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Posts by Frumious Bandersnatch
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BOFH: WELCOME TO COLOSSAL SERVER ROOM ADVENTURE!!
Elon Musk launches his own xAI biz 'to understand reality'
Free Wednesday gift for you lucky lot: Extra mouse button!
Thursday 6th July 2023 20:47 GMT
Re: shift-insert for paste
Unfortunately, not all apps implement shift-insert in the same way. I would love it if all apps pasted what you have just highlighted (ie, do the same as mouse middle click), but Firefox, for one, pastes the contents of the main copy/paste buffer.
At least shift-insert works the way I want in terminal programs. It's particularly handy for mouse-free copy and paste between an emacs buffer and a terminal. Still very useful if I have to use mouse to select text in other source apps.
Boss such a tyrant you need a job quitting agent? It works in Japan
Wednesday 5th July 2023 11:16 GMT
Re: taishoku daiko - the actual mechanics?
I am rather curious as how the taishoku daiko perform their task. In person? Can imagine it would be excruciatingly formal.
Not only in terms of business etiquette, there's also a higher level of language formality to deal with. Sounds like a difficult job all right.
Apologies JP speakers if I have commited a "the hoi polloi" on "the taishoku daiko."
No, it's not a "the hoi polloi" error on your part ("hoi" literally translating to "the?"). Japanese has no definite or indefinite articles, so when translating from Japanese to English it's OK to add one or some other surrogate word ("these", "such") as appropriate.
Creator of Linux virtual assistant blames 'patent troll' for project's death
The Twitpocalypse may have begun, as datacenter migration reportedly founders
Twitch bans AI-generated Seinfeld show for making transphobic jokes
No more free API access, says Twitter: You pay for that data
It's been 230 years since British pirates robbed the US of the metric system
Tone deaf? Microsoft must have booked Sting for Davos because he's a good singer
Time Lords decree an end to leap seconds before risky attempt to reverse time
Wednesday 23rd November 2022 23:58 GMT
Re: Didn't someone previously propose
No, what's "clunky" is that the OP:
* thought that some post was interesting
* (presumably) reached into his/her knowledge of Japanese and pulled out "omoshiroi"
* decided to post it using Japanese script (mostly .... that space between the words tells a different story, though; I call cut and paste)
* added a superfluous attempt at "being polite" (as they imagined they should) (that "desu")
Other low-effort interpretations are possible, but they mainly revolve around the OP not really knowing Japanese.
If something is genuinely interesting and you want to express it in Japanese, it's just 面白い (+ Japanese exclamation mark, which I'm not set up for at the moment). Same as "itai", "mazui", "umai", and so on. Tacking on unnecessary "politeness" defeats the purpose and actually sounds sarcastic.
Twitter is suffering from mad bro disease. Open thinking can build it back better
NSA urges orgs to use memory-safe programming languages
Saturday 12th November 2022 01:50 GMT
Re: Best of all
The advice is sound. Given that memory corruption often allows RCE, it makes sense to use a language where memory corruption is simply not a concern.
But even rust grandfathers C/C++'s (what you might call) cargo cultism around order of execution (memory barriers and whatnot). The problem is that order of execution is a non-trivial (unsafe) problem where you're cribbing from C/C++, where your compiler can't check for non-compliance when it comes to translation of the standard, and the CPU can make up its own mind ...
But yeah, in general Rust is a whole lot better. Just not perfect.
Microsoft's Lennart Poettering proposes tightening up Linux boot process
Removing an obsolete AMD fix makes Linux kernel 6 quicker
That emoji may not mean what you think it means
China's blockchain boosters slam crypto as Ponzi scheme
Unbelievably clever: Redbean 2 – a single-file web server that runs on six OSes
I love the Linux desktop, but that doesn't mean I don't see its problems all too well
Symbiote Linux malware spotted – and infections are 'very hard to detect'
BOFH: Where do you think you are going with that toner cartridge?
