Re: Computer MOT
The agent told him to back it up, but he couldn't find reverse.
Posts by AceRimmer1980
313 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Jun 2009
Last rites for the UK's Online Safety Bill, an idea too stupid to notice it's dead
AI on AI action: Googler uses GPT-4 chatbot to defeat image classifier's guardian
Google's claims of super-human AI chip layout back under the microscope
Monday 27th March 2023 13:07 GMT 
What a dull name.
"I speak of none other than the computer that is to come after me," intoned Deep Thought, his voice regaining its accustomed declamatory tones. "A computer whose merest operational parameters I am not worthy to calculate - and yet I will design it for you. A computer which can calculate the Question to the Ultimate Answer, a computer of such infinite and subtle complexity that organic life itself shall form part of its operational matrix. And you yourselves shall take on new forms and go down into the computer to navigate its ten-million-year program! Yes! I shall design this computer for you. And I shall name it also unto you. And it shall be called ... The Earth."
Prepare to be shocked: Employees hate this One Weird Clause
Saturday 4th February 2023 16:16 GMT 
This is from one particular employer:
"Everything you write is the property of the company, including that done in your own time, on your own equipment, at home"
"You may be required to work additional unpaid hours." Now this is pretty standard, but this guy really took the piss. He decided that the tech team would now, in addition to their normal 9-5.30 work hours, do tech support and testing on the weekends. Of course for no additional money.
In normal work hours, the boss would:
-Read all email, including that not addressed to him
-Open all post, including that not addressed to him
-Randomly monitor phone calls, and sometimes cut in.
-Had remote desktop viewer installed on all the PC's, so he could watch people work.
His attitude was always "If you don't like it, there's the door", and many *did* leave.
He was a bit like a toddler, always pushing to see what he could get away with.
In a time before calculators, going the extra mile at work sometimes didn't add up
GitHub Copilot may be perfect for cheating CompSci programming exercises
NASA builds for keeps: Voyager mission still going after 45 years
FYI: BMW puts heated seats, other features behind paywall
Wednesday 13th July 2022 15:05 GMT
Run seat heater from power outlet?
Fine, until:
BMW notice this, and OTA update: your ciggie lighter 12v socket is now £25/month
(runs power outlet straight from battery)
"Engine management warning, detected unknown power drain, now in limp mode, please go directly to dealer, do not pass go, do not stop for lube"
Dell's rugged Latitude 5430 laptop is quick and pretty – but also bulky and heavy
Monday 23rd May 2022 12:37 GMT
Re: You're whinging about a 6.5 pound laptop?
We're definitely past peak laptop.
Remember when portables had things like removable batteries, multiple USB and other ports, could accommodate at least 2 internal drives, and was still robust enough for everyday use? My 12" HP Elitebook can do all this.
Pretend starship captain to take trip in real space capsule
The M in M1 is for moans: How do you turn a new MacBook Pro into a desktop workhorse?
Your spacesuit ran into a problem and needs to restart
Google says its artificial intelligence is faster and better than humans at laying out chips for artificial intelligence
Android 10 ported to homegrown multi-core RISC-V system-on-chip by Alibaba biz, source code released
Q: What’s big, red and pulses UV light into the cosmos three times a night? A: Mars
We've heard of spam filters but this is ridiculous: Pig-monkey chimeras developed in a Chinese laboratory
100 mysterious blinking lights in the night sky could be evidence of alien life... or something weird, say boffins
They say lightning never strikes twice, but boffins have built an AI to show where it'll come next
'We go back to the Moon to stay': Apollo vets not too chuffed with NASA's new rush to the regolith
Belgian F-16 pilot rescued from power line after emergency ejection
Flying priests crop-dust Russian citizens with holy water to make them stop boozing and bonking
Robot Rin Tin Tin can rescue you from that collapsed mine shaft
Captain's coffee calamity causes transatlantic flight diversion
MIT boffins turn black up to 11 with carbon nanotubes that absorb 99.995% of light
Right-click opens up terrifying vistas of reality and Windows 95 user's frightful position therein
First water world exoplanet spotted – and thankfully no sign of Kevin Costner, rejoice!
Psst. Wanna brush up your supervillain creds? Get a load of this mini submarine
Royal Navy seeks missile-moving robots for dockyard drudgery
Allowlist, not whitelist. Blocklist, not blacklist. Goodbye, wtf. Microsoft scans Chromium code, lops off offensive words
GIMP open source image editor forked to fix 'problematic' name
Look out, Titan. Plutonium robots from Earth are on their way
More on that monster Cerebras AI chip, Xilinx touts 'world's largest' FPGA, and more
My god, it's full of tsars: A gun-toting Russian humanoid robot is on its way to the International Space Station
Brit rocketeer Skyrora reckons it'll be orbital in 3 years – that is, if UK government plays ball
UK.gov: Here's £8.8m to plough into hydrogen-powered car tech
Brits are sitting on a time bomb of 40m old electronic devices that ought to be recycled
Wednesday 21st August 2019 11:30 GMT
Re: contain elements that could run out in the near future
Take your stuff to the tip. Do 'green'. That's the public message. What they don't tell you, is how big a business it is.
At my local tip, half the recycling is operated by private contractors, who make a profit from your old stuff. They even have a rule that you are not allowed to give away old (but still functioning) TV's, cause, yep, they make $$$ of it.
Anything else is simply incinerated. They're even proud of the fact, 'energy from waste', they call it.
Moore's Law isn't dead, chip boffin declares – we need it to keep chugging along for the sake of AI
Wednesday 21st August 2019 10:46 GMT
Old Macdonald had a neural processor farm, AI AI O
You ain't gonna do it with Von Neumann architecture.
Needs a rethink, a radical shift in paradigm/architecture, maybe with more emphasis on the connections rather than the processing elements themselves. All decoupled clocks.
Well that's my $0.02.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
