athos77

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Seeds fall off quickly on public trackers and the people who do long-term seeding on publics tend to end up seeding larger libraries. So you'll often be the one person in the world seeding a large number of torrents. Multiple leeches is only a theoretical help because when it finally seeds out, half the people quit immediately, some hang around to seed to the last leechers, and a couple hang around for a week or two before feeling they've done their due diligence and signing off. Things are quiet on that torrent for a month or so, and then a new leech shows up and the whole thing repeats again. It's why I stopped seeding on publics: it's extremely demoralizing to finally get copies of something out to the dozen or so people who have accumulated, only for every one of them to fuck off right after they finish.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

If he's the single seed left on a torrent, chances are he's the last seed on a bunch of other torrents as well, and his bandwidth is being choked by everyone who wants his stuff.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

ketchup on hotdogs is good actually

For me it depends on the wrapping, and I honestly don't know why. But if the [bun / bread] is toasted, then it has to be mustard. If it's not toasted, then it has to be ketchup. If it's steamed, then mustard and sauerkraut. And again, I have no idea why.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

You sit in /new to get your comments in early enough to be read and collect karma.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago

New Mexico State University (NMSU) recently announced the impending closure of its Hobbes OS/2 Archive on April 15, 2024.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There was some guy back in the day who was stating in all seriousness, that Texas was more hurt by the 9/11 attacks than New York was.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

2am, when the bars close and all the drunk people need a ride home and half the drivers are home asleep? No, I have no idea why there might be surge pricing at 2am ....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Why would they?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (4 children)

The only reason it's being reported is because of the other Boeing incident. And if they were trying to be accurate, the headline would've read "Nose wheel falls off Delta airplane waiting for takeoff". It's clickbait.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 9 months ago (25 children)

Clickbait. The FAA lists the plane number as N672DL and a quick flight registry check says that plane was made in 1992. This is a maintenance issue with Delta.

[–] [email protected] 192 points 10 months ago (4 children)

To be fair, this data doesn’t adjust for the age of the vehicles. Older gas-powered cars fail at a higher rate than the new ones and electric vehicles are obviously much more recent on average.

Duh.

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