Posts by Pascal Monett 16741 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
Sorry, but I don't think that pixel count defines camera capability.
I have a Canon EOS 400D. I have 3 different lenses I can put on it, 2 rechargeable batteries and two SD cards that, put together, can record a total of over 700 high-definition pictures.
There is no smartphone that can hold a candle to the picture quality of that camera, even if it only has 10MP.
The only issue is that I can't carry it in my shirt pocket.
To do that, I use a revolutionary new technology. It's called bookmarks. The channels I'm actually interested in, I bookmark them.
I have scores of channels bookmarked. I don't have enough time in the day to watch all of them, especially since some of them regularly propose content that lasts 40+ minutes at a time (Timeline, Absolute History, etc).
I have absolutely no need for Youtube's homepage and I practically never go there unless I want to search for new channel that I got a referral for.
Really people, learn how to use your browser. And brain.
And most of them are likely very capable of handling a Zoom call and an Excel spreadsheet at the same time. It's more than likely that it's the Internet bandwidth that is an issue, not the CPU power.
No, Dell, you're not going to renew 700 million desktop PCs this year. Nor next year.
"I see this with banking. Unless you've actually recently sent an international wire transfer, you did not know how infuriating that process is. You don't know where it is, you don't know how long it's going to go and you don't know how many banks are going to take obscene amounts of cash off the top of your wire transfer. "
What I see is that the US banking system is so fucking shitty you had to go and invent something that makes global climate change worse instead of fixing your fucking shitty banking system.
I live in France. I have a company registered in Luxembourg. I have no problem with international bank transfers. They happen on the day I set them for, and the annual fee is ridiculously low (maybe I shouldn't have said that last bit).
In any case, now I know why Bitcoin and the rest of those funny money pyramid schemes are all the rage overseas. You have a shitty banking system and you can't be arsed to fix that.
Well I'll leave you to your toys and blame you when Florida is finally underwater.
Well, at least they're good for vacuuming - maybe.
In any case, it seems that Real Humans are still a good ways off.
Maybe that's a good thing.
Yeah, but with one important difference : this one was caught on camera, and the video made its way to tha Intartubes, which means he will now forever be associated with his crime.
And that is justice in itself, because now his crime is public and the authorities must act.
Thirty years ago, this whole thing would have gone unnoticed, and this bastard would have beaten up an 80+ year old lady without consequence.
That thought is disgusting.
Can people stop spouting that bull ? All of the funny money thingies rely on blockchain which, if memory serves, is a public ledger.
The only reason the FBI can't do anything is not because the transactions are "anonymous" (they're not), it's because the criminals are in Russia .
That in itself is understandable. Complex products like network supervisors must be difficult to code, and a zero day attack is not a buffer overflow issue.
Kaseya still doesn't get a free pass, though. They need to improve their network security and be more aware of possible venues of attack.
What this whole affair underscores is the importance of staying on the ball when your company is providing critical software that other companies require to stay in business.
I have the Universe Sandbox on Steam.
When I fire up the model of our solar system and put it in rapid advance, it generally takes around ten to fifteen minutes before one of the inner planets gets ejected.
I suppose the Universe Sandbox uses the GPU.
In any case, I think it is quite frightening to imagine that there are scores of planets out there that are just roaming around, not bound to a star. And to think that Hollywood has already made a film about that.
Bringing new ideas to market is always a Good Thing (TM), but I can't bring myself to find this idea interesting for me.
I've been banging keyboards for almost 40 years. No RSI, I have a rather good word-per-minute score, and I am seriously used to the AZERTY layout and staggered keys.
It doesn't matter to me that staggered keys are an artifact of typewriter fabrication constraints. My fingers know the distances now. I'm okay with it.
It's the same reason that keeps me from trying those ergonomic, split-in-half keyboards with that entirely different layout. Or the Dvorak layout. I just can't be bothered to spend a few years getting used to an entirely new key disposition.
I'm good with what I'm used to, and if ain't broken, don't fix it.
But if the younguns find it good, go ahead, try it.
Let's get real : companies do not have the budget to create entire test environments just to approve the latest Borkzilla brainfart.
You put out a tool that can be useful and companies are going to find a production use for it. Then, once they've adapted their business processes, they're going to rely on it.
You can go on claiming beta status all you want, terminating with immediate effect is the ultimate dick move. You lured them in, and once they were hooked, you cut them off without warning.
