Posts by Aitor 1

Presentations

Complex ones just dont work on Libreoffice.

You can use svg yes... but then you cant share with work colleagues.

Hear it before

Several times.

None of them worked.

The main problem with developing something is understanding the problem, and how (as in function) to solve it. Very rarely it is a technicological problem.

And by understanding, I mean fully understanding, down to the gritty details.

If you are able to both understand the problem and define the solution, you are probably able to express that with code.

This seems to be like previous solutions.. that wanted to have clueless people solving problem. Only to find that clueless poeple are.. well, clueless. And if they make the effort not to be clueless, yes, the first few times they would use the "code free" solution, but that will feel limiting quite quickly and go and learn to code properly.

So you either get bad solutions or you get solutions that could be better with proper tools.

that being seaid, some industrial processes, etc do benefit from this approach.

Re: Delusional Thinking

I mostly agree.. but not with the last statement.

If the were large enough to matter, they would find their order books full. BUT then their managers and directors, coming from the same pool as the rest of the industry, would decir to offshore "non critical tasks", etc, large benefits would come, and client loss would follow, as they are paying for premium services, and if it is average quality, they would go for the cheapest.

Re: Wow

Making a jammer is extremely easy as you say.

Banning them and their use would keep most people honest, as the ones that do have knowledge are limited, and those that have the inclination even more limited.

Most navigation systems support inertial.. even in android, etc.

Example:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.olympio.inav&hl=en_GB

Also, most chipsets/OS combinations use several frequencies and several satellite systems, plus network triangulation plus wifi.

UK-US

Problem is, if you are un the uk, they would get you on federal crimes.. this is why they only conducted crimes in their own state.. they might be criminals, but not stupid ones.

Virtual servers

I like virtual servers, they are way more flexible, if you know what you are doing.

As for them being cheaper.. I dont think so.

It is ok

have three different deep learning systems, and allow them to vote. You will get the right answer almost always.

Re: The WinTel Cartel...

I disagree, even if you remove that from npm (I saw you there..)

Using libraries is most times the best solution. Reinventing the wheel is not only problematic.. it needs plenty of work, both to do and to mantain said wheel. Also, it might be a bad quality one.

Way better to use a good quality library.

Subway tickets

That Cornwall machine reminds me of the subway ticket machines in Madrid.. when the change to the euro happened, I was "smart" enough to put plenty of pesetas (the old currency) in the machine to buy a 10 ticket pass... well, the machine smartly hanged, put an "our of order" message and spit the coins.. to the floor.

Couldnt complain much, as the machines were made by my employer...

Re: Hmmm ...

Well, them being TTL and also being chain multiplexed buses done with cables... I guess it is obvious what happened.

I think they were also unprotected, so that could have fried the multiplex, but that is just a guess.

I had to admin one of those, and I did not enjoy it.. the thing was slow, and because of age, not very reliable if you needed to turn it off (and we had to, I know that is a bad idea)

Re: The apocalypse...

Let me doubt it.

If the regular SW is that bad, waht makes you think the firmware, that is more obscure by definition, is any better?

My laptop is a Lenovo too, and I find this at the very least, annoying.

Re: Yegge slams Google for becoming competitor-focused

meetoo works.

What you do is present a free alternative to your competitor, and burn money.

As you have a position of power, you have lots of money. Your competitor doesnt have that much, therefor both "lose" in the market: but as you are the one with deeper pockets, you end uo winning.

Re: This is why you should use adblockers

I used to provide forums, and there people could interchange ideas, opinions, whatever.

That has some costs, including my time.

Naturally, I was keen on having ads. Using ad platforms.

As the adblockers went mainstream, I had to close the forums.. I was not only not being paid, but I was losing money.

I was providing these services as a service to ppl.. for fun mostly.. but people dont want to put their money... they would rather have a facebook group than a proper forum with subforums, etc

Re: Why doesn't he base it on ability to actually make cars?

As far as I know, they are on 1000 carss per week, or 52.000 cars/year, the current reduced target was 1800 per week,or 93600.. we shall see, I would say 100.000 model3 cars per year will be achieved tis year..

According to the wakipedia

"Tesla's initial target for making 5,000 vehicles per week was March 2018[22][23] but by early 2018, that was carried over to the end of June"

Re: Biofuels?

Vertical farmins is many many times more productive and cheap, and uses very little resources as in water fertilizers, etc.

