Posts by that one in the corner 5065 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Nov 2021
Don't forget to read about Spain, France, Normans, Romans, Vikings, and, well, pretty much everywhere, on the whole.
If you think this sort of behaviour is to be deplored, stick to deploring what is going on *now*.
'Cos if you want to try to make yourself seem clever by making political hay of the past then first demonstrate that *your* antecedents are squeaky clean (hint: they aren't, your history is as blood soaked as everyone elses')
>> "everything is in the digits of pi somewhere"
> This hasn't been proven.
Yet we do seem to find pretty much everything we could wish for in Pi *
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dET2l8l3upU
Matt Parker "I found Amongi in the digits of pi!"
* Damn fine cherry, for preference
Preach, Brother.
Like many of these current linguistic idiocies, it is used by people who want to shove extra words in, so they sound oh-so-clever (e.g. Management Speak) but only coming out sounding like idiots.
Similarly, wanting to use long words when the short one will do: "soon" does the job, "momentarily" - what the heck does that actually mean?
My current tooth-grinder is "second of all". One gets the distinct feeling that these people have heard the usage "First of all ...", have absolutely no idea what it means, have no ability to find out what it means, but have spotted another chance to bung in some extra words and make themselves sound clever to their fellow knuckle-draggers.
(Cue all the people repeating "that is how language works, it changes" as though they have just found out that Middle English wasn't the same as Modern English, Woah Man, can you believe it!)
PS
Get OFF my lawn! Gah, now my Horlicks has gone cold.)
Well, a comment that isn't a reply to - or contains clear references to another comment - can fairly be assumed to be referring to the article.
"The entire crypto scam" - there are more types of scam than the ponzi!
https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/feature/Common-cryptocurrency-scams
"Ponzicryptoscam Coin" - well duh, what else is going to be said on an article that *is* about a ponzi scheme!
Then you post a ref to another comment from *months* ago where someone expressed their own opinion (see back to "anyone can have an opinion")! If *that* was the discussion you wanted to have, but decided (reasonably) that no-one would spot your posting on an old article, then you had every opportunity to put that into your first comment here. Hmm, wonder why you didn't...
Nope, your "explain the logic", as originally put, is still - well, it is a strawman, isn't it?
Plenty of people do consider cryptocurrencies to be a scam - just not necessarily all ponzis as you suppose.
has a fun reply to someone asking if they can have a copy of an infected file to examine: the answer was basically "No, not ours to distribute" and cheerfully followed by "If you want to research the corrupt DXE driver, you are welcome to search your own telemetry for similar samples".
In other words, "Here is what the turd looks like, now go look through your own dungheap, you'll probably find one like it."
But glad to hear that the likely infection route is the "evil maid attack scenario" so I'm not likely to have this malware. Oh, a cuppa? Very thoughtful, Mai Ling, let me hold that duster.
Confessing ignorance here, but how does that work?
I get an unexpected email with an ISO attached, so I immediately save the attachment to a local drive, right-click and mount it as a new drive letter, open a file browser to that drive and start double-clicking on everything in sight? And never question why the purported sender of the email has suddenly chosen to do things this way when they normally have trouble attaching just one JPEG?
Even if your box automounts the ISO (mine doesn't and I don't recall telling Win10 not to - maybe I broke something?) isn't this still odd enough to warn people?
Yours, possibly with excessive in humanity, etc
From earlier article:
"The app debuted in 2017 and by July 2020 had been downloaded almost 10 million times, though it was only used actively by about 1,600,000 people that month."
So that is ten million times a buck fiddy - assuming that everyone with the app takes up the offer. Although I'm guessing that fifteen million dollars still isn't much of a deterrent.
That is the beauty of any format based on plain text and markup.
I'd even suggest sticking with 7-bit ASCII, to avoid any of the problems with it-looks-to-me-like-a-letter-l-but-it-is-really-three-overlaid-codepoints from Unicode. You can even have clarity with emojis, no more guessing when the file says \emoji{flag-malaysia}.
Oh, I like that.
You get the mugs^^^^investors putting in more money for each cryptocoin up front: no need to wait for any actual trading in some silly public market, you can see the price of coins rocketing immediately! Here, would you like to buy another? Oops, just gone up again!
My theory (which is mine) is that IKEA have been stripping back the IVAR range to a shadow of its former self because they made it *too* good: despite my best efforts (overloading the shelves with books, drilling random holes to hang yet more stuff...) the stuff just works, decade after decade.
