Posts by elsergiovolador

Want a clean energy transition? Better start putting cash into electrical grid

Re: I would be willing to agree that ...

and ad hominems coming...

How predictable.

Re: I would be willing to agree that ...

Nobody is denying that climate is changing lol

People are questioning whether the actions that we take, that make certain people rich are going to have any meaningful effect.

The XKCD mentions short spikes are being smoothed out. The presented spike at the end, qualifies as a short spike that most likely in 1000 years time won't even be visible if our successors will use the same methodology.

Now make yourself feel better and buy some carbon credits. Flatten the curve!

Re: "Where did the last ice age go"

but it's being accelerated and intensified by human activity.

Correlation is not causation.

Scientists are generally poor people and there is a lot of money to be made on the green gravy train.

Re: I would be willing to agree that ...

It's a shame there is little information how people achieved the ice age last time. Clearly they didn't have electric horses nor means to tax the population to death.

On the other hand when we last time had a period of global warming, people didn't know what carbon is and didn't try to capture their cows' farts.

But I am sure clever propagandists will find a way how to fit all those scams into equation. Electric cars didn't make a difference? Oh well, we just didn't have enough of them! Closing all manufacturing didn't help? Oh well, we should probably have tried harder at depopulation!

Anyway, as it is always with those things, just make sure to make right contacts at gentleman's clubs and get on that green funding spree.

After all the rich are exempt from all this nonsense.

Strategy 2

Or instead of investing in electrical grid you can:

- Ensure most people can't afford electric cars

- Ensure most people can't afford electric anything

- Ensure wage slaves don't have to roam too far - they have their supermarket, doctor, school, pub in 15 minute distance

- Ensure there is good internet, so that people spend most of the time consuming your propaganda

- Ensure people rent rather than buy, so they are dependent on big corporations and government

- Ensure to monitor all communication to nip any dissent in the bud

- Ensure social credit score is implemented to shape people behaviour

- Use any available manipulation techniques to ensure people can reframe living in open prison as peak of happiness.

Half a billion pound NHS data platform award still stuck in the pipes

Give away

Here is the money

Here is the data

Have fun!

'Recession-resilient' Tesla misses Q3 expectations, slows Mexico expansion

Re: Dents

You just have to predent dents dent dentsist.

Accuracy

All parts for this vehicle, whether internal or from suppliers, need to be designed and built to a sub-10 micron accuracy

Good luck with that. Most shops in the West even struggle with 1mm accuracy.

Cybercrim claims fresh 23andMe batch takes leaked records to 5 million

Government

That's why we should insist that only government should collect such sensitive data to guarantee it will never be leaked.

Future government also totally wouldn't want to slice and dice the data to find groups of people to pick on.

Come work at HQ... or find a new job, Roblox CEO tells staff

Re: The struggle is real

is made more difficult by the lack of organic conversations which naturally arise or by the lack of immediate access to senior staff who can help new hires understand the intricacies of their jobs.

Can you explain? Usually the senior staff is just a few clicks away and you won't derail their train of thought by "immediate access" and "organic conversation", but rather have healthier asynchronous exchange where they can respond to you during the pocket where their brain runs idle.

Good company would have all information you need accessible online and a chat where you can ask anything you want, which is more effective than bothering people while they think about something.

Re: inside 45 minutes he had a load of ideas to work on

The lesson here should be to have occasional periods when you all get together

Forcing people to meet, just for the sake of meeting or hmm "team building". I mean, it's daft too.

In healthier workplaces, these - once in a few months - get togethers are entirely optional.

It's fun for younger employees, but for older ones - sometimes that requires a lot of planning, energy, for something that ultimately is listening to other people mundane life stories and entertaining them with yours, while they make fools of themselves by getting too drunk or else. If you are older, you heard and seen all of it many times over and it's simply boring.

and I am yet to hear about a work meeting that cannot be done online (except when there are serious security concerns).

Return

The grand return to the office. Who wouldn't leap at the chance to swap their cosy, coffee-scented mornings at home for the unmistakable musk of public transport at rush hour or the serenity of bumper-to-bumper traffic?

And the sanctified open-plan office! It's not just a productivity hub; it's a cultural melting pot where you learn essential life skills like typing while involuntarily eavesdropping, mastering the 7-minute microwave queue stand-off, and, of course, the diplomatic handling of Spoiled Tuna Sandwich-gate 2023.

Forget 'Zoom fatigue'; that's child's play - because who doesn't love a meeting that could've been an email, but live and with snacks?

In-office mentorship? Nothing says professional growth quite like unsolicited advice from Steve at the coffee machine, spouting wisdom that's as outdated as the 'casual Friday' memo.

Brainstorming sessions? A creative bonanza! There's just something about a fluorescent-lit room that really gets the innovative juices stagnating.

