Posts by Kinetic 49 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Feb 2011
No, oracle is the gangster eyeing up your nice little business. "Shame if something was to happen to these servers. We can make sure it doesn't, for a fee of course. Then you pay and they come back next month asking for more, and more and more until you can just about survive."
Why anyone would ever choose to use any Oracle product is beyond me. Legacy lock-in, I get, but actually making the choice to sign-up for this?
Where does it leave Java long-term. Clearly the Oracle version will die eventually...but can the community maintain and push forward the other versions independently?
I'm confused at the negative tone here regarding ChatGPT. In don't know how Microsoft is going to use it, and its entirely possible they will stuff it up in some catastrophic way, but the system itself is simply revolutionary.
I can only assume the commentards here have yet to use it in anger. Do yourself a favour and go and try it now.
Before you do though, you need to understand the 90:10 ratio, and it's implications. Essentially 90% of the response you get back is generally incredible, but 10% is very convincing crap. This is important to understand the implications. You cannot just ask a question and cut/paste the answer out. You need to check it and correct that 10% before continuing. When using it to write code, think of it as a very bright junior dev. It knows the syntax of every language, it can code anything you can describe, but it screws up on a regular basis, and needs firm direction and code reviews.
Things i've had success with:
Give it a couple of create table statements, then asked it to create a trigger that updates one table or the other depending on a condition.
Asked it to create a blazor component to fillout a crontab, using droplists. Then got it to create the logic for the for loops to append the nd st rd etc on the numbers.
Asked it to create a regex based capture in c# to validate and extract the fields from the crontab.
Extracting emails from a string
Creating classes to deserialise complex sample json
Write a job application letter in the style of a surfer
Describe dark matter. Then simpler, and simpler.untill it ended up with a 2 line summary.
Things it failed at:
Describe a circuit that toggles between two leds when a button is pressed/released. It kept describing ones where they both came on together.
When creating the classes from the json, it would miss properties at random. When ponted out, it would add them back in
Getting it to create a blazor control for tge crontab using the ant design for blazor ui framework. It created a very convincing ui, using entirely fictitious controls. When challenged, it even specified how to install the framework, and the namespaces to include. Great, but controls don't exist.
Overall though, it's revolutionary for seniors in their field. We're used to fixing juniors mistakes, and it's so much quicker and easier to work with than any junior. I can get so much more work done than before. It is the future, Enjoy.
(But it's a bit terrifying)
According to Elon, the company is losing $4m a day, insiders say the website and tech is held together with sticks. They didn't invest in AI for the moderation (which is the only scalable solution), and they didn't sort the troll/spam problems, infact they seem to have buried the problem, as it would affect the bottom line.
Does this sound like a place that doesn't need serious restructuring?
Elon has started by implementing the blue tick payment, to both get some ad-independant revenue in, and to solve the spam/bot problem.
Next will be media tie-ins to give you paywall access via twitter.
In the meantime, he's got to get costs down to something sensible.
Twitter seems to have been run by a bunch of drunken sailors, so things had to change.
If a some here are suggesting, you want to get everyone exposed to programming at an early age, you have to solve the basic problem of poor teaching. Every IT course i have ever been on is mediocre at best. Rare is the gifted developer who decides to go in academia for lower pay longer hours, expensive holidays and daily abuse from unappreciative little horrors. Plus you don't get to develop software. Which we actually enjoy.
Hence the interest has to largely come from within.
This idea that you need to even up the numbers is nutts. Make sure everyone is given the same opportunities, then let them pursue what interests them. We have enough bad developers, let's not make the problem worse by forcing people who don't have the passion to muddle through. I think we're all sick of clearing up the mess.
Allow ransoms to be paid, but it must be paid personally by the C suite, with no subsequent out of norm renumeration allowed for 10 years.
Also, make it vigilante season by offering 50% of all funds recovered split between the finders as long as 50% of the gang is successfully procecuted. Also, non destructive hacking of suspected malware teams infrastructure be de criminalised.
Couple this with really harsh sentences like having to work for a year in an Amazon warehouse, on standard pay and conditions.
That should help
There's only one burnt-out volcano worth having in this solar system, and someone else is fully committed to getting to mars and taking possession asap. I see he's just offloaded the last of his earth-based lairs. He's all-in for the mars prime super-villian real-estate.
