Posts by MacGuffin

Redundant Department of Redundancy

"integrated IDE"

So...

An integrated integrated development environment.

I'm shocked, SHOCKED! /s

I'll Keep the Gold

All GPUs will eventually be dead weight.

What a Cryme

Trump's 'Genesis Mission' will involve an 'Illegal Alien' and their baby 'Mama'. Turn it off again.

Wannabe

One of my early DB programs (1997) still running to this day displays the message "Do you really want, do you really, really want to delete this?"

CAIs

I prefer to use HA1. Heinz A1.

It's good enough for the Secretary of Education.

Requires 20 years experience

For the rest of us, the entry level job postings will say "requires minimum 20 years experience in LLMs and AI." The DOGE Bros would have had to start while in nursery school. /s

An Offer That Can't Be Refused

Perhaps Apple can rename the "Command" button to "Executive Order" button to avoid the tariff and appease the orange one.

Glorified Sensors Are People!

I came to the conclusion long ago that we "ugly bags of mostly water" are in fact the remote sensors used by the "the cloud".

Think about that the next time you fill in the umpteenth captcha.

Old Meatbag Here

From the time TSR meant Terminate and Stay Resident....

Taking the Lead

By that I mean lead (Pb). String the fiber through the lead water service lines into the customer's domicile. Get caught up in even MORE bureaucracy... Maybe the electrons will pick up the lead particles and feed them straight to our brains via our eyeballs. Never mind the water department coming by in a year or three tearing all of it out preventing my free speech on Xitter...

First

When I hear "First" declared by anyone, I run. "Cloud first", "America first", "Family First"....

I know any conversation or discussion are useless.

The other side's mind is made up. End of discussion.

To me "first" is a signal that an opposing opinion or potential conflict will be immediately ignored

Cos.. "First!"

Event Horizon

might be more accurate than closer horizon as time expands into infinity.

Resulting in Deepwater Horizon.

Granted

The Federal government can do that with their web sites. The federal government also distributes grants to the States and many other organizations. I imagine before to long those grants will be modified unilaterally that as a condition of accepting the grants, all mentions of DEI be removed from all websites and materials.

The argument may be made that money is fungible, so the grant funds would not be used to support DEI in those organizations. No amount of separation of those funds from their intended purpose will stop accusations that federal money is used to fund DEI in some way, shape or form.

Replace DEI with any other out of favor term you like.

Manipulation?

Imposing tariffs and then pulling them back. Sound like market manipulation.

Let's see if the DOJ charges him with that...../s

This Would be Truly Magical

When I can tell Microsoft's AI Tools to block all images and videos of a selected person or persons in Edge...

THEN I will believe AI is a real thing.

I'll start with Microsoft's biggest AI Tool first.

Don't

"Please don't do that."

"OK. We'll inform you that we are doing it instead."

"Don't Do That! We want you to STOP. We do NOT want informed consent instead!"

"Here's our 'Explanation of Benefits'."

Wash, rinse, repeat....

Nothing more borong than a Vacation Slide Show

"which allows players to save sessions and share clips with friends."

Greybeards remember being bored to tears going to friend's homes and being subjected to slide shows of their friend's vacations. Actual kodachrome slide shows, not the infinitely more painful slide decks of powerpoint.

I have no desire (kill me please) to watch someone's clip of a steam session.

Play? Yes. Watch? NO.

"Pre"defined

"Pre" is sometimes the "prefix" for before. Prewar. Prehistory.

"Predefined rules" might work here because the the rules may have not been defined (before definition).

No Definition? No rules. Nowhere to go.

Fail.

Don't apologize to congress. Apologize to the world.

Misguided Innovation

Too often I find that “strangle tech innovation” means there is “concern” that regulation will “strangle” new innovative tech ways to collect fees and lock in subscriptions. The “innovations” are not for the general populace. Most “innovations” I have witnessed are innovative ways to block access, throw up paywalls or siphon off the revenue stream.

An example “innovation” would be transaction fees where your phone and credit card get fees for the “convenience” of not using actual cash. Or “cashless” payments which basically require a cell phone plan to participate. THe cell-plan plan itself is an innovative way to extract funds by by making having a plan mandatory.

Just one final change

TeXla….

Demolition Man Revisited

I may need to rewatch “Demolition Man” tonight. I keep thinking of the quote “Why don’t you shove a leash up my ass?” after Sly is informed he’s chipped.

GPU Packed With Ads

Given their TVs, I'm not sure I would want a GPU that spends most of its time serving up ads and calling the mothership. No worry really. A Samsung GPU may well last as long as their refrigerators do.

Nothing for the Upgrade

The PFY from tech school working on the hot new SQL server and application/cloud will get promoted out of the project and into manglement within 6 months because of the whizz-bang "skills" in new and shiny.

The grizzled greybeard tasked with updating the obsolete MS SQL DB Server and the accompanying apps because only they have the skills and training will take multiple years because of all the "concerned parties", long after the PFY above becomes their boss.

Feel free to say that does not happen. Please say that does not happen...

Please?

Crotchety

This will only work when AI develops “smell-o-vision” and can crotch dogs.

The Samsung Avalanche

That being the same Samsung that buries you in an avalanche of ads on their Smart TV hardware? The same Samsung whose “Smart Things” app won’t function without a connection to the mother ship? Whose smart TV also requires a connection to the mothership?

I’ll call that mighty creative for Samsung, but not the consumer.

Will AIs Volunteer?

I'm nearing retirement. In my earlier days I enjoyed volunteering in a hospital. I would like to volunteer in retirement, but I simply cannot bring myself to volunteer my time and volunteered wages so that the CEOs of said hospital and health care industry can increase their "compensation". CEO - "I personally got more people to volunteer, saving us costs. Therefore my compensation must be increased exponentially. That and all those denied services and procedures. I should get more now I can utilize AI to deny more without doing it myself. Because I can."

Retribution?

It will not happen, but I would like to see the judge personally punished for making Woods become Kierans.

I guess I’m just not too particularly fond of judges, especially SCOTUS, at this point in time.

Stopped Reading

I tuned out at “This is unprecedented”. Next up “existential threat.”

I’m trying to understand the situation and become informed, but the usual cliches being spouted sometimes prevent my reading further.

I probably should read on, but ….

Mission Accomplished

One achieves the ultimate security by making sure absolutely no one can use the application.

Everyone's an Expert in Cybersecurity

Here the expert /spokesman in cybersecurity for water has a PhD in Chemistry and no IT experience. That type of mismatch happens often in government civil service.