Posts by Bebu sa Ware 2773 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Nov 2024
Looking at the map it take only a minimal amount of imagination to envisage Florida as a male member urinating (the keys) into the contested region which suggests Cloaca Americana as a perfectly good name and not dissonant with general cesspit of the US.
The only objection I could see is that Florida's balls, if it ever had any, appear to have been swallowed by Louisiana.
(I was a bit surprised Louisiana, named after a French king, wasn't renamed Freedom Fries State back when the US fell out with France a few years ago LOL)
Presumably back when Donald Rumsfeld was a bit miffed after the Poms and later the Frogs weren't showing the required willing over assisting the US blowing up some god forsaken part of the middle east and the US media were echoing Janitor Willie's taunt "cheese eating surrender monkeys."
Media owners in a lesser nation might awaken to face a legionnaire and unlike that chap, might have a great deal to regret.
New one on me.
Apparently in the US it's a motion presented to the court in the absence of the jurors. In limine is Latin which is translated as "at the threshold" (of proceedings.)
I imagine, in the best tradition of the US judicial system, with the application of sufficient lucre, will in time mean that AI confabulated cases will become admissible and equally valid as existing case law.
"as the people who can write ... age out of the workforce." - Possibly more accurate given the noticeably deceasing lucidity in contemporary technical documentation and written communication generally which is frequently little better than a verbatim script of their prattle on Teams etc
Cannot anyone today write a manual page without either turning it into another War and Peace marathon or Finnigans Wake of impenetrability?
viz Larry Ellison why is it that I instinctively feel that I ought to fill my fountain pen with my own lifeblood before signing anything with any of his businesses?
"The number of people who have left the Rust project due to burnout is shockingly high. The number of people in the project who are close to burnout is also shockingly high."
Would be an interesting sociology PhD project to compare burnout rates and mental health and other psychological factors between comparable software projects Rust v Golang (or Zig, D,...) as one might ponder whether the quasi-religious fervour in evidence from the Rust community might betoken a pre-existing or pre-Rust dysfunction.
"Then if the other countries' mission prevents it hitting Trump"
I shouldn't have thought in that particular case they would have bothered.
Suggested splash down is along eastern Pacific Ocean, northern South America, the Atlantic Ocean so perhaps a wee nudge to drop it on Florida instead.
They probably have a point when the unforgivable functions gets(3), sprintf(3) or getwd(3) were responsible for the overflow.
Arrays not being a first class type in C was always a flaw and not being able to determine a vector's capacity at runtime probably a cause for more forgivable overflows.
Most of the trivial causes of buffer overflows never existed in Pascal, Modula2 and Ada with the last the US government (or at least the DoD) mandated replacement for all their software projects. That worked out well, didn't it?
I know that like a few things IBM it's named after Thomas J. rather than Holmes' John H. I can't help thinking that most people will be thinking of the the fairly blunt tool Dr Watson and appending an X one might imagine that the product was little better than the good doctor's musings on Musk's post twitter platform (presumably with lashings of eugenics†.)
Holmes or Sherlock is probably a bit oversubscribed but Mycroft would be a perfect fit I would have thought.
† not exactly virgin territory for IBM
Congress decided to yank funding for the program, ... it refused to fund anything but new hardware that didn't make soldiers sick.
A direct hack into the visual cortex?
Run a few leads into the vestibular nuclei and cerebellum to deal with the nausea.
I don't need to look into a Palantir to scry that the involvement of the Flame of the West is not going to end any better.
Not that is likely to be of any use.
The percentages look useful but are here woefully too low:
51 percent of all Trump's answers to questions have significant issues of some form.
19 percent of all Trump's answers introduced factual errors – incorrect factual statements, numbers, and dates.
13 percent of the quotes offered by Trump were either altered from the original source or not present in the article cited.
Is the end point of this research, two quantum computers, physically separated, but running in-step?
Useful if one computer is on Earth and the other on the Mars.
Even with entangled systems you still cannot transmit information faster than light so in future we will still have to wait 4 to 24 minutes to receive the edicts of the sometime Karen of Space and future autocrat of Mars.
With articles like this, my A grade at Physics A Level is woefully inadequate. It was nearly 40 years ago. We didn't even get to Einstein's work. All Newton et al.
Forty+ years ago quantum entanglement was still considered tainted with heresy even after 10 years after J S Bell's 1964 paper and the then recent (1972) early confirmatory experiments.
Physicists are as daft as the rest of the population - I had to really scratch my head when one presumably more daft stated authoritatively that Bells Inequality was incompatible with the Bohmian interpretation of quantum mechanics (it's not). Bell himself is on record as stating the inherent non-local nature of David Bohm's theory was a significant source of inspiration. See Goldstein's Bell Paper.
