Posts by sebacoustic 289 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Sep 2010
That toaster incident seems to resonate: I remember an evacuation of our clean room production facility (this is a costly exercise...) due to a gormless employee cooking something in a toaster that had no place in there, I believe it was something unhealthy inside its plastic wrapper.
The stink lingered a while in the lunch room even after the incident.
Hm. No. More like "Please Mr. Microsoft can I build a kernel and you sign it for distribution to a wide audience wh run it on hardware that is mostly used for Windows deployments?"
You can sign your own kernels with your own key, just don't expect other people's machines to have the key installed out of the box.
That's pretty misleading: yes, "man" means something like "anyone" or "someone" in german, regardless of gender, but it's not the word for a man (i.e. a male) which is "Mann".
The words sound similar but they are not the same, they don't even share etymological roots.
Nicht zu sehen hier, bitte gehen sie weiter.
Rodents - rats as well as mice - will try to eat almost anything they can sink their teeth into.
This is part of their evolutionary strategy: even though eating plastic doesn't nourish them or do them any good, and may even kill an individual, the point is they have _tried_. Don't knock it until you've tried it is really the point: if something new does turns out to be beneficial (e.g. there's some food _inside_ the plastic) then as a group they are onto it quickly. If they see one of their brothers suffer after eating something new: maybe they will even learn from that (this is speculation on my part, borne out of frustration with the success of rodents populating our house and garden)
i bought a £300 laser- read some reviews and chose a "small office.." one that has low operating cost because we do sometimes print lots (missus is a teacher...)
Now for "small office" well that's relative: a huge box arrived that had a "takes 2 people to handle" warning.
It's fast and efficient and relatively trouble-free, but boy it's big, had I checked the "physical dimensions" bit of the specs I would have chosen a different model
PDF has its purpose, and that is closely tied to printed copy.
Using PDF as anything other than a digital representation of a document _to be printed_ is, well, wrong.
The "P" should really stand for "printable" these days. It was "portable" as in "useable on Windows as well as whatever else". Not "Portable" as in useful for handheld devices (which incidentally is where PDF really sucks hairy donkey balls).
> Can we do that for this climate bollocks too?
we're mostly doing just that, but it's a false equivalence: having the sun rise a bit later (according to the clock con the wall) is benign, but crop failures, parts of the world becoming uninhabitable, floods, droughts, and similar "bollocks", isn't.
Go back to your circa-2010 Lewis-Page-Editorial hellhole.
the 11/11 is kind of special in Germany... many think it's the Stasi's final revenge that when they had to give up and open the border they did it on a day that was not going to be a future national holiday - because of the Kristallnacht.
Carnival fans in wide stretches of the catholic bits of western Germany have 11/11 as the start of the "silly season" (that goes on until after easter!)
And of course it's also "remembrance day", it was called "Heldengedenktag" (Hero's Remembrance Day) under the Nazis and these days not many f's given in the general population unlike here in UK.
OK so it does look a bit arsey.
Still, it's a double-twisted Möbius tape so I had to (t's Friday after all) tear a strip off a piece of A4, fold it and staple it in the shape of the new MS365/goodle drive/arsehole logo and play with it.
Turns out if you tear the strip in half, you get... an intersecting triangle thing known as a Valknut, a Norse symbol co-opted by rightwing nutters as a symbol of white supremacy.
Plenty conspiracy theory material right there!
I use Gnome 43 and it does stay out of the way quite a lot which I like. Running fedora 37 β now and the changes are a welcome addition to round it out. Yes the first iterations of Gnome3 were a rough ride but now it suits me fine. When I switch to Windows (use it every day for work via RDP from Linux) i miss some of the nice features, but when forced to use a native windows10 instance i feel like a fish out of water. The Windows "RDP client" is *the worst*.
Maybe I'm a glutton for punishment then, or just happy to spend 10 minutes learning the sensible defaults.
OK the gnome file dialog still kinda sucks. I liked the NextStep one best, or maybe that's just nostalgia to the formative years.
