Posts by bigtreeman 140 posts • joined 8 May 2018
You are so close to the future.
The eWaste has much higher concentrations of end products than mined ore.
Taking all the eWaste, crushing it up, then put it through extraction processes is the cheapest and easiest way to 'create' all those rare and not so rare materials.
We're looking at the end of mining if we already have enough materials in the re-cycling loop.
A customer had some gear supplied by a competing IT shop. One of their special deals was disconnecting the building earth from ground.
Yes, floating earth, what fun.
When lightning struck, everything electrical in the office and their home was utterly destroyed. But the lightning also went down the phone lines and took out the local Telstra substation.
I found and reconnected the earth at the ground stake and thought nothing more till I found the same modification at a couple of other customers also supplied by this shop. They used to get quite a lot of storm damage insurance jobs.
I have turned her Bose smart speaker off.
It uses Alexa and ages ago I suspected it would be used for surveillance and data gathering by Amazon.
It is a really nice quality speaker but I can't use it to play my music files offline.
Just seemed suspicious that it is tied to Amazon only.
Does anyone know how to get local use out of these speakers ???
An Amana fridge,
no circuit diagram available,
service costs $150 travel $100/hour,
guy maybe isolates fault $250,
phones repair will cost an extra $400,
fault is obvious,
remove faulty part, test with meter - yes faulty - 5 minutes,
Google part - cheapest $55 delivered.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiQPkfS2Q84
I don't mind paying for professional repair,
but won't pay for having an extra hole ripped
We were at our favourite BoatingFishing&Camping store and her membership had disappeared from their system, so re-enter phone number, email and details to get the 5% discount.
Yesterday at RipEveryPersonalCustomerOff they had a week of 30% off for club members.
So are the marked shelf prices always more than 30% over an acceptable retail price ?
What is the real $$$ value of that data to the retailer ?
'She who must be obeyed' has a purse full of these loyalty cards so her purchases can be easily tracked and collated.
Discounts are more attractive than just user experience, and they tie in tangible consumerism with online data.
I don't have any loyalty, I am definitely polygamous,
and keep an eye on the sky for those black helicopters.
... thanks to "a novel technique called replica splicing that makes it possible to time-slice multiple workers on the same device with negligible overhead, while enabling each worker to use the entire device memory."
... without doing massive task switching of the entire device memory from virtual reality.
... it's virtually possible, we're just looking into the nitty gritty of reality.
Is Microsoft really paying 26 people to spew forth this rubbish ? and why ?
I had made a small application for a production programmer using LMI Forth.
It wasn't interpreted, but turnkey native code running on a very tired, slightly modified IBM PC-XT.
I informed them they would have to purchase their own copy of LMI forth.
Before leaving their employ my supervisor had surreptitiously made backups.
Payback was no-one else there could program Forth if it required maintenance, so sad.
security by obscurity
All the proprietary processor makers are shitting themselves.
Just as Linux moved the goalposts so will risc-v.
It won't happen overnight, but it will happen.
Intel is making each way bets, plowing money into risc-v and offering x86.
They have a fucking lot to loose.
Taking a strong direction and going with the new tech would be much wiser.
"BTC is unique among "cryptos", in that it's limited, decentralized, unconfiscatable."
unsanctionable,
BTC makes USA unable to put sanctions to limit a socialist country.
Capitalism is able to say socialism doesn't work because they block any socialist country from fair international trade and commerce.
Surprise, surprise, socialist economies always fail.
Maybe this will level the playing field.
Just looked at a tech job for a major luxury boat builder who use excel spreadsheet NCR (non-conformance reports).
My son in law has just taken delivery of a 78 foot motor yacht (their largest) from this mob and it came complete with lots of teething problems from minor to fairly major, which you wouldn't expect for over $6M.
Otherwise an excellent employer building amazing boats.
Only because of the Excel NCR reports I didn't apply.
Volunteers support a lot of areas in our society.
