Posts by ArrZarr

Re: And we skip over Musks real reason he's now involved

"Ah, the if you don't support us you are against us argument."

Under Johnson, the proposed blanket conversion therapy ban was modified to specifically exclude transgender conversion therapy from the ban.

Truss won the Tory party leadership contest partly due to her harder anti-trans stance than Sunak (look at how Sunak's position changed on the subject as he fell behind in the latter stages of the contest)

Truss still blames "transgender activists" for how quickly she was ousted as leader of the Tory party, despite the fact that she lost any confidence the parliamentary Tory party had following her mini budget.

My (Tory) MP has voted against any sort of LGBTQ+ rights since he got into parliament in 2010.

These are the actions of a group who *are* actively hostile to trans rights (or LGBTQ+ rights in general), and that's before we look at how the NHS GICs have been systematically starved of resources under the recent Tory governments.

Memories of Mass Effect

"This, recruits, is a 20 kilo ferous slug. Feel the weight! Every five seconds, the main gun of an Everest-class dreadnought accelerates one, to one-point-three percent of lightspeed. It impacts with the force a 38 kiloton bomb. That is three times the yield of the city buster dropped on Hiroshima back on Earth. That means, Sir Isacc Newton is the deadliest son-of-a-bitch in space! Now! Serviceman Burnside, what is Newton's First Law?

Sir! An object in motion stays in motion, sir!

No credit for partial answers maggot!

Sir! Unless acted on by an outside force, sir!

Damn straight! I dare to assume you ignorant jackasses know that space is empty. Once you fire this hunk of metal, it keeps going 'til it hits something. That can be a ship, or the planet behind that ship. It might go off into deep space and hit somebody else in 10,000 years! If you pull the trigger on this, you are ruining someones day! Somewhere and sometime! That is why you check your damn targets! That is why you wait 'til the computer gives you a damn firing solution. That is why, Serviceman Chung, we do not 'eyeball it'. This is a weapon of Mass Destruction! You are NOT a cowboy, shooting from the hip!

Sir, yes sir!"

I've started to wonder when the last truly clean-sheet ground-up new aeroplane design happened

I'd put money on the year starting with a "1".

The whole "Systems layered upon systems" thing will be a direct consequence of the time and effort it takes to get these core systems certified (for more examples of taking shortcuts to avoid recertifying, just look at the 737-MAX and all the issues that faced). The difference between getting a whole new unified stack certified compared to building a new system on top of an existing stack will be utterly vast, so if the existing stack already has the kinks worked out, why change it?

The other issue is that when somebody does go about making a whole new software stack for their planes, you'll just end up with a similar problem in 20-30 years.

Fully agree on the horrid UX that pilots need to deal with. I've always found business software to be markedly inferior to consumer software in terms of usability. Personally I think that this is because the people using the software tend not to be the people paying for the software - a situation that happens much less in the consumer space.

Re: I have to admit

It turns out everything that the USSR told us about communism was wrong.

Sadly, it turns out that everything they told us about capitalism was correct.

Realistically, the problem with Socialism is that people are involved, and the problem with Capitalism is that Corporations are involved.

It lets the HR department delegate work that they'd need to do otherwise.

And god forbid the HR department do the work they're paid to do.

If I were the BOfH, a fictional character in a humorous article, sure. The lack of insurance isn't going to bite him. There's a reason I do have home insurance ;)

Re: Many solutions are "Common Sense"

The other alternative for a lot of these is "Everybody in this room made an assumption, which is right 99% of the time but today it's going to make you all look like muppets".

Re: What's next?

PotC, from my understanding, was essentially a series of improv comedy skits that somehow connected into a really fun movie.

At least, every single cool or funny bit from the first movie seems to have been somebody doing something unscripted.

Re: RE: 20-30 tabs

Heavy-duty editing that requires multiple applications running simultaneously is a specialised workflow and (from what I've heard) tend to be run on workstations that are specifically kitted out with bucketloads of RAM for the express purpose of supporting that specialised workflow.

Namely, if your workflow includes multiple memory-hungry applications, then Apple provide a workstation computer tower for you - the Mac Pro. iMacs get access to the MacOS specific software that a lot of creative types prefer to what's available on Windows, but the intended audience's most commonly used application will be a web browser, because so much is done in browsers these days.

For anybody curious, both comments in chinese are just translated posts from further up.

Yes.

The McDonalds parent company has specified for Taylor to be the sole provider of the ice cream machines.

The individual McDonalds franchises then get stuck with all the issues and are hard locked into Taylor's service contract, making Taylor easy money with all of the speedbumps they put in the way of non-certified repair.

Taylor is realistically an ice cream machine repair service that also has full control over the quality of the ice cream machines that they need to repair and the customers (the Franchise) are locked in so can't vote with their wallet and move elsewhere.

Re: "Fifteen days can be taken for those who are unwell"

There's a difference between "I don't want to give you my cold" and "I've got something worth taking a sick day over".

Re: Eat your own cooking

It's like I've been telling the management - AI is a strong tool for supporting somebody to do more of the stuff they already know how to do. If they are already a competent developer, they can work with LLM support. If they're a competent salesperson, they can use it to build a framework to create your slides from. You 100% still need the human knowledge and experience to ensure that the fallible personal assistant isn't introducing errors or issues.

Personally I use it to code review what I built (team of one, it's very good at understanding code you throw at it), but when a non technical colleague used it to modify an existing piece of code, it lead to a chain of issues that took considerably more time to straighten out than if I had done the change in the first place because they didn't have the context or knowledge.

Thinking about it as I write this comment, thinking of current LLMs as fairly competent but very junior team members that you're responsible for the outcome of their work is a fairly solid analogy. Pro: Don't need to badger HR for the extra resource. Pro: Don't need to wait very long for them to do the work you're delegating. Con: Won't improve and become more trustable over time.

Re: Excellent

The thing that concerns me is that the indirect route they're taking means that the satellite is going to take six years to get to Jupiter, which means it has much longer for components to die as it flies in circle after circle around the sun before hitting its final destination.

I'm not a rocket surgeon, and this has almost certainly been taken into account - but it feels a bit excessive to have 6 flybys to get to the fourth closest planet, spread across six-odd years.

Re: All things in moderation

Oh, I know what you mean. I got hooked on breathing as a baby and just don't seem to have been able to kick the habit!

Re: When will users decide that enough is enough?

Speaking from personal experience, ChromeOS is almost fantastically limited. Its applications seem to be generally based on the mobile versions rather than the good^H^H^H^H desktop versions, and lots of stuff that I used to take for granted on a windows laptop are beyond it.

I'm not qualified to talk about the actual usability of MacOS and Linux because I've never had cause to give them a shot, but I certainly don't feel that my use-cases can justify giving either a try (Windows specific work applications and legacy gaming).

Re: Who’s clicking anyway?

How dare you, I'm not slime!

Definitely some kind of unpleasant insect instead.

Re: Rather different

And just to defend the Robin's good name, it was specifically weighted to roll at the drop of a hat.

As Said in my post, I have only ever driven a manual car. As I also said, I have a feeling that my fears are unfounded.

That being said, I'm probably getting some strain of EV as my next car which is different again.