Re: On the positive side . . .
Or his “As slow as possible” streamed from its current Live performance (no need for a repeat….yet)
Posts by Steve K
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Fast Pair, loose security: Bluetooth accessories open to silent hijack
Meta retreats from metaverse after virtual reality check
Claude is his copilot: Rust veteran designs new Rue programming language with help from AI bot
The most durable tech is boring, old, and everywhere
Nvidia DMs TSMC: Please sir can I have some more? The Chinese are starved for H200s
AI faces closing time at the cash buffet
SoftBank scrambling to come up with $22.5B in OpenAI funding before New Year
Oracle's new AI-enhanced support portal leaves users fuming
The Roomba failed because it just kind of sucked
British Airways fears a future where AI agents pick flights and brands get ghosted
And the winner of the Microsoft Christmas sweater is...
Xero to start charging developers API usage fees, replacing revenue share deals
BOFH: You know something's up when the suits want to spend money
Microsoft teases agents that become ‘independent users within the workforce’
From Intel to the infinite, Pat Gelsinger wants Christian AI to change the world
You have one week to opt out or become fodder for LinkedIn AI training
Shield AI shows off not-at-all-terrifying autonomous VTOL combat drone
Monday 27th October 2025 12:54 GMT
Re: Genius-Level Procurement In Whitehall SW1......
"half a billion a pop"
I don't think that's the cost of the aircraft on its own - that's the lifetime cost of maintenance/spares etc. along with the airframe/engine (£80-£100 million, I think).
If you drop one in the sea then you don't have to pay the remaining maintenance any more (not that it's a good use of funds to do so...), or you get extra spares for the remaining fleet.
Grounded jet engines take off again as datacenter generators
Major AWS outage across US-East region breaks half the internet
Techie found an error message so rude the CEO of IBM apologized for it
Monday 6th October 2025 07:42 GMT
Disk Insertion?
I wonder whether it was triggered by the floppy (oo-er missus, fnar,fnar) disk insertion event?
I recall back in the very early 1990s as a trainee Accountant I was assigned to a piece of work in a department using Macs, which had that particular event set up with a similar sound file triggered.
One of the other things I learned about Macs that day was where the volume control was.....
Only way to move Space Shuttle Discovery is to chop it into pieces, White House told
UK splurges £4.4M on drones, e-planes, and other flights of fancy
Many employees are using AI to create 'workslop,' Stanford study says
Saturday 27th September 2025 07:53 GMT
Re: Is anybody surprised?
It’s what Douglas Adams envisioned as the “Reason” program back in 1987.
Give the program the outcome you want and it will come up with a justification for it, which sounds plausible but you don’t know why.
In the novel, the bank manager approved a loan for a sports car (promptly crashed by the character…) following a request generated by Reason, but wasn’t quite sure why…..
Trump admin says tech companies are abusing H-1B visas, slaps $100k a year to allow entry
Word to the wise: Don't tell your IT manager they're not in Excel
Atlassian acquisition drives dream of AI-powered ChromeOS challenger
In Otter news, transcription app accused of illegally recording users’ voices
Microsoft keeps adding stuff into Windows we don't want – here's what we actually need
Sunday 17th August 2025 04:43 GMT
Comments
The new Word comment system is dreadful, but at least you can (for now) revert back to Classic comments as long as you haven’t got any new-style comments in the document.
The new comments feature spans the hell out of collaborators on the document, and you can only change the focus of the comment you are editing by hitting Ctrl-Enter or the “Send” button. Who looked at that comment system and said “Yep, that is superior let’s ship it and make it the default”
No more 'Sanity Checks.' Inclusive language guide bans problematic tech terms
Your CV is not fit for the 21st century – time to get it up to scratch
Politically hot parts of US Constitution briefly deleted thanks to 'coding error'
AWS wiped my account of 10 years, says open source dev
Lyft and Baidu plan Eurobocab launch, starting in UK and Germany next year
Linux kernel 6.16 lands without any headline features but 38M lines of code
Vibe coding service Replit deleted user’s production database, faked data, told fibs galore
Deutsche Bahn train hits 405 km/h without falling to bits
Behold! Humanity has captured our first look at the Sun's South Pole
Ship abandoned off Alaska after electric cars on board catch fire
Thursday 5th June 2025 08:29 GMT
Re: Tesla that burned so hot, it melted part of the road
John D Clark's boook "Ignition" covers the destruction of a thick cement floor slab by chlorine difluoride spillage during rocket propellant tests (basically it is such a strong oxidiser that it causes stuff to burn that has already burned.....). That would indeed be impressive, when viewed from a suitable distance...
MIT boffins claim liquid sodium battery could one day power aircraft while sucking up CO2
Marks & Spencer admits cybercrooks made off with customer info
Most Metaverse business projects will be dead by 2025
DARPA to 'radically' rev up mathematics research. Yes, with AI
Monday 28th April 2025 07:52 GMT
Re: All number sequences will eventually terminate at 0
It's a bit like Reason (from Douglas Adam's DIrk Gently, not the music software named after it by Propellerhead).
Start with the answer you want and the software comes up with an impeccable route to that decision, but you aren't quite sure why. Which is why the protagonist's Bank Manager agreed to the loan for the sports car...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
