* Posts by herman

2057 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Jul 2007

Yes, I did just crash that critical app. And you should thank me for having done so

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Devil

Out of office

…and then you set up an out of office response with reply all…

Your PC can probably run inferencing just fine – so it's already an AI PC

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Re: No wonder hardware vendors are on board

Yup - I definitely need a LLM to control the six valves of my garden sprinkler system and the one thermostat of my home heating. Then it can figure out what to do when the wifey complains 21C is boiling hot and 23C is freezing cold.

Attacks on UK fiber networks mount: Operators beg govt to step in

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Pretty sure no 5G towers were lit on fire in the middle ages.

Grab a helmet because retired ISS batteries are hurtling back to Earth

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From the heavens above

Five people died today when a pallet of food fell on them. A pallet of stuff falling from the sky moves very, very fast.

BOFH: I get locked out, but I get in again

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Locales

Swapping key caps is totally beneath a BOFH. Messing up the locales can be done remotely and blamed on a virus/SW update.

Some Intel Core chips keep crashing, game devs complain

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Re: Golem.de looked closer than ElReg...

200 Watt should be enough to heat your home…

BOFH: Hearken! The Shiny Button software speaks of Strategic Realignment

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Re: Resource re-alignment?

Lemme guess - you worked at Boeing?

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Sounds like Oracle or SAP

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Re: Shiny button software...

An XML database I presume?

Work for you? Again? After you lied about the job and stole my stuff? No thanks

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Re: Being polite is great

That is eeevul!

Dutch insurers demand nudes from breast cancer patients despite ban

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Facepalm

Booby traps

One would think that there are enough boob pics and vids online already.

Tesla's Cybertruck may not be so stainless after all

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Clear coat it

Even aluminium skinned Airstream campers have a clear coat. It will take quite a few rattle cans to coat the whole thing though.

Developer's default setting created turbulence in the flight simulator

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You have to test the whole range 0 to 100%

For aircraft system everything has to be tested to full specification. Although granted, I would not start a test at 100%.

BOFH: Looks like you're writing an email. Fancy telling your colleague to #$%^ off?

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Re: Life imitating art

ChatGPT is good for writing children's bedtime stories, but not much else it seems.

University chops students' Microsoft 365 storage to 20GB

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Angel

Lecce

All those cloudy electrons should be recycled.

Now OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants billions for AI chip fabs

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Coat

Re: build enough assembly lines to ensure there is a healthy supply of AI processors to meet demand

It could indeed be a silly con.

Uncle Sam wants to make it clear that America's elections are very, very safe

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Re: In All The Good Democracies ...

The US is only slightly better than Russia, where voters have only one party and one candidate to choose from.

Can solar power be beamed down from space? Yes. Is it commercially viable? Not yet

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Facepalm

Sol Invictus

The sun is beaming down from space all the time.

Microsoft suggests command line fiddling to get faulty Windows 10 update installed

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Re: When did Windows turn into Linux?

So, your point being? :)

WTF? Potty-mouthed intern's obscene error message mostly amused manager

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Re: I'm ok with a foul language every now and then on a rare error...

Java isn’t designed for use doing anything useful.

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Re: Code comments

There is nothing wrong with using syscalls. Better than writing new code with new bugs.

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Re: Potty mouthed password generator

I preferred DE AD BA BE.

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Angel

Proficiency

You only really know English, once you can insult someone so bad that his Grandma will disown him, without using any swear words.

Boffins demo self-eating rocket engine in Scotland

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That seems like a fun place to work.

Another airline finds loose bolts in Boeing 737-9 during post-blowout fleet inspections

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Devil

Re: Let Me See How I Can Put This ...

Being made sure that the door would not hit anyone on the way out.

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DC10 vs Max 9

Well, one has to give Boeing credit that doors falling off, is better than having engines fall off.

People power made payroll support in putrid places prodigiously perilous

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Navy Mil Std 901

The Naval shock and vibration specification has a 9G shock requirement and I have measured 7G shocks in practise. There are special cable loop shock isolators for that.

The choice: Pay BT megabucks, or do something a bit illegal. OK, that’s no choice

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Procurement? Surely Pringles are not that expensive?

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Re: Similar language problem on Windows 1 0

The story of my life. I am Canadian, bought an Apple Macbook in Arabia (where I lived for ten years), registered it in Canada and now I live in Slovakia. Getting some web sites to open English is impossible and I cannot even use the Apple online store either.

Philips recalls 340 MRI machines because they may explode in an emergency

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Mushroom

As luck may have it

I had a MRI with a Philips machine last year…

You don't get what you don't pay for, but nobody is paid enough to be abused

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Re: "Actually, this is precisely the service you paid for"

Just do an upvote immediately. That will reverse it.

No, no, no! Disco joke hit bum note in the rehab center

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Pink Floyd

Time, would be a good ring tone to torture people with. It starts with a big old Westclocks ticking and ringing.

Bank's datacenter died after travelling back in time to 1970

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Re: Yearly tasks....

I used to set my watch by the BOOM!!! of the Noon Gun on Signal Hill.

BOFH: Just because we've had record revenues doesn't mean you get a Xmas bonus

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Mythical bonus

The mythical bonus is what happens when one myth usurps Mythra’s birthday for another.

'Wobbly spacetime' is latest stab at unifying physics

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Re: TBBT

Fractal symmetry.

UK immigration rules hit science just as it rejoins €100B Horizon program

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Robot nurses

Where are the AI nurse robots?

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Re: We are overdue an adult conversation about immigration

What happened to the industrial revolution? The UK needs to mechanize and stop indentured servitude.

Control Altman delete: OpenAI fires CEO, chairman quits

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PEBKAC

Did Altman Abort, Retry, or Fail?

BOFH: Monitor mount moans end in Beancounter beatdown

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Cost centre round robin

Ayup, that is where $500 toilet seats come from.

CompSci academic thought tech support was useless – until he needed it

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A muse

We are not amused.

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Re: Languages as fonts

Comic Sans is good for people with dyslexia.

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Re: Depends.

I don’t know anyone that likes rap.

Europe bans Meta from using personal data to target ads

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Devil

And nothing was lost

Behavioral ads likely don’t work nearly as well as claimed anyway.

BOFH: Adventures in overenthusiastic automation

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Re: Good use

Blik Met Wiele.

Millions of smart meters will brick it when 2G and 3G turns off

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Re: No corruption here.

I took Net Zero to mean Zero Net benefit to the consumer.

It is 2023 and Excel's reign of date terror might finally be at an end

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Re: but if I enter 2+2 it can't work out

Sortof, Noah’s Abacus had only ten rows and columns.

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Re: Optional

Next, MS will integrate ChatGPT into Excel and you will looove it!

Workload written by student made millions, ran on unsupported hardware, with zero maintenance

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Re: Proof Of Concept Business

#define BLACK WHITE

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Re: Proof Of Concept Business

Isn’t that what Doxygen is for?

BOFH: We've made a big mesh, Boss. That's what you wanted, right?

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Re: I read that as

Didn’t Kwasi used to work at Barings Bank?