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Now there's a tautology, if ever I heard one.
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>Major macOS versions are only maintained for three years.
Yes, quoting the support period for a single version of MacOS without point out that version upgrades are free and support for older Macs last far longer (at least 8 years in my experience so far) is fundamentally dishonest.
>The complaint alleges that Google had been notified by concerned residents asking for the route to be struck off both years before the accident and following Paxson's death.
So all local residents , and presumably his friends, were fully aware of the collapsed bridge and nobody bothered to erect a barrier or warning sign, after the failure of the local authorities and land-owner to do so?
It is everybody's responsibility to protect others from harm where they can do so. This is a failure of the entire community, not just the landowner, and local authority responsible. Google are at the end of a very long list of those who's negligence contributed to this accident, but no doubt they have the deepest pockets.
Personally, I've found you are as likely to have an arsehole for a boss in a small company as in a large one. And if your boss is pressuring you to be at work at 5am just because he is, without compensating you at least as well as he is benefiting out of it, then you're no better off than if you were working for a maga-corp with an equally odious boss.
> Tell me, are you running Office 2019/2021 or Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) at a cost of at least $70 a year?
The writer seems to be suffering a fundamental misunderstanding about Microsoft 365 actually gives you, which is the ability to install the full Office suite, locally , on 5 computers , with no sign in restrictions other than a one time activation.
Now, I’m not a huge fan of Microsoft’s move to a yearly subscription rather than one time purchase, but the idea that Microsoft are forcing Office users to move to the cloud is just pure havering by the author.
And no, they don’t try to hide the local install option, it’s right there on the account page in huge font with a big ‘Install’ button.
Linux may catch on for the home desktop sometime, but it’s not going to happen by Linux fans spreading misinformation.
>but they do have the problem that a lot of their leaks have this thing called London on top of.
That's only a problem because they are still repairing water pipes the same way we were repairing water pipes in the 1950s. Technology has moved on in most other industries. There has been cock-all investment in remote robotic repair, directional drilling etc. that could make repair easy and cheap, because that would affect the shareholder dividends in the short term., even though it would pay back manyfold in the longer term.
Honestly, that's as much the fault of whoever installed the router as the boiler engineer. If it's critical to the companies function, it should have had a dedicated connection or socket installed, not just lazily commandeering the only mains socket and expecting everything to be fine.
You are correct, LLM's are not good at answering elementary arithmetic questions. In which case, they should not attempt to answer such questions, instead of answering them incorrectly. As they do not do so, and hallucinate incorrect answers instead, we certainly can measure their usefulness by such questions.
I've also been very disappointed with Samsung's security. In particular, I purchased a new, just released phone with a promised minimum 2 years of updates, only to find that Samsung's idea of security updates was 2 to 4 months behind Google's releases. Effectively this meant that any hackers could analyse Google's patches, reverse engineer the exploit, and have 2 to 4 months of opportunity before Samsung would get round to addressing them.
Software copywrite infringement cases have been won by the copyright holder simply because the accused developer had access to the copyrighted source code. That's why, back in the day, IBM PC clone manufacturers licenced in 3rd party bios software (notably Phoenix) rather than rolling their own- the BIOS software itself was not difficult to reproduce, the difficult part was reproducing it in a legally provable clean-room environment where no previous exposure to the BIOS source code was possible. If OpenAI and it's ilk won't reveal in detail all the source code the model was trained on, I suspect it's because they know they will fall foul of this..
Not only possible, but industry standard. The current generation of USBL transponders used throughout the oil industry is the Kongsberg cNode family of acoustic transponders, which are rated to 4000m. Newer HiPAP systems are capable of positioning to 0.2- 0.3% of water depth, so roughly 10m. Dive bells are required to have a minimum of 2 emergency transponders, in addition to operational ones. There is no reasonable excuse for not having a similar number on this thing.
I'm old enough to remember when VisiCalc for the Apple II was going to put 90% of accountancy & finance workers out of a job.
Then WordPerfect was going to put 90% of secretarial and administrative workers out of a job.
And still unemployment hovers around the same level it did back in the 1970's.
"The creative category of the open competition welcomes various experimental approaches to image making from cyanotypes and rayographs to cutting-edge digital practices,"
Cutting edge digital practices. The catagory was open to any form of digitally manipulated image. That's what AI image generators are. I don't see how a additional special catagory for AI is required.
"The creative category of the open competition welcomes various experimental approaches to image making from cyanotypes and rayographs to cutting-edge digital practices,"
I don't see how this was someone behind the competition getting his knickers in a twist. It was open to all forms of digital image manipulation.
It sounds more like the winning photographer thought he would get a reaction when he revealed it was an AI manipulated image, and when the organisers said "Cool, that's fine" he went off in a huff
I worked regularly for a client whose IT team locked down every PC on their network with a passion close to insanity. This was probably survivable for office work, but wasn't useful at the extremely remote, barely connected, industrial control locations I was contracted at as a 3rd party specialist support engineer.
Particularly on one occasion, where the user rights were so limited I couldn't even disable the screensaver from coming on after 5 minutes on, on banks of industrial
control PCs monitoring critical processes that required constant supervision, or Bad Things Would Happen.
Luckily, they provided remote support, eventually, by connecting via VNC and logging in aa admin at the standard Windows login. A quick Atl-Tab just after they typed in the user name then tabbed to the password field, and they would usually type in the full password before they noticed the cursor was in the username field, and so not obsc****.
I don't know if they ever figured out they should setup VNC to lock out local keyboard and mouse functionality on connection, because I was certainly never going to tell them.
Sure, China can develop its own solutions, but that will take time. An optimistic timescale (from China's point-of-veiw) would be a decade, in which time state-of-the-art will have move forward a decade. It's not that they cannot develop their own AI etc, it's that it will lag US.
It's not about existential threats, it's about trade dominance to the rest of the world.
Given that stone dust is heavy and unlikely to remain airborne for any length of time, I suspect the association of the drive failures with the drilling of concrete is not due to dust ingress, but vibration.
It's likely that the drilling was carried out with an industrial hammer-action masonry drill (or similar) while the servers were live. If not fully suspension mounted, that could easily cause minor head contact with the platter surface , leading to longer term failures as the metal oxide released from the 1st crash caused cascading head crashes. It would also be a much more probable cause of any immediate failures, as mentioned in one of the posts.