Posts by Aitor 1

Re: Red tape

Getting charged duty and then being able to reclaim it is horrible and can make a business unprofitable.. as you are essentially financing the gvnt.. at your own cost, both in actual cost and also debt and ratings.

Re: I like Postgres, a nice easy step from "Horr-acle"

C´mon, fuck ups in Oracle? You are triggering me.

Money/oomph

May I ask if these cpus beat datacenter GPUs on Gflop per £? That is what my math tells me with chiplet based Ryzen.

Re: ZTE

On the contrary, I find them to be more expensive overall.

Re: Oops...

So, the Chinese are stealing their own secrets? And they copy their own?

How evil!

subsidies

Yet those remote councils need subsidies.

Providing services inside a city is relatively cheap.. on the countryside it is very expensive.

So the gvnt expends way more money on less dense populations in order to give them worse services.. yet said ppl still complain.

Re: Trustworthy?

Well, this seems illegal to me, does not pass the smell test for GPDR.

re inventing the weel.

What aboit using well known and understood libraries/frameworks for this? I a quite keen on using standards for these things, as more people have looked at the problem, and if there are problems, it has greayer chances of being detected.

So, essentially, the same reason you should not use your own random number generator or cryptography.

Re: He should have stuck to what he knows

I understand that presumption of innocence is highly inflamatory these days, he should have been more careful.

Re: Would definitely not willingly go back to gas.

It can be more efficien t because heating a pot with brning gas is not very efficient, and a combined cycle power generator is.. plus induction hobs are extremely efficient.

As for the power losses.. compressing gas plus gas loses are qt least as costly as transporting electricity

Re: Fill it with gravel

Well, that is a proper way of fixing it.

Re: I hope they impeach his ass.

Yes and no.

Most laptop designers and producers are in taiwan and china.

The US companies either ask for certain features or buy the models. There are few options besides these ODMs.

So, the brands have to pay more for laptops and mobile phones, and either pass those costs to their clients or pay themselves the costs.

Now, with clothes they can eat the cost, clothes are very cheap to buy, but laptops and mobes have razor thin margins.. they will have to raise the prices.

Re: Legitimate scrap copper £3/kg currently

Tracing is mostly not the problem.. yeah, in time they get caught, but it seems to be worth it for them.

Same as nicking bikes, motorbikes, cars, etc, weak laws and poor enforcement.

Re: Eh?

Thank you Captain Obvious!

Re: Not to be mean but,

Most of my chargers don´t power it, and the rest are crap.. that leaves me with only the official one to power it!

Re: Why exactly is Perl any worse than Python?

Inexperienced programmer program in whatever other people don´t want to touch, so horrors like javascript and its frameworks can be created.

Anyway haters gonna hate, etc.

Re: We'll see

Correct, and the whole thing would be "discretionary", muddy, unclear and abusive.

So yeah, worse than useless.

Re: Probably a pass for most

No flame from me.

I do not trust AMD, Intel etc not to offer backdoors to the US gov. In fact, I would be surprised of the contrary.. just look at the laws, and they have to follow them!

Re: Microsoft

No data free collection version.

The data selling model assumes that you have a mix of low value and high value targets in the group.

The low value targets are valuable only because you cannot identify without doubt the high value ones.

If you offer a more expensive version without the data slurp, you are removing most of the value from the mix, so you will be able to charge way less from the mass surveillance, so it makes little sense to do so.

That is the reason you don´t see a pay for version of Facebook, for example.

Un ethical

Such a move is wrong, and I would not do it, and most people wont do it either. It is GOOD that is not un us, even if no penalty was really there.

Re: AMD

Low memory BW, low frequency, and a slow HDD with a crap chipset.

Put a SSD and it will be tolerable, but you are sharing memory BW with the GPU part of the chip, and maybe you are even doing single channel access.

Feminists tend to be radical... or maybe not?

Most feminists are reasonable, but the ones that get attention tend not to.

Why? well, shock value... a radical tends to be more newsworthy than a reasonable person.

This wouldn´t be a problem if these shouty ppl in general (not just alleged feminists) got heard and effectively had a disproportionate effect on policy and law.

Also, as they are retweeted/republished everywhere, they tend to steal the movements from within and gain plenty of power.

This is not something new, look at some extremist movements in the 30s.. it is just that now the cost of doing so is much much lower, and the speed much much faster.

