Posts by Antipode77

Techie pointed out meetings are pointless, and was punished for it

Re: Scrum

I suggest using an hourglass to limit the per person speaking time.

Ellison declares Oracle all-in on AI mass surveillance, says it'll keep everyone in line

Re: False hope?

The question as always is : Who guards the guardians ?

Suspect this problem will never be solved.

War of the workstations: How the lowest bidders shaped today's tech landscape

Re: Survival characteristics

Don't forget the lowering of the learning curve.

NHS England published heavily redacted Palantir contract as festivities began

Re: Corruption

Or some people were given kickbacks.

We will give you this xx million contract if you drop y % of the amount into our cayman accounts.

And to hell with the tax payers.

SEC charges ex-medtech CEO with fraud for selling plastic fake implants

Tricking someone to get an absolutely useless device implanted in their bofy should be considered a case of aggravated assault.

Client-side content scanning is an unworkable, insecure disaster for democracy

Re: More Misdirection???

Once you are logged in with Google they try to provide you with 'services'.

'The computer was sitting in a puddle of mud, with water up to the motherboard'

Re: Dye Houses

Would that not be a big fire hazard?

Polish train maker denies claims its software bricked rolling stock maintained by competitor

Now that the new Polish governmemt has thrown out the old Polish government we will see some action on resolving this issue.

Must have been some corruption going on.

After all buying a new train isn't exactly cheap.

Bosses face losing 'key' workers after forcing a return to office

Re: Remote colleagues

Quamtum office.

The more monitoring the bosses do the less gets done.

We had IT emergency situations where people solving a problem are expected to report the status every hour. That does not work as it takes away a lot of time from actually solving the current problem.

Also it interrupts "flow" while solving a difficult problem.

Re: Remote colleagues

And NO commute. That is a bonus.

People now have agency where previously they did not have it. This is why you are being downvoted.

'Return to Office' declared dead

Re: There it is

This looks a LOT like a a Ponzi scheme.

ChatGPT's odds of getting code questions correct are worse than a coin flip

Re: Stats pedant

"Inverting the result"

does not work

1. Pick the wrong solution from an infinity of wrong solutions.

2. Reject result and . . . .

Which correct result am i going to select from an infinfinity of incorrect + some correct result ?

This is asymmetrical.

Re: Estate agents

Must have been voltage potential.

Re: Soooo....

You know, maybe this could be used as a means to keep authoritarians out of power.

Re: We tried it

How useful would a calculator be to you, if it was incorrect on average every second time (53%) you used it ?

Pretty useless, i would say.

Hope for nerds! ChatGPT's still a below-average math student

Actually you could say LLM's are 'idiot savants'.

Sophisticated in a single area, but nothing else.

ICANN warns UN may sideline tech community from future internet governance

Re: Back in 2001...

Maybe humanity is slowly being overwhelmed by the complexity of existence.

Boffins reckon Mars colony could survive with fewer than two dozen people

There is also the question : What do you do with people who are not smart enough to be safe in this environment.

Re: Why do people call a small outpost a colony ?

Imagine the nightmare a Musk Mars colony would be if he treated it similar to Twitter (currently X).

Re: Why do people call a small outpost a colony ?

If the purpose is to have a Mars colony in perpetuity without supplies from Earth, then the first question must be : What is the minimum required size of a human group to prevent inbreeding.

Last rites for the UK's Online Safety Bill, an idea too stupid to notice it's dead

Re: It is no more the duty of Facebook etc to police messages

Maybe the discussion should not be about the contents, but about the algorithms that select the content being presented.

Re: Not holding my breath

Effectively switching from voluntarily to involuntarily.

Owner of 'magic spreadsheet' tried to stay in the Lotus position until forced to Excel

Re: If the only tool you have is a hammer....

Python to the rescue.

Export as .csv.

Now read the .csv with python.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/csv.html?highlight=csv

Your python program extracts everything referring to your name and creates a .txt with an overview of your working days.

I do hope names are standardized, howver.

Once created it saves you the hassle of digging through the original file.

ChatGPT, how did you get here? It was a long journey through open source AI

Re: Americans would say

Government should tax business users of open source. Then put it back into supporting the open source eco system.

We all would be better off.

Texas mulls law forcing ISPs to block access to abortion websites

Re: Federal Law

You seem to forget he inherited some massive problems from his predecessor (R-) to solve.

A President is not a wizard. Hey presto, look problem solved.

Re: Freaks

Old Testament God is a grumpy old man with Patriarchy issues.

Jesus seems to have been a Rebel against the Jewish establishment now co-opted by establishment for their OWN purposes.

There seems to be no humanism in these misguided establishment people.

Atlassian CEO's bonkers scheme to pipe electricity from Australia to Singapore collapses

Re: Sorry for stupid question...

