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There are too many variables to give you a direct answer for measuring lifespan, but as you suspect, degraded performance is an indicator of failure.

If this is a USB disk drive (and not a "stick"), Smartmontools is your friend and there should be a package for your distro.

If it is a stick, you're much more limited and testing, such as it is, is data destructive. https://superuser.com/a/376278

To maximize life of solid state media, reducing the number of writes is key. Here's an article to get you started with the basics, but do look into the implications of changes to some of these before jumping.

Looking at the very short script that powers the site, adding additional search engines is trivial (though at some point will make refactoring obligatory).

If that's the assertion you think I made, we're not speaking the same language. Of course we're rightly upset. But this article should have been more than mere ragebait.

I'm taking issue with the article itself and that it doesn't reach the right conclusion (or really any conclusion). With the notion that it's ok at all for the government to be in a position where the whim of a shitbird, wannabe dictator toward a private person needs to be tempered against their business interests.

In a way, Trump is right (for the wrong reasons of course) that these contracts should be reviewed. It's utterly unacceptable to be backed into a "too big to fail" corner with a single company, especially when it comes to national security.

I'm disappointed that an article from Mother Jones didn't rail against this obvious and glaring issue with plutocracy/oligarchy: what the hell happens when the the next bromance dies and there aren't any sanity checks left? Instead, because it's missing, the article effectively further entrenches the notion that privatization of every aspect of government is right and good.

But it’s the review itself, that it happened at all, that should cause considerable alarm, even if it involves an unsympathetic character such as Elon Musk.

Why should it cause alarm? It's just more of the same trashing of whatever catches their eye at a given moment as everything else has been.

Because it's revenge? Like Trump hasn't done a hundred things like cancelling federal contracts for projects out of spite already?

No, we're well past this pearl clutching already.

If anything, this should be a wakeup call to Americans about the dangers of being too reliant on private companies for public needs.

I thought so too until I recently inherited some asp.net code that defies basic comprehension and has existed since well before vibe coding.

Fucking embarrassing.

Sharpie Mustache once you get it dialed in for your personal taste. Note that Bonal and Meletti are very hard to sub out without major changes to the recipe. But if you're out of oranges, I do a spritz or rinse with Bigallet China China, or even orange bitters.

On that note, I'll make a batch of paper plane, or boulevardier, or negroni, or daiquiri, or maitai too. Sometimes I'll do a batch of negroni or boulevardier upside-down if I need to be coherent later.

But don't listen to intoxicated self later: you don't need to finish the batch in one sitting. They'll last just fine overnight.

Totally fair. I think instead of disagreeing, a "yes and" approach is necessary. My point here is that OP doesn't really seem to understand the existing mechanics behind especially redistricting, unless this is state specific.

Federal redistricting is controlled by each state independently, and federal election law regulating it will be thrown out by courts everywhere.

Apportionment (calculation of the number of seats allotted to each state) was set in stone by Congress almost 100 years ago, and now means Wyoming has a helluva lot more say per person than CA.

Unless the radical approach is to redraw state boundaries (or e.g. admit Puerto Rico as a state), there isn't a lot that's both functionally possible and more radical than changing the make up of Congress to make voting power per citizen more equal.

I can appreciate the sentiment here, but we need to ground this a bit.

For example: Federal redistricting -> reapportionment. We're a completely different country than when "permanent apportionment" was established nearly 100 years ago. The numbers need to be reasonably weighted for population because "equal representation" is enshrined in our collective conscience.

Seems on brand. Like they want people deported so they can go on missionary trips to accost them in their home countries with the love of Jesus.

I assume they haven't seen the rundown on the math that gets people rounded up as "alleged" gang members.

The copium is strong right now and that's major/"legacy" media's fault.

We're irrevocably dependent on plastic (in the near term), so if there's an eco-friendly (not fossil fuel) path, I can be ok with it.