Posts by gnasher729

Re: Twitter Dead Pool

There was a rumour that they couldn’t open one building because the guy responsible for access passes had been fired.

I had an American colleague in Germany who one day came to work and complained that his oven only went to 230 degrees and his recipe asked for 350.

Egg holders with Steven spaces: For people who buy fresh eggs before the last egg is gone.

I write 22/Jan/2023. 90% know what it means, the remaking 10% know that they dont know what it means.

Re: Don't forget

The correct name for one minute after 11:59 am is noon. The correct name for one minute after 11:59pm is midnight. With midnight you have the additional problem what she date means.

Re: Hooray for Avoirdupois and pounds, shillings and pence

Bicycle wheels are measured in inches in Germany. Floppy disks were sold in inches - first, floppy disk drives are not square. Second, nobody cares how big they are - all we care about is that 3.5” disks are the right size to fit into 3.5” drives.

Re: Weird argument

Don’t know if it’s real. But supposedly in Germany being drunk counts as mitigating. Unless you put yourself into a drunken state yourself voluntarily. Which probably covers more than 99% of drunk drivers.

Re: Let's get rid of this 1 GB = 1024 x 1024 x 1024 nonsense too then

I have no problems with any base, but memory sizes don’t use base 2, they use base 1024. They are the only place where base 1024 is used. Gigabit Ethernet is one billion bits per second, not 1024^3.

So if you can’t handle base 1,000, step away.

That doesn’t actuslly matter. You can now get 8/12/16/24/32/48/64/96/128 etc gb ram instead of 8/16/32/64/128. So about half the customers can safe some money.

Maybe 8GB is male chips, 16GB is female, and 12 GB is non-binary? You never know.

Re: Apple is testing 24GB stacks. Maybe.

Apple has some MacBooks with two 12GB chips as alternative to one 8GB or two 8GB chips. Same principle. And definitely NOT binned larger chips, because they don’t use anything larger. In the Pro, Max and Ultra they just have lots of 8GB chips that might all get a 12GB alternative.

When you read relevant threads, some people seem to have severe OCD triggered by these chips.

Re: the obligation to share his bed with another employee during seminars

I remember when Walmart tried to get a foothold in Germany, and bought a small supermarket chain with about 70 stores, that was one attempt at money saving measures. Attempt, because the German store managers who were supposed to share hotel rooms did not. (Quote from a phonecall with a supplier: "Next Monday we will come and inspect your factory". "You're not." Didn't last long).

Re: Their "fun"..

Two anonymous cowards walk into a bar. "Ouch, that hurt. Should have walked through the door".

Two anonymous cowards on unicycles in a bar. "We were told not to walk in a bar".

Re: What is the scope of FSD?

I can imagine now - road rage between two self driving cars.

Re: Whose fault...

You can be too drunk to drive a car, but still absolutely fine to observe things around you. And in my psychology course I was told the first thing alcohol does is turn off a little bit in your brain that tells you not to do stupid things. Which wouldn’t make you a bad witness at all.

Re: Happens all the time on CA freeways

Well, that won’t be a problem anymore. With musk upsetting the same people with Twitter that buy his electric cars.

Re: FSD ≠ Autonomous

And that in a situation that is already critical.

Re: Hmmmmmmm

I would actually like the opposite- car taking over in rare situations. I had a situation where I was driving along happily on the motorway and suddenly a car in the front took a 90 degree left turn. Straight from the middle lane across the outer lane into a field.

I was so gobsmacked i didn’t react. Lucky enough I was far enough away and nothing actually to do, but otherwise I would have driven straight into the mess. A self driving car with good programming and lots of processing power would have known the situation around my car and plotted a path avoiding any trouble.

Re: Hmmmmmmm

Most of the time if a car in front of me slows down suddenly there is a reason that is visible to me as well.

Re: Hmmmmmmm

That is nonsense. If I’m on the motorway and suddenly hit the brakes to go from 70 to 20mph then it’s obvious that I’m not going to crash into anyone - the car ahead is half a mile away!

When I left can’t-remember-their-name and switched to BT, they cancelled my and my wife’s email. Very annoying. Yes, BT, you are very welcome to £15 a year for the rest of my life if you keep delivering my email.

Re: Serves Google right

No, it’s definitely because they are too cheap to pay 79p a month. And there is zero attempt to trick you into paying more, you get an email with the bill every month, and if somehow you managed to sign up for more, you can reduce it at any time.

Apple isn’t cheap, but they will always tell you what they charge.

Re: Advetising is grossly overestimated

Tassimo. 25p per coffee, 50p for latte and hot chocolate.

Re: Serves Google right

Basically a new iPhone includes an Apple ID, email, 5GB cloud storage, photo backup, whatever. Easily paid through the hardware and part of the cost.

(And I know iPhone users who rather lose photos than pay 79p a month for 50GB storage. When they paid 800+ for the phone).

Re: "This whole scheme is a pretext for doing collective punishment..."

It seems you misread the point. If they have a liquor license, they don’t have to serve liquor to everybody, but you have to let anyone have access to your premises.

And it should be obvious that if you don’t let a woman join her children because she happens to be a lawyer, she will be pissed off and she and her colleagues will do their best to piss you off.

Re: Someone Else's Password

No, a salt, even a badly protected salt, means that your effort hacking my password doesn’t help you at all to figure out someone else’s password. Without a salt, an attacker could find which of a million customers use the same password and then make the obvious guess that these would be weak passwords. So they can focus on weak passwords.

With a salt there is no way to guess who is using a weak password and who is not.