Posts by Ace2

Boeing's Calamity Capsule returns to Earth without a crew

“The navigation system also temporarily had difficulty acquiring a GPS signal as the spacecraft came out of the plasma generated by reentry.”

Same as my usual response… it’s amazing any of this stuff works at all.

What do Uber drivers make of Waymo? 'We are cooked'

Re: Taxi

Maybe the first certified analyst-therapist?

Foot-thick wall workaround: Gigabit network links beamed through solid concrete

I [heart] latency

If every PC is going to be an AI PC, they better be as good at all the things trad PCs can do

Beat me to it.

You don’t have to give it internet access.

GenAI spending bubble? Definitely 'maybe' says ServiceNow

"Is there a bubble right now on spend?"

What’s that quote… something like, “It’s very difficult to get a person to understand a thing when their paycheck depends on them not understanding that thing”?

Starlink U-turns, will block X in Brazil after all

Everybody has rules that they think are dumb and should be ignored. When you see stories like this about international businesses and countries around the world, though, it’s not like they can just #RESIST! or whatever. Yeah, Apple’s going to follow China’s onshore data rules. TikTok’s going to follow the EU data rules.

Because the choice is to comply or stop doing business in that country. There really isn’t anything else!

GNU screen 5 proves it's still got game even after 37 years

Re: Ace2 - try here….

I’m aware of manpages.

What I’m talking about is cookbooks, examples, helpful hints, here’s this annoying behavior I found a way to work around, etc. Not the docs - but the user-generated side of it. There’s lots of it for emacs, for example.

Are there online resources for screen? It’s the canonical example of a tool with a name that makes it almost impossible to search for on the open internet.

Dow-ward spiral: Intel share price drop could see it delisted from blue-chip index

Altera to AMD? Putting Xilinx and Altera under the same roof? No sane regulator would ever let that happen. Although…

SAP CTO bows out over 'incident' at company shindig

Using someone’s preferred pronouns is one of the most basic ways to show respect for them as a person.

Rust for Linux maintainer steps down in frustration with 'nontechnical nonsense'

Re: Why don't the old farts believe in the miraculous powers of the new shiny?

What parts of my net or rdma drivers *wouldn’t* be in unsafe blocks?

Re: There is no static internal API/ABI

I have but one upvote to give

Musk's X, Media Matters headed to trial

Re: Seems like the judge

> The ads only appeared after a lot of effort by MM,

DOES NOT MATTER

> were apparently seen by nobody other than MM,

DOES NOT MATTER

> who then shotgunned it out to the media

DOES NOT MATTER

> who duly amplified it as nazis everywhere.

DOES NOT MATTER

Better luck next time.

Re: Seems like the judge

Idiotic.

If you look around (would require you to disinsert your noggin, a big ask, I know) you would see legal analysts pointing out that Muskie et al concede the central facts of the case right in their own brief. The ads in question really did appear where MM reported them. The rest is just Muskie’s usual fecal spray.

This is a pure SLAPP. No impartial federal judge would have allowed this to cost MM a dime.

I love my Tesla.

Know what my app says as of this morning?

> Earn $500 by Giving Anyone

> $1000 Off a New Tesla

> [Refer]

This is a company that couldn’t make them fast enough two years ago. That fucktwit has done so much damage to the brand, it’s fucking toxic. Worst CEO of any public company, anywhere, ever.

Reed O’Conner is a twat.

Elon is a twat.

Mitch McConnell is a twat.

Anyone still planning on voting for any Republican, anywhere, is a godawful fucking twat.

Re: “Media Matters” manufactured misinformation by ..

Bullshit.

Starliner's not-so-grand finale is a thump in the desert next week

The numbers I’ve seen on how many StarLink clients are even supportable, by design, are far too small to put a dent in the global internet access issue. It will always be a toy for the rich.

Have we stopped to think about what LLMs actually model?

Exactly. I never ever struggle with what code to write. 90% of my work time is finding where the code needs to be changed. This Copilot stuff is of no interest to me.

Bargain-hunting boss saw his bonus go up in a puff of self-inflicted smoke

Re: Is that California…

How far is that from The Mumbles?

Re: Free Vending

When Dell was in the process of absorbing EMC, there was a week when we got two email broadcasts:

1) Dell was going to build the finest tech workforce around by hiring all of the best people.

2) It was unfair for EMC sites to get free coffee so from now on we would have to pay for it.

Our VP was in town for an all-hands. To his credit, he didn’t even start his intro spiel before saying “Oh and ignore that stupid coffee memo, I’m taking care of it.”

Vile Americanism?

Every year California plays Indiana in [American] football. That’s California University of Pennsylvania versus Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Good luck keeping things straight around there without a few extra hints.

