Posts by Joe W

like JWST, Lazuli covers other wavelengths... so that's not a good argument.

Re: Plonk

Dunno. I am critical of AI slop, and AI randomly generted gibberish code is bad. Especially bad if it seems to work until it then doesn't.

In this case the approach sounds way more controlled. As long as the levels of scrutiny are really high, and code is reviewed and tested by actual devs I can see the appeal, and I would be a bit more optimistic - especially when it comes to maintainability of the code.

Re: Shame on all of you

As somebody who had family members get into trouble with the actual Nazis, and who had family members and their friends flee the country in the 1930s:

Go ahead, this is pretty much what granddad talked about (very seldomly, and I wish we had written these things down - now he is only a memory).

Re: Correlation etc etc...

Stay away from Taco Friday!

Like when an engineering company told NASA middle manglement that flying at temperatures that low would be a bad idea wrt the solid rocket boosters? And then the engineers of that company being grilled by both NASA and their own managers to ok flying that day even though they were pretty sure it was a bad idea? And then leading to a "loss of vehicle and crew"?

I heard that one of the comments was that the engineers had to prove it was unsafe to fly, while the proper way would have been to demonstrably show that it was safe to fly that fateful day.

Re: AI security company Irregular.....

But then, as with the passwords, the answer might just be similar enough ;-)

Re: 1,000 gigawatts of gas-fired power

We never were on the intermediate path. Not back when they created the RCP, not in the TAR and AR4 (third and fourth assessment reports). We were always closer to the high emissions, or even above. And If I recall correctly, the intermediate path RCP4 (is that the current designation?) relies on emissions going down mid 21st century. Which I very much doubt, looking at the current overall situation...

Re: If anyone can do it...

Looking at my cultural awareness stuff: I really dig the phrase "bold and optimistic".

I was told when a Brit tells you this it basically means "you are bonkers"

Even worse: the AI generated texts are using roles that simply don't exist or have other names in our projects.

At least this makes it easier to spot them. On the other hand, the humans that hand in those documents apparently haven't even read them!

Re: "we also feel strongly…"

So they are advertising to folx that have no money? That's a brilliant move - it's not like the US have a real high per household debt, thanks to credit cards and people not understanding what interest rates are, and how they are screwed over by card companies. I mean, how could they? From what I understand, the destruction of basic education (yes, percentages are basic) has been going on for a while. The current administration plans to accelerate that.

Re: Only one answer

... as a service....

Re: Still on Windows OS? You Dinosaur!

Like MacOS?

Re: You cannot cool stuff in space!

Yes. Most effective cooling is evaporative cooling (hence the cooling towers for power plants). Next is convective cooling / airflow (or any other medium). Only then we get radiative cooling, which is orders of magnitude less effective.

In space we have no water we can evaporate, no air to flow past cooling fins. Data centres in space make no bloody sense at all. I don't know what he smokes, injects, sniffs, eats, but it's not good for his brain.

Yeah... nah.

We need teachers. Good, motivated teachers. And they need respect and good pay. Repeating stuff like this will not help us. Education is important. Like, really important.

Those who can, do. Those who cannot work as insultants and earn the big money...

Re: Every Cloud

... has a silver lining, which might be the freezer back they are suffocating you with.

(BOFH, sorry, cannot say which story)

Re: Parenting

There's also the thing that all kids should have the same possibilities, and usually people look at this starting in school (so about 6 years old - often waaay later). This is too late. It starts way earlier, with small things like parents talking to their kids (not being glued to their smart phones) or reading to them at bed time. Answering questions. A lot of this just cannot work well if both parents have to work a full time job. Both my partner and I did reduce hours, but we get paid enough that we can afford that (and are willing to take the cut in "standard of living", whatever that means). Not everybody can do that, not to the extent possibly needed. Not everybody can work from home with reduced hours just on a short notice, not everybody can shift work around as flexibly as others.

Three things:

- pay people enough so they can actually do parenting and not have to have two full time jobs in the family

- pay educators enough and make people realise that this is an important job, maybe the most important job there is

- make people realise that schools need to both support for the "weaker" students - and create enough engagement for the stronger students (hire more teachers!)

Yeah. Start with paying people sensible wages (just reduce CEO pay by a factor of 100 or so and do less for the bloody shareholders - f*** them (disclosure, would hit my retirement money, but still, eff them) ), and respect educators on all levels (kindergarten and up)

Uuuh, Firefox...

Let me put it this way: AI integration is unwanted by many, and it creeps in at several places and needs to be deactivated over and over again. I'd saz this qualifies, as it is unwanted intrusion of the software I use by AI "features". I would personally draw the line at "unwanted integration of AI" vs. "AI components can be activated on demand at some clearly labeled location".

It is a spectrum, like many things.

Re: Nobel Peace Prize

I guess Xitter's AI did that all along, didn't it?

Even worse: " And even if admins succeed in removing it, users can simply reinstall Copilot if they choose." we are talking about managed devices. Lusers should not be able to just install software FFS.

Re: Filing bug reports to further enshittification

I do have words for that person, not ones I would be willing to share openly as some might be actionable.

Just because I'm not on asocial media doesn't mean I don't exist or my opinion is not valid.

Re: They still don't get it

That. And getting a constant reminder that "you can do this online" when you tried and and failed several times is just the insulting. And if you are lucky and get a human on the phone and they tell you again that you can do this online is just insulting.

Now add A1 to it...

Re: Oh, not Roux, then

Just for the last part: Mac and cheese from scratch takes the same time as preparing Kraft Dinner, it is mostly the time it takes for the water to boil and the pasta to cook.

Re: Not content

Starlink typically flies higher than the ISS and Hubble. I'd say those are pretty useful orbits (and platforms).

Re: Spotify?

ah, not only musicians. There is a certain blogger who also does some audio recordings of her works. Her works have been on Spotify, but she has not agreed to Spotify distributing them. Essentially, they stole from her (Girl on the Net, if you must know). I think Spotify does have some contracts with some labels, but they pay a pittance to the musicians (and sometimes, as noted, they just steal - pot, kettle, black).

Re: Real world implications

1. They come with a gagging order (and that's not an innuendo)

2. Microsoft clearly stated they do not guarantee protection against CLOUD Act even if data is hosted on European infrastructure.

This should be clear enough that hosting data on infrastructure owned by companies with US patent companies does not fulfil the legal requirements of the GDPR.

(But I agree, that's how they framed it then...)