It depends on the exact nature of the failure. Controller errors are usually a complete failure. Media failure (magnetic spots on the disk or failed cells in ssd) are often sporadic and only impact data stored in those spots.
Regardless, drives rarely give you any warning. Look at any warning as a gift and get everything off and replace it ASAP.
Maybe he believed it, maybe not.
My take is that Bush was trying to sell the WMD bullshit so hard he wouldn’t be above telling allies that he could make flying monkeys shoot out of his ass if he thought that it would get him any support for his war to enrich defense contractors.
Use find instead.
The test is negative. Sorry honey, you’re not pregnant. You’re just fat.
Knock off version of the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile for guys with little weiners.
What do you think will be the first fast food franchise on Mars?
My guess is Subway. Don’t need to cook anything and all of the ingredients already have enough preservatives to make the journey.
I’m jealous. We haven’t had an actual computer store around here since Compusa went under decades ago.
For commodity online services, you are lucky that people even give you their email address. The number of people who provide anything more is extremely low. OP is freaking out that they are emailing. If they called him on the phone, he would lose his shit.
The terms of service explicitly state that any communications and legal notices about the services will be delivered via the email address that must be verified at sign up. It is not unreasonable to ask customers to provide a valid way to send them service related messages.
Google isn’t going to call you or send you old-school paper mail when they discontinue a service. Even if they did, 99% of people would think that it was a scam.
All that being said, we will always scream test things like EOL of a service just to catch anyone who missed the communications.
Snickers - With all of these other problems, you’ll barely notice the diabetes.
Not sarcastic. I work for a provider, and we warn people of service changes a bunch of times over a period of months.
Despite this, you will still get a bunch of people complaining that they were never told, we surprised them with it at the last minute, etc.
A change that deletes customer data brings in legal as well. If one of these people tries to sue for losing their data you want to be able to show that you provided plenty of notice and warning.
Companies will often “scream test” a data loss change. Meaning you turn it off, but don’t really delete right away to see who screams that their data is gone. Anyone screaming gets some short time period to recover the data.
Chinese cakes, desserts, etc use less sugar and are generally more bland than western recipes. It is a matter of different cultures having different tastes.
But it is likely un-maintainable
Pouring gas on every spark of unrest is too easy nowadays. People believe any random social media post as truth and reject professional news.
The cost and resources to troll social media is next to nothing. You don’t need to be a nation state.
I am sure that every country or group who wants to see unrest in western countries is in on this.
Miatas are born with baby teeth.
We have a lot of reinforced concrete coastal fortifications built during WWII that have been destroyed due to storms. The storms wash away the land around them, the foundation collapses, and the structure breaks.
Any American who lives in Hurricane prone areas can’t comprehend this lasting for more than a decade at best before it is washed away clean.
You acting to defend vitamin claims actually proves my point.
The word “essential” is chosen to lead you subconscious through the path of if we know that humans need vitamins to survive, and this snake oil has vitamins, then humans must need this exact product to survive.
This is meant to implant a suggestion and not stand up to scientific scrutiny.
When product marketing calls out stuff like “essential vitamins” it is technically true, but it is generally a horrible and/or unnecessary source compared to just eating normal foods.
Marketing psychology.
Not really about whatever they are saying, it’s a way to drop the subliminal suggestion that there’s something “good for you” in there or that it has something competitors don’t. They often include the word “essential” when talking about vitamins to add the suggestion that you somehow have to have this thing.
Just like saying “all natural”. Dog shit and cyanide are all natural, but despite logic, most the people at some level absorb the suggestion that the product is somehow wholesome or healthy.
It really depends on where the office is in relation to your home.
Before covid and going WFH, the office was only 5 miles away on roads with no traffic. I would go back to this, no problem. Just enough to keep you on a schedule and get out of the house.
The biggest benefit of an office is that when you leave, you are gone until tomorrow.
When everyone is WFH, you never completely leave the office. I know boundaries, but in many cases, the lines can get a bit fuzzy.