It does use energy .. mainly electricity... but in some cases it is already cheaper to use it.

Re: I'm with Intel on this...

I understand you, but that should not be an option, as insecure settings WILL be used in situations that are bad for everyone involved.

Re: There is no old guard left

That is legal.. he buys big chunks in companies that have a low market value and their assets are worth more than the shares.. to procede to gut it and sell the parts.. so yeah, he is against long term investment.. as that goes against his objectives.

Pension holidays

https://www.ipe.com/ofcom-review-questions-bt-pension-holidays/33418.fullarticle

So yes, they stopped funding ... and now claim "hey, there is no money!!"

"Like many companies, BT's pension scheme was in funding surplus in the early 1990s. As a result of tax changes, it was not beneficial for the company to maintain a large surplus. Like many companies, BT did not make contributions into the main scheme between 1989 and 1993, although pension liabilities continued to accrue,"

Re: Hearts & minds propaganda, courtesy of MoD

The main tool against japan was the yen. The US managed to make it very expensive.. and all their exports became uncompetitive.

Now, the yuan is also being pushed up..and it is not the chinese government.

Errr

So I am a betatester.. well, I know as I have my nodes updated... they work, and are stable, at least for me running ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Re: Obviously the solution is....

I cycle, but we must recognize that a better bicycle is one that has four wheels, is covered and has an engine. And it is called a car.

Re: Give me range...

But you wont be able to do that in 2020. as you wont be able to use you diesel and:

a) enter london wothout paying 32£

b) Same for Edinburgh

Unless it is an euro VI...

Re: Annnnnnd....

AMD has the same crap, only different implementation, I dont see why it should be better, considering they have less money...

Re: They are already using it for decades.

And that is how you get passanger planes shotdown for "accidental invasions of airspace".

Re: They will never work in an urban environment.

they will do that in a fraction of a second over radio.

Now, if you mix seldriven and normal cars.. I guess you need to signal somehow to the flesh driver..

Re: THAT Price for one View?

Sorry, but PPV has exactly the same problems as microtransactions: ppl who are happy charging 0.10 to 0.50 per viewer then somehow want 10£ or more...

Re: So it all hinges on exams

It is.

Many employers now filter based on telephone inteviews and put give a notepad/whateverpad to program a solution to the problemas they subject the candidates to..

Intel will benefit.

AMD cant produce mucho more than what they contracted.. so no huge slaes, as also the rest of the ecosystem would have to rump up production.

So it seems that what will happen is that people will use more of the dominant CPUs... this is, of course, INTEL.

Re: Hmm

Even your approach, being better, is not as good as what is needed: the full front of an airliner on a sled as aerodynamics are important.

Then you could properly test it.. but it would be expensive.

The testing, while bad, seems better than we thought last time, good job reg for obtaining something.

I guess we all knowthat going for the windshield is not the true target, so my educated guess is that this is FUD and they are actually worried about the other critical part. And testing that would be many millions.. and they dont want to do it.

The UK government SHOULD make an agreement with other governments a do a joint study with other governments.. but somehow I feel that they dont believe that much in international cooperation. The components of airliners are basically the same all over the world, and the savings would be huge.

I will keep with the spirit of the article and not say the part of the plane that is most vulnerable... but yes, we all know.

Re: This is being very over exaggerated

It does affect me. Compiling times will increase and all our servers run on xeons... are quite sensitove to time, run virtualization sw and are io intensive. Great.

Re: Haa Haa Haa

Toothless.

The main problem I see being a foreigner in the UK is that authorities canbreak tbe law with legal impunity. Nothing bad happens to tbem unless they create political problems.

In Spain and most countries (not including USA and Canada) it is a crime to make illegal decisions while knonwing they are illegal if you are an official. Granted that they are not prosecuted as much as they should and that it is not that difficult to avoid being prosecuted (being incompetent is not illegal).

I love the uk and I would like these people ignoring the law to be things of the past.

My 2 cents would be that records are improperly stored and the workers have too much work.. and because cuts have been made they just cant cope.

Re: A flawed concept

wow, that is crap.. they throttle even connected to power? really?

Quality vs quantity

I would rather have quality over quantity.

In 1982 we had a navy that was very good against submarines, but rather lacking otherwise.

An expensive type 45 would obliterate enemies that are serious theats to Type 21s with little danger, as they can with aster missiles, using advanced sensors, etc. The 45 is capable of destroying air targets the 21 cannot even detect.