I think you underestimate the scale and purpose of Musk's ambition. He's in it to save the species. To hell with the moon or just landing on mars. The target is a self sustaining city on mars. Period. Everything else is work in progress.
Seriously, watch the 3 part series with everyday astronaut on youtube. NASA is a convenient partner for him, but if they pick someone else, he'll just go there on his own. Nothing says pwned like NASA finally landing a BO craft on the moon.... at a spaceX landing facility :)
Yes, small amounts of data are good, but here the main aim seems to be low power. Transmission over long distance is likely to use a lot of power, so minimising that is a good idea. However doing lots of processing also consumes power, hence create a sensor that only gives you the changes in the first place. Low light noise and vibrations probably complicates this.
One presumes that they have a clever low power way to achieve all that.
I'm genuinely curious, why not just replace the existing transmission system with a cellular 4G/5G system, at the network's cost. The networks get some early adopters to test their system, and the weathermen get their data. It seems obvious enough that I assume there's some fatal flaw in this plan.... any ideas?
Because (if it was any good) it could be used to continually monitor everybody, and generate a graph of who is seen with who, where they go, what they do etc.
Want to see who attended a political rally, it's just a query away. Want to see who they went to the rally with, sure, easy. Who are their friends? What about people who went to a demonstration about police brutality? Where do they work? Hmm interesting, I wonder if their work knows about their radical political views, or their wife knows about the pretty young woman they went to the demo with.... and <clickty, click> have spent a number of evenings with in various travel lodges "away on work" with. Maybe we should ask them...and then..again about their opposition to our policing methods...
You know everyone is up in arms about cookies tracking you online? This is basically it in real life. The rub is that the cookie is your face .... want to opt out, easy, just change your face.
"Here's another thought. What about all those handicapped people unable to drive themselves yet unable to access vital necessities due to lack of timely public transit?"
Taxis
I know, mind blowing, right?
Added benefit of having a real live meatbag in the car with you if you have some kind of problem.
And in your hip, right-on tabloid example, they wouldn't be allowed to drive one of these because the human has to be able to take over in all sorts of situations.
These things aren't solving a problem, they are a dangerous flash futuristic toy for the rich.
They waited until there were two established player's in a market big enough for probably 1 and a half. They made sure that anyone with enough interest and disposable income had already got a headset and controllers, then launched. Launched claiming to be something different, which people wouldn't recognise. To make sure every base was covered, they had a bunch of oem's produce indistinguishable hardware to confuse everyone. The samsung headset was the best with slightly better resolition, so obviously it was released last. The Microsoft home thing is half arsed, and a rubbish concept anyway.
Madness.
The inside-out tracking worked nicely though. They should sell that to Oculus and HTC in the fire sale.
There's no way in hell you'd rely on a central data feed to notify you of things like lane closures. You have to do that in real time based on environmental feedback. Yes if a road is closed, a data update to reroute all the traffic to another route is a good idea. If you rely on central updates, what happens when someone breaks down on a road and blocks a lane - you just going to run into the back of him / wait behind him because you think it's a traffic jam?
The more genuinely autonomous we can make these vehicles, the better. Ideally they'd be completely disconnected from any central update / control system, so no coordinated hack can hold everyone to ransom.
Personally I don't see the attraction of them, but if we are going down this path they have to be able to handle everything the world throws at them. After all, before long no-one will be able to drive, so who's going to get the car out of trouble ?
"Because no one can predict what the AI will become or do in the future. Particularly regarding decisions that no human can understand, as happened in the latest Go competitions."
Yes, in which case it's doubly important to hold the companies in question to account. Maybe, just maybe they should have explored the unexpected consequences... if they decided they were too unpredictable then, pulled the product and I dunno, not risked killing everyone.
There is a glut of positive thinking going on in the AI and robotics space. Seen the latest Killbot-lite video with fully autonomous drones that successfully "Hunt" humans through dense woods using computer vision? It's okay, because they are just filming their owners. Weaponisation in 3-2-1.... Ooops
Don't get me started on Boston Dynamics, those guys saw Terminator 1 and cried at the end when Arnie got killed.
Some serious accountability needs to get injected to start people reconsidering what their products can be re-purposed as, or how they might fail / go rogue.
