* Posts by Stork

1499 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Dec 2013

Gen Z and Millennials don't know what their colleagues are talking about half the time

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Gentlepeople?

Thousands of subreddits go dark in mega-protest over Reddit's app-killing API prices

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Re: Meh

As with newsgroups (remember those?), there are useful and friendly ones and those less so. Choose wisely.

Is it a drone? Is it a balloon? Whatever it is the US warns locals not to let them fly in Iran

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Re: Beware drones carrying genies

I think [0] is a bureaucratic way of writing “petrol and diesel engines “.

Man sues OpenAI claiming ChatGPT 'hallucination' said he embezzled money

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Artificial Ignorance?

See title

Metaverse? Apple thinks $3,500 AR ski goggles are the betterverse

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Joke

Not even skiing?

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Re: I think the barrier here is...

You have an optimistic view of other people’s self awareness.

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Re: What makes Apple think they can crack this market?

I am not sure one way or the other, but for reference I suggest you dig up this esteemed publication’s review of the first iPhone.

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Re: Definitely for pr0n

The iSock idea is not new: https://www.everything2.com/title/FuckU-FuckMe

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Re: For sure, this time!

I wear glasses when not sleeping or bathing. The glasses and my Seiko 5 is the extent to which I use wearable tech.

Windows XP's adventures in the afterlife shows copyright's copywrongs

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Re: Coppyright length

AFAIR, the original US copyright was for 7 years, extendable once (or twice?) by seven years more.

Of course this was mainly about financial rewards and not control of how the work was used and abused.

Bookings open for first all-electric flights around Scandinavia … in 2028

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Re: Got to start somewhere...

ATOH, I think I paid close to £200 for a return Manchester Copenhagen in the mid 90es; today I booked Faro Copenhagen for about a third of that. Of course that doesn’t include food as the old ones did.

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On 2): unless it’s over water or mountains.

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Assuming SAS is still in business by then

Last I heard they were under bankruptcy protection, and I think some support they received was ruled against by EU.

The FBI as advanced persistent threat – and what to do about it

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Re: Assigning Traffic To A Real Person Can Be Made Difficult.....

But in a lot you can. I got one in Copenhagen Airport

Ford in reverse gear over AM radio removal after Congress threatens action

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Re: Glad to Keep AM Questions about the Digital Radio

In Portugal, FM radio is alive & well. Not seen any sign of DAB, but haven't looked.

TV went digital some years back, the quality became so atrocious we got cable - and satellite for the rentals.

That old box of tech junk you should probably throw out saves a warehouse

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Re: My Mantra*

Many years ago I had my car fixed by a guy in Birkenhead who seemed to specialise in alternators, starter motors and similar. All the room under his workbenches was filled with old parts, just in case…

Apple warns of three WebKit vulns under active exploitation, dozens more CVEs across its range

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Re: The problem with a mono-culture

We are all inbred, and you most likely don’t need to go that far back. If you go back to 1500, you are looking at 2^20 or about a million ancestors.

The population of Britain at the time was 2.6 million and of Denmark 600000, so you are bound to find some who do double duty.

In a stand against authoritarianism, Montana bans TikTok downloads

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Anti-alcohol laws

I heard they were quite efficient - it was easier for US teens to buy marihuana than beer.

Will LLMs take your job? Only if you let them

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Re: In The Long Run.......

Pay, cushy! Our newest car is 18 this month, our tv no more than 40”. And I have to be pool boy myself!

Dyson moans about state of UK science and tech, forgets to suck up his own mess

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Re: With two-faced "friends" like Dyson, Britain doesn't need enemies

I think this has been discussed before, and I can tell you it is very similar in Denmark.

It should be possible, even in UK or Denmark, to find a better figurehead than someone who has been PM or is royal. Ireland and Germany have managed IMHO.

Is there anything tape can’t fix? This techie used it to defeat the Sun

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Re: Wait ... What?

In some cases it is viewed as a work of art and therefore requires the consent of the author for any changes.

On my alma mater (dtu.dk) all replacement taps had to go through the architects as there was no other source, at least that’s what I was told by the lab techs.

'Top three Balkans drug kingpins' arrested after cops crack their Sky ECC chats

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Trollface

We should nationalise it. Then we would be sure drugs don’t pay.

Sonatype axes 14 percent of staff, reminds them not to talk to the press

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I liked that too. B-ark!

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Re: Phew!

What annoys me is that while it is not fun, it’s a normal part of running a business to cut staff in some situations.