EDIT: just checked on the latest iteration they fixed the most annoying stuff about the file save dialog, ah well that tool only a few years...
The procedure is maybe the best that can be done, but as the fixed disk's content is overwritten with the temp copy of the removable, any failure (wet, soft, or hardware) at that point and your system is FUBAR.
Having e.g. a tape would have been better but possibly too expensive.
Also it's not thread safe :-)
I know (i did do latin at school) that "celeron" is from the latin word "celer" for "swift" but to me it always invokes s slightly disappointing vegetable instead.
government contract overpaying 50% on inferior kit? That sounds about par for the course. Actually for a place rife with corruption (https://www.transparency.org/en/countries/philippines) it's pretty good going!
The "Java 2" thing _was_ confusing but you're looking back more than 2 decades here. Since then we had 1.5, 1.6, .... and then by convention we dropped the "1." because it was getting retpetetive... not too hard.
Othe version cadences such as 1, 2, 3, 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, 7, (*expletive*), 10, 11 come to mind.
We had a production facility a decade and a bit ago when things were still being made in the UK. Someone on the night shift brought in some sort of homemade pr*n and _everyone there_ had a good ogle at it (i didn't as i rartely had to come in nights!)
HR somehow got wind and interviewed everybody. Some held their hands up and said they'd watched it. Got a written warning. Others said they didn't. Got nothing.
That sums up HR for me.
No he can't "factor in elevation and luggage" into this, he simply divided "max speed" by "run time at max power". ~1.5kw is a tad more than what propels a sprinting pro cyclist in the last few seconds of a race, at a much higher speed and without the fairing which drastically reduced drag on this thing. At a constant 30 on level ground with no wind, I wouldn't expect the thing to draw more than ~200W.
Up the hill it's harder of course, but you get most of that back when you roll back down. What you have to realise it that a machine like that is nothing like a car, where kneading the tyres alone takes a few 100W because the thing weighs a ton.
Sadly, people who struggle to afford a car won't benefit from a ride like this because they sure can't afford a house with a garage. Same as your average EV, certain lower wealth limits apply. Being poor is expensive.
the vinyl and cd "versions" of the same recording are mastered differently, and for vinlyl it's EQ'd with the RIAA curves on recording and playback, that accounts for any sonic differences, with cork sniffers doing the rest to assure the analog signal path's superiority. Oh sorry "analogue" we're being sophisticated here.
"Slippery Slope" is a bullshit argument. It's clear that guns make it super easy to kill at a distance, and assault-style weapons make it easier to scale up the "productivity" to a high level.
Yeah you can buy knives here in UK (have to be 18+) and most kids can get one from parents' kitchen as well. But the evidence is clear that _relatively few_ stabbing incidents happen compared to the US. Same with gun 'suicides.
Arming teachers is rubbish too because of the overwhelming firepower of an AR15 compared to Miss Schoolteacher's holstered handgun.
Also: arming teachers is a risk in itself because teachers are under intense stress and sooner or later one is going to give in to the itch to just f**** kill all those annoying brats!
just compare these to e.g. a red spider mite: similar in size but the buggers can run about 5x their body length in a second. Their 8 legs move so fast you can't see them when they're running. And all they need is to suck some plant juice to keep going (which can wreak havoc in a greenhouse when there are 1000s of the beasts around)
no, rubbish.
The ensemble size doesn't matter. If you choose 100 _truly random_ users, and "turing-test" them (this test being 100% accurate for the sake of the argument), finding 5 robots, your result is expected to be accurate to ~sqrt(5), no matter how many million users twitter has.
"Lies damn lies..." refers to _improper use_ of statistical methods not the statistical science itself.
> ...Anything you say to Oracle may be used against you in a compliance dispute.
The new Oracle "Miranda warning..." reeled of double-quick at the beginng of a sales call like the statutary warnings in a painkiller advert.
May add: "You don't have to say anything. If you fail to mention something you later rely on in the audit, it doesn't matter because you're f*** either way"
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