* Posts by deive

379 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Jan 2008

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CEO of UK's National Grid warns of datacenters' thirst for power

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Re: Is it just me...

Plenty of ICE do the same, that has nothing to do with if it is an electric car or not.

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Re: More energy needed?

Heat pumps can be controlled... have you not seen the little dial on a fridge that can make it cooler or warmer?

Judge demands social media sites prove they didn't help radicalize mass shooter

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Re: No clean hands

Don't remember the Rohingya incident?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/06/rohingya-sue-facebook-myanmar-genocide-us-uk-legal-action-social-media-violence

Caffeine makes fuel cells more efficient, cuts cost of energy storage

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Caffine Turbo!

Pentagon said to have pulled $2.5B Intel defense chips grant

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Do as we say, not as we do.

Whizkids jimmy OpenAI, Google's closed models

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Re: My, what drama

M.L. isn't flawed, it's a tool that can be very usful when used correctly on the right problems.

If anything it's the people who keep calling it A.I. that are flawed...

Home Office’s shiny immigration system glitches causing delays

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Re: IR35

Because that never happened before IR35?

AWS exec: 'Our understanding of open source has started to change'

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Re: "We don’t want to learn that this thing that’s really important ...

"We’re doing that so we know that they’re paying attention to it. We don’t want to learn that this thing that’s really important is maintained by a guy living in a basement on public assistance. That is not acting in the best interests of our customers."

Indeed. So what is their approach to this situation? Do they help the original person... or do they just go ahead and copy it? I hope the former, I suspect it is the latter.

Honda cooks up an electric motorbike menu, with sides of connectivity

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Honda make electric scooters... They've not got anywhere near an electric motorbike yet.

Royal College considers no confidence move after Excel recruitment debacle

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More of this, please:

The final part of the motion was designed to hold ANRO's senior management to account for the debacle. "Not the junior tasked with manually copying and pasting from sheet to sheet: we don't need more copy and pasters. We need senior management that know what they're doing, who realize that this is not, and never was, the way to run an HR system," he said.

Ford, BMW, Honda to steer bidirectional EV charging standard

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Re: Don't get it

Something like half-hour slots with pricing directly tied to the wholesale price, plus an API so you could automate?

https://octopus.energy/smart/agile/

I don't like shilling for a specific company but this exists in the UK already :D

First US nuclear power plant built this century goes online

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Re: ROI?

https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/economic-aspects/economics-of-nuclear-power.aspx

EU: "Nuclear energy averages 0.4 euro ¢/kWh, much the same as hydro; coal is over 4.0 ¢/kWh (4.1-7.3), gas ranges 1.3-2.3 ¢/kWh and only wind shows up better than nuclear, at 0.1-0.2 ¢/kWh average. NB these are the external costs only. If these costs were in fact included, the EU price of electricity from coal would double and that from gas would increase 30%. These are without attempting to include the external costs of global warming."

Prices of gallium and germanium rise as China export controls loom

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Re: Germanium trash?

From last Fri: https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/28/infineon_recyclable_circuit/ :-)

Weird radio pulses could be coming from new type of stellar object

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Re: Two faced star

That's no two-faced star... this is!

https://phys.org/news/2023-07-two-faced-star-exposed-unusual-white.html

UK's proposed alt.GDPR will turn Britain into a 'test lab' for data harvesting

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Re: Thomas Claburn.....You Need Some Help!!!

Without GPDR you wouldn't know what Google or GCHQ were doing.

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Re: Freedom

By happy, I assume you mean dead?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64242217

Time running out for crew of missing Titanic tourist submarine

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Re: Jerry-riggedness?

From the article: "According to Pogue, the waiver he had to sign stated: "This experimental vessel has not been approved or certified by any regulatory body, and could result in physical injury, emotional trauma, or death.""

Multi-tasking blunder leaves UK tax digitization plans 3 years late, 5 times over budget

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Re: Just simplify the tax laws

How would tory MP friends 'n family pay 0 tax then, though?

Had enough of Android? First 'Focal' based Ubuntu Touch is out

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Re: Sadly not tempted for now

Tried some /e/ on the FiarPhone?

https://www.fairphone.com/en/2020/04/30/keeping-your-data-safe-with-e-os/

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Re: Renaming and discontinuing

"The Earth is round"

- Pythagoras ~ 500 BC, Aristotle ~ 350 BC

- Eratosthenes ~ 250 BC

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/who-was-the-first-person-to-accurately-measure-the-circumference-of-the-earth.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumference_of_the_Earth

Cosmic rays more likely to glitch out water-cooled computers

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I wonder how the oil-based submersion coolants fare?

Google taps Fastly to make cookie-free adtech FLEDGE fly

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noscript ftw.

NASA wants a telescope on the far side of the Moon

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We have Webb at L2, wouldn't it be good for a second at L3 for large stereo or the start of a massive virtual telescope?

