Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

SOHO, the two-year mission that forgot to retire, finally faces sunset

Re: Not if its scheduled to launch on a ULA rocket...

I thought they were getting rid of NOAA ?

Re: The other meaning of redundant

Or in this case cos they demand a return to office and you're hanging around a million miles away getting some sun

Cost of Gelsinger's ambition proves too much for Intel

But they must have some American fab engineers from the glory days of the Pentium who can spearhead them leaping past TSMC and Samsung

But Intel are a monopoly supplier of a commodity part that everyone has to buy with no competition, so paying a dividend is the normal way of things

They are really just a silicon version of Standard oil.

Re: Related

Potential future value of Uber = the total value of all taxi/public transport/personal commuter cars (allegedly) and when they made autonomous work, with no ongoing costs.

Potential future value of Intel = same as PowerPC / HP / IBM's CPU division. Costs for fabs to stay ahead of TSMC = $infinity

Re: $8bn investment / $16bn loss

TSMC was a government undertaking run by an engineer hired by the government and paid a salary, without any share options

They seem to be doing OK.

Re: Pretty good summary

While he was CEO line went down.

Want line to go up, so change CEO

It's very much like changing the England manager everytime they lose on penalties

GenAI comes for jobs once considered 'safe' from automation

Re: Tobikyuu

No, the purpose of school isn't to graduate the little human-resources, it's to keep them contained while the parents go to work.

Anyway, improvements in teaching efficiency won't shorten school it will just lead to the little geniuses leaving with 100 GCSE A**2**2 grades - or in American terms, a GPA close to Graham's number

More pointless internal memos will be replaced by AI generated video presentations

More PowerPoint with AI generated clip art.

More Excel graphs with AI generated gradient background

TPS reports in 3D !

Telco security is a dumpster fire and everyone's getting burned

Re: CHINA'S SPIES ARE TAPPING OUR PHONES

Are your taps polluting you precious bodily fluids?

Purchase new American General Ripper taps - drink water with no purity sapping fluorides

Re: Can anyone please tell me what they mean by 'telco security'?

>I find anyone who can tell me exactly what's wrong and what's needed to fix it.

You can't be told what's wrong because of terrorism

The fix is to pick a bogeyman and insist all their equipment be removed from the network at great expense and replaced with equipment made in the same Chinese factory by a company with a more American name.

We will also need greater security in the form of surveillance and crack downs on terrorist tools like VPNs and encryption

This will all be paid for by removing government inefficiencies like the FCC

Re: Pathetic anti-China hit piece

>Russia a third world country?. Isn't it already? Has it ever been anything else?

For most of the 20C it was by definition a 2nd world country.

GitHub's boast that Copilot produces high-quality code challenged

We've found that the more obscure the field the more accurate the code is. Suspect that there are fewer examples to learn from, and those few examples are from more authoritative sources.

For something like Vulkan boilerplate it's excellent

$373M ASML chipmaker shrinks to $228 – but it's made of Lego

Re: You pay. We deliver.

I hope they get it delivered before tarrifs kick in

UK government spends another £1B on cloud migration and services

Re: I'm clearly missing something

>Councils especially run very stable very important workloads that don't change much, so won't gain Anything from server less

But cloud also offers near-instant global location portability.

So if Solihull town council suddenly needed to move operations to Hawaii then AWS/Azure/GCloud etc could accommodate them much more seamlessly than moving a mainframe.

- Seriously at an early SUN (that's how long ago) cloud conference once, Rolls Royce Aerospace were extolling the virtues of their new cloudy system which meant that if they wanted to move their jet engine business from Derby to anywhere else in the world then their IT could move with it almost instantly.

Bluesky keeps growing, and so do its problems

Man: I came here for a good trolling.

Mr. Vibrating: No you didn't; no, you came here for trolling.

Man: Trolling isn't just contradiction.

Mr. Vibrating: It can be.

Man: No it can't. An trolling is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition.

Mr. Vibrating: No it isn't.

Man: Yes it is! It's not just contradiction.

Mr. Vibrating: Look, if I troll you, I must take up a contrary position.

Man: Yes, but that's not just saying 'No it isn't.'

>how cows are a conspiracy

What about cows ? I haven't heard anything about cows - what is the MMB hiding from us ?

OpenAI denies it is building ad biz model into its platform

Re: OpenAI adds ads to it's business model

OpenAI founder is now Alt-President of the USA, that should be monetisable

Who had Pat Gelsinger retires from Intel on their bingo card?

Re: Wintel Reckoning

It was also reliant on Intel having a monopoly on the chips needed to build the high margin servers. Apart from Xeon you releid on Intel for high performance ethernet, SATA and south bride chipsets - if you didn't play nicely with Intel on your entire product line you didn't get to play in the server market.

Not unlike Microsoft's - you ship DOS/Windows on every machine or you don't get any Windows OEM licenses

in a move intended to restore investor confidence

That's my ambition - to reach the point where firing me saves the company

Google India probed after driver fatally followed Maps route over unfinished bridge

The notice that the bridge had been removed was on display, in the local planning office .......

Re: Let me get this straight ...

That's why our local authority put up warning barriers and cones, often closing lanes/roads/bridges for months before starting any actual work on them.

I now realise it's to give time for all the mapping apps to do updates.

