Of course physical media as a whole is still way down. Streaming outearns physical by a lot. All physical media is less than half what just blu ray was 10 years ago.
But why do I have to run the scan? Why doesn't it run automatically in the background. What happened that lead to whatever it's fixing... is the telemetry working???
I also find it amazing when the windows store manages to end up broken and need to be reinstalled... Why doesn't it fix itself? And what with all the signature verification stuff, why doesn't whatever is corrupting the files not fail the signature check.
Windows power users are sometimes their own worst enemy.
The top cause of broken Windows Update or Windows Stores is in my experience people either running malware as part of pirating stuff (it's not zero-daying their browser), which then nukes the background services needed for Windows Store/Update to work. Or they deliberately run scripts that stop Windows updating because they find it annoying not realizing that they corrupted their system by doing so. Or they do other things that break Windows like changing the permissions on c:\Program Files\WindowsApps which is meant to be private and managed only by the OS, but power users hate that idea so they mess with it and then things break.
Windows shouldn't allow itself to be reconfigured in ways that let users deliberately break it, but ultimately it's just software and can't stop users fucking with its internals if they try hard enough.
On macOS things are much better. Apple transitioned to immutable system images and de-powered the root user a long time ago. They also managed to create a culture where even power users recognize that SIP is good for security and don't turn it off so there's way less of a culture of random hacks. Their security is way better as a whole so there's less malware and it's less invasive. And their OS engineers are just better so they don't tend to ship updates that botch stuff like Microsoft do.
Easy example: disable the Windows license check background service, and the Security app no longer opens. There's no error message, just nothing happens at all when you click it. Why does Microsoft allow users to do this? Well the whole OS is just in maintenance mode due to tech debt bankruptcy so fixing anything has become nearly impossible, let alone the kinds of huge moves Apple has made.
Since Server 2012, some parts of server manager crash if you don't have your keyboard set to a qwerty layout. The bug is still there in later Server versions too.
nanoseconds is just common sub-second unit that is used. notably it is used internally in linux kernel and exposed via clock_gettime (and related functions) via timespec struct
it is convenient unit because 10^9 fits neatly into 32 bit integer, and it is unlikely that anyone would need more precision than that for any general purpose use.
NAT traversal not needed. Just need to deal with firewalls. So that's one fewer thing to think about when doing peer-to-peer file sharing over the internet.
No. Here's a simple strategy: the two peers send each other a few packets simultaneously, then the firewall will open because by default almost all firewalls allow response traffic. IPv6 simplifies things because you know exactly what address to send to.
My best guess is that the edges are oriented such that at the tested frequencies they cause constructive interference inside the antenna therefore boosting the signal. The orientation is weird because that's probably the best way to make it work in all directions, if the edges were in a flat plane, the constructive interference would only work in a single direction.
I mean sure, but how do you figure out what directions and angles to bend it in? I don't know much about signals and radio and stuff, but it feels to me like this could only be achieved through trial and error until the ideal was found, which is what evolutionary arguments are designed for.
From what I can tell senate confirmation means nothing. They ask a bunch of questions to grill them but the answers do not matter, they get confirmed anyway so it's all show to me.
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