Yes, but the point of a Mavic and other popular drones is to act as a flying camera platform. No-one is looking to photograph the grass in that flying Club's field. If I wanted to fly just for fun, I'd buy a racing drone or suchlike. From what I've heard parks require permission from the local council, unless you have a list of parks that have declared themselves drone friendly?
"We will continue working together with regulators to help our users understand the safe and legal operation of aerial technology."
Oh good, they're going to come clean and admit there isn't anywhere you can use them legally. That's going to put a dent in their sales.
Seriously, look into it, anywhere in the UK you were planning to fly your drone is probably illegal; well, without getting the landowner's permission and/or filling in paperwork. I nearly bought a Mavic, but quickly discovered that the only way I was realistically going to be able to fly was either illegally, inside my house or at sea.
If the v2 is like the v1, you can't upgrade or fix the most basic parts, and neither can Microsoft. You send it in for "repair", you'll get a refurb back. Yay a stranger's laptop, i hope they took care of it.
They are hideously complex things - it's a miracle they work at all.
For £3k i expect perfection, non replaceable parts isn't it. I'll have a regular ultrabook thanks.
We seem to have heard quite enough from the optimists about just how marvellous it will be to fall out of the pub at 2am and get the car home just like the good-ol-days, but what might go wrong with this cunning plan?
There's many minor glitches. These include getting people to trust that an old £100 Fiat automated banger in 20 years time. Trust that it will still function correctly and not kill everyone inside it, the first time it has a memory error. However, the big BIG BIG problem, is inadvertently creating a new weapon of mass destruction.
Yes, yes, down-vote at the ready, but think about it first. If this automated revolution is successful, and god knows there's enough people cheering it on, the streets will be full with millions of fully automated vehicles. These machines are capable of being reprogrammed, and because the optimists are in charge, it will doubtless be over-the-air updates at that. What you have here is a massive mobile botnet in waiting.
Now I can see you reaching towards your keyboard muttering about secure protocols and testing etc, but frankly that just isn't good enough. It's not even close. This is a massively distributed killing machine. It's the perfect weapon of mass destruction. It comes with pre-loaded hostages in case you were thinking about stopping parts of it. It has software carefully engineered to identify humans, which could be trivially re-purposed to target humans. It can navigate to target's kill them and automatically recharge and redeploy indefinitely. Best of all, it's already deployed all around it's targets. Basically you can hold the whole world to ransom. The best bit is you can do this indefinitely. Issue your demands, then allow things to continue as normal, as long as 10,000 people in each country remain as hostages in their cars. They won't be permitted to exit the vehicle until another enters a vehicle elsewhere. If there's an attempt to break the botnet, then (n) people will be killed a minute until the attempt stops. You can basically rule the world this way.
So back to my point about security. All security is breakable. All you are doing by adding more cryptography and checks is raising the effort level to a point where it isn't worth it for the attacker. Here the security would have to be perfect, as the payoff is basically infinite. Nobody must be able to compromise the system, not nation states, not the companies who make the vehicles, not the developers of the software. You would have to treat this system are more dangerous and secure than any nuclear weapons system.
This is not going to happen.
What if we go back to why we are creating this massive potential disaster. This is a solved problem, it's called a Taxi and it works very well. Yes, you have to pay someone each time you use the vehicle, but Uber seems to have made that pretty painless. I imagine someone has already taken the next step and created "season passes" that allow you to travel as much as you want within a geographic area. So what's the problem? Smelly humans driving the vehicles? Okay, legislation on hygiene and qualifications to be a cab driver. Bad vehicles used as taxis - stricter rules for Taxi vehicles. Worried about personal safety in a taxi, fit them with CCTV and 24/7 tracking. Bad driving? Then crack down on dangerous driving, not just speeding. What is the actual problem we are solving here?
Is it because we saw it in a Sci-fi film and it looked cool......... probably.
So no, I don't think it's a great idea. Would I love to be able to press a button on my phone and have my car come find me? Sure, that would be awesome! It's just that things are never quite that simple.
This is the least of the problems with drone ownership in this country (if you are bothered about doing things legally).
So you can't fly:
*) In a conjested area (so nowhere near anyone else's property). For most of us this then means not over our own property. It also rules out cool shots of towns/cities.
*) You have to get a land owners permission before flying over it. Sure let me just lookup who owns this field and phone them...um yeah....
*)How about those lovely national parks? The national trust banned drones.