Broadcom boss Hock Tan says public cloud gave IT departments PTSD

<spits>

Feds, US states sue RealPage for building rent-hiking software for landlords

Ha ha ha, acceptable to the Drumpf administration? Oh then I guess it’s fine. Rotters.

Gartner mages: Payback from office AI expected in around two years

80% accurate? In what field is that acceptable?

Google's ex-CEO U-turns after saying staff 'going home early' killed winning

Re: WFH increases my productivity

I just picked my car up from the shop. My employer didn’t need to know. Build was still running when I got back.

Sometimes I wonder if I could ever tolerate going back to an office job.

I remember years ago someone posting a comment here about how they hope this clown “chokes to death.” It was on one of those interviews where he said it was just peachy that none of us have privacy any more.

I thought, yeah, that would be nice. Still waiting unfortunately.

DEF CON badge disagreement gets physical as firmware dev removed from event stage

“ a herd of angry Linux Devs with sharpened teeth”

I’m not afraid of them biting me. But email… oh God, no more emails…

Intel's microcode fix to save Raptor Lake chips may only work with default power settings

Re: Accuracy and tolerances

The VRM feeding the CPU package is its own power domain. It’s much more tightly spec’d than any of the other power rails.

It was fun to watch it on the scope - it’s a piece of engineering.

Faulty instructions in Alibaba's T-Head C910 RISC-V CPUs blow away all security

Re: The instruction they ran is not even a valid RVV 1.0 instruction, let alone RVV 0.7.1

It’s a custom extension, which is made pretty clear in the article.

Under-fire Elon Musk urged to get a grip on X and reality – or resign

Re: Pedo Guy to the rescue!

Blink twice if the guy standing behind you is FSB

Twitter tells advertisers to go fsck themselves, now sues them for fscking the fsck off

Re: I'm reminded of an old song...

I read a review of a King Missile album once. It was described as, “songs to put on a mix CD for someone you don’t want to be friends with any more.”

Re: Not weird at all.....

I tell everyone about how much I love my Tesla. Mostly they respond that they would never buy a car associated with Twitler.

Do you get paid in dollars, pounds, or rubles?

Re: Play stupid games…

They’ve been doing it nonstop for years and show no sign of stopping.

“Nazis and NATO mercs” - remember that post?

Wank on, JE.

The only possible explanation for Twitler’s current madness is that he must be high as a fucking kite.

Users call on Microsoft to update Outlook's friendly name feature

Re: While we're at it..

What day was Saturday again?

I would disable that crap in a heartbeat if I could.

CrowdStrike hires outside security outfits to review troubled Falcon code

Doesn’t matter. They won’t exist six months from now.

Dell starts new round of layoffs while it looks to 'unlock modern AI'

Re: Stock options

If the options have not vested, they are not really yours. If you no longer work there, they will never vest, so they are null and void.

If the options have vested, you can exercise them. At a previous (private) employer I was given 30 days to exercise them or they would also become null and void.

If you’ve exercised the options, the stock is yours and the company can’t touch it, unless it’s a private company that gave themselves the right to buy it back for a prearranged price.

CrowdStrike unhappy about Delta's 'litigation threat,' claims airline refused 'free on-site help'

Re: Blame where blame's due

No coloring required. Haven’t you been replaced yet?

Presumably this Carlinsky lizard gets paid in advance.

Stock-trading apps fall under the feet of stampeding panicking investors

“that over-hyped AI has overcooked the market and the bubble is about to burst”

That’s not a growing concern; it’s reality intruding on the party.

DARPA suggests turning old C code automatically into Rust – using AI, of course

Re: Memory safety is a design issue

“Lots of productive work but in reality nothing actually getting done (in other words, "just another day at the office"!).”

Wow, that’s my last week in a nutshell.

EU AI Act still in infancy, but those with 'intelligent' HR apps better watch out

What’s a B&Q?

Intel prepares to cut 'thousands' of workers

Re: Just offshoring

So much cheaper per LOC

Zuck dreams of personalized AI assistants for all – just like email

Re: nice heads up

Barf.

AI models face collapse if they overdose on their own output

Re: Hang on, I think I know this one!

It’s the same as ‘not every bug is a bug.’ Because not every bug [insect] is a true bug [order hemiptera].

DOWNVOTES? From cat people or something?

CrowdStrike blames a test software bug for that giant global mess it made

This kernel module is loading something from the filesystem. So we know it can, and that presumably the directory is trusted.

Why not:

1. Write out canary.txt - “I’m loading channel file X”

2. Load channel file

3. Delete canary.txt

If the kmod loads and finds a canary.txt, don’t load the channel file it lists!

There, global catastrophe prevented.