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penguin42

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Chocolate eating computer geek, Manchester, UK
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penguin42, to random
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git format-patch really should have a --covert-letter option.

billgoats, to random
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Pleased to confirm that bringing an Apple IIgs as carry-on through airport security gets you pulled off to the side. :apple_inc:

penguin42,
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@billgoats Do you end up with one ticket with that as the destination from Canada?

andybroomfield, to random
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Up to the most infamous TOS episode, it’s time for Spock’s Brain!

“Brain, brain… what is brain?”

penguin42,
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@andybroomfield That is one of my favourites.
(I do find it curious how in the 60's people over estimated the sophistication to run the heating systems of space colonies...)

axboe, to random
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Does anyone know why booting a kernel in qemu takes forever to enumerate CPUs in the guest? Example:

[ 0.161515] smp: Bringing up secondary CPUs ...
...
[ 19.231546] smp: Brought up 1 node, 128 CPUs

AMD host, and seemingly scales with ncpus^2 in the host.

penguin42,
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@axboe Is it qemu/tcg or kvm that you're hitting the problem - I guess kvm?

penguin42,
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@axboe I guess Paolo is probably a good bet to ask? But I guess if your lpj is screwy I guess it's a screwy clock, if you can find which clock...

dick_turpin, to politics

And they're off!
So the two-horse race for the #generalelection2024 has started and already Rishi Sunak has made two mistakes. I have to agree with @peston's first prediction of a November election this would have given more time for interest rates to come down along with fuel and food. There would have been more time for more than just one person to enjoy the scenery of Rwanda. Secondly, why didn't he wait for 8 or 9 am this morning when there was less chance of looking like the gods were pissing all over him. #politics

penguin42,
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@dick_turpin @mooch I think the Greens have a better chance of picking Tory votes up than the liberals ?
(I still don't get why he decided to do it outside in the pouring rain...)

sprocket, to random
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What is the use case for instead of or ?

Is it worth using on a daily driver machine (laptop or desktop) or is it mostly for servers?

penguin42,
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@pauldoo @sprocket One thing I find is that XFS needs a bit of a hand to recover after a crash; while ext4 normally handles stuff automatically with it's journal; xfs often needs an xfs_rescue; it's not less reliable, it just likes you to do that manually; which needs more skill.

etchedpixels, to UKpolitics
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Every election I hear the words "dissolving parliament" and have visions of bond villains with cats and sizzling noises.

penguin42,
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@etchedpixels Doesn't dissolving parliament generate a lot of CO2?

growlph, to ai
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Just had to convince an #ai chatbot to let me speak to a human for my company's internal corporate it support desk.

It was, predictably, useless, just like every other automated support system I've ever interacted with.

But I earnestly wonder how much of that is because I, and people like me, independently troubleshoot and research before we try to bother a human, so we're just hitting the filtering function for people who refuse the read the instructions.

penguin42,
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@growlph That's what makes AI helpdesks so great - they're no worse than the initial human support contact!

penguin42, to random
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I reckon some channel will show Independence Day as normal, and then show V for Vendetta after the polls close
(UK election 4th July)

avavsystems, to random
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Todays Old Tat
Nearly killed me, managed unload
The BEAST

Ampex Data Products CP 100

It’s history seems a mystery
1” Tape
14 Tracks
Not Video, not Helical Drum
Audio would have been 16 Tracks
Gent was told “used for Data originally”
Bloody heavy & HUGE

Thoughts?

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penguin42,
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@avavsystems @fedops I see it referenced in loads of weird random papers/thesis; 'Fast response thermistors were used, one at constant absolute height and one mounted on a styrofoam float. Data were collected on an Ampex CP-100 tape recorder using FM record amplifiers and a tape speed of 1 and 78 ips' from 'INVESTIGATION OF TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATIONS NEAR THE AIR-SEA INTERFACE' in a masters thesis from the Naval postgrad school.

penguin42,
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@avavsystems @fedops Is it using one track/channel or is it more complicated?

penguin42,
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@avavsystems @fedops But how many track is the head?

dick_turpin, to random
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Fuck me! David Cameron is running around telling everyone how the UK is beefing up its defences and strengthening ties we have with our allies, and now we are being warned to keep three days of supplies somewhere safe, just in case!

