* Posts by Blank Reg

1084 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Jun 2011

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Bernie Sanders clocks in with 4-day workweek bill thanks to AI and productivity tech

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It doesn't matter how they try to enforce it, it can't work as the US, Canada and many other countries are in for a couple of decades of labor shortages due to the boomers retiring and dieing off. The only way out is a massive increase in immigration, and that is a hard sell in most countries.

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Continuous growth never works, we need periodic recessions to reset prices, and most importantly mindset. When people believe things can only go up they make a lot of stupid investment decisions and all asset classes become overvalued.

Commercial real estate is in for a major correction. With trillions tied up offices that are not likely to return to pre-pandemic occupancy rates for as much as a couple decades there are a lot of banks that will have problems in the next few years as leases start coming up for renewal

IBM said to be binning off more staff as 'workforce rebalance' continues

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Re: Confused here

For as long as staff continue to get older, IBM will continue to "rebalance" the average age/salary down as low as they can get away with

Flying car biz Alef claims 3K preorders, still hasn't done a proper demo

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Re: These things will never be allowed

Well if you treat them as aircraft then they will be even more impractical. Park your fancy flying car at the mall and then when someone just slightly dings you then it may no longer be airworthy. The whole idea is just a stupid fantasy for 12 year olds

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Re: There will never be a demo

The whole concept of flying cars is bollocks. People can't drive on the ground, it won't get better in the air, and the consequences of failure are much more severe. Then there is the noise issue, do you really want these things buzzing overhead all day long? If they ever get off the ground they will be relegated to rural areas only.

Ahead of Super Tuesday, US elections face existential and homegrown threats

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Re: The two biggest threats...

That's because there are far too many stupid/gullible/selfish people. They want easy answers to difficult problems and they shouldn't be inconvenienced in any way

Elon and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad legal week

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Re: his factories rely on large numbers of humans

Surely all the 2nd ammendment people will step up to end a dictatorship right? isn't that why they claim that they need a fully stocked personal armory? it can't be that the 1000s of dead kids were all for nothing can it?

Amazon hopes to avoid labor regulation by simply abolishing national watchdogs

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Re: Just... bullshit

That is one of the two main problems with American politics, the supreme court decided that companies are people, and that money is free speech. That set the stage for companies legally buying politicians, and as we've seen Supreme Court justices as well

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Re: Who's next?

I'm ok with the stock options as compensation, though the amount given is often ridiculous. But they should have at least a 5 year vesting period. One of the problems of modern corporations is that there is far too much focus on the next quarter at the expense of the long term. That leads to some very bad decisions

ChatGPT? Sure, I've heard it. But is AI coming for my job?

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Re: Resistance to adaptation

I was taking a more global view. in places like Paris or Prague as much as 20-30% of apartments are short term rentals. In the USA you have corporations buying up 10s of thousands of homes. Where I live , during the peak of the market, we had about 1/3 of home sales going to people that already owned multiple homes in the city. If 20 or 30 percent of homes came back on the market then prices would go back to normal levels

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Re: Resistance to adaptation

The solutions to home affordability has too many with vested interests fighting against it. Step 1,ban corporations from buying single family homes. Step 2, change tax laws to make it non viable to invest or speculate in single family homes. Step 3, ban short term rentals, Step 4, NEVER REPEAT THE MISTAKE OF NEAR ZERO INTEREST RATES.

How did China get so good at chips and AI? Congressional investigation blames American venture capitalists

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Re: WHOCOULDAKNOWED?!

The CEOs making the decisions to move manufacturing to China didn't care. In modern business all that matters is the next quarter. By the time this became a problem they would have cashed out their stock options and be long gone

Raspberry Pi Pico cracks BitLocker in under a minute

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Re: A brilliant testament to analysis

The key exchange only needs to happen once when the machine is first started, then stored encrypted in some WOM memory on the chips. That isn't foolproof, but tapping into the internals of the TPM or CPU is a lot more difficult than connecting to some pins on the motherboard

X hiring 100 content cops in bid to tame Wild West of online safety

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Will anyone even want to work for them?

