Posts by druck 4197 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Jun 2007
and for which, crucially, the solution was not out there on the web
How can you be so sure?
Just because you didn't find it using a search engine, doesn't mean that it isn't out there. It could be behind a paywall, and the AI scrapers are a lot better at circumventing them than either search enigees or you.
I'm afraid you are just another punter taken in by the Victorian parlour trick that is AI.
Hosting several FlightRadar24 and FlightAware sites on Raspberry Pi's, and seeing the raw data you appreciate how the services aggregate a large number of low quality sources (compared to dedicated secondary radars) to produce higher quality position data. Tracking ground movements requires a number of sites very close to the airport, or there will be significant gaps and inaccuracies.
Speaking as a pilot; having the flaps up and the gear down seriously reduces to how far it can glide and it's ability to manoeuvre at low speed. It's still going to come down in short order, but it's the difference between coming down in the middle of a highly populated building, or in more open space nearby
P.A. Semi were set up by engineers who created the DEC Alpha and the StrongARM who left when Intel aquired the chip business. These are the chaps that really knew how to get the best out of the ARM architecture, so it was no surprise that Apple took them in-house to design their new silicon.
It's very satisfying seeing Apple back using the same architecture they partnered with Acorn to bring to their earliest hand held devices, and creating some of the best performing chips in class.
It's going to be the older the system the easier it is to keep going, just as with aeroplanes and racing cars.
Keeping an old spitfire or Lancaster flying - no problem, something just 10 years later such as the Vulcan - very difficult, 10 years later again such as Concorde - impossible.
Similarly with racing cars, any competent mechanic can keep an F1 car from the the early 20th century to the late 80s going, but after they started replying on bespoke ECUs you need a team of specialists from the originating manufacturer to even get them to start. By 2008 the FIA mandated a standard single ECU used by all F1 teams, but there are custom chassis and engine apps, and even if you know how the TAG-320 works, without access to the thousands of parameters which are loaded in, you aren't going to get very far.
Not so good as it will small-p politicise what should be a straight forward technical project and ironically discourage participation.
Exactly the opposite, it will discourage politicsm and encourage participation of people who aren't obsessed with imposing codes of conduct on technical projects.
This says everything about why you cant use natural languages for programming
But AI can also decrease greenhouse gas emissions or lower overall emissions at a company level,
I am very disappointed the register allowed such an obviously unjustifiable statement go unchallenged.
What we're saying is that, for sure, AI will be demanding more capacity or more power supply, for sure, but still, we have quite a lot of power availability in the different markets.
Only by hoovering up all the capacity added by every new renewal scheme and the the capacity freed by the shutting down of major industrial users due to the higher costs of the former.
There are, for all practical purposes, only two interfaces in use for cars: manual and automatic.
Really? On an automatic is it a centre console or column mounted shifter? Is it a handbrake lever or foot parking brake? Are the indicator stalks on the left or the right? Windscreen wiper controls - different on every car.
There are a lot more differences between cars than you realise, and people can generally cope with them, the same with differing desktops.
I think you mean 802.11ac or 802.11ax not the ancient 'a'.
Many USB WiFi adaptors will work with Linux out of the box, no diver / kernel module or compiler needed.
How do you find one? Easy, just search for Raspberry Pi compatibility, if it works with that, it will work with any Linux distro.
Reversing top posting gets you bottom posting (all previous posts in full, followed by the reply) which is just as bad.
What we actually want is interleaved posting, where you quote only the points you are replying to, and put your contribution below each point.
Doing that automatically would be very difficult, although I'm sure AI could hallucinate up something.
It was pretty much the same back in the late 80s when I tried to knock them up for some sponsorship for my degree course. Managed to get through a whole hour and a half of interview at Oakley before finding out they only considered a very particular type of engineering degree, and weren't willing to show any flexibility. But other doors eventually opened.
What you are describing is the old Windows CE/Mobile devices which tried to be an NT desktop on a 240x320 screen controlled by tiny keys or a pointy stick. Very easy to port Windows applications to, but a complete failure when it came to using it, and it rightly died a death. What took it's place was the Android and IOS interfaces, which are vastly better to use on phones or tablets. But just as the conventional desktop didn't work on those hand held devices, their interfaces do not work on a laptop or monitor. Attempting to bring across indistinct UI elements and abominations such as the hamburger menu to large screen mouse and keyboard controlled device, and abandoning CUA principles is a massive mistake.
And then Python has the idiocy of whitespace having meaning, So an extra or missing tab can still be perfectly valid yet be completely wrong, all to avoid a couple of {}
The compiler might not fail a missing tab, but a code review certainly will. It's not a problem for anyone which actually uses Python.
I grew up on the BBC Micro (which had a CAPS and a Shift lock key), but my favourite keyboard was the one on the Archimedes A310 closely followed by the A5000. Great feel, reassuringly loud, and CTRL on the home row where it should be. It was a US layout, but we didn't realise until the RISC PC came with a UK layout and had to re-learn everything. It also had a beautiful symmetry of the main group, and most importantly; red function keys.
The big tech companies have arguably been over-recruiting for years in a weird game of beggar-my-neighbour They've had plenty of time to wind that down in an orderly and more humane fashion but chose not to.
Nothing boosts the stock price more than laying off a good proportion of the staff, I think they recruit a few thousand extra every year just to be able to do this.
Application folders don't really need to start with a '!' these days, as the special files can be looked for in any folder with very little cost. But RISC OS was developed when the primary storage was still floppy discs, and opening a folder to see if contained a !Run or a !Sprites file involved a couple of seconds of spinning up the disc and clunking of the read head to achieve.
