Posts by Suricou Raven

Re: Been there. Done that.

EDIT was probably faster to load and a lot more stable than Word, especially in the 9x era.

Re: “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our time,”

Perhaps he anticipated that the stream would be cut within seconds of his statement, and worded it accordingly into the briefest possible expression of support?

This is one of those matters on which China will not cede any ground: If the ISO were to refer to Taiwan as the Republic of China, China would probably respond by imposing trade restrictions upon any ISO member country that had voted in support of the change.

My own home server array used SMR drives. I've been replacing them with proper drives as they fail. Which they do. Frequently, and expensively.

I don't know if it's just the 'Seagate 8TB Archive' drives or SMRs in general, or because they are running in a very non-temperature-controlled environment, but they don't seem to last. And their performance is awful. I had to stick an SSD in configured as cache to get it halfway usable.

Re: Computer says no?

Some companies do a similar thing - HR strips off the name and any indicators of gender from the CV before it gets passed to the person who actually makes the decision. As well as potentially improving the accuracy of the recruitment process, it's also the ultimate CYA against a discrimination suit.

They can still discriminate at the final interview.

Re: Family Friendly

Sometimes the 'here be dragons' is amusingly literal.

Re: You shouldn't have reverted the changes though

Not all of them. One error message still needs to say "The operation completed successfully."

The BBC has long been trying to stay relevant as consumer choice broadens and tastes change. Sure, they are among the best around when it comes to making top-notch documentary programs - but good documentaries are among the most expensive programs to produce, and generally get very poor viewing figures. It's really hard for them to compete with the much higher-budget non-fiction produced in the US. As much as people love to complain about the excessively high pay, the BBC budget is dwarfed by most of the American television producers. Four billion pounds a year an annual budget? News Corporation alone pulls almost twice that in annual revenue.

Re: A simple (but costly) answer

It just goes through the cloud, of course.

Politics affects all issues and subjects. It is never not relevant.

Re: He should be proud that of that guy

If you do not know the helpdesk number, that is because helpdesk does not *want* people to know the number.

Re: It may actually make sense keeping devices in a drawer

In a hundred years, a new industry will appear mining former landfill sites for the rare Garbagite ore.

Re: Yeah, pull the other one

No, you're reading it wrong. The standards are consistent with users' expectations of privacy, because by this point users expect Google to be monitoring them.

You need significantly more delta-V to reach any of those than you do LEO though. 9.4Km/s minimum (ignoring engineering issues like drag) to reach LEO, add another 4-ish on top if you want any of the earth-moon Lagrange points. If you're going to be shuttling crew up and down for years while you build the thing, that's a big issue. It's why the ISS is in such a low orbit: The cost savings in crew change and resupply runs easily make up for needing to occasionally give it a nudge to compensate for atmospheric drag.

If you're looking for a viable global language, Chinese or English are good options just because they have such vast number of speakers already. Chinese is ahead, but not by much. Third place is Hindustani, which is *way* behind. I'd go for English - not primarily because i speak it myself, but because the only alternative with comparable numbers of existing speakers is Chinese, a language which is infamously difficult to learn as a second language. English is no cakewalk easier, but it's a lot easier than Chinese.

I'm not sure if everyone speaking the same language would mean fewer wars, or more.

Re: An interesting problem.

That sounds like a GAN to me. You train two models in parallel: One learns to tell fake from real, the other learns to make better fakes.

Re: Nice Picture

That's still modern tech on American railways.

In the case of the child abuse filter, it's not actually a law to repeal. It's more a soft pressure. The government *could* pass a law, but would rather not - so as long as all major ISPs maintain a 'voluntary' filter in compliance with the government requests, no law is needed. If one of them refused to do as they were politely asked, then the law would sail through parliament easily.

Sort of an 'offer you can't refuse' deal.

Re: YouTorrent?

Easy enough. Several already exist. Simply hosting video is only part of the problem though. Youtube's real power is in getting people to watch them - subscriptions and recommendations, that useful list down the side, a good search system, and ranking to separate the very few good videos from the mountains of rubbish. If you put a really good video on youtube, you will get thousands of views - it might even go viral, with a good thumbnail and a whole lot of luck. You put the same video anywhere else and you'll be lucky to make it into triple digits.

Re: So, want to Wine about it?

The day ReactOS becomes relevant is the day Microsoft sues them out of existence. It wouldn't even need to be a strong case - MS could drag in out for years, sue in multiple countries, and generally cause tens of millions of dollars in legal costs. The only reason MS allow ReactOS to exist is that it's too small to justify the bad press that could come of destroying it.

Re: Interesting, but you're wrong about the adventures

The worst thing about TLJ to me was the sequel. DF is... passable. It's ok. But it's not TLJ.

It's not that the arms 'never' grip. They will grip hard enough - either at random, or once ever N attempts. On many models there's a switch hidden in the coin box that lets the operator adjust the frequency with which it grips tight enough to grab a prize (assuming the player also won the skill-based part of the game).

The arcade needs people to win sometimes. Not often, but enough to maintain the hope.

I have a remote power switch for a light too. I built it from a radio module and a relay. No software involved, works very well.

At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if someone buys a thousand of the sticks, ties them to helium balloons, and lets them float all over the country just as a way to stick their middle finger up at the government.

Re: BASIC predates microcomputers!

The story still seems plausible. If the machine was out in 1980, it wouldn't be surprising if it was on display a few months prior to release at a trade show to build up a bit of hype before they are scheduled to go retail. The machine on show would then be either one of the very first off the production line, or one of the development prototypes.

With a remarkably clean iron. I take good care of mine, and it doesn't look anything like that. It's almost as if it is fresh out of the box.

Re: Now I don't know much about Crowder.

Pretty much your standard political comedian: He just points across the political divide, makes a lot of very vulgar comments about how stupid the people there are, and then tries to pass it off as insightful commentary. His arguments mostly consist of misrepresenting his opponents, explaining how this misrepresentation is evil and wants to take over the world, throw you in prison, and so on. Tends to say a lot of horrible things, then when called out on it claims he was only joking.