Re: Charitable lot
Jeez. Do some basic research.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/15-biggest-companies-don-t-184200134.html?guccounter=1
Posts by Gordon 10
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Tesla asks shareholders to reinstate Musk's voided $56B pay package
Blackstone wants to plug hyperscale datacenter into former Britishvolt battery site
Thursday 18th April 2024 16:39 GMT
Re: Nuclear fail
Really?
Show your working that its impractical.
(A simple google will show you baseload is a concept with no objective reality.)
The *worst* renewable generation day last year in Feb produced 33% of demand. Ergo 3-5 times the current capacity (most of which has been added in the last 10 years) is achievable between now and 2050.
Thursday 18th April 2024 10:58 GMT
Nuclear fail
Hinkley C - our only new Nuke plant actually under construction was started in 2018 and is now not scheduled to be operational until 2027. It will add 3.2GW of capacity.
None of the other UK "new nuke" plants have even broken ground.
In *1 year* between 2021 and 2022 the UK added 4GW of renewables. So in the same timeline you could add 40+GW if you put your mind to it.
Before anyone says baseload. its a myth. No-one has even even put a number on what Baseload needs to be, and it can be addressed by renewables just like mass cheap storage does - by extensive overprovisioning.
Gentoo Linux tells AI-generated code contributions to fork off
KPMG bags £8.5M NHS gig as cheerleader for Federated Data Platform rollout
Tuesday 16th April 2024 16:19 GMT
Re: KPMG help to implement Federated Data Platform (FDP)
Reading between the lines this is rollout and deployment. They wont be in a position to give Palantir actual requirements, and even if they did the septics would ignore them. NHSEngland are probably quite capabile of fucking up the requirements on their own.
Tuesday 16th April 2024 16:18 GMT
Re: Nearly 400 million
Errrm. KPGM are actually Anglo-Dutch and because they are mostly a set of limited liability partnership the segregation between country entities is a lot higher than most multinationals. Their US staff is the biggest in term of headcount tho....
This will be KPGM UK getting £10m of PR glitter to sprinkle over the £300m Palantir Turd.
UK health department republishes £330M Palantir contract with fewer ██████
Tuesday 26th March 2024 10:23 GMT
Re: "is trying to lock future governments into"
TBF hes not wrong on Streeting.
No mainstream politician has the answer to funding the NHS because the costs are increasing year on year in line with an aging population, and the cold hard reality is that funding has to come from higher taxes.
Until Labour (maybe) or the Tories (no chance) break ranks and start talking about using taxes for adequate funding for a decent service the NHS is f*cked.
Vernor Vinge, first author to describe cyberspace and 'The Singularity,' dies at 79
Friday 22nd March 2024 17:43 GMT
Re: Alas!
Funnily enough I've been thinking of Vinge and Brin a lot lately.
Have just belated got around to reading Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time novels - just finished the first and started on the second.
The first is basically inspired by Deepness in the Sky and Uplift War - but done really well and a homage to both parents.
Worth digging out. Took me ages because I have this irrational aversion to books being recommended because they are award winners. (Arthur C Clarke's in this case).
Is that a Helicopter warning sign or a Spider warning sign?
UK council won't say whether two-week 'cyber incident' impacted resident data
Thursday 21st March 2024 16:18 GMT
BZZZTTT FAIL
BOFH Cattle prod of doom for you.
IT Estate is not a plane.
ITIL (or any other framework worth its name) has an Incident Management process that includes a role for Incident Comms, that should cover all your user stakeholders including the general public .... and for which the press is a valid comms channel.
Your ERP goes down and you're not giving the CFO hourly updates on the expected recovery time and process - your IT dept is a clown car.
Its been 20 years since I've done IM. This is basic stuff.
Oracle AI buzz means Larry Ellison's worth $15B more today
Justice Dept reportedly starts criminal probe into Boeing door bolt incident
Reddit wants to raise $748M with IPO, sets value at $6.4B... and it has yet to turn a profit
Copilot pane as annoying as Clippy may pop up in Windows 11
Underwater cables in Red Sea damaged months after Houthis 'threatened' to do just that
Staff say Dell's return to office mandate is a stealth layoff, especially for women
Thursday 22nd February 2024 18:10 GMT
Re: Wouldn't suprise me
I think you're a little too negative on this one - at least as far as UK law goes.
The announcement (if reported accurately) is a blanket policy and open to huge challenges, and potential joint actions by multiple 10's of employee's.
There is zero chance Dell will try to blanket enforce this in the UK.
Expect them to quietly back out and say it was US only.
But don't be surprised to hear of huge payouts by Compromise agreements to keep everything on the down-low.
Oracle is hiring two new teams to build its cloud faster and stronger
Lukewarm reception for Microsoft's Copilot Pro amid performance, cost grumbles
Wednesday 24th January 2024 12:58 GMT
Re: Copilot ... sucking up resources and spying on everything you're doing to use Copilot
It doesn't spy on anything you are doing. Yes it has some access by default but its not (currently at least) doing stuff with that access unless you explicitly tell it to.
If you're worried about that you need to spend a lot more time working about MS Graph. Thats the monitoring-ware.
Case in point - look at the default Edge Home page OR if you want real nightmares look at MS Delve. It basically can tell you what your boss had for breakfast.