*) How about the forests? Forestly commission banned them (but they are considering their position)
*) Beaches? May be legal as long as there are no other people on it.
*)Obviously anything anywhere near any local or major airfields is absolutely out.
There have been reports of some people getting permission to fly in council parks, but they did have to fill out health and safety assessments before each flight.....
Basically if DJI were to implement this properly, it pretty much wouldn't let you take-off unless the owner of your current location logged into their portal and enabled your drone.
I actually had a DJI Mavic on order before I started looking into where i could fly it legally. I cancelled it after i realised there's basically nowhere to fly that isn't a buttload of aggravation.
By definition a bad deal will be worse than no deal, otherwise it wouldn't be a bad deal. Honestly it's not hard to dream up a terrible set of terms that we'd rather walk away from than take.
Can we stop making things more complex than they already are please. There's going to be plenty to get upset about in the next two years, lets try to stop making it more difficult than it needs to be.
I'm a long time developer with Microsoft's tools, but unlike the linux fanboys here i love them. You don't need a licence for community edition (which is really good these days), and complaining about the £70 or so I spent on an OS 5 years ago seems a little tight. Yes, yes, privacy corcerns etc, they have been pricks about that and the upgrade process.
But Xamarin forms ...... oh my .... the only positive thing to say about the experience was that it's better than titanium. But then so is whipping up an app in machine code.
Either it needs to be able to deal with all any any situations that might arise, or it's not ready. This idea that people are going to drive for hours on a motorway with their hands and feet hovering near the controls, ready to take over at any stage ... and not fall asleep / get totally distracted is nonsense. It's a manufacturer cop-out to try and sidestep responsibility.
I can see how some people would go for full automation, but this half-assed sort-of automation is just asking for problems.
To the people who keep parroting the line about them already being safer - lets see the stats breakdown on that one before buying the marketing, but in addition, that's almost not the point. When you have a crash whilst driving your car - you had some skin in the game. Quite literally your life. The guy who wrote the bad update code that causes the autonomous car you were riding in to crash would doubtless feel terrible about you being killed, then he would go on with his life. There may not even be a fine.
The distinction here is that by putting your life on the line, you buy in a certain amount of trust from the other road users. You have as much to lose as them. The guy 9-5ing it in a software house on the other side of the world who messed up and killed you and other road users hasn't "bought-in". He needs to be held to a higher standard with rigorous testing.
Here's another interesting thought experiment. Say we assume that the "AutoPilot" software is good enough. Then we say that we pass a law that stipulates that if the deaths per mile with AutoPiliot exceeds that of regular drivers, the entire development and testing team are executed. Now they have some skin in the game. Do you think the testing regime is going to stay the same or get much more thorough? If you think it will get more thorough, I thought the software was good enough? Good enough for strangers maybe, but not them!
If my experience with the people on my CS course many years ago, and fellow coders since is anything to go by, it should be more like 50% or higher.
Seriously, 11.7% shows just how desperate companies are to take on developers. How many of these people were able to turn the PC on?
This is great news as long as they roll up their sleeves and get fixing stuff fast. Xamarin as a concept is great, but there are a number of problems especially in forms.
Speed, more speed! The layout seems crazy slow right now.
A deterministic layout engine would be nice on Android. You can have a layout that works 3 out of 4 times. It's exactly the same code and data, but the fourth time you visit the page, it lays out differently. This seems to be especially true of text labels - WTF? How do you even go about creating a bug like that?
Layouts in forms, generally suck. Padding doesn't work the same on iOS as android, Grid layouts are particularly unpredictable. Nesting layouts (which you inevitably have to do) can produce unexpected layout issues.
Intellisense support for Xamarin forms XAML. It's basically unusable right now. We write everything in code, as we get intellisense support there, and with the long compile / install times you cannot afford the hit/miss nature of writing XAML without intellisense.
Create a decent paging system for Xamarin Forms, the existing ones sucks bad. When you change from one page to the next, everything visibly blanks/redraws and generally looks very unprofessional.
We are looking at binning theirs and creating our own in-page solution.
MORE SPEED!
Generally, writing in C# in visual studio for mobile is a great experience, but there's enough problems right now that it's not the slam-dunk obvious recommendation that it should be.
Did I mention speed?
