Posts by Brave Coward

$1,875,000 severance payment

And these are the people who would use every possible stage they can access to brag about "taking risks", "being brave" and "getting out of one's comfort zone".

Singapore police allowed to run scam victims’ bank accounts

Does that apply to Microsoft subscribers too ?

Additional benefit for Ms. white-bellied Sea Eagle

... is that she can now, in real time and free of charge, post a message on Instagram in the ilk of :

'Look ! I just laid an egg!'

... and get about 5 000 replies, all reading like 'Congrats!', 'I love it!', 'How nice!' and so on.

So let's recapitulate...

... what tech has been about these last twenty years:

a) social medias. Crap.

b) crypto-money. More crap.

c) LLM, sold as "artefactual intelligence". Still more crap.

Brilliant. Thank you very much, tech bros.

Carefull with that axe, Eugene.

So the late Mr. Parker would probably be very pleased to know that the shiny little toy named after him is ready to plunge in the Howlin (solar) Wind, thanks to the Heat Treatment it benefited, and while Squeezing out Sparks in Another (scientific) Grey Area and trying to answer Burning Questions, its Steady (electronic) Nerves will hopefully prevent it from being Struck by Lighting, for the Stupefaction of us mere mortals.

And all these prodigious achievements thanks to Venus courteously providing the Up Escalator free of charges.

Gra - a - hem.

So...

... the shit hit the Fan, after all. Or is it the other way around?

Disgusting

'If the unknown disease manages to spread beyond the remote villages of Kwango Province, there's the risk it could end up disrupting supplies of critical minerals used in a variety of technology products.'

Human life losses? Human **african** life losses? Who cares?

My tupence

Copilot being described as a ‘generative assistant’, my first thought was : put it in somebody’s genitalia, but I was afraid this might sound somewhat crude.

So I’ll go for the Lode Runner game instead. I mean, Lode Runner and Wile Copilot is guaranteed to be a huge success, isn't it ?

Pesky acronyms

'Panasonic's Peace and Happiness through Prosperity (PHP)'

Now *THAT*'s an explanation at least !

'Looks better on your beloved's finger than a Blu-ray, too'

... especially considering what a hard drive it has been to convince him/her to marry you!

SFO

Not knowing much of the arcane world of Brit administration, does 'Serious Fraud Office' imply that there would be a 'Fancy Fraud Office' or even 'Funny Fraud Office'?

Always eager to learn!

Quick one

Q: 'Everything has disappeared on my screen!'

A: 'Use the scroll bar.'

Authentic.

So what Mr. Trump says is...

... that he would really love a Taylor's swift move ?

How amazing, considering some of his previous rumbling!

Next up

Next up: the new AI-generated pope. Craftily polish-ed.

Microsoft saying...

...'It has nothing further to share'

Thanks God for that.

Seriously?

'The FBI and our partners will continue to investigate and hold accountable those who attempt to manipulate financial markets for their own gain.'

No, seriously?

Then I'm afraid you'll have to close the whole of that Wall Street building...

T(h)or old recipe

Another problem easily solved with a good hammer.

Call me Mauritius

So UsDoD became USDoDo.

Now extinct.

Let us trump the thing

It aims to deliver a pre-conceptual design for a fusion pilot plant [...]'

So they basically have the concept of a plant?

Has it ever occurred to M. Howells...

... that no sane person would like Newport to look like Dubai or Las Vegas?

Does 'wireless charging'...

...mean that as soon as you are in a ten yards radius from the car, your credit card would be instantly debited and your bank account, emptied?

The first European on the moon...

... was Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac, nearly five hundred years ago. Everybody knows that.

And match

A few remarks here:

a) Although it seems to have never been formally asserted, and has nothing to do with technology, the pandemic era saw at least the end of one of the most outrageous traditions in tennis, Wimbledon or not : ball kids being required to bring their towel to the players between points. Had always make me feel rather uncomfortable. And, as @Essuu stated it, I was half expecting some kind of robotic arm to replace them!

b) I agree with @AdamWill that this move is probably motivated by the huge expansion of sport betting, among other reasons. These bets in turn having a very nasty side effect: any player considered as a favorite and losing, has his social media accounts instantly flooded by hate messages (and of course each of one is on insta and so on). Money in sport corrupts everything - like in any other place.

c) As noted here, most players seem to welcome a kind of electronic ruling vs human one. But there are some exceptions: on the female side of the game, Jelena Ostapenko (RG 2017 winner) famously (and vocally) distrusts the HE system.

Send a signal from Table Mountain to Psyche

So they basically reinvented Christianity?

Recall the Recall recall?

No, I don't, sorry.

But wait! Let me just ask Recall...

How appropriate!

A spokesperson said: "We don't plan on going anywhere [...]"

Hope...

... there's a big red sticker on top of the box, reading:

"For your own safety - Don't do this at home".

Sorry, guys...

... but Pentagon says: 'No Reds on the moon'.

Only white houses allowed.

A remedy

"She said I was taking too many old drugs. But, given the objective conditions of our lives, how can we avoid taking drugs? It's our only defense against information."

(Thomas McGuane, "Panama" - Sorry, re-translated to english; original may differ a little bit.)

No, seriously?

So one needs to attend an Australian's symposium to be told by a Gartner's 'distinguished VP analyst' that 'orgs need to learn when search will suffice instead of using AI for simple queries'?

WTF?

Confirms me in the idea that at least half of what is regarded nowadays as 'economic activity' (symposiums, Gartner and the likes, not even to mention LLM) is just sheer and plain bullshit.