But the pièce de résistance, the true essence of office magic, is the unbridled joy of 'forced fun' - because nothing screams 'team building' like trust falls with Dave from accounting who, incidentally, also trusts deodorant is optional.

Yes, brace yourselves, dear workers, for the unparalleled euphoria of office life is upon us once again. May your coffees be strong, your bathroom queues short, and your headphone's noise-cancellation formidable. Welcome back!

Amazon unveils new drone design, plans liftoff of aerial delivery in UK, Italy

The fence

Imagine a drone could lift the delivery courier over the fence, so that you don't get woken up by them trying to open your gate and then smashing it on the way out.

What's unconstitutional about Google keyword search warrants? Nothing, says Colorado Supreme Court

Plausible deniability

You can't find anything useful using Google search apart from corporate news feeds, propaganda and malware.

So now you can just claim you typed in nonsense hoping to get lucky.

Now we can blame spacecraft for polluting the atmosphere

Re: Who'd have thunk it?

and to think that's not even a rocket science...

Amazon to drop a cool $1B on Microsoft 365 cloud suite

Re: Why not LibreOffice?

Governments should look into it and heavily fine Microsoft for such practices.

Alternative headline

Amazon hates its employees

You snooze, you lose? It's not quite as simple as that

Re: Clock

There are still tribes known for hunting at night. Being more alert at night could be inherited from predecessors who were more active at night - for hunting or to keep others safe while they sleep.

Clock

The thing is, everyone has individual "clock".

If you find that you can naturally fall asleep at 3AM, you will never be happy in 9-5 (unless it is in another time zone).

There are some schools that claim you can shift it, by ensuring you wake up at the same time no matter what and you will gradually go to sleep earlier to get that 5-7 hours.

But it's a misery.

It's much better to talk to employer and ask for individual hours and accept you are 3AM person. No more snoozing and happier life.

CIA exposed to potential intelligence interception due to X's URL bug

Re: Hostile nation could have exploited it to receive Western intelligence.

Just post it to 4chan and anons will do the rest.

Ampere leads a pack of AI startups to challenge Nvidia's 'unsustainable' GPUs

Noises

It's hard to tell these days if these initiatives are being created to snap up funding that some governments give out in the name of "we need to do something", slack for a few years and then call it a day while keeping the mansions and yachts or there is genuine effort to compete with nVidia.

Atlassian users complain of cloud migration dead ends, especially in UK

Relief

Imagine being a software developer earning typical UK engineering wage and then your employer comes up with:

Compass identifies relevant libraries and repositories used by a project and makes them available to developers so that if they’re working on related projects, they don’t have to hunt for the resources they’re expected to use.

Now you only need to hunt for reduced price food...

Bezos' engineers dream of Blue Ring space platform in orbit by 2025

Re: Reality distortion field testing in progress.

who can do the most convincing impression of a rocket scientist.

I found one!

Re: Space

[x] response mocking the concern about the billionaire class indulging in self-importance and pee pee measuring contests.

Check.

Space

It is interesting how the rich are going for somewhat vanity projects, that sound big on the surface but if you look into the details, they seem pretty hollow.

Why trying to solve problems on Earth or at very least improve the lives isn't attractive?

Is space platform going to lift people out of poverty? Get clean water? Bring happiness to millions without roof over their head?

Or is it just another elaborate tax avoidance scheme? After all who is going to check if those super expensive, written off, items are actually in space and not just in the creative accountant imagination?

Space is definitely one place where IRS don't have its reach.

3D printer purchases could require background checks under proposed law

To be fair, very much every printer is 3D, except maybe the one that pissed off the road roller driver.

Average dealer would probably struggle to buy latte and would beat up the record store clerk for claiming there is no CNC machine band.

Thousands of Teslas recalled over brake fluid bug

Patch

// uint8_t brakeFluidStatus = getBrakeFluidStatus(&car);

// if (brakeFluidStatus & BRAKE_FLUID_STATUS_LOW_FLAG) {

// setBrakeFluidLowLight(&car, true);

// }

// ^^ don't bother with the sensor

//

uint32_t timeSinceLastService = getTimeSinceLastService(&car);

if (timeSinceLastService > 94608000) {

// if it has not been serviced in 3 years, just nudge the user to visit one

setBrakeFluidLowLight(&car, true);

if (timeSinceLastService > 126227704) {

// ok this user is taking the piss. Let's set the engine warning light

setEngineFailureLight(&car, true);

}

}

British boffins say aircraft could fly on trash, cutting pollution debt by 80%

Re: more BS university studies

and just leave it up to people and the markets to decide.

Are you not afraid of publicly expressing such extremist views?

Unless by people you mean Davos and by markets, investment funds?

Re: more BS university studies

made from corn and other crops

What is better: feed the poor or have jet fuel so that the rich can fly their bottoms to St Barts to let go of all that stress of having so much money?

