Recent content by Black Hole

Did that come out the way you intended??

Perhaps that's the push I need to stop using Safari! The problem is if I click a link in (say) and email, it gets opened in Safari by default. I tried the Dolphin browser some time ago, and went back to Safari for that reason.

That's an idea – do you think (with a concerted effort) we could make it query its own existence and disappear in a puff of logic (cue the Hitchhiker's references...)?

The problem is like Pandora's box – the horse has bolted. Every tech firm and their dog now promotes themselves as having AI functionality (even in applications where I can't see that it would add anything, nor even be possible), so if you do the sensible thing and not use AI you lose out...

Why are you expecting trustworthy results from AI? Any appearance of accuracy is an illusion, and those stupid enough to take AI's word for it without verifying the information for themselves deserve whatever outcome results. Therefore, one might as well do it (ie the research) yourself in the...

He said in ironic tone!

A Sisyphean task: you might make that article read better, but what about the rest (although how you go about second-guessing the author's intentions escapes me – 'correcting' things in your view could result in subtle alterations of nuance)? Try to adopt a 1960's progressive attitude: the...

Phrases such as "silk purse" and "turd polishing" come to mind. When it comes to fine points of style (including grammar), there will be differences in opinion. Try not to be too picky, otherwise tweaking will never end.

My recollection must be failing me then. I thought that was Zaphod Beeblebrox r****n.

Just means the iPlayer app people have cocked something up.

There's a long and bitter history to that, as a forum search will reveal. sidecar, on the other hand, was (I think) written by God.

How long did you wait before you decided it was not responding? I have found my HDR-FOXes sometimes get a bit stuck, and sort themselves out if I wait long enough. Inputting a series of commands during that state may result in a crash/reboot.

My iPad produces an output from its headphone/line-out socket which measures 3V peak-to-peak on my 'scope. For a sine wave, that equates to near enough 1V RMS. Would somebody with an audio engineering background please expound on how that relates to dBV etc etc. I particular, if a piece of...

Surely under those circumstances, with no masthead amplifier needed to get a signal, it would be better not to have the masthead and use a distribution amplifier. And in situations where a masthead amplifier is essential, the only point of having it pass through when unpowered is to be able to...

I wonder how the heck that works then. I would have thought providing any kind of passive bypass would simply produce a feedback loop around an amplifier! Maybe there's a depletion-mode FET acting like a relay.