* Posts by Benegesserict Cumbersomberbatch

804 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Mar 2022

FTX crypto-crook Sam Bankman-Fried gets 25 years in prison

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Re: This morning's local news

Hang on, what about the Bitcoin Bros' dogma that fiat currencies are the scam, and that BTC is a store of value? On that basis, his USD liabilities for his frauds are much higher now than they were when he committed them.

Do not touch that computer. Not even while wearing gloves. It is a biohazard

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Re: What happened to the truck or its driver?

Sometimes safe distances are higher than that.

I have treated a man for electrical injuries who was working on an 11kV power pole on a drizzly day, after a dust storm the day before. Leaning against the wood of the pole was enough for him to complete the circuit with the layer of electrically conductive mineral mud that now coated the outside of the pole. He was standing on the ground, easily 10m from the conductors.

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Most important lesson

Correct response though, full marks, to the person who sent the tar-box back as a biohazard. Some jobs are inherently dangerous, but not that one.

"Sorry sir, the carcinogens that broke your Apple box are yours, because you put them there. You'll have to remove them before I can do anything to help you."

Workplace Edvard Munch moments can be fun in retrospect, and how we deal with them makes them more so.

BBC exterminates AI experiments used to promote Doctor Who

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Re: AI Doctor

Inconceivable!

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Re: You will be upgraded, resistance is futile

The series seems to have a loose canon.

Twitter's lawsuit against anti-hate-speech crusaders gets SLAPPed out of court

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Re: Elmo Fails again!

How to test Elon Musk's free speech absolutism: #invadetaxhavens

What's brown and sticky and broke this PC?

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Re: Chocolate?

I believe in miracles.

BOFH: So you want more boardroom tech that no one knows how to use

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Re: Don't give Microsoft ideas...

Special K is 2-(2-Chlorophenyl)-2-(methylamino)cyclohexanone.

When life gives you Lemon, sack him

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Re: Ketamine

I use it for procedural sedation for children routinely, safely and successfully.

Yes, it has risks: hypersalivation, tachycardia, increased ICP and IOP, emergence phenomena. They can be managed, usually by premedication, and are rare enough that the risks are less than the bigger risks of a typical anaesthetic like propofol or volatiles. Having, for example, an appendix removed under nothing but ketamine is not unheard of in remote areas or where access to hospital theatre standard is not available or impractical.

Its starring attributes are the protection of airway reflexes, its single agent achievement of the anaesthetic triad and its cardiostability. No other single agent comes close, even inhalation induction.

Personally I prefer IV over IM because the pharmacokinetics of IM is more like an infusion, so the redistribution phase is much more prolonged. However, the IV access itself can sometimes be more traumatising than the procedure itself - that's a judgement call.

Observing someone having it is peculiar. In particular the nystagmus and occasional vocalisation. Warn parents in advance and they won't freak out when it happens. It's not traumatic, except vicariously. The one advantage to that is you know for sure when dissociation has kicked in.

Some treatments, usually chronic pain related, involve gradually escalating an infusion until dissociation occurs, then stopping. The theory is that pain mediating neurotransmitters "wind up", and ketamine can wind them down again.

It can see how it would be easy to confuse recreational and therapeutic experiences (the "set and setting"). For recovery, dark, quiet rooms with familiar voices are good at preventing emergence phenomena - more of a happy dream than a scary nightmare. Take it out of the controlled surroundings of a critical care environment and it shows its mean streak.

As an NMDA antagonist it is an analgesic in subdissociative doses (up to 0.5mg/kg), and progressively becomes an anaesthetic at higher doses. It is also a horse tranquiliser, for the same reasons. Mammals share a lot of physiology. Who'd'a thunk it?

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Re: Lemon didn't kiss Musk's ass

His Muskiness obviously uses irregular verbs:

I am a free speech absolutist.

You have a woke mind virus.

He has had his contract cancelled.

Cancel culture at work.

McDonald's ordering system suffers McFlurry of tech troubles

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Re: I refuse to use those touch screen thingies

My favourite language option on a self service terminal is the loans desk at my local library. Touch the Skull and Crossbones flag and ye can put it in talk like a pirate mode. Avast, ye scurvy dogs!

Rancher faces prison for trying to breed absolute unit of a sheep

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Re: Martial arts

Yu-dō?

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Re: Ovine Park

The 'G and the late great Ron Barassi send you a downvote.

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Re: "captive hunting operations – aka shooting sheep in a barrel"

"PULL!!"

"Baaah!!"

"Boom!!"

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Re: "The .. crime we uncovered here could threaten the integrity of our wildlife species in Montana"

And that "genetic material from sheep parts to ... create cloned embryos" turns out to be, literally, a load of bollocks. I'm guessing the Absolute Unit as described didn't give those up voluntarily.

I suspect it's easier to smuggle a platter of Mountain Oysters into a country than a live-and-kicking ram.

Baaah-Ram-Ewe!

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'Chemical cat' on the loose in Japanese city

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Re: Poor Kitty

It is in a superposition of alive and dead states, and until someone looks in the box, there's not enough information to say which is accurate.

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Re: My cats...

And when they do.

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Re: History repeating itself

It has two - the Tokyo Tower and the Skytree. The latter would probably look most kawaii being felled by a big fluffy white kitten; the former is a red-and-white striped Eiffel Tower rip-off.

