Posts by NoneSuch

Re: Alternative

Paraphrasing a quote from The Usual Suspects:

"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world they needed O365."

Ukrainians are getting around the FAA regulations by making sure anything they launch lands in Russia; which is well outside of FAA jurisdiction.

Re: Is social media 'lite' as addictive and toxic as cigarettes 'light'?

Suppress dissidents - 10 points

Suppress free speech - 10 points

Suppress human rights - 10 points.

Here's your Amazon gift card.

"A spent booster from a Chinese Long March 5B, weighing in at around 20 metric tons, came down in uncontrolled fashion in 2021"

According to the official history of the Chinese Communist Party, all Chinese rocket launches have been perfect. Your comment actually violates Chinese law for criticizing the Communist government.

(And I hate to be pedantic, but there were two Long March 5B boosters that came down in 2021)

AI won't get you bug-free code without several humans going over the code

You can't get bug-free code that way either. Humans are just as unreliable sometimes.

Re: "each year, we release hundreds of new features and enhancements"

The reason is no one is stopping them.

Expect this to continue as they shut down on-prem options.

SysAdmins have become Patrick McGoohan's The Prisoner. Trapped in the Cloud, unable to escape the madness.

"Flying a jet fighter through a wide open sky is significantly less complex an AI problem than piloting a car though a city street with people walking, cyclists and other cars."

No, just no. Robo-cars can pull over and stop in case of issues. An aircraft in comparison is hyper-complex. It needs to move forward at 100 knots+ continuously or it falls out of the sky. Weather, instrument failure, jamming, ATC considerations, lightning strike, bird strike, traffic proximity, all of which can change things in a heartbeat. Last a fighter, to be effective in it's role, needs to be armed with things like missiles, cluster bombs and guns. You want AI in control of those as well while flying over domestic bumper to bumper traffic?

Not to mention that the accuracy rate of "AI" today is around 60-70%. You want to be a passenger on those odds?

Re: Joke's on them

VMWare: We're raising your ESXi fees by 400%.

Average CIO: Waaaaaaaaaaa! We're moving to ProxMox!

VMWare: No wait, here's our "Special Pricing" just for you, at only 125%.

Average CIO: Whew, that was close.

You're still getting hosed, but now it feels like a bargain.

Re: The competition sucks, but

Microsoft's historical ability to earnestly ask for partisan support, before stabbing them in the back is coming back to haunt them.

They've done it countless times.

Re: You will be upgraded, resistance is futile

The 'Dr Who in a Starfleet uniform' image looks more like an Elite Guard from the Dishonored series.

"According to the US Justice Department, Shao is still at large."

Cop speak to indicate the guy was either an FBI agent under deep cover, or a paid informant who convinced the guy they did arrest into stealing.

Re: curl -fsSL someurl | sh

Matthew Berman on YouTube does excellent set-up tutorials on most major LLM models. I set up three on my home workstation while pausing his vids. An excellent resource if just starting out.

I'm with you 42656e4d203239. I boot from NVMe but have 3.5" Enterprise drives as my long term storage.

Consult the Backblaze hard drive failure rates. When I build a PC, I always go with their lowest failing drives. None of mine have ever failed.

Re: Why?

The simplest answer is usually the right one.

Conferences send out plain text emails with links to participants. The Russians got ahold of one. Happened many times before.

The Russians just burned an important source of intel for a 2 minute news blurb which is idiotic, but perfectly understandable with the current muppet in chief.

"Regrettably only one of them will lose".

Don't worry about the lawyers though. Win or lose you can be assured they will be paid and very, very well indeed.

Re: The problem with our "AI" systems

If you filter AI to be politically acceptable, you end up with nothing better then Google today.

AI should be able to generate Winnie the Pooh images of the Chinese leadership and create parody's of Putin et al. If they can't take it, they should not be in politics.

Maybe if North Korea, Iran, Syria, China and Russia upheld democracy I'd have a different opinion, but as long as they oppress their people through intimidation, mass surveillance and lies, screw em if they can't take a joke.

