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Comment Re:Do the Japanese need a lesson in biology? (Score 1) 85

The number of times that my wife has had to submit a copy of her marriage certificate to confirm her original name even though we've been married for 11 years baffles me. It made some sense in the first year or two, but she still has to do it a couple of times a year for seemingly random things. I encouraged her to keep her original name when we were planning the wedding, but she insisted on the name change.

Comment Mining+power (Score 1) 25

I guess the logical next step is to capture the heat output as hot water, concentrate the heat somehow (or heat the water a bit more) and use steam to drive a turbine producing electricity. Ye cannae break the laws of physics, but it should be possible for a datacentre to recoup at least part of its electricity costs this way? Essentially a steam-driven power station where the heating element is a bank of GPUs with water running over them.

Comment Re: um what? (Score 1) 74

We use NASM for all of our x86_64 platforms, and clang for arm64. We even cross-compile Windows on Arm using clang-cl on Linux. Some team members would like to use clang for everything and eliminate VS Studio, gcc and perhaps even Apple clang, but that would also mean updating a bunch of old assembly.

Whatâ(TM)s the appeal of MASM? Why would somebody want that to be cross-platform given the existing alternatives?

Comment Backup Craziness (Score 1, Offtopic) 70

The trouble with Windows' insistence on backing up is this: it has no way to tell which files in Documents, Music, Videos, etc, need to be backed up, and which don't. For example FL Studio puts a ton of files in Documents\Image-Line. Around three gigs. Most of those are provided in the installer, so it's crazy to use cloud space for those. Of all that, only Documents\Image-Line\FL Studio\Projects needs backing up, and possibly a few user-created presets lurking somewhere. And it is a similar story for much of my music software. Then there are many gigs of music files that I have backed up on NAS anyway, so no need to back them up to the cloud (and if I did, I'd blow my 100G cap).

But Microsoft in their infinite wisdom think it's sensible to just try and back up all that to the cloud, possibly using a free account with only 5G total, for 100's of gigs of data.

Comment Depends on the discipline (Score 1) 78

Good old fashioned AI used to be hands-on - your dissertation code had to at least work for the examples in your thesis, and your code was under development for long enough that it had to survive OS and language updates.

Being wary of code by theoreticians is definitely valid - I believe it was Knuth who said something like "I have only proven this code correct, not tested it".

Comment Re: Are things getting better? Not everywhere. (Score 3, Interesting) 162

False. Tesla was asked to upgrade their chargers to allow non Tesla cars to charge there and they declined. So there was a new bidding process and Tesla lost the bid in 2022. Teslas chargers are not universal, I just passed them today. Hyundai couldnâ(TM)t use them until March of this year, and even then they still require an adaptor. Theyâ(TM)re being replaced by universal chargers that work with all models and take credit cards, and even have higher charge speeds.

Musk is salty but his claims are false.

Comment Re:They could do that? (Score 1) 106

Also illegal in the UK. While they can relocate offices, they'd have to go through an employee consultation process and they certainly would be making redundancy payments. It's also typical to have 1-3 month notice periods in employment contracts. The way TFA is phrased sounds like constructive dismissal.

Comment Going to embarrass the US (Score 3, Interesting) 173

A New Yorker reporter was recently deported for reporting on the Columbia student protests. This unfriendly climate will kill tourism in America. Then it will have a ripple effect as future presidents and prime ministers go elsewhere to study, killing America's soft power among elites of other countries. And for what? It's not like legal student visa holders were causing a crime wave.

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