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Re: Poor Kitty

neko was also the cute little X11 app that would render an animated cat running around your screen hiding amongst the windows and icons, popping out whenever its cover got moved.

クロム猫 vs コシラ!

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Re: Dr. Suess...

The Cat in the Vat Comes Back Shinier.

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Re: Wait a mo....

There are so many, they have a whole... catalyst.

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Well, dichromate is a cation, after all.

Telegram eyes IPO as user numbers close in on 1 billion

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Re: Turning a profit?

If De Santis finds out about his Orangeness being a drag, Mango Largo might be looking for a new owner.

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Re: It's all downhill once the bankers turn up

If you had been a founder, who would the actual founders have been?

We asked Intel to define 'AI PC'. Its reply: 'Anything with our latest CPUs'

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Re: Better tell Microshit

Yes. Well at least we know now what will be used to make customers upgrade to Windows 12.

Apple's had it with Epic's app store shenanigans, terminates dev account

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Also, in an environment where, if you're homeless, you freeze to death...

Google Maps leads German tourists to week-long survival saga in Australian swamp

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Re: What did we learn today, boys and girls?

If it was the Peninsula Development Road, it's Bob Katter you're paying the toll to.

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Re: What’s truly amazing…

Teutons launching into foreign territory unprepared for the local conditions. Now where have I heard that before?

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Death by Satnav signs.

There are.

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Re: Unless I'm mistaken...

I like Australian Scorpion toxinology:

"Is it native?"

"Yep."

"You'll live."

Unlike every other fucking animal, including the platypuses and the seashells.

Olympic-level server tossing contest seeks entrants – warranty voiding guaranteed

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Server's up

No, sorry, it's down again.

They call me 'Growler'. I don't like you. Let's discuss your pay cut

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Re: Defining Growler

Delighted to learn from the link that Australia has purchased 13 Growlers.

Coals to Newcastle, but every bit helps.

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Yeah, that Lachlan has a mean streak.

Microsoft drags Windows Subsystem for Android into the trash

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Re: There goes......

KDE generally is.

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Re: Microsoft wasn't really committed

"As part of our commitment to meeting evolving customer needs, we periodically commit to ceasing to meet some needs we committed to meet a while ago. Customers who still need needs that we commit to ceasing to meet might commit to evolving to cease to use our product to meet their needs. Or they could fuck off and die, for all we care. We're in it for the money."

US and Europe try to tame surveillance capitalism

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Re: How many times?

LiveRamp firmly believes that we are in compliance with all laws in the regions where we operate, including UK and EU laws.

Belief being the holding of an idea to be true, in the absence of proof, or in spite of evidence to the contrary.

If it were true, they would say they were in compliance, full stop.

Air National Guardsman Teixeira to admit he was Pentagon files leaker

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Re: lets move forward

Some Floridian shit-for-brains loser bragging to his gaming mates wasn't a reliable way of leaking stuff he wanted to leak either, that's not the point. Disregard for the processes that guard sensitive information is a different set of offences to actual espionage, but they're under the same Act because the former facilitates the latter. And they're both criminal acts, so if guilty, similar penalties apply.

It's that most wonderful time of the year when tech cannot handle the date

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Re: Don't people test edge cases any more?

Only 1 in every 4th year mightbe a leap year, but of those, only 97 in 100 are.

Not hard to understand. Having understood, not hard to code. But realising that that's what you actually need to understand... Hard. General ignorance strikes again.

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Re: Don't people test edge cases any more?

Fast, Cheap, Good.

Pick one of three.

Australian spy chief fears sabotage of critical infrastructure

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Re: Who?

All part of some dastiardly plot, no doubt.

If we plug this in without telling anyone, nobody will know we caused the outage

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Re: Let's Check the Server Room Access Log

Nor let us confusion excision with exorcism - we can cut that out right now!

Microsoft might have just pulled support for very old PCs in Windows 11 24H2

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POPCNUT

Retrieve an old chestnut from the stack.

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Re: a lot of Linux customers do care about speed / efficiency

Or do what OpenSUSE does, and sub-architecture the packages according to which set of instructions are supported.

Intuitive Machines' lunar lander tripped and fell

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Re: Yutu 2

It was Pizza the Hutt.

Judge slaps down law firm using ChatGPT to justify six-figure trial fee

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Re: I'm not sure ..

"As intelligent as a lawyer content to try outsourcing their own job to a data centre in Southwest Godknowswhere" doesn't sound quite as much like progress.

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So ChatGPT is a tool and we're currently experiencing the (sometimes painful) process of working out exactly what it's good for.

Your interesting Terence Tao instance is a great example of it being used well.

The original article is a great example of it being used poorly, predictably, by someone who, in their professional capacity, clearly ought to have known better. That (to paraphrase) is what the judge said, anyway. Cue adverse consequences, and rightly so.

It seems not enough people who do use it think critically before deciding if it's the right tool for them and their task. Too many seem to swallow the kool-aid that it's AI, when it's nothing of the sort.

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Re: Donvoted for missing icon.

He's harder to find than his brother, Joe.

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Re: "was misbegotten at the jump"

I think it's just unfamiliarity with the idiom. I think the phrase comes from horse racing (i.e. at the jump = at the start of the race), so maybe just a bit obscure to some.

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It also uses commas.