Posts by Tom Graham 54 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Apr 2012
"Queer canine becomings: Lesbian feminist cyborg politics and interspecies intimacies in ecologies of love and violence."
It is real. Biden was funding it.
I am sure the French will benefit massively from the influx of academic talent in intersectional diversity studies and, er, bestiality.
So many decades ago that it was before anyone currently in the workforce was born.
DEI in practice has meant discriminating against Asians, Jews, Caucasians and men, then lowering hiring standards to fill the roles when all those candidates have been excluded.
"orgs still discriminated through limited or targeted posting of job opportunities, through job descriptions that limited applicants down to a handful of the "right" courses from the "right" colleges, bigoted hiring managers simply dropping "foreign names" at the first sift , or any other myriad forms of discrimination that weren't in themselves unlawful but had a systemic discriminatory effect. And that's what mediocre "legacy" college grads find so threatening. That they can't walk into a well-paid job any more on the presumption that the school name will do the talking."
Nice story, but it's all in your imagination. If you ever had a real job in a real company you would know that is not how any of them operate.
I have a very good source that proves that the FAA implemented DEI policies that meant turning away highly qualified candidates because they needed to make up racial quotas, lowering their recruiting standards and as a result they now have a shortage of competent qualified controllers.
"DEI done right" - reminds me of all those people who say that the problem with communism is that it has never been done right. The only thing that counts is how DEI is actually done, and that is discriminating against Asians, Jews, Caucasians & men in hiring and promotion, and then having to lower standards to fill in for the candidates you have excluded based on their skin colour and sex.
There is no such thing as two equal candidates. Every human is different.
Congratulations!
You have just confirmed that, whatever the technical benefits that the Rust language may offer, it is not worth the poison of woke identity politics that the Rust community brings with it.
The kind of people who want to make kernel development about racism will only cause chaos and destruction.
The speed of light is real. It's discovery is over a century old.
Unfortunately over half of papers published now in science, medicine and "social science" are misinformation. When they are tested, they don't replicate.
The study referred to in this article is certainly in that group.
Here's some facts:
Apart from Twitter, social media and most of the US establishment media is controlled by leftists who believe it is right to censor anything who disagrees with them.
The people who talk about "misinformation" are the biggest liars out there.
Only liars wish to censor others.
I never heard that about titanium cracking.
The US looked at making submarines out of titanium and the reasons they chose not to - according to what I read:
a) It is very expensive and the US doesn't have it's own supply that Russia does.
b) It is extremely hard to weld, and if there is a flaw in any of the welding work then you have negated any advantage of it's superior strength.
When the US did need to get hold of titanium - to build the A-12 / SR-71 - then apparently the CIA went to extraordinary lengths of skulduggery to buy it off the Russians without their knowledge.
"Instead, people should be freely able to have what they need if they can explain why that need being fulfilled is beneficial to the common good."
That sounds like a really practical way to make human society work. Oh, wait. No it doesn't.
"In a just world, all fossil fuel use would end tomorrow."
If fossil fuel use ended tomorrow, 95% of the 8 billion or so people alive now would starve to death. Is that what you mean by "just"?
Where did all the grown ups go on this site?
"Covid showed that people don't need to travel long distances to survive"
The people delivering your food were still travelling long distances. The people who do jobs that don't actually contribute anything useful to society or the economy - you are welcome to spend the rest of your lives in self imposed lockdown if you think that will help.
For people in their 40s the risk benefit profile was in favour of getting vaccinated against COVID, but for people in their 20s and younger it definitely wasn't.
The US government was pushing to get children vaccinated and censoring anyone who suggested this was a bad idea.
The left are engaged in buring books - literally - and trying to block them from being published.
Others are just trying to keep books with sexually explicit content out of school libraries - something which until five minutes ago was universally considered quite sensible.
You have that wrong.
The left version is along the lines of "You have freedom to say exactly what you like, as long as you don't say anything I disagree with. If you do I will organise a hate mob to have you fired from your job, removed from the internet and unable to use basic financial services."
The right version is more "Say whatever you want, just don't try to indoctrinate my children into your political beliefs at school, or give them pornography".
Because women tend more interested in people, and social interaction, and men more interested in systematising and problem solving.
The relatively small number of women who are interested in Computing as a subject and career should be very highly valued, but it is not a "problem" than men outnumber women in this field, any more that women now outnumber men in teaching, law, medicine, biological sciences...
"Epic's argument is the same as demanding to have Waitrose (a UK high end supermarket) deliver your ASDA (UK low end supermarket) shopping...."
Sorry, that's a terrible analogy.
The argument is more like - remember the Microsoft antitrust case from the 1990s, and now imagine that Microsoft did not allow users to install any software on Windows except through their own "store" and with them taking a 30% cut of all revenues from all software or media that did run on Windows.
Being able to load your own software on a computer independently of the computer or OS vendor is not "forcing Waitrose to deliver ASDA groceries".
Wrong.
The Apple II brought in the money, and Jobs had zero to do with creating it.
The Apple II beat all of those "loads of people wiring together off the shelf chips" because of Woz's engineering genius that made the computer more efficient, cheaper to produce and more powerful.
Jobs created the Apple III, Lisa and Macintosh (not actually technically designed obviously) - all of which were commercial failures.