The cable would need to be at least twice, maybe thrice as long.

New IT boss decided to 'audit everything you guys are doing wrong'. Which went wrong

Add value for whom ?

There is a thing like being too nice for your own good.

Depends on your management.

Bad mgmt would consider you a sucker for helping them.

Good mgmt would value you for helping them achieve their targets.

Deutsche Bank's takeover of Postbank hasn't gone well, according to customers

Re: The joy of outsourcing

Out sourcing of a bank's core systems is a really bad idea.

At the Bank where i worked they out sourced all the desktops, but not the core systems.

The consequence was desktop IT stagnation. Only necessary security fixes were done for several years.

Suddenly with new IT management at the bank desktop IT was improving.

It is clear the out sourcing provider tried to minimize their costs, which is why there was no improvemrnt in desktop IT for several years.

Nations agree to curb enthusiasm for military AI before it destroys the world

Thr American example shows, that this does not work.

Language, schmanguage: NASA's generative AI builds spaceships

Re: the algorithm can sometimes make structures too thin

Probably still not finished evolving.

An IT emergency during a festive visit to the in-laws? So sorry, everyone, I need to step out for a while

Re: Didn't Happen of the Tear Award

It is quantum management.

As long as you are providing them with updates, you can't solve the problem as that requires your full attention.

As soon as you give the problem your full attention you will be able to make progress and solve it.

There will be no management updates.

So it is either, but never both.

Investor tells Google: Cut costs now and stop paying staff so much

Re: TCI Fund Management

Why don't politicians make laws forbidding this kind of debt loading of company A when bought by company B.

It is practically an invitation to legalized robbery.

We also need to get rid of the erroneous notion, that the only stakeholders, that matter are shareholders.

Twitter engineer calls out Elon Musk for technical BS in unusual career move

Re: Bit klunky, but...

Often it is just about the political connections and financial clout they have.

https://www.icij.org/tags/uber-files/

Re: Bit klunky, but...

What i do not get is why we have no effective guardrails against these kinds of bosses in companies.

We ought to make company government a lot more democratic so as to be able to throw out tyrants like this before they strand the ship.

Re: Bit klunky, but...

Tech Jesus.

What a lovely description, totally on track.

Links between Musk and Thiel, Sacks interesting read.

https://nitter.it/capitolhunters/status/1589818494182621185#m

Re: Bit klunky, but...

Elon makes a mistake a lot of IT end users make.

Describing a problem not as a problem, but as the solution they imagine it requires to solve it.

Please leave the solution to the IT experts.

Just describe the problem as explicitly as possible. State facts not conjectures.

Re: Bit klunky, but...

CEO, CIO etcetera need to do the prep work to be informed once they are in that important meeting.

Bullshitting it and hoping nobody contradicts you isn't going to work for the organisation.

War declared on bosses using 'omnipresent surveillance' tools to quash union efforts

Re: American labour laws/attitudes

Businesses writing laws to control employees.

What could go wrong, eh ?

Scanning phones to detect child abuse evidence is harmful, 'magical' thinking

Re: If people in the 1960s knew what computers and the Internet did to our freedom

Blame the clowns holding the purse strings.

Courts are a public service like the NHS is.

We all know the terrible state the NHS is in due to a certain party strangling the stream of money, that provides for it in the last decade.

Same applies to Police and Courts in the UK.

Basecamp CEO issues apology after 'no political discussions at work' edict blows up in his face

Re: What part of that so people have issues with?

Walking billboards can't have a political opinion.

Re: Politics is a virus.

Only living and breathing human being ought to have political influence, because we are all peers in a democratic society.

Companies are NOT human beings, so they should not be able to buy or have political influence.

The next deep magic Linux program to change the world? Io_uring

Re: eBPF != BPF

Same purpose, but quite different under the hood.

They called it extended BPF.

Girls Who Code books 'banned' in some US classrooms

Re: God botherers strike again!

"Moms for Liberty"

The Liberty is not the Liberty of the kids to explore the world, but about the Liberty of the moms to ban scary stuff. (Scary to them, that is)

Re: God botherers strike again!

Consider also the attempts to let religion govern public life and thing may go downhill pretty fast.

Look at Iran as an example of mysoginous religious patriachs suppressing girls and women.

Arrogant, subtle, entitled: 'Toxic' open source GitHub discussions examined

Re: Why must a difference of opinion be regarded as hostile?

Yes. People can agree to disagree on certain subjects.

Privacy is for paedophiles, UK government seems to be saying while spending £500k demonising online chat encryption

Re: Nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide....

Bruce Schneiers essay on this subject can be freely accessed through this link.

https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2006/05/the_eternal_value_of.html