I hope there will be an exception for items charged from a shaver socket. I would rather not have to take my electric toothbrush etc. out of the bathroom every time I want to charge it.
Posts by Christoph
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UK ponders USB-C as common charging standard
BBC weather glitch shows 13k mph winds in London, 404℃ in Nottingham
National Public Data files for bankruptcy, admits 'hundreds of millions' potentially affected
Incumbent congressman not turning up to debates? Train an AI on his press releases
Cops love facial recognition, and withholding info on its use from the courts
Canon ships first nanoimprint chipmaking machine to R&D lab
Kamala Harris campaign motorcade halted by confused robotaxis
US Army orders next-gen robot mule to haul a literal ton of gear
Look! About chest high! Is it a pallet? Is it a drone? No, it's a Palletrone
Intuitive Machines shoots for the Moon with NASA's $4.82B lunar relay jackpot
If they are building a "lunar satellite constellation" they should include from the beginning switching off all unnecessary transmissions while over the lunar far side.
The far side is the only accessible place shielded from all of Earth's radio transmissions, and is therefore the ideal place to build future really big radio telescopes.
But this would be sabotaged by multiple satellites blasting out signals.
So start as you mean to go on - do NOT rely on "Oh, we can always add that later once it becomes necessary".
Foot-thick wall workaround: Gigabit network links beamed through solid concrete
Developer tried to dress for success, but ended up attired for an expensive outage
Re: Hard Hats and Hi-Viz...
When the (never used) Nightingale hospitals were being built during the pandemic, they called in the army to help build them.
Being in the army they wore uniforms - in camouflage designs intended to make them difficult to see.
Being on a building site they wore hi-vis jackets over their low-viz camo.
'A moose hit me' and other ways people damage their gizmos
Philadelphia tree trimmers fail to nip FTC noncompete ban in the bud
Dangerous sandwiches delayed hardware installation
NASA tests the ups and downs of air taxi comfort with VR
Meta won't train AI on Euro posts after all, as watchdogs put their paws down
Molten lunar regolith heats up space colonization dreams
Thanks for coming to help. No, we can't say why we called – it's classified
A thump with the pointy end of a screwdriver will fix this server! What could possibly go wrong?
Computer modeling deepens scientists' understanding of solar cycle
I stumbled upon LLM Kryptonite – and no one wants to fix this model-breaking bug
Boffins suggest astronauts should build a Wall of Death on the Moon
UK lays down fresh legislation banning crummy default device passwords
Voyager 1 regains sanity after engineers patch around problematic memory
Re: Difficult to comprehend that...
A lot of code used a jump table - a list at a known address of jumps to each routine, so you could move the code around without changing external access. Some people at work once managed to hex dump the computer's code on the screen and were going "Wow, that's computer code". I took one look at the list of C3nnC3nnC3nn . . . and said "No, that's a jump table".
Rarest, strangest, form of Windows saved techie from moment of security madness
Zilog to end standalone sales of the legendary Z80 CPU
I was running complicated factory machinery using hand-crafted Z80 assembler. It all fitted into about 20K, most of which was screen & keyboard control. Then there was a data table listing all the ports for the components, which the index registers scanned through each cycle. The actual operating code was very small except for the most complex components.
Tesla Cybertruck turns into world's most expensive brick after car wash
Judge refuses to Ctrl-Z divorce order made by a misclick
Hyundai picks Palantir to help it build automated navy ships
US reckons it's about time the Moon had its own time zone
Do not touch that computer. Not even while wearing gloves. It is a biohazard
Boeing top brass stand down amid safety turbulence
European Space Agency to measure Earth at millimeter scale
What are they using as their zero point?
Plate Tectonics and weathering move places on the Earth by more than 1mm a year relative to each other.
Presumably they have their grid's origin defined as one particular point and measure movement relative to that?
Does anyone know what that point will be?
Work for you? Again? After you lied about the job and stole my stuff? No thanks
Cutting-edge robot space surgeon makes first incision in Zero-G
WATSON picks up slack on Mars for SHERLOC as Perseverance gadgets show age
Venus has a quasi-moon and it's just been named 'Zoozve' for a sweet reason
When red flags are just office decoration: Edinburgh Uni's Oracle IT disaster
India to make its digital currency programmable
Techie climbed a mountain only be told not to touch the kit on top
Re: I once had ....
Back in the 80s we had to install a bridge to isolate the consultancy section of the office. They all used the then new Amstrad PC compatibles, which would randomly stop forwarding the tokens on the Token Ring Network and bring down the network for the entire building. We separated them with the bridge and let them get on with it.