Posts by John Smith 19 16330 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jun 2009
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
So all those hill farmers finally woke up to the fact they'd been played like banjo's and in fact Wales was one of the few parts of the UK that the rest of the EU is a next contributor to ?
Or was it the Welsh Government's very blunt assessment of how f**ked Wales would be in a no deal Brexit?
Pity that had not been done during the Referendum.
It might have stopped this farce ever starting.
It seems the shedload of AV services that actual adult entertainment sites register with means nothing to HMG
Who remain as f**kwittedly stupid about this as the day it was muted.
And yes you can bet this is the thin end of a very big wedge from the UK designated "Centre for Evil," IE The Home Office.
The speed up of a task is proportional to how much of it can be speeded up.
Which is why IRL most tasks crap out at about 10 cores.
An interesting option would be to build much simpler cores as very primitive "Cellular Automaton" cores. It's been known since the early 70's you could map any instruction set onto a large enough grid of automata connected to their nearest NEWS neighbours and using the previous states as one of the inputs IOW a 32 state look up table.
With the Liverpool hospital project, it was caused by the cost and time required to remove asbestos allowing the hospital to delay payment for two years,"
With the Liverpool hospital project, it was caused by the cost and time required to remove asbestos allowing the hospital to delay payment for two years,
Sounds to me, Mr AC, like the seriously underestimated how much work was involved and the hospital told them they'd have to swallow the excess.
It then turns out that Carillion were so carefully balanced financially (because of how much money the management had taken out of the business?) that it didn't take much to tip it over into failure.
I'm sorry for the ordinary employees that got caught in this s**tstorm but I have contempt for the senior management who behaved in this way. They look a lot like RBS. "Carillion. The construction company for the good times."
<Long post of what sounds like a lot of self serving corporate bu|***hit>
TL;DR
It's not our fault. Having a regulatory that can make us responsible for things isn't going to work
Just let us continue with BAU.
My impression of govt outsourcing is that somehow the govt always gets left with the risk and holding the baby and the outsourcer always get left holding the profits, unless like Carillion they (like to RBS) practicing a kind of "Rollover fraud," where the cost inflation from the last contract lets them bid for the next one at below economic levels.
F**k right off Mr AC.
Actually there was a fairly simple answer to working out the delay
But you didn't like the answer so you decided to answer a different question.
That seems the Brexiteer mindset in a nutshell.
Let's try agreeing on some things.
1) Brexit was badly thought out with no regards to the consequences
2) Less than 900 hours away from it HNG still has no real clue what to do
3) The PM's stance looks looks less like "resolute" and more like "is on the ASD scale" to most with"F**king delusional" for others.
Indeed. Searching an HGV in 1 min flat is pure fantasy. I think 10% vehicle searched is also on the low side.
The example was given to show that even with absurdly fast search and minimal numbers being searched you still end up with an 1100 min (IE 18 1/3 hours) delay on the last lorry.
Now when you factor in that Honda have stated they have JIT deliveries for about 3 hours of car production at their factory it's not surprising that from a logistics PoV it's time to leave the UK.
Likewise if you've been carrying produce for 3 days your refrigerators fuel tank will be close to empty before you arrive. I few more congestion delays from the poor and you refrigerator is not refrigerating any more. :-(
Here's a question for you.
If 11000 lorries go through Dover a day, and 10% of them need to be searched and it takes 1 minute to search them how late will be the last lorry from its planned arrival?
The answer is 18 hours, if it takes 1 min to search a lorry and only 10% are being searched*.
BTW standard duration of the fuel tank on a lorry refrigerator is 4 days.
*Too bad you can't search a lorry in 1 min without an army of staff who haven't been paid or trained.
Keep calling it "Project Fear" from your bolthole (is it even in the UK, or have you f**ked off to Singapore or other sunnier climb?)
The rest of us will call it "Project Reality."
This. Always this whenever some govt dept is afraid to reveal what's happening.
Because let's face it either those councils have no plans (which most people would find quite alarming given just the admitted impact of a hard Brexit)
Or
They have detailed plans which reveal just how badly the Great British Public (and any foreigners who happen to be living there) will get f**ed up.
