Re: "he was turned down for every single one of the more than 100 jobs he applied for"
Hehe, Biden, is that you? He got his dates waaaay out!
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Trying to push small engines too hard to meet performance AND emissions. You can't have your cake AND eat it. Modern laptops are another example. Thin, light, too powerful, with sub par cooling. Even Alienware's new m18 R2 machine has 4 fans, and STILL idles at 60 deg C!
Their arrogant stance on Archive.org pisses me off. They are allowed to scrape and save whatever sites they want from the Internet, but users are not allowed to download content from Archive.org? F*** off, twats! I add them to robots.txt every site I build, fecking hypocrites.
Preach it Gene! The world expects everyone to be extroverted, but we're all not. I don't always like striking up convos with randoms, as being an introvert I've been sucked in to narcissistic relationships with damaging manipulation. If I'm stuck in a taxi with someone who creeps me out, I'm looking for an escape. This is why I learnt to drive instead of relying on public transport/taxis. If I give people rides, it's ones I know and trust and WANT to socialise with. And I'm a guy, not a woman.
"defects with early Raptor Lake batches, which stems from oxidized vias."
Reminds me of the issues with WD hard drives and oxidised pads for the headstack contacts on their PCB's. Drives would fail to initialize, and appear to have surface or head failure. However, cleaning the headstack contacts with vinegar or an eraser would fire them straight into life. This would have to be repeated every so often. They didn't tin or plate contacts back then, now they do, they no longer suffer.
I don't like in this day and age how people with autism and ADHD etc are being branded as having "superpowers" to make them feel special. It's an illness that hinders their development, not something to be celebrated. A superhero wouldn't constantly be late, forget things, misplace things, or have massive anxiety, that is, if they were real anyway, which they're not.
"many of the USB sticks actually contained microSD cards that had been mounted onto the circuit board and were being managed by an external controller chip."
This sounds like the way those scammy drives are built on WISH and AliExpress that YouTuber SMOOREZ regularly buys to alert people!
Instead of being like Donald Trump and denying everything, if Fujitsu and the Post Office would have worked together properly, swallowed their pride, and said, "We are aware of a number of issues. We will look into them, and work with you".
None of this would have happened.
"And he made sure the test tool included an especially foul message for an error considered impossible to trigger."
"Impossible" to trigger? Yeah, and the Titanic was "unsinkable!". Fujitsu's Horizon system was "reliable"!
Hehe. I didn't even finish reading and I knew where it was going!
The only good thing I see out of the whole fiasco is that you don't have to do manual meter readings, or have a bloke knocking on your door every so often for access if your meter cabinet is behind a locked gate, as ours was to stop vandals. Everything else, from the failed over budget rollout, to the proprietary smart meters that don't work with all providers, is shite...
The UK Gov are a laughing stock.
Smart Meter deadline: Overzealous, missed and over budget.
Grenfell cladding fiasco: Still a joke and not corrected across the UK.
Electric Cars and Heat Pumps: Way overzealous and probably going to be out by 20 years!!
This isn't mentioning all the other crap they have denied/missed. And now we have the school roof nonsense. They'll narcissist their way out of that too!!
"The Terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead."
I think they meant The Trump, because that description fitted him perfectly, albeit without the word "narcissist".
The SD card reader on my Latitude 7390 gets quite hot under sustained write and it's nowhere near the heatsink. I use an Endurance grade card as a kind of HDD in this machine, as it's a minimalist ultrabook style. The SD reader on this is wired to the PCIe bus, so is quite fast, and gets warm under heavy write load like torrenting. It hasn't crapped out yet.
I wonder if the heat from the Ally is melting solder somehow.....
That looks more like heat damage due to the machine heat being ejected towards the screen. Apple for some reason put the heatsink/fan between the base and screen. DELL copied that with my G3 3779. It causes the plastic layers (refractors, deflectors, etc) in the screen to warp. A display cable too short would flex and break, causing coloured lines, and other symptoms. I've had laptops that have pulled the LVDS socket off the back of the screen due to a manufacturing defect, or it having been previously fiddled with and put back wrongly.
"They realised their mistake, paid their licence arrears, put in place a system to prevent recurrence, extensively audited their systems to ensure no intrusion had occurred, write a grovelling apology to their customers and by their quick corrective action managed to avoid being exploited?"
Does Hell freeze over once a blue moon?
Can be bad news. Repeated on/off cycles cause heating/cooling thermal cycling of solder joints, which recently killed my Dell G3 3779 gaming machine, even run on a cooling pad and undervolted! And on modern single board machines it gets expensive, as I can guarantee it'll happen out of warranty!