Posts by Shuki26

Waymo problems in La La Land as robotaxis set aflame

Re: Trumpty Dumpty went off his rocker

Clearly not. Stats show clear trend during Biden's term of people leaving California. Please tell us why? Trump?

Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all, economists claim

Re: "Winter is coming."

I think single digits increase was relevant last year, but in 2025, even more. For sure my job can be made much more efficient with a more mature AI. The various AIs are already allowing me to work quicker and also do less thinking. Layoffs will continue and whoever is left will HAVE TO use it even more to make up for the reduced head count.

ChatGPT burns tens of millions of Softbank dollars listening to you thanking it

"millions of dollars in operational expenses" i.e. power consumption

So being nice is not environmentally friendly with regard to AI.

Musk’s DOGE ship gets ‘full’ access to Treasury payment system, sinks USAID

Re: DOGE

Curious why this seems to be a partisan issue. It is an undeniable fact that most governments have become over bloated and can be made more efficient. This is a science oriented website with what I assume are science-oriented thinking people but I mostly see here kneejerk reactions to the bad orange man.

DeepSeek or DeepFake? Our vultures circle China's hottest AI

Re: Meh

Definitely. 'Losing billions in the stock market' is just too dramatic, alarmist and shallow. Better to say something like, 'went back to Nov 2024 price'.

'Best job at JPL': What it's like to be an engineer on the Voyager project

Great article

Lebanon now hit with deadly walkie-talkie blasts as Israel declares ‘new phase’ of war

Re: Long Game

Apparently, the pager op was not planned to be used at this time but some report said that Hezballah was getting suspicious so only made sense to use it instead of lose it, and they follow up with the wlkie-talkies before they were discarded.

Lebanon: At least nine dead, thousands hurt after Hezbollah pagers explode

WP now reporting that Hezballah paid 1.9 million Euro [to Israel]

The 'sales rep' persuaded the buyer that the pagers would be impervious to Israeli spying.

The explosives were virtually impossible to detect even if the device was disassembled.

Hezballah actually disassembled some and x-rayed them but did not find anything wrong. (some earlier reports had said that the plan was executed earlier than expected due to suspicious by Hezballah)

About 3000 members were killed and injured.

The message received told the users to press on two buttons to review a secured message and this insured direct injury.

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

Inevitable like what happened to elevator operators

Taxi drivers, cashiers, baristas and more will be automated at a certain point. SciFi movies have clearly shown that reality coming. And new cars already record lots of parameters so having a personal car for the sake of privacy is no longer a selling point against the use of a robot car.

Intel prepares to cut 'thousands' of workers

Re: WARNING to employe troupe

Intel already has the 'rule of 75' retirement system was gives nice benefits to those who retire early.

South Korea orders 'Star Wars' lasers to blast Northern drones out of the sky

Let's see who gets a system operational on a large scale first.

Israel desperate needs this system asap to counter Hezballah's seemingly free reign to attack norther Israel. The USA simply does not seem to care enough about defending its outposts in Syria and Iraq to have something already operational.

It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer

Re: Well, I'm going my part...

I'm old enough to remember dealing out those VMs to developers like hot cakes and then later reducing the number and consolidating environments when the vendor decided to significantly raise prices. Too bad for VMware, other solutions exist.

Would you buy Pegasus spyware from this scammer?

Beware anyone who sells "permanent access" to any software

If the company is not selling a time based license which also states that ownership of the software remains with the supplier, you know it ain't real.

Ten years ago Microsoft bought Nokia's phone unit – then killed it as a tax write-off

Great article Reg!

I love these types of deep downs.

Re: Nokia menus

Definitely! and I think on the Nokia 2100 series you could progress through the menu by using a series of numbers instead of needing to go through the lists each time e.g. main butto-3-5-7

Re: Software updates

If you could successfully install and use Nokia Suite. Unfortunately, I was not able ever...

