* Posts by Korev

4934 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Aug 2016

Bad news. Asteroid 1999 KW4 flew by, did not hit Earth killing us all. Good news: Another one, Didymos, is on the way

Korev Silver badge
Boffin

Re: Up with this sort of thing!

Obligatory Mitchel & Webb

Korev Silver badge
Joke

Re: Up with this sort of thing!

Well, it's not exactly rocket science...

...Oh, well it's not exactly brain surgery...

IBM accused of pumping staff retirement funds into a tanking stock... IBM's to be exact

Korev Silver badge
Coat

Re: Pfft... stupid

You could measure the difference between the Plebs' and the Directors' fund using the Giini coefficient.

Uncle Sam wants to read your tweets, check out your Instagram, log your email addresses before you enter the Land of the Free on a visa

Korev Silver badge
Childcatcher

Re: Hello darkness, my old friend

Don't just do maths on the plane, someone might report you if things don't add up[0]...

[0] Pun intentional

Supra smart TVs aren't so super smart: Hole lets hackers go all Max Headroom on e-tellies

Korev Silver badge

Re: Not impressed with so called smart TVs full stop.

My Samsung "Smart TV" is made smart with a Chromecast...

Apple kills iTunes, preps pricey Mac Pro, gives iPad its own OS – plus: That $999 monitor stand

Korev Silver badge
Coat

Re: Grand stand

Nope, they should stand up for the profit margins...

Korev Silver badge
Boffin

Re: 1.4kW???

Am I to run nuclear fusion simulations in real time or something?

It wasn't long ago that 24TF would have been the fastest computer on the planet... Even just a decade ago, that would have put your machine in the Top 250 computers on the planet

Ready with the 'welcome neighbour' fruitbasket, retailers? Amazon opens Manchester pop-up shop

Korev Silver badge
Joke

Re: Jelly?

This punter is

Cooksie is *bam-bam* iGlad all over: Folk are actually buying Apple's fondleslabs again

Korev Silver badge
Joke

Re: Be careful out there

Yes, one must watch out for the Batphones

One man went to mow a meadow, hoping Trump would spot giant grass snake under flightpath

Korev Silver badge
Coat

Re: He left the grass cuttings on the field...

Mow way!

Korev Silver badge
Coat

Re: He left the grass cuttings on the field...

He couldn't be grassed...

Korev Silver badge
Pint

Re: What a pity

You're evil...

...But I laughed -->

Apple iPrunes iTunes: Moldering platform's death expected to be announced at WWDC

Korev Silver badge
Coat

I was keeping it, just skin case

Korev Silver badge
Joke

So Apple are going to focus on their core business

Planes, fails and automobiles: Overseas callout saved by gentle thrust of server CD tray

Korev Silver badge
Thumb Up

Re: This too was in the middle of nowhere in North Wales

Sounds great

Korev Silver badge
Windows

Re: airport security

And I just thought you were pleased to see me...

Korev Silver badge
Pint

Re: Target

Personally I believe that Civilisation ends at the Tamar; you may call your wife a Northerner from me :)

Mine's a Skinner's -->

Oh, the massive sky dong? Contrails from 'standard' F-35 training, US Air Force insists

Korev Silver badge
Coat

Re: Where's the US Army?

The US Army's weapon handling skills are legendary...

Korev Silver badge
Coat

Re: Standard Operating Procedure

Or they'll get their errr biggest guy to Trump it...

Korev Silver badge
Coat

On the radio....

I wiggled the flaps and this happened Sir

AI systems sieve out catfish from the dating pool in effort to lock away scammers

Korev Silver badge
Joke

If I could be Kerased

Korev Silver badge
Coat

Yes, I'll have a GANder in a moment...

Korev Silver badge
Joke

Re: "Are you tired of being lonely? Do you want to find REAL love?"

Well, duh, in The Register of course....

Buy, buy this American PCIe, drove my PC on the Wi-Fi so the Wi-Fi would fly

Korev Silver badge

Re: Well this is stupid

IO might be AMDs killer advantage in 2019...

Security could well be very important too.

Korev Silver badge
Boffin

Re: Next Big Thing

The upside for us mortals is that 10GigE will become cheap and 100GigE will be affordable.

Former unicorn MapR desperately seeking cash as threat of closure looms

Korev Silver badge

You're correct, but I can't help but feel sorry for the 122 staff...

Ikea hopes to spare shoppers the one-way Helvete of its stores with ÅR app overhaul

Korev Silver badge

Re: exit(1)

A few airports now do this after security with the duty free, it's bloody annoying.

