Posts by lnLog

Google stuffs Gemini into Android Studio Panda 2 to build apps from prompts

Is that the same "sync is taking a significant amount of time to download dependencies." that is reported elswhere of treating FOSS repositories as local storage and downloading the same files thousands of times per day?

Say goodbye to budget PCs and smartphones – memory is too expensive now

Re: We just need to hang on for a year or two

I can see a market for this stuff on PCIe cards as super fast SSDs - if there is enough stock floating about unloved the cost of a ASIC to run the show would be covered by the volume - but more likley there would be more profit margin sticking it in consumer graphics cards (like they used to).

Contain your Windows apps inside Linux Windows

hiding virtual machine

Do either of these provide a means to hide the fact that windows is running in a VM from the software inside it? Some of the commercial CAD stuff wont run if it detects it is in a VM.

Been struggling with find a viable method for this along with forwarding a pci ethernet card for the MAC addresses linked to licenses. 10 LTSC is ok currently stand alone, but new software versions will refuse to instal on it soon enough, and win 11 needs to be contained in a flaming moat. Been trying to do this every 5 years or so for the last 15, bit closer every time but still no complete solution available

Clawdbot sheds skin to become Moltbot, can't slough off security issues

Moltbot - so it sheds your skin so you are naked and vulnerable to the outside world? - i think i'll keep my coat...

Notepad will now tell you all the ways Microsoft has enshittified it

Re: Answers on a postcard to,...

Slop-roll?

Rocket Lab's Neutron schedule under pressure after unexpected tank rupture

Also composite materials perform best under tension (pressure tank) where the fibers take the bulk of the load, vs compression (sub) where the much weaker resin is a greater limiting factor

Every conference is an AI conference as Nvidia unpacks its Vera Rubin CPUs and GPUs at CES

foam?

"Perhaps AMD's aggressive rack scale roadmap has Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang nervous" or maybe - Perhaps all the questions about bubbles is making Huang nervous? - get your orders (non refundable) in now!

Sam Altman is willing to pay somebody $555,000 a year to keep ChatGPT in line

Re: I'll do it

No porblem! i'll sort it right out. The fuse box is round here somewhere yes?

'PromptQuest' is the worst game of 2025. You play it when trying to make chatbots work

Key phrase

I think the phrase you are looking for is - Non-Deterministic.... Its like expecting a random number generator to serve as a clock or a fruit machine to pay out every time you pull the lever.

NASA nominee 'committed' to uprooting Shuttle Discovery for Houston trophy piece

ah, language

You can be committed to the undertaking and make sure that every check is made and every eventuallity is considered to get all the documentation needed to get the final cost. 'i'm sorry there just is not the budget for the proposed move'

AI is actually bad at math, ORCA shows

....Sherlock

'our non-determiistic software is unable to operate deterministically' - FFS

Why Elon Musk won't ever realize the shareholder-approved Tesla payout

Re: What's next?

I believe it was closer to 'powdered fruit drink" - cult leaders seem to generally be cheapskates

AI isn't throttling HPC. It is HPC

bits

I'd like to see open foam or other 'techical' applications make any useful contributions with a 4 bit wide bus (even if there are x n of them in parallel). I know that is a stretch, but the cards for AI are dropping the wide / high floating point capacity in favor of the low crap, as has been reported here multiple times.

How do you solve a problem like Discovery?

Re: Better option.

Yup, they wanted a vehicle that had been to space, why not send them a apollo or mercury capsule? I though that was what NASA had identified initially anyway.

Microsoft lets bosses spot teams that are dodging Copilot

foot shot?

So there will be direct evidence that the inversly corrolates AI usage with productivity?

Microsoft moves to the uncanny valley with creepy Copilot avatars that stare at you and say your name

Given the non-deterministic nature of AI (LLM), the answer would be all of them

Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates

technical plateau

But i guess the point is that with the end of moores law, and the massive increase in reliability of electronic equipment, the duration of 'useable' / 'viable' electronic devices will more and more be not defined by when they are unable to run the latest software or physically fail, but when the hardware is no longer supported by software.

Everyone needs an AI phone. No, don't hang up, it's true

Re: So....

yup, pixel phone, flash it with graphene OS and no more google telemetry, can still use all android apps and they all get put in their own sand boxes, plus no AI anything bonus.

