Posts by druck

Re: Advice

It's possible AI could be trained on draft versions of essays so it could mimic the process of development and refinement, but at the moment if you can show how your drafts have evolved in manner consistent with human authoring, you should be safe.

where does it leave the original 1% of good stuff?

1% today, 0.1% tomorrow and 0.01% the day after.

Have you ever driven a real car?

Re: Why bother?

That would be a mildly amusing comment if the missiles weren't killing people every night.

Re: Just switch it off .... no one will notice .... :)

When I was a child we visited my grandmother and in the evening sat down to watch the TV, but she told us it had broken a few months ago, she didn't watch much it anyway so wasn't bothered. It was only when I was older and remembered her TV couldn't get BBC2, so it must have been a 405 line VHF set (BBC2 was only on 625 line UHF), and that time we went around was just they switched off the old VHF service.

I wonder how many grandmothers will find their 3G mobile no longer works, just think it's broken, and probably not say anything because they don't use it much.

Re: On false equivalences

Yes, things such an a whatever-they-were-called-before-ActiveX text grid with build in edit control, easy to use but cost quite a bit up front and then wanted a per copy royalty on top - so wrote my own instead.

Re: Windows ME

I prefer Windows Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, and I can pronounce it too.

Re: Can anyone tell if the Mate 60 Pro will work in Canada ?

Oh the naivety. You might never intend to go to China, but China might come to you. If the data they obtain from a compromised device indicates you are working in a particular industry or belong to certain political organisations, you may well be coerced into furthering the objectives of the CCP.

Re: The report is not completely accurate

More importantly warships have CIWS (Close in Weapon Systems) to shoot out of the water any small high speed vessels which try to approach. There are videos of the Ukrainian drones being actively controlled to try to avoid the incoming fire, usually unsuccessfully given the potency of such systems. The successful attacks have been when they haven't been spotted until its too late.

Re: Great job!

Wilko goes bust, you shop at an alternative such as B&M.

Your bank goes bust, you don't get your salary, your bills don't paid, and your mortgage gets bought from the administrator by some glorified loan shark who immediately doubles the interest rate. Saving the bank isn't about saving it's employees, it's about saving you.

Re: "21 launched on a Falcon 9 at the weekend"

Jeff didn't like that last bit.

Re: Professional qualififcations

As far as the IET is concerned it shows the ability to churn through massive amounts of box ticking paperwork.

Overlooking the poor phraseology, he has a good point about the additional network traffic scaled by the number users.

Re: Wrong base?

No, for me all disk sizes are measured in powers of 2. It's the thieving disk manufacturers that decided to round down to powers of 10.

Re: Missing one small detail

We do want the parachutes to open, otherwise it will be a bit difficult to find the asteroid granules when scattered across miles of Utah desert.

Re: We've done this before

Generally speaking, I think that typical NFTs, which are marketed and bought/sold as unique artistic artifacts, should in fact be treated in the same way as a painting or a valuable watch the emperor's new clothes - 100% scam.

FTFY

I hope you're getting paid for those evening hours ...

I'm only working into the evening because I've taken an hour or two during the day to go to the shops, or do something with the kids during the holidays - the benefits of flexible working from home.

I'm actually doing the reverse of BYOD - TCDH Take the Company Device Home. I don't bother plugging it from all my monitors and use it remote in to my various bits of equipment to do stuff. Trouble is if I forget to change my availability status on the work laptop, people think I'm working all hours.

Re: The real problem with Concorde.....

Most of Russia is empty if they even cared about anyone on the ground, but more of a problem was the noise level inside the Tu-144 of 90-95db which is about the same as on the outside of most aircraft.

Re: Well forget the second accident

But a vehicle that can't handle an oncoming vehicle in the same lane ? I understand that avoidance maneuvers is a whole other set of abilities, but braking is still supposed to be on the cards, is it not ? The vehicle "initiated a braking maneuver". Nice to know. Why did it not stop entirely ?

The AVs get so many false indications of on coming traffic from vehicles in the other lane on bends and at intersections, they have assume the other traffic isn't on a collision course most of the time to avoid having to continually brake. This seems to work right up to when it doesn't, when there is actually an oncoming vehicle in the same lane, it's too late to avoid.

Re: Companies which don't deliberately compromise user security will be fined

Most of these stupid ideas come from the civil service and they keep coming back no matter who is sitting on the government benches.

Re: Strange how...

And he's still desperately watching hoping to downvote another post.

Here you go...

But your views of British politics are based on what news makes it over to rural France, and given what we hear of French politics in the UK, may not be entirely accurate.