No wonder that particular govt dept (and it's Minister de Jour) is sh***ing itself.
I think so to.
And unlike all the AC's posting here today (hello corporate PR!) I'm OK with putting my name on a post.
There's many kinds of "not understanding."
There's "not understanding how this market works." There's "not understanding how this company works." There's "not understanding how this company will make money from how this market works." I think it's the last one that Buffet is having a problem with.
And when buffet can't figure out where the money is going to come out of that's usually the point he gets out.
I think quite a few investors would be quite a lot richer if they could admit to themselves "I have no f**king clue how this works and I am completely unable to decide at what price should I consider buying more stock or selling up and taking the profit."
Actually the code is redundant.
Some amino acids are coded twice or three times by different codons. One (IIRC) is coded only once (not the "stop" codon).
Obviously this means some part of the DNA that cods for a protein (any protein) are much more robust to mutation. A 1 character change does not change the amino acid being coded.
OTOH if it's a part of the molecule that's the amino acid that has only 1 code for it, and that changes....
That's the one to follow. But note it should be qualified by "With core supporters." As long as they vote for him again he can win again. They will believe any old BS he feeds them. Their behavior last election proved it.
Consistency, who needs it? I'm President DJ Trump.
My guess is > 50%.
She'd probably read somewhere that you should make eye contact with people if you want them to feel you are trustworthy.
So she figures if a little is good make a lot of eye contact will make them think I'm very trustworthy.
It's the difference between being a human being and faking being a human being.
Yes IRL Ms Holmes key product was her own bu***hit.
I think anyone looking to set up a similar venture should take note of her Board choices.
I'm sure they, or people with similar backgrounds, will fall for another scam.
Did she really want to be Bill Gates, or John DeLoren?
Exactly.
That's a Board of the "Great & The Good." They will have f**k all idea of what they are being shown (or judge wheather it even works) but will be able to reassure potential suckers investors that this is a serious business with massive potential because y'know "It's got these guys on the Board, and they'd never get suckered, right?" I think it was Issac Asimov who noted "An expert outside their own field is just as narrow minded, ignorant and gullible as anyone else." Tharnos will should make a very Business School case study of this and the Cult of Personality around a founder.
Let me suggest a useful investing tip.
Mostly "Great & Good" Board members --> Scam Alert! Your money in danger.
Actually I didn't.
And it seems that as another poster put it the "Negative Nellies" were ignored
Personally these would have been the people I'd have hired to find out what the limits to the technology (and wheather there are ways around them)
I'm fairly sure the hardware budget for an autonomous road vehicle could run to 2 separate cameras and some mechanism to vibrate their PoV just a bit, like a sort of mock human head.
Making the NN's use that new information effectively might be a bit tougher.
I'm sure you know the rule.
"If you can describe it well enough how it works that you can predict its performance it's not AI."
Although "sort-of-mimics-a-bit-how-humans-do-the-job" is a bit more accurate, but a bit of a mouthful.
Possibly the most succinct description of this technology to date.
"However, current state-of-the-art CNNs are very susceptible to random noise such as rain or snow in the real world, [which is] a problem for autonomous driving. "
Well that's a bit of a b**ger if you've implemented you're autonomous vehicle system using them, isn't it?
My instinct is that this should have been obvious from the mathematics underlying CNN's. Yet apparently no one picked it up.
Or was it that people did, but hoped no one would notice?
Wrong.
It's using the response to each lie to determine what new lie you're going to feed them, ensuring they give you exactly the result you want. Because they are likely to be in their own little social media bubble of like minded types they will never realize you are feeding another group (possible with views exactly opposite to yours) exactly what they want to hear as well, in order to get the same result.
Once people start sharing information (with each other, but especially with people they don't like) they can (but probably won't) realize "These people are, y'know, not really our friends. They're fibbing to all of us."
Except they are not, are they?
The "Council of Europe" oversees the "European Court of Human Rights"
Which is a body that tries to ensure fair treatment of all people in Europe.
