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Yeah but workers are disposable parts of the profit machine.

that also gets used when no swap file was set up.

The swap file or pagefile is automatically set up in Windows 10/11. You have to do something manually to prevent it.

I agree that adding more RAM won’t necessarily make the problem go away as windows might still swap the game out if it deems it more important to cache more files in RAM, but I don’t see why that would make it worse.

By making the swap file larger, which may be an issue if the hard drive doesn't have enough space left, and if not it will still increase the amount of time needed to recover data from the swap, because it's larger.

QR codes are just symbols in a camera readible way and barcodes numbers in a camara readible way.
A storage medium for 0´s & 1´s like a USB stick or a disc but way less storage.

Yes, a QR code is a representation of digital data. There are different versions which can represent different amounts of data. The represented data can be anything that you want, as long as the scanning device can interpret that data as something useful.

They dont add any security,

An RFID tag holding a blockchain token string also does not add any security, it's just a different thing holding an alphanumeric value. They could just use RFID tags without the blockchain, the result would be the same.

But my point is mostly that this is already an entirely solved problem, you don't need very many bits to store a useful unique ID code, you certainly don't need a blockchain-token-value amount of bits, and a printed paper tag is cheaper, easier to manufacture, and less environmentally impactful than a microchip.

Sure but this still requires going through the reinstallation process, compared to just plugging an NVMe drive into a PCIe adapter and sticking it into an unused slot - done in 5 minutes. Plus maybe another 5 minutes to configure Windows Virtual Memory to only use that drive.

Barcodes and QR codes do not have enough information for unique identification. (Well they could but they start getting bigger and bigger)

This is not really true. A 16-digit decimal code gives you 10 quadrillion unique numbers. FedEx handled ~3 billion packages in 2024, so at that rate it would take them more than 3 million years to use up the ID space. You don't need ridiculously long strings for useful package ID codes.

If you stored the 16 digits as ASCII characters (7 bits each) it would be all of 112 bits of data. The Micro QR format is more than enough to represent that data, with room to spare for error correction. If you used alphanumeric instead of decimal you'd have 62^16 unique IDs (UC + LC + 0-9), still only 16 ASCII characters (112 bits), and at that point you're more worried about the sun burning out than you are about running out of package ID codes.

But the real issue is needing these codes tracked and audited in a public manner. Instead of having a third party company trusted with all the cheese, you use a Blockchain with a public ledger. This doesn't even require much processing power since there's no incentive to mine as many blocks as possible.

If you want the tracking to be useful, then every time a package passes through a handling station the ID needs to be scanned and the ledger updated indicating the transfer of the package ID from one station to the other. Then every node on the blockchain network needs to update their copy of the ledger with the new transaction data. Never mind mining, if you're handling millions of packages per day then updating the ledger will create a stupid amount of network traffic and just eat processing power. Also, correcting any errors that get written into the ledger due to some handling failure will be extremely difficult if not impossible.

Without mining, what incentive would there be for anyone besides the actual shipping company to host a blockchain node for this? How would it not still be "a third party company trusted with all the cheese"?

using blockchains to track the movement of goods, like from ports or for cheese, is probably their only non-BS use case other than volatile currencies

We already do this with barcodes and QR codes, which you can just make with a printer.

The uber wealthy have set the conditions for conflict based entirely upon greed.

Same as it ever was...

Palestine has been in perpetual war for sovreignty since the end of WWII.

Yup. Even longer, actually: Timeline of intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine

1881

The first wave of Jews arrive in Ottoman Syria in the First Aliyah after Zionism itself began some time in the 1850s

Eventually leading to the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and ongoing conflict

Basically the violence has been constant, with occasional breaks to reload.

The Pax Americana is probably responsible for the relative stability of the '90s and '00s - there was still violence, car bombings and rocket attacks &etc, but not open warfare. That's obviously ending now.

My guess is that the period without warfare allowed Palestine to develop some economic stability and power of its own, which Israel perceived as a long-term threat. Combine that fear with greed and expansionism and you get the current attempt to erase Palestine.

This is the correct answer and the function is called Virtual Memory in Windows but is commonly known as the pagefile or swap. Adding more RAM won't save you from this, as Windows will automatically move memory files into virtual memory if they're idle for awhile, regardless of how much RAM is currently in use. In fact adding more RAM will probably increase the size of the virtual memory which may make the problem worse for you.

Here is a more complete explanation: Swap file in Windows 10 & Windows 11: How to use it to optimize PC performance (increase, adjust, deactivate swap)?

The pagefile is configurable. You can change which hard drive it gets stored on, how big it can be, and even turn it off completely. Turning it off has risks though, and may lead to system crashes (see the warnings in the article).

You could add an SSD specifically to serve as a pagefile location and nothing else, in which case you could just get a small cheap one (a 32GB SSD would be more than enough for 16GB of RAM) - assuming that you have a place to plug it in to your motherboard, and then turn off the pagefile storage on all other drives in your system. That would be an easy change as you wouldn't have to reinstall Windows onto a new hard drive.

Ultimately though, the easiest and cheapest fix is to just change your behavior - close the game if you're not using it for awhile and relaunch it when you want to play again.

So, wait... cold beans in the tank, then game session for awhile, then take a break and have a properly cooked snack?

The "visuals" from The Last Jedi:

I'm not sure what most people were expecting

People were expecting the game that was promised in all the lead-up marketing.

CD Projekt has been building up expectations, previewing intriguing scenes and customizations that never came to pass.

It went to promise real-time AI that would grant over a thousand NPCs a variety of roles and actions that, complete with a day/night cycle, was designed to change up their routines. But as fans began playing, they quickly discovered this wasn't true.

Then, there are the gameplay and AI issues that hinder the experience. A game like Cyberpunk 2077 runs on crime, and CD Projekt promised realistic interactions with the police. One would fully expect officers to come running if a crime was committed out in the open with witnesses, or even in a remote alleyway. Sadly, there is nothing realistic about a bunch of cops spawning unexpectedly around the player with guns firing -- especially if no one even witnessed the crime.

Basically all of the marketing turned out to be lies and the game that CDPR promised never existed.

"Masterpiece" is a real stretch

Be sure to watch part 2 where they show pedestrian & vehicle pathing.

By the phone company.

Ah the ol'bait'n'switch, a classic.

Hey, it's been awhile, it's gotta be done by now!

Did they finally add all the features they advertised?

Heh, that won't stop a C-level from thinking that you just write code.

The nuke plant is, of course, Historic Chernobyl No. 4, now a war memorial.

https://www.metacritic.com/movie/listening/

I come from someplace far away...

Sam doesn't deserve this

Yeah I put a screen protector on mine right away. It's a portable device.

The combination of the etched screen and an etched screen protector definitely hurts the sharpness - I would've been better off with the standard glossy screen.