Posts by LybsterRoy 538 posts • joined 6 Oct 2020
-- edge cases like going around a bend and being blinded by sunlight affect us, I don't expect an AI to fare much better. --
Personal favourite - a guy at the company I worked for had just bought a Porche. A bunch of us were going out for lunch and I was "volunteered" to go in the Porche. Everything was fine until we wizzed round a corner straight into the back of a car waiting at roadworks - poor Porche <G>. There had been no sign roadworks were being carried out.
Neil, from your comments I wonder if you've ever bought a car. When I've done so I might read the manual AFTER I've bought the car and if I'm feeling bored or want to find out what a specific feature does, but probably not. There should be no need to do so.
Another fun fact - the vast majority of the human race (those not in IT) would be unlikely to have any idea that BETA meant not ready for use.
-- And finally.. May they both burn in Hull- --
Excuse me. As a bona fide ex-pat Hullensian I strenuously object to that. As anyone should know the phrase “From Hell, Hull, and Halifax, Good Lord Deliver Us.” comes from the fact that in Hull the condemned were tied to a stake in the Humber and left to drown as the tide came in. Halifax introduced a guillotine and who knows why Hell was besmirched.
So they could not burn in Hull!
As an old fart born in 1951 I was taught in the incredibly old fashioned way. I'm feeling extremely baffled by this thread (obviously not as much as Mr. Lipvig - hi there Moist) so I'd like to ask what to me is a fairly fundamental question.
How does phonics (I assume derived from phonetic spelling) help with vocabulary and understanding the meaning of words - parrots can quote some words but do not understand them. I have a sneaky suspicion that being able to sound out a word does not enhance ones ability to understand its meaning.
If its science it isn't settled.
That tends to be one of sciences defining attributes.
Science also tends not to make predictions several hundred years into the future so it can't be tested. That's called fortune telling.
Is it really 30 years since the hockey stick lies?
I wonder what the "assets" are?
Back when I were a boy the company's assets were mainly actual physical things (OK there was "goodwill" as well) and if a company went under you could take a good guess as to how much these things could be sold for, and had a fair chance of selling them.
So if a lot of these assets are crypto currency whose value wobbles alarmingly who decided they had 4.3 billion of assets? Who is going to buy wadges of crypto, and with what?
Reading Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" should be compulsory for union and political leaders. Reading his defense of paying less but buying more with the lower wage was brilliant.
I'd also add Charles Dickens' "David Copperfield"
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six , result happiness.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery”
Interesting that people are downvoting. Years ago I was a member of one of those groups (bit like LinkedIn) can't remember its name but get together for lunch and help each other, I was also invited to another one that I didn't join. Most were there trying to sell themselves to the other members or get leads for business. Most were extolling the work from home approach. Most didn't have much work. They didn't like my viewpoint that managing people working from home on a none piecework basis was hard.
Piecework is fine - you know what you're paying for and what you've got.
Piecework is rarely possible with standard office jobs. Coding might be different but how many, especially of the downvoters, would be prepared to negotiate a price for a piece of work AND then deliver it for that price?
Question: how did the programmers obtain "domain knowledge" was it implanted as they joined the company or was it acquired over years?
Another question: what stops programmers working from a distant country for a fraction of your wage acquiring the same knowledge as someone working from home in the UK?
-- Because ultimately you are paying for skills. --
I think you're underestimating the quality of the potential staff in Elbonia.
--I don't believe that programmers are fungible, that's a whole load of nuance that would need quantifying before you can go down the "programmers are interchangeable cogs in a production line" (which is the ultimate expression of what you've said).--
I think you're sort of right, but you've obviously never worked on a production line -it takes time for the cogs to learn the skills appropriate for their new place of work, just as it does programmers.
--I hope people vote with their feet.--
Yup, but as so many have pointed out and been upvoted - its the domain skill that's important NOT the programming skills. So you can only use your feet if the company you walk to does exactly the same as the one you're walking away from.
Oh yes, I never realised that people working in London doing the same job as people in Hull get paid the same, or that people working for an over profitable company with money slushing everywhere gets paid the same as someone in a company that's not doing so well.
-- A big part of the problem is that the average ordinary Joe doesn't understand what the implications of accepting or rejecting these different "flavours" of cookie will be. --
Fully agree - neither do I and I've never seen any one of these security and privacy spell it out in terms that might be understandable. Ooooo they'll collect your browsing data and monetize it - yeah what does that ACTUALLY mean to me - does it put up the cost of a loaf of bread or what?
When I exit my browser it zaps cookies. I can't ask it to remember things (eg logins) when I then tell it to forget things.
People (lazy sods that they are) want the computer to do the work for them. Most don't care about cookies, don't care about their web activity being tracked, and see the popups asking "will you accept cookies" as an annoyance.
What you, and a lot of the others on this forum seem to want is "remember things that make it easier for me and forget the rest" but the problem comes from the fact that the computer has to remember what to forget - woops.
The two articles you quote seem to contradict each other a bit....
--nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation.--
If someone claims the earth is flat I should have the right to call him a moron, idiot, nutter etc
Article 19 seems to give me that right
-- Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression;--
Which article wins?
Whilst I agree with you I'd just like to point out that, in general, the people I insult are right there in front of me, or at least well know. On the internet all to often its people you don't know that are being insulted.
However, I do claim an exception for any and all Reg readers for bi-directional insulting!
I feel that your reaction to the comment is justification for making it. Essentially you have two options:
1. stop everyone from saying anything that someone else may find hurtful
2. protect those who are not robust enough to shrug off the "insults"
The comment was option 2. Where your interpretation comes from I fail to understand.
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