Dang
"So enough with the conspiracy theories, okay?"
Oh dear, they've got Simon under control now.
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glibc
maintainer after 30 years
I'm glad I got my 1070 when I did - I just glanced at Amazon and just about everyone is "Not in stock" "Delivery in 2-4 weeks" or similar - and the price has rocketed.
Daft, imo. I think (and I'll admit that I'm normally wrong when I think) that just like when BitCoin was the cryptocurrency de jour and ASICs rapidly outstripped GPUs as the mining engine of choice, the same will happen with Ethereum, and the gamers and both VR freaks will get their hands on the GPUs again.
Actually, thinking about it, Ephemerum might be a better choice of name.
Today Virgin, Tomorrow BT, there's always some fibres just a sneeze away from being cut.
We're getting more and more of these frangile fibre thingies that are worming their way through soil, and today it was some borough councils, not too serious, but London City Airport are remoting their ATC via fibre - okay, they're using three redundant connections and they that say "it will be impossible that all three would fail together"
Triplicated Infrastructure terminated so unexpectedly prematurely.
Hmm.
At least an AI doc would listen to all your symptoms and hopefully not suffer from the form of paradoelia that human docs do when any symptom you mention is a symptom of what they want you to have "Stubbed your toe? Ah yes, IBD" "Sneezes and sniffles? Ah yes, classic compound fracture symptoms" "Sodomised your Mother? Have some viagra".
Humongous upvote for the Threads reference, probably the most realistic, and chilling, representation of the country after a nuclear strike.
Scared the crap out of me when I saw it as an impressionable teenager, going back to it in middle age wasn't much better.
Back on topic - I've been wondering if something like this would occur ever since Apple started to make their own chips.
Are they in Klemperer rosette formation?
Aye you can report bugs.
But using it for your day to day system or for a production system is specifically stated by Microsoft as a bad idea as things may not work, systems may get screwed up, functionality may not be what you expected.
Whinging about it on Reddit, saying "WHAT A FECKING LIBERTY" rather than saying "In this preview build, losing ResFS or FAT32 access to OneDrive seems to be bit of retrograde step" is just stupid.
It's a beta. It's not meant for general use. Report errors, post about errors, say why you think it's a bad idea.
Reacting like 3 year old who has spat out his dummy is just lame.
So, technically, a beta, not a release copy?
Annoying, irritating, and probably a damned stupid idea, but isn't the purpose of betas and previews to test things before general release?
And don't folk on the insider program get warned that things might not work the way that they think that they should?
Methinks the insiders protest too much.
"We respectfully disagree with the conclusions announced today. We will review the Commission’s decision in detail as we consider an appeal, and we look forward to continuing to make our case.”
Translation: "You bastards. You're never going to see this money as we're going to spend at least as much as the fine, if not more, keeping it in the courts using every delaying tactic our highly paid lawyers can think up, for ever and ever and ever, or at least, until hopefully the time when EU disappears up its own arse".
EDIT: I'm pleased with the EU for recognising the unfair leverage that companies including Google can wield, but fines cannot be a solution, as there are too many way that such behemoths can mitigate such paltry amounts - Alphabet had revenues of 90Bn last year. Other solutions which block these strategies, up to and including e.g. blocking the websites offending, have to be considered.
Sorry for the boilerplate quote, but a bit of wisdom from Douglas Adams seems appropriate.
"It should be explained at this point that modern elevators are strange and complex entities. The ancient electric winch and maximum capacity eight persons jobs bear as much relation to a Sirius Cybernetic Corporation ‘Happy Vertical People Transporter’, as a packet of peanuts does to the entire West Wing of the Sirian State Mental Hospital. This is because they operate on the unlikely principle of defocused temporal perception - a curious system which enables the elevator to be on the right floor to pick you up even before you knew you wanted it, thus eliminating all the tedious chatting, relaxing, and making friends that people were previously forced to do whilst waiting for elevators.
Not unnaturally, many lifts imbued with intelligence and precognition became terribly frustrated with the mindless business of going up or down, experimented briefly with the notion of going sideways - as a sort of existential protest - demanded participation in the decision making process, and, finally, took to sulking in basements. At this point a man called Gardrilla Manceframe rediscovered and patented a device he had seen in a history book called a staircase."
They sell squirrel (grey only) at my local market.
It tastes a bit like wild rabbit, but is a tad tougher, and needs slow stewing. Also, there's not much meat on them so you need at least one per person.
Red squirrels can't be eaten as they taste horrible due to a secretion from a gland near their kidneys.
You can never quote the good doctor enough...have an upvote.
