blank

Recent Actions

• Commented on Announcement time!
  _blank @ 347 Re: German Greens: Google for them + "Gazprom" - apparently they took/were "given" approx £20m when the Nordstream pipeline was under way, but this is now a year or three-old news. OK? _ That is what I...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  Obviously the Bible must be true (because it says it's true right there in the Bible), so the whole idea that there's a book that may contain untruths while not being full of lies is an incomprehensible paradox and deeply...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  @Greg, what changed that made fission power a good idea, unless you are also after an atomic weapons program? I would have thought that the rest of Europe/world would consider it a good outcome if the folks that manages to...
• Commented on Made of lies (and more lies)
  Regarding pi-hole/ad-blocking in general, these can be quite helpful for peace of mind and getting a less obnoxious web experience. One should keep in mind though that once one uses block lists compiled by third parties one essentially places an...
• Commented on Pass or Fail
  last time I ran the numbers for hard-disks (semi trailer from the east coast of the US to the west coast) the bandwidth was pretty decent (taking shipping box packaging volume into account) latency however was nothing to crow about....
• Commented on Go away, Muse, you're drunk (again)
  The T2 chip is (according to wikipedia) a 64bit armv8 design... the secure enclave seemingly runs on a 32bit armv7 substrate......
• Commented on Go away, Muse, you're drunk (again)
  "And for all vehicles to be fitted with a mandatory GPS-controlled speed governor to prevent speeding so the small cars don't have to exceed the speed limit to avoid idiots in Land Rovers." Cue the resurgence of off-market GPS spoofing...
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  "Those (except maybe kale) can be quite good if roast/grilled and modestly spiced. " Over here in northern Germany* we have a hearty kale dish, served in winter that is IMHO pretty nice (though commercial versions tend to be super...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Escape from Yokai Land
  Now, that we passed 300, could you elaborate a bit on: "That's what you need people 'on the spectrum' for! As a wild over-generalisation, we handle them a lot better." The only close person on the spectrum to me does...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Escape from Yokai Land
  "And, yes, yes, yes to their fundamental inability to tackle black swan events. You CAN make them adaptable to gradually changing events, with some delay, but I don't know how many are so designed. However, sudden, radical changes will throw...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Escape from Yokai Land
  "we're already down to 1-3nm node sizes and individual atoms are on the order of 0.1nm: it's not obvious how you can build electrical circuits smaller than atoms " I just want to note that the marketing names currently used...
• Commented on Place your bets
  "Humans are equally related to bonobos, which have never been observed killing each other and rarely fight in the wild, and chimps, which are considerably more violent. We share unique stretches of DNA with BOTH OF THESE SPECIES. We are...
• Commented on WTF
  "Because potassium is preferentially retained in the body biologically speaking a typical adult human being emits over 4,000 Bequerels of radiation from K-40, that is over 4,000 disintegrations per second." It is not that biology is defenseless against radioactivity-caused DNA...
• Commented on Decision Fatigue
  "Anyway, when a fungus grows a hypha into an appropriately small, hyphal-sized maze, they do something kind of interesting. Every time they reach an intersection where they can grow two or more ways, they fork their hypha and grow all...
• Commented on Decision Fatigue
  FDIV: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug or F00F: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_F00F_bug affected pentiums so nominally 5th generation x86 Intel to their credit leaned from the resulting fall-out and apparently improved communication of errors (as well as internal verification)....
• Commented on Strong and Stable!
  "There is already a 200 mS delay in the visual cortex (3 yards at 30 MPH), so slowing things down further is not a good idea." That seems a bit imprecise and/or under-specified. Typically the literature mentions 200-300ms as the...