I set my lights to on and forget them until I want to turn them off again.
Posts by nintendoeats
692 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Aug 2020
Worst of CES Awards: The least private, least secure, least repairable, and least sustainable
Re: How grumpy am I?
Because if lots of people buy them, then they become ubiquitous. If they become ubiquitous, then their features start to leak into other devices and parts of life. Then at some point, you realize that you can't buy a fridge that doesn't send your conversations back to Samsung, or a car that you can...fix...
If you don't nip these things in the bud, they will grow. Slippery Slope might be a logical fallacy, but it sure is supported by history.
The monitor boom may have ended, says IDC
Re: Impressive???
I well remember these days, even though I was a youngun. Screen technology struggles to improve as rapidly as PC technology (which also frankly isn't moving as fast as it used to). If you want to save some money, buying a good monitor to start with and not worrying about upgrading is an easy way to do so.
Ooh, an update. Let's install it. What could possibly go wro-
Re: Netware? Less than 20 years ago? Where was he working - Jurassic Park?
And it's so very nice when the answer is "and the program was clearing this value from memory address $f00b before we were done with it" instead of "and this library was throwing a fit, so we downgraded it and everything works now hooray." It's so nice to actually know what's going on.
When civilisation ends, a Xenix box will be running a long-forgotten job somewhere
A lightbulb moment comes too late to save a mainframe engineer's blushes
Another example, if you are properly trained in firearms (as are all firearms owners in Canada) you learn to always point it in a safe direction and always keep your finger off the trigger unless you intend to shoot. This is true even if you have just confirmed that the firearm is clear of ammunition.
If you always point in a safe direction, you can't make a mistake about whether the firearm was loaded and do something bad.
Samsung reveals buzzword-compliant DRAM ready for 5G, AI, edge, and metaverses
We sell a device, which I will call a potato in the interest of obscurity.
The previous version was referred to as a "smart potato", which made sense because it was a potato that could run Windows or Linux onboard.
The new version, which is essentially the same product with better specs, is a "Deep learning edge IoT device". Evidently the fact that it is a potato is no longer relevent.
Turns out there is something everyone may agree on in Congress: Let netizens use mostly algorithm-lite apps
Say what you see: Four-letter fun on a late-night support call
Microsoft: Many workers are stuck on old computers and should probably upgrade
IT god exposed as false idol by quirks of Java – until he laid his hands on the server
'Father of the Xbox' Seamus Blackley issues Twitter apology to AMD over last-minute switch to Intel CPUs
Microsoft actually got punished for this; one of the major exploits used to access the XBOX bootloader depends on memory address wraparound behaviour of the intel CPU, which the AMD chip didn't have. If they had stuck with the AMD chip, it's likely that the XBOX wouldn't have been hacked so early on.
Fatal Attraction: Lovely collection, really, but it does not belong anywhere near magnetic storage media
Reason 3,995 to hold off on that Windows 11 upgrade: Iffy performance on AMD silicon
Re: Good to see
Regression testing on "any supported Ryzen CPU" is not difficult to achieve.
I would also say that testing many configurations is not difficult for Microsoft. I work for a massively smaller company, and we have strategies for continually stability and regression testing a wide range of HW that are fairly effective. For example, whenever a dev PC is retired it gets sent down to the SQA basement and gets hooked up to the SQA cluster. We also buy newer machines, for example because we need to do tests with a new x86 extension.
I'm sure Microsoft can do a lot better than that.
Electron-to-joule conversion formulae? Cute. Welcome to the school of hard knocks
Re: Ask the dog - it has an 80% success rate
For a while I started writing out what I wanted to talk to people about before I spoke to them, to save the embarassing "oh, now that I've explained it it's obvious" moment. I've found that I don't actually need to do this all that often anymore, since I've sort of trained myself to naturally perform this exercise.
What would <FellowEngineer> do...
Not too bright, are you? Your laptop, I mean... Not you
Re: me too
And obviously adjusting the volume with a single knob was far to easy to do by accident. The solution of having this function require a modifier key and an F-key that you will need to hunt and peck for every single time it is needed...that is pure genius.
Never again will somebody accidentally quickly reduce the volume when some jackass has decided that their youtube video about how to fix a door handle needs to have maxxed-out raging death metal played over it.
A practical demonstration of the difference between 'resilient' and 'redundant'
Fix five days of server failure with this one weird trick
Samsung: We will remotely brick smart TVs looted from our warehouse
A man spent a year in jail on a murder charge involving disputed AI evidence. Now the case has been dropped
After reportedly dragging its feet, BlackBerry admits, yes, QNX in cars, equipment suffers from BadAlloc bug
If I understand correctly, the memory safety in Rust comes primarily from static analysis mandated by the standard (outside of explicitly specified "unsafe blocks"). So if there is a memory allocation bug in a runtime library, no amount of safety built into the language is going to help right? After all, in the end the compiled code is still just pointers and offsets (with all the usual lack of safety guarantees).
Microsoft fiddles with Fluent while the long dark Nightmare of the Print Spooler continues for Windows
The web was done right the first time. An ancient 3D banana shows Microsoft does a lot right, too
Electrocution? All part of the service, sir!
So the thing is...I've done this by accident when I was living in the middle east. Yes, it blew out the fuse on the 110 circuit. But what I found in my case was, the 220v circuit still worked fine (for many years in fact). So if you are in this situation, it's worth checking...not that one should give a customer a computer like that.
Breaking Bad or just a bad breakpoint? That feeling when your predecessor is BASIC
What I meant was this: there is a philosophy (to which I prescribe) that software development is 100% a design exercise. When you write code, you are really specifying a program design to be executed by the computer. You must "design" a program that implements the requested UI.
Thus is laid bare the logic of my original statement.
Ch-ch-ch-Chia! HDD sales soar to record levels as latest crypto craze sweeps Europe
We can't believe people use browsers to manage their passwords, says maker of password management tools
Troll jailed for 5 years after swatting of Twitter handle owner ends in death
I no longer have a burning hatred for Jewish people, says Googler now suddenly no longer at Google
Would you rather people hide away their racism, or talk about it? You can't effectively argue against somebody who doesn't have a voice. I believe that racism as a guiding principle is truly wrong; I therefore do not fear people expressing racist opinions, because I believe that I will be able to effectively argue against them.
I don't know if this essay was in earnest (or wasn't a bit nuts), but surely it is a good thing to be hearing people say such things? Role models for the capacity of the individual to discard bigotry? To acknowledge that the values they were raised with might be wrong?
To me, this man is just an abstract concept who might as well not actually exist. Those words are very real though. I will therefore judge the message rather than the man, and the message sounds pretty good.
Gung-ho tank gamer spills classified docs in effort to win online argument
How to keep your enterprise up to date by deploying the very latest malware
Re: Connecting a PC to a reactor
TMI did fail safe. It was a financial disaster, but there was no human or environmental cost. It was just very expensive. It didn't even affect ongoing operation of the other reactors at that site.
Fukushima is obviously much worse, but I would argue that Fukushima is an example of how good Nuclear safety is. Considering how many things went wrong and the circumstances they were under, the harm was remarkably light. If the comparison is to fossil fuels...deepwater horizon is comparable IMO.
Chernobyl: Soviet Russia. Nuff said.