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Interesting with AI auto translate, especially on the database side if you don't store the input as unicode (or do not store it properly as unicode).

So in your view, based on this footage, it was allright to put a bullet in his head?

He didn't even try to reach his own gun. What happened seem to be "unerwarteter Nahschuss in das Hinterhaupt" (unexpected shot in the back of the head) as it was called in the DDR.

Another woke media report showing an agent leaving the scene with the weapon prior to the killing of Alex Pretti. https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/24/us/invs-videos-show-federal-officer-recovered-gun

I know this is woke media, but they put together a timeline of what happened (free article). https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/24/us/minneapolis-shooting-alex-pretti-timeline.html Seems like the shots were fired after he was disarmed. But that does perhaps not matter. Luckily there...

Swedish pension fund Alecta exits U.S. treasuries. Total sale about $7bn. Sounds reasonable given the speech or what we should call yesterdays performance at Davos.

I would not have too high hopes regarding his cognitive functions though, given the letter to Norway for not giving him the Nobel Peace Price. On the other hand, I am sure he find ways to make money for him and his friends with these market movements.

Apparently, the EU is working on a Sundaythis week (which is highly unusual) and they are looking at this document: https://policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/enforcement-and-protection/protecting-against-coercion_en We will see what next week brings.

That is probably true in reality, but it is safer on the regulatory side, which is a competitive advantage over Google and Microsoft. People are really interested in moving away from US owned platforms right now. And with the situation deteriorating by the hour, the interest will likely only...

So, the DOJ is now going after Frey and Walz, as predicted. On another note, AWS sets up the AWS European Soverign Cloud - Built, operated, controlled, and secured in Europe. https://aws.eu/ This is probably the only way forward if the cloud providers wants to continue with their business in...

___________ what's happening in Minnesota at the moment.

Some. kind of uprising is perhaps more probable than an outright war. I share your opinion 100%, and it just sucks for everybody except a few billionares. The situation in Europe is that we now spend more money on our defence + we have superior tech over the enemy (from the east). But it takes...

This will most likely end up as a civil war/revolution in the future. Perhaps a couple of generations down the road, but the situation will not go away or improve by itself. Now that both [r]ussia and USA are openly teaming up to attack the European democracies, I am worried that Europe will...

So, have you tested your backups lately? https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/858tb-of-government-data-may-be-lost-for-good-after-south-korea-data-center-fire/

150 hp is really efficient. And I am somewhat jealous of you and living in Denmark. I have ~1100-1200 km to drive before I reach the continent. Venice is really nice, haven't been to Lago di Garda, Verona is probably the closest. Italy in general is fantastic with the food and everything.

Nice! Are you travelling further south (or east/west for that matter :) ) or staying in the area?

Looking forward to reports from both the computer and BMW projects. :) Classic 6 cylinder BMWs are the best (according to me) and ~1990~2004 was probably when the fun peaked in the car industry.

Hmm, the US regime stops Maxars delivery of satellite images to Ukraine. That means any service from US companies can be disabled at any moment to extort foreign countries or organisations.

"There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen."

The only upside in this situation is that the leaders of Europe are waking up, spending more on defence for example. This (the waking up part) should have happened at least 3 years ago.

Happy New Year to all of you! Gott Nytt År, Godt Nytår!

I can report that the son is happy with the B580. It is not super amazing but still good performance, especially for the price. Not a bad buy at this point in time.

The card is in the mail, perhaps swedes are a bit slower or they went after the Asrock and Sparkles, which seem to have better cooling and so on. It would be really nice if Intel levelled up on the integrated GPUs. Perhaps in a generation or two? (With the AI-stuff beeing so popular and all?)

I ordered a B580 for the son. IIt will join a 11700 (maybe K) and 32 GB RAM. And he uses a 1080 monitor, so it should be enough.

I know, it makes the HW price almost irrelevant. =) And if you license all physical cores with EE you can run as many VM:s as you want with EE on that machine. So you can potentially cram a bit more out of it, vs Standard Edition where you have to license every core in every VM. But I'm also...

The 9575F looks amazing. But I will dream sweet dreams about a 9175F in SQL Server tonight, 16 cores @ 4.2 - 5 GHz and 512 MB L3... :)

EPYC servers have 12 slots/CPU. I had to Google, but it seems like each DIMM slot has it's own memory channel. https://lenovopress.lenovo.com/lp1702-balanced-memory-configurations-with-4th-generation-amd-epyc-processors#figure-4th-gen-amd-epyc-processor-logical-view

My only comfort is that I don't have to use Citrix, like most people in the organisation. LOL. I cannot agree more about Outlook, and on my previous laptop I couldn't be in teams meetings when the AV was scanning, not sure if it was a feature or a bug. Then, maybe the bad performance is not...

