Posts by gnasher729

Re: All your QWERTY belong to us...

How is it hard to sort? Unless you are a numpty, you convert it to a date, and compare the dates.

Re: know-it-alls that collate well but add nothing new and deplete resources

On the other hand, the last time I googled for some maths problem, Google linked to a “helpful” answer by chatgpt on quora which was absolutely freakin’ nonsense.

Re: More on Twitter

Obviously Zuckerberg cannot buy Twitter unless Musk is willing to sell.

Re: Wolves at the door

Hypothetically Apple and Google could throw some money together, buy it out, and create something useful. How much? 6 billions would keep the banks happy, losing only half their money, and the rest - just bad luck.

Re: Great Block Diagram

The L1 caches are per core, so the M1 Pro has eight of them. L2 cache is per group of four cores, so M1 Pro with 2x4 cores has twice as much.

Plus there is a cache between RAM and processor shared by CPUs and GPUs.

Re: Falling

I'm quite sure I've heard that before - "once everyone has bought an iPhone 3 they won't sell any more" and so on.

Re: fine

Google tells me that southwestwater (whoever that is) had a variable charge of just under £2.00 per 1000 liters, so that would be about 8,000 pound.

i tried to find out through Google how exactly QLC cell SSD drives work. My impression was that the same cells can be used as either fast single bit or slow quad bit cells. So if I get this right, then there is no fixed "fast" memory. If 1.96TB of your 2TB drive are full, then you have 40GB QLC cells remaining which can be used as 10GB fast single bit cells. If 1TB is full, then you have 1000GB QLC cells left that can be used as fast 250GB single bit cells. (The documentation that I found says that the amount of fast memory goes down as your drive fills, which doesn't make sense if it is fixed size).

Interestingly, everyone tells you an "up to" speed but nobody tells you how much data you can write at that speed. So I have no idea if that "up to 3,100 MB/sec" drive slows down to 60MB, and when.

Re: Racist?

It’s still absolutely insulting. I think the people concerned complained about the insult, not about the technical reason for it.

Re: PSUs

My first TV recorder used 23 Watt 24/7 and had a 24 watt power supply. That’s the first time I bought extended warranty. Yes, just after a year it stopped working. Got a new tv recorder (same price, but twice the capacity), a new extended warranty for free, and gave the old recorder with a cheap 60 watt power supply to a mate.

The nonsense that ChatGPT often comes up with isn’t based on bad training data. It’s completely made up. It creates plausible sounding sentences. They are often not base on any good or bad information.

Re: Process

Paranoia? Conspiracy theories?

Re: So

I hardly could think of how to mischaracterise the article more than you just did.

Re: Automation needed

There was a story about a power company. Being a power company, they didn’t get electricity bills. Getting no electricity bill, nothing ever got turned off.

They moved one day, and none of their hard disk drives worked. Running for five years turns the lubricants in a hard disk drive into something different that is hard until it gets moving. The solution was dropping the hard drive from three inches on the desk _just_ at the right moment when rebooting your machine. The shock turned the lubricant back to a fluid for a tiny amount of time and allowed the drive to spin up.

Re: Higgins

Should have asked: Does it blend!

Re: De ja Vue

That’s your view. I see that their deposits grew from 60bn to 210bn in a very short time, which means they had to invest 150bn fast and safe. That’s not easy. And nobody can complain their investment isn’t safe.

High interest rates are quite recent.

Re: Round corners!?!

Do you see overlapping windows on that thing? Bill Atkinson saw them an implemented them, which was hard work. (The same technology that he invented for overlapping windows also made rounded corners feasible). The only problem: His memory was wrong. Xerox didn’t have overlapping windows.

Not really. He would have sold his shares at the all-time high of $54.40 per share.

“Error prone” - only because Guillermo refused to follow instructions. Add a first line “if the operator refuses to follow these instructions, they must be fired”.

Re: Link?

Actually you need a lightning-to-usbc cable if you want to connect your old lightning phone say to a new Mac, or a new usb-c only charger. Or a future usbc iPhone to an old charger.

Re: Funding

Add about 4-5 billion paid by other investors, and about 4bn paid to Elon Musk as a 9% shareholder.

Re: "Japan’s ability to protect its consumers from huge losses"

The difference is that in Japan money that you invest remains_your_ money, so in a bankruptcy only you can access it.

It is of course possible that the investment company just takes it but that is literally theft.

Re: Only the first one counts?

That’s an interesting argument. Myself I’d prefer if someone makes 100 failed attempts instead of succeeding once.

Re: I mean

But if you suddenly have to pay more than a billion dollars a year in interest, you are nowhere near breaking even.

To avoid similar repairs in the future..,