Posts by John Smith 19

Mo' interfaces. Mo' problems

<sigh>

Again.

A shed load of money. OTOH...

1) This will be the first sample return since Stardust (which made the fastest ever re-entry to earths atmosphere of a man made object)

2)Prior to that the only substantial samples deliberately sent to earth (all meteorites are samples from off earth) were from Apollo or the Soviet Lunokhod.

3) Each mars launch window is 670 days apart (about 26 months) so if you miss one by a week or a month makes no practical difference.

What's really disappointing is that the concept of small positive displacement pumps were developed (in part) specifically for this mission but I'm guessing that despite this budget (or at least this request for a budget increase) they cannot afford to try that technology.

Pity they didn't think it that important earlier.

But it's not just the software.

Driving the software with non redundant sensors (which Boeing has done twice that I'm aware of so far) is not software but is certainly doesn't make that task easier.

Let's see if they can turn improve Boeing's delivery as well as its image.

"The election could mean a big payday for crims unless processes are tightened up."

Starting with how parties select their candidates?

And all such scams are "sophisticated" because if they weren't the victims would look gullible fools who fell for a story that a competent person wouldn't have.

"Eliminating your privacy to protect your freedom."

Isn't that the motto of all data fetishists everywhere?

Sooner or later we're going to have to work out a way to fund all this.

Yes it's all pretty despicable

But how do work out a way that makes it affordable yet rewards people who do the work?

Fook nose.

So FB transaltion trained on 2200 language pairs but actuall more like 9900 possible

IE 22% coverage.

The illusion of inclusion without the hard work to make it happen.

Something to think about there.

Bishop, in Aliens...

Didn't end well..

" China has installed 690,000 5G " sounds pretty amazing.

But it's just a base station for every police station and local party office.

Wow. What a set on this guy.

With him handling IT Elizabeth Holmes might have gotten away with Tharanos.

Just. Wow.

Anyone recall "Iterated Systems" ?

Claimed super-duper-astonishingly-good-you-won't-believe how good fractal compression.

Had half a dozen pictures with massive compression ratios.

Algorithm? Actually grad students stuck in office for months.

Finally released software was basically brute force search for the coefficients and was sloooooow. Let's call Michael Beasley's claims (for legal reasons) "optimistic"

This has a similar whiff. Missing detailed structure and critical parameters not listed. This should never have been given major attention in a scientific journal. Early publication credit for preliminary results fine. But where's the f**king follow up?

My BS meter is redlining like a Geiger counter in the engine compartment of a Cold War era Soviet nuclear submarine.

I'd think her new hubby better watch his back.

The average psycho don't take rejection well.

Mines the one with the Kevlar back lining.

*all* applications can be made much smaller if.....

a) The user knows exactly what they want to do at all times.

b) The data they are provided with is correct at all times

c) They never make keying or pointing mistakes

d) It is guaranteed that no two users will ever access the same record at the same time.

I've never seen a code analysis but IMHO 75% of all code is about not what the program does, but what it has to stop the user doing, or fixing it when the user gets it wrong. BTW just because you can't see the ton of code managing record locking in a proper DB system does not mean it isn't there.

In my universe a) is uncommon, b) is a fantasy c) is absurd d) is a distant dream.

...AsAService. Looks cheaper.

Isn't.

"Outsourcing" for the 2020's.

Big fun.

Start of a *very* slippery slope

"Only a few." Hundred a day that is.

"Narrow" Less than half the population.

And WTF should the best protection against state invasion of privacy be a publicly traded corporation intent on protecting it's users illusion of privacy so it can violate them instead?

Still. Like the name

Because. Badgers.

" Convert to flats and solve the housing crisis."

You might like to look at HMG's recent changes to their planning regulations.

I smell the fingers of the "Teflon Dom" in this pie.

"It's not like Watchkeeper..."

Thank $deity

What an utter PoS that is.

Guess people haven't learned much in the 7 years since Edward Snowden

These days I think I'd just tap the broadband line/phone line out of someones house.

Bound to be some device that a)Has a mic b)Sends it to a server c)Can have their security (or the data stream they are sending 24/7/365) compromised.

Do all those extra microphones and cameras in your house make you feel "safe"

Or just watched.