Stop the debugger failing to connect about 25% of the time, and the app crash on startup with a debugger about 10% of the time (with android).
Fix the use of partial classes - you get a weird bug where it sometimes can't hit breakpoints in code that's split across two files (haven't seen this for a week or so, so it may be fixed).
Fix the fast deploy system for android so that it doesn't miss changes you make and consequently waste half your day hunting for problems that don't exist!
Really hope they fix all this, as writing mobile apps in C# is a whole better experience than either Java or JavaScript+HTML in my experience.
Who built the Robot factory? If robots, who built them (and so on) what you end up with is a very shrewd investment of time and effort on the part of the guy who built the robots who built the factory that built everything. One assumes he owns it all, and therefore is getting a huge amount of money for it. He still put the effort in initially. He's just much smarter than the guy who goes and does everything himself - a better tool was designed and used, that's all.
This isn't actually meant as a snarky remark (well any more than usual around here).
What was the reason to go through the grief of upgrading? I have a working operating system that I'm perfectly fine with (7) ... I also have 8.1, which I've pretty much come to terms with (I'm ignoring all the unpleasant bits). I can browse, skype, develop, play games etc. All good.
So .... 10 .... why? I know it's free as in beer, but it's not free from grief and re-training etc. I need a reason to make me actually want this thing. TIFCAM apps aint it, that's for damn sure.
Probably the answer is - because Microsoft will stop selling 8, pull support for the others, and therefore generally shunt us into it regardless of us wanting it or not. I'm just hoping for a better answer...
Wouldn't be surprised to find that this had been bankrolled by the security services. Even IF it's not back-doored (and that's a very big IF), they'll probably just take note of all the phones that do download this then treat them with much more interest than usual. Probably upto and including putting spyware on the phone and getting the conversation before it's encrypted. All you'd do by installing this is guarantee that MI6 will read it all.
I want to know who thought this was going to fly with users. I suspect EPIC levels of wishful thinking were involved. I totally get why this would be awesome for Microsoft if it worked, but that's not the point is it? First it has to work. And for that I need to put down my Android phone + tablet, my Ps4, my Windows 7/8.1 and think:
Hmm, what I really want here is exactly the same experience on all these different devices, even though I use them for totally different things in different situations with different people.
Also, while I'm at it could I have some less choice in making my device less identical to everyone else's.
What I really want is the feeling of renting a device off a faceless corporation who will control what and how their device functions.
Ooh, ooh, and if you could catalog and go through all my personal information, track what I do and type and send it off to servers around the world for future usage .... that would be amazing.
Yup, totally expect this to set the world on fire.
Sorry, don't believe anything you say Spotify. The chances of the wording on a legal notice getting through a large organisation without it being endlessly worked over is nil. You knew what you were saying and meant it. You got caught, now watch your platform burn. Maybe the next organisation will think twice before shafting it's paying customers? Probably not, they all seem to be greedy idiots.
I have an S5, and from the little research I have done (http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinions/galaxy-s6-vs-galaxy-s5), upgrading doesn't look like a good deal. I'd lose the SD card slot and water resistance for the nearly double the cost - oooh, where do I sign? (and yes I do use the SD card, and yes it's full)
Time for Samsung to come clean and admit: "We thought we'd pull an Apple and gouge the customers for every penny they have. Turns out that android people have a choice of manufacturers, who knew?"
The basic flaw with the whole democratic process as sold to us is that you cannot ever know what the parties not in power would actually do, and will only have a slight idea what a party that has actually been in power would do if elected again.
This leaves you with two options:
1) Believe everything they say and vote accordingly (good luck with that).
2) Vote against a party that you want to get out of power / vote for more of the same.
Personally I go for option 2, so that means that I either vote Conservative or Labour depending on how disenfranchised I am. Personally I feel that the current incumbents have done a decent job given the circumstances, so would rather not roll the dice to see what happens with Labour in.
It's an imperfect system, but it beats the hell out of the alternative for changing unpopular rulers, civil war and genocide.
Getting the voting turn-out higher.... why... because more is better? Big numbers are nicer? They were given the option to vote, they can't be bothered to even express that view. If you encourage them to vote, all you are doing is nullifying someone else's carefully considered view. Personally I'd like it to go the other way, have some sort of an entrance exam to see if you have been paying attention:
Which countries have this government been at war with in the past 5 years?