Perl Steering Council lays out a backwards compatible future for Perl 7
Friday 27th May 2022 13:52 GMT
Re: Backwards compatibility
Feel free to report the broken example (politely) to https://github.com/perlorg/perlweb. The fix is "use feature 'say';"
Or use the `-E` flag to Perl somewhere. Or, more neatly, specify what the minimum required Perl version is for your code, eg:
use v5.10;
Use `perldoc feature` to see what new optional features are available in your perl and what version they first appeared in.
Original killer PC spreadsheet Lotus 1-2-3 now runs on Linux natively
Jeffrey Snover claims Microsoft demoted him for inventing PowerShell
The wild world of non-C operating systems
IPv6 is built to be better, but that's not the route to success
Monday 24th January 2022 14:43 GMT
Re: IPv6 is actually there in the home user worls
A possible reason for this is that home users who want to edit are stuck behind NAT, so if one jackass starts making joke/vandalistic edits, everyone who shares that IP address will get blocked. I don't think that you can draw many inferences from the stat you posted.
European Space Agency whittles wannabe astronauts down from 23,000 to 1,391
Tuesday 18th January 2022 23:55 GMT
Re: Could there be a South Korean TV show somewhere in this?
I also watched it, but I found it quite enjoyable. Super obvious that they're mining various western sci-fi tropes (too many to mention), but I treat that more as "homage" than "rip-off". I'm sure they did a "Right Stuff" part at some point too... Anyway, despite all that, I thought it stood by itself in terms of story-telling.
For the OP, nice subversion of the obvious 10-legged diversion reference...
Mediatek unveils its first ARMv9 smartphone chip for advanced handsets
If anyone can explain why Jupiter's Great Red Spot is spinning faster and shrinking, please speak up
Tobacco giants don't get to decide who does research on smoking. Why does Facebook get to dictate studies?
Radioactive hybrid terror pigs have made themselves a home in Fukushima's exclusion zone
FreedomFi's 5G gateways will mine HNT cryptocurrency for owners who dole out coverage to passing users, IoT devices
Wednesday 28th April 2021 21:13 GMT
Re: Weasel words
First I've heard of this Helium thing, so thought about it for a bit and then looked up the docs...
My first impression is that this couldn't be using a proof-of-work algorithm, which, as you say (or at least I think you're saying), is just an invitation to throw more power (leccy) at calculating the crypto currency.
Turns out, they use a "proof of coverage" algorithm. So I think that your complaint isn't valid in this case.
PS, as per TFA, the final lines suggest that it may not be a great idea to advertise the location of your 5g micro-cell due to nutters. If there's a complaint to be levelled at the scheme, it's that the above proof-of-coverage algorithm would help such nutters track down cell locations.
Crazy world we live in, eh?
Tech ambitions said to lie at heart of Britain’s bonkers crash-and-burn Brexit plan
Anti-5G-vaxx pressure group sues Zuckerberg, Facebook, fact checkers for daring to suggest it might be wrong
US govt proposes elephant showers for every American after Prez Trump says trickles dampen his haircare routine
Thursday 13th August 2020 23:47 GMT
Re: Wrong lightbulbs...
I think that the short life of dimmable LED bulbs is to do with heat build up. As in, the light fittings themselves aren't really suitable for bulbs of that kind. CFL might suck, but they seem to be a better match for the kind of light fittings that people want to use with dimmer switches. Mood lighting.
Bill Gates debunks 'coronavirus vaccine is my 5G mind control microchip implant' conspiracy theory
Friday 24th July 2020 23:45 GMT
Some first posts are good. Some are by people who blundered into the wrong forum by mistake.
Some gulls(*) wander by mistake / into the mess that scalpels make.
(* which I am using to mean "trickster", "fraud", "troll", etc. So Humpty Dumpty of me. Respondents can figure out their own role in this conceit)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
