Posts by Yorick Hunt

Re: At what point...

Never.

The more bloated their bank balance is, the more they want to inflate it.

These creatures don't conform to nature - to them, greed and gluttony are the commandments.

Re: Obvious question,

Different countries use whatever resources are the most available and most cost-efficient (or most profitable, depending on your point of view) to generate electricity.

Hydroelectricity is the preferred method, but some countries can't afford the cost of building a dam, whilst others don't have rivers suitable for damming.

Re: Secure messaging?

Its not the protocol that's the problem - it's Meta being elbow-deep at both ends (and all that entails).

Re: "panic spreads faster than Wi-Fi"

An unladen African swallow.

You don't even need an LLM. Lenny has been very successful for a very long time.

Re: AI is the Messiah

Let us all, like him, hold up one shoe and let the other be upon our foot, for this is his sign that all who follow him shall do likewise!

Re: You just know they skimped on the security

... or Linux, or Android, or any other "mainstream" operating system which was written for something altogether different.

Whilst it's true that a custom (extensively crippled) Linux build could close off the vast majority of potential holes, given the value of the industry, surely they could commission the creation of a purpose-built operating system that ONLY performed tasks relevant to ATMs?

"Those who can, do.

Those who can't, teach.

Those who can't teach, teach teachers to teach."

Your point is sadly all too true.

Re: Hahahahahahaha!

I was trying to mimic Ingrid Svenson from Soap

Re: Spam in your own language

... or that you've been overcharged for a McAfee subscription and he'd like to help you get your money back.

Not always.

NT 3.51, XP SP3, Windows 7 SP1 - and even Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 21H2 if you consider the underlying operating system and ignore the dumbfuckery of the GUI - were all pretty solid.

Server 2003, 2012R2 and 2019 likewise.

"Often gets me to consider alternative approaches for tackling the problem that I wasn't aware of"

You weren't aware of it because it was a hallucination. Look further and you'll find all of those "hitherto unthought of" approaches have nothing to do with the problem (or even the device/application) at hand.

Re: Widespread?

No, it just means they're not very observant.

Re: Didn't Bill Gates profess to being this?

"MS software quality has always been utter shit"

I beg to differ. The BASIC interpreter in ROM on my TRS-80 (model 1) was rock solid (well, except for the wrong timing value in the cassette loading routine, which made sensitivity to volume level changes a PitA).

Re: You will own nothing and be happy...

Sadly, used equipment is being jacked up too, to capitalise on the demand. I've seen used DDR4 server RAM double in price over the past couple of months.

Snails qualify as armoured; doesn't stop them from being squished when you walk across a dewy lawn.

I actually instantly remembered the Transputer

Re: Ok for businesses to take employees' tips

It wouldn't be a problem if they actually developed a purpose-specific LLM trained only on relevant data, rather than relying on a generic pile-o-shit™ trained on Facebook and Reddit posts.

Re: Groundwater contamination

"The US already has a serious ground water contamination problem"

That could seriously affect Nestlé's bottom line!