Posts by the Kris

Microsoft is redesigning the Windows BSoD to get you back to work ‘as fast as possible’

"better aligns with Windows 11 design principles"

Are they gonna add ads and Copilot to the bsod?

Trump's tariff threats could bump PC prices by almost half

Re: Backwards

> Which will then trickle-down to the poors

Too bad that that doesn't actually happen.

First time's the charm: SpaceX catches a descending Super Heavy Booster

Re: 70 meters tall?

Actually... the "international" SI unit is metre, not Metre. And if the pronunciation is meter and not meh-tre, then why not write meter?

I even doubt the "meter" spelling is not internationally recognised.

Deadbeat dad faked his own death by hacking government databases

Hmm...

"Deadbeat dad" Ah yes, how easy it is to pass judgement without any kind of detail like why didn't he pay, perhaps he couldn't?

TSMC says first 1.6nm chips coming in 2026

Are we getting closer to the kind of electronics chips as in the movie "De lift" aka "The Lift"?

Musk lashes out at Biden administration over rural broadband

What exactly do they mean with a location?

Do they mean a single family house or appartment, or entire appartment buildings, or a mix of those?

These days you can teach old tech a bunch of new tricks

A DB9 connector? I guess they mean a DE-9 connector...

Methane-spotting satellite that gives true readings of industry emissions hits skies in 2024

Re: So how long

"Fewer cattle now than in 1900."

Not really.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Global-animal-stocks-for-1900-1950-2000-and-2050-for-cattle-A-pigs-B-and-sheep_fig2_51130812

Re: The usual misinformation and obfuscation

" the actual science shows CO2 and methane levels follow temperature"

The "actual" science doesn't show that at all.

Check out potholer54's video (https://youtu.be/zQ3PzYU1N7A) for example, that looks at CO2, used sources in the video description.

Liberté, Égalité, Spyware: France okays cops snooping on phones

Re: Yes give the police more power....

"no way the cops could be sure that the kid was too young"

Reasonable doubt is what is needed to warrant an ID check, expecting one to always "be sure" to warrant that is, well, unreasonable.

"French cops are wildly discriminatory against black / N. African people"

Even if that is true, that in no way gives you the right to resist an ID check and endanger people by doing so.

"what we have is a traffic stop that was at least partially racially profiled"

You don't know that, pure assumption.

"AFAIK no drugs, money or any other illegal items were found in the car"

That's irrelevant, cops would need to have foresight to only detain drivers and search cars that do have illegal items in them, that is again, unreasonable.

"giving police the license to shoot at moving vehicles"

If you think that police can just shoot at whatever or whomever they want, you're wrong. But them shooting at a driver that refused to stop and remain stopped 3 times and is endangering the public and the cops with his driving, that is warranted.

Why do you need it to be an unjust and racism based event so badly?

Re: Yes give the police more power....

That's just you wanting to see evil. The driver had already endangered the public, and perhaps the cops, they were in the right attempting to dissuade the driver from taking of again by pointing a gun at him.

Microsoft investigating bug in Windows 11 File Explorer that makes the CPU hangry

Re: "hide protected OS files"

That's a different setting you're talking about, "Show hidden files, folders, and drives", not "Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)"

And if you are aware of the existance of the AppData folder, then you don't need to change that setting, just enter AppData in the navigation bar while being in the User's profile folder.

First ever 64-bit version of Windows rediscovered … and a C compiler for it too

Re: X64 NT4

I didn't realise bootnotes are meant to correct article titles!?

Balloon-borne telescope returns first photos in search for dark matter

Re: Stabiliser?

One of those downvoters care to explain why they downvoted?

Microsoft mucks with PrtScr key for first time in decades

Re: If they already have modified this setting, the preference will be preserved

If you haven't touched the setting, it is not stored in the registry and the system will use the default. I guess they change the default. If you switch it on and off again, they will store that choice in the registry and so your system will not follow the change in default?

It's been 230 years since British pirates robbed the US of the metric system

Indeed, and what if they needed 1/5th, then the fun really starts.

John Deere signs right to repair agreement with US ag lobbyists

Louis Rossmann - John Deere memo

I found this an interesting commentary on the agreement:

John Deere memo: Farmers have NOT won, but that won't stop the news from pretending they did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-RgOUT3zeo

Neuralink's AI brain chip could be in humans within six months claims Elon Musk

Common Sense Skeptic: THE TRUTH ABOUT NEURALINK - TED Talk 2022

I found this interesting, especially the part about side effects of opening up your skull.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yddbGcKYtn4

Star Trek's Nichelle Nichols closes hailing frequencies

Re: A giant

Why this need to dress sexy?