The pen is mightier than the keyboard for turbocharging your noggin

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Re: Why aren't you taking notes?

Same here, I didn't take notes in university, the only thing I wrote down was stuff like assignment due dates and things like that. I bought a pack of 500 sheets of note paper in first year and never finished it.

COVID-19 infection surge detected in wastewater, signals potential new wave

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Re: It is only Covid if you take a test

That is what heat recovery ventilation is for. bring in fresh air, transfer heat from outgoing air to the incoming air

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Re: "the only figure that really matters is hospitalisations"

There is a strong indication that each subsequent covid infection increases your risk of long covid, so not taking some simple precautions is just stupid

Hundreds of thousands of dollars in crypto stolen after Ledger code poisoned

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Re: npm supply chain security

They certainly need to do something about security. Just go and build a very basic node app and you'll have 1000's of dependencies before you even get started. And you have to trust them all since you have no way of testing them all for malicious code

That call center tech scammer could be a human trafficking victim

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I never feel bad about hanging up on them, though sometimes I don't bother, I just put the phone down walk away while they yammer on

Elon is the bakery owner swearing in the street about Yelp critics canceling him

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He's a potential billionaire. Until he sells his assets their value is undetermined. And selling his assets would greatly diminish their value, that is why he has come up with several excuses for selling assets over the years. The real reason being he wanted to cash in while the price was insanely and unreasonably high. Had he kept the proceeds he would be a real billionaire many times over, but instead he decided to flush it down the toilet

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Re: Maybe intentional

Except by most accounts (except his own) he's crap at software.

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Re: Advertising Money

It is amusing but not baffling, he is a moron doing what morons do

Lawyer guilty of arrogance after ignoring tech support

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Re: Are you sure, this isn't the plot of an IT Crowd epsiode?

No, my problem with Aristotle is that he would come up with some hair-brained idea and declare it correct without bothering to check. He thought women had fewer teeth than men, surely that is easily verified. He thought heavy objects fell faster than lighter ones, again he could have done a simple experiment to prove it.

Basically, he would declare a hypothesis as fact and leave it at that.

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Re: Are you sure, this isn't the plot of an IT Crowd epsiode?

And while he's there maybe he can do something about that idiot Aristotle. Scientific advancement was greatly held back because we believed his crap for almost 2 millenia.

Former IBM Canada worker wins six-figure payout for wrongful dismissal

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And they really tried to screw him on the severence. In ontario you typically get 2-4 weeks per year of service for IT roles, and given his title and age it would be at the higher end if the range. The one time I was let go I got 14 months severence after 17 years, and I was almost 20 years younger than he was when they fired him.

'Recession-resilient' Tesla misses Q3 expectations, slows Mexico expansion

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Actually, there are reasons why he couldn't buy a bank. His past trouble with the SEC could cause trouble with the feds. But also auto manufacturers aren't allowed to buy banks in the US

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Re: Missed opportunity

There will be more opportunities as long as musk keeps meddling

Japan cruises ahead with drive-thru EV charging trial

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Re: Vehicle ID based charging

While an EV can certainly beat a ICE supercar in speed and acceleration, it can't do it for very long. High speed and acceleration isn't sustainable due to the high drain and resulting heating of the battery. That's why formula e races are so short, and until very recently they had to swap cars half way through the race as they could only last around 25 minutes.

Routine repair costs should be lower for well made evs, which leaves out Teslas. But repair costs from accidents can be huge even for relatively small accidents. If the battery is damaged then the car is often written off.

Nvidia boss tells Israeli staff Mellanox founder's daughter was killed in festival massacre

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Re: The thing people forget is...

Yes that is the one I was referring to, sorry.

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Re: The thing people forget is...

I think the root cause goes back further to the end of Ww2 when the borders of the middle east countries were created without regard for who actually lived within those borders

Human knocks down woman in hit-and-run. Then driverless Cruise car parks on top of her

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Re: My first thought ...