Cryptocurrency policy under Trump: Lots of promises, few concrete plans

Re: Don't think it's been thought through

>21m total BTC there will be

Forgot that. Although I wonder how many if those are lost? IIRC there were a couple on million around when it was basically worthless

Re: A Torrent of Fresh Air to Clear Away the Stench of the Stagnant Rot in the Swamp

When amfm1 posts are more intelligible than government policy - worry

Re: Strategic Grift Reserve

Spoilers - don't ruin the ending, some of us our planning to watch the new season in real time rather than just binging over the holidays

But Dems use gay electric power from hydro and live in Washington. Real men roll coal in trucks.

(A note from the Alt-President confirms that cybertrucks are acceptable if you buy Patriotic Coal Power)

Re: Don't think it's been thought through

$31m / coin * 1m coins = $31t

Re: Don't think it's been thought through

Isn't 31T the US debt?

Of course under the stewardship of a new fiscally responsible Republican government headed by billionaire experts in business I expect it will soon fall.

Re: Don't think it's been thought through

1, Government buys 1M bitcoin

2, Bitcoin rises to $31M / coin

3, Government sells coins to pay off $31T debt

4. Simple

This does rely on the person in charge having less financial acumen than a 3 year old in a toy shop

>Given that it's a profligate consumer of energy for no discernible purpose

I believe the phrase you are looking for is "Patriotic American"

Trump tariffs transform into bigger threats for Mexico, Canada than China

Re: "rejoin the mother country = no border, no problem"

It could happen, as soon as we see any Brexit benefits we'll see.

Re: "but he's evidently learned nothing and forgot nothing."

The USA are just nostalgic about the good old days when they had feet and inches and pounds and ounces and absolute monarchs

Re: "Trump completely ignored it the last time around, "

I think it was obvious that once they saw the benefits of Brexit those Celtic chappies would throw off the shackles of Strasbourg and rejoin the mother country = no border, no problem

Re: "The biggest trade item for all three countries is autos and auto parts."

>I wonder what the land rents and transit fees would be for the part that passes through Canada?

No problem, he has a map and a sharpie

Re: "The biggest trade item for all three countries is autos and auto parts."

No problem, once you remove all the hippies in government you can drill in the artic and build pipelines from Alaska to Texas.

Should be able to do that before anyone needs to refill their F150

Re: Don't repeat the Trump lie!

>Bush the younger is the only prez in the last 30+ years to win the house at first election and not lose the house in his first midterms

And that did take a rather unique 'external context' event to boost his popularity in 2001/2

Re: Don't repeat the Trump lie!

The democrats should really have tried to find their own niche in the racism marketplace. Perhaps if they had offered to kill all the Jews they could have swayed both Republican KKK members and appealed more to Arab-Americans ?

Canadian Fentanyl doesn't contain HFCS so doesn't sell well in America. Australia and New Zealand mean they don't need to translate the packaging

TSMC bets big on 2nm by 2025 – but can it deliver?

Re: 2nm

The only "real" meaning of 2nm is that it's how big a normal transistor would have to be to get the current transistor density with the last generation of chips where nm actually meant nm

Panasonic brings its founder back to life as an AI

Re: "making the AI necessary"

Share and Enjoy

Brits are scrolling away from X and aren't that interested in AI

Re: What are they smoking?

>I don't know anyone who's been using it seriously for years as other forums are much better suited for the jobs

It's still unfortunately useful for things like traffic alerts.

Our local transit does have an email subscribe which will email you if a services didn't run - but often several hours later and even then you have to be constantly checking your email. They do Xit out a message instantly.

In theory they could have their own masterdon server just for announcing delays, but I would end up having to subscribe to 3 different transit authorities in 6 boroughs as well as federal and provincial. If only we could live in a world of universal peace and harmony where different levels of government in the same metro area could work together for the same people - but that's probably utopian nonsense.

Re: "Dip me in chocolate and call me a Mars bar"

I think that comment deserves a Bounty

>18% trusting the output is 18% higher than it should be.

Depends on what AI you are talking about.

If its reading your cancer smear test it's several times better than a human expert. Diagnosing a heart heart problem from EKG better than a doctor. For abdominal ultrasound generally better than a doctor for a male patient, slightly worse for female (although I worked in the field a few years ago so its probably much better now)

Most signal processing tasks, like detecting a radar target among surface scatter - many times better than a human.

Re: But these days

>the point of schoolwork _is_ to produce answers - or really just to pass exams.

The point of school work is to train people to produce the required answers in the required form at the required deadline ready for their future employers

Now excuse me I have TPS report covers to check

Tech support chap showed boss how to use a browser for a year – he still didn't get it

Re: When managers get involved in technical stuff - beware!

With lawyers it's probably: ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

Re: Screen savers

That metric or imperial smoke ?

Australia passes law to keep under-16s off social media – good luck with that, mate

Re: Age Verification

Surprised they didn't propose the method traditionally used for checking if medieval kids needed to pay the poll tax

Does that include el'reg?

Or is anti-social media exempt?

Abstract, theoretical computing qualifications are turning teens off

Re: WYF!

>because the new teacher wasn't qualified to teach CS

NO CS teacher ever was. Ours got the job because he had seen a computer through a window on a maths course at poly