Posts by Gene Cash

Re: Cloud Vs On-Prem

Don't forget "cloud" started out as Amazon's solution to the burst of activity during Christmas, and most of that sat around the rest of the year, so they started renting it out.

Exactly. The computer runs off the EV's battery.

I would think the sensors (RADAR, LIDAR, ultrasonics, cameras, pan/tilt/scan mechanisms, etc) would be more power hungry than the computer.

Re: Precautions, for your convenience

Working as designed. It's certainly reducing the attack surface. Think of all the Office macro virus they're safe from!

Job's a good 'un!

Re: Automated emergency landing

Only if you've got the eye-wateringly extremely expensive full Garmin glass cockpit installed.

Not only can most people not afford it, but there's a lot of light aircraft that just can't accommodate it.

No, it's not testbedding any more. As of October, these are in full public use.

price gouging and arrogance

Good thing Apple's never done any of that, eh?

Re: On the positive side

Sure, but SpaceX did 91 launches last year, all successful. That's more than all of China did.

Yes, of course. That's like saying your Fender guitar is better than my Yamaha toy. The Amiga was designed to a far better standard to start with.

Creative didn't set out to create a standard, they set out to sell a sound card.

The fact was that they happened to hit it out of the park with an excellent product, so they actually became a standard and got the dozens of other products claiming "we're just as good as a SoundBlaster" and the "we're compatible with SoundBlaster" when THEY WERE NOT.

IIRC Ad-Lib wasn't that great.

Re: "will now vote and act independently"

Only in a totalitarian state can you push such nonsense and expect it to work.

Yep, and that's China. "We'll have none of that capitalism nonsense here!" is not a joke. They only own the company at the Party's discretion.

He'll toe the line so he doesn't get disappeared again, maybe permanently this time.

Re: Half an hour doing dishes is enough to make the small of my back burn

Yeah right-o, at the current cost of around 5 or 10 grand for such a renovation.

On the other hand, your wife could say she spent 5 grand for a couple inches.

Re: The ICE will be with us for...

As someone who's a daily EV driver, I have to agree with Peter2

I sometimes drive from Titusville to Orlando on my Energica.

Some days it's all peachy keen. The chargers work and you're the only one there.

Some days it's a complete sh*tshow. Walmart has EV delivery vans, so now they're using public chargers, with a "f*ck everyone else" attitude from the drivers and no common courtesy.

I'll check the next charger on the app, and it'll be Running Perfectly and I'll roll up and it's completely dead. No life on the display. Nothing. 'll check it on the app, and it'll be still be Running Perfectly and I'll check PlugShare (open crowd-sourced app) and it'll be "sorry, this'un's deaders!" FROM THE CHARGING NETWORK STILL SAYING ON THEIR OWN APP THAT IT'S FINE.

However, my great grandmother said the early gas stations were the exact same sh*tshow so I guess it'll improve.

Re: Death awaits

Well, a bit of Lunar regolith will help shield against radiation, so there's the options of covering your habitat with it, digging under the surface, or taking advantage of some of the lava tubes.

It's not as if it hasn't already been studied for decades.

"Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children"

Soooo.... is there a Toronto's Hospital for Well Children? How big is it? Why wasn't it just plain Toronto Children's Hospital like a sane person would name it?

Re: No Excuses

Or as a wise man once sad: "If God tells you it's locked out, double check with Jesus, then test it dead yourself."

Re: Yep, American LOOOOOVE Officiousness

youtube-nocookie links

Probably because I just heard of them?

There's also those YouTube and Twatter links with the mile-long string of tracking crap in the URL itself. I always have to trim back to the ampersand before trying it.

Edit: and I've viewed the link. The first one has fortunately become a lost reference because they no longer allow those leaflet people in or around the airport, at least on this side of the pond.

Re: 12GB

I have a GTX 1060 6GB and I don't have that problem at all. I'm using FVWM.

And yes, that's 6GB, not a typo for 16GB or 8GB.

Re: Why Not?

Well, yeah, but it's an El Reg subhead, which are for humor, not information, and he's only mentioned there.

SpaceX day-to-day operations are mostly run by Gwynne Shotwell, who seems to keep her head down nowadays.

The truly funny part is remembering when Elon went to Russia to buy rockets to send seeds to Mars, and they laughed him out of the country.

This made him start SpaceX, and now he's going to have to rescue the very same Russians because their rocket crapped out.

Who's laughing now?

This is how we do business these days -- its not an organization for making and supplying things, its a share price generator

Which is exactly why Elon refuses to make SpaceX public, because then the investors call the shots, not the engineers.

(I didn't downvote you)

Edit: and speaking of Russia, Ukraine needs to take a second try at Dmitry Rogozin

https://www.space.com/former-russian-space-agency-chief-rogozin-ukraine-injured

Well, I imagine the PR types would have it for posting job-related bits, but I can't imagine many job related bits.

Everybody sucks user data, but Tiktok is a bit extreme, and it goes beyond "mere" monetization.

Can we ban Facebook next? Please? Pretty please? Pretty please with sugar on it?

I'm so tired of trying to find info on restaurants and other businesses where all they have is a Facebook page, which I've blocked.

Re: Musk should buy it

No, a lot aren't bots, at least the ones I follow.

Twitter is like YouTube. It can be like traipsing through a sewer if you're lazy, or you can actually find people that are interesting to listen to.

Re: Pranking is abuse

Hermey knew it was still taped to the underside of the step-stool

Ok, that one was gold.

Anyway, I remember one of those Adam Savage "ask me about Mythbusters" sessions. Someone asked if there was any pranking on set.

He said that he and Jamie thought about it, then they realized that considering how inventive and creative everyone was, it would quickly and seriously get out of hand. Plus a lot of stuff was too dangerous to be fooling around.

There was one time - the ancient battery episode - where an assistant producer decided to make things more like "American Choppers" where there was major reality-show "cast drama". So he electrified the "battery" to 120 volts (edit: over the objections of the rest of the crew) and Adam got seriously shocked when he touched it.

You can see it in the episode. Kari & Tori have serious "it's not funny - shit's about to hit the fan" expressions beforehand and Adam is FURIOUS and quickly walks off.

That AP was quickly fired.

Re: Serves Google right

Don't forget Youtube. When Gaggle bought Youtube, they shitcanned all the Youtube accounts and forced everyone to get a gmail account.

That screwed up my gmail account so much, I moved to a paid service. My gmail/google account is just for Google Maps and my Android phone now, and the actual gmail app is disabled.

Also (and it just did it again today) Google Contacts likes to randomly "link" contacts where it mashes several together into one contact. You can unlink them, but like all things Google doesn't like you to do, That Is Quite A Process.

Although I do have some suitable stories...

Well, what's holdin' ya up, man? The statute of limitations hasn't expired?

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

completely legal discrimination

Nope, as they point out at the end of the article, their liquor license requires them to admit anyone that isn't being a disturbance. There's no loophole for keeping out "lawyers we hate"

Re: With a "quantum computer"? With "cold fusion"? With "superstrings"?

Electric Walmart trucks are hogging some of the public fast-chargers in Orlando.

It's generating (see what I did there) a lot of pissed off people.