As an aside, it is rumoured that Tom invented the vodka jello shot during his stint at Los Alamos - no liquids were allowed in the computer/machine room, so he made up jelly* with vodka so that he could have a wee dram when working.
*Sorry, I'm British. I can only say jello a very limited number of times...
Last time this happened (that I know of) Microsoft pointed the finger at Akamai, as they handle the certificates - I wonder if this has happened again, but this time Microsoft aren't pointing at them.
I had to make a temporary change in about:config (and I was most disappointed as there were no dragons) to change security.ssl.enable_ocsp_must_staple;true to false, this morning I changed it back.
Certificates do seem to cause problems for many people, not just Microsoft - recently my employer changed the certificate on the wifi, and the queues I had on the helpdesk were formidable.
I love stories like this.
10 years ago, after a spat with VirginMedia, I got rid of my television service. I thought it would be a temporary separation, but it has matured into a fully fledged divorce.
I don't miss it. If I want to watch something, which doesn't happen often, I can wait till it's out on DVD, or, if I reallyreally need that fix of televisual entertainment so I can join in with the conversations at work about one of the many series which all sound exactly the same as each other, one of my friends with a Tivo or similar will record it and pass it over, and I can realise why I don't have a television service, and celebrate it with a glass of something liver-rotting and cancer inducing - paid for with the money I save by not having a television service.
See - the more you look at no television service, the more it makes sense.
And no remotes. Life is better without remotes.
I live in Edinburgh - we have a really good bus service. I
Good route coverage? Check
Good accurate info on times and arrivals by app? Check
Free WiFi? Check
Good arrival/service info at bus stops? Check
Reasonable pricing? Check
Hybrid/Electric vehicles? Check
If it hadn't been for the ludicrous splurge on the white elephant tram service, we'd probably have an incredibly good bus service, but LRT seem to be doing all of what this startup claims. I commute by bicycle - if I didn't I'd use the buses, not my cars, because up here, they work pretty well.
Alas, if it's blocked the egress of the corpus cavernosa, there's nothing you can do, it's stuck like that...
Still, it's not the worse I've heard about... Back in the late 70s, there was a wonderful publication "World Medicine" that specialised in the slightly more chatty side of medicine. It had a scintillating vignette, telling the story of a couple admitted on the same stretcher, the man had got his prepuce speared on the wire of a partially expelled IUD, and the medic had to perform an intra-vaginal circumcision using modified obstetric instruments to spare his dick.
Sex sometimes seems to be more trouble than it's worth.
Only sometimes.
It was an good medium in it's time, it was the job of the time, but at only 90minutes capacity* on something that is easily 10x the size of my music player which holds hundreds of hours, no randomise function, and the ability to spill its guts into the machine requiring painstaking retrieval...
Having said that, I'm fairly sure that the "skip track" function on modern players is the first thing to wear out - back when you had 20 tracks, they all seemed to be just right - there is a benefit to having limited storage, you only store what you really like.
On that list - the Psion 5 organiser wins, hands down, in my opinion.
*Okay, 120 minute cassettes were available. If you enjoyed the added bonus of wow and flutter applied to your favourite sounds, at no extra cost.
O2 coverage is Scotland outside the cities sucks. I know Bonnie Jockland is a wee bit rural, but I'm fed up of being on top of a hill wanting to share my joy* of being out in the fresh air** with my friends, but getting absolutely bugger all in the way of signal when my friends on EE or whatever are blathering away.
I should vote with my feet, but all my family are on O2, so when I'm in town it's useful.
*Okay, I want to brag.
** We have lots of that. It makes up for not having gigs, industry, life expectancy...
Slight more advanced than most users quotes - I was late (and reluctant) to join the mobile age, but my 6610i still works wonders - when I lost my Lumia last August, O2 sent me a replacement SIM, I slipped it into the trusty beast, and powered it up - within 30s, it was powered up - it briefly asked for time and date, but before I could enter the data, it had them from the network and was ready to go.
And it can run for at least a weak between charges in daily use, and hold its charge for a very long time if switched off.
OTOH, it doesn't have a 19mega pixel camera...
The Aztecs (or Mayans, or Incas...I'm a wee bit nebulous on which is which) did the same trick involving peyote and psylocibin but used a dog - they high priests drank dog urine, the lesser priests the high priests, and so on and so forth.
Certainly for the reindeer trick, it has important survival implications - whilst Amanita Muscaria isn't poisonous itself, other Amanita species are, and look similar. If the reindeer survived, the shaman had a better chance of not being terminally blitzed.