Posts by Zolko

Re: Worth mentioning

I've been a 3D CAD user for twenty years [...] which I appreciate is niche

millions of people do 3D CAD, so no it's not "niche". And the difficult bit about CAD is not the CA part – Computer Assisted – but the D one – Design. You need to know and understand (both !) the mechanics and physics behind the design choices, and the computer will only assist you in the drawing part, which is admittedly easier than with a pen and paper. Actually, it's not easier but more forgiving : you don't have to redraw everything if you make a small mistake. BUT: if you're not able to do a good design on paper, you won't be able to do a good design in 3D CAD. These glasses will not help the tiniest bit in doing 3D CAD.

Re: There is no undoing the AI

Even worse: you can't buy nitro anymore because some "terrorists" made bombs with it. You can't even buy the gasoline for those RC cars with more than 16% nitro where I live. Used to be 25% some time ago.

But aaaahhhhh .... the noise ! And the smell !!!! Electric cars might be faster - dunno - but hell are they boring

Re: Meh

Yes they did. But predictions are difficult, especially if they are about the future

the threats we face from truly oppressive regimes

Like what "threats" ? And who is "we" ?

Re: I think I disagree, but I’m not sure…

1) I don't drink Nespresso, I drink proper Italian expresso, so I don't really know the issue, it was only something I read. You might be right, thank-you for clarifying

2) for cars on the other hand you're wrong: it is mandatory that you can replace replaceable parts with compatible gear from any manufacturer, there can be no "vendor lock-in". This goes for tires, filters, brakes, clutches .... While it's true that you can't replace the engine of a Fiat 500 with that of a Lamborghini, you can replace the engine of your Fiat 500 with an engine that you buy from someone else as Fiat, for example a refurbished one from your local workshop, without paying a cent to Fiat. Which means that if Apple itself has provided a mechanism to install external programs on the iPhone, then it's in the same ball-park as tires or wind-shield wipers : it cannot restrict from where you get those external programs.

Re: Standards

Flatpacks, Snaps, AppImages, DMGs, VMs ... all need a POSIX compliant environment ? Are you sure ?

Re: Milk?

I prefer with some lemon. Also at the end when the tea is removed, of course (or else it does get bitter ... but I won't try to put salt in there to avoid the bitterness)

Re: I don't get it.

But if it's for niche industrial applications, what's the point of showing the user's eyes on the front ?

Re: Manufacturing

yes I've read the communist manifesto, and it says that private property should be forbidden. At the beginning, I thought that he wanted to restrict that to private property concerning production facilities – companies – but he says that that's not enough so better ban any private property at all. You'll own nothing and you'll be happy ... where did I read about that lately ?

No thank-you

Re: By paying the fines...

wait ... I thought it's a war between Russia and Ukraine, what has Apple to do with it ?

Re: Non-Linux kernel

Minix, Plan-9, QNX ... there ARE already non-Linux kernels out there. Dunno what Huawei is going to use

@nauticaa

uttered by the people who get paid, with your money – via government research grants...

I think that's the crux of the matter: if you pay people to find something particular, they will have a high incentive to find what you have instructed them to.

...and who are supposed to be smart enough to provide real solutions to this very serious and very perilous problem

ermmmm, no : that problem is only very perilous because the very smart people that you have paid have tortured statistics to make it look very perilous. And yes, one needs to be very smart to be able to twist reality to that point. If you look at the same numbers differently then the problem disappears. Or rather: it changes completely, and becomes "peak-oil ". May-be even "overpopulation ". The same goes for many other recent "very serious and very perilous " man-made problems

Re: "opting out of linking services could result in limited functionality"

It's only there to help us charge advertisers slightly more

yes, but what I don't understand is *why* do companies not realise that too ? Why does a company spend money on something with no return value ? The only rational explanation I can come up with is Ark-2: the same nutters who are marketing responsible in client companies are *also* the same nutters at Google selling advertisment space. It's only a parasitic behaviour, we could cut it out entirely and we wouldn't even notice the difference.

Re: Were I an Evil Overlord ...

