Offshored support staff paid peanuts, bribed at a similarly vast discount to give over customer details
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I'm currently in the royal signals / IT crossover myself and have a few colleagues in the same venn diagram.
None of us are posh though, and those of us that went down the officer route did it for the slightly increased pay and because it seemed interesting rather than because we were in any way privileged (If anything my Northern Irish accent and their scouse ones are quite the opposite of your stereotype). If people self-select not to try out for AOSB because they think it's only for posh people then that's their lookout, that's not a way of thinking that the army in any way promotes (a very small number of exclusive regiments notwithstanding). It's more about throwing yourself around obstacle courses without a care for common sense, running until you vomit your lungs up and showing some awareness for the world around you.
Others (in the combat support arms especially) either reject or back out of the officer role/route because it takes you far away from the hands-on technical roles you probably joined up for in the first place. Same in regular life where you go from dev to management and look jealously at your direct reports having fun in an IDE while you're attending meetings about next year's budget and living in excel hell.
Being in a non-commissioned officer role is the best of both worlds and is often a very conscious decision that shouldn't be translated to any sort of bias. Some people likes sales and excel, some people like tech and just want a senior role in that specific arena.
My mother is blind and could probably benefit from a voice activated assistant.
how nice of you to care about your mother and be so considerate and respectful toward her
to spare anyone listening in to the GBNews fuelled rantings of a 92 year old.
oh nevermind, hope that's out of your system now and gets you lots of internet points.
Imagine if older relatives knew what people were saying about them in public to look cool in front of their friends, it's a crazy side effect of social media
I was thinking the exact same thing. Just launching straight into all these acronyms and personalities from the US without even enough context to build up a guess.
And yet the article about Northern Ireland police names being leaked came with all sorts of qualifiers about the fact that there is a bit of historical conflict there, as if we living in the UK really needed to be told that
Suppose we know who the target audience is now
yeah, see the border commission. they don't want some of the more trigger-happy northern elements of the IRA either, Slab Murphy etc al were barely tolerated by IRA leadership and were very against gerry adams. no one wanted south armagh (even the south, look at what dundalk was like just because of the proximity) but in the end the north didn't want caches that much closer to belfast so very reluctantly kept it but were approaching the south with the hypothetical of a landswap for an equivalent protestant area caught on their side of the border.
You're going to charge someone under the terrorism act for possession of data you yourself made public??
people have been arrested for having police numberplates scribbled down on paper which falls under the same thing
the big factor is that they're suspected New IRA, then it becomes information likely to be useful to terrorists, and if you're already "suspected" of being in the NIRA then they actually know you are and this is something tangible that they can get to stick.
you or I probably wouldn't get done for possessing it but they'd take a very good look at you first which is why it's best not to go near
one of ours luckily has only 1 relevant comparable source in its training data from some other company's coding task, which helpfully specifies they have to name a variable a certain name (which then doesnt get used) so i look out for that variable
Another has some automation required and the AI just assumes the names of locators which clearly don't exist but it's not opening an application to find locators it's a glorified chatbot, so it looks fine but won't run
Other ones i use ambiguous writing which a human would understand and I got a bit cheeky with a rogue instruction with the font set to the same colour as the background which gets blindly copy-pasted into the prompt
Even if they got past all that (they don't) the next interview is for them to walk me through the code so it's a nice timesaver but they'd get caught at the next stage anyway (and it prevents me from being rude when I inevitably unmask them after taking time out of my busy day)
4% is far far higher than I would have imagined.
so far the only people using AI that I've seen in industry have been a certain subset of job candidates trying to cheat their way through the take-home technical tasks. Easily caught because the tasks I've given are designed to fool AI and be done properly by a human and the cheaters never even check to see if their code executes properly.
It would be wonderful if this worked
and one step closer to a real robo-Humphrey for the day-to-day which one can optionally set to full Malcolm Tucker mode when things are starting to hit the fan PR-wise and the politicians need to be "managed"
Although I do see the usual crowd in the news complaining already about the choice of name (as if half of them didn't have to use their favourite tax-dodging search engine to figure out what the name meant first)
Geological incidents are a near-daily occurrence in Taiwan, as are geopolitical rumblings
This doesn't strike me as ideal. The UK has boring seismic activity and boring-if-miserable-to-humans weather, surely our complete lack of any character apart from being a bit grey would make us a better choice
i don't get why i'd tell you where it is?
the only person who could get their hands on it or know where it is is my wife and she could have my passwords if she asked anyway. if you're getting at what i think you are then i think if someone was robbing my house a slip of paper wouldn't get your average smackhead's attention with the usual electronics people have around being the headlines.
I have a "deathbox" which is a fireproof lockbox with my basic usernames and passwords (email etc) and then my bitwarden username and master password for everything else. All bundled up alongside will, insurance docs, a list of bills that are in my name that'd need changing etc just to reduce the admin in that first couple of weeks.
I've worked in too many banks and call centres as a younger man having to deal with stressed widows trying to untangle someone's life and being charged for months of subscriptions without realising they were active and trying to deal with getting those refunded etc and blundering through it all when they're not exactly in a decent frame of mind anyway
I'll take that in the spirit of humour that it is hopefully intended
I've worked in frozen chicken factories where lifers have spent 30 years smelling of chicken at sub zero temperatures for minimum wage, worked at the roadside pouring hot tar in sweltering weather and I'm not quite so spoiled as to turn my nose up at this offer when i've a family to feed
Your phone OS is a single point of virtually ALL your personal data.
if you choose it to be; my nokia 2660 can't be lumped into that statement. In fact a deep analysis of my phone will only show the outgoing and incoming calls will have a 100% correlation with when my wife went into one shop while i went into another and we had to find each other again afterwards.
While everyone focuses on disrespectful conspiracy theories the story of a mother briefly losing her 1 year old under violent waves in the sea made this really hit home how awful it is.
I wonder what the conditions were before this or if any warning was given, if it was particularly inclement I know I wouldn't have been there. Been camping with a toddler and noped out to a local B&B for a night when a yellow weather warning hit for a storm and returned the next day when it calmed down. There always has to be a line where you say "this has been nice but the holiday's on hold now"