Posts by Remurkable1

Patch Tuesday meets Groundhog Day as Windows hibernation bug returns

We've Seen This Day Before

Patch Tuesday seems to have an appropriate connection with Groundhog Day (the movie), as patching Windows seems like having to relive the same day over and over and over . . .

Trump admin says tech companies are abusing H-1B visas, slaps $100k a year to allow entry

Post-docs are screwed

This will also further damage universities and their research, as post-doctoral researchers are covered by these visas, as well.

After nearly half a century in deep space, every ping from Voyager 1 is a bonus

Re: Theocracy ?

Kakistocracy, if you please.

Quantum code breaking? You'd get further with an 8-bit computer, an abacus, and a dog

Re: Wonderful paper

In other words, the three terms are in superposition and will need a two-bit quantum computer to collapse the wave state. (Or, since it is Halloween, we're talking spooky action at a distance.)

Trump's budget bill bankrolls $85M Space Shuttle shuffle

King Solomon Had It

Cut it in half (lengthwise); give one half to each location. Put up giant mirrors so each half looks like a whole shuttle. Transportation costs slashed. Easy!

Tape, glass, and molecules – the future of archival storage

Predicted in 1961*

It's beginning to sound like we're following the path in the story:

punched molecules

notched electrons

notched quanta

nudged quanta

overlapping nudged quanta

*Hal Draper, MS Fnd in a Lbry

Win a slice of XP cheese if you tell us where Microsoft should put Copilot next

Where it is Actually Needed

I suggest that Copilot be installed in the White House on January 20th. It might be the only place where it would be an improvement.

The US government wants developers to stop using C and C++

It All Comes Down To . . .

As was said in the dark ages, a sufficiently skilled Fortran programmer will write Fortran code in any language. (Substitute the language of your choice.)

AWS claims customers are packing bags and heading back on-prem

Re: Who'd have thought...

Of course they can . . .

(just half as long).

AI has colonized our world – so it's time to learn the language of our new overlords

Speak harshly to your LLM

And curse it when it freezes;

It does it only to annoy

Because it knows it teases.

(With thanks to the Rev. Dodgson)

I can't do that, Dave: AI drowns top sci-fi mag with story submissions

It looks as if Sturgeon's Law will have to be revised upward.