Posts by Rameses Niblick the Third Kerplunk Kerplunk Whoops Where's My Thribble? 507 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Jul 2017
Joking aside, I'm wondering why you think there was ever a need to move a 200 ton rock? Best estimates say the heaviest stone in the Great Pyramid is somewhere in the region of 80 tonnes. Large steam locomotives weigh nearly 100 tonnes, and people have been craning those around since they were first built.
The problem you have is that none of what you claim is as difficult as you make out. Plus current estimations are that each pyramid took 20 to 30 years to complete. That's literally a lifetimes work. It didn't happen quickly.
Modern day example. People were discussing the possibility of using the Saturn 5 to move large loads in to orbit once again. The problem? All the people who built, maintained and otherwise worked on them have long since retired so no-one now knows how they work. That doesn't mean they were built by aliens.
And we see paintings in stone-age caves that we say are just amateur images of people but maybe aliens have been visiting the Earth for the last 40,000 years? And then there are other things that we try to explain but fail ... how were the Egyptian pyramids built?....
Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! I've been waiting for this one!
*Ahem*
They had massive whips, Rimmer. Massive, massive whips.
I don't know anything about space rockets, so to listen to Elon Musk speak about them, I think he's a genius.
I don't know anything about electric cars, so to listen to Elon Musk speak about them, I think he's a genius.
I do know at least something about tech stacks, website coding and web hosting servers, so when I listen to Elon Musk speak about them, I realise he's a freaking charlatan.
As a result, I now have zero faith in his space rockets or electric cars.
If a person was recorded on video booing, and then viewed the recording I think they would feel the full cringe.
FYI kids don't say 'cringe' anymore since they realised the adults started using it.
Cringe got yeeted.
(And yes, I know no-one says "yeet" anymore either)
There is a saying, “You can’t fool an honest man,” which is much quoted by people who make a profitable living by fooling honest men. Moist never tried it, knowingly anyway. If you did fool an honest man, he tended to complain to the local Watch, and these days they were harder to buy off. Fooling dishonest men was a lot safer and, somehow, more sporting. And, of course, there were so many more of them. You hardly had to aim.
Interesting, I didn't get that from the headline at all:
"Creator of spec for melting RTX 4090 cables urges Nvidia, others to 'ensure user safety'"
I always thought Nvidia was the manufacturer? Sure, previous reports (listed in the article) stated that Nvidia blame end users, but from this I took it that that body who came up with the spec in the first place is telling manufacturers it's their responsibility?
Now, don't get me wrong, I'm the first to criticise the americanisation of the register (lower case all intentional), the shooing away of Dabbsy and them generally getting rid of all that made this publication unique, but in this case I think the headline is fair enough.
The requirements for a full flying license are also incredibly onerous, which creates a bottleneck in the supply for qualified pilots. For most European airlines, you need 1,500 hours flight time before you get a full license. Until then, you're on provisional terms and need a fully qualified pilot operating alongside you.
So coming up with a solution which eliminates the primary training opportunity (ie co-piloting) is the way to train more pilots?
Computer scientists affiliated with Canada's North America's University of Guelph have found that..."
FTFY
https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/14/university_staff_and_students_voice/
For the same reason the article starts "The UK’s University of Edinburgh. This is now a US centric publication and accuracy in or sensibility towards any other region is entirely by accident.
Oh and FYI, that noise you can hear is the crowd of angry Scots coming to complain their premier university is being lumped in with England and the rest.
So if we want a change, all we have to do is change our voting habits. Stop electing 'these people'.
Which is exactly my point, and yet people insist on voting for these imbeciles and putting them in power, despite all previous experience. If people still want conservatives in charge in spite of the last few years, no amount of "someone I never heard of" putting their name on the ballot is going to change masochistic tendencies.
That being said I would gladly stand against them, care to lend give me the £500 it costs to do so? Unfortunately I can't afford to throw that kind of money away.
In the scheme of "UK Gov Shitshows so far in 2022", this is a non-issue.
I'm pretty sick of this kind of attitude. "Everything else is so awful, this thing that's a bit shit doesn't matter". Of course it matters, if I'd done this with sensitive company documents I wouldn't be retrained, I'd be fired for gross misconduct. The fact it was done 6 times in such a brief tenure ask Home Sec means this is not a mistake, it is a habitual way of working for her, it's just this is the first time she's been caught it's been detected.
