Re: Isn't this what happens in the UK?
fresh blood ? you mean fresh pork ?
Posts by Denarius
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US gov't launches 'Tech Force' to replace IT staff DOGE fired
Tuesday 16th December 2025 00:10 GMT 
in short another rerun
of the 1980s/90s outsorcery to private sector using public services as feeding trough. PHBs just dont understand IT systems need staff who understand the organisation. Consequences are more fad software, vendor lockin and higher costs while the real systems doing the real work remain ancient, unsupported by knowledgeable techs and failing eventually. Consequence of that is usually big fad development which fails miserably. Seen it multiple times in Oz FedGov
Amazon keeps the pressure on Intel, AMD with 192-core Graviton5 CPU
BOFH: Forward-facing AI brand experience meets forward-facing combustion risk management
Friday 28th November 2025 23:22 GMT
Re: "I, unfortunately, have Diabetes Pessimistus."
ROFLMAO. That turn of phrase "sugar-coated cornucopia of optimism – but I, unfortunately, have Diabetes Pessimistus." is one of best BOFH comments. It precisely expresses my sentiments on most AI and all AI boosters. Pity no car park impact from 5 floors up with no chance of survival. Preferably into a big waste skip, 5 minutes before pickup
70-hour work weeks no longer enough for Infosys founder, who praises China’s 996 culture
Tuesday 25th November 2025 00:40 GMT
Re: $96 million cost
not sure about that. Iterations didn't change the look in the months I tried the earlier beta test site. and stopped due to its unusability. I could see good pointsin data density,( ie time of probable rain) in the lower layers, but was blindsided by top page being so low on information. BOM weather forecast quality has also dropped significantly. In North Queensland it is regarded as a joke with unannounced storms blowing thru. Even in my southern locality unforecast but very welcome rain has come thru this week. ( nope, not cutting hay, unlike neighbours) Now using the Kiwi WeatherwatchTV website instead. If all else fails the old site exists as http://reg.bon.gov.au
Project Kuiper becomes Amazon Leo as satellite network trickles into orbit
Monday 17th November 2025 02:43 GMT
Re: can we fill them with...
Not in Oz, the land of the late and usually wrong government body. If Starlink go direct to phone it will be worth paying a bit more to put the finger up at Big Swamp, Floptus and Vodafail and maybe even get better coverage. Whoever the NBN committee was that picked Kuiper, you can bet Musk Derangement Syndrome played a big part. As commentards calculated above, not a hope Leo will be workable in foreseeable future.
US taxpayers being kept in the dark over datacenter subsidies
Gullible bots struggle to distinguish between facts and beliefs
From Intel to the infinite, Pat Gelsinger wants Christian AI to change the world
Junk is the new punk: Why we're falling back in love with retro tech
Saved you a click: Firefox 142 offers AI summaries of links
Saturday 23rd August 2025 10:29 GMT 
Out of here
I am also. Not more resource hogging, inaccurate, often wrong crap. No AI without a AI suitable problem to solve. FFS, If I want a summary I'll speed read. FF hangs, memory hogging followed by losing audio if more than 3 tabs open. Used to work fine until 3 releases ago. With you IGotOut. Pity, used it for years
Bank reverses decision to replace 45 customer service staff with AI chatbot
Saturday 23rd August 2025 09:46 GMT
Re: opportunities for other banks to put the boot in…
other banks ? Cue mad laughter. All of them in Oz compete to be biggest wasters of time and being less competent. Unless one lurks in CBDs branches are being shutdown.
Seriously I would change banks except there is nowhere to go within 100 km
Air Force buying two Tesla Cybertrucks so it can learn to destroy them
Saturday 9th August 2025 00:23 GMT
diesel drive trains
@MachDiamond: Not anymore, at least in western ruins. Lots of computers managing engine injection, gears, digital distractions, even in HiLuxes. The newer ones are rumoured to be not as reliable as the 3l turbo diesels. I suspect that the enthusiasts rebuilding purely mechanical injection diesels from 1970s may have only working vehicles after Poo Bear, Fat Boy etc have their egos stroked enough. Anyone know what drive trains USSR/Ruskie military vehicles use ?
Microsoft researchers: To fend off AI, consider a job as a pile driver
Friday 8th August 2025 01:19 GMT
Re: Klarna Rehiring
politely disagree from experience. PH in Oz sack people because Merkin PH want to please Wall street with layoffs despite more work than business can handle with existing staff. Business shrinks, customer hate rises as high skilled staff go first as they are expensive. When "Oh s***t" moment arrived and manglement tried rehiring previous staff, abusive responses were the result. New staff needed training, were less skilled and contract eventually lost due to crap performance.
The plan to make all networks optical is about to take two big steps forward
Banning VPNs to protect kids? Good luck with that
Friday 1st August 2025 01:09 GMT
Re: Private or Work?
@corpse char. National Socialist Security services were atheist as all true believers. They sent believers in transcendence to the camps along with mediums and fortune tellers, contrary to movie myths. .BTW, how many meanings does fascist have these days. In 1970s it was up to 70.