UK government slammed for Palantir 'free trial period' deal in Ukraine housing scheme

Re: Hold up...

Mansions, private jets and whatnot won't buy themselves though.

TileDB secures $34M to reimagine databases, not just collect GitHub stars

Late stage capitalism

Eventually it is always more about VC, rounds, angels, valuations, exits and less about the product and employees.

Microsoft starts offering advice in how to code for Arm

Re: Maybe

People who downvoted can provide a link how to set up multichannel audio interface with less than 5ms latency on Linux and without any clicks and drop outs?

Re: Maybe

Real time audio is still pretty broken.

Re: Maybe

It's not like Windows is any better. Windows doesn't even have a basic thing like aggregation of audio interfaces and it prints when it feels like it.

So this one time, at Bandcamp, half the staff were laid off

Re: Never forget, when you work for the compnay being bought...

Also never work beyond bare minimum. Just do enough so that management is unhappy about your performance, but it is not bad enough to fire you.

Company will never remember any all-nighters or that you missed your family time to deliver that essential feature on time.

The nano second you are a surplus to the requirement, you'll be let go.

Microsoft seeking robots to help automate datacenters

ID IoTs

$133,600 to $256,800, the company said, although San Francisco and New York are apparently special cases where the pay grade is $173,200 - $282,200 per year.

They should come to the UK, they could hire engineers for $33,600 to $56,800 and in London for $73,200 - $82,200.

They could go even lower, as engineers would happily work from their shoebox for a lower salary (to avoid bed bugs on public transport).

TaxWatch finds astute scheme minimizes Big Tech's UK tax bill by over $2B

Re: 19% Corporate tax

To add salt to injury, for small business the marginal Corporation Tax rate is even higher - 26.5% for profits between £50,000 and £250,000.

Laziness

It's more about laziness. HMRC can charge Diverted Profit Tax, but that requires doing work, audits etc.

It's much easier to go after small business, that can't defend itself than after big corporations.

HMRC doesn't want to step outside of their comfort zone and we all lose.

Birmingham set to miss deadline to make Oracle disaster 'safe and compliant'

Thinking

Our councils is *description of organic waste*

Question: how to make it look that we want to improve things, without actually doing anything?

Answer 1: we could send out some surveys and review our targets, so we could prioritise things that align more with the needs of residents

Answer 2: our system is slow, that's why we can't deliver anything. Maybe let's change the system?

Answer 3: good point! we will be able to slack off whilst the system is being upgraded!

Answer 4: and if it turns out to be a car crash we will be able to slack even more!

Answer 5: Everyone, let's sing hokey cokey!

Tachyum says someone will build 50 exaFLOPS super with its as-yet unfinished chips

Saying

There is this saying: "If maths don't check out, change the maths".

Brit watchdog slams Microsoft as it clears $69B Activision Blizzard buy

Re: Embarrassment for the UK

There has never been more content available ever but its nearly all just dross.

Many of those "productions" are just tax avoidance schemes.

Too big to fail

Looks like CMA does not understand markets, competition and capitalism.

How smaller businesses can compete with Microsoft if CMA helps it to get even bigger?

What is the point of that institution then?

Just another gravy train, so the people working there can feel fake power and pretend they care while pocketing tax payer money?

UK silicon startups to share £1.3M chump change as part of chip strategy

Re: £108k

Not even enough to hire someone with experience at a chip shop.

£108k

£1.3m / 12 = £108k

For that money you won't even find a single competent employee in the sector.

UK government embarks on bargain bin hunt for AI policy wonk

Choo choo

Me thinks:

Most likely they won't find anyone and they will have a case for hiring a contractor from the usual suspects, paying market rate plus agency mark up.

Or they will find someone who will get paid supplement salary from one of our adversaries.

Either way this looks like a result of heavy lobbying (mhmm...) so that big and already established AI corporation can enjoy regulatory capture and have government do the work of keeping competition at bay.

The stench of corruption is overpowering.

Europe mulls open sourcing TETRA emergency services' encryption algorithms

Re: Problem?

Now imagine if coffee or alcohol was illegal.

Re: Problem?

The more dangerous drug the more in our interest for it to be legal.

For instance, people who use heroin die because of accidental overdose (you can't tell the strength of what dealer is selling as they don't have any quality control, labelling) or contaminants (e.g. dealer mixed Fentanyl poorly). It's more difficult to hold anyone responsible for "bad batch" and people have more difficulties to seek help, rarely from the drug use itself.

Chinese citizens feel their government is doing such a fine job with surveillance

Re: Foreigners asking Chinese citizens these questions?

I'm not sure such a survey would reflect their true viewpoint.

and the research is probably going to be used to back up surveillance in other countries.

"Don't worry about it, you'll be happy (or else)"

Complaint

I asked my Chinese friend what it's like to live in China.

He says he can't complain.