Functioning capacitive multi-touch screens were new, and that plus the amazingly intuitive touch interface that Apple developed to run on them was what changed the world. One would nor work without the other.
I had Nokia and Windows mobile GUI phones with resistive touch screens and they were awful, horrible things to use.
Because Remainers believe that Brexit will be the end of the world - that we need to be members of the EU for any business or trade or commercial activity to be possible, that it is impossible to trade with other countries if not a member of the EU, that no overseas business has any reason to invest in Britain other than it's membership of the EU.
Basically that we are dependent on membership of the EU for any economic activity, for all of our legal rights and to prevent war immediately breaking out with the rest of the world.
If you wonder why people in the UK believe this it is because that is what our government, state media and entire political establishment have been telling them for years.
Factually incorrect again.
You read this article and assumed that this is the only company that is moving jobs or investment to the UK "despite Brexit"?
Niether of your numbers - 1 or 20 are remotely accurate. It takes more to work out the net change in inward investment since we voted to leave the EU than comparing one Register article about one company to another article in Business Insider.
They are asking for the right to dictate what other people say and think.
Also to impose horrific treatments with unproven effects on children who are going through a period of confusion and fear about their identity and sexuality - which is basically all of them.
Also to force women (in the biological definition of the term) to compete unfairly in sports against much stronger & heavier biological men.
Is that enough?
The last time I went in Maplin was during the closing down sale of the branch near work.
I wanted some basic cable - usb to aux or something. I knew Maplin would be more expensive that buying from Amazon, but I needed it right away.
But then, even in the last days of the closing down sale, they were charging something like £8 when it was 50p on Amazon, So I walked out.
2 is exactly what is happening to my former employer - a software company. After a couple of rounds of private equity buyouts that have done exactly this, it is now with another new owner.
Having bought the company form the previous PE owner, who sold at a loss, they were able to buy for a price where the interest on the loan to pay it is less than the value of future revenues that are effectively locked in by existing client support contracts - once the have eliminated OpEx entirely by simply abandoning all sales activities and development of the product.
If the face unlocking were actually functionally superior to a fingerprint reader in any way, to justify the price:
-Faster
-More reliable
-More secure
You might have a point, but it is none of those.
At the moment you have an expensive new bit of hardware that implements an existing function in a slightly worse way.
Apart from that it is an interesting bit of technology, which might be used to do something useful and innovative in the future, but so far we have only got animated emojis and a nose-pointing game.
On the other hand, I suppose the rest of us should be grateful that the zealots are more willing than XBox owners to pay so much to bankroll a speculative R&D project.
"We don't have magic replicators, but we do have big combine harvesters. We're approaching the point - and have been since the invention of the plough - where it's available land mass that dictate our resources, not human labour."
We are not remotely approaching the point where everyone can have everything they want without anyone having to work - where no-one has to do shitty jobs like stacking shelves, wiping the arses of senile geriatrics or scraping fatbergs off the walls of sewers. Who exactly is going to do these jobs if they can live on a handout from the state?
"That's why we have so many jobs - coders, market researchers, interior decorators - that aren't directly tied to feeding us."
You mean how jobs still exist even though technology was supposed to destroy all of them?
How people keep on finding new jobs to do, even though machines plough our fields, work our production lines and route or telephone calls?
Like how people of a certain political persuasion like to present everything as no real debate?
There is simply your opinion, which is correct - based as it is on your own superior intellect, knowledge and moral values - and all contrary opinions which are wrong, and only exist at all because some people are to stupid, ignorant or evil to accept that you are right.
miss the point of keeping the license fee.
Sure, the BBC could be more successful and more popular and make more money for more good TV if it became properly commercial.
But then it would not a proper commercial management.
The thousands of useless Purnells all doing pointless management jobs, making fat salaries, awarding themselves 6-figure bonuses and payoffs - these would be swept out.
Hence these people will fight tooth and nail to keep the status-quo.
I hate to sound like an advertisement.
But having just bought a new phone from an "obscure, irrelevant" Chinese OEM -
Specifically a ZTE Blade S6
I have to say it pisses over this Samsung.
£170 from Amazon.
A 615 processor instead of 410
2GB RAM instead of 1 (makes a huge difference to multitasking & performance compared to my old Moto G)
Android 5.0.2 instead of KitKat.
A non-pentile 720 screen.
Sure, it's plastic, but I have come to the conclusion that plastic is actually a better material for making phones from than metal and glass.
I could live with just one port.
But that would be one port and a power connector.
Effectively this is a computer with no ports, and has lost the mag-safe power connector which is one of the best things about my MBP.
Sure there is a market for these - people whose use is 100 percent mobile - but that is a pretty small market and they are cutting themselves off from a much bigger one.
Yes, it's a real computer running a real OS.
Just like...
Thousands of existing models of laptops.
The only difference being - it is marginally slimmer than the slimmest existing laptops from Lenovo, Apple etc at the expense that you cannot comfortably use it on your lap, or on the tray of an aeroplane or train seat.
For the same price I would prefer an ultrabook or Air with a hinged keyboard.
And it is bigger, heavier an more expensive than tablets, which are not full computers.
So what is so great about it?
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