BOFH: If you can't beat the AI, let it live inside you
Saturday 26th July 2025 11:11 GMT
Re: timber!
Both actually. One sharpens the chain chisel cutters. Chainsaws dont have saw teeth, (except the very early ones many decades ago) but chisels. These are the usually 30 degree angled flat bits with a leading semicircular front. The round file, special ones, not metal working ones, should create a sharp edge under the chrome plating. A flat file is used to lower the depth gauge in front of cutting tooth and to reduce risk of kickback, round depth gauge off. A square top to depth gauge is dangerous. Special chains such as slabbing chains have 10 degree of none angle.
The actual bar should be straight, with exactly equal levels on side of channel for chain. Stihl have an excellent combined tool which has both. Buy one to fit chain size, ie 325.3/8 or 404 for the macho guys and forestry machines.
Thanks Simon for another round of laughs. Manglement with a chainsaw has so many many possibilities for pleasant deserved disaster with these dangerous but lovely tools IMHO
The Smoot – How an MIT prank became a lasting unit of measurement
Saturday 19th July 2025 01:23 GMT
Re: the thickness of screw threads was not fully standardized in the US
Impressive trivia knowledge. Having been cursed with ownership of a BMW RG1000GS I was astonished/gobsmacked at the number of different bolt or screw heads on the thing. My 1970s BMW was vanilla metric and Allen keys. Possible to assemble tool kit for going bush. Mostly provided with new bike. The 2010s equivalent required a truck of tools for the same. Why ? Anyone got a list of the types of screw and bolt heads lately ?
German team warns ChatGPT is changing how you talk
Wednesday 16th July 2025 23:17 GMT
any worse than last 50 years ?
droolingly incompetent drivelers on TV, whatever passes for music and song, then mangling of English in SMS, antiSocial media and most significantly, the descent of teaching from "expert" faddisms to trendy or fashionable incompetence. With the lost of Western culture and citizens never being taught their inheritance of language what else than the ignorant being trained by unthinking machines.
Bring back the trivium. Yes, grumpy old man. Why do you ask ? What relevance is it ? Ah, pandering to your prejudices response
Nvidia hits the gas on autonomous vehicle software
Friday 13th June 2025 01:08 GMT
crap, the lot of it
Just had to drive new 4WD to near Sydney and back, a mere 230 km each way. Have a similarly configured unit in unit 5 years old which is a pleasure to use and very useful. The new one has every fault known to the shiny flashy brigade. Lane detection addicted to following ONLY the solid white line on edge of highway so constantly in dirt, pot holes and leaning on wheel against the software. Beeps, flashing lights often, usually when turning very tight turns on potholed roads or for now reason going straight and level on freeway. Everything in driver assists is a hindrance. Oddly, driving a new unimog was nowhere as near annoying despite coming from Europe, which shows it can be done.
Comparing this to my flight management software shows just how bad vehicle UI designers are. XCSoar and its relatives tells you what you need to know in context aware part of flights. No unneeded alarms, doesn't have the capability to modify control inputs.
AFAIC, good engine management systems is as much as I want. And not too clever so its unrepairable without a capital city dealership.
Mozilla frets about Google's push to build AI into Chrome
Sergey Brin promises next generation of Glassholes will be much less conspicuous
Microsoft-backed AI out-forecasts hurricane experts without crunching the physics
Thursday 22nd May 2025 01:44 GMT
blow me down
does this indicate the old long term staff seen as an excessive cost by manglement might actually have useful rules of thumb/historical local knowledge not in the manuals or models that enables them to better estimate likely outcomes in complex systems ? Machine learning of this by studying the same historical events seems to be doing the same thing.
Unending ransomware attacks are a symptom, not the sickness
Pentagon declares war on 'outdated' software buying, opens fire on open source
Feeling dumb? Let Google's latest AI invention simplify that wordy writing for you
Wednesday 7th May 2025 02:22 GMT 
for the first time
If, big IF, this works as described, AI may have a real use since editors are becoming a rare species if some websites and the remnants of printed and TV media are any guide.
Something that can turn manglese from manglement (to coin a phrase I think) into information is a fantastic achievement. However I suspect output would be an empty page.
OTGH, turning turgid academic verbiage into information accurately is great. Merely translating from insider jargon to plain language is not dumbing down.
Ghost in the shell script: Boffins reckon they can catch bugs before programs run
Thursday 1st May 2025 03:20 GMT
Re: rc
So Peter, you dont have a copy of "Unix Shell Objects" ?
As for date munging, ksh93 has some undocumented time and date built-ins which are simpler that spawning another process etc.
The shell script forensics done over years has usually been required by shell expansion errors. The worst was nonrealisation that *. matches .. A nonrecursive cleanup became recursive down the file tree. Good luck with that shell script code checker. ksh93 -D can help with see what some "$VAR" values produce.
Satellite phone tech coming to your mobe this year – but who pays for it?
Friday 11th April 2025 05:27 GMT
meanwhile in idiot Oz
All Oz telcos switched off 3G. Most of the country 150 km from coast then had very unreliable 4G. An inland drive from southern NSW to Qld border now has many no comms locations. Only 65 km from the hell hole known as Canberra, the national crapital, the summer visitors boating on Lake Burrinjuck collapsed my localities comms. No phone, no SMS. All of us had to drive 2 Km plus to a ridge to get line of site connection to a town tower.
