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Posts by MaddMatt
17 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Jul 2015
Win a slice of XP cheese if you tell us where Microsoft should put Copilot next
Tesla's Cybertruck may not be so stainless after all
Tuesday 13th February 2024 14:45 GMT
Re: Stainless?
A good pint. Or to point out what I was told asking the question as a child - Stainless is two words. It doesn't mean that it will be stain free, rather that it will Stain Less than normal steel and other materials. But it will still stain (and corrode depending on how it is composed. handled, used, what it comes into contact with, etc.).
Restaurant hired 'priest' to extract workplace confessions from staff
Is Neuralink ready for human brain implants? Allegedly so
Tuesday 28th March 2023 10:07 GMT 
MoreLeft Pondian references
As a supporter of the official Reg Standards, i have one issue with this article:
WTF is a Quarter - no idea how big this is, not i suspect to anyone not Left-Pondian.
If we are talking length - then Linguini or something more universal is there for the using. Area is an issue though a the Nano Wales is a little too large still.
How about the Pepperoni - specifically the one typically on frozen pizza - about 30mm across. (or an inch and a bit in good old British Imperial units - thanks to the US for maintaining the last bit of our empire).
(Edited to remove typos)
RIP Gordon Moore: Intel co-founder dies, aged 94
Microsoft scrambles to fix Windows 11 'aCropalypse' privacy-battering bug
Why ChatGPT should be considered a malevolent AI – and be destroyed
Friday 3rd March 2023 11:09 GMT
I think it lacks proper training data
I suggest we point it to all of Amanfrommars's posts and see what happens to its replies.
or
Prove its not yet fit for real work (it isn't, for those who haven't realised this yet) and persuade it to start telling people that, for example, the team who are responsible for it are a secret society planning to disrupt world stability by manipulating the content of the web.
Humans strike back at Go-playing AI systems
Take the blue pill: Keanu Reeves has had enough of AI baloney
Wednesday 15th February 2023 14:38 GMT
Dune
Contrast with the Butlerian Jihad in the Dune series: the prohibition "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind,"
There was a general distrust of Computers (electronic brains) in the 50s/60s and a lot of Sci-Fi painted it as anti human.
Used to be amusing - now looks a bit more prophetic.
What's up with IT, Doc? Rabbit hole reveals cause of outage
Friday 10th February 2023 10:12 GMT
D*mned Wabbit
Happened to me quite a while ago
Mid game on a ZX spectrum on the family TV (with the speccy on the floor in front)
Sisters pet rabbit lopes past, sniffs the (low voltage) cable near the back of the computer, and then snips through it and buggers off.
It looked like some reflex to do with clearing roots - it tried to toss the wire away before leaving.
I did get to add an on-off switch at the cut -something which the ZX range was missing.
Surely you can't be serious: Airbus close to landing fully automated passenger jets
Twitter set for more layoffs as Musk mulls next move
Swede builds steam-powered Raspberry Pi. Nowhere to plug in micro-USB, then?
Monday 21st March 2016 10:31 GMT
Steamnote...
I think the steamnote is a little incorrect.
The regulator is a throttle, you open and close it to control engine speed overall.
The description in the steam note relates to the Valves, opening for a short time, determined on some engines by a variable cutoff adjustment (e.g. a great big lever on a steam locomotive).
This then allows the steam to expand, expending its energy pushing down the piston.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