Honestly people, when will you learn ? Borkzilla publishes a new tool ? Great. Come back in five years and see whether it's still there or not. Then start building stuff with it.
A split keyboard is an interesting concept, no complaint there, but I don't see that they take into account accented characters. Changing key positions is an interesting idea, but you cannot change them regularly and still keep your typing speed up, so you won't be doing much of that.
If they have an AZERTY layout for their Moonlander, I'll be looking into that.
Chock full of tech titans who are absolutely not based in Asia.
Oh well, that looks just like the French National Football Team (soccer, for the rest of you) which is chock full of players who were absolutely not born on French soil.
Business as usual then, carry on !
I have a problem understanding that. Does that mean that the camera has a statistical analysis machine sitting behind it, judging what has changed and what to send ?
Or is it that they're going to ML the thing thoroughly and put the resulting code in the camera's software ? That sounds more likely.
Oh, and I like the video that starts with the mention that it is comparing actual "normal" camera output with a simulation of what a "neuromorphic" camera would produce (because anything high-tech these days is either quantum or neuro-something, obviously). In other words, their fancy video is just a pie-in-the-sky, we-have-no-proof PR puff piece.
I think we're going to be getting a lot more of that before we start seeing any actual quantum encryption security.
And the biggest problem for me is the fact that it seems you can only reliably exchange keys over a dedicated fiber line, without interruptions. Well that means that quantum encryption over the Internet is off the cards, in which case quantum encryption is going to remain a niche application in locations that already likely have more security than you can imagine.
Indeed.
The Wright brothers were not the first to fly, they were the first to accomplish controlled flight.
This morning I read that other article. It seemed rather reasonable to me. I went and checked the website, they were talking about opt-in telemetry.
I made a post where I stated that opt-in telemetry was better than most, because if you don't opt-in, it doesn't exist.
And now this.
I said this morning that if ever Muse got out of hand, I'd be the first to light the fire for the stake.
Well, I've got my lighter now. Point me in the right direction and we're going to have a bonfire.
Ah, the gold standard of excuses.
Fuck that. You were asleep at the wheel, or too incompetent to provide actual security to your customers.
I don't care if only one customer got infected by your fault, it is one too many.
Solarwinds123 has already happened. You have no excuse.
Is TSB finished ?
They'll recover. The Public is abysmally incapable of drawing the proper conclusions and all those companies would need to change their infrastructure and software stack, and that costs money, whereas risk can be insured.
Can we have a vomit icon ?
Backroom dealings without scrutiny or supervision end up in unsatisfactory data handling. Count my gast flabbered.
Face it : it's Palantir's data now, not yours.
How anyone can decide to work with this slime is beyond me, but that's what you get when Democracy is not first in mind when the deciders go about their business.
It would appear that, although telemetry is indeed included, it is optional and disabled by default.
Now, I'm just as annoyed by any telemtry at all as everyone else, but hey, if you have to opt-in (contrary to many), then it's basically not there.
Let's not burn something to the stake if it isn't actively trying to track us, okay ? Now, if it happens that somebody finds out that this is all a lie and Audacity is tracking whether you opt in or not, then I will gladly light the fire myself. In the mean time, let's not get all riled up over not much, shall we ?
And we've learned lots of things through lots of errors and surprises, but I think the one bit of email functionality that has to have caused the most trouble is the out of office auto-reply.
It is rather useful, generally speaking, but it can still cause havoc even now. Thankfully, email servers have been taught to not auto-reply to auto-replies.
I think the idea is more on the line of the "AI" should not disregard any effort in diagnosing possible sickness just because the patient belongs to a particular subset of the human race.
So, basically, "AI" should treat everyone equally and work just hard for each case it is presented with.
Which is an obvious requirement. That said, certain populations may be more at risk of certain types of disease. It might not be that easy to ensure that the AI is not going to neglect any possible signs in populations that are not as much at risk of a specific disease if the markers are present.
I believe it has been proven that Apple (among many others) has survived perfectly well with 99% of its staff working from home for around an entire year.
Now you pretend that 2 weeks is the acceptable maximum ?
Are you crazy ?
Stupid question. From a company with its own concealed-weapon-carrying police force that allows itself to raid its employees' homes, of course you are.
Still, 2 weeks is not going to cut the mustard.
You need to think different (don't know where I heard that).
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