Verat

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[–] Verat 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It is more for heat treatment of the metal after forming it, or for coatings that require it.

[–] Verat 7 points 2 months ago

But they did just do this.

[–] Verat 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

To be fair powershell is more recent and windows has always used the control panel for most configuration, they are kind of rug pulling everyone who learned to use it and there arent clear terminal alternatives, for instance, how do I calibrate a game controller's axis with the terminal?

[–] Verat 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This isnt even the only iron battery chemistry! The one in the article is Iron-air but you can also do Iron-Iron

[–] Verat 1 points 3 months ago

Oh, didnt know that was posted, some of the tests seem to be different from last time, it hasnt regressed but hasnt improved much yet either (from the ones that were the same). It does seem to have pulled ahead of BTRFS since the last test, doubling score in the DBench test, but it still varies a lot compared to the other filesystems it seems, doing worse pretty regularly.

[–] Verat 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

That's fair, it has changed a bit since then and I'm hoping we get another filesystem benchmark to see if it has improved, and the caching features might offset that on frequently used data, but I don't know how hard that would be to benchmark.

[–] Verat 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

In my use it has been pretty stable so far with 7 disks participating (3 caching SSDs, 4 mechanical disks, with 3 copies of metadata and 2 of data), but I'm not using the more experimental features like erasure coding, I will note the on-disk-format has changed twice since it has been in the kernel, and it hasnt been there long, but it has succeeded both on-disk-format upgrades without obvious data loss, and it recently got self healing for some checksum errors, Id say its probably ready for use if the data is backed up, replaceable, or can be gone without (so for me games are all I have that fits this). Otherwise I would use caution if you use it, but I am very optimistic about the future of the FS, as Kent Overstreet (the creator) has taken a lot of care with it.

[–] Verat 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

I use bcachefs for my games, I like that it lets me have multiple disks with redundant data copies, plus ssd caching of frequently accessed files, this fs is linux specific for now as far as I know, and is still experimental. I use ext4 for everything else, and FAT32 for flash drives.

[–] Verat 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I envision it like AT&T's break-up, where the singular Google is broken up into regional companies that will (hopefully) have to compete with each other.

[–] Verat 50 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

The US Army used to teach shooting similarly to that, minus the hand in the pocket of course.

[–] Verat 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Verat 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The metals are forming a Galvanic cell with the salt water as an electrolyte, the section of the linked article labeled Galvanic corrosion mentions the splitting off of hydrogen in salt water. There is no membrane so electricity just goes through the conductive salt water. The exact voltage depends on which two metals were involved, this page has a table of the voltages in sea water (in mV)

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