Posts by Bebu sa Ware 2773 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Nov 2024
I don't imagine the entire EU let alone France produces anything like that quantity of panels - if it produces any PVs at all.
The PVs available in AU all seem to hail from India or the PRC. The latter might be problematic source if the orange ejit really gets on Xi's tits.
Hamlet next I daresay.
Why would you even bother. I would be slightly more impressed if these clowns produced a complete functional Algol-68 compiler or even a complete PL/1 compiler.
If this technology could be leveraged to drive or guide formal correctness proofs of existing code I would actually be interested but if producing dodgy C compilers is the best they can offer then they can shove the whole boiling where the Sun doesn't shine as far as I am concerned. Shit calls to shit.
"we also feel strongly that we need to bring AI to billions of people who can't pay for subscriptions."
I don't doubt that there are strong feeling involved… but mostly those of a grifter lacking grist for his grift·mill.
Pretty obvious to anyone with half a brain that advertisements by themselves don't pay for anything; it is the poor sods who by definition cannot pay for a subscription to this slop·shop that it is hoped through exposure to AI selected ads will purchase the promoted products and services that ultimately fund the advertising and pay advertising platform.
Given the unrelenting pauperisation of the US consumer mass market, this cunning plan has the hallmark of those of young Baldrick's.
Or any matching site; instead of match people with people your would be matching signs and symptoms with ailments (possibly 'til death do part. :)
There is a massive quantity of high quality factual medical information available on the internet but there is also an equally massive amount of such information on quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. Your average Joe or Jane is not usually able to make competent use of information from either domain.
When you consider the sequence followed when you consult a practitioner or attend an emergency department is quite different from the Dr Google experience.
Worth noting that sensible doctors don't indulge in self diagnosis or treatment unless they wish to fill an early grave. Suicidal that a medically ignorant layperson believes they are best placed to diagnose and treat their own ailments — the only clinical detachment there would be between body and soul, I imagine.
In person consultations commence with the observation by the practitioners of the patient's general presentation before taking a history of the presenting complaint (during which the patient's blood pressure might be recorded), a physical examination might follow as well as imaging (X-rays, CT scan, ultrasound); blood and tests ordered. A referral to a specialist might be indicated from the initial consultation.
The line concerning medicos' experience in "triaging patients using rule-based protocols designed to reduce errors" does seem like a decision tree which is also how an expert system typically works.
"He and Hegseth would probably bomb the Taiwanese foundries too before the Chinese could get hold of them...."
Obviously if you hold a valuable and temporarily resource both sides want and need then it doesn't matter who destroys that resource.
Indeed, I suspect it is a very early chapter in the Dummies Guide to Medizing in the 21st Century.
I suspect there are more than a few gas bubbles in Space Karen's transfer tube between his ketime afflcted imagination and reality which are likely to suffer the same "failure to ignite before the deorbit burn."
It is not inconceivable for the US to be able to place more astronauts on the Moon during the next decade but with the ongoing shambles of the current Administration they are just as likely to also reserve the dubious honour of the first graves on the Moon.
Hopefully only a straw man for this example otherwise I am not too sure I would want M. Meusel lurking in the vicinity of my code.
I assume (purely because I would leave this sort of coding to those that know how to do it safely) that the clear text password would be read into secure memory (mlocked/mprotected ?) in its entirety before being hashed etc and verified with the clear text obliterated at the earliest opportunity.
The timing for a successful verification would be contrived to be indistinguishable from a rejection (whether rejected on the basis of an invalid identity or incorrect password or whatever.)
This stuff is hard enough without having to worry about compilers' enthusiastic optimisations. Pehaps GCC might be augmented with a —Ocryptographic_sensitive flag, attribute or pragma to render the code deterministic with respect to timing with code generation skewed towards the security concerns.
There is and I have had to use it for totally non crypto/security reasons (forcing ctor functions to run in static links.)
[gcc manual 6.62.15 Function Specific Option Pragmas]
#pragma GCC push_options
#pragma GCC optimize ("O0")
int sensitive (...) {
....
}
#pragma GCC pop_options
These attributes can also be applied with the function __attribute__() syntax as someone has also noted.
[6.31.1 Common Function Attributes]
Had to laugh reading that but I do realize being legally blind doesn't mean completely without sight and I suppose the license does also cover radio.
In AU the poor old TV license was "taken behind the barn" fifty odd years ago and our public broadcasters mostly funded by the Comminwealth.
I stopped viewing TV during the daily nonsense of COVID and I don't intend resuming this side of the grave (or beyond it for that matter.)