Undergraduate Quantum Mechanics was largely 'don't ask questions - "shut up and calculate.†"' Possibly still is.
† Apparently from a criticism in What's Wrong with this Pillow?, N. David Mermin Physics Today 42 (4), 9–11<(1989) (pg 1, para 4 (col 2))
Trump and Musk are a new joint messiah,
I reckon one of them has to be the Baptist.
Bring on Salome, I am not particular which one ends up on the salver.
I have avoided pretty much all media for a decade or more after newsprint deteriorated into inaccurate, shallow and illiterate twaddle.
The sulphurous stench of so called social media was pretty evident from the outset.
Free to air broadcasting of current affairs has pretty much headed down the same gurgler as newsprint.
Public broadcaster's news sites are possibly the least worst but that's not a great recommendation coming off such a low base.
The ex-girlfriend still has it. She's trying to work out how to obtain his passwords.
Either she doesn't have it or she hasn't heard of lead pipe cryptoanalysis.† One can buy an unimaginable quantity of lead pipe‡ for a few million quid but just a metre of which would be sufficient to break the password or ex BF's kneecaps.
† obligatory XKCD reference https://xkcd.com/538
‡ apparently being phased out but I imagine a scrappy could do a cash deal. Randall's $5 shifter is a commendable substitute.
If you can quantify the number of drives discarded in the UK during the relevant time periods and have some idea of the proportion that were likely to end up in this drongo's chosen tip then you could quantify the number of drives you might recover and therefore the likelihood of recovering one particular drive.
Even in his nominated 100,000t that could contain 100,000,000kg/0.700kg drives so even if a 100,000 drives were discarded you would still have to sort through 100,000,000 - .700×100,000 kg of shit ie 99,930t and on average examine 50,000 drives before locating the jackpot.
Poetic justice if the young lady tossed the bag into a nearby builders skip. :)
Being, for presumably unrelated reasons, an ex GF she is likely to have kept mum and is enjoying the subsequent schadenfreude of his discomfort.
Those who the gods would destroy they first make mad. Looking at the contemporary world the pantheon has been clocking up considerable overtime.
People bet on much longer odds every time they play the lottery.
The expectation with P = 1/1000 and return GBP 250 millions is GBP 250,000 which is less than the cost of decent legal spat.
A least with a lottery you toss a few quid in with basically zero expectation of any return (I have never been disappointed:) and you never know those few dollars might end up in the hands of someone who really needs it thereby doing some good.
This reality challenged numpty and fellow travellers financing his insanity can only conceivably cause harm.
If they were to get possession of the landfill I can foresee their excavating the site and shipping the recovered waste to some god forsaken part of the world for sorting.
There's a reason that taking humans out of the loop usually reduces error and waste, as long as they are programmed properly.
Tickled my funny bone when I parsed that: "as long as people are programmed properly taking humans out of the loop usually reduces error and waste."
Just confiscating their clogs would be cheaper and less drastic than a Neurolink implant.
"ARA and RAE, Bedford (they had two for wind tunnel applications)"
I find it utterly remarkable that these folk were doing any sort of computational fluid dynamics with a machine whose logic ran to 1000 odd vacuum tubes† which were little more than glorified incandescent light bulbs.
I am old enough to have mucked about with thermionic valves and realise 1000 of the blighters would be equivalent to herding cats.
These men and women were the giants on whose shoulders we stand and whose legacy we hold in trust.
† According to WikiP 6J6 dual triodes with data sheet ;)
Would imply that fact checking would have to continue in other locations.
I can imagine non-US Meta tagging demonstrable falsehoods while the US Meta promoting the same non facts as gospel. Altogether rather schizophreniac.
Possibly save the Z† some letters "Meta confirmed it was expunging facts in the USA."
† odd that was also painted on certain invading tanks. But also having a bunker (in Hawaii) not such a coincidence.
I imagined painfully evolved thought brutal selection. eg separation of powers evolved because that mixed strategy selected a system that supported the idea partly because such systems had greater adaptability and resilience when confronted with changing circumstances. A reasonable analogy would be composite materials.
"government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
"testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure."
Not looking too likely at this juncture.
No court in any Australian jurisdiction would take such an outrageous, reckless and unsubstantiated allegations of the corruption of the presiding magistrate by an identifiable public figure without that court's hauling that imbecile's sorry arse before it on a contempt charge.
In the past, judges (at least Assize Judges) "were the King" so I imagine an affront to a judge was an affront to the King and arguably lèse majesté. I wouldn't be too upset if Musk and fellow travellers met the traditional traitor's end - from soup to nuts - the bowels and intestines with head on a spike.
