Posts by The Dark Side Of The Mind (TDSOTM)

That awful moment when what you thought was a number 1 turned out to be a number 2

Re: Simplified English

Engrish

Tinfoil hat brigade switches brand allegiance to bog paper

Re: DIY bidet installation kits

Yeah, plenty of those in my area, at ~40 EUR and change. Made in China, obviously.

The major drawback is they have to be powered somehow from the wall socket and their User Manual is mostly useless. They can vary the pressure, the temperature and the spread of the jets trhough a control panel akin to the remote control of a small toy helicopter.

Installin such a device in a household with kids can provide endless joy...

Re: That sounds like ...

"That sounds like a haired brain idea."

FTFY

Sadly, the web has brought a whole new meaning to the phrase 'nothing is true; everything is permitted'

Re: a better quality of idiot. maybe.

Nope. They were just fewer and more contained/confined.

Tech can endure the most inhospitable environments: Space, underwater, down t'pit... even hairdressers

Re: Surprisingly ...

I gather you watched enough of them to get immunized. So did I.

So you locked your backups away for years, huh? Allow me to introduce my colleagues, Brute, Force and Ignorance

Re: freezers

The freezers work best for worn-out bearings in (relatively) fast spinning drives, while in the XT era the "stiction" (from "static friction") was caused by the heads getting stuck on the platters... In that case, freezing would do only worse.

Doogee Wowser: The S40's a terrible smartphone, but a passable projectile

Re: Usefulness

"That might defeat the purpose of a cold room, though"

Or would blow the HVAC budget.

The silence of the racks is deafening, production gear has gone dark – so which wire do we cut?

Re: The big red button

I once had an "internal" UPS on ISA bus with a lead-acid battery (industry standard by then) stuck inside the mid-tower PC case and secured with 2-sided adhesive tape... It ran flawlessly for almost 6 years until the electrolyte dried a few weeks before a power outage... And it had almost no monitoring capabilities (more than 20 years ago)... That piece got to rest a while in a "spare" equipment for 2 more years before some beancounter decided that the residual value was NIL.

Re: The big red button

Have a pint, you brave soul. Hercules on WfW 3.11 was a nice trick to do back then, more so without proper documentation.

Google promises to be good with Knative as it releases Cloud Run serverless containers

Re: Google to the Rescue !

... feeding a bit more to the bottom line in the process of "not controlling outcomes".

Come on, you can't be serious: Now Australia mulls face-recog tech for p0rno site age checks

Re: Hmmmm...

What? A 400x mag of the thing upscaled to 4k?

Microsoft explains self-serve Power platform's bypassing of Office 365 admins to cries of 'are you completely insane?'

Re: Many moons ago

"The business only approaches IT when they forget how incompetent it(self) is"

FTFY

Socket to the energy bill: 5-bed home with stupid number of power outlets leaves us asking... why?

Off topic

I just used the full-sized GPT-2 from https://talktotransformer.com/ on the opening paragraph... the result made me chuckle a bit.

"Buying a house is a major ordeal. You go from door to door, months zip past and something's never quite right... then you find it, "the one". A five-bedroom home in Pinner, Harrow, northwest London. It's exactly the size you had hoped and dreamt it would be. The price? £1,395,000. You're a good man - you've made it.

Or is it? The only way to find out is to buy it.

The first thing you see when you knock on the front door is a man holding a broom handle in one hand.

This is the house's "landlady", and she greets you with a smile as you step inside. But that smile is broken when you realise she's wearing a wig and a dress and you're wondering why she's so happy.

Inside, everything is perfectly normal. It's a family home, but the children are not. In fact, they're probably all dead.

And the family has left their home in a different part of London - the one you live in now.

This is one of the most incredible real estate deals."

Daaa-aaad. She took my coding robot. No, I had it first

Dave, I'm afraid I can't let you do that.

Do they come with the flamethrower option?

...

The power axe option, then?

You're flowing it wrong: Bad network route between Microsoft, Apple blamed for Azure, O365 MFA outage

Re: Design, we've heard of it

Microsoft is pretty adept at ignoring trends. MSFT ignored the commercial Internet and spun out their own dubious and vague Microsoft Network that almost nobody used, only to rush to patch up a lot later in the game and doing a mess in the process. MSFT also ignored the clear and open standards for the web and birthed the most despised lineage of browsers ever. They also missed the start on mobile connected devices (even though their WinCE worked surprisingly well in many cases) only to shoot themselves in the foot with Windows 8/RT and enslavement of Nokia to the Evil Empire. They mocked the Open Source movement and achievements for decades only to embrace them towards the end of the second decade of this century...

They are changing their coats those years, but the nasty habbits are still there. They have enough glamour and business prowess to attract some brilliant people from time to time, though (Sysinternals comes to mind first, but for sure there are many unsung heroes in the pot).

We're late and we're unreliable but we won't invalidate your warranty: We're engineers!

Re: I go bang!

Like 50 times per second... and for a loooong while.

Apple: Ok, ok, we'll stop listening in on your Siri conversations. For now, but maybe in the future

Re: Salt the data ?

This might work if privacy would have the same meme potential and media coverage as Area 51. Until that happens there can only be a bunch of geeks playing pranks on phones, like it was in the (not so distant) past...

Literally braking news: Two people hurt as not one but two self-driving space-age buses go awry

Re: Physics will still be applied

They'll get used to getting off one stop earlier after a few trips and a few pounds less on their bathroom scale.

That this AI can simulate universes in 30ms is not the scary part. It's that its creators don't know why it works so well

Re: Skeletons

Funny enough, but I think the size is attributable to the complexity of lies that it has to serve to the frontal lobes. Consider only the saccades...

Edge-lords crack down on trackers as Microsoft effortlessly kills off PBX phone system, and what's this? Windows Calculator on iOS?

Re: Our company has never had phones

I've seen that countless times...

But Skype still suck.

ENCODE’s ‘junk DNA’ claims spark biological bunfight

@ Field Marshal Von Krakenfart

You've got me at "And who would have thought that a dangling pointer could be so much fun." ROTFL

"However I doubt if $DEITY is a programmer". Well, I think (s)he is the ultimate mathematician, as Quantum Mechanics might suggest.