Posts by iron

Re: The unipolar world is officially dead

A bully picking on someone smaller than them because they can't cut it with the big boys.

"Remember: we do these things not because they are easy, but because they funnel dollars to lots of congressional districts."

More like the truth.

WP Engine already contribute dev time on Wordpress, Mullenweg's problem is they don't contribute to his personal wealth.

And nor should anyone else at this point. I cancelled my Pocket Casts (an Automattttic product) back in September when it became clear to me as an open source developer that Mullenweg is a blight on the industry.

Re: KDE FTW

Oh noes three different web browsers!!!111!!

What are you smoking Liam? I can name more than three web browsers off the top of my head for Linux, Windows or Android. Obviously not iOS because whatever they're called they're all really Safari.

Hell I used more than three different browsers on Unix back in the 90s.

I can only assume that this article is intended to provoke an argument.

Re: WTF?

More like proof he's always been an egotistical wanker.

Re: Which language do you think is used to implement all those memory-safe languages?

No they aren't.

.NET has been written in C# for some years now.

Prior to that Delphi was written in Delphi from the start. (mentioned becuse it had the same creator as C#)

And Go is written in Go.

Re: What usage ?

> the idea that someone would go to the trouble of putting something into space for it to be "semi-disposable" demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding of where the costs are in an orbital launch

In the 50s & 60s both the USA and USSR used spy satellites which contained film that needed to be recovered and processede, making them very much disposable.

I think you lack a fundamental understanding of the willingness to pay any costs at a time of war, even a Cold War.

Your household electronics are designed to work over a range of voltages, frequencies, noise and general crap that comes out of the socket. Your supply is not the 110V / 220V / 240V at 50 / 60 Hz that you think it is. PSUs are good enough for your HiFi and computer but the DC they produce still contains ripple, noise and other artifacts.

When you need 18-angstrom accurcy that is just not going to cut it.

Re: So how does one turn it off?

Settings, Privacy + scroll down a bit to the Web Site Advertising Preferences section, on Windows at least.

Easily discoverable in the most obvious place imo.

I had already turned it off when the feature launched.

Re: MOOT.....interesting word....look it up!!

> Do they not realise that training data "IS REQUIRED for actually USING an AI system"?

So how much training data did you need to download in order to use GhatGPT?

I see no signs of intelligence in an LLM but even I know you don't need the training data to use an LLM.

Re: So it's delisted ?

> The rest of the world is interested in its products.

Badly manufactured products with degrading performance even when run at stock settings.

Re: It's more than hoses

Those 63 years include less than 400 flights. At the equivalent point in automotive transport we had a man walking in front with a red flag.

We're still toddlers when it comes to spaceflight.

This decision was made on Saturday.

So unless they have a time machine the markets were reacting to nothing.

Ok, maybe the good news that the bad news would be delivered on a Saturday so no-one noticed.

Re: Get Suited

If this were NASA transportation, sure. But it isn't.

Starliner is owned and operated by Boeing, Dragon is owned and operated by SpaceX. Even the launch pads are leased by their respective companies from NASA or Space Force, depending on the pad.

NASA merely provide the human cargo.

Re: Who, me?

You're being anti red people, you racist.

(I think you mean rogue engineer.)

Re: Can't help feeling

The enthusiast mobos with no power limits are a red herring, these issues also affect Supermicro servers using W-series chipsets with very conservative settings.

Re: Got to hand it to the IRS

What anonymous finance? Crypto is not anonymous, it is all published publicly on a blockchain. It is the very opposite of anonymous.

Re: For what stats are worth...

My desktop has met the hardware requirements for Win11 since day 1. If you have a PC built in the last 5 years they should not be an impediment.

I have used Win11 on work laptops and don't like it. It improves nothing and gets in the way more than Win10 even after tweaking various settings. Add to that the only feature that interested me - Android apps - was US only and is (has?) now been removed then what would be the point?

My SteamDeck is showing me I don't need Windows for games. The writing may be on the wall for MS and I've used every version of Windows since 2.0.

Re: Oh Auntie

I don't. My only surviving Aunt is in her late 90s and doesn't read the news.

Re: Reddit ChatBOT™

ChatGPT has allegedly been trained on 4chan, it can't get any worse from Reddit.

Re: 6 whole DAYS? For shame, Dublin.

Some enterprising ned would just steal it to watch the footie on.

Re: the same is true with modern smartphones

My S22 lasts 3 days on a charge, with use.

My network provider keeps telling me I can have a replacement battery for free and I keep telling them I don't need it.

Re: We want to be a part of a community where our people want to live

If you'd bothered to read the third paragraph you'd know they're moving from Texas, not California, and wouldn't look so stupid.

Or maybe you still would.

Re: > punishing people for their political beliefs

I'd fire you for your incorrect English.

Re: China will soon match the west

Don't worry, they will never have as much Freedumb as the USA.

That is why they will beat you.

I prefer the term LIE.

Re: AI is "working"

I've never seen anything in the AI world that sees "accurate results" as significant.

Far better to halucinate some less truthy facts than bother with all that annoying correctness stuff.

Re: Pope catholic?

> it's usually a quick-and-dirty piece of borrowed code thrown in to make the app a "whole experience"

No it isn't. It is always an OS provided web view of some form. If that code is borrowed or shoddy your complaint is with Apple or Google.

No, just another cryptoscam company ignoring an inconvenient law.