Really wish I had bought more of the large IVAR cabinets when they were available.
From the video where Meta show off their ideas for goggles, one of the goals is to accurately track the pupil.
There are good technical reasons for this, mainly rendering in full detail only the part of the image that will hit the fovea, using lower res for the rest of eye (both in pixels rendered and in colour detail) - and maybe even not rendering at all the bit of the image that lies in your blind spot. Doing this obviously reduces the amount of computation and bandwidth needed for the video (and isn't a new idea, VR creators were trying to do the same in the 90s).
Meta are even playing with changing the apparent depth of field of the image presented, as determined by measuring the pupils, including how dilated they are. Again, using the data to improve the results.
Now, if they just happen to "accidentally" happen to also deduce whether you are enjoying what you're looking at by the pupil response and that "leaks" out to the advertisers...
(PS if you've got various light sensors looking closely at the User's face and eyes, you can use them to, say, determine the heartrate as well. No need to try to tap into the User's heart monitor watch, which is just doing exactly the same trick - and having to do it on a tougher target, the wrinkled, tanned, hairy and dirty back of the wrist).
"biotic materials – non-living materials derived from living organisms"
As in - wood?
As in - the laser cut plywood used in oh-so-many small robots (well, hobbyist robots at least)?
Or the paper in plotters - which are just robotic draughtsmen. Ok, that is probably stretching the point too far: the robot plotter isn't actually made of paper. Although there are some paper robots, robo-origami using nitinol wire. Aaaaaah, that's taken my mind off spiders.
Dolby audio made to better quality standards than medical devices!
You'd really like to hope it was always the other way around, wouldn't you? But then you see stuff like this:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=2o8MDCIlOEk
EEVblog #822 - World's Worst Tablet Computer Teardown
Picosecond aligned clocks? I hope none of those are in the Penthouse trying to talk to systems down in the basement. Or sitting on a particularly dense piece of Earth.
https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/articles/z0508_00097.html
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EDirgdlPEuA
If they are getting this worked up over handling leapseconds with any luck their systems will just lock up completely when they are confronted with relativistic effects of just being in orbit.
So the O'Neil Colony will be a rugged frontier but blessedly free of Facebook!
> the moon recedes at about 3 cm/year, and the earth rotates slightly more slowly.
So if we attach a tether to the Artemis missions, lasso the Moon and pull it back towards us, we can remove the need for any more leap seconds *and* ensure that our descendants will still be able to enjoy a proper Solar Eclipse?
> it might be worth asking why nobody has ever tried to spin a space station in reality
Perhaps because we haven't actually built that many space stations yet and the ones we do have are all too small to be usefully spun up?
Ok, the main truss of the ISS might be long enough but all the living area is concentrated in the middle, so without an extreme amount of reconfiguration...
One brief websearch later:
https://www.radioactivity.eu.com/site/pages/Cosmic_Muons.htm *
Average energy at ground level 4GeV. Overall, muons have minimal energy loss due to ionisation (which is where the safety aspects come in), the use of 10GeV is for extended lifetimes giving more time to penetrate materials, rather than using higher energies to bash their way in. 10GeV lasting for approx 63 km in the air.
If you happen to see a faint beam of Cherenkov light flashes coming at you, DARPA is watching you.
* other URLs on the subject are available
The trees are already being cut down - and replanted to ensure a continuing supply - in order to make paper (Swedish-Finnish paper products company Stora Enso). Lignin is removed from the pulp in that process (otherwise you get rubbish paper).
This new process aims to use that byproduct lignin as a source of carbon to make batteries - batteries that likely wouldn't use carbon, but something less eco-friendly to collect, as the carbon anode tech is still in development.
The process to manufacture completed batteries will release CO2 - as any manufacturing does - but the claim here appears to be that this will be less than if non-carbon-anode batteries were made instead and that moving towards a more battery-powered world, as well that using up someone else's byproduct, is generally a Good Thing.
> I suppose I could look for a webcam with a zoom lens.
The Raspberry Pi can be used as a webcam; with the newer camera module you have a wide choice of C/CS mount lenses, bound to find one that'll fit your needs. Though the aesthetics of a Pi bolted to camera module aren't to everyone's tastes.
> a food bank in the north west of England, called Tynside CommunitEE pantry
That would be the Tyneside CommunitEE pantry in the North East of England.
Otherwise we'd be seeing the bosses treating the workers fairly and that really would be looking glass logic, wouldn't it.
