If you don’t actually need the swap, Linux isn’t going to make use of swap.

Eh, yes and no.

It will offload things from RAM into swap in order free up RAM space for disk cache. Which is kind of a weird reversal when you think about it, loading your RAM contents onto disk so that you can load your disk contents onto RAM. But by doing this to idle processes in order to disk cache files you’re likely to use soon, the system does become significantly faster and more responsive.

Yep. That’s why it can be nice to just have like an old 1TB drive completely used for swap. Things might get slow once it exceeds your physical memory, but at least it will eventually finish successfully – no out of memory crashes here!

Yes, swap partitions are shit.

The real hotness is swap drives.

Just the use that your old 64GB SSDs were waiting for!

(Fun fact: in Linux, if you have multiple swap partitions mounted, the kernel will automatically use striping (like RAID) in order to read and write from them as fast as possible. If you have multiple small SSDs used for swap, the read/write speed from swap can actually become pretty fast.)

Who do you think even cares?

Golf ball size seems doable, for someone who’s been practicing.

Exactly!

Religion.

You don’t already have automatic backups?

Any drive can fail at any time. Eventually, every drive will fail. If you’re not prepared for that, you deserve to lose your data.

Skip a step and have your agent reject the PR for you.

Repeat after me: “Rejected. Reason: too large of a change for one PR.”

Easy: just lie about your experience.

And electricians don’t have to interact with human feces nearly as often.

The trades pay very well and are in high demand.

But you’ll pay for it with crippling back pain at 45. Maybe some nice cancer as a bonus, from all the exposure to weird chemicals. Oh, and 90% of your coworkers racist, sexist, homophobic MAGA-heads who’ll make sure you hear about it at every opportunity.

The trades can still be good, but go into it with eyes open. It’s no paradise.

Depicted is the side view of tracks and a train wheel in the middle of construction

I think the art here is the issue.

It’s (ironically enough) way out of scale. In this drawing, the rail is over twice as tall as a railroad tie is thick. In a real railroad, that should be reversed – a rail is approximately half as tall as the thickness of a railroad tie.

And are they going to be charging you for it without your consent?

What happens when you’re taking a vacation for a week? You’ll come home to find 7 cold, decomposing burritos on your doorstep and $300 deducted from your bank account.

Honestly, yeah… Might end up being quite a mess, really.

• Wiemar Germany was never going to be a stable, peaceful, long-lasting country. With economic issues and resent for the treaties enforced on them after the end of WWI, it was a mess and a huge source of potential issues. Something awful was sure to come out of it sooner or later.

• Without the example of Nazi Germany to be against, the rest of the world might not have united against fascism as much, leading to the more prominent rise of fascism in other places.

• Without (European*) WWII, Europe might never have become as united as it is now. Post-WWII was kind of the tipping point where the major European powers finally decided that going to war with each other was unacceptable and unthinkable. And uniting together to fight the Nazis solidified alliances and feelings of mutual support between a lot of European countries. Without that, who knows – we might have ended up having several more major European wars.

• And then there’s the technological impact. Obviously, Hitler himself wasn’t directly involved in developing these important new technologies, but would they have been developed as soon or at all if it wasn’t for Nazi Germany, their war effort, and the Allies’ counter-effort? Jet aircraft, rocketry, radar, computers, nuclear power/weapons … much of the development of those was either greatly accelerated by the Nazis or greatly accelerated by the Allies in their attempt to keep up with and defeat the Nazis. Who knows what the course of development for technologies like those might look like if WWII hadn’t happened.

*WWII in the Pacific with Japan probably would have happened much the same, regardless of whether Hitler was alive or not. Though in that case, it might not be called a ‘world’ war anymore. Maybe the ‘War of Japan’ or ‘Pacific War’ or something.

I should write this screenplay…

Skill issue.

Definitely F Minor.

Of course they don’t know what it means.

Next, ask them to define what ‘woke’ is.