How are you going to compromise an SoC ?

you don't even need that, the FUD that the US government is spreading is more effective: costs nothing (to PRC) but has the same effect (USA unable to use that tech). What I find passionate is that the USA has defeated the USSR in the cold war with the fake Star-Wars space race (allegedly, reality is more subtle) and now China is defeating the USA by fake cyber-spionage allegations.

Re: The Singer not the Song

the point is that if you include wikipedia in your search terms, then the results from site:wikipedia.org should be on top of the returned results for obvious reasons. And that's what Qwant does. That lower down in the list you also get other results that merely contain the term wikipedia is acceptable, as long as they appear after them

Re: Corruption

I rather think that in the EU, the priority is USA first : that's where the orders come from, look at ASML or Huawei

Re: Sounds like Tesla drivers should always carry a can of petrol with them in Winter

Actually, I heard stories like this from Siberia, where they make a fire – a real fire – under a truck's engine to warm it up before starting in the morning.

Re: They each offer a complete OS

Plan 9 is smaller, simpler and cleaner in design ... and it has multiple distros and forks, although only one seems very active

Hello Liam, testing and reporting about Plan9 and its distros would be extremely interesting. Do they run KDE ?

Re: Venting

The atmosphere is full of oxygen, I don't see what effect some additional oxygen could do. So no, LOX venting isn't a reasonable technical explanation for an explosion. If it had been liquid methan, then may-be, but liquid oxygen certainly not

Re: Det finnes ikke dårlig vær, bare dårlig klær!

Ha, breakfast, what a luxury ! We used to ...

Re: Deadlines

My guess is: not at all. They'll not make it, as they don't have enough SLS launches available : maximum 5 if everything goes well. Because SLS is using former Space Shuttle engines (plus 6 new ones IF they manage to build them again). One is already consumed (Artemis I).

The next man on the Moon will probably be a Chinese woman.

Re: Fallback plan

Yes, that probably. Also, the war in Ukraine is going badly, the war in Gaza is showing that Israel is doing an ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population, so something must be found to deflect the public attention. Reading the comments here, this plan seems to – still – work.

Re: Sounds like...

training is similar to a child reading a copyrighted book

yes, I was thinking about that too

Depends on whether you bought said book

oh but yes, good point, I didn't think about that one. So, does OpenAI train its models on copyrighted material that they have paid-for, or merely scrapped for free somewhere ? Makes a BIG difference

Re: forests are great CO2 sinks

Yes there's Roman buildings, but the majority material was stone there

no, they were made mostly from bricks. I was quite surprised too when I saw that in Rome

Re: 5nm –vs– 7nm

If you linearly scale a design from 5nm to 7nm, I'd expect not much difference except a reduced clocking. In this case the porting is probably quite easy.

But if the difference is also in 3D, i.e. the way transistors are stacked in height rather than flat, then the difference might be that TSMC and SMIC have other transistor designs and in this case the question isn't so much about 5nm –vs– 7nm but rather TSMC-layers –vs– SMIC-layers. How different would they be ?

Re: Jäger 90

urgent need for a nuclear capable delivery platform

what "urgent need " is there for Germany to transport US nuclear bombs ? This is only – another – humiliation of a servant by its master. It has no practical purpose whatsoever.

Re: Think of the Grid!

Only the rich will be able to drive their own cars

actually, I think that's the plan

Re: Step back a minute

the efficiency is about 1% ...

... if you exclude the amount of energy that was necessary to produce the target itself. Which is destroyed and must be produced for each "run". They don't grow on trees, do they ? So no, this is no baby step towards industrial energy production at all, it's a lab curiosity. Funny, but not more.

Re: Team america

ASML uses parts sourced from companies all over the world [...] stop TSMC from making ALL deliveries and not just those to China

let's assume that you have mixed ASML with TSMC, what does that mean: that the only way to stop ASML to ship products containing US parts to – continental – China is to stop them shipping products anywhere in the world, including the island "China" that is Taiwan. Which would ruin the entire US economy based on Nvidia, Qualcomme, Apple, Facebook, AWS, Google, M$oft ... so no luck.

Which means that the only option remaining for the US is to bully their "partners ". Who suddenly realise that they're actually only "vassals ". Which some might resent as "negative emotions " towards the US nomenclatura and "might " not like that

Re: An AI

Just shows universal income might be a good idea

we're ready for Ark-B