* Posts by Korev

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Developer battled to write his own documentation, but lost the boss fight

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> He instead received a reprimand, and not long after a termination notice.

So he became Gordon Freeman

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Britain's first small modular reactors to be built in Wales

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> Britain's first small modular reactors to be built in Wales

Isn't that animal cruelty?

Microsoft is building datacenter superclusters that span continents

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Re: a big FU to the GDPR, right?

Looking at the amount of money being wasted invested in AI at the moment, a company paying a 4% of turnover fine would probably be consider it a minor operating expense...

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Re: Maybe not, but maybe

> However, if these sperclusters can run humongous FP64 HPC workloads efficiently (eg. as nutritious DOE-like hub-ba bubba spoke-aroonis), then I'm all for 'em, big time, imho! ;)

A*star in Singapore extended their Infiniband across continents years ago

Big Tech's control freak era is breaking itself apart

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Re: Experts have always known and were ignored, as usual

I've spent most of my career in a regulated industry, it's actually much easier for the ISRM/QA/Whatever to say no than to find an acceptable compromise.

The best person I ever worked with in this field was a rare exception, he used to have a great "Tell me what you want to do and I'll help you get there" approach. Luckily for him and less so for us he saw the incoming changes to the company and decided it was a good time to retire.

UK unveils roadmap for replacing animal testing

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Re: Testing on people

> They do it because otherwise the drugs get tested on humans.

What do you think a clinical trial is?

AI slop hits new high as fake country artist goes to #1 on Billboard digital songs chart

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Re: Country Music

Never gonna give you up

Never gonna let you down

Oh, sorry

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Re: Country Music

> What happens if you tune into the “Satanist” station?

Then you get to hear this, so not all bad news

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Re: More to come

> Ho back to buying CD's and merch, it's the best thing anyone can do.

I've taken to buying downloads[0] on Bandcamp Friday, I almost see it as a donation to the bands I like

[0] And then streaming the songs anyway as annoyingly it's easier than playing your own downloads on my smart speakers

AI isn't throttling HPC. It is HPC

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> This means, for example, analyzing more compounds in more permutations in drug discovery

Exactly what I'm doing today, the problem is looking more like a data analysis problem then an ML/AI or HPC problem

Altman sticks a different hand out, wants tax credits instead of gov loans

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Re: Dotcom 2.0

> You just know we're all waiting for it. It's going to burst like a high pressure tyre.

So they're not going to have a Goodyear?

Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cellular networks

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Re: as always the consumer comes last

> The 6Ghz will be a separate radio to the 2.4 and 5 GHz radio’s and thus only used by a few devices, like TV’s streaming within a room.

As the Telly never moves, shouldn't it be connected using Ethernet?

Techie ran up $40,000 bill trying to download a driver

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I used to work somewhere with an office on the border between France and Switzerland. iphones had just started to be given to people, but roaming charges were still insane. Apparently the phones belonging to people in one building with poor mobile reception flipped to the other country's network and then ran up huge phone bills.

It didn't take long for the order to go out telling people to disable roaming...

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Regomiser

William should have been Regomised to Bill for this one

Lenovo puts the 'cloud' in cloud computing, proposes mid-air datacenters

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Re: Subterranean data centres?

I know all about the 2nd Trafalgar Square variation and all that, but since when have servers been crescent shaped?

Help desk boss fell for ‘Internet Cleaning Day’ prank - then swore he got the joke

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He should have told them to "Turn if off and mason again"

Boffins: cloud computing's on-demand biz model is failing us

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Modern science - from bioinformatics to astrophysics - depends heavily on sophisticated computer modeling, yet cloud providers' business-focused models clash with how scientific projects consume computing resources, argue Vanessa Sochat and Daniel Milroy, both post-doctoral researchers in computing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

I don't know what the Astrophysics boffins get up to, but a lot of bioinformatics workflows are embarrassingly parallel[0] and work well with AWS Spot instances[1]

[0] An example would be the Fastq files from a sequencing run which need to be QCed and aligned

[1] Other clouds are available

Azure stumbles in Western Europe, Microsoft blames 'thermal event'

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Re: Battery Backup Systems?