The Post Office systems scandal demands a critical response
Monday 22nd January 2024 16:33 GMT
One Correction - private prosecutions
The post office is not unique in using Private Prosecutions and has no special powers to do so, (in spite of its origin as being one of the earliest Investigations function.
The difference for the PO was that the Legal system was *accustomed* to them doing so *at scale*, some of the usual scepticism that maybe another private company would get was missing.
Tesla owners in deep freeze discover the cold, hard truth about EVs
Infosys co-founder doubles down on call for 70-hour work weeks
DARPA's air-steered X-65 jet heads into production with goal of flying by 2025
Sam Altman set to rejoin OpenAI as CEO – seemingly with Microsoft's blessing
Wednesday 22nd November 2023 12:26 GMT
Re: Satya?
Eh? Are you drunk?
Considering he was sideswiped too he's not put a foot wrong. His decision at every point has been to protect MS's investment in Altman and his inner circle who are the geese laying the golden eggs.
The El Reg article on this from yesterday has aged rather badly. Lol.
MOVEit victim count latest: 2.6K+ orgs hit, 77M+ people's data stolen
SpaceX celebrates Starship launch as a success – even with the explosion
Monday 20th November 2023 16:01 GMT
Re: I can't help but feel....
Your first comment was a bust - but keep digging.
Not a Musk fan but SpaceX payloads have some of the lowest insurance costs around because it's the most reliable launch platform in existence.
Its exactly how deep SpaceX's pockets are. SpaceX expect and have planned for the first few launches to be underwritten by themselves, and will be offering hugely discounted payload fees.
Why do you think he launched the Roadster on Falcon Heavy?
Duh.
Tesla Cybertruck no-resale clause vanishes faster than a Model S in Ludicrous Mode
Apple exec defends 8GB $1,599 MacBook Pro, claims it's like 16GB in a PC
Thursday 9th November 2023 09:41 GMT
You are confusing your geeky needs with general use cases - they are not the same thing.
You *want* 16Gb coz you are willy waving. Coz bigger in better innit. Do you own an SUV?
I agree with the general tone of the article but the reality is there are tons of use cases where 8Gb is plenty.
Even on Windows - ironically have at 2012 MBA with 4Gb comfortably running basic browser and office tasks using Win10 Bootcamp.
Snowflake puts LLMs in the hands of SQL and Python coders
Thursday 2nd November 2023 19:00 GMT
Alex Savage doesnt seem to have a clue what he is talking about
Unless you're a tier one enterprise who can piss money and pride up the wall developing your own LLM's the only game in town are those LLM's from the hyperscalers, for which re-training and fine tuning are very limited options anyway. With a bit of prompt engineering they are pretty good - certainly for the general stuff you're likely to throw at them via Snowflake.
The actually cost of running the hyperscalars LLM's are buttons too - only the artificial price points set by the hyperscalars is a consideration. Anything from with GPT3.5Turbo is peanuts, GPT4 is still expensive but expect that to come down as the competition builds....
(Theres some interesting low resource LLM's emerging on places like Hugging Face, but Consumer grade LLM's from the hyperscalers is mostly where its going to be at unless you've got a big Data Science team struggling to stay relevant.).
Batterygate bound for Blighty as UK court approves billion-dollar Apple compensation case
Thursday 2nd November 2023 11:18 GMT 
Its a weird one
This case has always struck me as a bit strange.
As others have pointed out showing that apple actually profited from this action is counterintuitive as they lost out on upgrades and similar. No-one has shown or proven any nefariousness on Apples part merely what appears to have been a poorly communicated effort to improve battery life and stability.
I dont see how ANY sane judge could rule that people have suffered a financial loss from Apples activities, and therefore are due damages. Even if they have suffered a loss there is no way to show its been anything but trivial.
This stinks of a monetisation play by greedy lawyers rather than any pro-active consumer led action.
Qualcomm claims its X Elite PC parts can go toe-to-toe with Apple, Intel
Apple lifts the sheet on a trio of 'scary fast' M3 SoCs built on a 3nm process
Wednesday 1st November 2023 18:05 GMT
Re: Not hard to see why Apple aren't fans of TheReg with a wildly biased article like this.
Your last line is BS.
In 2018 the cheapest MPB 13" with touchbar was $1800 a year before that the *real* budget 128Gb non-touch model was $1300.
Today - the cheapest MPB 14" M3 is $1700
13" 2013 MBA base price - $1099
13.6" M2 MBA base price $1199.
So Apple prices have been pretty stable, they've always commanded a premium but there is little evidence to show that that the premium has increased with the M series processors.
Former IBM Canada worker wins six-figure payout for wrongful dismissal
Brit competition regulator will make or break Vodafone and Three union
Apple antique aficionados can boot to the future with OpenCore Legacy Patcher
Elon Musk's ambitions for Starship soar high while reality waits on launchpad
UK splashes £4B to dive into next-gen nuclear submarines
Oracle at Europe's largest council didn't foresee bankruptcy
Tuesday 19th September 2023 15:45 GMT 
Something iffy here
Apart from the fact that you never, ever, ever customise these monolith POS ERP systems, there is no way Oracle doesn't have a way to allocate cash across accounts. I know of 3 from our Oracle implementation and I have kept as far away as humanly possible from it, someone with product knowledge would know more.
Its shit, but its not that shit.
Whats the betting the big 3 (EY, PWC, KPMG) have done the majority of the cash hoovering that took it to £100m?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