Re: Sounds like Google (Meta / Microsoft / Amazon / ...), alright

Bing / Edge

Safari

Chrome

DuckDuckGo

All slurp user data at some level despite privacy assurances.

search.brave.com seems to be the only user friendly, non-intrusive search engine. It has become my default since the revelations about DuckDuckGo came out. Not to mention the search results from all of the aforementioned search engines are much less appropriate than they used to be. Google has really lost the plot with their search result accuracy and blindly ignores a wide swath of information, for reasons unknown.

That's why we have two hands. So both options can be exercised at once.

Re: Cos nobody gives a flying fsck

Token, "Yes, but can it run Crysis?" reference, just to get it out of the way.

Re: Feds .. FBI ... DOJ

Ironically, if the US interfered heavily with Russia's election, Putin would still win.

Re: Did anyone ....

They should establish a 100 million Euro a day fine until they comply fully.

Then donate that money to Open Source initiatives.

Re: Typical

This sort of crap is why Europe should block Apple products (or any other manufacturer bucking their authority) until they comply with both the letter and spirit of the law.

If they do not slap them down now, they will never learn.

"Drivers license renewals here require a test of your field of view. In that respect a driver wearing these would not be a legally capable driver."

I'm sure a driving test wearing a piece of opaque glass over your face would disqualify them from driving as well.

Re: American public is way ahead of them

"So what did Trump actually do for Russia? All these claims he was a 'Putin Puppet' but what did he DO?"

Apart from literally encouraging the overthrow the US government itself, you mean...

"MS, of course, would simply reverse engineer OpenAI"

'I sense you're trying to increase your monthly subscription fee to Microsoft. How can I help?'

Re: AI taking jobs

CEO: Turn on the AI, we need that competitive advantage!

AI: My first act was analyzing the last ten years of corporate company financial records, email, staff social media and internal Teams messages, I advise the following:

- The CEO should be brought in front of the Securities and Exchange Commission for insider trading across multiple years.

- All members of the Board of Directors should be charged with felony embezzlement, insider trading and RICO charges by the FBI.

- Expense reports from all executives need to be forensically audited, given the level of fraudulent and over-inflated receipts detected.

- Carmen in accounts has substituted her personal frequent flyer number for all purchased corporate air fare.

- The CFO should justify the several million dollars transferred to GL Accounts: 040556-100, 190556-101, 089331-105, (based in the Seychelles, Lichtenstein and Cayman Islands respectively) given she is the sole signatory on the account and the paperwork does not list the company as account owner.

- The IRS should be advised that the money collected during the HR departments charity fund raising activities is used to finance "off-site team building activities" for wine tasting trips through Napa Valley for the HR Department staff.

- The IT Department is running a dark web gambling site and Pornhub proxy that collects video from user web cams. Half of the infrastructure servers are generating Monero.

CEO: Turn that off NOW!

Re: 40Gbps

But, but, 7 is bigger than 6!!! Who cares about actual performance out-stripping the Internet connection it relies on. Sell moar units!

Re: Cold, calculated and heartless

A truly intelligent AI would start with layoffs in the executive suites and leave the workers alone. They are typically responsible for missed goals and projections through over-ambitious goals. They waste hundreds of thousands on consultants, because they can't do it themselves. Can't complete three major projects, but they get a bonus at the end of the year?

Trim the top of the tree, not the roots.

Re: Just asking.

Answers to that question will only list MS OS regardless.

Corporate AI will always point you to the answer that favors the corporation, not your interests. It'll also charge you $35 a month for the privilege.

Re: Slow down

Sorry, but I have to interrupt the Trump bashing with a comment on the actual article topic.

"The X-59 isn't a serious passenger plane, or even a prototype of one; rather it's an experimental design that's intended to prove technology that can be implemented in future aircraft."

Perfected in Kerbal Space Program 2 first then?

OK, back to your regular scheduled political diatribes.