So not a civil servant then? Likely uniformed (other ranks†) which for GBP 40,939 (~AUD 80,000) I wouldn't wish to take the risk of its being an exit level position.
"Would you like to fly our drones with a Black Sea holiday thrown in. ... I am afraid soldier that wasn't a question."
First rule in the army "never volunteer,"‡ the zeroeth rule "don't volunteer for that game of soldiers in the first place."
† defined in one online lexicon as "the playthings of Ruperts (q.v.)"
‡ if they could order an OR to, they wouldn't be asking which is also not good reason for not being a Rupert.
When it's brown, it's cooked. When it's black and smoking†, it's buggered...
Taken in a different domain of interpretation not exactly PC but nonetheless not too far from the truth.
Third electrical case is when the components is supplied with a voltage a couple of orders magnitude outside spec which causes the "surprised" component to fly off the circuit board at something approaching escape velocity due the instantaneous vaporization of its leads.
Having prised such a tortured component from the case's lid I was a little surprised that it was still functional if amputated.
† depends on what it's been smoking I imagine.
Got it! Looped in by friend #1 (erstwhile custodian of the Sega.;)
I was surprised that these beasties only had isolation transformers rather than supplying DC say 12V but that may have been before cheap switch mode wall warts. Given the unit got a decent dose of 220-240V AC and survived I suspect the internal PS was a switch mode or at least autoranging.
As for Japan being synonymous with 100V AC mains, I once read elsewhere in this forum and confirmed by wikip the eastern JP is on 100V/50Hz and western JP 200V/60Hz. Moving house from Tokyo to Kyoto could be interesting. (Not that I suppose one could afford to live in either city.;)
For the details of the North American 120/240V split phase system:
https://theengineeringmindset.com/120-240v-split-phase-us-can/
Sodding Rather peculiar IMHO but then what now isn't south of the 49th parallel?
And in many other jurisdictions except apparently from a previous comment in the ?? States of America.
I wouldn't carry on any conversation except the most trivial whilst driving as I have found my brain ceases to apply the social filtering that a peaceful existence requires rather like being drugged with scopolamine or pentobital (truth serum.)
For me driving needs the continuous, even if now largely automatic, integration of nearly a dozen inputs which still requires considerable concentration which can sabotage higher level language processing. eg The real answer to "When did you stop beating your wife?"† is unlikely to be a specific date.
Took a few blistering rows to learn that lesson. :(
† perhaps the definitive loaded question.
Rather good!
I initially read it as those being led amounted to zeroes† rather than in the arithmetic sense although 0100 conventionally evaluates to 64. :)
Loyalty: God, King and country. None of which have ever offered y.t. renumerated employment and the rest can sod off.
† the evergreen observation of peanuts and monkeys.
It's really quite simple:
1. Fresh eggs are best (still warm from the chooks bum)
2. Otherwise take from fridge an allow to warm up to roughly room temperature say 22°C
3. Using a pointed implemented (eg tip of chefs knife) carefully make a tiny hole at one end.
4. Place eggs into a saucepan of sufficient cold tap water to cover the eggs.
5. Bring to the boil. Allow to boil for exactly three minutes† (purchase a countdown timer from your local Pound shop)
6. Immediately place eggs into cold water.
The French have a fancy way of cooking eggs, as one would expect, in individual ramekins in a Bain Marie viz œufs en cocotte which with a choice of nice additions are rather delicious but definitely in the category of ffaffing about. As it's said, in quite another context, a philosopher tries everything once and preparing this dish occasionally is not too demanding.
1 - the yolk's integrity is apparently greater (more important for poached etc eggs) and tastes better. 2&3 - reduces the likelihood of the eggs cracking during boiling 4,5,6 - ensures the precise "cooking" of the eggs.
† at altitude do adjust (longer times) for the lower atmospheric pressure and consequent lower boiling point. Lose ~3.25°C/1000m.
«Well are you going to be pleased! Latest research has just what you need! A toaster that ensures perfect exterior toast crunchiness to interior fluffiness ratio (a wondrous state we shall heretofore refer to as flunchy). This is achieved with alternate heating and cooling cycles, meaning your breakfast toast can also take 32 minutes.
Glad to be of service.
Share and enjoy!»
And I thought Talkie the Toaster had been unaccountably mislaid in one of Red Dwarf's garbage disposal chutes.
and the boss still wouldn't have twigged. Still a fail since he hadn't verified the authenticity of the audit or the credentials of the auditors.