Years ago a senior staff member with a wicked sense of humour, or just plain wicked, advised his colleagues that the system administrator was required to read all incoming and outgoing email.
This was just after my telling him that the volume of email was overwhelming our servers so he was clearly aware that no person could possibly read all the outgoing email let alone the deluge of incoming email.
After one or two enquires it was obvious any denials were pointless as the inquirers were certain that Mandy Rice·Davies applied.
Office gossip supplied the meat and bones as to what the contents of their email that might be of concern. Tawdry affairs and petty misdemeanors mostly.
My advice was and remains: ""Don't put anything in an email that you wouldn't write on the corridor wall. If you must, encrypt and sign it (pgp.)"
I will pay this one as the literal truth.
You can tell them anything… and they'll believe you.
What always got me was those with a more technical background were the most gullible picking up absolute nonsense and retailing it.
I soon learnt that logic and reason don't come into it and desisted from contradiction.
Sexytaries tended to be more sceptical but if it wasn't too outlandish or a moderate distraction from the workplace tedium, like paperclip chains, they went along with it.
The rituals involved in printing might be an exception but printers generally do require infernel invocations and blood sacrifice and even more so back then.
I have a tad under ½Tb in an old dual socket server which makes too much of a racket to be turned on very often. Given its age it's probaby ddr3 and I imagine not worth very much. :(
I have always put at least 16G in the various refurbished PCs I have purchased (it was cheaper to buy them with the base 4Gb or 8Gb complement and ditch or repurpose that and purchase new ram elsewhere.) So I fortunately don't have an pressing need to upgrade the ram for the Linux/Unix stuff I run.
Anyone hoarding consumer parts might come a cropper when the bubble pops.
I can recall in the 90s, PCs in student labs being fitted with padlocked steel chastity belts prevent the ram going walkabout. (Note: the PCs were outfited, not the students although…) Not an entirely successful strategy as some enterprising felons brought a boltcutter with them and made off a number of entire PCs.
Didn't grok that all.
For whatever reason I thought superbowel was a baseball event not that travesty of armoured rugby.
On the very few occasions I have been in a sports bar and caught a game on their big screen I have impressed (not) by how slow and frankly boring (excepting perhaps the cheer leaders) the whole silly proceedings are.
I would liven it up by equiping the participants with 2.4m (8') star pickets a let them go to it, in a full melée but I suppose that would be indistinguishable from (ice) hockey.
Being a nordic chap a misadventure in arctic climes might accelerate the major version numbering although he didn't actually specify that said digits needed to still be attached or indeed still in his possession.
I personally would suppress minor version numbers with trailing zeros. When I first encounter X.10 back in the day when we weren'I so agile, I assumed it was X.1.
So I propose X, X.1 ... X.9, X.11 ... X.19, X.21 and Linus gets to keep his fingers and toes :)
Any guess which of the store manager's extremities and into which part of the elephant's anatomy that extremity was inserted ?
There is only one thing worse that having one's head up one's arse… that is having it up another creature's.
Sainsbury's have been in business for 150+ years and managed to prosper in that time without this technology… whether they will survive another decade with it, is debatable.
Leaving aside post·translational modification to the peptide I always imagined its conformation might be reduced to a dynamic programming problem taking into account the environment of ribosome/cytosol interface and the immediate prior and subsequent amino acids residues; at least in principle.
Given that, I can see a LLM might recognise common low energy conformations or at least assist in locating local minima.
Apparently the parts of a peptide around the active site of an enzyme etc are typically are not at an energetic minima and those amino acid residues are often separated in the linear sequence of the peptide.
I suspect that LLMs might be able to detect common evolutionary patterns in this latter case as Nature is quite conservative in retaining mechanisms that work.
Interesting stuff but not within light years of the grotesque enshittification confronting us from the malign and specious misapplication of this technology.
around·the carousel three and bit times so you ought you to have seen it all before… thrice.
Even if you were a slow learner you have got it by the third time and if you only had a five minute attention span you would have been projected into management well before the second rotation.
In my advanced years I often feel like Douglas Adams' plummeting bowl of petunias (accompanied by gormless doomed cetaceans.)
Higgs field, pretty much tells one the they are an infestation of pillaging pretentious predatory prats.
Presumably the intent is that the vacuous vaporware that they are hawking is intended to gather substance when passing through their grubby pilfering paws by some obscene perversion of the Higgs mechanism.
I suppose it is all part of the standard model of internet and US business practices.
I imagine spray paint manufacturers might recreate the shade for retro pub restorations given cancer sticks, pipes and presumably vapes have been banned from English pubs for good while now. (Snuff and chewin' baccy probably still ok.)