Needles to has generations of Home Secretaries have hated this body because it stops them doing WTF they want to do, when they want to do it. Despite how stupid or poorly targeted the policy is.
You seem to have quite a flair for mis representing situations. You're looking less like a developer and more like a paid sock puppet.
Correct.
And you can bet it was just a dry run for much bigger operations of a similar kind.
It's possible that it's (partial) exposure would prevent the same bunch from doing the same with a 2nd referendum.
But it's not guaranteed.
You really don't have any idea of the complexity inside a modern CPU do you?
And you certainly don't know how the simulation complexity grows with every step you move from the initial state of that complexity.
Or how many initial states a modern CPU can have (including the transients and deliberately faulted)
Otherwise you wouldn't have made such a dumb statement.
Correct.
IOW the MMU should do what it was f**king designed to do properly.
Keep the executing tasks separate.
I'd say it looks like people used tricks developed to snoop data on smart card level embedded processors on data center size chips and found they worked pretty well.
Indeed.
Let's not forget how many customers went down when Amazon had a fire in its main data centre and the customers hadn't bothered to code for fall over or migration to other sites.
If the DoD needs are so great (and at 200 data centers they certainly look that way) it sounds very risky to put everything on a single supplier.
I guarantee they will do the minimal amount of documentation (electronic or paper) to prevent migration to other competitors when the contract is tendered out again, because that's what all outsourcing vendors do, something governments never seem to realize.
Something to think about if you're planning to run on solar cells.
Supposedly not a problem as the haze only cuts power output by 70-90%.
But I think you'll still need plenty of batteries, given those storms can run a long time.
BTW that 20MHz computer was IIRC on a board from BAe systems. It cost about $100K.
Fair well Opportunity. You had a bloody good run.
6 years to s**t out this turd.
What would you call it?
Are these databases fully searchable?
How many cases have they been How many were they involved in? involved in solving? How many were they the sole evidence?
My guess is "lots" (because they're are cheap to use), a few (because they sometimes corroborate an alibi or verify a theory). As for the sole evidence that would be a question. "Almost none" or (disturbingly) "quite high" ?
" am trying to get a simple answer out of you. "
Then you could have asked. You still sound like a troll.
I "advocated" not leaving in the first place. I'll advocate another position when and if the UK leaves. So far what we've seen is the Brexit equivalent of the "phony war" of 1939. The real s**tstorm hasn't even started.
"Yes. And even with opt outs we voted to leave and so we leave. "
When enough floating voters had been spoon fed bu***hit by Aggregate IQ working for the Leave campaign, while a substantial portion of the UK electorate thought the answer so obvious they didn't see the point in wasting there time to vote. Something I think would change in a second referendum if "Cancel Leave" was an option.
<argmentative BS>
"But if the EU is so fabulous then rejoining even without opt outs should be enough? Why shouldnt we commit to the glorious project? Why do we need the opt outs?"
Save the sneering tone for Margaret Thatcher. She negotiated most of them. You wanted to leave, now you're asking about re-joining. Why don't you go away and have a little think about what you want?
""b)"
"That's a lot of hysterical bull and the CIA is American."
Well done on being able to identify where the CIA is based, but why don't we look at some of those ads
here and
"Albania, Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro and Turkey are joining the EU!
WTF? In how many centuries? And while we're at it who pushed hardest for all the East European countries to join the EU with full travel rights? That would the UK, continuing to try to play "Divide-and-rule" in the 21st century.
"We need an immigration system that ensure Britsh young people more jobs" Next to a neatly dressed young black woman on a tube train.
WTF is that about? Maybe what the UK needs is an education system that ensures young people more (well paid) jobs?
My impression of the UK employment market is non UK nationals are taking up jobs in things like toilet cleaning, coffee shops, bar work and all night bakeries.
Not the sort of well paid (not too demanding) office jobs young British people seem to fantasize will magically drop into their laps post Brexit (unless they fantazise about being a Premier League Footballer, but that might take some effort). Who do they think they are? One of Jacob Rees Moggs children?
