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I can see how "touch base" is worse in a sense as it can be taken in all kinds of undesirable ways, but for me it translates to "don't take me seriously whatever you do" whilst "reach out" comes out as "I deserve to die for reasons that you cannot begin to count."
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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I've had people tell me "I'll ping you tomorrow..", oi! that was cringe worthy. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Been getting inundated with ads from wish.com, so I thought I would give them a chance. Ordered a 1.0TB micro SD ($6.00!) just to see what would happen. Took about two weeks (as advertised), and I put it in my test machine (no internet access and Windows 7 VM) and by golly! it actually worked!
Running stress and read/write tests now but it may actually be useful. Now I have to see if my tablet (and/or phone) can use a 1TB SD card
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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Sounds like you could fit an awful lot of eggs in that basket.
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Well, my Samsung S9+ specs say that it can only support 400GB SD card, so maybe my tablet can use all of it 
But the testing so far looks good.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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Once in a while I see a camera or something that says it supports "up tp 32GB" (or whatever)… why is there a maximum? Shouldn't it use whatever I give it?
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If you're lucky, the constraint only reflects the maximum size available when they developed the camera, and it will work with larger capacities.
If not, that's a hard limit imposed by their implementation of the file system.
Software Zen: delete this;
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A 1TB SD for $6? 
I'm an untrusting soul, so I'd suspect the offer myself - last time I didn't, I got a uSD that reported as 32GB, but which only had 1GB. Formatted OK, worked OK - until you exceeded 1GB at which point it started overwriting and corrupting everything.
That's too cheap: if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That's what I thought, so I have been running speed, stress and read/write tests on it for the past couple of hours - passed everything without problems.
I will let the tests run all night to see what happens....
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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I tend to agree with Griff on this.
I think the real test would be to try copying say, 500 gigs of data and see if it writes successfully (and if you could read it on another device).
modified 8-Jan-19 0:36am.
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That's the one!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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stoneyowl2 wrote: Been getting inundated with ads from wish.com, so I thought I would give them a chance.
Encouraging spammers?
Go and stand in the corner.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Okay, but I won't wear no stinkin' dunce cap 
Besides, while it IS spam, I actually got what I ordered, and it meets the promises made.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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stoneyowl2 wrote: I won't wear no stinkin' dunce cap
It's D for Developer. Now put it on.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A few years ago, when 64GB USB sticks were still considered unbelievably large, the company I worked for ordered a bunch of them from China for 1$ each with our company logo for some trade show.
They held our marketing data just fine, but as soon as you tried to copy more than maybe 16GB, every one of them failed.
Try to fill and read back that MicroSD card.
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So where can I get hold of a few dozen of those?
I bought myself a new car, and didn't think much of the radio - the cheapest model would be good enough. No CD player. It could play music files from a USB stick, that's enough.
So I went on vacation in my new car, with 2000+ sound files in a nice structured file tree, discovering that when I plugged in the USB stick, it would start playing track 1, then track 2, ... the entire file tre rolled out as one flat set of sound files. I can skip to the next track or go back to the previous one, but there is no way to go to the next artist (directory) or album (subdirectory). I cannot even go to track 1537, except by pressing "Next track" 1536 times.
So for next summer vacation, I need maybe a hundred USB stick, each holding one album. (Maybe I could even put two or three albums of the same artist on one stick.) I can buy 32 GB stick at $5 a piece, but I don't want to spend more money to get the music out to the car than I paid for the CDs originally!
If anyone comes across a surplus box of, say, 256 USB sticks of 512 Mbyte each, I'm interested!
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Member 7989122 wrote: So where can I get hold of a few dozen of those?
The trash can the remaining lot went in. 
I'm not the one who got rid of them, unfortunately. I would still have found a use for them, such as bootable Windows/Linux ISOs. Instead a few years later I purchased about a dozen of those just for that purpose.
Member 7989122 wrote: So I went on vacation in my new car, with 2000+ sound files in a nice structured file tree, discovering that when I plugged in the USB stick, it would start playing track 1, then track 2, ... the entire file tre rolled out as one flat set of sound files
Are your MP3s properly tagged? Based on my experience, most players are rather useless if you just give them unidentified MP3 files, even if arranged in a good folder structure. But if your radio manufacturer has any sense, it should be able to organize by artist or album name.
I use MP3Tag to manually tag things. MusicBrainz Picard (weirdest name ever) can help automate the process, but expect weird results.
Use the lowest common denominator when tagging (ID3v1/2/x; ignore APE and other newer formats). Otherwise even though you might think something's tagged, it might be unsupported by simpler players.
