Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26111 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
I've used Linux since SLS came on infinity floppies, and was a SunOS admin when a single pizzabox with a 68K cpu ran a lab of green screens.
But it does occur to me that my home non-development / laptops only need to run Brave+Firefox and an ssh shell.
They would be Chromebooks except for signing into Google and yes of course all my phones run Grapheneos.
You can't build on the East Coast north of a famous line - too many billionaires, golf courses etc.
You can't build south of the line because .... well ....
You can't build anywhere on the West coast because there will be a rare lesser spotted ground slug and nimbys
You can't build in the middle cos hurricanes
You can't build in the north middle because ice storms, winter power cuts and crazy militias with guns
So you are pretty much stuck in a the Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas arc if you need space but few people or Tennessee + Carolinas if you need lots of cheap people
Sorry I misunderstood, thought you were saying "pros only use XYZ so I'll use it" when the reason they use XYZ probably has nothing to so with how "good" it is.
We usually get Macbooks for sales/execs that travel cos you can get them replaced in an Apple store anywhere in the world. But our "professional engineers" all use Windows - the cad and electronics packages only run on Msft
PS. I do wonder how much of Canon's support services and the sea of distinctive beige lenses are really marketing expenses.
>it's just that I didn't know anybody that used Nikon on a serious or professional basis
Because Canon have on-site repair/loaner support at major sports events.
Nikon have (had) big user base in newspapers because they had bought Nikon F for their photojournalists in the 60s and now had a stock of kit in house.
Neither of these are good reasons for an ordinary, or even professional independent photographer to choose either platform.
It's like saying the winning F1 team uses HP computers in the pits so my car dealership receptionist should have an HP
Every one assumed that the issue preventing the wide scale deployment was the lack of systems capable of telling you about their opinions of immigrants.
This is why Elmo had to acquire Twitter and Grok before he could make self driving Tesla cabs. You can't say he doesn't think strategically
Galileo has some of the augmentation/validation features that came out of the FAA's requirements for GPS / WAAS to at least detect spoofing
Jamming is still a thing because signals are weak
Part of the reason for Galileo was the risk that a future US president might be less cooperative and could threaten European GPS use.
But, like the other threats to soft-power, if the US is too heavy handed in using GPS to threaten partners they will just drive commercial users to rely more on Galileo + Chinese systems
Hopefully when the do build their new ILS, they don't put it on a concrete wall at the end of the runway
Yes, we worked on it in the 80s/90s - even had a prototype "mobile" phone that triangulated on FM radio transmitters
Drawback was that it needed a data link to a fixed site, which isn't a problem now with ubiquitous data but added to the cost/power/complexity then
Then everyone was building GPS chips into their phones anyway and they became cheap commodities.
The F-35 can use it's cameras to compare the ground topology to reference map data to find it's location.
Unless your enemies are in featureless Middle Eastern deserts.
Of course since people who live in such desolate wastelands could never represent a credible threat to us, we would never need to attack them
>Given how bloody awful they are to recycle.
If you are 'recycling' them to recover metals that you are also processing from ore it's pretty easy. You throw the icons in the crusher along with the rock.
Everything except the rare Eartha go onto the spoil heap along with the rest of the rock
The F35 is totally fit for purpose.
There is no need for an fighter aircraft, the UK is not about to be invaded
The point of buying the F35 is to channel money to the USA and so prove we are good little allies and don't deserve punishing sanctions like those evil no-good Europeans.
It's the same reason that Saudi Arabia is the 2nd biggest buyer of US arms
More likely that your iPhone would come with a full range of Apple tested and approved Apple apps, written by Apple. Because how could they in good conscience allow other risky apps onto their platform?
So everyone from Uber to your local transit app and your city's pay parking could all be on the iPhone, so long as they use Apple's infrastructure and pay Apple 30%
But the web would never have caught on in Europe, where you either had very expensive local phone calls and restricted equipment (like the UK), or an official government alternative (like France)
ps. This isn't going to "save" Europe from AI, it's just that companies making the models are going to be American, or Chinese, or Indian.
>No doubt the lazy HR folks can have an AI generate other "weed 'em out" essay questions
You are int he desert. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.
It has helped us weed out AI applicants, a pity about Holden, but ....
