Posts by werdsmith

Does the kit have to be extensively investigated every time there is a firmware/software update, or do users just have to suck up no updates or patches?

Re: 2001

It's more like ramps and chambers and ducts and stuff, the crawler way transfer and all the water shock attenuation stuff. It is an important historical point in the world, and an important stop on the Visitor Center bus tour.

Re: Actually...

But who is going to do it?

I'm already finishing up and winding down. It's noon on a Friday, nobody is going to be rude enough to give any task that will take time now.

I guarantee if I try and contact people I will get radio silence.

Re: It's not free speech.

He didn’t like Top Gear free speech. Tried taking BBC to court and got told to grow up by the judge.

I’m hoping that he tries to litigate against somebody documenting bad stuff on x, the only defence required is “was this stuff really on twitter?” …. “Yes”…. “Grow up Elon”.

Re: So what's stopping all that energy ...

Lightning doesn’t care if the coax is plugged into the tv or not.

Re: "Give them Z80s, Joe, and tell 'em to like it"

People forget that the worst keyboard ever was the only keyboard within reach for many people. It was affordable.

I actually did prefer the 6502 over the Z80 for assembler, I think because that's the one I learned first.

Re: Checkmate?

Churchill was the type of person required at one particular critical time but already an outdated imperialist even by then.

Ahh, but a fusion iron.....

Re: Beware apologist Commentards

Our local school collects and stores rainwater which is used to flush the bogs.

But the fire sprinkler system uses drinking water in storage tank, which is not kept eternally waiting for it's time to shine, but it replaced periodically with the old stuff going into the bog flushing reservoir. When the bog flushing reservoir is full the drinking water that tops up the sprinkler reservoir goes down the drain.

Re: I wonder what level ....

You will still have the 'normal' GPS issue that Lat & Long will be far more accurate than altitude.

With so many sources of RF on the ground compared to airborne, and with such variation in topography the system is going to need to be very discriminatory about what RF signals it chooses to listen to.

I wonder if it will be better to require an encoded RF signal that is always on and beyond control of the crew to be transmitted from all aircraft. Then useful data can be included, like real time flight and position information. Maybe somebody should invent Mode S/ADS-B.

Re: "But then, you get to, like, 10 million training examples, it becomes incredible"

But there will be examples of all your scenarios of humans making wrong decisions and screwing up. People screw up Hardknott every day in summer. I’ve seen people meet novel situations and panic.

Re: Hey Oracle

Oracle are not the only scum deliberately making licence conditions confusing, the strategy is designed to make customers overbuy just to be sure of compliance.

I think the number of active users minus bots was what he paid for. Or maybe he paid for the boys too.

Re: You get out what you put in

I've seen this thing about "the way you use it". It's not about the individual, it has so much crap and it is being sustained by people who use it, regardless of being involved in the crap or not.

There are a multitude of better ways to be in touch with friends and family.

I used to use an interest group on faecebook before 2014, and I miss that group but it's a sacrifice that had to be made to not feel dirty.

Re: Good old Brexit

Farage can have a Santander account like all the immigrants. Crying about his Coutts account is shockingly tone deaf.

Re: I don’t think they understand

This “scarce” model of iPhone could easily be manufactured again, therefore it is not scarce

In the world of book collecting there is such a thing as a "first edition". Reprints just don't cut it.

Re: Save the Champagne

The defender gets the farm ATVs to where they are needed because they are neither road legal nor particularly safe on the roads.

Re: A MILLION different Linuxes,...

but 11 is a Fisher-Price like toy. Dumbed down far too much and full of adverts and bloatware.

My Windows 11 is a corporate image that is hardened and remotely managed by the admin. It has all the stuff needed for remote working. There are no adverts and no unnecessary stuff.

Re: BBC clickbait

They're currently getting all excited about hot weather

People love to have a go at BBC without first checking that all the news outlets are running the same hot weather story.

Re: What about censorship?

The problem for the loonpants people is that they don't know they are loonpants.

Re: Fruit by the foot or fruit roll-ups

It's in the sub-headline. The current version made by Kellogs.

Re: 4 cents?

Are domestic users and commercial users paying the same rate?

In the UK I've seen deals where commercial users pay a lot less, though not as good as 4 cents (Octopus have or maybe had an overnight rate of around 12 cents).

Re: Meanwhile over at “British Space”, or BS for short.

À Mars Rover had been developed at Airbus D&S Stevenage and was ready to go for a sample fetch role. But the world situation changed and there is no launch for it.

It is being adapted for moon missions instead, so you are partly right.

Re: Telephone

Yes, 150. It gets answered quite quickly in my experience.

Re: It's either 200 bucks or....

I was thinking about Max Headroom, which is the reverse thing. Matt Frewer with make up to make him look like CGI. I wonder if CGI makers complained about him....

Re: H

Stupid is definitely more compound than elemental.

Re: Wanna take my job...?

I, like many here, have a tech job which involves AI. For the last few years I have been evolving the automation that does my own job, maybe 60% is done using conventional software and scripts, I get alerts when I’m actually needed.

I’m delighted that I can now respond convincingly to communication using AI.

Just got to figure out how to do the meetings.