Posts by mirachu

Cryptographers place $5,000 bet whether quantum will matter

Re: Quantum computer == nuclear fusion

At the moment fusion isn't even technologically viable, the research reactors don't stay lit more than a few minutes at a time at best. For power production you need 1) positive energy balance (obviously), and 2) the reactor needs to stay running for months at a time *minimum*.

OpenAI gets $122B to 'just build things' as the world blows them up

Re: "Upside Economics"

Maybe they mean "upside down economics".

When a billboard survives the wind, but not the boot

Re: kph ?

Kilo Pascal Henry would be kPaH, so not that. It could be kilo pico hour (can't think of a "p" unit off the top of my head).

GRUBs kinda LILO by nature.

Artemis II astronaut: 'I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working'

Re: Daisy daisy...

Let me guess, it was unable to communicate with module AE-35?

Microsoft veteran says some 'broken by update' PCs were already doomed

Re: Idiots never reboot

Speaking of never rebooting, fast boot is a cancer.

Re: Idiots never reboot

Every update? False. After *many* updates, sure, but not always.

Open source isn't a tip jar – it's time to charge for access

That's... subjective, and depends on how much you can pay.

Your next car might need 300 GB of RAM, and so will autonomous robots

Re: The main question now is...

Let's make it 640. Because history.

Re: I don't think so

What if they can run Crysis?

Re: Leaks away

If flash lasted for 100 years worries about unused SSDs losing their contents wouldn't exist.

Microsoft publishes a workaround for Samsung's C:\ drive woes

Go check how permissions work.

Out-of-band getting out of hand as Microsoft pushes hotpatch for Bluetooth

Re: In other news...

How about Redbeard (Barbarossa)?

Say goodbye to budget PCs and smartphones – memory is too expensive now

Re: Have an upvote

Use an axe instead of a pencil sharpener. Should help somewhat.

Hubble in a death spiral that could end as early as 2028 without a reboost

Taxpayers? They don't really get a say.

S Twatter: When text-to-speech goes down the drain

Re: for all those who say "it shouldn't be this difficult". apparently it is.

For funsies, have your phone be in English and live in a non-Anglophone country. Navigation gets silly.

New hire fixed a problem so fast, their boss left to become a yoga instructor

Done that, twice.

I remember hauling a 21" up stairs. Also bigger TVs, not up stairs, but heavier. Granted, I was at my peak back then so they were manageable. Yeah, panels are much easier.

Re: Sounds like the student stool

Somewhat depending on positioning, three legged stools are inherently stable because three points describe one plane and one plane only. Any more and you might not be lucky.

Techie turned the tables on office bullies with remote access rumble

Three shall be the number of thy counting.

Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming

Re: Thin clients were an anachronism ?

Even if it's read only hardware is still hardware...

Laptops generally use about 19V via the power plug, or 11 1-ish via the battery connector (which would be ugly).

User insisted their screen was blank, until admitting it wasn't

A graphics card I had way back required the monitor to be plugged to a certain port to get image at power on, otherwise it would take until drivers were loaded. Which was an issue before drivers were even installed.

It doesn't matter if audio equipment is in phase (except for speakers but for those it's about SIGNAL phase), unless the gear is badly designed.

HSBC spies $207B crater in OpenAI's expansion goals

Re: Some rather bold claims!

I predict that there won't be enough power generation by 2030 to make all the AI run. The AI bubble *will* burst, the only question is when.

Microsoft's first Windows 10 ESU Patch Tuesday release fails for some

Re: An Agentic OS

We are indeed living in interesting times. I hate it.

AMD grabs more x86 share as Intel stumbles in entry-level chips

Yeah, my toy server upgrade has a 12100F, I'm running game servers (in addition to the usual jellyfin, home assistant, file server and such) and the chip was like 60€ on sale. There was no comparable AMD chip available for the price (including a new mobo).

Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cellular networks

"160MHz is 35% of 450 MHz, but it's only 0,026% of 6GHz." That's 2.6% (or more properly rounded 2.7%), not 0.026%. (Pet peeve, as it happens.)

52-year-old data tape could contain only known copy of UNIX V4

Re: UNIX v4, saved by Rust!

Technically it's only rust if it's an oxide of iron. Chrome tapes aren't rusty.

AI benchmarks are a bad joke – and LLM makers are the ones laughing

Re: Turtles all the way down !!!

Also, psychopaths, other people with blunted psychological affect, and so fucking on. V-K wouldn't be acceptable.

Win10 still clings to over 40% of devices weeks after Microsoft pulls support

Several corporate customers would lose their shit if you suddenly couldn't run W11 in a VM.

Tesla board wants to grant Musk $1T in stock, Norway wealth fund says nope

Re: On the Other Hand

"A P/E of over 300 indicates a massive amount of future success."

No. It indicates the *expectation* of massive future success. That's a huge difference.

Re: Hybrid Theory

It's been done, several times, for various reasons, at least one being that they were unable to get the electric drive train working again.

Actor couldn’t understand why computer didn’t work when the curtain came down

Re: "The Register wishes you a wonderfully scary day"

The word is "tenet". Look it up.

Re: Soon: Trump as second mask...

Or to not golf near an approaching thunder storm.

DNS downing clouds is boring: IBM Cloud is experiencing a quantum computer outage

Re: Optimistically ...

I'd love to hear Kenny Everett's Many Worlds Interpretation.

Microsoft Azure challenges AWS for downtime crown

Re: SPOF

If a parliament is using a cloud based voting system without a backup (paper still exists) they desrve what they get.

IBM is just not into the 'spend megabucks on cloudy GPUs' thing, rents them instead

Re: BS

Maybe their metric is loc. :P

Starlink is burning up one or two satellites a day in Earth’s atmosphere

Re: We used to watch out for an "Iridium flare"

Gojira, but as a nature documentary. That would be wild.

Lowercase leaving you cold? Introducing Retrocide

Re: This Typeface

And since orange is also the new black, you can make pink-black simply orange. Which would make Disney's version of the Cheshire Cat orange, and having only one braincell would fit.

FWIW, I spent a lot of hours in Amiga's font editor, making custom typefaces. :D

Energy drink company punished ERP graybeard for going too fast

Sometimes promotions require only knowing the right people or belonging to the right party. :P

Struggling to heat your home? How about 500 Raspberry Pi units?

Re: A hacker's dream

Tons of BOINC!

Intern had no idea what not to do, so nearly mangled a mainframe

Re: Angle Park

I read it at the ripe age of 11 or something, and would probably understand it a lot better now. At least I hope so, seeing as it was over 40 years ago.

Word to the wise: Don't tell your IT manager they're not in Excel

Piranha solution.

Re: "Surely an IT manager should know the difference between Word and Excel?"

That's getting rarer and rarer, since power supplies are increasingly voltage and frequency agnostic.

Engineer turned a vape into a web server

Well, we already have NTP, just need to add hypertext...