@bertrand-lambert.bsky.social Votre dernière épisode ne fut pas sur Youtube? nouvelle politique ou oubli ?

@sendtherunners @jaykuo Hey ! Don't insult the World Weekly News ! They were a reputable news agency and always had photos to support their reporting. Should never be assiocuated with the evil Trump regime that never has evidence to support their claims.

Recall one issue where they had picture of the alien dad and teenage daughter holding a young black sheep with "Alien impregnates teenage girl who gives birth to black sheep".

Note on the Chrono App for OPUS card in Montréal:

The OPUS card has a limit of 4 fare types that can be loaded on it. (physical limit on card).

If you already have 4 types of tickets loaded (including expired ones), Chrono is unable to delete an expired one to make room to load a new type.

For instance: if you have:
- Single tickets A zone
- old STM tickets
- 3 day pass (expired)
- 24 hour pass (expired)

It won't let you load a weekend pass because all 4 slots are occupied and it would need to delete one of the expired ones to make room for the weekend pass, and it doesn't have the logic to do it.

But if you go to a fare vending machine, it will zap an expired fare to make room for the weekend pass without complaints. After that, with a weekend pass occupying a slot, once it is expired, Chrono will let you buy it again since it doesn't have to delete a fare, just needs to reload an existing slot.

@mWare @oxidecomputer What I find ineresting is the move from coax Ethernet to twisted pair and ensuing switches resulted in switches having their cabling in the front (and fans in back). Before that, there was no cabling on front of racks except when you plugged in for diagnostics etc. Introduction of switches has led to much more sophisticated cable management than before.

Though at the National bank I had seen really neat clean cabling betwene their terminal serves and the DEC ones with RS232 ribbon cables neatly folded at 90° angles so cables left the server ports horizontal, and upon reaching edge of rack, folded and then down to my DECservers and then folded and horizontal again to reach my ports. (and this was an IBM shop that had no concept of RS232).

And also back then, data centres were on raised floors so all cabling went down from rack, whereas now, it all goes up to ceiling. DO raised floors still exist?

@mWare 19" racks existed well before the PC folks moved from placing desktop PC on wire rack shelves to using rack mountable PCs. I think all of Digital's non desktop computers were 19" rackmountable, and the fancy "plastic cabinets" for standalone units were 19" inside. The difference is in depth of cabinet and not allowing for equipment to "invade" past the 19".

Photo: I had to saw parts of the Apple rackmount kit for Xserve because it uses space outside the alloted 19", not expecting any rack structure till full depth of rack. (having rack that is less deep means that it encounterd such structure).

@theastropath Last time I was there, I had just bought new skates, and of course all we can find ate hokey skate with short, rounded blades. Found it very hard to skate on the then soft and bumpy ice, bot noticed how the "lifeguards" had long bladed flat blades (as used by speed skaters) and were able to effortlessly and very smoothly skate. Wish I had had those.

@ai6yr Tesla willl look at their logs and provide evidence that at the time of impact, the self driving feature was disabled and that it was thus the drivers fault.

Hopefully the judge can use human judgement to decide that disabling autopilot 0.5 seconds before impact does not give driver enough time for human to take control and that the autopilot is still to be held responsible.

I would assume that in real life, the amount of time between autopilot disengaging and ability of human to take control and regain situational awareness to avoid accident would vary by type of circumstance and speed of travel so am curious what courts would decide for a precedent.

@mWare Pardon my ignorance here, but is there some sort of place where the vertical PDUs connect to each other and to a big cable that goes down to plug under floor or on ceiling? The racks I have are ex Digital and had a simple power control at bottom Us with some condensers, breakers, switches (and remote control capability) and that unit then has plugs to power the disk drives or computers ( back then a single ~450 megabyte disk drive drew 15 amps of power).

@mWare Out of cursiosity, do 19" racks come with "built in" elecrical plugs and a big cable with L5-30 or greater plug? are those options from 19" rack manufacturer or do you buy those separately and just fit inside 1U or 2U space at bottom ?

@mWare I see how this works. Geek chooses the 19" rack, and if the brochure has the buzzword-du-jour on it, it is easier to convince the accountant to approve the purchase/issue the PO. So the AI thing isn't to help you choose it, it is to help you convince the accounting department approve your choice.

Personal thought: Whether maduro was considered legit head of state or not, he is a citizen of Venezuela, and USA has no right to kidnap any citizen in another country , there are legal processes such as extradiction for this. (obviously, Venezuela would reject extradiction.

Venezuela played an important argument: A country's head of state must be deemd to be immune from charges. (Something Trump has fought for and won in the USA).

Spain at UN Security Council:

https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1k/k1kem3z5nm?kalturaStartTime=8910&config%5Bplayback%5D=%7B%22audioLanguage%22%3A%22en%22%7D&config%5Bui%5D=%7B%22locale%22%3A%22en%22%7D&config[playback]={"audioLanguage":"en"}&config[ui]={"locale":"en"}

Starts with need to respect of the charter, rules based international order. Natural resources of a country are part of the country's sovereignty. Spain did not recognize Maduro and helped shelter opposition members. But rule of law must prevail.

South Africa. At UN Security Council. Strongly feel la need to uphold rule of law.

https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1k/k1kem3z5nm?kalturaStartTime=9084&config%5Bplayback%5D=%7B%22audioLanguage%22%3A%22en%22%7D&config%5Bui%5D=%7B%22locale%22%3A%22en%22%7D&config[playback]={"audioLanguage":"en"}&config[ui]={"locale":"en"}

Cuban ambassador to UN speaks.

https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1k/k1kem3z5nm?kalturaStartTime=8211&config%5Bplayback%5D=%7B%22audioLanguage%22%3A%22en%22%7D&config%5Bui%5D=%7B%22locale%22%3A%22en%22%7D&config[playback]={"audioLanguage":"en"}&config[ui]={"locale":"en"}

Mexico condemns military intervention. Clear. Strong.

Argentina: Madura was bad, look forward to being able to re-establish relations.
Chile: Maduro was bad but must be fixed via international law.
Brazil: breaking of international law is unacceptable.
3 very different tones in south/Central America.

Venezualian ambassador to UN speaks at Security Council

https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1k/k1kem3z5nm?kalturaStartTime=7283&config[playback]={"audioLanguage":"en"}&config[ui]={"locale":"en"}

French ambassador to UN speaks at Security Council on Venezuela.

https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1k/k1kem3z5nm?kalturaStartTime=6496&config[playback]={"audioLanguage":"en"}&config[ui]={"locale":"en"}

(he speaks in french, so you can switch language by clicking the "music" icon.

After speaking about hwo bad Maduro was, he does mention

Increasing violations of the UN Charter and internationa law by states who have permanent status at Security Council is an attack on the roots of international law.

Lack of respect. US Ambassador to UN leaves security council after his speech instead of listening to others. Puts in stand-in in his place.

UK speech at UN Security Council on Venezuela:

https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1k/k1kem3z5nm?kalturaStartTime=6370&config[playback]={"audioLanguage":"en"}&config[ui]={"locale":"en"}