Or the shot of a bull fight with "These are animals, not entertainment"
Since when has the EU had anything to do with encouraging bull fighting?
Entirely a Spannish and French thing. And how would the UK leaving the EU improve things for the bulls?
"Because... it's the EU, innit" perhaps?
About as related to the EU as the colour of UK passports.
According to the EU the Euro is the only currency in 19 member states.
The last time I did maths 28-19 = 9 states that are in the EU but don't have the Euro. Sounding not quite mandatory, is it not?
"London has been the global financial centre for Europe for how long?"
Who cares? Without frictionless trade across the UK/EU border it's status is f**ked, which might explain why 100s of Bn of Euros were transferred recently out of the City of London to offices still within the EU, like Dublin and Frankfurt.
"SJW has become a derogatory term and for good reason."
By right wing Aholes everywhere. Starting to sound like a bit of a troll again.
"The EU relies on UK intelligence as the EU isnt actually that good, particularly with criminals and terrorists abusing the EU openness."
Not able to answer the statement, so you answer a different one. Troll warning level is climbing.
"The world is bigger than the EU. The world does not stop at EU borders. Just because the UK gets a small say in EU matters it is insular."
And by extension is vastly bigger than the UK on its own.
So if the UK gets a "small" say in EU matters it will have a very small say in relating to any bigger entity.
Which means when the UK goes out there what does it offer?
A market of 60 million , when it was part of a market of 550 million.
A financial center that's on the wrong side of a tariff wall with the worlds 2nd largest currency?
Nuclear weapons the UK could sell off to someone (no questions asked)?
When the delusional aholes who voted Leave did so most of them seemed to be thinking fondly, not of the UK (as it is) but the UK + The British Empire
That was a formidable global institution, with land areas comparable to the US, Russia and China (since it included Canada and India).
But UK - The British Empire --> Not much to be honest.
It's not "Project Fear," it's "Project Reality."
When you try to put words in my mouth you sound quite like a troll.
I think the current UK deal gives it significant privileges other members don't enjoy. If the UK were suddenly to decide to rejoin it would not get those terms back. IOW it'd get the deal everyone else gets. The UK walked out on the EU, not the other way around. You'd be delusional to think you'd get those back, as you would be in expecting any EU institutions to automatically come back to the UK.
"The issue you seem to miss with that is a delusional fuckwit wouldnt know because of their delusion and instead would think they are right regardless of fact. "
So let's see that means
a) You're not likely to admit you could be wrong. Ever.
b) How about the fact that the NHS claim was bu***hit, and admitted as much with days of it appearing? Or most impact assessments show the UK worse off post Brexit? Or the claim Leave sent 1000 000 000 lies (that's about 16 for every man, woman and child in the UK) to its (very carefully selected) group of leave voters to ensure they voted the "right" (or should that be far Right?) way? That's not a Marketing campaign. That's a Black propaganda campaign of the sort the CIA used to engage in. Feeding cherry picked bu***hit to carefully selected marks to wind them up and let them run. I wonder if they'd be allowed to for a 2nd referendum?
"If you join the EU you surrender your country, your currency and in return your a member of the EU."
Ahh, they authentic voice of a kwitter.
The hysterical tone says it all.
9 countries in the EU do not use the Euro. So no you don't "surrender your currency" and last I heard all EU countries still run their own tax, foreign and home policy, with the results that should be obvious to most Reg readers.
This sort of drivel has proved very convenient for British politicians and civil servants over the years. "It's the EU wot made us do this. Blah. Blah.."
And what happened when the British Parliament asked for a say in this sovereignty that this process was supposed (because in reality it won't) bring back to Blighty by the Conservative govt?
Basically "You're supposed to have sovereignty. You're not supposed to actually use it (to question the government on the plans it didn't have). Go away and stop bothering us"
I don't think the EU is perfect but it gives the UK
a) A very big, closely located market for goods and services (especially financial, which are 3x what the UK mfgs)
b) It's social justice requirements put a bottom to how badly UK employers can treat their work force, which have historically been pretty s**t.
c) It puts a limit on how bad UK governents (or rather their data fetishist senior civil servants) can spy on their people.
d) It gives the UK a say in EU wide issues and the leverage to implement solutions individual countries cannot.
