Posts by UCAP

Now THAT is a low bar.

Re: OCCAM and Transputers

Similar toe. I started using Linux about 20 years ago, having been using various Unix flavours for maybe 20 years before.

Re: "You have my word for it"

"Raising Steam" is even better IMHO. Plus PTerry spent a day on our local steam railway line (actually driving some the trains) before he wrote it.

What has the cactus done to you?

Re: Here I am

It's better than picking up a piece of paper or dealing with insufferable doors.

Re: PHBs of the world unite!

<shudders>

Please don't make suggestions like that in any forum that Burger King's PHBs might see (even if they have to get interns to explain the long words(1)).

(1) "Long words" = anything with at least one syllable.

To be expected

This is a Gartner, so basic errors like this are not just expected but mandatory.

Re: Linux with btrfs subvolumes for root and home

I've used BTRFS on Opensuse Tumbleweed for 5 years or so with not file system corruption events at any time.

Re: Low energy to high orbit?

The ISS is deep in the Earth's magnetic field - the solar wind cannot reach it. You could boost the orbit using photon energy (which is what a light sail does), but I suspect your total thrust is not likely to exceed 1 newton (at best). It would probably take a couple of hundred years to boot the ISS's orbit by any meaningful amount.

Re: "we never loaned any of our tools to any of the non-IT staff ever again"

Far better to make a mistake and learn the appropriate lessons, than to make the same mistake and never learn anything at all. Too many people I've dealt with over the years fall into the latter category.

Re: "revenue followed the same curve"

The banks won't dare to call in the loans. Doing so will result in OpenAI defaulting & going into Chapter 11, at which point the losses to the banks will be so big that their shareholders are going to start looking for some CxO heads to put on spikes.

Re: Claude is along for the ride as copilot

Right turn, Claude

Worse, it was being used as test data. Why did they not create a test data set using made up values with no relation to real people?

he's ended no better off than he would have been had he invested daddy's money in a tracker fund and simply sat on it

Actually, he would have been even richer if he had kept his money in a tracker fund while sitting on his hands twiddling his thumbs. The added bonus is that he would have far fewer skeletons i the closet that he's terrified are about to come out.

Re: One by one... watch them fall... like domi-dominoes - domi-dominoes!

I doubt either one of them would be easily controllable after smacking at potentially 18kMPH or more depending on the vectors

I doubt either one of them would be more than an expanding cloud of high-velocity debris.

Re: WTF?

Until the affected businesses united and complain ...

And when the businesses unite and complain, MS will do absolutely nothing about it. Remember, Microsoft knows what's good for you and will ran it down your throat until you choke!

Was it Andromeda?

Re: At a time when so much news is negative

Definitely 7 cylinders short of a V8.

Re: Ohnosecond

It's also the smallest measurable unit of time.

Re: I'm Not THAT Guy!

Or you find yourself in front of the Gates of Hell and Old Nick turns around and says "Can you install Windows ME on these PCs ..."

Re: My kettle uses that much!

My kettle pulls a lot more that 1.2 kW.

But I'll join you in that cuppa.

Re: 5 year old database?

OMG, I remember watching Space 1999 when it was first broadcast and I was a young teenager. Happy days! I know which episode was being referred to.

Still too many words: "Palantir will decide to screw it up"

Re: Wait, What?

Ahhh ... but we are only in Act 1 of that play, wait for the final denouement in Act 3.

Re: “There’s no opt out”

Simple way - don't use Meta.