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Poul-Henning Kamp

  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    »It's like they couldn't understand that the labels "left" and "right" meant different things in different countries.« Actually it's more fundamental: They literally have no idea what "different countries" mean and entail, having never been abroad, and never seen any...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    »mapping out routes via secondary roads to reach Canada...« Some years back, a friend who happens to know a lot about China, explained to me why "China doesn't do something about North Korea" and it really blew my mind that...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    »the web-internet-broswers-etc as a complex ecology which ultimately attracts parasites« Being somewhat intimately involved in this, I would say that is the least of the problems. The one word you will see thrown around all the time is "privacy", but...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    »As for "names to confuse Americans"« The most-photographed-by-tourists road signs in Denmark are the ones pointing to the city of "Middelfart". (The names origin is "midpoint of travel" via platdeutsch)...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    »ONLY the effing stupid USA« According to this study: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2118631119 USA is probably becoming smarter year by year, because people born after 1990 did not grow up in a fog of nano particles of lead, from leaded gasoline. Measured in...
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    »IMHO if you're doing accountancy on my money, you shouldn't be using Excel either. You should be using commit/rollback operations on a proper database structured in one of those normal forms devised by Edgar Codd specifically to protect data integrity.«...
  • Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
    »Can other companies buy Graviton 3 CPUs or systems?« You can buy ARM servers, but in units of entire racks....
  • Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
    »The Apple Mac Pro appears to max out at 192GB and I don't think it has any multi-CPU options at all.« Really? Multi-socket systems are a horrible bandaid for not being able to cool silicon with many hundred I/O pins,...
  • Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
    »Several projects I’ve worked on had intel involvement; in every case it was almost as if they were deliberately messing up. Weird.« One of the best examples of Intel's active incompetence is "ACPI" which was supposed to make everything simpler...
  • Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
    »The Apple M3 SOC is for notebooks, if I understand things correctly« You do not, and let's just leave it at that....
  • Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
    And btw: Intel is due to do something monumentally stupid again right about how, because ARM chips runs both faster and cooler than anything Intel has to offer....
  • Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
    »The ultimate trouble with data in old storage is that eventually the disk or tape or whatever deteriorates and can't be read, even if you have managed to hang on to the device for reading it with.« As one of...
  • Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
    »There's something to be said for the idea that the 8086 was the first truly commercial microcomputer design. Until it came out everyone and their dog were rolling out their own silicon with various limitations and no compatibility with previous...
  • Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
    »Except here in Scotland a couple of years ago it was made illegal to install water heaters that would go above 38°C in homes« Isn't that almost the perfect temperature for Legionella growth ?! Here in Denmark the heater/tank has...
  • Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
    »Turns out their answers improve when they are encouraged« This should not be surprising: Large Language Models do not truck in facts but in language. You should think of LLMs as "method actors" specializing in language on demand, so that...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    »(Modern cell phone towers may also be able to roughly determine direction, but I don't know that). « G4 base stations know where the handset is to approximately 40m CEP. G5 reduces that to 20m CEP, in urban environments it...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    »So the wife depended for money on whatever the husband gave to her.« One of the arguments raised, by a well respected economist, against the concept of measuring "Gross National Products" was that "GNP would drop whenever a man married...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    »But it's not a big deal. First he'll secure a bond by mortgaging a couple of properties.« Nobody is going to offer a mortgage to Trump until they see accurate statements, verified by the independent overseer appointed by the court....
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    »there inside the White House will be an oligarch's paradise for dirty deals done quick-quick-quick « …again....
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    »how long can they still stall before any actual payment has to be made?« As I understand it, if he does not want to pay before he appeals, he must provide some form of 3rd party economic guarantee, that payment...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    »The problem with punishing certain behaviours is always…« That's /one/ problem with it. The other problem is that the functioning of our civilization seems critically depend on some skills only found in people /very/ far from "the normal", no matter...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    »Is breaking sailboats enough of a crime, or should someone just be sent out to reason with them?« … or their union :-) (Hat tip to Scalzi)...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    »people we’d call psychopaths or sociopaths were not allowed to survive if they threatened the survival of others.« Now that we have 70 years experience with UN's Universal Human Rights, I think we have sufficient data to see, that there...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    »The war could be over tomorrow if HAMAS just released ALL of the hostages (including the ones they've already murdered) and promised not to do it again.« Dream on. The government of apartheid-state Israel has evidently decided to implement their...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    »This is what particularly gets me about Aragorn going into battle with a mended sword...« I always assumed that somewhere behind the scenes one of Elrond's minions went Siegfried on it, including the enhanced symphony orchestra & singing at the...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    »it's teleoperator-piloted drones« Interesting idea. Phobos orbit is 7½h-ish and at just 10km altitude, so that is probably the most workable: You would get about 3 hours connectivity with reasonable latency each orbit, so a workday would probably be two...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    »Electronics on deep space craft are routinely hardened -- consider Juno, which repeatedly flies through Jupiter's radiation belts, as an example.« Juno is probably not the best reference for a Mars mission, because it faces the insane radiation environment near...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    »You are very much overestimating the amount of radiation on Earth-Mars journey.« Those are not my estimates, they are from people who actually know something about it, and who have done the math using current scientific knowledge about the interplanetary...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    »3) The crew is rotated out every 4 years, a new crew arrives every 2 years, so plenty of time to transfer knowledge.« You overlook that with current spaceship/rocket technology, the crew is likely to arrive at Mars either already...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    »a HUGE problem with the US legal system« Another similarly HUGE problem is "The American Rule" that each party pays their own lawyer, no matter what the outcome might be. This is why rich assholes sue people who annoy them...
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