Even if we had 32 x 6 GHz cores and 1TB of RAM developers would make software that makes the OS lag... more bloat, new frameworks, new versions of Teams and Outlook with AI and whatnot... My sons computer feels pretty fast but he doesn't have Teams or Outlook installed. But every other computer...

I am also curious what's in the NAS boxes. :) Do you have different data tiers? For example one NAS with Optane Enterprise disks for high performance, one with larger volume normal SSD:s, one with spinning disks for huge volumes of historical data?

I think regarding code vs speed, when performance increases we come up with more bloat. It would be great if we could write in plain English what we want the result to be and it outputs ASM-code (and compile it for us), but it seems like there is some way to go. And even then we need to have...

Covid sucks, I hope you'll be able to get some rest now and feel better next week.

Just want to remind you that there are plenty of different bike vacation opportunities. In Europe you have Italy, Spain (around Girona for example), Belgium or... most countries really... And I'm sure there are equally nice cycling destinations in the USA. For me cycling in beautiful...

I have no idea about switches, I think I use Varmilo EC Sakura switches but they are also a bit on the light side. Quite similar to Cherry Reds. The New Model M looks really interesting, hope you'll write a report later on.

I had a pretty "fun" bug on my work laptop (1255U CPU) when it was almost new: All cores rän on 400 MHz, all the time. It got fixed in a BIOS update but it was unusable for a few days. (Teams + Outlook starts automatically..) Regarding ASUS, I haven't kept up with the motherboard market in the...

Really sweet... I hope they turn up as options in mainstream servers during the next 6-9 months. It would make a nice drive for TempDB in SQL Server.

Single threaded performance is important, especially for my favourite, SQL Server where I (for my workload) tend to buy the minimum but fastest cores available. But in the general server space it's usually more about density and power consumption, and 96 -> 128 cores per socket is a decent step...

Seems like Seasonic will have a couple of ATX3.1 models PSUs available in USA in October. https://seasonic.com/power-supplies/ I haven't bought any PSUs since maybe 2020-2021, but have only bought Seasonic for almost as long as I can remember. I bought an Enermax to a P4 1.8GHz system, the...

Rape and incest is apparently "inconvenient"? https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1819406646134571334?t=OUDeq6415UIIIJ5kZptHhw&s=19

I'm not even close, I built 3 or 4 machines at work around late 2013-2014, I was away for 5 years so 1 or 2 probably got decommissioned when we changed owners, but 2 are running legacy software, runs 24/7 and are still going strong. (Fractal Design Define cases, Seasonic PSUs, ASUS TUF...

It is similar in Sweden, we have Bank-ID, not developed by the state but the large banks and defacto standard, useful almost anywhere in the digital domain. Maybe it's easier to implement these things in smaller countries? I think Estonia is the most digitalized countries in the world.

MS authentication is frustrating in so many ways. I feel that the process is broken if Microsoft accepts land line telephone numbers but don't offer a "Call me back" option, like some of the other online services do.

SQL Server is the only Microsoft product I like. (Except maybe some keyboard or mouse back in the days) Advice: If you want to earn big bucks, stand by a product that is as expensive (like $7500/core for Enterprise Edition) as possible and become really good at it. (Of course, in Sweden we work...

I agree. Perhaps 8 TB is pushing the limits of current technology? I imagine it's easier to manage cooling, reliability and so on in the 3.5/2.5/EDSFF formats. In the server space M.2 are more common as boot drives where I suppose they see a lot less activity than their carrier mounted friends...

It was not a bit of a fight, ot was really serious business. Almost as bad as soccer supporters in Europe, but without physical fighting. :) I had both the C64 and Amiga 500, they were really nice computers, the Amiga had specialized chipsets for graphics, sound and MMU (Denise, Paula & Agnus)...

You clearly didn't take part in the Amiga vs. Atari wars. I still hate Atari ST.

Shame about the damage to the bike, hope it's not that bad.

That is still very good, I hope you get back into your normal routine. I managed to ride 5000 km last year, up from previous years of 1500-1600 km. For me, riding outdoor is still the best when the weather lets me, great way to let the thoughts wander and enjoy the local scenery in 3D. 🙂

I had a few years when I didn't ride bikes very much. One year I started riding like crazy, because we only have like 3 months of summer and got an injury. In early 2019 we got a dog, during the pandemic I got too fat for cycling clothes. But a while I bought an indoor trainer (Kickr V5) and...

Have to agree that Icelandic is very beautiful.