Posts by xyz 1238 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Dec 2007
A Chinese company took over the old Nissan factory near Barcelona last week. Much handshaking, chuffed government types etc etc but when the Chinese bunch announced they'll be building 150,000 EVs a year by the end of this year you could feel the "omg, they dont hang about" atmosphere and people choking on their cornflakes.
I'm in the "UK" this week and King Charles' "Operation Bunting" to bring the "nation" together post Brexit is in full flow.
I've just got to hold out until Sunday to get back to civilisation... Aka the EU.
Go China!
IMHO... Oar in time. Israel wants more land and will blow the fuck out of anything to get it. I'm not denying that Hamas kicked this off, but Israel is now maxing the opportunity.
The UN is now as useless as the previous version of it and is stuck in some sort of 1950s limbo. It is now 2 tier where the views of the "big boys" supersede the views of most of the rest of the planet.
The whole "Nazi" thing if I remember my history correctly started off with sticking Jews in ghettos and then ended up with a final solution using genocide by gas chamber... and here we have Palestinians put in ghettos and the final solution this time is genocide by any means available.
It's all depressingly familiar and will probably end up with a large radiation zone between the med and India, so no one will "win."
That I failed miserably to book a car parking space at an airport yesterday afternoon due to the shite nature of the "UX" involved and that hacking through my own annotated code from 5 years ago leaves me wondering what substances I'd been exposed to, I can think of nothing worse than letting a plastic developer (aka an AI) cobble together lines of stuff I have to wade through to check. Also Gartner wouldnt know its corporate ass from its corporate elbow.
"AI" is good for woolly or statistical analysis but for doing the dev, give me a break. We've all been down to StackOverflow, so an AI doesn't have to.
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Yeah but you're forgetting the fact that the Starlink ground station connects to a contractually agreed list of local ISPs who provide the internety stuff to the Starlink customers in that country.
If Starlink can provide me over 300mbps for 45€ a month and is obviously paying the local ISPs a wedge, Starlink doesn't have to be any bigger.
As for customer service, the whole thing is pretty much thought out. I've been using it for over 18 months and it only went phut once in a heavy snow storm.
As someone else on here said, Starlink is just a space router putting an off grid wallah like me on line. So what's the problem?
So, huge bun fight here between x, y and z about DCs, AI, nuclear, green, net zero etc etc, but nobody appears to be suggesting we stop consuming as much power or even just using less of the stuff. I mean it's kind of embarassing that we're all fighting over how to power DCs to deliver social media, deepfakes, the best holiday itinerary and whatnot.
I was looking at one of the apps on https://planetarycomputer.microsoft.com * yesterday and trust me you don't want to be living in the US come 2090. You will burn!
* I've been slagging off MS for years now and then the come up with this. I love it.
An 800,000 entry list of people with probably few other tables in a Sql database. How can you possibly fuck that up?
I suppose the preferred solution now will be cloud, analytics, blockchain, AI etc costing many millions and take 10 years and it'll still be a fuck up.
I despair.
FCC, just bite the bullet, get over the whole "it must be an ISP" thing, and rollout Starlink (or whoever) and everyone will be happy. No ISP is going to drag their ass into the bushes for what you are willing to pay.
Teams or whatever chews through around 6GB a day so mobile is no use and mobile is all Wi-Fi calling these days anyway because there are no tower costs.
My "connection" to Starlink is always >300mbps down and 30mbps up, around 30ms latency and 45€ a month and I don't give a fuck which ISP it hooks up to as long as it works.
This is all good stuff. Tree counting is the easy bit, the ballbreaker is the satellite soil and light data resolution which is woeful, so probably why you need "AI" to guess the bits in between the sampling points.
Note to ESA (and by extension NASA). Your site says all data is free to everyone and it is but the access method if you are not "one of the club" is from the 1990s. Surely you have a public access API these days rather than the FTP kludge that is on offer.
Maybe you should train your people in a world adopted measurement system. The amount of American stuff I really liked but HAVEN'T bought online because the measurements are in pounds and inches is huge. Even just put the kgs, cms in brackets, but I'm not wasting my time doing conversions. Sorry.
Having spent my entire life avoiding people like the plague, the thought of "rent-a-friend" makes me want to puke. I've never understood what the purpose of a "friend" is for a start so I'll be avoiding this rent-a-friend thingy... and this morning I woke up to the news that I've got a follower on some website. For a start, I wouldn't follow me, so God help whoever the "follower" is. Am I supposed to feed it, take it for walkies or what?
Whatever happened to the good old "he kept himself to himself" notion. Where's me axe?
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