Fire, rescue, marine radio, the Olympics, clean up the environment, help the poor
the list goes on
Society would probably fall apart without volunteers
We need to look at the wealthiest 10 or top 1% who have just had the spotlight shone on them yet again.
Minimum wage, proper redistribution of wealth will make everything purr along.
Yes, suck it up, I'm a socialist, also a realist and don't care about the fascist, right wing agenda.
Gee, don't get caught up on one word -"decimate"
Dr Ben is a dick and doesn't have any appreciation for the software engineer
who just sits on his ass and punches out a bit of simple code.
And the good Dr is so wonderful and important anyone will slave for him.
He's not paying for a skilled programmer, the base wage for an IT Guy is $42k, that's the pay scale.
Only one mention of Debian ?
Debian packaging has worked for decades, with improvements along the way,
but not changing how you can use it, apt, aptitude, synaptic ... etc
You might infrequently suffer dependency hell,
security updates have always been a breeze
apt install package, apt purge package ... just works
maybe apt should be ported to all other Linuxes
(WARNING flame bait ;) why would anyone use another Linux
Our doctors surgery uses hotdocs to fill out various forms.
The "agreement" attached gives the hotdocs company too much scope to share your medical information.
This is just some dicky third party organisation facilitating the information sharing,
but they think it's their right to use your data as they see fit.
Have a look next time, don't just tick the box before using the hotdoc.
If search was built into the networking protocol stack Google would be undermined.
I avoid Google most of the time,
but I end up using it when it is the only or best way to achieve an outcome.
I have a gmail account only because many suppliers rely on Google.
My android phone is intrinsically tied to Google.
CCS is a joke and has, in Australia been a conduit for reckless government funding to fossil fuel companies. For all the $millions wasted there is little solid technology come out. Could have just ploughed all that money directly into planting trees, natures proven CCS and already had decades old forests doing their stuff.
How many times do I have to say Nickel Iron is the best technology for large scale batteries.
Environmentally friendly,
nearly indestructible,
good for 50 + years ...
yada yada yada, the list goes on
oh, only problem, they last too long
and don't have to be replaced every 5-10 years
so not economically feasible.
I've seen gold plated T.I. mil spec memory chips from the 70s in gold plated sockets with the pins corroded out from the inside with just the gold shell of the pins remaining. bimetalic corrosion. Even the very best die.
Proms die, it might be random bit failure, that's why there is ECC memory and controllers, they expect random failure. Random means there could be three bits fail together and the ECC can't correct the fault.
Such is life, so random.
Memory protection and multitasking is an old 'mainframe' paradigm,
Now smaller processors are ubiquitous why multitask ?
We can afford a processor for each process.
Remove the complication of memory partitioning and checking.
When we see fuel supply interruption because of ransomware,
we just have to ask why those business processes haven't been compartmentalised and air gapped.
They deserve to be hacked if their critical tasks are being carried out on the same systems where idiot office assistants are wasting their time on Facebook, looking at porn and being tricked with social engineering answering fake emails.
I now only use Linux for cad/cam and Netflix. (OpenBSD)
Yesterday I installed 14.2 because I'm sick and tired of Debian crud. Amazed at how old and outdated I went looking for Slackware devel branch - Current. Downloaded this morning, burned to usb while walking the dog, installed, then read this article.
Because Slackware still uses lilo, the dual boot to OpenBSD is totally effortless compared to grub which can't do it. Install and initial configuration (almost) with my eyes closed and it all just works. Now setup my cad/cam and get back to work (or Netflix fix)
https://slackware.uk/people/alien-current-iso/slackware64-current-iso/slackware64-current-install-dvd.iso
- got the caravan for the trip around Oz
- too much time on your hands, make a wooden surfboard and go surfing (or learn)
- caravan around, surf at spot X
- caravan around, surf at spot X
- caravan around, surf at spot X
- caravan around, surf at spot X
- caravan around, surf at spot X
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