For brush or roller applications your local hardware shop could tint plain white to any level of grossness or match a sample of actual pub wall paper.
Alternatively you locate the sites of the local chapters of the British cancer (usually outside the employers' building often at the rear) and collect the fag ends; boil them to make a broth of the desired strength; allow to cool and apply as a wash to the wallpaper to be distressed. As bonus you get the disgusting but authentic pong. Any residual brew may be used in the garden as a potent insecticide. [Nicotine is extremely toxic!]
I stumbled over an article in Tom's Hardware that claimed Dell and HP are qualifying ram from ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) and that Acer and Asus are seeking to similarly source chips.
If CXMT can step up to the mark and supply the ram for consumer devices then that could be another footshot for the ram vendors currently sucking on AI's dick who might have some difficulty in recovering the consumer markets after the crash.
'"I have this problem… I know I'll solve it with regular expressions." Now he as two problems.'
If the UK welfare system were half as complex as Australia's it would still be insanely complicated and almost certainly neither internally consistent nor externally with taxation, health, educational and training systems. In three words "an infernal mess."
Sir Peter has either swallowed the lemonade, or is unusually disingenuous even for a civil servant, in claiming adding Agentic AI to this shambles is going to reduce its problems; He will be fortunate if the added AI induced problems will be countable.
UBI in its purest form has the advantage of extreme simplicity not requiring anything much more complicated than a payroll system. Of course the detail devil has just been shoved over to the tax/revenue system which would also require reforming and simplification.
The greatest obstacles to any such program are neither practicality, nor entirely political, but rather people — their petty, unlovely unreasons - exactly those forces currently at work destroying the US.
So Sir Peter will have his way and your DWP will be fatally infected with AI and the infernal mess will blossom into a shambles that even the devil wouldn't own.
they are likely to "park it" on an unsuspecting part of Australia albeit in "kit form."
Providentially Australia is blessed with vast areas, not containing very much of anything, which could only benefit from a little redecoration with an assortment of NASA space trash.
I was a little puzzled as Artex in AU is/was a brand of womens handbags and purses. If you had written back pain I might have drawn lurid conclusions as to what the practice of Artexing involved.
Doing my own research,® I concluded it is UK perversion —Artex is a trademarked, now generic, a type of textured plaster previously (<1984) containing white (powdered) asbestos normally applied to ceilings. Uncommon today as textured ceilings are apparently now out of fashion.
Australia has enough of its own problems with asbestos without adding this. Renos in the UK obviously can be just as dangerous in the UK as in AU.
I suspect I could put names to the cast of this comedy of errors.
To be honest I have worked in more than few places where most of the senior technical management might have contributed to the greater good by making the same career change; not that (m)any of them would be a pleasant sight clad in leotards; the circus would be a more appropriate employer, or rodeos - both need clowns.
I suspect Australia's First Nations' people might hold that 1788 is a more appropriate code especially around the Aussie National day January 26.
The beach looks lovely. Now let me tell you about the sharks... and the crocadiles (although not that far south)... and the box jelly fish... and ... and... and ...; the good news is that the drop bears and hoop snakes are, if not extinct, largely mythical.
I am so glad I picked up a refurbished iphone se·3 last year for a song. No AI, still in support, small 120mm (4.7") screen… I hate to think what any new phone will cost by the end of 2026.
I suppose the single upside is that there will be fewer phones prematurely consigned to ewaste.
I recently searched for a particularly horrid tropical disease encountered in a colonial era story.
The first couple of results suggested I could purchase said malady on Ebay, Amazon, Temu etc at a knock down price. Regrettably I had to pass on that unique opportunity.
If there were any 'I' in AI it would have flagged that apart from bioterrorists no one is likely to purchase horrid diseases or at least determined there aren't actually any for sale on the featured souks.
He is the latest in a long line of bullshitters. Independent review my arse.
At this point I imagine that male bovine·kind are contemplating an action seeking redress for the many defamatory statements concerning their excreta.
I would say not so much from your arse, or the bull's, as Sir Brian's.
it is envisaged that the candidate has "experience of leading and delivering significant change within a complex public sector environment, introducing innovative business models, systems and approaches, and delivering greater commerciality and sustainability, including digital innovation to transform delivery" and failed !
Success would come with a much higher price tag especially given there isn't any question of stock options.
FFS what does "greater commerciality" mean in the judicial context ? Judges being more financially amenable ?
I cannot think of another nation that so consistently invests† in failure as the UK. "Carry on everybody… you've all done very well."
† might be better phrased as "under·invests in success" but loses something of the effete Englishness in the process.
