Posts by ravenviz

Procter & Gamble study finds AI could help make Pringles tastier, spice up Old Spice, sharpen Gillette

Re: It could...

Indeed, what they really mean is how can we us AI to get people to spend more money!

Trump doubles down, vows to make Chinese imports even more expensive for Americans

Re: Fascinating

Xi Jinping takes the tariffs as a sleight against China, Trump on the other hand takes retaliatory tariffs as a sleight against his ego.

Re: Bullies think those they are bullying will back down

This is turning into de facto embargo.

First private moon lander to touch down safely starts sending selfies

Re: Which rocket used?

Falcon 9 for launch, then Spectre RCS after.

Detailed mission timeline here.

Elon Musk calls for International Space Station to be deorbited by 2027

Re: MAGA

“Greased Asshole”…

Here's the ugliest global-warming chart you'll ever need to see

Re: Not as ugly as the graphs to come.

“Got any ‘ockey sticks?”

Re: Cale here for the comments

Do deniers deny they are deniers?

Re: Just another alarmist global warming rant

And DIY enthusiasts!

Re: Just another alarmist global warming rant

“Where do they find accommodation for that lot?”

Zeinab Badawi’s Twenty Hotels.

As Amazon takes over the Bond franchise, we submit our scripts for the next flick

Re: Another franchise to be milked to death

There’ll be “Bond: The Series” on Amazon Prime before long!

DeepSeek disappears from South Korean app stores over privacy concerns

People always moan about NASA spending money on space rockets when there are poor people at home, but this is getting ridiculous!

Stargate, smargate. We're spending $60B+ on AI this year, Meta's Zuckerberg boasts

Re: Hopefully, not real money

Re: “Rembrandt” self portrait

Did you ask it to include cats/your dinner in the rendering?

Metafail

Conspicuous expenditure, energy use, poverty, environment, etc.

Pastor's divine 'dream' crypto scheme indicted by Uncle Sam

Re: " launch his own cryptocurrency"

It’ll probably be rubbish!

NASA has just two Mars Sample Return mission lander options left

Re: Simple really...

If Mars accidentally hits the Earth then we might get a second Moon, what’s not to like?!

Mitel 0-day, 5-year-old Oracle RCE bug under active exploit

Looks like the AI generated “bug” has either five or seven legs.

Elon Musk's galactic ego sows chaos in European politics

Re: Who cares

Re: Cheeto-man

I’m not sure I’ve ever had Wotsits for breakfast!

Re: re: Musktopia

Re: “ice sheets shrinking”

Trumps vision to “drill, baby, drill” to MAGA will certainly help with shrinking the ice sheets further, opening up 1.7 million square kilometres* “unproductive land” for profit.

Mind you, Mar-a-lago will be underwater by then.

*3 × Texas

Re: Fall of the (Roman) Republic

Didn’t he do She’s Not There?

Re: "the seventh-largest political party in terms of seats in the House of Commons"

“when you know you definitely won't have to actually put those plans to the test”

Like any party trying to get votes then.

Re: Who cares

“God doesn't think he's Elon Musk”

Are you not on God’s social media channel “TenX” (formerly known as “Platter”)?

Re: A week is a long time in politics…

As did Thomas Cromwell, beheaded 1540.

CAPTCHAs now run Doom – on nightmare mode

Exception thrown, see JavaScript console

Oh well, dailymail.co.uk it is.

Eight things that should not have happened last year, but did

Further examples include “humane slaughter”

Will 2025 be the year satellite-to-smartphone services truly take off?

“Elon?”

“It’s Donald”

“No, Kessler”

Naïve Reg hack thinks he can beat Christmas food comas once and for all

Re: Trekking poles

Re: Taking it to the extreme

Walking in wet conditions under about 8 degrees should be taken with a degree of caution since wind chill on wet clothing could induce hypothermia quite quickly.

A top layer being waterproof as well as being windproof goes hand in hand with keeping your body temperature at a safe level.

I also recommend shell over mitts in wet/cold conditions, keeping your hands warm keeps *you× warm.

Re: Trekking poles

Re: crossing streams in spate

Poles can be useful crossing streams when not in spate. Crossing when in spate is to be highly discouraged as even calf-deep flowing water can topple you over with possible injury or submergence.

Walks undertaken either after or during heavy rain should pay close attention to potential stream/river crossings along the route, especially since the flow can change within an hour or two, possibly making a ‘there and back’ route impassable; an alternative or escape route should always be planned, or do a different walk altogether.

A river crossing beyond skipping across a few rocks is a trained skill involving multiple alternative techniques, possibly even including ropes, and organised group management.

