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Comment Re: What's The Average? (Score 1) 85

I don't think it's going to happen but what a drone would do is track the trailer from above (you could paint a QR code or similar on top for the purpose of recognition) and collect evidence. A big part of the reason these thefts work is GPS jamming, but you could put a shielded antenna on top of your drone.

Comment Re: good old days? (Score 1) 109

It's not surprising and the roots of the problem go back to NT4. In 3.51, there were three separate memory spaces in NT: kernel, user, and GDI where graphics happened. In NT4 they merged kernel and GDI, and we began to get blue screen crashes caused by graphics drivers. These remained the primary cause of blue screens right up until the driver model changed for Vista. Browsers both came into being and got GPU acceleration in between those times, so they had the opportunity to expose bad graphics drivers.

Comment Re:Anything you can do Argon do better (Score 1) 75

Nitrogen is 300x cheaper than helium, so someone must really have thought about why they would need to use the latter.

Compared to the rest of the costs of the systems which use it, the helium cost is not a big problem. It's less than the labor cost of keeping the machine ready for use. An MRI uses over 100 MWh a year, the machine costs millions to start with, the personnel cost is hundreds per hour... The machine uses roughly 100-200 liters of helium, which is now $30-50/liter. So $3000 to $10000 for a full fill. Boil-off rates range from 0 to 0.2%/day. A refill occurs every 6-24 months. So we're looking at a max of about $20000/year for the helium, or about 33 1/3 days of personnel costs.

(These numbers were pulled from various obviously AI-authored pieces on MRI refill costs, so they might be fairly bullshit-ish, but since multiple articles were around the same numbers I've used them here anyway.)

Comment Re:It's funny (Score 1) 80

By the same token, management clearly either didn't understand or was unwilling to sign off on a meaningful replacement program. For that you don't just install and pray, you study what each department's users are actually doing on a daily basis and then you test the new software to determine a) whether it can actually do those things or not and b) how they are done if so. Part of that for example is to check all the templates being used to see if they will work, which they clearly didn't do here.

Office is literally designed to be hard to emulate, the so-called "standards" are bad jokes which aren't actually standards because you can't actually follow them and get an proper result. They're malicious. Not taking this into account when attempting migration is incompetent.

Comment Re:Sociopathic oligarchy doing it's thing (Score 1) 67

We're addicted for the simple reason plastic is a very versatile material. Try this, look around your life at all the plastics and ask yourself, what will I replace this with?

As I look around I see a mixture of things, some things which would be very difficult to replace, and some things which would be very easy to replace, and some things where they would still need some plastic but they could use a lot less. The rest could be made of wood or metal. Mostly I propose using aluminum because it's extremely recyclable.

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