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Posts by GrumpenKraut
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Palantir boss says outfit's software the only reason the 'goose step' has not returned to Europe
Some Intel Core chips keep crashing, game devs complain
Re: Disable Turbo Boost
You get like 15% more CPU performance for like 50% more energy. And 15% CPU power does not usually translate into 15% overall performance. On top of that, benchmarking becomes close to impossible. I have yet to see a compute cluster where any of this boost crap is enabled.
And don't get me started on that hyperthreading dreck.
Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner
Microsoft says it'll throw €3.2B at AI ops in Germany
Robots with a 'Berliner Schnauze' may appear more trustworthy to locals
Linus Torvalds flames Google kernel contributor over filesystem suggestion
One person's shortcut was another's long road to panic
Heuristics, heuristics, and more heuristics.
I tend to use heuristics: Is the thing running on the right host? Does $(pwd) match the prefix it should? Is $USER what it should be? etc. etc.
Bail out with an informative message with anything dubious. Stuff like that has saved my arse so often!
Admittedly, scripts have to be modified sometimes. But that little bit of dull work is preferable to data loss or corruption.
Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worse
Memtest86+, the little RAM tester, flexes FOSS muscles with v7.0
Serenity OS turns five and emits first offspring, Ladybird
Tesla goons will buy anything – including these $150 beers
PEBCAK problem transformed young techie into grizzled cynical sysadmin
"descriptions were far from technically rigorous"
Customer: My internet is broken!
Me: Mine is working fine.
A colleague was in the room and told me after the call "Maybe you should not be saying this". Seconds later he says "Heck, just keep doing it." I did, but only with a very small number of high maintenance customers that were particularly annoying.
Germany's wild boars still too radioactive to eat largely due to Cold War nuke tests
Re: Meanwhile, in Japan...
> What could account for it being concentrated in Bavaria?
Having been there I can give you one reason.
Air moved from the disaster area over parts of southern Germany. There was localized rain at the parts most affected. The rain was just enough to bring down the radioactive stuff, but *not* nearly enough to wash that shit down the drains.
Therefore some places where the rain water collected (but, again, didn't go further) were quite radioactive. At the Uni where I studied we had a small amount of such dirt/sand in the spectrum analyzer (term? I mean the one for radioactivity; that thing needed to be cooled all times). Over time you could watch the half life of several elements you normal never encounter in nature.
P.S.: I'd not be worried about radioactivity unless eating fucktons of that meat (or mushrooms), even in the 'hot' regions.
Western Digital sued over claims of data-trashing SanDisk, My Passport SSDs
AVX10: The benefits of AVX-512 without all the baggage
Playing instruments, musical talent? Psh, this is the 2020s – Meta has models for that now
'Weird numerological coincidence' found during work on Linux kernel 6.5
What does Twitter's new logo really represent?
Mint 21.2 is desktop Linux without the faff
Turning a computer off, then on again, never goes wrong. Right?
The web server that wasn't
Mid 1990s: customer had his own bow with Linux and a web server running on it. Few month later, after a power outage, customer calls us "The web server is gone!", me: "So it did not restart, right?", "No, the *server* is gone!", "OK, I'll have a look". Upon inspection there was nothing at all on the disk. Customer had installed everything in the installation system in RAM, nothing had every been written to disk. Took me quite a while to figure that one out. After new install I made the customer reboot the box to make sure he did not repeat the error.
Free Wednesday gift for you lucky lot: Extra mouse button!
shift-insert for paste
For Linux users: As clicking the wheel tends to rotate it a bit (which messes things up) you can use shift-insert to paste. Apparently very few people know this.
I have long looked for a mouse that has a non-wheel middle key, found zilch. Why the heck does nobody build one?
The bonkers water-cooled shoe PC, hexagonal pink workstations, and IKEA-style cases of Computex 2023
Windows XP's adventures in the afterlife shows copyright's copywrongs
Amazon finds something else AI can supposedly do well: Spotting damaged goods
Cunningly camouflaged cable routed around WAN-sized hole in project budget
Re: Weather?
> ...network would come to a shuddering stop whenever the weather froze...
Because the cold makes the cable shrink and the bends around corner get to sharp, bad with coax. Seen that a one place: -12 degrees or lower simply meant "no network today".
About lightning hitting outdoors cable, seen it once and it was spectacular. All computers in one building toast, network cards had scattered those little electronicy parts, motherboards and RAM were fried as well. Some computers in the other building somehow survived, no idea how. All in all pretty expensive.