When two tribes go to war... Intel, AMD tease new chips at Computex: Your spin-free summary

Korev Silver badge
Boffin

Re: Intel: anything about spectre meltdown and related?

On HPC clusters hyperthreading off seems to be the default, am I correct?

Yes, in most places.

Korev Silver badge
Terminator

Re: benchmarks ?

any actual benchmarks would show that for server workloads (with security patches applied for Side Channel Attacks) it looks like Intel is toast...

Aren't the point of benchmarks to show the actual situation in a reproducible way[0] so people don't have to speculate[1] about it?

[0] Obviously how to benchmark is controversial and each vendor has its own preferred "method"

[1] Pun semi-intended

Tesla's autonomous lane changing software is worse at driving than humans, and more

Korev Silver badge

Re: Either it's autonomous or not

When I used to commute by car, sometimes I'd arrive in the office and not remember anything about the journey. I can't imagine that was very safe...

Korev Silver badge
Joke

Tiredness kills, taking breaks saves lives

Only slightly in jest -->

Korev Silver badge
Joke

Re: "performed worse than human drivers when trying to change lanes automatically"

Law enforcement representatives who spoke to Consumer Reports said the software cut off other cars without giving them enough space and sped past cars in ways that “violate state laws”.

Sounds like they've trained their models on BMW and Audi drivers

Uh-oh .io: Question mark hangs over trendy tech startup domains as UN condemns British empire hangover

Korev Silver badge
Coat

Good to see some cheques and balances in ElReg's comments

If servers go down but no one hears them, did they really fail? Think about it over lunch

Korev Silver badge
Childcatcher

Re: I understand setting English language as a software standard, but hardware?

One huge annoyance with people using the US locale for English is that the dates are the wrong way around and (arguably) the spelling is a bit odd...

Korev Silver badge
Coat

It's like shutting the stable door after the horse has volted

Korev Silver badge
Pint

Re: "the start of the working week"?

It's not a Bank Holiday here... Enjoy yourselves Britons -->

Korev Silver badge
Coat

There will always be some resistance to this policy though...

Korev Silver badge
Coat

One should always check the current standards for voltage before plugging in

It's all in the RISC: Arm legs it to Computex with a head full of Cortex-A77 CPU, Mali-G77 GPUs

Korev Silver badge
Pint

Damn, you beat me to it -->

Korev Silver badge
Joke

Re: re Huawei

Well, he does have a chip on his shoulder about Huawei

That magical super material Apple hopes will hit backspace on its keyboard woes? Nylon

Korev Silver badge
Boffin

Re: Macs in biomedical research

Almost every lab machine we have is running Windows these days too. There are a few instruments like the Mass Specs which use Linux.

Korev Silver badge

Re: Apple is stubborn if nothing else

The hockey puck mouse really, really made my hand hurt as it was too small.

Uber JUMPs at chance to dump load of electric bikes across Islington

Korev Silver badge

Re: Provision for the disabled ?

Other than suggesting to their users to leave the bike so wheelchairs (as well as prams & pushchairs) can get along the pavement.

Korev Silver badge

Re: Provision for the disabled ?

Out of interest, AC, what kind of provision would you like to see?

Korev Silver badge

Re: Chinese bikes already here

Not in every country...

Want to train a dragon? You'll need 500 million files, 730TB of data, 54,000 CPU cores...

Korev Silver badge
Coat

Re: Files

Do you know where to log a complaint?

Korev Silver badge

Re: Files

It's a huge number of files.

In HPC land we'd normally use something like HDF5 to store the images (or other matrices) which are then very fast to access compared to have zillions of files all over the filesystem. Some people also use SQLite for this and I assume there are other similar tools that'd also work.

Never let something so flimsy as a locked door to the computer room stand in the way of an auditor on the warpath

Korev Silver badge
Joke

Re: whether if they'd had their sidearms they could have shot the lock off instead

Thanks for the info

Love Osama xx

Why telcos 'handed over' people's GPS coords to a bounty hunter: He just had to ask nicely

Korev Silver badge
Terminator

Re: Capitalism baby

If in the future the Police are forced to drive electric vehicles (definitely communism) and we have to pay for them (also communism), it will potentially create ultra communists.

The Police in Basel spent a fortune on Teslas only to have to turn off some of the features for data privacy reasons...

Tim Peake's Soyuz lands in London after jaunt around the UK

Korev Silver badge
Joke

Re: Scarier than Manchester?

Just swipe left and be done with it...