They'll be just fine for political manifestos in the many upcoming elections.
Posts by Arthur the cat
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Databricks claims its open source foundational LLM outsmarts GPT-3.5
UK skies set for cheeky upgrade with hybrid airship
Re: Really???
depending on the source, it has about 60% of the lifting capability of hydrogen
Blink‽‽‽ The density of ammonia depends on its source? Has reality changed since I did my physics degree?
If you'd said "purity" I might have agreed. Or can you get ammonia guaranteed to be ¹⁵N and tritium?
FreeBSD Foundation hands out Beacon gongs for safer software
Re: CHERI Discussion On Usenet
Probably plus the fact that FreeBSD has the Capsicum capability framework as part of the kernel and as "man capsicum" says
Capsicum first appeared in FreeBSD 9.0, and was developed at the University of Cambridge.so it's a no-brainer for Cambridge researchers to use it.
Garlic chicken without garlic? Critics think Amazon recipe book was cooked up by AI
Re: Recipes that stretch out over 2,000 days
Rabbit pie (feeds 15)
First, breed your rabbits.
There's a recent Nature article on python farming as an efficient(*) source of food. 101 Python recipes could be a best seller, capturing two markets.
(*) Being cold blooded(**) they convert food to meat far better than mammals and lose little weight when temporarily starved.
(**) Pedants: don't start.
Euclid space telescope needs de-icing
The last mile's at risk in our hostile environment. Let’s go the extra mile to fix it
Re: "Stop putting cabling in easy to reach, easy to breach ducting"
No it's more subtle than that. … Typically you would then only be responsible for the stretch after the point which branches off to serve only you, even if the remainder is on your property.
Well aware of it (shared sewer that's frequently been blocked by rental accommodation neighbour's actions), but didn't want to get into the details.
Used to work in home insurance claims, knowing this kind of stuff was essential to the job.
Useful if you're a householder as well. :-)
Re: "Stop putting cabling in easy to reach, easy to breach ducting"
It's not on my premises until it hits the demarc. That's why it's called the "demarc" because the demarcation point determines if the customer or the telecommunications provider is responsible for maintenance, and that's not at the street corner, that's the box there on my wall with the FCC stamps on it.
Regular reminder: The US has <5% of the world's population, the other 95+% do things differently.
In this case I was specifically talking about fibre in the UK, and CityFibre at least say that with fibre in the ground their responsibility ends at the boundary of the house's grounds(*). You want ducts, you supply the ducts for them. The same applies to water supplies – I'm responsible for the pipes after the water meter in the pavement outside my house.
(*) No idea for lines from posts like mine.
Re: "Stop putting cabling in easy to reach, easy to breach ducting"
Seems to me it would have been so easy to bury a conduit and feed the fibre through it.
"Cabling on the consumer premises is the responsibility of the consumer." I know various people who've ended up with the cable draped across their front lawn.
Ad agency boss owned two Ferraris but wouldn't buy a real server
Voyager 1 starts making sense again after months of babble
Exchange Online blocked from sending email to AOL and Yahoo
Re: Alternatively, perhaps just pick up the phone and have a chat
I told them I would buy them lunch if they could identify it's use without looking it up.
As remarked elsewhere, once upon a time you had to explain what a video cassette was to old people, now you have to explain them to young people.
'Chemical cat' on the loose in Japanese city
Job interview descended into sweary shouting match, candidate got the gig anyway
Chrome users – get an alert when extensions are in danger of falling into wrong hands
World-plus-dog booted out of Facebook, Instagram, Threads
Chinese 'connected' cars are a national security threat, says Biden
It's that most wonderful time of the year when tech cannot handle the date
New solvent might end winter charging blues for EV owners
Willy Wonka event leaves bitter taste with artificially sweetened promises
Odysseus probe moonwalking on the edge of battery life after landing on its side
Re: Time to call Sigourney?
Weaponized tardigrades anybody?
Varda capsule proves you don't need astronauts for gravity-defying science
Re-entry licence?
The eight-month mission duration was twice that initially planned due to problems with the license needed for re-entry.
What? You need separate licences for going up and coming down? If you're intending to return your spacecraft to Earth I'd have thought a return ticketlicence would have made sense.
Work for you? Again? After you lied about the job and stole my stuff? No thanks
There are the managers who's profession ( I use the word very loosely) is managing. They often believe that, as one management consultant said to me "You don't need to know anything about the business to be a manager of it". And they often have MBAs and no or little or no experience of the front line roles.
That's a bit verbose. "They have MBAs" is probably sufficient. I've literally never met a manager who tells(*) you he's(**) got an MBA who is anything other than negative capacity.
(*) It could be I've had decent managers with MBAs, but if so they've kept it quiet. If they tell you the first time you meet that they've got an MBA, they're an arsehole and will be an awful manager and totally ignorant of anything technical.
(**) It's always a bloke who insists you must know about his MBA. (And his Rolex. And his BMW.)
Crowning glory of GOV.UK websites updated, sparking frontend upgrades
ChatGPT starts spouting nonsense in 'unexpected responses' shocker
Re: Just as far away as before
Automated genocide-machines with guns that automatically hunt and shoot at whoever are classified as the wrong sort of human, have been worryingly feasible for several years now.
Call me cynical if you like, but why would anybody fork out good money for such hardware when Mark I humans produced by unskilled labour have been doing that very effectively for centuries?
Space nukes: The unbelievably bad idea that's exactly that ... unbelievable
Self-taught-techie slept on the datacenter floor, survived communism, ended a marriage
Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner
Dumping us into ad tier of Prime Video when we paid for ad-free is 'unfair' – lawsuit
Re: Idiots
Is there another form of Enshittification you're trying to differentiate it from?
Cory Doctorow talks specifically about enshittification of companies' offerings to customers. There's also the enshittification of governments and public discourse and food (hybrid rice/meat with added fish gelatin anybody?) and …
I wonder which university will be the first to open a Department of Enshittification Studies?
NASA solar sail tech is ready – now who's up to use it in a mission?
Re: Nuclear
I personally think nuclear propulsion would be much more suitable for missions (especially manned ones) in the Solar System. Solar sails are only suitable for long duration missions which aren't time sensitive.
For most missions the target will still be there in 10 or 100 or a million years. Apart from Pluto crossing the line where its atmosphere condenses/sublimes and the obvious "oh shit, it's going to hit us, better move it" events I can't think of stuff that's seriously time sensitive. So long as some results come back within a researcher's lifetime so there's motivation, a few extra years don't really matter.
Microsoft might have just pulled support for very old PCs in Windows 11 24H2
HPE seeks $4B in damages from Autonomy boss Mike Lynch and his ex-CFO
Drowning in code: The ever-growing problem of ever-growing codebases
Re: Remember 'The Last One'?
I strongly disagree with his take.
Ditto. I learnt to program 52 years ago. For most of those 52 years there's been someone, somewhere predicting the end of programming "because it will all be done by machines, you'll just tell them what you want done". I suspect this will still be happening long after I've been recycled.