How about “times are tough, and unfortunately we have to reduce staff to get the business right. Sorry folks, and good luck.”

The marketing droid sounds right from the B-ark.

AI to detect heart attacks tested in the land of the deep-fried Mars bar

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Re: deep fried mars bars?

And deep fried haggis?

Brexit Britain looks to French company to save crumbling borders and immigration tech

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So are Mexicans, North Americans even.

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Re: @Phones Sheridan

Perhaps the Chinese exporters are better (due to practice or whatever) in dealing with the formalities than their UK competition?

Cisco: Don't use 'blind spot' – and do use 'feed two birds with one scone'

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Re: IglooDame

This reminds me, many moons ago I was on a webmaster course. As the majority of participants were female, I suggested it should be rebranded webmistress course.

The suggestion was thought interesting if perhaps not giving the wanted image. The majority thought webmoster (Danish for web auntie) was better.

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Blind spot

Is particularly silly as it refers to a feature of the eyes of (I think) all vertebrates. It is in no way ableist.

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Ooh, I was told that Eskimo was derogatory (similar to a certain n-word) and the proper term is Inuit. By someone of Greenlandic extraction.

The future of cars may be self-driving EVs gossiping about their humans and traffic

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Why would you want to go to Riyadh in the first place?

I wouldn’t!

You'll [BZZ] like Intel’s [BZZ] NUC 13 Pro once the fan [BZZ] stops blowing

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Re: Interesting idea...

Since we got our Apple Cube we have both been quite intolerant of too much fan noise.

Storing the Quran on your phone makes you a terror suspect in China

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Re: Quote from the religion of peace...

Rubbish. Christians _should_ follow the New Testament, but a lot of the more hardcore appear not to have come that far in the text.

My understanding is that you can use OT if the subject is not covered in NT. As an example, JC said pork was alright after all.

Streaming apps – and maybe even Cloud PCs – coming to electric cars

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Re: While charging?

I am not so sure. I used to do 20000 km/year, and most of that between home, work and shopping. Trips no more than 20 km one way.

UK becomes Unicorn Kingdom, where AI fairy dust earns King's ransom

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The problem, not just in Britain, is that numerate people often have more appealing career choices.

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Re: "...to make up for the inflation which has ravaged their pay packet, according to unions..."

Compare Sweden with comparable societies, like Norway, Finland and Denmark.

Microsoft suggests businesses buy fewer PCs. No, really

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Re: Didn't Oracle come up with a similar idea

Sun’s Sunray?

TSMC brags of 20TWh solar scheme. Feels a bit like greenwashing to us

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Re: Interesting

Funny, that would be very close to financial ROI

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Re: Interesting

If you use the price as an indicator, that will include the cost of all energy until installation.

And some of the price is not energy, I assume both the manufacturer and the installers make a profit.

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Re: Interesting

I think your fun calculation may be pessimistic.

We had a 4kW system without batteries installed some weeks ago and the projected payback time is about four years. This is purely by savings on daytime power purchase, we’re not paid for what we feed into the network and we have to pay the same charge for having the electricity connection.

I don’t think that would be possible if the energy embedded in the system was so large a part of the lifetime production, unless the production energy was close to free.

Better numbers must exist somewhere.

Florida folks dragged out of bed by false emergency texts

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Re: Nobody in the UK has a cellphone.

If in Rome, be a Romanian?

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Door openings are supposed to be good.

European air traffic control confirms website 'under attack' by pro-Russia hackers

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Did you read the article?

CEO sorry after telling staff to 'leave pity city' over bonuses

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That’s it, I wouldn’t have a problem with her rant if she had also had her bonus dropped.

Thanks for fixing the computer lab. Now tell us why we shouldn’t expel you?

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There was a period I used my monitor model as password

Chinese company claims it's built batteries so dense they can power electric airplanes

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As far as I know the fuel dumping is only done by certain large planes, not 737s and similar.

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Re: “We should ask CATL to share tests data..."

And if it isn’t in English it is not prior art.

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Re: Those are rookie numbers

And what exactly do those quad-thingies replace? Does it make any meaningful difference to anything?

Europe wants more cities to use datacenter waste heating. How's that going?

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You can add hydro to the list where geography is for it. Even Portugal generates something like 25% that way.

Child-devouring pothole will never hurt a BMW driver again

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Joke

Re: Volvo drivers don't get a serve too?

It used to be:

- why is there always a golden retriever in the back of a Volvo?

- it’s the owner’s guide dog!