Posts by mirachu

So you paid a ransom demand … and now the decryptor doesn't work

Re: Ha

"A" is area. "a" is acceleration.

We're in the brute force phase of AI – once it ends, demand for GPUs will too

Re: Wait, he's making sense

I would count using AI in, say, molecular medicine research "knowledge discovery". It also actually works and is about as much lookups as research in general.

Re: "Generative AI is"

Sounds like Douglas Adams. Love it, as long as it stays a parody.

Blood boffins build billions of nanobots to battle brain aneurysms without surgery

Re: How low can you go?

Ben Shapiro? What an unfortunate name.

Microsoft decides it's a good time for bad UI to die

Re: Tesla

Also, to run the company.

A nice cup of tea rewired the datacenter and got things working again

Re: Tea & reminiscence

Caffeine is actually beneficial in sane amounts and assuming you're not sensitive to it.

Re: I hope he didn't bring his tea into the datacentre!

"Sandwich's" is a possessive. You want a plural.

Re: There is a proper way to do most things

Going to guess tannins are to blame. They are known for drying your mouth.

Still waiting for a Pi 500 and wondering what do this summer?

Re: Point

Radxa x4 4GB is something like USD60, so that recommended price isn't exactly descriptive. I can't imagine 4GB DDR5, a 2.5G NIC, some USB A ports, an M.2 connector, 2 micro-HDMIs, wifi+bt plus supporting components come in under 5 bucks and leave a margin for profit.

Yes, I am being intolerably smug – because I ignored you and saved the project

Meh, I just go by voltage, current requirement and connector size. Electrons are electrons, the devices don't care whether you use the supplied wart or not.

Re: Every office has one.

International standard "billion" is 10^12. Do not confuse cultural colonialism with standards.

The rule is really very simple, it's N*6 zeros. Billion is 12, trillion is 18, quadrillion is 24 and so on, NO EXCEPTIONS. (Granted, "million" has the "one" bit very truncated.)

Re: Simple rule - Engaging Smug Mode

Such as a phone?

Re: Simple rule

And label printers.

Microsoft finds a new way to irritate Windows 11 users – a backup pop-up

Re: But what are the options?

Assuming you used good blanks.

Customer bricked a phone – and threatened to brick techie's face with it

Re: super thread drift.. but..

Only true in full rear impact. Partials are nastier. Also, depends on centres of gravity. You can easily get launched in a spin even if your wheels point straight.

Re: super thread drift.. but..

I'll trust engine braking over handbrake. Torque multiplication works both ways, and you need a *lot* of force to move a car that's in first (or reverse) gear.

Re: super thread drift.. but..

I think you don't know how cars work. Or traffic, for that matter. You're supposed to stop *before* the road you're turning to.

Facebook prank sent techie straight to Excel hell

Re: Disaster Cascade

Where guys == women.

Dangerous sandwiches delayed hardware installation

Re: Internal Shelter Area

2 million, IIRC.

Re: Try to keep it culturaly correct please

Jimi sang it both ways.

There is no honor among RAM thieves – but sometimes there is karma

Re: Sounds familiar

"RAM is *not* the installation procedure!"

Stop installing that software – you may have just died

Re: The medical test case

Causality extraction? Sounds like politics or maybe bureaucracy.

What you say!

Critical Windows licensing bugs – plus two others under attack – top Patch Tuesday

Re: It never ends..

It's worse than that, because your math is wrong. It's 0.01% for productive use.

Outback shocker left Aussie techie with a secret not worth sharing

Tongs.

Re: Ouch!!

I see the problem. They expected the water to put out any fires. I used to have a CRT Beko TV with all kinds of high voltages inside, never a problem.

Innocent techie jailed for taking hours to fix storage

Re: Problem Resolution

"Before my time, but a tale from the era of a 'Crisis' somewhere bordering a large waterway in the eastern Mediterranean..."

Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?

Re: Pilot flying hours

Must've been before configuration warnings became a thing. (Yeah, right)

Chinese space company accidentally launches rocket in test gone wrong

Re: Only one thing more spectacular than a successful rocket launch

This was an unsuccessful static test tho.

An arc welder in the datacenter: What could possibly go wrong?

Re: Blame-shifting gone mad

Finnish distinguishes them too.

systemd 256.1: Now slightly less likely to delete /home

What should I ask the glass of water?

You're wrong, I'm right, and you're hiding the data that proves it

Re: Thumbnail, raw image, what's the diff?

I remember such sites, from the 90s when I still had dialup (modem was, umm, v.34? 33k6 anyway).

And even if the updates are small (for Microsoft values thereof), they take relative AGES to install compared to Linux updates. Especially if you use nala (apt wrapper, does install history, multithreaded downloads and such neat stuff).

ISTR the icon having been the Colosseum on fire.

Nearly 20% of running Microsoft SQL Servers have passed end of support

Re: Microsoft has deliberately made it difficult

IIRC the initial Stuxnet infection was from a USB drive.

We need a volunteer to literally crawl over broken glass to fix this network

Re: Meanwhile in Africa

Some are safety noodles, at least for human sized critters. Ob: obviously not cat6 or such; snek6?

Sodium ion batteries: Yet another innovation poised to be dominated by China

"The"? There are several sodium ion battery techs.

Re: China Singing

NaBrO.

Re: Move along here, nothing to see

Sodium ion batteries have a *lower* fire risk than lithium ion ones do.

I didn't touch a thing – just some cables and a monitor – and my computer broke

Re: Yeah, sure. Nothing changed. Pinky promise.

Was it a Macbook of some description, with a soldered SSD? :)

Tesla chair begs investors to bless Musk's billions or face an Elon exodus

Re: offending and driving away the main demographic

Also, remember that Musk was born in South Africa during apartheid to a billionaire family. That's not exactly a good starting point for a balanced world view.

Screwdrivers: is there anything they can't do badly? Maybe not

Re: Tools

What a spanner.

Re: "Screw"drivers?

That was probably referring to the bits/screwdrivers, not screws.

Thanks for coming to help. No, we can't say why we called – it's classified

The sub is obviously SEP. Nobody would pay attention to it.

Re: 1 in a million scenario

That's a myth.

Apple says if you want to ship your own iOS browser engine in EU, you need to be there

Re: How does Apple determine location ?

No need for a Faraday cage. Get a suitable transmitter or just spoof the location.

Malicious non-compliance. Apple doesn't get to decide the terms.

Windows 11 24H2 might call time on that old NAS under the stairs

Re: Stop sigh.

Isn't that shape global?

It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer

Gouging. Although, you need to gauge them to gouge them.