A pint for "Fire sale"

From Intel to the infinite, Pat Gelsinger wants Christian AI to change the world

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Will they look into the Cross-entropy loss of their model?

‘ERP down for emergency maintenance’ was code for ‘You deleted what?’

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After that mess, Holden said the company issued strict instructions that the team must always use the BEGIN TRANSACTION , ROLLBACK TRANSACTION, and COMMIT TRANSACTION commands!

And also, access should only be granted to a SELECT few

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A bit of a gambler?

Was he playing Texas Holden with the database?

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Re: Why?

I'm pretty sure that this is one of the big advantages of using Views

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Cluedo?

As the Regomiser has christened him "Holden", can we surmise that it was a car Company with the keyboard in the drawing room Australia?

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Re: What reporting system...

It was written / customised by a third party and sounds like things didn't go well

NHS left with sick PCs as suppliers resist Windows 11 treatment

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Re: NHS hospitals

Well, 95 > 11, so who's laughing?

O2 cranks prices mid-contract, essentially telling customers to like it or lump it

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Don't give O2 the Oxygen of Publicity

DNS downing clouds is boring: IBM Cloud is experiencing a quantum computer outage

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Re: Isn't this exactly how quantum computing works ?

It's a Qubit like that

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Re: Who skipped geography class?

Further forward then the well known IT text, Fly Phishing by JR Hartley

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Re: Who skipped geography class?

To many Americans, "Europe" is a country

There's mushroom for improvement in fungal computing

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You sound like a Fungi at parties!

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I hear they're having a Puffball

Twist in Tesco vs. VMware case as Computacenter files claim against Broadcom, Dell

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Re: Lawyers will love this

Every Little Helps

BOFH: Saving the planet, one falsified metric at a time

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Re: Which side of the pond are you?

At some point in the late 90s / early 00s the BOFH moved to London.

Probably for the best as the PFY loves his Onion Bhajis and the Indian food is great there... (ring of fire icon -->)

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Re: Which side of the pond are you?

That comment Towers above the rest

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Re: Which side of the pond are you?

We're tyred of American English here

New boss took charge of project code and sent two billion unwanted emails

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If he worked in The City, shouldn't the Regomiser have christened him Rich?

A single DNS race condition brought Amazon's cloud empire to its knees

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Re: bed is stuck

Socks4 or Socks5?

Microsoft finance slang defines the eternal optimist: The 'hockey stick on wheels'

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Sounds like you need to pitch your idea

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> I'm sure there is a puck joke in there somewhere.

Well if that's your goal...

Dropping Nvidia for Amazon's custom chips helped gene therapy startup Metagenomi cut AI bill 56%

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Are they using Genetic algorithms?

Lloyds Banking Group claims Microsoft Copilot saves staff 46 minutes a day

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"This page is intentionally blank"

Company that made power systems for servers didn’t know why its own machines ran out of juice

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Re: A case of oops rather than UPS

I'm wired about it

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Re: A case of oops rather than UPS

We Volted at the chance to have some pun

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Re: A case of oops rather than UPS

That was a powerful joke

Major AWS outage across US-East region breaks half the internet

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Re: Building cross region resiliency is fairly easy

> The JCB going through your network link is as always one other consideration, although in that case if you are clod based then EVERYTHING will be down.

Isn't being Clod-based the problem here?

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Re: DNS

> It seems like DNS is often treated as too simple and not glamourous enough to give it attention.

Yeah, it's such a Bind

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Too much in us-east-1

Too much of the planet relies on us-east-1, society should start removing reliance on this point of failure...

Ruby Central tries to make peace after 'hostile takeover'

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Re: R

When I used to do a lot of R, I realised I was basically a HadleyTidyverse programmer as "Core R" was nowhere near as useful.

UK calls up Armed Forces veterans for digital ID soft launch

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> Once more into the, er, breach?

Superb by line -->

'Fax virus' panicked a manager and sparked job-killing Reply-All incident

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> The Reply-All email came from a lowly consultant, who was let go for his criticism of the exec who sent the mail.

Looks like the Exec couldn't handle the Fax