There's definitely something they're not telling us.

Are the Tories taking a leaf out of Maggie's playbook, Falklands.yml, and looking to start a small war to win the next election?

https://news.sky.com/story/britons-should-have-three-days-worth-of-tinned-food-and-water-government-says-13141114

penguin42,
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@dick_turpin Well, Putin is doing Nuclear war excersises, and they'll probably start showing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_(1984_film)

(Which, well, as long as they target that side of the Penines, all is fine....)

penguin42,
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@dick_turpin I dunno; I suspect the eastern countries like Poland and Czecia are much better prepared.

penguin42,
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@dick_turpin You say poor performance, but they don't care - they're happy to keep throwing bodies at it; and they're physically large so it's difficult to do anything too damaging to Russia itself.

dick_turpin, to Israel

Hmm? If Palestine is recognised as a State, that should cause problems for Israel.
bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-6904…

penguin42,
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@dick_turpin Or it would be much easier - I mean a war on a state is much easier than people complaining that you're fighting people you're supposed to protect.

penguin42,
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@dick_turpin Yeh but they know that Jordan etc don't want them.

cawhitworth, to random
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So yeah I work for Microsoft. The product I work on is a Linux-derived platform and all my personal devices are Apple. Just sayin’.

penguin42,
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@cawhitworth From other large companies, I'm more used to being open-warfare between departments rather than monolithically...

dick_turpin, to random
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TFFT!
The children finally have milk. Plus 300 cans of Tango and a case of Red Bull. I've nabbed a couple of cans of Red Bull before this lot guzzles everything.

penguin42,
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@dick_turpin Eww longlife.

mjg59, to random
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This is art (from https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/COPA-v-Wright-Judgment.pdf)

penguin42,
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@mjg59 Wonderful doc isn't it - none of the forgery here is even slightly careful; it wouldn't have been that hard to find a ~2007 era PC and the version of OpenOffice used to produce the actual white paper.

pwaring, to random
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I’ve never understood why some diplomats (or their embassies) refuse to pay the congestion charge in London (and similar fees in other countries). I get that there’s no sanction other than expulsion, but it seems extremely undiplomatic to not just refuse to pay for things in your host country, but to do so blatantly and repeatedly.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/20/us-embassy-owes-15m-in-congestion-charge-fees-says-transport-for-london

penguin42,
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@pwaring It's something about Diplomats not being charged taxes by the host country and them arguing that it's a tax. (I can't honestly say what's a tax and what any other type of charge is)

avavsystems, to random
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One for my old BGM Buddies today

“I’d like Smooth Pop 10, Chart Hits 36 & Instrumental Piano pls”

Found a few DATs & CDi Audio Discs. DAT is dated March ‘92. Lettered A to H. Therefore DAT Masters for the 8 Bands on CDi Audio, to be pressed up at Nimbus.

Anyone got an M810?

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penguin42,
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@avavsystems Oh fun; I did some CDi back in ~92

fedops, to random
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@fitheach @simon_brooke @giantspacesquid do any of you sell your trees?

Thinking of getting a piece of land cleared to convert into a pasture with fruit trees. That means removing 300 dense-stand silver firs; 40 years old, average 40 cm breast height diameter and 15m high.

The offer I've gotten is 5 Eur/tree, for thermal use. This is ~8% of what firewood goes for, or 10% of the equivalent cost in heating oil. But it saves me min. 5 years of work and still leaves me with 700 trees.

Thoughts?

penguin42,
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@fedops @edavies @Tay0 @fitheach @simon_brooke @giantspacesquid Hmm nice new word of the day to me 'spalted'

mansr, to random
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What's so special there?

penguin42,
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@mansr There's this fun US case recently about quadripoints in the US: https://www.hcn.org/articles/public-lands-judge-rules-wyoming-corner-crossers-did-not-trespass/

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