Posts by wiggers

Reinventing the wheel

Every county council must have some commonality that can be shared across the country surely?

Adjust swappiness also

If you are lucky to have lots of RAM you can reduce the amount of swapping that goes on. Look up vm.swappiness.

Management overriding engineering

Where have we heard that before...?

Orbiting AIs

Straight out of Neuromancer by William Gibson.

The "golden rule," is to "never use the output without checking it." - so the 46 minutes is lost to checking CoPilot's homework?

Could of course just get rid of a whole tier of middle management whose entire function appears to be preparing reports for other managers to read. Could just get one AI to write the reports and another to read them. No need for endless pointless meeting either.

"This is an architecture that no NASA administrator that I'm aware of would have selected had they had the choice."

Means it'll probably work and at a considerably lower cost.

"stir in the respective current values of precious metals"

There doesn't appear to be any mention the processing costs to extract these minerals.

"Medical professionals have already raised questions about the project."

So basically this is a vote-winning policy that hasn't actually been worked out with those who have to implement it.

How about...

...just commission a system that actually works, verifiably, without waiting for the inquiry that tells you the last one didn't work?

Claims...

Having been on many construction projects in my career from the late 1970s, the one of the biggest source of claims for delays is the weather. Nothing new there, just that they can add weight to their claims by citing "climate change".

I've never used Assistant and this doesn't encourage me to start!

To err is human...

To really cock things up takes a computer.

Stick with paper-based systems. Simpler and cheaper, never needs replacing. (Apart from the pencils.)

DOGE avoidance strategy...

Smacks of desperation, trying to justify their existence in the face of a major government efficiency drive.

"Avoid meetings with time-wasting morons"

I think this is from The Dilbert Principle.

I worked in a group of softies all working on different projects for different internal and external customers, either individually or pairs. We had a weekly team "progress meeting" in which few could actually discuss any detail, there was no comparison with any planned programme of activities, and no reference to the previous week's minutes. Basically, two hours listening to other people talking of things that were of no relevance to anyone else whatsoever. Occasionally the manager had some announcement that affected us all, usually a new HR initiative that was designed to distract us even further from doing our jobs.

The whole thing could have been done by email in a fraction of the time.

Tosh.

Complete and utter tosh.

METRES not METERS.

People used to believe...

... in an omniscient deity to keep them from straying and shirking their work, reinforced by weekly sermons. Now it is The Man and the State that watch you continually.

Is that Sim City?

Or designed in Cities Skylines?

Default User is Administrator

I find one of the biggest bugbears trying to support friends and family is that the default user account is administrator. SO all kind of things get installed and settings changed without a thought. If a password had to be entered every time a potentially serious change is made it might concentrate the mind. Several friends simply have one account, administrator, called "User" with no password at all!

That'll definitely reduce our 'leccy bills.

Surely there wouldn't be a single point of failure to take out a whole plant and town?

"the 177 meter (581 ft) high structure"

Meters measure things (electricity, pressure, etc).

Metres are the SI unit of length.

The last time...

"In 2016, another missile, launched from HMS Vengeance, failed after telemetry problems..."

Word was that someone got the target coordinates wrong and it was heading for the wrong hemisphere.

What could possibly go wrong...

Has no one read/watched Snowpiercer???

"Heat pumps and heat networks are the solution."

Solution to what problem exactly? And if the proposed solution doesn't fit a large proportion of use cases then what's the alternative? Government trying to pick winners in a non-existent race, no doubt to feather ministers' nests in future employment.

"Belief is no substitute for arithmetic"*

"Astronomers believe it could have only formed with the presence of dark matter."

That's not science. Scientists formulate hypotheses to form a logical argument to explain observations. Dark matter is not the only hypothesis, see also Quantized Inertia (QI).

* Henry Spencer

Spaceship

...designed by a committee.

All your electrons are belong to us.

"which will in turn let the grid sap some stored EV battery juice at times of high demand (with permission), as well as management options that'll restrict EV charging to "grid-friendly" times of day."

Meanwhile...

Elon is rolling out Starlink as quick as he can.

Fifty years ago...

They had the technology for manned moon missions. They threw that away for a pantechnicon designed by a committee. Forgot to design a successor and ended up with no human capable space vehicles. Astonishing strategic failure.

Switching to a non-cable area? Fugedaboudit...

I moved from a cabled area to a non-cabled area but Virgin Media's system didn't comprehend that such areas existed. Probably because they didn't provide a conventional service to this area either. Major battle ensued to switch to a different provider.

Businesses are there to make money for their owners. What does it matter who they chose to employ? Choose the people of whatever age, sex, racial background, etc who are best suited to the job, will provide the best return on their investment.

There's the English spelling and then there are mistakes.

Who wants to talk to a computer anyway?

By how much...

will this policy "correct" or otherwise "fix" climate change? Please show working including cost/benefit analysis.