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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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Post title at limit, but meant to be peak tactile feedback in computer storage.

The space saved from being thin made it bad for looking up and finding a specific disk within a stack, tho, as it couldn't fit an end label

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[–] TedZanzibar@feddit.uk 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

R-R-R-R-R-(sigh)-A

I don't even remember what (F)ail did

[–] TedZanzibar@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I was wondering the same thing. Didn't Abort just cancel trying to read that sector, while Fail would cancel the entire operation?

Nope, I looked it up. Abort would completely abort the whole thing, while Fail was supposed to return an error code to the program so that it could decide what to do next. Like Ignore but less crashy.

Thanks for that. All I could remember was that pressing F just meant that I had to press A anyway so I just pressed A.