* Posts by KarMann

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Caffeine makes fuel cells more efficient, cuts cost of energy storage

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Re: Nope, not sharing

I think that was AC's point? That they can't have his proper coffee, but they can use some of that Starbucks stuff instead.

Mine's the one with the Comandante grinder in the pocket (I have big pockets). ===>

Rancher faces prison for trying to breed absolute unit of a sheep

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I see what ewe did there...

...and that is all.

Trump 'tried to sell Truth Social to Musk' as SPAC deal stalled

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Re: "Imagine if there was a 30year war over which Spiderman movie was best?"

Splitters!

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Re: Trump isn't planning to invade Russia in winter

While it hasn't been set in stone yet due to that lack of precedent, as I understand it, the best guess is that the Secret Service would basically hand their duties over to whichever Bureau of Prisons, Department of Corrections, or whatever gets possession of him, and that other entity would then have the responsibility for him for the duration of his stay. But yeah, given how unprecedented everything is, that's just the most likely of many possible and very different options.

World-plus-dog booted out of Facebook, Instagram, Threads

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Re: I've got a tenner...

I'll put a twenty on a TLA, then.

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When/where?

Those trying to log into Meta's Facebook... are facing panic this morning....
...wrote someone who's never heard of time zones.

72 flights later and a rotor blade short, Mars chopper loses its fight with physics

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Nonsense. It's pilot error. It's always pilot error. Except when it's DNS....

Musk 'texts' Nadella about Windows 11's demands for a Microsoft account

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Re: Some elements of the operating system simply do not work

I think I get the thing that two00lbwaster might have been talking about, when I'm using an external monitor on my MacBook, and after the screen locks and the monitor goes to power saving, then I can unlock it almost instantaneously via the fingerprint, the monitor doesn't come back up quickly enough, and it moves everything to the built-in display. At least, that's my take on what's happening, but what I know for sure is that yeah, sometime but not always after a screen lock, everything gets moved to that built-in display.

Signed,

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You're not imagining things – USB memory sticks are getting worse

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Re: Size isn't everything

I think it sounds like it's worth a shot. I don't even know why it feels the need to read all that despite the nearly-empty filesystem, but it might well be that if I partition e.g. a 32 GB SD with just a single 4 GB partition, it won't spend the time looking at the other 28 GB. I'll have to do some more extensive testing on that sometime.

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Re: Size isn't everything

I've found that kind of problem with one of my sound recorders, where the time to boot and read the drive contents is proportional to the size of the micro SD card you have in it, and it's getting pretty slow around 8 GB. I was surprised how hard it was to get reasonably-likely decent-quality (i.e. a brand name I've actually heard of before) SD in sizes < 16 GB.

Self-taught-techie slept on the datacenter floor, survived communism, ended a marriage

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Re: Daily Emails are a luxury

If you're referring to the age of the Internet I think you are, one of my special quirks is that the difference between my age in seconds and a standard Unix timestamp is < 86,400. It has been a long annoyance, though, that when I see those dates crop up on technical bits, I often end up unclear on whether it's because that's my birth date, or because a timestamp got cleared or defaulted to zero.

Dave's not here, man. But this mind-blowingly huge server just, like, arrived

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Re: So, he was just fired ?

No, the ability to care less implies caring, at least a little. 'Weird' Al got that one exactly right in 'Word Crimes'.

US Air Force's new cyber, IT skill recruitment plan: Bring back warrant officer ranks

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Re: These would have come in handy for the Stargate project

Oddly enough, even though I've been in the USAF myself, Walter was the first thing that came to my mind.

Curious tale of broken VPNs, the Year 2038, and certs that expired 100 years ago

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Re: Subtitle

Generalised rule: It's always one TLA or another.

Alaska Airlines' door-dropping flight was missing bolts

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Re: Door opened for civil suits

You are D.B. Cooper and I claim my five pounds.

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Re: Major major cock-up

[A]t the end of the maintenance, someone should have been asking some very big questions, about why the f%&k are there 4 bolts still sitting here.
You mean we aren't building Ikea 737 MAXs here?

Developer's default setting created turbulence in the flight simulator

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Re: sort of on topic...

He also did one not long ago in which he drove a tank simulator which sounds very much like what James was on about, although I think it was German, certainly somewhere on the Continent.

Techie climbed a mountain only be told not to touch the kit on top

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This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Edmund"....
Hillary-ous.

Fujitsu finance chief says sorry for IT giant's role in Post Office Horizon scandal

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Horizon is an EPOS....
Did you actually manage to type that with a straight face? I couldn't.

The UK prime minister has promised to speed up the legal process to quash convictions and compensation for those wrongfully accused.
And punish the actual wrongdoers instead of those they wrongfully accused, right? You/they seem to have left that part off.

Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will fly no more, but is still standing upright

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This is English. We don't limit our words to just one puny definition!

GPS interference now a major flight safety concern for airline industry

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Re: Galileo to the rescue?

Andre was explicitly addressing spoofing, not jamming. You're only addressing jamming.

Amazon calls off $1.7 billion iRobot buy, blames regulators

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I also like the unstated assumption implied, that these are definitely healthy markets and a legitimate acquisition. Circular logic/begging the question much?

We put salt in our tea so you don't have to

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Re: Pointless if potless

Are you not discussing reducing the resistance to compensate for approximately half the voltage whilst maintaining the same power?