Enterprises sticking with Windows 10 could shell out billions for continued support

"and employees notice a genuine improvement after the upgrade"

Big problem there is that there is no real difference from the previous product, so until the users adapt to the UI changes, it will be a downgrade, gradually rising to the same level previously attained. And may would argue, with the addition of more telemetry, and distractions like 'AI' etc.

I've dowgraded to LTSC and have not noticed any difference from the previous 'úpgrade' of the latest 10.

Ebuyer website bought by Fraser Group plc

Any good recommendations for alternatives that are not amazon?

Cold without the compressor: Boffins build better ice box

Re: Being twice as efficient at material level cooling

This^

Datacenters have a public image problem, industry confesses to The Reg

An then you have most of the conservatives and republican politicians spouting off for the last few decades fomenting scepticism of science and you wonder why there is hesitancy regarding IT / technology.

GNOME Foundation's new executive director is Canadian, a techie, and a GNOME user

Re: The question is...

Read the article, they are front of house to bring in the cash, and don't appear to have a role in directing the specifics.

Early mornings, late evenings, weekends. Useless users always demand support

Re: turn it off

Most are on what is known as 'at will' which involves zero notice for them firing you or you leaving.

If there is lot of jobs all power to the employee, otherwise all power to the employer.

What better place to inject OpenAI's o1 than Los Alamos national lab, right?

Most step by step reasoning is likely to come to the unhelpful? conclusion that the world would be a better place and would solve all humanities problems if humanity just ceased to exist

NASA wants ideas on how to haul injured moonwalkers

Re: Giant Steps Are What You Take?

if there is three in a group, then a telescopic pole between the two and a strap to carry the third, bump up their suit pressure so they dont sag

AI PCs flood the market. Their makers hope someone wants them

Re: Generative AI is only a bullshit generator.

An NPU provides no battery life advantages if it is never used, and just uses up die area. The sooner needs to come sooner than it currently is to minimise the waste of resources and energy being shovelled by those investing in the current FOMO rush.

Norway datacenter dumps diesel diet, goes veggie with biofuel backup

Re: burning 1,000 liters of HVO will release 195 kg of carbon dioxide,

Most of the energy in combustion of hydrocarbons comes from the hydrogen, not the carbon. Which is why burning equivalent amounts of coal, refined oils, natural gas and hydrogen gas, will release significantly decreasing amounts of carbon and increasing amounts of water (H2O).

An arc welder in the datacenter: What could possibly go wrong?

Re: Blame-shifting gone mad

Brazing is where the filler and temperature is high enough that there i a significant amount of mixing of the base metal(s) to form a new alloy. Done right you can start off with a filler that is no longer present in the joint and a joint strength significantly higher than the filler material.

Yes, the base metal can 'melt' in the presence of fluxes (the filler can also act as a flux) that is a lower temperature than the base metal bulk melting temperature.

Infineon promises 12kW PSUs for next generation of power-hungry AI servers

The sooner this 'AI' bubble bursts the better, and dumps the ~80% of cryptocurrency-esk wastefulness of proposed inane use cases.

Research finds electric cars are silent but violent for pedestrians

background noise the issue?

maybe a reason to reduce the background noise of ICE vehicles?

Wiley shuts 19 scholarly journals amid AI paper mill problems

a right mess

The whole system is a machine to make profit and keep pension funds ticking over.

Editors are seldom paid positions, similarly the peer review process is also not paid, researchers have to pay to submit papers and if they want the paper to be available to all they must pay extra, or it goes behind a pay wall.

The issue of fraudulent and or poor quality papers means a vast number of academics just do not respond to requests to provide a peer review and yet the institutions actively push for them to generate as many papers as possible with no regard given to providing peer review.

Many editors at the 'higher end' journals will ignore many papers that do not have someone significant on the author list or are submitted by an institution or country that does not meet their ideals, either ignoring or selecting for 'third world' depending on the field.

Underwater cables in Red Sea damaged months after Houthis 'threatened' to do just that

If you have a underwater drone and/or have identified the cable some other way, you just set a charge and blow it, no need for dragging

Windows 11 24H2 is coming so we can all shut up about Windows 12 for another year

ha!