Re: What to take and what to know

Re: use of whistle/flashes

The repeat interval is one minute, and only to be used in a genuine rescue situation rather than just trying to find your mates in mist.

General advice in mist is to make sure the group leader keeps the tail of the group in constant view.

Parker Solar Probe sends a "Still Alive" tone back to Earth

Bright

By my reckoning the Sun would also be 1,500 times brighter than we see it!

Fear of Foxconn reportedly driving possible Nissan, Honda and Mitsubishi merger

“for a great many, there is no current viable alternative to using a car”

…and for a great many there is but people prefer ease, convenience, and not having to mix with either the hoi polloi or the weather.

For a great many, there is no current viable enabler to using a car.

Million GPU clusters, gigawatts of power – the scale of AI defies logic

Try one year. After that it’s self-referential rabbit-holes.

All-powerful, ever-pervasive AI is running out of internet

“create jobs and spread wealth around”

I take it these are not your clogs in the loom…

Re: Positive side-effects of this "arms race"

“EV fans living in their own little utopian bubble”

Spot on!

Re: Positive side-effects of this "arms race"

“workout room or art studio”

It must be grim up North London.

Re: A Mystery to Me

I avoid Amazon as much as possible and shop with actual retailers, but I bet they use Amazon to some degree anyway so it’s unavoidable.

The answer is to not shop at every whim, reuse, repurpose, recycle, but, hey, that’s nonsense hippy talk.

We have all become a commodity.

Re: Reality will bite in the end

So how do you watch endless shit on your phone on the train if you don’t have 5G?

People would do far better to look out the window and let their brains think.

Re: Truly exciting.

The AI beer commercial posted at arstechnica is worth watching, “Women laugh, jaws flaring. Beer glasses turn into beer cans. Flaming grills achieve columnar fire tornado status and arc across the yard. It's a vision of surrealistic hell that is at once familiar and impressively alien.”, very creepy!

Parker Solar Probe set for blisteringly hot date with the Sun on Christmas Eve

Re: Temps

Best PSP stays away from molten Bramley apple pies after 8 minutes in the microwave.

https://youtu.be/Hlau9xLqjjw?feature=shared

Neuraspace adds a second telescope to track objects in orbit

Satellite trails are an inconvenience to astrophotographers for sure but since satellite tracks are transient and many astrophotography techniques rely on long exposures, satellite tracks can be removed quite nicely in post-processing.

Asda hits the brakes on tech tweaks to avoid festive fiasco

Re: hmmm

I always find Morissons a bit weird, their store layouts and ambience are not very welcoming, and their plant based range is very poor. I definitely prefer Aldi or Lidl for staff friendliness, Tesco for selection, and Sainsbury's somewhere in between. And I’m always a fan of a Co-op for their yellow sticker fridge!

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory datacenter flooded, offline until 2025

Re: NASA has just one datacenter?

It’s a processing centre, the raw data are stored offsite. However DR at the storage site is of course an issue, one assumes immediate offsite backups there too.

Musk and Trump to fall out in 2025, predicts analyst

Re: Thank fortune that Musk was born in South Africa

“Musk would have been far worse”

Cue, the plot of Moonraker.

Japan's wooden cube-shaped satellite rockets to space

Brilliant idea! They could even make really small satellites out of bonsai trees.

China refreshes crew of its 'Celestial Palace' space station

Here, as I am, sitting in “the West” I hear very little about the Chinese space programme.

Reading the Wikipedia page, achievements so far are nothing less than impressive.

Since “China's incentive to build its own space station was amplified after US Congress prohibited NASA from any direct engagement & cooperation with CNSA”, it looks like they have carried on quite nicely, thank you, possibly even better than if they actually had engaged with NASA.

Come on Western media, more about the Chinese space programme please!

Musk, Bezos need just 90 minutes to match your lifetime carbon footprint, says Oxfam

Re: It's the other eight billion you need to worry about...

Local makes no difference whatsoever, the environmental cost of storage and transport costs per animal for maybe a week or so are dwarfed by the rearing and maturation of beef over a period of years.

Re: It's the other eight billion you need to worry about...

“grass fed beef”

Be careful how you interpret that, much grass fed beef is reared in sheds and the grass brought to them in lorries.

Re: It's the other eight billion you need to worry about...

“aspirations of the masses”

Indeed, everyone just carrying on as normal.

Veuling Airlines’ current ad campaign promotes flying places because “you deserve it”.

There are many who will not deserve floods and wildfires destroying their lives.

Canon ships first nanoimprint chipmaking machine to R&D lab

Re: No touching

Yes, the process ought not to defectivize the product.