Posts by elsergiovolador

What do Uber drivers make of Waymo? 'We are cooked'

Taxi

in-car conversations will suffer

Sometimes you don't know if your driver could be a therapist or the rapist...

Trump taps Musk to lead 'government efficiency' task force

Re: Musk's plan

Maybe they'll discover a document stating that his birthplace was actually at the US embassy that was not built yet and then abandoned. Technically US soil.

Re: oh joy

More like Orange man is a Moscow's chaos actor.

He is doing well at pushing the wedge into parts of society neglected by liberals run by the rich.

If liberals won't wake up, the world indeed is going to end up with convicted criminal at the wheel.

Build a massive compound, litter it with mercenaries then stop paying taxes and bills (apart from invoices raised by mercenaries).

Google says replacing C/C++ in firmware with Rust is easy

Re: Making C++ memory safe ..

The problem is that organisations hire programmers on the cheap, who basically work like AI - search something on SO or existing codebase, copy and paste it then amend to fit the problem at hand. If they do pair programming, they may have more experience programmer write tests and then all they do is mindlessly tweak the code until it passes the tests.

Tests of course will not cover many things and that's how you get crappy software that sort of works, but not really well.

Rust is just a guise to let corporations continue to hire cheap workers and save more money or increase profits.

Employee

Probably it was replaced by famous programmer Gemini Claude Chatgeepeetee

ESA prints 3D metal shape in space for first time

Re: IMPRESSIVE

depends on gravity

That gravity must feel so much pressure...

FTC urged to stop tech makers downgrading devices after you've bought them

Urges

They start with urging, but when they will go with nuclear option of condemning?

To patch this server, we need to get someone drunk

Re: Prison

There is no need for conspiracy at all.

The beauty of this is that people follow this like cargo cult.

Re: Prison

No you are driving on the wrong side of the road, you maniacs!

Re: Jokes on them

Self-harm, pretty common for people traumatised in the former workplace.

Prison

is quite a popular way to wind down from the working week

What seems like a casual way to unwind after a long week - grabbing a few pints with colleagues - is actually part of a calculated system designed to keep workers from breaking free. Corporate culture pushes the idea that you "deserve" a drink to relax, but in reality, those pints are preventing you from working on your own side projects and realising your potential outside the company.

When you're inebriated, you're in no state to focus on developing skills, building a business, or reflecting on how you could turn the knowledge you've gained at work into something of your own. The alcohol keeps your mind dulled, your energy depleted, and ensures that any motivation to pursue personal goals fades away with every sip.

This isn't accidental. The corporate machine wants you to stay locked into your role, dependent on the job, and too mentally fogged to challenge the status quo. By subtly encouraging after-work drinks, they ensure that you're too tired and distracted to make moves on your own path. The social pressure to join in makes it seem harmless, but it’s part of a larger plan to keep workers from realising their full potential, ensuring that you stay part of the workforce rather than becoming a competitor or independent success.

Pat Gelsinger's grand plan to reinvent Intel is in jeopardy

Re: They could raise money

Given that Intel / AMD enjoy de facto monopoly on the ISA, I wonder why CMA and the likes are not breathing at their necks to open up the specification for fair competition to emerge.

It's clear that Intel is no longer capable to progress and AMD cannot be left to its own devices. Regulators should step in.

But I guess CMA has more important things to do.

Heaters

Intel should pivot and start doing and embrace what they do best:

CPU shaped room heaters.

AI's thirst for water is alarming, but may solve itself

Re: Capitalism doesn't automatically equate to greed

"thIs Is nOt rEal CapItaLisM"

Re: Rain

You know that we very much live in a sandbox, so these things don't matter?

Re: Rain

But human lifespan is not even a blip in the grand scheme of things. All depends on the perspective.

One can even argue that if nature let us develop to that stage, then this is all wanted.

Re: Rain

So the nature will sort it out.

If desert gets created, datacentre no longer can cool itself off and burns down, then the nature comes back.

Rain

Did the people concerned skip school?

If water evaporates, it doesn't get removed from environment - it is released back to the environment.

You know, water doesn't go to space, it comes back as something called "rain".

Rain is when you see droplets of water coming down from the sky and when you get wet if you don't get an umbrella -ella -ella

If every PC is going to be an AI PC, they better be as good at all the things trad PCs can do

Contest

AI wants to win the PEBCAK award.

Admins wonder if the cloud was such a good idea after all

Re: Shareholder

With my napkin maths at some workplaces, they could easily do on-prem, pay for full time staff to babysit the machines for fraction of the cost (though not small fraction)

But shareholders and the board would reject these ideas, because of fear ("you don't have experience", "what if you get sudden spike of traffic, how do you scale up?", "AWS is a standard", "We don't mind extra cost, look at savings in hiring.")

I worked at a place with on prem hosting and we had classic "cleaner unplugged the server" case at least once or people who installed the servers didn't label them. Fun finding which one that crashed needs to be hard rebooted.

Shareholder

The point of cloud is to be its shareholder, not its product.

Key aspects of Palantir's Federated Data Platform lack legal basis, lawyers tell NHS England

Re: Is opt-out even legal?

Remember that the law is only for little people. Governments can do as they please and they can always amend the laws later if they forgot.

Re: Internal

It has to be via 3rd party that can slice and dice it then repackage it and sell. How else do you expect politicians can deliver to their "supporters"?