I'm beyond the point of accepting "I know our politicians are beyond useless, but we accept it because we tell ourselves the others are just as useless". Why do we think this is OK? Why as a population do we accept it? These people are meant to be the best of us, the wisest of us and yet I wouldn't leave them alone for 5 minutes unsupervised in a room with a pair of safety scissors. The excuse "We think others are as bad" is not a reason to accept it.
"It's pathetic watching you grind away on your own day after day. It's like a dog that's missing it's masters leg. That groinal attachment's supposed to have a lifetimes guarantee, you've worn it out in nearly three weeks."
I don't think I need to add anything else.
Johnson didn't eat any of the cake.
Or drink any of the champagne. In fact he wasn't even there. Wait, there are photos? Ok, he was there, but only for ten minutes. Well, twenty minutes. Plus the speech he gave. But he didn't realise that was a party. Or the other one. That was a work discussion. The cheese and wine were there by mistake. Why is no-one blaming the caterers for this? Really it's their fault that Boris kept accidentally finding himself at parties all through lockdown.
Actually on that last point, given as Johnsons view of home working is, and I quote "My experience of working from home is you spend an awful lot of time making another cup of coffee and then, you know, getting up, walking very slowly to the fridge, hacking off a small piece of cheese, then walking very slowly back to your laptop and then forgetting what it was you’re doing", then it's hardly surprising he thought a cheese and wine party was work.
Also, did no-one notice that he basically admits he can't be trusted to manage his own time?
While the sub-header initially made me snort my coffee across my keyboard (it's not often I get a meme reference, maybe it's because it's quite an old one? Anyway...), further inspection caused me despair. Why go with the shorthanded and, dare I say it, lazy "Posture, posture, posture, posture, posture, posture, mushroom, mushroom" when it wouldn't have been that much more effort to go the full "Posture, posture, posture, posture, posture, posture, posture, posture, posture, posture, posture, posture, mushroom, mushroom".
Declining standards, I tell you! Dabbsy would never have stood for it.
Would I rather the car stopped if in any doubt or plow on regardless until 100% certain it had hit something.
Next time you're in busy highway traffic, and for absolutely no reason whatsoever, stomp on the brake pedal as hard as you can until the vehicle has come to a complete stop and see what happens.
Unfortunately and wandering off topic....
I've just received this as well, so please feel free to off topic as much as you like. I've always been a huge fan of the SFTW column and am very sad to read this. If Bofh goes as well there will be little worth coming here for. Tech news I can get anywhere; the Reg was always light relief for me.
I find myself conflicted as to whether to up or downvote your post. Downvote for the message itself, but upvote for making it known!
Now, after getting loaded by right-wing whack-jobs by the Trump regime, the anti-gun zealots might as well give up for a bit. It's a completely lost cause, as is the abortion debate. All that energy and angst would be far better spent trying to convince people to stop voting Republican.
In principle I agree with you. However, by drawing attention to these kinds of rulings, I do wonder if some of the thinking is that while accepting that it is a lost cause currently, it may change the minds of more moderate republican voters to see what is being done in their name and encourage them to reconsider?
Maybe just wishful thinking.
Pascal Monett: And what has Elon Musk ever done for us?!
XERXES: PayPal?
Pascal Monett: What?
XERXES: PayPal.
Pascal Monett: Oh. Yeah, yeah. He did give us that. Uh, that's true. Yeah.
COMMANDO #3: And Tesla.
LORETTA: Oh, yeah, Tesla, Pascal. Remember what electric cars used to be like?
Pascal Monett: Yeah. All right. I'll grant you PayPal and Tesla are two things that Elon Musk has done.
MATTHIAS: And SpaceX.
Pascal Monett: Well, yeah. Obviously SpaceX. I mean, SpaceX goes without saying, don't they? But apart from PayPal, Tesla, and SpaceX--
COMMANDO: OpenAI?.
XERXES: SolarCity.
COMMANDO #2: StarLink!
Pascal Monett: Yeah, yeah. All right. Fair enough.
COMMANDO #1: And he proved you can call someone a peado and get away with it.
COMMANDOS: Oh, yes. Yeah...
FRANCIS: Yeah. Yeah, that's something we'd really miss, Pascal, if Elon Musk left.
Pascal Monett: All right, but apart from PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, OpenAI, SolarCity, StarLink and the ability to call someone a peado and get away with it, what has Elon Musk ever done for us?
XERXES: He does have a buttload of cash, Pascal.
Pascal Monett: Shut up!
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