The cruise vehicle likely has 360 degree camera footage of the accident, they probably don't need the public to help track down the driver

Musk's first year as Twitter's Dear Leader is nigh

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Re: I Have To Eat My Words

Take some random person off the street and put them in charge and it would be run better. It takes an incredible amount of stupidity to run it as badly as he has

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Re: Going downhill fast, and so is Twitter

if he tries that then it could be deemed a threat to national security and will soon find that he is no longer in control of the company

IBM Software tells workers: Get back to the office three days a week

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except that office building is also heated/cooled for the 1/2 to 2/3rds of the day when people aren't there. Better to just ditch the office completely.

BMW deems drivers worthy of warmth, ends heated car seat subscription

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I'd be interested in a new old fiat 500 with its whopping 16hp and ~60Mpg. I bet with modern materials and manufacturing they could squeeze out a few more miles per gallon. There really wasn't much that you couldn't fix yourself on those cars

Bombshell biography: Fearing nuclear war, Musk blocked Starlink to stymie Ukraine attack on Russia

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Re: So Musk has blood on his hands

Russia has no chance of winning, they just don't have the capacity to keep their troops armed. meanwhile, the west can just keep production going as long as they like.

Besides, it should be obvious by now that the Russian military is completely incompetent, they really aren't good at this war thing.

From browser brat to backend boss: Will WASM win the web wars?

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There are about a couple dozen languages that can be compiled to run on the JVM, and that includes Javascript

Musk's latest X-periments: No more headlines, old posts vanish, block gets banned

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What happens when there is no one left except for racists, nazis, and right wing trolls? They may have to turn on each other

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Re: so blocking just blocks them from seeing you?

Maybe he's abusing something, or maybe he's just a fucking idiot

OpenAI's ChatGPT has a left wing bias – at times

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Re: Not really

There are an awful lot of poor old people that vote conservative.

I've amassed more than enough to retire at any time if I chose to, but I'll vote for anyone but those wackos on the right

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Re: Not really

I've always found it funny when conservatives claim that you will shift to the right as you get older. I like to point out that this means that there is a correlation between those likely to be in cognitive decline and the tendency to be right wing. But it makes sense, you'd need to be out of your mind to support the right these days.

What does Twitter's new logo really represent?

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With the astounding level of mismanagement, they will soon be able to claim to be an ex-company

Apple seeks patent for devices with roll-up displays – iRoll?

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Re: Nokia

yes there were a number of companies working on roll up screens a decade ago if not more. I saw a few prototypes but as far as I know none ever made it to production. one likely problem is that bendy screens will tend to not lay perfectly flat after a while, then your very expensive phone would end up with a screen resembling a fun house mirror

Producers allegedly sought rights to replicate extras using AI, forever, for just $200

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Re: Generate Extras for free

But Davy jones was very tentacly. with a CGI human face there is always something that gives it away as we are much more attuned to the subtleties of a human face.

Starlink satellites leak astronomy-disturbing EM radiation, say boffins

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There aren't enough customers in such places to justify such a satellite network.

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It would be better to run fiber, it will likely be cheaper in the long run as it doesn't need replacing every 5 years like the LEO satellites used by Starlink. If you're really so far out that fiber is never going to happen then there are terrestrial radio solutions that can get you higher speeds and fewer issues with less atmospheric signal loss.

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Just bring them all down, its growth is limited by available bandwidth which makes it a poor business in the long run.

Former Twitter employees accuse it of holding up 891 arbitrations

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Re: Letter grade

He has spent far too much time cultivating the myth that he is a genius, he can't now come out and admit that he is an incompetent moron that hasn't a clue what he us doing.

Canada plans brain drain of H-1B visa holders, with no-job, no-worries work permits

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Re: For once, Trudeau's government has made an actual smart move.

While it is certainly possible for someone without a degree to do well, the odds are low. The work we do requires excellent algorithm knowledge, the kind if stuff that is taught in university, not at some coding boot camp.

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Re: Russians

I know dozens of former colleagues from Russia, almost of them left the country long before Putins debacle in Ukraine.

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