California Right-to-Repair bill quietly killed in committee

Re: Doubt it was Apple

"They are supporting third party repairs now"

Some repairs for some devices. Are you able to buy the charge chip for every MacBook model sold in the last 10 years or so?

Google tests battery backups, aims to ditch emergency datacenter diesel

Re: They are using Fluence Gridstack

They are identified as:

Battery Supplier / Module

CATL / LFP-280LC

These are LiFePO4 batteries from CATL, their 280Ah cells in a liquid cooled frame, as I already suspected would be used.

Lower cost per usable kWh than lead-acid.

Cycle life of 8000 when charging fully and discharging to below 5%.

If they cycle between 20% and 80% cycle life will increase dramatically.

Re: Can someone do the math for me please?

Most likely they will be using LiFePO4, which doesn't contain Cobalt or Nickel.

Diesel generators also need to be maintained, this means oil, coolant, filters, ...

The batteries will also be used to stabilise the grid, this means allowing increased use of renewable energy generation on the grid.

Re: Can someone do the math for me please?

Doing the math:

Most likely they will be using LiFePO4 batteries which have lowest cost per capacity and have the longest lifetime. Under optimal use (e.g. 20%<->80%) we see 10000 cycle lifetime.

So if they were charged and discharged every day between 20% and 80%, they would last 45 years.

(45 years * 365 days * 60% cycle => 9855 cycles)

Techies tell BCS: More and richer data required if COP26 climate pledges are to be met

Re: @Mr. Flibble

"they were doing the 'right' expert thing".

No they weren't.

Elephants were killed based on a claim of an ecologist who thought they were the cause. "experts blamed desertification on over-grazing". But no research showed that that actually was the case and that killing them was the 'right' action to take.

Sparrows were killed based on a claim of a politician. No research showed that that was the 'right' action to take.

I would only agree on that they should've looked at meaningful data before taking any actions.

"Wind farms producing so little energy compared to the 'expected' output".

I have yet to see any reports confirming that, I've seen only the opposite, doing close to or far better than expected.

The energy shortage has jack shit to do with wind farms and home solar. It has everything to do with politics, namely pandemic and monetary mismanagement.

Re: Climate Change

The name was changed because too many people misunderstand the term, and not because "the temperature going the wrong way: down not up". It couldn't be for that reason, because it isn't going down, it is going up.

If I cycle through the different hadcrut datas on http://verstat.no/hadcrut/ I clearly see an increased and continuous rise of temperature from around the 70's for all methods, and the difference between the methods is very small.

You only blew holes in your own "theory" here.

It is clearly you who doesn't read data nor research.

Oh please, "remind people how the entire meme was thoroughly falsified"

Survey of astronomers and geophysicists shines a light on 'bleak' systemic bullying

Re: re: There happened to be a 30ish woman walking in front of me.

He did not make any such argument. He just gave an example of a situation that can have been perceived as harrasment while it was nothing of the sorts.

The argument is to be sceptical and look at what the study actually "studied".

In South Korea the new normal future of work is ... a 52-hour work week! (Down from 68)

Fell 0.84 or fell to 0.84?

South Korea has a huge problem with digital sex crimes against women says Human Rights Watch

Well, that is the experience for too many male victims, not just in South Korea, but all over the western world. Go to the police, try to report sexual or other domestic abuse, get laughed at and sent away...

Accused of underpaying or snubbing women and Asian techies, Google spends pocket change to make it all go away

Re: They have the money and they want the talent.

Well, last time it was men that were being paid less...

Google found it paid men less than women for the same job

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/technology/google-gender-pay-gap.html

Who knew that hosing a table with copious amounts of cubic metres would trip adult filters?

Re: Cubic metres? cm^3? ?? What is its abbrev.??

I've only ever seen cu.m being used, never CUM.

Re: Cubic metres? cm^3? ?? What is its abbrev.??

That's not ASCII but Unicode.

Devs strung up about .NET 5.0 string changes that may break working code are told: It's not a bug, it's a feature

Re: "... that doesn't create new productivity improvements for our users"

{CR} and {LF} are not a culture issue, but a platform (System) issue (iOS, Linux, Windows, ...), as you say yourself.