ETA: I mean, after anonymous boring coward discussed using the same resistance with half the voltage, which of course would result in a quarter the power.

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Re: Pointless if potless

Praytell, how much have you reduced the voltage?

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ISO 3103 for those who don't know...

Obligatory Tom Scott video

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Re: Why stick to one standard?

I buy my tea from China (black/red) and Columbia (white) (yes, seriously).
Seriously? Not from Colombia?

(To be fair, the recent Register article about the nose wheel coming off the Boeing made the same mistake when discussing the plane's intended destination, last time I looked at it.)

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Re: Not all Americans

That seemed a pretty run-of-the-mill tea-in-America story, up until the twist at the end. That's what sold it for me. M. Night Shyamalan would be so proud!

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Re: Sorry its

(please note: the germans tried to interupt the tea supply in 1940... look what happened then....)
The Yanks came over and saved your tea?

(Yes, I know better than that!)

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Re: Here in Blighty

And yet, apparently, not so rich that you can afford proper links, you heathen!

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Re: Pointless if potless

Funny how you mention EE being debatable elsewhere. Where I come from, that would mean doubling the current.

ESA gives gravitational wave space probe LISA the nod for a 2035 launch

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Why three?

Three satellites are great for detecting gravitational waves in a plane, presumably along the ecliptic, but will lose sensitivity towards the poles. Why not four satellites, to completely cover the sphere? I would think that the marginal cost would be reasonably small, given that the design would be the same. But maybe they came up against a hard limit of the payload mass of a particular launcher they're targeting (if they're expecting to launch all three in one go), or it could well be too hard to come up with orbits that keep four satellites at least roughly equidistant–I haven't even modelled that in KSP, much less anything real.

But I would love to see a proper foursome, for full coverage.

That runaway datacenter power grab is the best news for net zero this century

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Re: A fine idea but...

And the flip side of that coin is not fearing fossil fuels enough. I mean, even aside from the CO₂ & climate change angle, just the dirty stuff from coal is killing millions on a regular basis when it's working as planned, but oh, a few people died from radioactivity that one time, so we can't have that! That's what really sticks in my craw.

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Cue Chekov asking, 'where are the nuclear wessels?' And having a much easier time of it.

Also, would those be with or without the optional SLBMs? -->

JAXA releases photo of SLIM lander in lunar faceplant

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Re: Japan deserves a little more credit

I'm not 100% sure about this, but, as I understand it, the rovers were deployed as the lander hovered just before touchdown, whilst it was still in an upright position. So, its final position* wasn't an issue for them.

* I assume that it prefers kipping on its back.

Major IT outage at Europe's largest caravan and RV club makes for not-so-happy campers

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Re: What does CAMC run on

Do note that bit at the end with 'Last seen: 14-Apr-2014'. It hadn't been checked in rather a while.

Politicos demand full list of Fujitsu's public sector contract wins in wake of Post Office scandal

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And apparently, given their track record, the follow-up question 'No, who really has access?' would not be uncalled for.

The Post Office systems scandal demands a critical response

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...in the ruin-up to my retirement.
You've just won my Delightful Typo of the Day award. Congratulations!

ETA: It was a typo, right? Or on purpose?

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I mean, considering the government considering the award was headed by the PM who brought us the Windrush scandal, and then failed upwards, it seems about right.

Former Post Office boss returns CBE to sender over computer system scandal

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Re: So what was actually wrong?

One CBE, slightly used?

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Re: How many fraud and theft cases in the 80s?

But with a sample size of 700, there's practically 0% chance that there was either not a single fraudster, or not a single honest person in there. Technically, there's some difference as long as you don't assume or measure a 50% honesty rate, but both are so close to 0 that it really doesn't matter, as far as the accuracy of that sentence is concerned.

ETA: I see Elongated Muskrat has shown his working below. A better answer than mine, granted, if not as pithy.

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

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Re: BOEING... or Boding?

Exit, Egress, Entrance, shirley those would work just fine. Well, 'Entrance' is a bit semantically reversed, but close enough for Boeing work.

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Should've tried an impact wrench?

Boeing said[,] "We regret the impact this has had on our customers and their passengers share price."
FTFY

UK PM promises faster justice for Post Office Horizon victims

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Re: Balls of steel

I don't know why Charles Babbage even bothered. It's not as if they've learned from him, even over 150 years later.

On two occasions I have been asked, — "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

Gaia-X project doesn't have a future, claims Nextcloud boss

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Re: When you wish upon a star

As the Reg article pulls out,...
That is not the mental image I needed this almost-morning. I'd much rather imagine the article pointing out, instead.

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

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Re: Question

About all the complaints I've noticed about it have been regarding the matter of "Regomize" v. 'Regomise', but the footnote doesn't address that matter at all.

NASA engineers scratch heads as Voyager 1 starts spouting cosmic gibberish

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Re: Obligatory

Ah, I was wrong, I expected it would be this one.

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

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Re: In the glorious past

That's not a coat.

Swedish Tesla strike goes international as Norwegian and Danish unions join in

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Re: El Reg finds the best quotes

It did take me a few moments to properly re-parse that (I think) as a restatement of the Highlander rule: There can be only one.

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Re: Doh!

Why not both?

HP exec says quiet part out loud when it comes to locking in print customers

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Re: Honestly....

I only ever loved them for their calculators, and they're pretty much done with those now, so I'll just let the door hit them on the way out.

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