Posts by Michael Hoffmann 454 posts • joined 12 Jul 2007
You know, until recently I wouldn't understood what you were talking about: "why not point it at the sun and hit the thrust button?"
Then I started playing Kerbal Space Program. Now I was able to nod sagely at your comment.
ElReg, could we have a Kerbal icon? The ET one doesn't quite work here.
... made a big announcement last re:invent of adding AMD instances with a 10% lower price tag. The smugness at the AMD stand was palpable.
The big lagging indicator was "certified AMIs" - but I started shifting test and stage workloads over almost immediately without any issues whatsoever. Apart from telling the manglement and beancounters "and it's 10% cheaper".
Spot instances are *really* sweet: in my region the price tag has been as low as 20-25% of on-demand (Intel generally around 25-33%).
I'm due for a refresher on my own dev/play box - but the horrible exchange rates, shipping costs and other covid snafu are making that a "will not pass the missus" proposal :( It would have been my first AMD machine...
... comes around, Milky Way. Andromeda is gonna do that to you in 2 billion years or so. It's on its way!
(ok, yeah, they're going to rip each other to shreds due to more similar size, but still. No more spiral, just another big elliptic, undistinguished blob. With an even bigger, fatter black hole in the centre. Kind of like your typical corporate M&A)
Thanks for that megatsunami debunk link.
I speed read through the article, because the comments were where the fun really began and the author's replies to many of those was a hoot. Some of those commenters would qualify as science advisors for the Trump administration.
The article mentions E&Y and the consequences they may face briefly, but the German FAZ states that it may go beyond and this could be for E&Y what Enron was for Arthur Anderson. Somebody may want to raid their offices and confiscate all the document shredders - and backup tapes.
How many of you, like me, are still recovering from the days when MS Access was routinely installed on CorpDrones PCs and suddenly business and mission critical "apps" (glorfied DB front-ends with databases that could be normalised via "DROP TABLE" and starting over) were all over the place in unknown directories on non-backed-up hard-disks?
Meh, Cooper's is still just a mega-brewery.
Now, what you do it, you see, you get off the plane in Tullamarine and then head on up the Calder freeway. When you've got Mount Macedon on your right, you head off the freeway and west into Woodend.
About halfway through town you stop and walk into the Holgate Brewhouse.
Have a Heifer Weizen, if it's in season. Try all the others, as recommended by the folks behind the bar! When through the list, start over from the beginning. Thank me when you're sober again.
Now *that* is a family owned little brewery that knows its craft!
IIUC if Hyper-V is turned on, then Workstation will use the HV hypervisor instead.
I now upgraded and am looking at my VMs with dismay. Watching screen refreshes is like continental drift. Tested with CentOS 7, CentOS 8, Catalina Hackintosh and Windows 7 VMs. It's like my CPU was converted into a Pentium 90 and my GPU is... gone.
I'll give a pass on the Hackintosh, it's not supported after all, but the others?!
Blaming US sanctions may just be a convenient excuse.
There are now daily articles in the Aussie media (only today in The Age) about Aus companies that are fronts for the PLA and the CCP which have been buying up medical and other supplies en masse long before China admitted to the epidemic. Showing that they lied about when this started becoming critical, but also contributing to the shortage of some things like face masks here.
It will be interesting whether there will be a reckoning when this is all over, putting a severe damper on Winnie the Pooh's global ambitions or whether it's back to business as usual.
It's been a few years, but one thing that kept me away from a fully unified approach was when you had to do any kind of animation - and I'm only talking 2D not even 3D here.
I still ended up using things like SpriteKit, so Forms just wasn't an option and I still ended up with separate codebase for iOS and Android.
SkiaSharp was in its infancy - for me it simply would not play nice. Has that improved?
So true for many other languages as well.
"pip install ..." one package - and your screen fills with pages full of dependency downloads.
I've started putting all those into requirements.txt just for my own sanity, version locked inside a virtualenv or container.
And hope like hell those version dependencies remain available. Apart from forking every single one of them, I'm not sure what you *can* do. Rewrite the lot? :-|
I'm hightly confused. The article stated 4 solar masses as lower limit for a black hole.
Yet I had learned - and a quick glance at Wikipedia confirms - that the Chandrasekhar limit is 1.4 solar masses, which would first lead to a neutron star and at around 2.3 even neutrons couldn't resist and would collapse to a black hole (though centrifugal force by rotation could forestall this for a while).
A finding of a 3 solar mass black hole wouldn't contradict that and I couldn't immediately find anything (it's Friday afternoon beer o'clock so there's limits) that this has changed.
Did I miss something?
I'd have to watch that episode again (In the Shadow of Zha'ha'dum(sp?) part 2, IIRC? can't believe I can remember that without looking it up), but I always thought it *was* indeed Kosh, whose "soul" had somehow entered or become part of Sheridan after the former's assassination.
I thought the voice was distinctly Kosh and not Lorien. Seeing as I have them all on VHS(!) still, it'll be a bit of an effort to check (yes, I bet I could get them all from less legal venues).
Well, a close approximation of that does exist.
It generally costs at least 5 times more, though. It's called business or first class. You still have some rights up there, instead of "you get what you paid for" in cattle, you ... OK, you "pay and at least get something".
Generally also far lower likelihood of having any persons younger than 12. The business (wo)men tend to quietly keep to themselves. The odd honeymooners shelling out on their frequent flyer miles and too busy with each other.
No risk of DVT. Flight attendants whose smiles *do* occasionally touch their eyes instead of being plastered on. The, you get those nice little bags with earplugs in them, for when you forgot your own or left them in the check-in bags.
Having to fly very long distance at the least every 2, but more like every year, I can fortunately save up and spend a long time shopping for the right deal. It's amazing what you can dig up in the byzantine airline pricing schemes.
Exactly my thought when I now saw this kind of insurance advertised on billboards around Melbourne.
Not being in the charity business, insurance companies will surely have this calculated on how it makes them money. I dare say the exemptions and exclusions as to what measures you're expected to take to demonstrate "due diligance" before they pay out would make a mainframe (*) specialist blanch.
(*) semi-randomly picking an area generally considered to follow very high standards for security, resilience, availability, etc etc etc.
Like the vicious foaming-at-the-mouth hatred of OO programming that suddenly seems to be filling my tech news feeds? I mean, sure let’s discuss shortcomings and failed promises of OO, but some of those seem to rank OO somewhere worse than genocide and child abuse and kicking puppies combined.
Isn't the NSA already the largest employer of mathematicians in the US?
If so, go for it! Shirley if it's so easy, you can walk up to a bunch of them and say "make it so, that we may make this magical new encryption the enforced standard for the world!".
Why wait for all those recalcitrant corporations and furriners, hmm? Stop banging on about it, develop this silver bullet and awestrike us with this mathematical marvel!
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