Bruce Dawson

The London Underground Is Too Hot, But It’s Not An Easy Fix The London Underground is an iconic piece of Victorian era engineering. What started in 1863 quickly became a core piece of infrastructure that would define the modern character of the British capi…

If the London Underground is anything to go by then such tweaks will be insufficient. There needs to be some way to extract heat from the entire system

hackaday.com/2024/12/04/t...

OCASIO-CORTEZ STATEMENT ON TRUMP'S COMBAT OPERATIONS IN IRAN "The American people are once again dragged into a war they did not want by a president who does not care about the long-term consequences of his actions. This war is unlawful. It is unnecessary. And it will be catastrophic. "Just this week, Iran and the United States were negotiating key measures that could have staved off war. The President walked away from these discussions and chose war instead.President Trump flippantly acknowledged the possibility of American casualties, stating "that often happens in war.' "Mr. President: this was not an inevitability. This is a deliberate choice of aggression when diplomacy and security were within reach. Stop lying to the American people. "Violence begets violence. We learned this lesson in Iraq. We learned this lesson in Afghanistan. And we are about to learn it again in Iran. Bombs have yet to create enduring democracies in the region and this will be no different. "In moments of war, our Constitution is unambiguous: Congress authorizes war. The President does not. I will do my part to uphold our Constitution by voting YES on Representatives Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie's War Powers Resolution. Every member of Congress must join us in rejecting this aimless war.

My statement on President Trump’s combat operations in Iran⬇️

We need to do something about income inequality so that working and middle-class people no longer depend on increasing home equity to keep them afloat. It's a toxic situation. The primary purpose of homes should be to live in, and they should be cheap and plentiful.

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Surprisingly, comments insisted dirty snow is just road sand/gravel. Like people are in denial that cars pollute.

It’s clearly more than that. Those are also used on sidewalks and bike lanes, which don’t look nearly as bad as the roads.

There are actual studies testing tailpipe pollutants, etc.!

UK: Prince Andrew arrested.

South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life.

Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence.

USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.

BTW I'm using version 11.7.383.39833. I have no idea how up-to-date that is

"Supportive message posted in Spanish"
"Divisive"

Uh... what is divisive about Spanish, is what I want to ask this person

I recorded some video with the snipping tool but my voice audio didn't get captured. Basically I repro the bug twice. Click on a table, then click on the scrollbar (it moves) then wiggle the mouse (it returns to where it should be). Video is here:
drive.google.com/file/d/1PnF6...

If I keep the mouse down then I can wiggle the mouse and the scrollbar will return to where it was, thus minimizing the damage, but it's still disturbing.

It only happens if you click the scrollbar after clicking in one of the graphs/tables.

Use that outermost scrollbar to scroll all the way down to the bottom of the graphs/tables. Then click in one of the graphs or tables and then click on that outermost scrollbar. I generally click and hold. As soon as I click the scrollbar goes to the top of its container - the graphs/tables with it

And by "tonight or tomorrow" apparently I mean in about nineteen days.

So, here's the repro. Open one or more graphs/tables and expand them vertically enough so that an outermost scrollbar - that moves all of the graphs/tables vertically - appears.

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

"Why do programmers not like AI contributions on open source softw-"

theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

Maybe @chrdavis.bsky.social has some ideas?

Montreal buses sure do fly on weekends without traffic to slow them down.

Wouldn’t it be cool to have more bus lanes, signal priority, and stop consolidation to reach these speeds on weekdays too?

Please contact AMD and get them to fix this. And consider sharing ETW traces showing the slow page-table walking or, even better, the leaking of handles.

The increasing number of billionaires in every new release of the Epstein files are another reminder that billionaires shouldn't exist because they're immoral, exploitative hoarders and the world would be better if we abolished every one of them.

Billionaires: the only minority destroying humanity.

Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.

Should the Capability Access Manager Service and the DNS client be in the top twelve?

Does CapabilityAccessServer::AccessCheck need to run four times a second? Does anybody care?

It is also probably increasing the workload for dwm.exe and System so it's actual place in the bad-process leaderboard is probably even higher.

Also notable is SurSvc.exe and IntelGraphicsSoftware.exe. These are monitoring processes. They should be nowhere in the top twenty.

I think that the System process is being wasteful but that will take some work to prove. dwm.exe is doing essential work so it's usage might be reasonable. But quick-look.exe? I have never used this tool. It is an explorer extension and it is continuing to consume CPU time - when explorer is closed!

Task Manager Details view sorted by (cumulative) CPU time consumed. Ignoring the idle process the biggest consumers, from highest to lowest, are: System dwm.exe quick-look.exe MsMpEng.exe SurSvc.exe IntelGraphicsSoftware.exe chrome.exe (GPU process) svchost.exe (Capability Access Manager Service) chrome.exe (browser process) explorer.exe csrss.exe svchost.exe (DNS Client)

I keep noticing my laptop's fan running when it is idle and Task Manager always shows practically nothing running. But cumulative CPU time shows a different story:

::taps mic::

beyond being an absolutely miserable illness, measles can cause immune amnesia. It wipes out your immune systems memory of how to fight every infection, every vaccine you've ever had.

What We Saw in Minneapolis Our visual journalists documented the days surrounding Alex Pretti’s killing in Minneapolis.

MUST READ this powerful, intimate dispatch from Minneapolis by @propublica.org visual journalists @peterdicampo.bsky.social (who lives there) & @cengizyar.com

This is America.

Due to credit-card issues I had to enter my PIN three times and the numbers were laid out differently every time.

A bit of research suggests that it is to make getting PINs through shoulder surfing harder, but wow, it's bizarre

PIN entry screen with the numbers in the order 1, 7, 5, 9, 3, 8, 0, 4, 6, 2

While using my credit card to rent a car I ran into this cursed PIN entry screen. Do you see the problem?

we're wasting massive opportunities to pivot to these things

just like we have for the last 30 years.

bsky.app/profile/holz...

The benefits of removing some cars from the road has a massive spillover effect, and people are not going to drive to an edge neighborhood to park somewhere there isn't really any parking anyway.

Expand the zone. Up the charge.

bsky.app/profile/davi...

The degree to which Trump has corrupted the department of justice in a single year in office is terrifying.

It was funny/odd when I realized that four separate Sectigo employees sent me various emails suggesting I renew early, all within sixteen minutes of each other. I guess they all get a commission and they were suddenly allowed to mass email Sectigo customers