Grease

Sounds like there was not enough grease, so there is some friction now

The fingerpointing starts as cyber incident at London transport body continues

Re: Questionable position

"We are yet to squint harder"

Apple accused of hoodwinking UK antitrust cops

Matters

CMA deep into the things that matter.

No.

WHO-backed meta-study finds no evidence that cellphone radiation causes brain cancer

Re: Dr WHO

or just WEF bots housekeeping the comment section.

WHO

WHO-backed.

Says all.

UK trio pleads guilty to running $10M MFA bypass biz

Re: Costly legal enforcement

It's a big ask from pharmaceutical lobby to shut down herb sellers. I mean, they want law enforcement that we pay for to keep their competition at bay instead of solving crimes.

Transport for London confirms cyberattack, assures us all is well

Mild

This is just a mild cyber attack. Vitamin C and a lie down all is needed, but just in case head trauma surgeons are on stand by.

Zen Browser is a no-Google zone that offers tiling nirvana

Re: Arctick

I don't find these features useful. They can be a source of "busy work", where you can organise things to feel good and get dopamine hit from achieving something, but they are not practical to use for me.

I just have a large text file where I dump stuff into and can quickly search for what I need.

I remember sites that I use regularly and for those used less often, there is autocomplete. I've never seen a point for bookmarks. Some of my friends use them religiously though, so each to their own I guess. Sometimes it is painful to watch them going through bookmarks to find a link to the site they want to show. They could just have typed it in the address bar or used search engine.

Arctick

I installed this Arc thing a while ago to see what's the fuss about it.

I can't see what is the point of that thing. Just so it does the tiling thing?

Google could add this at a snap of the finger to Chrome and their business is gone?

NHS dangles £1.5B carrot to be outfitted with everything from PCs to printers

Re: So they can find a billion and a half for this...

Well it is different if you pay monies to rich owned big corporations versus paying to working class unwashed staff.

Working class can't have too much money, because what if they can afford members' club fees?

Can you imagine sipping your favourite vintage and enjoying a cigar and seeing a doctor bothering the waiter with his lack of proper taste?

Black horse down: Lloyds online banking services go dark

Re: Well....

Also great help for scammers to give them window of opportunity to send victims link to spoofed bank pages that look different.

Re: A realisation of what they are

Someone's gotta feed the horse

Cash

This is much more convenient than using cash in your own under the mattress bank.

I mean if you look at cash you can't see transactions either, just you get the sense of money missing.

Also if you cannot see your transaction history, that's just something you don't have to worry about.

That £200 withdrawal last night? Now you can't see. Less guilt.

I'd say banking apps should go offline more often.

and if you can't make payment? You could get to talk to actual human about it!

EV sales hit speed bump as drivers unplug from the electric dream

They're easier to fill, no visits to smelly stations, very much less time spent.

Indeed, I saw, presumably, husband and wife stuck at charging bay at the supermarket. Wife was constantly yelling and the husband was scrolling his phone. Took me about an hour in the shop as I had a cheeky coffee and a toastie and some articles to read. On my way back wife was still shouting and car was charging.

Indeed easier.

Exactly

Imagine how many perpetuum mobile devices we would have today if only people trying to build them ignored the right wing $cientists telling it will not work.

Kool Aid

Many neighbours drank the EV kool aid couple of years ago.

Now none of them has an EV.

Rust for Linux maintainer steps down in frustration with 'nontechnical nonsense'

Could have been worse

Imagine if Linux decided to incorporate Node.js to become more accessible to developers who can't comprehend C.

Elon Musk reins in Grok AI bot to stop election misinformation

Re: What is misinformation ..

Did you read the headline?

Re: What is misinformation ..

So politicians will be banned?

Re: What is misinformation ..

Misinformation is if done inadvertently and disinformation if there was an intent to deceive.

By the sound of it, they want to stop accidental lies and keep the intentional.

As the Apple Watch turns 10, disabled users demand real accessibility

Re: Mechanical

I can't ever remember how to set an alarm on the basic Casio watch. I managed to set one alarm couple of years ago.

I still hear beeping around 11pm every night from the wardrobe and that puts smile on my face.

Re: Tedious

I mostly do walking and running and phone seems to be more accurate for tracking that.

In terms of sleep tracking - I tried this too, but after the day using the watch, I typically found watch running out of juice in the middle of the night so it was useless.

Having to remember to charge the watch after work just so that I can use it for sleep tracking was a no go. I try to minimise number of things I have to babysit.

One day I realised I have not worn the watch for over a week after putting it to charge. Then I just never worn it again and have not missed it.

For baking, I have a timer on the counter that is quite loud, so I can hear it from another room and I have a phone very much always on me.

Tedious

I bought a smart watch just to see what's the fuss about.

Honestly I cannot see the point of these devices. Very much everything is much quicker to do and managed on the phone.

It takes a split second to pull out the phone, unlock and check notification. On the watch it is a menu diving nightmare.

It only wins when you quickly want to check the time (provided battery has juice), but then you can just buy a cheap casio with forever battery and be done with it.

Missing Fujitsu PCs? It's back with a fresh lineup of 16 models

Re: Blockchain

Someone didn't get the joke.

You know, main selling point of a blockchain is that it is very hard to modify historical records stored in it.

Blockchain

Has anyone tried to run Blockchain on Fushitetsu machine?