Posts by Pascal Monett 19006 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
So have I.
It would have been so much more reasonable to build fabs in the area of the Great Lakes. You know, where there's water ?
Yeah, but the tax breaks were not as good, apparently.
Fine. I'll just wait for the day where you have to shut down your precious fabs because the Colorado River is dry and you can't continue production. At the rythm it's being drained, that won't take so long.
And, at that point, you can kiss your tax breaks, and your ass, good bye.
And you deserve that.
Entirely agree. It is very rich to hear this coming from the White House, when the US is a country which has already been subject to privacy treaties and addendums, just to try and keep the data slurping slightly in check.
If it wasn't for Max Schrems, the US would still be the black hole hoovering every single bit of data it wants to be. And I'm not sure that the valiant efforts of Schrems and company have really put any sort of dent into that practice.
Those things that were litterally created by and for automotive companies to limit their responsibility for people on foot getting run over by carelesss people in cars . . .
Thankfully, here in France (and in most of Europe, unless I'm mistaken), jaywaling laws have been repealed. It's the person on foot who has priority, always, whatever the conditions.
I'm sure he does. He's an electrical engineer, not a programmer. Obviously, he thinks that, as long as you can find some code on the Web, you don't need a programmer.
Unfortunately, there is no pseudo-AI that is going to code Salesforce, or SAS, or an ERP. I don't care that there are now "prompt engineers", you still have to know where to place the prompt in the code.
Programmers are not going away any time soon.
Ooh, burn. So, Borkzilla wanted to one-up Google, found out the hard way that it's not so easy, and is now stuck with something it can't kill because it integrated the damn thing into every part of its OS.
Sounds like schadenfreude to me . . .
Um, like the pen I have in front of me on the table ?
I am willing to believe that a laptop has more power than a AR ski goggles, but you're not walking around with a laptop, so interaction with physical objects is pretty much going to be limited to, oh, my coffee cup is behind my screen, <reach out and grab it>.
Pff. Marketing. I never stop being amazed at what nonsense they think of to make us spend our hard-earned.
How ?
WiFi is local. It's all very nice to have a mutli-GB connection to the nearest fiber link, but if that fiber is only 1GB, I fail to see how so very much better WiFi 7 is going to be.
To be clear : I have a 1GBps fiber link coming right into my home office. Thanks to that, we can watch TV without lag, while my home PC is torrenting Linux ISOs, my wife is on the Internet on her smartphone and her laptop, and my daughter is downloading God knows what while also watching whatever it is she finds interesting.
Of all of that equipment, the only thing actually tethered to a physical line is my home PC, with its GB network card connected to my home switch that can handle GB connections and is linked to the Orange Box, thus to the fiber that allows everything to communicate with them thar intartubes.
From where I sit, WiFi 7 is not going to increase the speed of my fiber. So the fiber is the limit, the bottleneck.
And I don't think that's going to be a problem for my household. WiFi 6/5/whatever is working fine here, thank you. Including WiFi 7 in Windows 11 which is mainly used in tower PCs (which have a GB Ethernet connection already) and maybe some fondleslabs, is not going to change the universe, as far as I can see.
But yeah, I know the drill. Marketing needs to feed . . .
Of course. AMD is now eating Intel's lunch. Now is not the time to do proper engineering procedures.
Now is the time to boost the Ghz and sell ! sell ! sell !
Intel will leave engineering to wait for when it has become the founder of the West. Then Intel will have time for that, especially if AMD comes, hat in hand, asking for production wafers.
Uber-billionnaire wants a little plane to be delivered to his personal island, but can't be arsed to charter a boat that could do that securely.
Instead, in a very Agile move-fast-and-break-things, he agrees to a makeshift fuel bladder thingy that is not properly tested to "allow" the little plane to cover more than X times the distance its normal range allows. The untested contraption fails, two people die as a result.
Well, as much as I would like to blast Brin for being an aloof asshole (I'm sure he is one), I do think the fault kinda lies on the guys who didn't check that the ad-hoc installation worked perfectly before going on such a flight. Maybe do a San-Fransisco-to-New-York-and-back before venturing over the Great Blue Yonder, just to be sure ?
I totally sympathize with the bereaved, but billionnaire or not, I wouldn't pilot a plane over the unforgiving ocean without ensuring that all its components worked to perfection.
They didn't, and they paid the price.
Obviously. Windows Insiders are the fanboys. They are biologically incapable of refusing anything Redmond does and critical thinking is not in their DNA.
So, Redmond says AI ? Yes ! They want it ! And Redmond thinks everyone wants it.
And, cherry on top, Redmond will bestow that upon the lowly Windows 1 0 users that it will shortly be cut off from everything else. Oh ! How generous !
So, I'm guessing that all the required updates to that "AI" bullshit will also be shitting their way down to the retired version, even after the cutoff date, right ?
Because you can't get away from "AI" these days, now can you ?
Yes, because there's nothing in Windows 11 that couldn't be put in the previous version, except that Borkzilla needs to be seen as "moving forward", even after it loudly stated that Window 1 0 would be the last version and there never would be the need for another one.
Yeah, that's just what the workplace needs. More noise in open-space areas, what with marketing in the corner that just can't shut up, your cubicle neigbor who can't stop talking about his favorite sport and everyone else on the (smart)phone talking to God only knows who.
And they want us to come back to the office ?
Fuck that.
"he has made a number of trades in the Company's shares that had not been disclosed to the Company or the market in compliance with the PDMR disclosure requirements"
Even in London, that doesn't sound like he's going to have a good time with the authorities. At the very least he's going to have explain why he didn't disclose those trades and I don't think that those will be very comfortable discussions.
After all, he's not a politician, so he does not benefit from the Boris Johnson aura of invulnerability . . .
Consultants at £1000/day ? Par for the course. If you want to fail spectacularly, you need those kind of guys and, especially, you need to not listen to them.
It's all well and good to blame the consultants, but when you've ignored the red flags, you can only blame yourself for the shambles that ensues.
All that administrative overhead is now going to be doubled, then. With Intel HQ sitting on top.
More minions running around, more manglement looking to seem important, and all that for a project that won't start bearing fruit before the end of this decade.
Well, can't say Gelsinger isn't boldly going forward, at the least.
Intel to be leading foundry in the West ? Why not ? We need something like that, at the very least.
Is that model capable of ensuring that beta updates do not spill over to the production line ?
The arrogance of Redmond is limitless. Hey, Nadella, why don't you just mandate everybody hand over their credit card details and organize a weekly stipend for yourself ?
No problem, with the D5-P5336, an SSD that will be able to hold 61TB a pop, you can bring 4 of them in a RAID 5 config and you should have enough for storage.
Of course, the damage one single cosmic ray is going to do to that array is probably going to be epic, not to mention all that effort will likely be trashed when Putin decides to nuke Earth's lower orbit, but hey, it's the military, right ? What could possibly go wrong ?
I mean I can perfectly understand how Italy is so mind-boggingly large that it needs storage in space for its military to be able to easily communicate over those vast distances that lay between the pub and the opera.
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