Posts by Siberian Hamster 75 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Aug 2012
Yet another falling for the "We (as in England) support you financially so you should be grateful" brigade. If you educated yourself a bit more maybe you'd realise the untruths you've been fed.
Here's a bit of help, the McCrone Report, hidden by the Westminster government to stifle Scottish independence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCrone_report#:~:text=Report%20content,-The%20eighteen-page&text=The%20report%20stated%3A,secure%20the%20Government%20%27take%27.
You're correct in stating hydrogen embrittlement is a real thing and a concern for pipeline steels. For clarity, the basic mechanism that occurs is hydrogen dissociates at the steel surface and travels into the outer layer of the steel and takes up an interstitial location in the lattice structure. Some further mechanisms take place that then cause embrittlement but ultimately it has nothing to do with the size of the H2 molecule.
A real BOFH would already have a special drawer of self made 'O.MG cable' type cables with various payloads designated by cable colour. Linus of LTT has recently done a run through of what the cables can/could do, I'm never trusting an unknown cable again!
Without seeing the actual circuit to understand if they've come up with a subtle improvement to existing designs, this is likely just the current gen of power circuit that adjusts operating frequency to optimise power efficiency. Effectively the same as in these power bank type devices that take a 3.7-4.2v Li ion cell and output a stable 5v. Older designs use a fixed frequency with varying duty cycle to provide the 5v where the efficiency decreases as the battery voltage drops. Newer designs also vary the frequency as the battery voltage drops which provides better efficiency.
Trygve Henriksen
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Re: WTF?
I'm leftanded, so ball-point pens have 75% or less reliability.
Which is why I prefer felt-tip pens...
Mine's the one with maps and a compass in the pocket...
Those who downvoted this please enlighten me, I have no idea why anyone would be so enraged by this post feel the need to downvote it.
I am genuinely interested.
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All sorts of reasons but ultimately it boils down to another way to manipulate employees.
I was the secretary of a local branch of a union in a previous employer and got to see the pay of the 80 odd union members. During professional reviews where a pay increase up to 3% could be rewarded for exceptional performance, a couple approached me afterwards confidentially to complain although their managers had recognised their exceptional contribution they had only been given a 1.5% increase, the managers citing the difficulties the company were going through at the time, and to not tell their co-workers.
Transpired that nearly everyone had been given the same 1.5% and told to keep quiet about it as he/she were one of the select few to get this lofty increase!
Already been suggested...
Siberian Hamster
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I have the inkling that there's a new internet law occurring...
As the length of a comments section increases the probability that someone states that the problem/issue is due to or can be fixed by Brexit tends to 1.
In deference to my favourite author I propose it is termed the PTerry Law.
Split throttles for each screw is common to allow low speed manoeuvrability, at low speeds there is not enough water flowing past the rudder to afford as tight a turning circle as can be achieved with split throttles.
That being said, to split the throttles across two screens is utter madness unless it is spelt out in bright flashing 144pt comic sans!
I have the inkling that there's a new internet law occurring...
As the length of a comments section increases the probability that someone states that the problem/issue is due to or can be fixed by Brexit tends to 1.
In deference to my favourite author I propose it is termed the PTerry Law.
Whole heartedly agree, but there is one point that has not been raised and that is cheating. This model effectively makes current BOTs useless. With the CPU load not being visible/run on the local computer hooking a bot into game code becomes a completely different prospect.
What a wonderful idea for an experiment...
As a non coffee/caffeine drinker I can tell when one or two of my colleagues who drink coffee caffeine levels drop dangerously low by the almost slurring of thought process. Swapping lids could be a good experiment in showing how much some of them depend on it on a daily basis.
I cannot agree with you more wholeheartedly! There were two assistants in my local Maplin that actually took an interest in what they were selling and I asked them why they didn't do 'demonstration days' to get people in and involved and therefore buying.
They both said the same, manglement were not interested in the slightest, all they were interested in were sales, there was no opportunity or encouragement to help drive anything by the staff.
As has been already said, if they have regular coding clubs or sessions for various age groups in store I think they could achieve so much.
Au contraire mon ami, machines like this are a direct response to seeing the likes of Apple (read Apple!) being able to sell machines at significant margins compared to their competitors and Microsoft wanting to jump on that bandwagon.
I completely agree with you the real world advantage of upgrading to the latest tech is fairly marginal nowadays with the likes of computers or phones, as we have got to the point where outside of 'power users' even three year old kit can easily do 99% of tasks.
As for the target market, I would say firmly planted in the 'large disposable income, keeping ahead of the Jones' group that Apple target. Working in an academic field, I hear on occasion of staff buying Apple computers from their budgets then complaining that a specialized bit of software only runs on Windows!
5) Willingness to bargain hard for pay, a trait that is significantly greater in men, or so the psychologists tell us.
This I think is the over riding factor in all of this.
I'm willing to bet beer tokens that the moment a study is done to relate the level of 'risk taking' behaviour in regards to negotiating for a higher salary against not getting a job there will be a direct correlation.
I joined a new company where they took on three of us each covering a different sector, two guys and a girl. Talking together a few months later, I was the only one to ask to discuss starting salary. I started almost 10% higher than both the others, even though being honest we were all at about the same level of experience and knowledge.
Actually TouchID is definitely not secure against this attack, as I demonstrated (a few years ago now) to a friend less than a week after he got his new iPhone!
He was proudly willy waving his iPhone around when we were over his place so I sent his son off to the local shop for some sweets. It took a few tries but I got his phone unlocked after warming up a gummy bear and kneading it thinner.
He shut up about his phone for a quite a while after that!
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/24/iphone_touchid_hack/
So just for this one guy's input Valve have paid out on two bounties totalling £45k, I can't help but wonder a few things...
Why aren't they just employing a couple of staff to be full time pen testers, surely it's the cheaper option?
While this bounty program is in place I would be worried that any internal staff of questionable morals coming across a bug would, rather than fixing said bug would look to strike a deal with an external pen tester to share a bounty.
Sorry for calling you Shirley.
Must. not... bite...
<nasally voice> Ah but the STe blah blah blah...
Graphically yes I will now concede the Amiga was the superior machine but the Atari being clocked at 8MHz to the Amiga's 7.14MHz meant for 3D games like Elite it was the better machine.
At least the rivalry wasn't as intense as it was between C64 and Spectrum owners previously.
Another good one is ( or so I've heard...) is to slip a Desktop's power supply voltage input selector slider between 110v and 240v. Said power supply makes a resounding 'Zap!/Fizzle' as it goes. Once you've heard it once you'll remember to check what the site voltage supply if you're expect to have a 'mobile desktop'.
Actually more akin to if they have a noticeboard for people to pin business cards and the like to.
You wouldn't expect them to check that every type of 'Joe Bloggs roofing contractors, we're the best in the business' is backed up with actual facts but you would expect them to remove something such as 'The guy just moved into no.56 Somesuch Street is a just released paedo' .
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