I don´t have a good solution for this, at least not one I would like to see implemented.. any ideas?

Re: Clarification required

We dont speak about who the users are...

Backblaze

I use backblaze, so I just dont lose anythong. Just in case I also have local incremental backup.

That being said, I hate those lowlifers, and I am very sorry this happened to you, and during most of my work life I had spotty backups too.

Re: Amateurs :)

So your player is crap on ATI/AMD cards?

Anyway, congrats for running something so crossplatform

Re: What were they doing with an expensive photo capable printer in 1989?

Instead of using logic, just make it even more illogical and make it so each time that you print, you have to add the project id that you are charging the printing to and the password, so all gets logged and those overpriced prints are attributed to your project.. and at that point as a project manager you wonder if it would be cheaper to buy a printer and pay it with your project funds.. (yes, it is, and no, you are not allowed to do it).

Re: The Great Wall of "Thanks, but no thanks. We're good."

They were happy to use components and know how from the US, Europe or elsewhere, the government wanted them to be fully independent, and they made half hearted attempts.

Now they have no other choice, as basic international law is not respected by the US and Europe, so they are forced to do it.

It is sad, as they were stopping their IP theft somewhat.

Re: How can this be?

This is to be expected, and is terrible news, as we risk the fragmentation of the internet..

It will also mean greater security for chinese companies, as less us backdoored equipment in their premises will be safer for them.

Re: Who's left?

Marketing!

Re: Eh?

"They do not block the socket using the earth pin

You can buy sockets that do that here."

Those are not standard and most houses do not have them. So no, the point is that they are mostly not used.

https://www.homedepot.com/c/types_of_electrical_outlets

As you can see, only new builds from 2008 require

Limited wattage --> Of course said plugs and circuits do exist, and also you can have 240v circuits. But they are uncommon. Also, normal 15A plugs and 20A plugs are different. Not in the UK.. the standard says max 13A at 240v, although the circuit has more amps available.. but that plug in W is que equivalent of a 26A plug at normal US voltages.

Touch partially plugged connectors: good for you, but it is not a random thought that made the UK and some other places to mandate partial insulated pins, as I know from when I was a small kid. It is an unnecessary danger.

Phases --> You are simply wrong, I assume that you live in the us.. and you seem to have no knowledge of how power is delivered to your house.

A link as an example:

http://www.oempanels.com/240v-single-phase-and-240v-3-phase

If you have 240v both poles are probably active unless you are on a commercial/industrial building.

You normal case is called "1P3W" and what we have in the uk and most of western europe as far as I know is "240V Single Phase 2 Wire" with "415Y / 240V 3 Phase 4 Wire (3P4W)" reaching most buildings but just a single phase being used for each individual home/flat.

Actual voltages do vary depending on countries.. right now most of western continental europe has 230v (used to be 220v) and the UK has 240v, all are 230v with some tolerance (both 220 and 240 are accepted).

So no, I am not embarrassing myself, even if I am not an industrial engineer or qualified electrician.

Re: FOI

To me it still seems illegal, but then I am no legal expert here..

Re: Discovered 'simoultaneosly', or leaked?

Also Mozilla, seems quite suspicious..

Re: Few points

Galvanic corrosion and power usage also means that copper is way more expensive to maintain.. also almost no maintenance except when the JCB gods decide to ruin your day.

There are some challenges with water/dust ingress in connectors, but electric interfaces in my experience are more expensive to run.

As for laying the last mile.. I have seen the data for Spain, and it was more expensive to lay copper than to lay fiber. I don´t have the data for ALU, or steel, as those are horrible choices from a maintenance/quality point of view.

Re: Interesting, but...

Maybe, but the US gov can´t put you in the nasty list and block you.. I guess this is a huge plus.

I ryzen has a bench of 10 vs 8 of this processor, so yeah, it is faster per core, as it uses two threads per core.

Re: I like proper cash

You HAVE to accept cash in England, and in Scotland, you have to accept certain coins.

Re: Stalin would be so proud of him

If backdoors are mandatory (and is not clear they are not right now for US companies), you would have:

-Backdoors in the UEFI

-Backdoors in the Chip itself, in the black box "safe enclave".

-Backdoors in the HDD and network card.

Yes, you can install Linux, but you would still be as vulnerable as before..