Posts by Paul Herber

You have one week to opt out or become fodder for LinkedIn AI training

Re: I've been poisoning Linkedin profile for years

You claim you invented coffee?

There's grounds for dismissal.

Alaska Airlines grounded by mystery IT meltdown

Re: Jamaica?

Used to be part of Russia. He wants it back.

Cyber exec with lavish lifestyle charged with selling secrets to Russia

So are genuine faux!

Watches

Why do these people always buy watches?

China's CR450 bullet train clocks 453 km/h in pre-service tests

Just one thing. Er, don't stick your head out the window.

Re: The Royal Horticultural Society

They will surely take over from trunk roads.

Blinded by the light: Tesla fixes glaringly bright Cybertruck headlights

"US motor vehicle safety regulations"

Does that DT know about these? Socialism gone mad!!!!!

/s

A single DNS race condition brought Amazon's cloud empire to its knees

Re: Ouch

Could you explain then how buses reroute around the gas main roadworks near the Cleveland Arms without dynamic DNS? You can't allocate new drivers just like that!

UK calls up Armed Forces veterans for digital ID soft launch

Re: Nasty tactic

"954024"

They don't make numbers like that any more!

Cyfnewid teg.

" Once more into the, er, breach? "

First to get an ID, Norman D. Landing.

Microsoft finance slang defines the eternal optimist: The 'hockey stick on wheels'

I'm sure there is a puck joke in there somewhere.

Fake home invasion vid lands woman in real trouble

Re: 8 police cars?

"don't leave valuable stuff sitting where thieves can see it!"

This is as true in Paris as any other part of the world.

Re: So tell me sir...

Swat's that to you?

AWS outage turned smart homes into dumb boxes – and sysadmins into therapists

Re: Really?

"I bought a house."

Luxury.

Trust the AI, says new coding manifesto by Kim and Yegge

Re: "Vibe coding is just autocomplete"

" put them together, "

Ah, so that's why it's called Assembler!

Windows 11 tiptoes further into dark mode with new dialogs

Re: Dark Mode WTF?

I want flying, talkie toasters.

Amazon spills plan to nuke Washington...with X-Energy mini-reactors

Re: More Micro than Small

Can we not take coal and treat with oil in some way to make it emit nucular energy? Maybe bleach it so it looks white? Will that work?

Chamber of Commerce sues over Trump's $100K H-1B paywall

Re: Easy fixes

He loves sycophants. In fact he loves all sick grey animals with big ears.

"sure it's more like a used-car salesman"

Good old Gil. Give good old Gil a chance, won't ya! Aw.

Ha-ha!

So glad I live in a democracy where the emperor/dictator/king/queen/chairman/big-brother/president/beloved-leader/penguin/ can't just make up shit as he/she/it goes along.

Boris Johnson confesses: He's fallen for ChatGPT

Re: Oxford Greek Professors May Roll In Their Graves In 3... 2... 1...

Fractional primes. I love the whole concept, even though it is rather π-eyed.

Re: Oxford Greek Professors May Roll In Their Graves In 3... 2... 1...

Not being very familiar with Greek, ancient or modern, I didn't understand an iota of it.

Something to ask your favourite AI (LLM):

Consider the finite set of ministers. How many ministers are prime and how many are non-prime. Are a majority well rounded or do they tend to be fractious or fractional? Can two consecutive prime ministers be orthogonal?

Answers in ancient Greek please.

Tech industry grad hiring crashes 46% as bots do junior work

Re: Sawing off

"this is what happens when 'money' is made more important than 'people'."

<mode="Monty Burns">

Yes, and your point being?

Microsoft seeding Washington schools with free AI to get kids and teachers hooked

Oh, Washington *state*. For a minute there I assumed from the title that the article was about Washington, the Sussex or (what was) County Durham village. Oh, hello Mr Ferry, I didn't see you there!

Benioff retreats from idea of sending troops in to clean up San Francisco

" open air drug taking "

Maybe both main US political parties need compulsory and continuous drug testing at all levels, right down to local mayors and sheriffs and deputies. And right up to the top.

And all the business people and lawyers they meet. And media people.

That'll take the sting out of the US drug market.

Ofcom refuses to bite over Openreach's fiber freebies

" ...upgerde ..."

I thought that looked like Dutch, but it's actually Afrikaans.

Brit AI boffins making bank with £560K average pay packet at Anthropic

Nobody should ever need more that 560k!

Mine dew, that doesn't even buy you a hole in the middle of the road in SF.

Nvidia's GB10 workstations arrive with 1 petaFLOPS of compute, 128GB of VRAM, and a $3K+ price tag

So, cheaper than the 2025 equivalent price of an original IBM PC running MSDOS back in the 1980s.

Bose kills SoundTouch: Smart speakers go dumb in Feb

Some people have mist the point.

Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal

Re: We truly must consider the cat-owning narco-necro First Nations AI Girlfriends.

Random.

Re: And?

There are those that don't want to be left behind. They want to be right behind! And they'll get there.

50 years in deep space, and Voyager still can't escape budget gravity

Re: NASA Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA)

Given that you are probably not a member of some 1000-year old aristocratic mega-landed family who though educating the peasants was on the road to the end of the world as we know it, something like DEIA has probably given you the education to know the correct place to put that apostrophe and comma.

Microsoft 364 trips over its own network settings in North America

" The outage was brief, and just over an hour later ..."

It would have been sooner but the option to change the setting had been moved 5 times in the last month, this time to:

Settings -> Special -> Dynamic -> Network -> Offsite -> Nebulous -> Containers -> Automatic -> AI -> Microsoft -> All Settings -> General -> Advanced -> Overrides -> Cloud -> Virtual

/s

China is building a thriving semi industry off US leftovers, export controls be damned

You we are all nuts.

England is named England, not Yīng guó.

Texas senators cry foul over Smithsonian's pricey Space Shuttle shuffle

and ends up in a hole.

Starlink is burning up one or two satellites a day in Earth’s atmosphere

Re: We used to watch out for an "Iridium flare"

Fun, fun, fun!

Hacked Ford screens put anti-RTO slogan above CEO’s face

FORD - Fear Of Redundancies, Dearborn.

UK police caught slacking off by jamming their keyboards while working from home

Re: Meanwhile

What about that key that wears that very loud shirt after the hours of darkness.

Mad man builds chatbot in Minecraft with redstone, Python, and patience

Re: There is only one conclusion

yourAI> One can never have too much free time, especially if it is really free, as in free beer, which happens tomorrow apparently. Time, which is on my side, is generated by clocks so I suggest you go to your local clock shop and ask for some free time, brand new or secondhand ...

Square Kilometre Array is so sensitive, its datacenter needs two Faraday cages to stop RF leaks

Re: What are they going to do about people showing up on site with phones, watches, and ...

This Square Kilometer Array is small, that one is far away.

Tesla on the wrong tracks with Fail Self Driving, Senators worry

Re: Not the first time I've seen a video like that

Er, the west coast main line is the London - Glasgow route.

Re: Not the first time I've seen a video like that

"West Coast mainline trains running at 40~50 mph"

So this is slowing down for or accelerating out of the station ...

Re: Not the first time I've seen a video like that

Poor people take the train. Rich people drive cars.

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

" the same response each time "

I wouldn't give an LLM the time of day!

Correct. It was a trick question.

One of those 8 avatars is a psychopath. Your task is to determine which one.