Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26130 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
No they aren't, they are amazingly good - at least over the next few days.
Billions of $ and 1000s of lives rely on forecasting extreme weather systems
Saying forecasts are crap cos a 3min nationwide summary at the end of the news didn't tell you when it would rain in your garden.
Buying a phone and stripping it down to identify the components seems like a cheap Chinese trick, when you can just buy a report for $90,000 from an American company
>Top marks for an entry box that puts in the space automatically so you don't have to flip a coin.
The web programmer Medal of Honour goes to the ones that accepts the number with spaces, put up an error message telling you to enter the credit card WITHOUT spaces and then clears the entry for you
>Seriously, what is it about American chocolates leaving that slight tang of vomit behind?
It's a nasty tasting chemical added to make them shelf stable in hot weather - as an alternative to the primitive European option of using more cocao
Back in my lectures (when computers had front-panel switches and 640K was enough for anyone) the example was tanks.
Soviet tank images were grainy black-white taken on long lenses on muddy exercises. American tank images were colourful and posed in front of the factory on a sunny blue-sky day.
The AI did a predictably bad job of classifying them.
Even today the first part of a project to make a tool for analyzing cancer images was to remove the scale ruler in all the images of malignant cases taken in hospital on follow-up visits.
>It's also about time the EU spun up It's own distro.
Oh that would be fun.
The 27 versions of systemd that take it in turns to act as an executive supervisor for the week but all decisions of systemd must be ratified at a special biweekly meeting.
By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs,--
--but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more--
And the whole distribution moves from systemd to init.d twice a year
So he receives nearly $1Bn in brown envelopes eco-incentives from the government that he is actively trying to remove.
So he either expects the other lot to be more socialist when it comes to handing out brown envelopes eco-incentives. Or he is just so committed to the political ideals of small government and climate denial that he is prepared to pay $45M/month of his own money to strip his public company of $1Bn/year
>Use multiple different security vendors
We got hit by a ransomware again.
But I thought we had state-of-the-art security?
We do, 49% of the machines have Crowdstrike, 49% have MS-defender and one machine runs 'Super Number One Pyongyang security - Great Leader Edition"
So which one got ransom-wared ?
Or Airbus's new military transport aircraft.
Engine management software loads new engine performance definition file, discovers that file is missing/corrupt/invalid (don't remember details) and decides to shut down engine management software. Shutting down all 4 engines and subsequently the airframe and the flight crew.
> If this had been some average Joe from the street nobody would have cared.
Do we know that Trump was the target?
It would be the perfect murder. The focus of your dislike is a proponent of candidate X, you wait for him to go to an X party rally and shoot him. Various 3 letter agencies all run around looking for terrorists or anti-X activists, nobody investigates the neighbor of the poor innocent bystander.
Of course you have to be a good shot - unlike the guy that tried to kill JFK's driver in Dallas
>The number of gun murderers by criminals are not that high, and that’s the only part with lots of illegal guns.
If criminals are statistically so much safer with guns then we should restrict guns to only criminals
If you criminalize guns then only criminals would have guns - and that's safer for everyone
>Or do you think that anyone who works on a Government IT contract is "pond scum"?
Well not everyone, they do face recruitment difficulties and the water quality issues in the UK has made natural pond scum rarer
So many of the roles won't have been filled with genuine pond scum but will have had to be outsourced to less qualified aquatic contaminants
>I suppose Nvidia must have a reason for keeping its cards close to its chest but in my case all that happened was that Nvidia lost o a long time customer.
Market forces.
NVidia, like almost every hardware maker, makes different products at different prices with fundamentally the same parts. This makes stuff cheaper for everyone - the components are cheaper in larger batches and the buyers of the higher end cards subsidise the mass market cheaper cards.
We used to have to buy the "professional" Quadro cards because they supported features like synchronised outputs. If there were open source drivers then someone would have enabled Quadro features on GFX cards, or enabled high end features on low end cards. The price of the lower cards would have to rise to maintain margins.
With AI super-monster-GPUs NVidia aren't crippling the H100 to make a cheaper version with the same chips, they are pushing every working chip out of the door. SO there is no need to restrict functions in software, improving your own drivers is just costing you money vs letting the community do it for you
