Roadshow? Impressive. I didn't know modern pieces were featured on that show.

 

[214324]

If we're talking reliability, enterprise/AV (the surveillance drives) > mobile > desktop drives. NAS drives...I'm not quite sure how they fit into the mix.

 

[castleofargh]

the obvious thing to do is to wait a few years and see how good a model is, but by the time we know, it's probably not sold anymore :/
I'm guessing hard drives like almost everything else must have a high rate of failure in the beginning and things get better after that. but would short term stats show a correlation with how long a model of drive lasts on average?
the drives on my laptop say they had almost 3.5 years of run time(old laptop master race). I've killed 2 external drives in the time I've had this laptop, so now I have back ups of back ups.

do you guys give fancy names to your drives? right now my photo back ups are called Bigly, Fake and Sad. I have the best names. music backups are always called Fumoffu, Fumo, or simply FU(I got 2 ooh ooh letters for you).
I'm such a rebel, I swear in places I'm the only one to see and the meaning is actually for the anime. nameception.

 

[vantt1]

Wow, that was on Antique Roadshow? Impressive. I didn't know modern pieces were featured on that show.

Spoiler: It's from a series of parody images

 

[U-3C]

Read about this game/simulation before in many places in various forms, but this is the first one that presented it so well IMO.

http://ncase.me/trust/

 

[akiroz]

ok..... how the hell is this high school maths? what high school teaches convergence of infinite tetration??? Is this a Japanese thing?

I had to look up on math.stackexchange to know that if x^x^x..... = a then x^a = a.

... and I don't event know why! (?_?)
can someone explain in laymen terms why if an infinite tetration converges then x^a = a?

 

[214324]

It's a bit like wordplay (which isn't surprising since Kakegurui itself is wordplay and likes to use it here and there).

So we start off with the 2 givens; x^x^x... = 2 and x^2 = ?

So lets do this:

y = x^x^x...

Take off the first x, put the rest in parentheses;

y = x^(x^x^x^x^x...)

Looks pretty familiar right.

So if y is equal to an infinite exponentiation of x to the x, then you can rewrite the equation as:

y = x^y

It's important to remember that infinite series are in fact infinite. Taking 1 entry off does absolutely nothing. Is it high school algebra? Unlikely since they don't really teach infinite series as far as I remember in algebra (there is limits to infinity and infinite limits for polynomial functions but that's the closest I've seen) but maybe in Asian countries its more normal. It's kind of this weird nuance probably nobody will think about as far as infinite limits go.

There's some limits as to what numbers will fit that.

https://math.stackexchange.com/ques...itself-infinite-number-of-times/661632#661632

Where I found the answer: http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/70270.html

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetration#Extension_to_infinite_heights

Tetration can be extended to infinite heights[8] (n in

). This is because for bases within a certain interval, tetration converges to a finite value as the height tends to infinity. For example,

converges to 2, and can therefore be said to be equal to 2. The trend towards 2 can be seen by evaluating a small finite tower:

That being said, the answer in that translation is wrong. It should be root 2.

 

[castleofargh]

internet!

 

[akiroz]

It's a bit like wordplay (which isn't surprising since Kakegurui itself is wordplay and likes to use it here and there).

So we start off with the 2 givens; x^x^x... = 2 and x^2 = ?

So lets do this:

y = x^x^x...

Take off the first x, put the rest in parentheses;

y = x^(x^x^x^x^x...)

Looks pretty familiar right.

So if y is equal to an infinite exponentiation of x to the x, then you can rewrite the equation as:

y = x^y

It's important to remember that infinite series are in fact infinite. Taking 1 entry off does absolutely nothing. Is it high school algebra? Unlikely since they don't really teach infinite series as far as I remember in algebra (there is limits to infinity and infinite limits for polynomial functions but that's the closest I've seen) but maybe in Asian countries its more normal. It's kind of this weird nuance probably nobody will think about as far as infinite limits go.

There's some limits as to what numbers will fit that.

https://math.stackexchange.com/ques...itself-infinite-number-of-times/661632#661632

Where I found the answer: http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/70270.html

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetration#Extension_to_infinite_heights



That being said, the answer in that translation is wrong. It should be root 2.

Doh.... that's really simple, thanks haiby-sensei!

The TL is in fact correct, you don't solve for "x" but for "?" in that question.

I use infinite data-structures every day in programming and I couldn't see it at all... shame on me, must commit sudoku.

 

[U-3C]

ok..... how the hell is this high school maths? what high school teaches convergence of infinite tetration??? Is this a Japanese thing?

I had to look up on math.stackexchange to know that if x^x^x..... = a then x^a = a.

... and I don't event know why! (?_?)
can someone explain in laymen terms why if an infinite tetration converges then x^a = a?

Well I learnt limits and basic calculus when I was in elementary school. Was quite surprised how many people can't do algebra when they first started grade 7 here in Canada, but over time I understood why. Just different priorities.

 

[214324]

Doh.... that's really simple, thanks haiby-sensei!

The TL is in fact correct, you don't solve for "x" but for "?" in that question.

I use infinite data-structures every day in programming and I couldn't see it at all... shame on me, must commit sudoku.

Ahh I see.

Things that happen when you always solve for variables like x instead of question marks nowadays.

 

[miceblue]

Where's @Tilpo when you need 'em?


RX Vega is finally announced!
http://www.anandtech.com/show/11680...rx-vega-64-399-rx-vega-56-launching-in-august

RX Vega 56 looks to be at the GTX 1070 price, whereas Vega 64 is aimed at the GTX 1080.