The 'official' PSU seems to work fine on mine. For my own amusement I am going to mount the thing on a baseboard along with keyboard and mouse and some mains sockets on a lead and a few attachments so I can put a 21.5 inch monitor on it or fold it all down for transport. I hope they fix the USB problem but its still the best portable I've ever had!
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Take the bus... to get some new cables: Raspberry Pi 4s are a bit picky about USB-Cs
Time to Ryzen shine, Intel: AMD has started shipping 7nm desktop CPUs like it's no big deal
Let's talk about April Fools' Day jokes. Are they ever really harmless?
Amazon: Carbon emissions from our Australian bit barns aren't for public viewing
Openreach needs to snap that BT umbilical cord, warns Ofcom
Why would you want 900Mb/s
My dad got B4RN fibre installed. That's 1Gb each way for £30/m. Apparently the equipment to do this and the bulk purchasing of bandwidth means its not worth them fucking about with ADSL or other bits of kit that will require replacing in a few years after the customer has been squeezed and can be squeezed again. Talking to locals I reckon I could host around 2 or 300 small business web sites at my house on that and provide working hours support for them for about a 10th of what they pay for what would be a far better service than they get. Given the fibre is probably capable of much more than that just changing bit at each end I could go quite big - except there aren't that many businesses within 'sensible reach'.
I could do some serious wealth creating and train up a few people to do shit other than bloody wordpress.
Re: Fibre
We probably do have the technology - I left some of it in my desk at MH when I left. I am still amazed when talking to FO engineers that we actually had the technology at the end of the 80s that is still leagues ahead of what the market seems to offer, or a fuck of a sight cheaper if not both.
Re: Mobile is faster
Nowhere in my house gets more than 1 bar for 4g. As a yokel though we got a free external aerial and now we are getting 30MBps in the evenings and twice as much during the day. Though it may be dropping out when one of those 20' high hay-bobs goes past the LOS which can be quite frequently during a silage frenzy.
Best of all we have switched our phone over from BT and it looks as if they will get openretch to fix the copper which BT couldnt get them to do for some reason.Which will make those 'Hello BT calling to tell you your broadband is going to be switched off' a lot clearer!
Finally in the UK: Apollo 11 lands... in a cinema near you
Will that old Vulcan's engines run? Bluebird jet boat team turn to Cold War bomber
Oracle goes on for 50 pages about why it thinks the Pentagon's $10bn JEDI cloud contract stinks
Re: A choice of Evils?
That is precisely why there is only one winner. The other option for the DoD is to write an open-source API rule set that everyone can use if there isn't a suitable one already available.
Then Oracle would just refuse to use it which wouldnt be a bad thing in the long run.
Re: Oracle would not complain about the DoD contracting from one supplier alone
They're going to get a shit load of grief from Oracle for not giving them part of the contract. Can you imagine the two or three orders of magnitude more the DoD would get from Oracle if they had let them have some of it?
Stop using that MacBook Pro RIGHT NOW, says Uncle Sam: Loyalists suffer burns, smoke inhalation and worse – those crappy keyboards
That this AI can simulate universes in 30ms is not the scary part. It's that its creators don't know why it works so well
Cutting corners I'd imagine.
We tend to use some pretty accurate FP maths even when something less computationally involved would do when we model 3d worlds. I'd hazard a guess that the AI has spotted where it doesnt have to piss about with 64bits and can just leave it out for a few cycles.
I used to work on electrical cct simulators which couldnt be arsed to calculate lots of shit when it wasnt necessary - saves a shitload of CPU not working out fuck all to 20 decimal places.
DeepNude deep-nuked: AI photo app stripped clothes from women to render them naked. Now, it's stripped from web
Look out, Titan. Plutonium robots from Earth are on their way
You know whose kit for 5G is Huawei better? Go on, have a guess, says UK mobile player Three
I dunno, When I worked at Martlesham Heath we were successfully testing 9.6Gb parts in 1990. We beat the US and France to making parts for fibre-optic submarine cables. We surprised the hell out of Motorola by making parts using their process far faster and better than theirs. If privatisation hadn't closed research down I dare say the Chinese and US would be complaining we were adding spyware to our parts and they were going to kill us all with radiation.