Software glitch saw Aussie casino give away millions in cash

Curious to know who let the casino know

I'm wondering if the 44th person who used the trick was the good samaritan who made the casino aware of the bug.

NASA, Lockheed Martin reveal subtly supersonic X-59 plane

Re: Slow down

The November, 15th judgement by Judge Sarah Wallace was a farce and anti-democratic and not based in the local law.

Pennsylvanians, your government workers are now powered by ChatGPT

I'm amazed the unions have not protested or resisted significantly

AI bots do not pay union dues.

HP customers claim firmware update rendered third-party ink verboten

How many new cars are picked up with a full tank of gas or full charge for an EV?

Here's a list of thousands of artists Midjourney's AI is ripping off, creatives claim

Re: Piles of styles

Certainly, music artists get royalties for even short samplings of their music so perhaps AI companies should also pay artists when someone wants a reproduction in some specific style.

Musk tells advertisers to 'go f**k' themselves as $44B X gamble spirals into chaos

Re: The interview is lengthy...

Dude just came back from a tour of Israel and saw first hand was barbaric 'freedom fighters' did to Israelis on one single day.

Tesla, Musk likely aware of Autopilot deficiencies behind Florida fatality, says judge

Re: My best advice while driving a vehicle

You are right but this is about 'merica' where people do not have to take full responsibility and lawyers and judges can and might sue corporations for zillions for that.

Long-term space missions may make liftoff harder for male astronauts

Re: It could make starting a Martian colony

Those experiments have been confirmed but the issue here is long-term effect.

Web Summit CEO's comments on Israeli conflict 'war crimes' sparks boycott

Re: A rocket is a bomb

"this conflict is not going to end with the use of force" This is a post-modern concept that has no truth to it. To get to the political solution, force is needed. In Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Israel and wherever.

Re: Missing the point

Dan 55, get on Telegram for all the barbaric Palestinian snuff you can handle. All the graphic evidence is there posted by Palestinians themselves to be proud of.

As it prepares to abandon its on-prem server products, Atlassian is content. Users? Not so much

My company is already preparing for the switch .... from Atlassian products to server-based products

Starting with Bitbucket, then Jira and Confluence too. Sorry, putting this on some external cloud is not an option. Too bad, I liked the products.

Nvidia boss tells Israeli staff Mellanox founder's daughter was killed in festival massacre

Re: Ironic

So you accuse Israel of kill 1300 of its own people?

Re: The thing people forget is...

Palestinian leader of the last generation Hana Ashwari: The Palestinians never miss the opportunity to miss an opportunity. This attack sets back any real desire for a real country for many many years.

Re: The thing people forget is...

They already hate Jews. Not all the militants who crossed the border into Israel and carried out atrocities were actually terrorists. The clips show many who were just 'regular Joes' who went to get some Jewish blood, rape Jewish women, decapitate Jewish babies, and then bring back hostages and bodies for ransom.

Re: The thing people forget is...

What prevents a peace deal is that the Palestinians don't want peace. Their explicit goal is to rid Israel of Jews. Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Fatah, the PLO and more only want to get rid of Jews.

Robocall scammers sentenced in US after netting $1.2M via India-based call centers

I love the Scammer Payback type efforts on Youtube

Where law enforcement can barely keep up with these fly by night operations in India, the Youtubers can track the scammers down and prevent the crimes and exact some pain on them.

IBM Software tells workers: Get back to the office three days a week

Re: Impact on staff

Perhaps misleading. It's not only 'senior executives'. Even junior management might struggle to manage people remotely. 'Getting the work done' is not the only parameter when people are working on a team. So John and Sarah might be able to do their tasks whenever, but what happens when they need Susanne or Robert who are also 'working' from home?

Why do people assume it is only upper management that supports back to office?

FWIW, productivity is not the only parameter.

ChatGPT study suggests its LLMs are getting dumber at some tasks

So chatGPT is quiet quitting on us?

who would have thought...

