Posts by michaelaubert

Sorry, Moxie. Blaming Agile for software stagnation puts the wrong villain in the wrong play

there's a problem but...

no rich people care enough to solve it.

;-)

Study shock! AI hinders productivity and makes working worse

except for the ones who totally will quit

It took a whole year since the insulting RTO email but I found a better role and am currently serving my notice period.

Apatheism isn't particularly helpful here.

defeatism will unfortunately not help

I feel plenty of it too but we will only be truly F*ed when we give up trying.

Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit

Re: I am not a human

Same.

Google's catpcha failed to recognise me as human twice within a week last month.

Asking me what parts of an image contain an object, only reveals that I don't agree with the majority of people asked the same question for the same image.

I'm not even trying to fail. every time, there is a square that barely contains a few pixels that belong to the object. Sometimes, I select the square, sometimes I don't. My answer is always "wrong". But that's OK: if Google doesn't recognise me as human, I can totally destroy the entire company without any legal repercusion, right? right?

Speed limiters arrive for all new cars in the European Union

No new cars in the EU then

Government-mandated a GPS and SIM means the objects for sale won't be cars anymore. We need a new word.

This has to be about the insurance lobby, right?

It ensures total behavior tracking becomes possible on all vehicles over time.

Rental companies are going to make more money from the segment of the population that will never buy such a vehicle.

But then again, lots of people don't even try to use adblockers...

Microsoft tries to clear the air with mountains of CO₂ credits

Even with the benefit of the doubt

around carbon credit scams, which Microsoft definitely does not deserve, trapping CO2 in underground aquifers doesn't really feel like a good solution either

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1875510020302912

"Seismic disruption, land surface distortion and contamination of potable water supplies are the key environmental risks that further affect the ecosystems and human health adversely (Cai et al., 2013)."

Re: Greenpeace should be ignored

Then I'm part of the problem. Nuclear generates giant amounts of heat. Not great to reverse climate change.

It's not as bad as some other fuel-based energy production but that doesn't make it a great target.

You want to use them for space travel, I'm all for it.

Norway's sovereign wealth fund aims to zap Musk's monster Tesla pay deal

anybody else noticed

that Robyn Denholm's argument is straight out of Atlas Shrugged?

All that tells me is that the Tesla's board is chaired by a terminal asshole. Ayn Rand's followers invariably are.

When your blind spot is empathy...