Buckminsterfullerene sounds like the next UK Prime Minister but trust us, it's in fact the largest molecule yet found in interstellar space
Go fourth and multi-Pi: Raspberry Pi 4 lands today with quad 1.5GHz Arm Cortex-A72 CPU cores, up to 4GB RAM...
Ubuntu says i386 to be 86'd with Eoan 19.10 release: Ageing 32-bit x86 support will be ex-86
Re: To Everything There Is A Season...
I dug out a pi-zero I hadn't run in a while and upgraded it. Seems to run a lot faster than it did. I was brought up on machines that were not very responsive and find you work a lot better when you have moments to think between actions. The path of least resistance is not necessarily the best.
32 bit has a long long way to go yet! Pleased Ubuntu is getting out of the way TBH.
Monster magnet in my pocket: Boffins' gizmo packs 45.5-tesla punch and weighs just 390g
10 PRINT Memorial in New Hampshire marks the birthplace of BASIC
Written on paper
and taken by the Computer Club President to a computer miles away from school and the results returned a week later for fixing and sending off again*, 1975 I dont think I saw a real digital computer for 2 years after starting to program them!
* and now MBAs can get the process down to that sort of speed again!
Large Redmond Collider: CERN reveals plan to shift from Microsoft to open-source code after tenfold license fee hike
Re: Its the updates
I remember when C# and ,.NET came out and promised to end DLL hell. I wrote loads of really useful stuff that wouldnt work under the first major upgrade. And you couldn't run the two on the same machine. Really pissed me off.
On Linux you just modify the paths and order to various libraries/headers etc and you can run as many different mixes of things you want.
Oblivious 'influencers' work on 3.6-roentgen tans in Chernobyl after realising TV show based on real nuclear TITSUP
Re: Small point
Boring facts: A flail mower consist of a row or rows of fairly heavy steel J shaped picks fixed on a hinge to an axle so that when spun at high speed so the bottom of the J would be travelling left as typed acting like a blunt chisel is can cut through most vegetation and if it cant the hinge allows it to move out of the way and then centripetal force will fling it out again for another go on the next rotation.
Bloody effective at making hedges look shit but rectilinear and not in the way any more. More importantly they are cheap to run so (like pothole repairs that are not done) you save on your council tax and ruin the countryside (and pay more overall for wheel-rims and suspension etc).
I have about a mile of hedge on a shared access lane and its flailed every year and it is not good for the hedges in the long run but its hard work with a hand held hedgecutter!
Powers of stash and rebase fall into the hands of noobs with GitHub Desktop 2.0
New twist in underworld of alleged code, data theft: Two, er, boffins accused of trying to steal, uh, a river model
Re: "If the Old River Control Structure Fails: A Catastrophe With Global Impact"
The thing is the levees which control the water supply enabling the river transport also prevent a massive amount of natural fertilizer to be spread on the plains during floods, The cost of that is absolutely enormous.
Zorin OS 15 nods at Ubuntu and welcomes Windows escapees
Auditors slam FBI for shoddy testing of facial-recog tech. But no big deal. It only has 641m images on its systems
Re: Metrics
I've done some playing with AI. One thing that struck me was that there seems to be no not-sure option in most of the open training sets. Most of the algorithms seem to give various confidence levels but none I've seen reject things. This means pictures of white noise with a touch of red in are identified as robins after training on birds, not because they look like robins but because that's the closest match and it has no option of 'haven't a fucking clue mate' so it chooses the highest probability match. If you give it that option it seems to help reducing false positives but I haven't the experience, the data or the computing power to rest further.
Barbie Girl was wrong? Life is plastic, it's not fantastic: We each ingest '121,000 pieces' of microplastics a year
Apple kills iTunes, preps pricey Mac Pro, gives iPad its own OS – plus: That $999 monitor stand
Can't quite cram a working AI onto a $1 2KB microcontroller? Just get a PC to do it
Strewth: Hackers slurp 19 years of Oz student data in uni's second breach within a year
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