What's really up with data disconnects in the deep blue sea?

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"Whatever it is, you can't get away with it if the world is watching you do it."

Nord Stream 2?

Unless things change, first zettaflop systems will need nuclear power, AMD's Su says

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Re: late stage capitalism

What do you mean by major?

https://fintel.io/so/us/amd/vanguard-group

Latest Disclosed Ownership 367,013,798 shares

Ownership 8.89%

https://fintel.io/so/us/amd/vanguard-group

Latest Disclosed Ownership 136,198,548 shares

Ownership 8.45%

Microsoft's .NET Framework gets one less update reboot

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"one less reboot" for a feramework... that defo has no hooks deep in their OS at all, that no-one else could get access to.

Biden: I want standard EV chargers made in America by 2024 – get on it

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Re: Of course chargers must be standard

ChaDeMo is the new Betamax.

The Balthazar laptop: An all-European RISC-V Free Hardware computer

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It's probably just me, but I do wish there was an open hardware laptop for the high end.

This ancient quasar may be the remains of the first-gen star that started us all

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Re: "the so-called Population III stars"

https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/P/Population+I

"The classification system is based on the metal content of the stars"

Look! Up in the sky! Proof of concept for satellites beaming energy to Earth!

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"That means the land underneath could still potentially be available for agricultural use."...

https://www.wired.com/story/growing-crops-under-solar-panels-now-theres-a-bright-idea/

Weird robot breaks down in middle of House of Lords hearing on AI art

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M.L. is not A.I.

Open source biz sick of FOSS community exploitation overhauls software rights

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It is right that "Corporations with a turnover higher than $25 million a year" should have to pay for some of their core technology.

Japan reverses course on post-Fukushima nuclear ban

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Re: Wind and solar

also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_battery

Nuclear power is the climate superhero too nervous to wear its cape

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Broke? The UK rich have increased their wealth by £274 billion over the last 5 years.

https://equalitytrust.org.uk/wealth-tracker-18

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Broke? Fossil fuel companies have been making $3 billion profits a DAY for the last 50 YEARS and have just announced theirm most profitable year ever.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/21/revealed-oil-sectors-staggering-profits-last-50-years

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/bp-reports-q2-profit-845-billion-boosts-dividend-2022-08-02/

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Broke? "Our" govenment just gave ~£37bn to Harding.

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None of those new designs help with the enrichment of nuclear material to weapons grade... coincidence that there has been a lack of funding?

Samsung teases 11 Texas fabs as $50 billion CHIPS Act vote nears

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If this also forces them to come up with ways of reusing more water and generating their own power, then it could be a good thing long term.

British boffins make touchless computing tech on the cheap

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Re: AMD CPUs?

*cough* x86 extensions *cough*

Is a lack of standards holding immersion cooling back?

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Standards could let us implement this at home and join it to the heat-pump to help heat the house :-)

End of the road for biz living off free G Suite legacy edition

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My main issue moving (I have also wanted to change my domain and email address) has been those companies that key your account to an email address and then don't let you change that :-(

Murena and /e/ Foundation launch privacy-centric smartphones

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Still enjoying some /e/ on my Fairphone 4 :)

IBM-powered Mayflower robo-ship once again tries to cross Atlantic

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Re: Here's the "crew".

- https://mas400.com/people

= "You need to enable JavaScript to run this app."

errrr....

Mitsubishi Electric again admits to widespread quality control cheating

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Glad my new air source heat pump isn't a mitsubishi!

Repairability champ Framework's modular laptop gets a speed boost

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Re: I'll Be!

So hope they can add some more options to the mix at some point!

Pop!_OS 22.04: New kid on the Ubuntu block starting to show real muscle

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Not a big fan of systemd and the rest, but this has been my only OS for a couple of years now and with Valve's Proton it's all I could want.

All the power of linux with some of the few good UI parts of both Windows 10 and MacOS, without their problems, is how I'd describe it.

BT starts commercial trial of quantum secured London network

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"EY will see all its data traffic between its two London sites carried over the quantum secured links"

Wouldn't it be better to build a dedicated "quantum" network and just use that for OOB key transmission?

I think that is the route the chinese are going down with satallites, if I remember an old el-reg article correctlly?

Red Hat signals Intel's software-defined silicon will debut in Linux 5.18

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"Xeons with unused cores that could be turned on to permanently upgrade a processor, ..., certainly has appeal."

That sounds like paying twice for the hardware to me...

The most interesting thing would probably be if they put some of their FPGAs on die, IMHO.

Twelve years after Intel was fined $1.2bn for unfairly running over rivals, an EU court says: No need to pay

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Re: Brown Envelopes?

Socilism for corps.

When ERP projects go awry: Surrey County Council incurs £3.2m additional costs in delayed Unit4 project

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I *suspect* the results of such a study would be revealing. It would be good to know.

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