Posts by TeeCee 9435 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Oct 2007
Yes, but if the relevant regulatory authorities stopped taking fairy stories as fact, they'd be obliged to shut down all the cryptocurrency businesses. That action would spawn a whole slew of conspiracy nutters on Shitter and Masturbate going apeshit at once.
Better to just leave well alone and get on with some real work in the real world with real assets.
...that produces the right numbers every month...
In my experience, given a spreadsheet built by Noah that nobody touches, that's more usually numbers that everyone's happy with every month. Usually wrong, but since everyone's happy with the answer, nobody questions them. Sometimes this is because they're pretty sure that the figures are wrong, but they're terrified of what the real figures might be.
You'd have thought they'd have learned by now.
It may well look like the upcoming standard, commercial offering is lacking a bell somewhere or one of its whistles is in the wrong key, but you can bet your bum that it'll be there and working years ahead of whatever your public sector project is supposed[1] to deliver.
COTS procurement beats reinventing the wheel every time.
[1] And you won't get that as all the bells and whistles will be descoped to get something out the door about ten years late.
If they launch their own and call it the "E-uro", I'm going to petition Mad Vlad to nuke Brussels[1].
Good taste demands it.
[1] Although the incompetent git would probably do it while the eurocrats were all "working from Strasbourg"[2].
[2] Like "working from home" only not at home and with less work.
...unless the booker previously emailed the host, or explicitly accepted the invitation in email.
Well, there's the problem. That really should have been in place and the default from Day 1.
If you're building something in this day and age that doesn't start OOB with the attitude; "The answer is Fuck Off, now what's the question?", you are positively encouraging misuse.
My understanding (courtesy of Private Eye) is as follows:
In the US, it is established that there has been a fraud and then the perpetrators are prosecuted for it. The only issue is whether or not the person in the dock was in on it.
In the UK, the defence can challenge that there has even been a fraud (you should have....etc as above). The prosecution is then obliged to get in a load of forensic accountants as expert witnesses to explain the fraud to the jury. As "I have no fucking idea what any of that meant" qualifies as "reasonable doubt" when a clever defence barrister is at work, this explains the pitiful prosecution rate and even more risible conviction rate of the SFO.
This together is why a) British fraudsters fight tooth and nail to avoid extradition to the US, where they're invariably convicted for something they'd probably have got away with here and b) Satan is obliged to don his woollies and skate to work whenever the SFO secures a conviction.
Yes, but the SR-71 was merely a rework of the existing A-12 "Oxcart".
It only looks like it had a short development cycle, because the A-12 was still classified until quite recently. You really need to add the five years of A-12 development, from 1962 until it entered service in 1967, to get the full development cycle for the SR-71.
I'm sure that if the US military had an existing, working, air breathing hypersonic missile to start with, this program would have delivered an upgrade by now.
The answer to that one is:
1) Black holes consume everything else.
2) Wait another umpty-trillion years and they all evaporate due to Hawking radiation.
3) Universe becomes an amorphous, featureless, warm expanse of nothing.
4) With the cessation of entropic decay and nothing to differentiate between one moment and the next, time stops.
5) With no time, nothing to gauge space by and no way to compare temperature, it become uncertain whether the universe is huge and warm or sizeless and hot.
6) Hot singularity containing entire universe explodes...
...Two out of three had delivered...
I make that one, unless somebody's come up with an actual AI in the last few minutes while I wasn't looking. I reckon we're no closer to genuine AI than we are to genuine Quantum Computing.
HINT: The LLM / ML products may give a passable impression of intelligence, but they're no more than idiots savant at best.
Except it is clearly stated that it "rear-ended" the bus, rather than being sideswiped by it.
My understanding is that it "saw" the front bit, which it saw as a bus". It also "saw" the back bit, which it (probably correctly) identified as a trailer attached to said bus. It then proceeded under the, correct, assumption that the trailer would follow the front end at the same speed as the front. The missing bit is that, with the front end completely obscured by the trailer section, it couldn't "see" the front part slow to stop and thus, in the absence of any evidence to the contrary in its limited world view, assumed that the trailer was going to keep on going at the same speed.
This is where ML and AI diverge. ML models may look smart, but completely lack any ability to think outside the box or even perceive that there is a box to think outside of.
My guess:
They've looked at the cost of fixing all this, the loss of sales from the bad publicity and the existing, unfunded, running costs for their servers. They've decided that now is the right time to execute plan B; take all the remaining cash and run for it.
(We need an IoT/Ponzi scam icon).
They called it plant-based nutrition...
It's just like the car business, where "bloody awful, cheap and nasty, 1970's vinyl crap" is now "vegan leather".
I have pointed out to a car salesman that, in the list of all the horrific misdeeds of the 1970s, crap car upholstery is the last thing that should have made a comeback, not the first. And it's a long list...
Yes, just think. If you didn't have him, you wouldn't just have hosed a load of cash on a pointless corporate rebranding exercise and be chucking everything else you've got down the bottomless plughole of VR.
I'd save the $14m and paint targets on the backs of his jackets if I were you.
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