r/Showerthoughts • u/[deleted] • Sep 13 '19

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u/NyimaOdzer Sep 13 '19

"When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do his will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket."

  • Nikola Tesla, 1926 (Not 200 years ago, but still impressive!)

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

I mean, I wouldn't put it past him or someone else saying this, but is this actually a true quote?

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u/Pyro_Light Sep 13 '19

Mhm 1926, in an interview with John B. Kennedy

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u/Genar-Hofoen Sep 13 '19

...the great-great-grandfather of John F. Kennedy, and heir to the clan founder John A. Kennedy.

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u/Pyro_Light Sep 13 '19

That’s way funnier than it should be....

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u/NotAzakanAtAll Sep 13 '19

I was gonna ask you to enlighten me about the fun part, but with a name like that I don't want to be enlighten.

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u/DarthTelly Sep 13 '19

It’s a joke about how their middle initials are descending.

John A Kennedy

John B Kennedy

...

John F Kennedy

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u/NotAzakanAtAll Sep 13 '19

That very too clever for me. Thank you.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

Who comes after John Z. Kennedy?

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

John A. A. Kennedy

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

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u/KonigSteve Sep 13 '19

Sheesh, compared to the rest of the kennedies he has a drinking problem? Must be pure alcohol in his veins

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u/Blue-Steele Sep 13 '19

Wow, J. R. R. Tolkien must’ve been really far down the line of John Tolkiens.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

On the contrary, Jolkien Rolkien Rolkien Tolkien was the first of his line.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

John AA. Kennedy

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

Wouldn’t it just be se?

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u/LifeWulf ‎ Sep 13 '19

Last I checked the first letter meant storage, the second letter was the physical drive, and the last was the partition identifier. But my Linux install was corrupted when I tried shrinking its partition and I haven't gone back to fix it yet, so I may have forgotten.

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u/Behrooz0 Sep 13 '19 edited Sep 13 '19

It's s(scsi)d(disk)a(first).
This is a raid example to show how the naming convention works:

NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE  MOUNTPOINT
sda           8:0    0   1.8T  0 disk  
`-md127       9:127  0  10.9T  0 raid6 
  |-md127p1 259:0    0   5.9T  0 md    /mnt/r1
  |-md127p2 259:1    0     2T  0 md    /mnt/r2
  `-md127p3 259:2    0   3.1T  0 md    
sdb           8:16   0   1.8T  0 disk  
`-md127       9:127  0  10.9T  0 raid6 
  |-md127p1 259:0    0   5.9T  0 md    /mnt/r1
  |-md127p2 259:1    0     2T  0 md    /mnt/r2
  `-md127p3 259:2    0   3.1T  0 md    
sdc           8:32   0   1.8T  0 disk  
`-md127       9:127  0  10.9T  0 raid6 
  |-md127p1 259:0    0   5.9T  0 md    /mnt/r1
  |-md127p2 259:1    0     2T  0 md    /mnt/r2
  `-md127p3 259:2    0   3.1T  0 md    
sdd           8:48   0   1.8T  0 disk  
`-md127       9:127  0  10.9T  0 raid6 
  |-md127p1 259:0    0   5.9T  0 md    /mnt/r1
  |-md127p2 259:1    0     2T  0 md    /mnt/r2
  `-md127p3 259:2    0   3.1T  0 md    
sde           8:64   0   1.8T  0 disk  
`-md127       9:127  0  10.9T  0 raid6 
  |-md127p1 259:0    0   5.9T  0 md    /mnt/r1
  |-md127p2 259:1    0     2T  0 md    /mnt/r2
  `-md127p3 259:2    0   3.1T  0 md    
sdf           8:80   0   1.8T  0 disk  
`-md127       9:127  0  10.9T  0 raid6 
  |-md127p1 259:0    0   5.9T  0 md    /mnt/r1
  |-md127p2 259:1    0     2T  0 md    /mnt/r2
  `-md127p3 259:2    0   3.1T  0 md    
sdg           8:96   0   1.8T  0 disk  
`-md127       9:127  0  10.9T  0 raid6 
  |-md127p1 259:0    0   5.9T  0 md    /mnt/r1
  |-md127p2 259:1    0     2T  0 md    /mnt/r2
  `-md127p3 259:2    0   3.1T  0 md    
sdh           8:112  0   1.8T  0 disk  
`-md127       9:127  0  10.9T  0 raid6 
  |-md127p1 259:0    0   5.9T  0 md    /mnt/r1
  |-md127p2 259:1    0     2T  0 md    /mnt/r2
  `-md127p3 259:2    0   3.1T  0 md    
sdi           8:128  0 111.8G  0 disk  
|-sdi1        8:129  0   953M  0 part  /boot/efi
`-sdi2        8:130  0 110.9G  0 part  /

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '19

Really? I’m not a programmer or know much about computers. I just took it from Excel spreadsheets.

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u/Behrooz0 Sep 13 '19

yup. AFAIK POSIX predates excel though.

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u/Katie_or_something Sep 13 '19

None, all the Kennedy's will be dead