Twitter ad revenue has halved since Elon Musk took over

Re: "the argument in Twitter's favor has been that there was no viable alternatives out there"

Ultimately someone needs to host a 'universal communication platform'. Who will pay for that if not people who want to create something they can get paid for.

Threads versus Twitter: Shouldn't we be happy the wheels are falling off antisocial social media?

Re: I think…

Billionaires are people too but there can and is indeed forums of activist billionaires who can think they are more intelligent than us plebs. But ultimately, there is that 'luck' where the conspiracies work or not.

Re: Freedom is an illusion

+1 A very unpopular thing to say on this site, because the truth is not easy to digest.

Canada plans brain drain of H-1B visa holders, with no-job, no-worries work permits

Re: For once, Trudeau's government has made an actual smart move.

That is highly misleading. My company has a ton of H1Bs and they are brought over because of lack of Americans to fill the spots and because they are good. Many are great enough to be kept even after getting a green card and longer. The size of India means that the US can take the top .1% of the brain pool and offer them the American dream instead of third world quality of life.

Intel to invest another $25 billion In Israel

Re: Bottom line

Israel has a water surplus with so many desalination plants online. That water is also pumped into the Palestinian Authority despite the misleading accusation of apartheid which is itself a denial of what apartheid really is.

Brits start 'em young with 20% of tots 'owning' a smartphone

The algorithm is the new remote control

Back in our day, we only had a limited amount of channels to scroll through, so ultimately kids hooked on TV would be exposed to A LOT 'content' that was not in their direct interest and ultimately, watch other stuff.

Now, my kids are only watching 'entertainment' and Youtube will by nature never expose them to other content like science and nature. And even if I do try to reengineer their feed, the algorithm will always reconcentrate on their entertainment choices.

Atlassian to dump 500 – by email – in the name of 'rebalancing'

Re: I’m fine with it…

We actually like Confluence, much better than Sharepoint at least.

Big Tech is building the metaverse of its own dreams. You don't want to go there

It is inevitable and a lot of sci fi movies predicted it well.

Much stronger computing power, better headsets, 3D projection, holograms. And the masses will desire it to escape their bleak post-smartphone lives.

Your job was probably outsourced for exactly the reason you suspected

Off-shore better than outsourced

My company has a relatively significant presence in India with real offices so I don't think they are considered outsourced. I guess that is the price to pay to have higher quality off shore talent who are not mere virtual assistants to the US-based company. The salaries of my colleagues in India are definitely not as low as Nigeria and due to the increase over the years, the company is looking for cheaper counties. Outsourcing to Ukraine failed even before the war, and the company was not yet ready to establish an office to properly off-shore.

Big Tech bosses call for computer science to be taught in all US schools

Re: Start with IT skills

Exactly! Studying computer science should not only be about coding languages.

Canadian ISP Rogers falls over for hours, takes out broadband, cable, cellphones

I'm speculating on some software third-party license expiry

Expired Jul 1 but had seven day extra warning. Something overlooked in some automated license check. Maybe some expired ssl certificates? Reg, please follow up on the story.

Google said to be taking steps to keep political campaign emails out of Gmail spam bin

I will continue to help the spam identifier work better by marking all political emails as spam.

I don't want it from any side.

Big Tech silent on data privacy in post-Roe America

Re: Democracy

You do remember that the last US election had the highest voting numbers ever, huh?

Tech hiring freeze doesn't mean people won't leave

What is really driving the media scaremongering?

" the biggest tech companies have dropped trillions of dollars in valuation, setting off alarm bells across the industry."

Have sales dropped by trillions of dollars to warrant layoffs and general anxiety or is this a case of media hype and wishful thinking? Google, Facebook, and Amazon certainly caused a lot of disruption by offering gobs of money to attract recruits, but the underlying challenges of the industry remain - shortage of stem workers and universities are not close to supplying the demand.