A search should not fail to find "\nBob" in a string "Alice\r\nBob" for any culture chosen. Culture can't (shouldn't) define whether it is {CR}{LF} or {CRLF}

Windows 10 to let you know that your SSD is dying rather than throwing out a BSOD when it's already too late

Re: SSD Failure Warning: Only Fair

"it is only there if you need it"

That should be the case. Unfortunately Windows will proactively swap pages of memory to the pagefile when those pages haven't been accessed for x time. Even before there is any memory pressure, "just in case you need it".

Re: Yes, you are, regardless of the amount of RAM you have

No, you're not!

I've been running Win 10 on my laptop for 5 years now without any pagefile. No software has complained or crashed because of it. This includes: VMware Workstation, MS Visual Studio, C++Builder, 7Zip, OpenOffice and a whole lot of other stuff.

GitHub to replace master with main across its services

Re: If you look for offence, you will find it

Why focus on the west? Why exclude racism faced by whites outside of the west?

Your second statement, again, why exclude non-white on white racism, which is less visible because it gets less media attention?

Re: Some people need to understand that not EVERYTHING is racist

When Muslims enslaved white Christian Europeans, no doubt it was firmly established in the population's psyche that 'good Muslims' (aka non-white people) go to heaven when they die whereas non-Muslims (aka white people) automaticall go to hell.

From the article, using the word master is not inclusive.

Can someone list the "races" and cultures that are left out?

Which cultures have never had a part of their people enslaved, if that is what we are talking about?

Can we ask them if they actually feel left out?

'I wrote Task Manager': Ex-Microsoft programmer Dave Plummer spills the beans

Re: It hasn't been able to kill lots of stuff

Make sure to try to kill a process on the Details tab, it uses a "stronger" kill than on the Processes tab.

He also offered some tips. "If Task Manager ever hangs or crashes, start another by pressing ctrl-shift-esc," he said. This requests a "secret code" from the existing instance, and if not received, starts another one; and this works to launch the utility even "if the Shell/Explorer is dead".

Some 20 years ago I had a non-responsive Task Manager, on a live production system, and I needed it bad...

It was NOT possible to start a second instance.

From Brit telly presenter Eamonn Holmes to burning 5G towers in the Netherlands: Stupid week turns into stupid fortnight for radio standard

Don't they realise ...

... that destroying a 3G/4G tower means that their own cellphone will have to boost its output power to reach a tower further away?

Assuming they destroy a tower near themselves of course.

Coronavirus pandemic latest: Trump declares 'two very big words' – national emergency – and unexpectedly ropes in Google to help in some form

Trump recently said ...

We have a total of 15 people and they're in a process of recovering with some already having fully recovered. Hopefully we're not gonna have to spend so much because we really think we've done a great job in keeping it down to a minimum. But we've had tremendous success tremendous success beyond what and we want to keep it that way so we're at the low level. As they get better we take them off the list so that we're going to be pretty soon at only 5 people and we could be at just one or two people over the next short period of time.

Going Dutch: The Bakker Elkhuizen UltraBoard 950 Wireless... because looks aren't everything

The world we live in...

where you call a mechanical keyboard non-mechanical.

One teeensy little 13-minute power cut, and WD you look at the size of that chip supply cut!

Re: Backup Power. — Dual Feeds

The above comments suggest that most people assume you need to supply the entire factory with backup power.

Although unclear for these factories, it is very unlikely they need to do that to prevent the current problem.

Anecdotal, but I have never seen that. Emergency power is supplied only were needed, e.g. server room, security systems, a few specific machines or rooms, ... stuff like that.

The required emergency power can be drastically less than the full operational power requirements.

Drone fliers are either 'clueless, careless or criminal' says air traffic gros fromage

Much better fit:

Politicians are either 'clueless, careless or criminal'.

The FCC has finally, finally approved a half-decent plan to destroy the robocall scourge... but there's a catch

Instead, charge the robocallers 1$/minute and play an info message to anyone who accepts a call: "Warning, you will be payed 0,5$/minute if you can endure the crap that follows this message".

No need to have the receiving party pay for blocking.

Self-taught Belgian bloke cracks crypto conundrum that was supposed to be uncrackable until 2034

A self-taught Belgian bloke? Unlike a self-taught mechanic, becoming a Belgian bloke requires being born in Belgium.