To the nearest £100 billion, what is our current national debt?
How long is it expected to take to pay this back given normal economic conditions (to the nearest decade)?
You could even publicise the questions in the run-up, to force potential voters to take a rudimentary interest in what's been going on. You'd have to get at lest 50% right to have your vote count.
Never gonna happen, but hey.
If you accept cookies that expire after a week or so, these can be refreshed when you hit the same domain within that time-frame (could just be an advertising banner). Or are you worried about a site tracking you twice a decade or something? If on the other hand a developer needs to make something like a "Remember Me" option that stores your username locally for the user's convenience, and is told it should never expire because the users are annoyed when it keeps going away.... A 9999 year cookie, sure, why not. Do they seriously expect it to last 9999 years? No. But it's a lot easier than constructing the time machine and pinpointing exactly when the user next clears his cookies / changes PC.
Actually that date may cause instant expiry on some Unix based machines, due to int overflow problems I believe. So on a practical level a more reasonable approach is probably about 10 years in the future and keep updating the cookie when the user next hits the site.
Don't want cookies? Use a app to sort that for you but don't be surprised when convenience goes down.
As a software engineer .... No, hell no. Not until they've been running successfully for a good long time. And then I don't want to be the first in line for any firmware updates thank you very much. Even then I can't see how they're going to be able to cope with all the craziness that can happen on real British roads rather than simple "Freeway" scenarios. I guess at least initially they'll go for the low hanging fruit. Pickup at airport deliver to home in uncomplicated area, that kind of thing. Basically all the plum Taxi work.
I think I heard they chose the ideal Milton Keynes environment to be one of the test areas. Sensible as a starting point I guess.
Agree with the other posters, seems like a very minor advantage for the inconvenience, logistics, and noise/ thermals. However, how about a version that could boost a sniper up onto the top of a building / soldier over an obstacle? Not talking sustained flight, just short distance. Probably good to have quick release to then dump it and move on.
I had my first drive brick after 6 months, the second Vertex II is going fine after about a year. The OCZ memory on the other hand went unstable after about a year (took me a while to track the problem down, blamed the new disk for a while) , RMA'd it ...... silence they just took the memory and never sent anything back. I'd bought some cheapo RAM in the meantime, so I've not bothered chasing it. I'd had enough. Just wont buy their stuff anymore.
From the linked article:
"Jeff Peacock, who heads satellite-builder Boeing Co's (BA.N) ground-based solar cell product line, said in theory it could double the amount of solar power collected, compared with the Earth-bound technology equivalent."
Yes folks we could double the solar collected...for only a thousand times the cost, and a crap load of inconvenience and danger*! Bargain!
This is sounding more and more like a thinly veiled space weapon - but I'd expect them to do a much better camouflage job than this....or maybe that's what we'd be expecting...errr.....where's my tinfoil hat?
*(Yes I have no idea how much a 2km solar array would cost on earth but it's got to be a hell of a lot cheaper than constructing and maintaining a 1km one in orbit and then beaming the power safely back to ground stations on earth. There has to be more to this... it sounds insane.)
"space junk permitting" - Small caveat really when you're providing a 1km wide target.... depends on the orbit and angle I guess.
I'm sure the military will be thrilled to get their new super-weapon built for them - sorry, I mean perfectly safe microwave beaming system. Yup no dangers to worry about at all, no sir, not here.
[ION Cannon charged]
Now where were those pesky NOD terrorists.
In the dim and distant past, I can just about remember what it was like to have scheduled TV, and to have to remember when and what channel a program would be on. I would then arrange my life around the broadcasters whims regarding TopGear, Red-Dwarf, Buffy, etc (it was a long time ago okay).
Do people actually watch live TV? I gave my parents a TIVO shortly after getting one myself about 10 years ago - took them about a week to become totally hooked and dependant on it.
I suppose if your experience of a PVR is the pitiful junk that is Sky+, then I can see the apathy. TIVO or more recently TopField (with the MyStuff tap installed obviously - otherwise it's useless) are superb.
Quite simply, I wouldn't be able to watch anything other than the BBC if I didn't have a PVR - the mind numbing repetition of commercials would do me in. With the Topfield , a couple of clicks of the 5min/3min/30 second skip buttons gets me through the commercials in about 2 seconds - correct the overshoot with the 10 second back button, and done.
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