"one more hurrah for Windows 11 before the operating system moves to maintenance, and something with a less toxic brand takes center stage"

Judging by the talk of integrating Artificial Ignorance 'AI' into windows 12, it looks like it may be two in a row for high toxicity...

A ship carrying 800 tonnes of Li-Ion batteries caught fire. What could possibly go wrong?

Re: I assume they discharge batteries before shipping them?

They will have charge in them, as part of the manufacturing process is to apply charge to form the surfaces (chemistry / texture) of the plates after initial assembly. The article does not mention if this is nickel (NMC) of iron (LFP) Lithium cells, the latter do not suffer from thermal runaway due to damage.

The truth about Dropbox opening up your files to AI – and the loss of trust in tech

Re: The Dropbox CEO is lying

Likewise, I logged in and this setting was enabled. I've not used dropbox or had it installed for about a year now

Tool bag lost in space now tracked by garbage watchers

Re: Spanners

For West pondians, spanner != wrench, a wrench has a camming action and usually knurling for grip (which bites into whatever is being torqued). I've seen west pondian mechanics tool kits from the early 1900s and it literally was wrenches used for working with nuts and bolts.

When is a privacy button not a privacy button? When Google runs it, claims lawsuit

Cyanogen lives on in the form of LineageOS,

Google's claims of super-human AI chip layout back under the microscope

Not just the reviewers, the majority of editors are also unpaid

MIT Press to trial open access journals, so long as someone else pays for it

Ditch the share holders

Hows about not handing out dividends.

Most editors are not paid positions (at least no more than beer money for those that are), reviewers don't get paid and authors pay 1000's per paper. So where is the money actually going?

Can gamers teach us anything about datacenter cooling? Lenovo seems to think so

peltier elements are horrendously inefficient for shifting heat, best use cases are for precision temperature control in lasers etc.

Data loss prevention emergency tactic: keep your finger on the power button for the foreseeable future

pedant says...

I like to point out the american tendency to use pre-revolutinary units does not match well with their image of themselves

Liz Truss ousted as UK prime minister, outlived by online lettuce

Re: At last, a benefit of Brexit

What this one....?

Delta Air Lines throws $60m at flying taxi startup Joby Aviation

Re: I18N

exactly this^ of course everyone wants to ride a flying turd

Rookie programmer's code goes up in flames ... kind of

Re: Vital detail missing

Just watch out for a case of plague if you have bad luck and it was not cooked well enough...

Twitter whistleblower summoned to Senate Judiciary Committee

To convenient

No fan of either twitter or musk, but the timing of this sounds far to convenient for musk

Scientists use supercritical carbon dioxide to power the grid

pre-revolutionary units

Whilst the use of per-revolutionary units does irk, I'm more confused by the grid connection and dynamo being a big thing.

Thermal power plants use turbines, and they have the power take off and grid connection part sorted.

If you have lower power requirements then you just use an inverter (with efficiencies of >98% so minimal losses), what's the big thing here? Other than replacing steam with CO2 which apparently provides some advantages in operational efficiencies. This is the second article discussing 'Sandia' does a relative work there? I've never come across the institution? before.

AI chip adds artificial neurons to resistive RAM for use in wearables, drones

Artificial neurons use analogue signals not digital, magnitude not value. Hence the comment about the line switches coping with both analogue and digital signalling.

NASA wants a hundredfold upgrade for space computers

Arduino -> Atmega -> Atmel -> Microchip

Microchip also now own Atmel, so have their line of SAM (arm) and AT (avr) chips. Did someone say Arduino in space....

Russian anti-satellite test added to a 'pressing threat to security' in space

pedant says...

-> Thank you for confirming my point. I wrote that scientists are not always right. What a pity that the first groups of scientists who said such and such was safe can't be force fed the excrement they created.

Thalidomide is safe to those taking it (people still take it to treat leprosy), however it is not safe for fetus at a certain developmental point. Now how many pregnant women do you think were in the initial drug trials? same number as are in pretty much all drug trials - zero.

There is never zero risk, and sometimes the consequences are horrendous, but new information comes to light and conclusions change.