Telstra, mostly the telco responsible, when questioned why phone service had gone so bad, responded with "Fringe area, tough" response.
as its a federal election year, political staffers responses explained that, in the fullness of time, government might ask if the telcos could connect to satellite services. In short "tough"
So the non large urban areas have largely gone dark. Yet oddly, not a peep from any of the media over a significant walk backwards in communications.
Technically, satellite to mobile is probably the best way to connect this sparsely settled land. In the meantime, outside the east coast , 3G should have been kept until satellite comms is available at an affordable price. Not many can afford a SPOT device
From pantyhose to power cells, nylon gives lithium batteries a leg up
Please fasten your seatbelts. A third of US air traffic control systems are 'unsustainable'
Tech jobs are now white-collar trades that need apprentices, not a career crawl
Thursday 27th February 2025 22:55 GMT
so true. Having worked under utterly clueless manglers I concur wholeheartedly. Seems the aristocrats attitude of many civilisations that the hands on skills of trades is beneath them and can be denigrated and ignored. After all, peasants are cheap and disposable etc. This attitude is so prevalent one wonders if the mangerial ranks have selection biases that attract sociopaths more than mere competence.
Ignorance really is bliss when you’re drowning in information
Friday 14th February 2025 06:58 GMT
Re: Puzzled........
@Jospanner, any culture which sailed, or traveled over flat lands would have a good clue the earth is round. Not to mention eclipse shadows. Please inform us of any literature over 2000 years old that makes statement about a flat earth. See? It is _hard_ to break out of ones own subculture myths.
Thursday 13th February 2025 12:06 GMT
Re: Puzzled........
thank you for proving my point. Flat Earth is only recent. About 1809 ITIRC. Washing Irvings fault. Which demonstrates exactly the issue.. Whose "facts", whose truth ?
the other statements are also not complete. Placement of the Earth and astronomy was captive to Aristotle and his obsession with geometry and with the low quality of data the model worked well enough until Tycho Brahes observations which were accurate enough (and shared) so Kepler could see that the models needed updating. Formulated laws of gravity before Newton and got no credit.
Thursday 13th February 2025 11:45 GMT
Re: Big problem requiring serveral partial solutions
sounds like a good idea with terrible flaws.
a) humans, despite their beliefs, are terrible about detecting liars in front of them.
b) quis custodiet ipsos custodes. or one sources fake news is someones conspiracy. eg Covid stories. Also how are the teachers to know what is unsubstantiated and that which maybe true ?
c) human resistance to changing world view or ingrained ideas. eg marxists still exist despite 20th century
As for excess of connection, never understood why this is even an issue. Dont people ever want silence in their heads ?
OpenAI wants to blow through $500B on AI infrastructure for itself, with help from pals
Thursday 23rd January 2025 00:35 GMT
so AI will work out where the electricity to power it will come from ?
shades of the Matrixl. Wont the USA going dark due to electricity shortages stop the data center build out ? Long term does not matter, the ruins of the West are insane anyway. Back to short lives,, exploitative taxation, totalitarianism and mad religions regardless of what gets elected. Hint, materialist world views like marxist cults. What passes for yank xtianity is mere materialism with a religious gloss, mostly. Otherwise the prosperity preachers would have long ago been jailed for fraud
Workday on lessons learned from Iowa and Maine project woes
Saturday 4th January 2025 02:01 GMT
long ago, far away
when I was in early IT training to code COBOL, the lecturer stated that out of the box software was the future as it would be cheaper, faster, tested as so on. Perhaps it is age, but given how many of these enterprise systems expensively fail, maybe just getting real Systems Analysts in the build a data dictionary, map work/data flows and build a bespoke solution with all source code printed out, archived and woe betide any PHB or entitled staffer wanting changes just for them RBN instead of after post implementation reviews, and upgrade scheduled if required in say 6 months. So often locally built applications worked the way the business worked rather than rebuilding the business processes to an alien ideal.
Will 2025 be the year satellite-to-smartphone services truly take off?
Friday 3rd January 2025 04:43 GMT
Re: There is no escape
you can repurpose tin foil hats. Though I note movements shunning all electronics. Music festivals where only analogue acoustic instruments can be used. Phones locked into metal boxes for duration. There is some hope. Also, in Oz there are large areas where there is no coverage by anything other than a sat phone. With Oz government and bureaucrats frequently demonstrating any committee is more stupid than its dumbest member, what ever turns up for unserviced areas will be crippled by idiot rules to protect incumbents nonperformance
Friday 3rd January 2025 04:36 GMT
here in Oz
so Starlink will deliver data from the highest cost source and voice from a firm I wont touch with a bargepole cleaned in conc H2SO4. As usual in Oz, we are screwed. In holiday seasons when Telstras phone towers more than 40 km from cities get overloaded by holiday makers fleeing the hellscape of high density flats, Telstras services stop for all in locality. Somehow there is never a problem with telco kit.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