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I bought myself a new car, and didn't think much of the radio - the cheapest model would be good enough. No CD player
BTW, don't think of lack of a CD player as necessarily being cheap. My dad's got the top-end so-called infotainment system (god I hate that word) in his $56K Pacifica, and there's no CD player. Consider them being phased out...
modified 8-Jan-19 16:50pm.
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The lack of a CD player doesn't alone make it cheap. But having a single line text display, so short that it can only display the shortest variant of the station ID, no display of RDS text, no option to turn off FM stereo to reduce noise (well, that really doesn't matter much in Norway, as only small community radio stations are still transmitting FM nowadays), no display of e.g. signal quality, only 2 ch amplifier, ... But the radio chip is probably identical to the more expensive models: Sensitivity is excellent. Maybe if I broke the front panel of, there is a slot for a CD player. Maybe the player is there as well, and they have just hidden it behind a front panel to make me pay a couple hundred $ more to get access to it.(*)
With no display capable of showing the album and song title (it would have to be as a rolling text, but no other function has rolling text, so I guess the display doesn't have the logic for it), MP3 tags have very little use. Besides, the user manual would have mentioned something about it. It explains how to get to the next track, and that's it.
(*)
That sort of "tricks" is more common than you'd ever believe... I'm so old I was a teenager when the first pocket calculators came to market. A friend of mine couln't affort the 5-function model, with square root, he bought the 4-function one, with +-*/ only, hoping that he could cut a hole in the panel where the 5-function model had its sqrt button, finding soldering points so he could mount his own button. He cut the hole ... and out of it popped the sqrt button, ready for use! The only real difference between the 4 and 5 function models was the cover hiding the button.
My first job, a couple of years later, was with a minicomputer company (this was before PCs). For markting reasons, we had to offer a complete range of machines, at different price leves. We could not afford to develop more than one CPU, so they were all the same, except that in the El Cheapo model, we had ripped out the CPU cache chips from their sockets. The "Commercial" model provided BCD arithmetic for Cobol application - but it was pure microdode; not a single gate different from the "Engineering" variants. It couldn't even do BCD divide: The instruction code was defined, but generated an "illegal instruction code" interrupt caught by the OS, simulating BCD divide through a library function call.
The midrange model was delivered in one 19" rack. For the top range model, the same boards was distributed over two racks, "with plenty of space for peripherals and interface cards", as we marketed. The CPU logic was exactly the same for the entire range.
So I am no more surpised by what I see when looking under the hood. I guess replacing the front plate / buttons and display could change the radio to be capable of playing both catalog structured memory sticks and CDs. For now, I am not going to break it apart. We've got almost full coverage, including wilderness and high mountains, of 14 channels nationwide, and another 15-16 commercial channels wherever there are people living, all in noise-free digital quality. Then comes the community radios, in both digital and FM formats. So the need for canned music is somewhat reduced from the FM days, where you outside the cities might be limited to 3-5, sometimes rather noisy, channels.
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Member 7989122 wrote: But having a single line text display,
Oh, one of those. Then yeah, I agree, since it can hardly display anything, it's highly unlikely there's any sort of browse function, unlike newer full-size touchscreen displays. Or could there be a separate button to skip an entire folder at a time (or press and hold)?
I don't recall if you've mentioned it - so who's the manufacturer? So we can name and shame...
My 2006 predates the in-car USB fad (the radio has 7-segment digit displays), and it doesn't even have an AUX input, so I can't even use my MP3 player - I have to hook it up instead to one of those cigarette lighter adapters that broadcast on an FM frequency.
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The hamsters are going to play the hell of a tetris to pack that much on a micro SD ...
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Followup - stress tests have been running for over 9 hours, no problems. Copied enough DVD iso files to come close to filling it up, then delete and refill, no problems - iso files opened and ran (movies) correctly every time. Average read/write/verify is about 4MB/sec, which is livable for phone or tablets.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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At 4MB/s, my simple reckoning says it will take 3 days flat-out to fill once. Have you been testing it long enough (9 hours won't do)?
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Well, I was using a stress tester downloaded from GitHub, but it lied to me about transfer rates 
I wrote a quick PowerShell script to copy multiple images of iso files, and the rate stayed steady at about 1 min 30 sec per 1GB over 500GB of files.
Plus, the microSD to USB thumb drive adapter that came with the SD card was very flakey, I switched to a microSD to miniSD adapter card and stuck it directly into my laptop.
So far, I am satisfied with the SD card, we will see what time does to it.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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OK, ok, we believe you.
Now send a link so that we can buy it as well 
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As they say in the land of West Bound-buses (NOT, mind you, the province of East Bound-buses!)
here you go....
1Tb Micro Sd Card | Wish
Disclaimer: Your mileage may vary, and let the buyer beware 
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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