also,
Ditto our aircraft (esp. 737max)
Posts by G.Y.
404 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Dec 2011
Boeing's Starliner proves better at torching cash than reaching orbit
Intel to shed at least 15% of staff, will outsource more to TSMC, slash $10B in costs
NASA gives Falcon 9 thumbs-up to launch Crew-9
Inquiry hears UK government misled MPs over Post Office IT scandal
Microsoft sued by ParTec in Texas over AI supercomputer patents
I didn't touch a thing – just some cables and a monitor – and my computer broke
Sunday 9th June 2024 15:29 GMT
measure g Re: IT Crowd
Princeton physics lab had an experiment to measure g using a pendulum's period. It was wrong enough that the prof looked it up.
It turned out the clock used was a line-frequency clock, using a small local power company. When 5PM got near, the crew wanted to go home, so they sped up their line-frequency clock (and all others) a bit, got home a few minutes early
Checkmate? AI's pawn-pushing prowess proves partly pitiful, partly promising
Screwdrivers: is there anything they can't do badly? Maybe not
Monday 3rd June 2024 22:43 GMT
heaps Re: Not screwdrivers but...
A bigwig ioce came to visit our office, so everything had to be tidy
I moved 1-2 feet of listing/octal-dump archeology to the desk drawers
The guy with me said "what have you done?! You destroyed months of archeology!"
I said "don't worry"; as soon as the bigwig left, I opened the drawers, put the archeology back on desk in the same order it was before
Thanks for coming to help. No, we can't say why we called – it's classified
BASICally still alive: Classic language celebrates 60 years with new code and old quirks
Bill advances to exonerate hundreds in Post Office Horizon scandal
Intel, Ampere show running LLMs on CPUs isn't as crazy as it sounds
The chip that changed my world – and yours
Help! My mouse climbed a wall and now it doesn't work right
Yes, I did just crash that critical app. And you should thank me for having done so
Cloudflare defeats another patent troll with crowd-sourced prior-art army
Post Office boss unable to say when biz knew Horizon could be remotely altered
WTF? Potty-mouthed intern's obscene error message mostly amused manager
Another airline finds loose bolts in Boeing 737-9 during post-blowout fleet inspections
New year, new bug – rivalry between devs led to a deep-code disaster
People power made payroll support in putrid places prodigiously perilous
‘I needed antihistamine tablets every time I opened the computers’
PLACEHOLDER ONLY Someone please write witty headline here
You don't get what you don't pay for, but nobody is paid enough to be abused
User read the manual, followed instructions, still couldn't make 'Excel' work
Former infosec COO pleads guilty to attacking hospitals to drum up business
Apple and Lenovo are dropping the ball for visually impaired users
China suggests America 'carefully consider' those chip investment bans
You shouldn't be able to buy devices that tamper with diesel truck emissions on eBay, says DoJ
US Trademark Office still wants to keep faxes, but is willing to try this cloud thing
PEBCAK problem transformed young techie into grizzled cynical sysadmin
UK admits 'spy clause' can't be used for scanning encrypted chat – it's not 'feasible'
Windows screensaver left broadcast techie all at sea
Friday 25th August 2023 22:26 GMT
Re: "Happily, we never heard a word about it from anyone,"
Way back, my monthly summary said "X had to stop work on Y (which is on the critical path to Z) and start masturbating Z". Report went up the channel, no echo
A few months later, I wrote "so the ayatollahs of X have shown us our un-islamic ways". My boss got a messages to get me to control my language. I asked about ayatollahs being non-Ok when the M-word was OK. Management hd someone dig up the monthly reports -- which were supposedly read carefully, all the way up the management chain.
(this involved 2 sites, separated by 10 time-zones. My immediate boss did not have English as mother tongue -- and they don't teach such words in school)
Pack of GM Cruise robo-taxis freeze, snarl up Friday night traffic amid festival crowds
The price of freedom turned out to be an afternoon of tech panic
Lock-in to legacy code is a thing. Being locked in by legacy code is another thing entirely
How to get a computer get stuck in a lift? Ask an 'illegal engineer'
Friday 4th August 2023 22:19 GMT
rope Re: Not a lift but…..
Hebrew U CS got a PFDP11/55 delivered. It came Friday afternoon to TLV, and nobody wanted to risk it vanishing into customs' bottomless pit; so to Jerusalem it went.
No U staff around; so we tied the half-ton box to the floor upstairs (place looked like a castle gate), drove the truck forward, stopped teh box's swing by a table (which duly splintered), pushed it to a corner, left the rest for Sunday morning.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
