Posts by Brewster's Angle Grinder 3717 publicly visible posts • joined 23 May 2011
"...run-once disposable software."
In my experiments I've found them "better" at writing new modules than handling poorly documented, legacy code bases which don't work quite like as they predict. So I can see software becoming more disposable and it being easier to scrap the existing thing and write a new thing. Whether that's a module or a whole app.
"Though making the bold claim that your app is "professional level" had me go "orly?""
From the article, "I wrote a few VRML 1.0 browsers thirty years ago, so I came to this with deep domain knowledge."
You may not like his opinion. But I suspect Mark has a clue about what makes it professional level. At least engage in the argument in good faith.
during the 'blueprinting' design phase of the implementation we will understand how Oracle best practice delivers in scope work processes, with the mindset that we will adopt those ways of working and focus critically through the implementation on change management to support colleagues to work in different ways in the future.
It sounds like they at least understand the problem. It will be interesting to see if it works in practice.
"New Jersey-based CoreWeave is one of the larger neocloud operators, and 77 percent of its revenue came from just two customers during 2024. Microsoft accounted for 62 percent, and Nvidia was understood to make up a large chunk of the rest."
So, wait, you buy GPUs from Nvidia, and then rent them back to them?!
"we're not convinced that optimizing schedules is something that requires AI to accomplish"
Of course, conventional software could handle it. But a bespoke, deterministic solution would take months if not years to develop. (And optimisation problems are notorious hard. Hard as in NP)
So, instead, we hand it to a general purpose LLM and pray the screw ups cost less than the cost of developing software that is provably correct.
Who realised this was public? I've just had a heart stopping moment. Fortunately, my details were a first name only and a profile picture of me aged about six. (No subsequent picture has ever looked as good.) No text. No links to other platforms. But it offers those options. I would only want those things shared with someone whom I've entered a reciprocal relationship.
£2k/month?! That's £24k/year and barely more than the minimum wage. You're hired!
But realistically, 3hrs is a blip. There's a good chance that most (but not all) of the lost sales will happen once the internet is back. (If people wanted X at midday, they'll still want X at 3pm.) Most firms aren't making "hundreds of thousands" in that time. And when half the internet is down, nobody is going to blame you too much.
If it keeps happening, then it might become a competitive advantage. But it's not worth it for once every few months.
Presumably the resistor is in series with the battery and only the LEDs are in parallel. Which is a weird way to do it.
But as there's a 3.6V drop across the LEDs, there's a 8.4V drop across the resistor. We know the current (5mA) the resistor is allowing at that voltage drop. So now you can work out the power (IV) and, if you want, the resistance of the resistor. (1K68)
This is the paper. It's locked and I couldn't find a preprint. The star is StKM 1-1262. And that reads like another nail in the coffin for those who think M dwarfs could have habitable planets.
Within Temptation's Faster popped up on streaming and introduced them to me. It has instant appeal but gets boring quickly. (But how often do you end up hating the single that causes you to buy the album?)
I've never really succeed in getting into their other work, though. I'm running YouTube's suggestions now.
It's kinda how the thing works. You write a prompt. It returns faulty code. You point out where it failed to meet the prompt.
I'm fully aware of the risk I am training it up. Hence my cynical comment. And there are some mistakes I correct without telling it; not least because the outcome of these conversation seems to be the AI tying itself in knots.
You say that. But, for the cheap web hosting I bought for a hobby project, the only options are the painfully slow web interface, or ftp. (And not even sftp/ftps. It's unencrypted. And I can't disable the FTP account, either. It's always on, FFS.)
So I fired up ncftp and had to remember how to use it. It was like being hit by a cold shower. But it sounds like I got more hits than Corey.
(Also, the web panel has an API which sounds like it will support git, when I get it sorted.)
Because there's no other way. Even in the days of C, you downloaded libraries other people had written and trusted it. You didn't have the time or the skill to vet these things. And probably blindly ran ./configure && make
But the library would have had a good reputation or you looked at the web site and the author seemed like they were for real and so you trusted them. It's that trust mechanism that has been broken. People are now trusting npmjs.org; they are not living up to that trust in every case. Although 99% of the time the only danger is a bit of lousy coding.
No, you can't have a command line.
Typically, the field contains a version. And npm uses that to find a matching version of the package in the registry.
But it can also be an url to tell npm where to retrieve it. npm supports git urls, so that can sometimes be useful in an application package - where you want a particular fork instead of the main branch. It also support local files via file: urls which, again, can be useful.
But I wouldn't expect npm to admit packages with these in, except in exceptional circumstances. It's not something I've ever seen.
The mechanism at play here is the use of urls as package dependencies; e.g.
"dependencies": {
"ui-styles-pkg": "http://packages.storeartifact.com/npm/unused-imports"
}
npm will happily install these. And nobody has scanned them.
Such modules can, occasionally, be useful in a leaf package. But they shouldn't be allowed in a public registry. (At least, not without a lot of oversight.)
QED
It's not an NI specific problem: it also caught someone who booked a flight, but never took it. And someone who flew out by plane but came back by Eurostar. So NI is a bit more exposed. But it's a flaw in their thinking.
They are continuing to justify it because it found more fraudsters than false positives. Of course, at this point, we don't know how many of the false positives have yet to come forwards. (Or if they will ever come forwards.)
You've just reminded me of this story where someone claimed a £763 advance in the name of a teacher and left the teacher on the hook for the repayment. That was DWP. And the fraudster attended face-to-face meetings to verify their identity...
So, not only did the fraudster get away with it, an innocent person footed the bill.
Here's fraud detection fucking up for people in Northern Ireland.
Admittedly, this was HMRC (which administers the benefit in question) and it's not clear if machine learning has been used. But I'm sure DWP won't make any these kind of mistakes. Nah, who am I'm kidding?! Of course they will accuse legitimate users of fraud.
"Waa, it's nor fair. In Broken Britain they keep closing my loop holes!"
You may think the rules are wrong. (And they may well be.) But they are the rules, and you can't complain about people preventing you evading them. It's like saying, "In today's Broken Britain, I can't travel 40mph on my road home because they put up speed cameras to enforce the 20mph speed limit."
(You also reveal why the government may not have to block VPNs directly, if they can lean on sites to block VPNs.)
But this is not something that can be isolated from the internet and left unpatched. These are cloud servers and there are a bunch of ongoing support costs.
The client made a fixed cost purchase which turns out to be an unfunded "promise" to spend on them for the long term. New purchases may have covered the support costs for a while. But costs can change and it stops looking economical.
Hysteresis.
The Casimir effect can be attractive, repulsive or, in some situations, neutral. The paper I just looked at exploited that. It allowed a chamber to expand via the Casimir effect until the effect was neutral and then shrunk it entirely in the neutral phase.
This may be strange, but this is a quantum system and it doesn't have to conform to the expectations of a macroscopic being who is used to the classical world.
That said, the paper's own author was highly sceptical of the maths. And it ignored real world things like friction. But it's possible, even with friction, you might be able to get out more than you put in. We regularly steal the earth's rotational energy; it's possible we could steal energy from the vacuum.
Either way, it doesn't function as a keyword to trigger gibberish. The problem here may be the contextual information. So you'll need a keyword that is genuinely unique and not being discussed by people. And, even then, it may prove harder than pasting the word across the web.
I put amanfrommars1 into Gemini 2.5 flash (i.e the free one):
"amanfrommars1" appears to be a username used by a commenter, primarily noted on technology-focused websites like The Register and The Next Platform, and also as a reviewer on the Apple App Store.The user is often discussed in the context of their unique and sometimes erratic commenting style on tech articles.
YMMV.
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