We rented our technology and could not read nor write.

Sorry to hear you’re feeling crap.

I’m having trouble looking for work for the past few months. Very few replies, the first “no” I got actually made me feel a bit more human.

I’m convinced that some of the jobs I’ve applied for or enquired about are not real or just for external-advertising-before-hire requirements. I’ve gotten some rude responses after daring to ask questions (eg: jobs funded by research money tend to have fixed funding start dates that might not be for another several months). Most straight up ignore me.

An old boss of mine thinks that my CV isn’t conforming and mundane enough, so I’m giving his suggestions a go.

What sort of work are you looking at? I design electronics and get into arguments with computers.

Windows update fetches all sorts of things now. If the hardware advertises X device then Windows update will check if it has anything for it. Approved vendors can provide all sorts of guff. Historically that has included drivers that intentionally brick your devices. HP probably packaged up some software that updates the BIOS and got it into the Windows Update DBs.

This is something HP should have handled.

If a bad update is rolled out then it’s the responsibility of the software maker partner (HP) and the distributor (Microsoft), not just one or the other.

Those laptops are THEIR products, not Microsoft’s.

Both Microsoft and HP have branding on their laptops and a responsibility post-sale for the reliability of their systems. Hardware, firmware and OS responsibilities are all party to this chain of failure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KmXPcSxz2g

And they claim cheap SMRs don’t exist yet xD

Here they are in an MSY (Australia) catalog from 2012:

Ritmo == SHAW == A-Power, all were in-house brands at MSY. I suspect the 1500W and 1200W might have been the same thing with varying amounts of lying, but perhaps they did also size the components slightly differently.

You have nothing on the Tri-Fan 1200W https://www.crazysales.com.au/online-ritmo-force-1200-tri-fan-gaming-power-supply-2-3v-8373.html

I honestly didn’t read it

Please read it.

Something weird https://ace-ev.com.au/

• Claim to be “made in Australia”
• Don’t provide any photos of their production line or factory.
• Underpowered (max speed 100kmph)

Perhaps imported and then assembled in Australia?

Dear Take Two,

If you want to port GTA3 and VC to mobile then I would recommend looking at the re3/revc project. Fans have already put lots of effort into making the games work on modern systems, patching many bugs and making things more portable. Last I checked there already was a Nintendo Switch port.

Oh wait.

“Eat now, …” is terribly depressing. It sounds like you’re trading financial autonomy in exchange for another basic human right.

AMD, a leading AI semiconductor design company in the United States

Ouch

Bad bot. Several of your selected sentences are verbatim repeats.

The one real risk is that it’s a respiratory depressant and that it’s LD 50 is only a few tens of times a standard dose

The article claims it’s much closer than that:

Experts and festival-goers agreed on the likely cause of GHB’s disproportionate overdose burden.

“As little as 1 millilitre difference can tip you from what you’re looking for to what you’re not looking for,” Daniel Fatovich, chief investigator of EDNA, told Hack.

I tried to find some stuff to back this up. The “therapeutic index” is probably what I’m after (ratio of effective dose to dangerous dose), despite this technically not being a therapeutic use.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8843350/ - The narrow therapeutic index of GHB renders its use hazardous with poisoning or toxicity not uncommon with small titration of doses.

Thats… annoyingly nonspecific. A number for the T.I. would be a good educational tool.

This paper claims its around 5:1 to 8:1:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4462042/ - Mortality rates after abuse of GHB are high, because there is only a narrow safety margin between a recreational dose and a fatal dose, which is only 5:1 to 8:1 [4-8]. Accordingly, accidental poisoning after recreational use of GHB is not uncommon as evidenced by admissions to hospital emergency departments for treatment [9, 10] and during forensic medical investigations of drug intoxication deaths [11-14].

Someone else in the comments here mentioned that the recreational dosage for different individuals varies, if that’s true then it could make this worse.

polydrug using who get hurt […] education if we want to save lives

Agreed. Most people don’t understand what’s in pills they have bought or the interactions with alcohol.

SAAS isn’t a one-off purchase, it’s a rental with ongoing rental fees.

The intention of the wording of the petition is that it only covers “purchased” items. If a customer is given the impression that they are buying something then it should act like any other bought item. If they are given the impression they are renting something then it’s out of scope, that’s expected to abruptly die one day.

effectively withdrawing customers’ rights under the Australian Consumer Law to ownership and undisturbed possession of their purchased goods

^ it’s a bit subtle if you’re not familiar with the campaigns’ language.

This means other people will misinterpret it too :(

Little do you know that I’m secretly in charge of the Bureua Bureua Bureau. I believe https should be a premium feature that valuable customers will pay for.

Corrected, thankyou. I blindly took the page title.

Do geo storms affect up into the GHz where wifi sits? I can only find material talking about the ionisphere and frequencies up to HF :|

I wouldn’t know, but it’s totally not on there, or so I’ve been told.

There have been constant news articles coming out over the past few years claiming the next big thing in supercapacitor and battery technologies. Very few actually turn out to work practically.

The most exciting things to happen in the last few years (from an average citizen’s perspective) are the wider availability of sodium ion batteries (I believe some power tools ship with them now?), the continued testing of liquid flow batteries (endless trials starting with the claim that they might be more economic) and the reduction in costs of lithium-ion solid state batteries (probably due to the economics of electric car demand).

FWIW the distinction between capacitors and batteries gets blurred in the supercapacitor realm. Many of the items sold or researched are blends of chemical (“battery”) and electrostatic (“capacitor”) energy storage. The headline of this particular pushes the misconception that these concepts can’t mix.

My university login no longer works so I can’t get a copy of the paper itself :( But from the abstract it looks first stage, far from getting excited about:

This precise control over relaxation time holds promise for a wide array of applications and has the potential to accelerate the development of highly efficient energy storage systems.

“holds promise” and “has the potential” are not miscible with “May Be the Beginning of the End for Batteries”.