Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26130 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
>LILO was a PITA but otherwise, all was good.
At least it was comprehensible - compare to EUFI that needs a Shaman, 2 Rabbis and the ghost of Aleister Crowley to understand
The dos-box config menu at least fits on a terminal screen, unlike certain enterprise Linux's that require a 4K monitor to be able to click the OK box at the bottom
Except they proved at the last election that if you say Brexit and wave a flag all the traditional labour votes will switch to you.
If the Tories had a plan - they might be thinking of a US republican model where all the working class voters vote conservative and labour is left with just media graduates and anybody black in the cities.
My only complaint with xfce (at least on previous mint) is that the file manager seems to only do one thing at a time. If you do a drag and drop of a big bunch of files, it freezes on browsing any other folders until that finishes. This is on a reasonable (by 10year old standards) i7 box
>Other jobs would find it nearly impossible to successfully implement
What are the odds that they have carefully air-gapped all the developers, who only work on internal tools that would be no use to anyone else, in case they click on a dodgy link.
But all the finance / marketing / HR / reception / sales / office staff have internet because they need it for their jobs, and they would never click on spam and all they have access to is HR, finance and sales data so nothing worth stealign.
>where even my temporary code needs to reside on a remote server,
Except if your remote server is Google cloud and the Google cloud is in the same room - you are OK
>Mid 90s, during the first year of my degree. Wednesday afternoons, in the big computer lab.
Late 80s but we ran to get one of the few amber screened serial terminals with the nice separate keyboards rather than the ancient green screen VT100s
25 students running of a Motorola 68020 powered Sun 3 with less compute than a Pi-zero
Plastic case designed to be dropped, keyboard that is junior school drool proof, no fscking touchscreen
No I don't use it for doing protein folding while international jet-setting from my business class seat - but for watching youtube or browsing reddit on the settee it's great
>Things will get very interesting when someone uses a LLM to create the lyrics to a song, the record companies will ensure this goes to court…
Or you can use this vast corpus to find out which song lyrics have occurred in previously published books
I'm guessing most pop songs don't consist entirely of brand new sentences
Some of the larger record companies are going to be a little reticent about going to court to claim a fragment of a song re-appeared in a LLM, especially after they spent 70 years claiming that their artist precisely copying a riff from some unknown artist wasn't an issue
>Perhaps the EU would have eventually saved people in Europe from that carrier control,
But the phones wouldn't have internet because the telcos would also have been the national post offices who would have worried that email was going to reduce demand for letters and so job losses
>Some 52 percent had heard of the technology,
They asked an average person in the UK between 16-75 and more than half had heard of generative AI?
Either their sample was taken in the coffee shop nearest their office in Shoreditch or they are throwing out all the "tha what?" , "I have the facebooks on the telly" and other confused looks
You expect the opposition to trust encryption supplied by the government?
You expect the backbenchers to trust encryption supplied by the cabinet office?
You expect the cabinet to trust encryption supplied by the chief whip
You expect the PM to trust encryption suuplied by the security service ?
If they are implementing what they claim to be implementing Whatsapp's encryption is rather good
>or having a file of random numbers that the police believe is encrypted information is punishable by two years in prison
But when the Police came to give a talk to our university and we asked about storing data from our experiments, with a SNR indistinguishable from random, we were told not to be silly because these laws would only be used against terrorists
KWh = energy, does make sense to talk about capacity. You quote the capacity of your laptop battery in Whr not Watts.
In these days of intermittent supply alternative power sources it makes sense to consider power plants in total energy over a year rather than instantaneous peak power output
There's a lot to be said for replacing the star actor with software.
Get Andy Serkis to do the actoring covered in dots and then render any real or virtual actor over the top.
You can add/remove skin tone to suit different markets
If your leading man gets caught "bumping into choirboys" you can just re-render the Usual Suspects with less problematic leads
You can regularly update old good movies rather than having to remake them or make shitty sequels
You can sell special editions: Raiders of the Lost Ark with Tom Seleck, Jaws with Robert Redford and Steve McQueen