"A deep dumpster-dive into the authenticity of reality,"
A revelation! Simon obviously really into the epistemology and phenomenolgy of Quantum Mechanics ... or is a really talented bullshit artist (if there's a difference.)
I would love to be half as unsuccessful as Musk.
So I imagine the contract Mephistopheles offered and was accepted wasn't as lucrative as Elon's.
Modern America appears to demonstrate that formerly human beings can continue to exist even after relinquishing their souls... but exist as what I wonder?
You can see it in their eyes - dead eyes - I have seen more optical vitality on the fishmonger's slab. Condemnation of the already damned is obviously pointless.
henchmen who've never had to actually screw in a lightbulb on their own.
If they had tried likely a BC (bayonet) bulb into an ES (Edison screw) fitting which would stuff both bulb and fitting.
An apt metaphor I guess.
cd /; rm -fr .
Nah! I would guess his acolytes are hardly likely be any smarter than himself and I reckon it was a young Elon or clown of the same water that tried rm / -rf on a HPUX 9.x box which of course barfed on that command line.
In the BoFH game you deal with enough clowns or fools to assemble your own circus.
Shame Don Ameche isn't available to narrate what promises to be the World's Greatest Circus since the fall of Constantinople.
Pretty accurate description of the newly regurgitated half digested administration.
If there were any chance that an executive order could be effectively signed with crayon† I would not extend my trust that far.
† conceivably a wax crayon might be melted and sealed with a signet ring to sign a document.
the negative feedback loop which is supposed to keep the system stable,
Hoping for critical thinking and not even getting critical damping.
Oh deary me! I forgot our Space Karen is a brilliant engineer† who is assuredly a full bottle on Nyquist plots and stability criterion.
† oink, flap, oink, flap... jingle bells...
It's even worse than that.
When pointing out that, with the proposed backup process, restoration was not even possible†, I could hear the Bell, Book and Candle‡ being grasped in the face of my apparently gross heresy.
The idea of working backwards from the objective is apparently so alien that it appears that the disciplines of Operations Research have largely been forgotten.
I had mistakenly believed that clearly identifying what would need to be restored in the light of various contingencies should guide the processes by which the restoration might be made and those processes in turn ultimately guide the design of the backup process itself.
As for trying to communicate the difference between an archive and a backup - clearly a bridge too far.
I am certain a great deal of so called shadow IT is purely created as an act of self preservation to remedy just such management myopic shortcomings.
(The job you save might be your own but it's also miserably true that messengers suffer an unaccountably large number of gun fatalities even outside the US.)
Even now for me the go to guy is W. Curtis Preston whose "Unix Backup and Recovery" and "Backup and Recovery" are still on my bookshelf augmented by "Modern Data Protection."
† "There's a hole in my bucket, dear Liza"
‡ the anathema is rather theatrical but I am fond of Kim Novak/Jimmy Stewart movie which inspired Bewitched as The Brass Bottle, I Dream of Jeannie
DDS tapes† might have been better. ;)
DAT/DDS drives for me were pretty finicky but when the backup worked it was fairly reliable on restoration. I had reason to restore an accidental 10+ year old archive that I had made with gnu tar on a DDS4 / DAT120 tape. Rather surprised everything restored - the official backup was unreadable because there were no functional drives left that could read the media.
DLT and LTO were nicer technologies. I recall the QIC-40 tapes on early Suns were close to indestructible.
† I never did understand the difference between DAT and DDS and have never seen a DAT player.
Generally accepted that it's fairly difficult to see what's not there.
I guess most plebs are more than happy to see any emperor catch his death...
One doesn't know whether to applaud or decry the imperial sartorial success of the likes of NVidia but I suspect we will all suffer after the first royal sneeze.
As in RJ45 plug - when the weak plastic bit that locks the plug into the socket is (easily) broken off and the plug floats about in the socket but of course the patch isn't replaced so you are thereafter plagued by intermittent, impossible to diagnose faults....
Methinks t'is very like Poettering's pride and joy.
The (modern) human genome at least 100,000 years is unquestionably old and it is still maintained - an onerous task no doubt but I do believe many receive some pleasure from the undertaking.
Systemd by analogy would correspondingly be an upgrade offered by Lumic's Cybus Industries.
Dummies Guide to Espionage: vol 1, Tradecraft.
Not exactly Bond this chap.
More of a worry that a fairly gormless prat could access and capture some rather valuable material without effective detection.
If he had been a bit more on the ball he would have been long gone and raking in buckets of lucre in the PRC.
I would have to assume the real spies are better trained and unlikely to be detected before achieving their objectives.
Certainly retrenching most of your intelligence and counter-intelligence workforce is really going to improve matters¿