I "advocate" not being stupid and realizing the UK has a pretty sweet deal as it stands, despite what a vast swath of the press in the UK tell people.
But critical thinking amongst kwitters was never your strong point, was it? Otherwise you'd have spotted most of their complaints were a) Down to successive British govt f**kups the EU has nothing to do with and is entirely an internal UK matter and b) The Home Office.
OTOH those deals seemed mostly to benefit businesses right to treat their staff like (to coin a phrase) "disposable work units"
And I quite like the sound of the "Transparency and Money Laundering Regulations"
But I can see a large swath of the EU thinking "Thank f**k they've gone."
The UK often seems to have been a carping, grudging Member, while parts of its Civil Service have Gold Plated EU rules at every opportunity for their own benefit or convenience (again, nothing to do with Brussels. Entirely a UK problem).
So no I don't have a serious problem with re-joining, but I'd expect the EU would not be generous with the terms.
Do you have a serious problem admitting you're a delusional f**kwit? Or were you one of those who fell for AggregateIQ's targeted lying campaign?
I also don't have a problem with you admitting either of those statements.
Because the time is coming when we'll all be seeing who was really telling the truth about "Project Fear" or "Project Reality." Wheather it's full speed ahead for the "Sunlit uplands" or right into the past of the s**tstorm.
Except that is what the Leave campaign did do.
That's what happens when you trust people whose degrees are in concocting plausible and logical sounding bu***hit.
The British people (the smarter ones) will learn the meaning of the phrase "Never trust a Tory posh boy."
than any damage that will be done to everyone"
As they always were.
This whole process has been about
a) Keeping the Parliamentary Conservative Party together
b) Killing off UKIP.
In both cases job done. Kippers. Smoked.
The wrecking of the UK economy is (in their eyes) a small price to pay for clinging to power (and a number of their disaster capitalist members will do rather well out of the chaos as a bonus).
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
You want "out"
Would that be Norway "out"? Norway+ "out" ? Canada "out"? Turkey "out"? Totally bespoke "out" ? F**k everybody "out" ?
Now it's decision time and all the little Leave sub groups have zero agreement with each other. *
*But just enough to f**k up the whole British economy in the meantime by winning a referendum by 13:12.
You mean all those people whose lives didn't match their (vastly over inflated and unjustified) ambitions?
Those people who need someone to blame for their failures?
Yes, I think you're onto something."Blame the foreigns" is a time honored tactic.
But I think Dominic Cummings found them first.
They were power semiconductors. In analogue (or analog) cutting edge line width is not the absolute requirement. These are very low prices given the price for setting up a new fab from a green field site is reckoned to be in the $Bn range.
IIRC there is about 1 road across the border for every mile of it.
IE about 300 of them.
AIUI stopping stuff going across the border during "The Troubles" was a massive PITA and not very successful. I'm guessing the UK could have deployed some of the stuff developed for Viet Nam ("McNamara Fence" AKA Igloo White) as planted sensors to detect foot and vehicle traffic.
A cordon of drones? With high altitude units covering long swaths with more numerous ones ready to get in close for ANPR? They'd be logistics nightmare to maintain of course.
Just another part of the that growing (negative) "Brexit Dividend" the Kwitters banged on about during the referendum campaign.
"Yeah, I'm a corporate stooge"
"And you know I'm a corporate stooge"
"And I know you know I'm a corporate stooge."
"And there's not a damm thing you can do about it."
"What are you going to do, eh? Nothing."
That's why he's got that smug look.
But I bet there are people who could do something about it.
Getting Resideo to provide the back end.
Not so smart.
F**k me sideways. 5 days? For a thermostat? And p**s poor communications between them and their customers.
Their "anonymous server farms in unknown jurisdictions" cloud infrastructure "Cannot cope"?
I thought the whole f**king point of a cloud was "Capacity on demand"?
Does this sound like a company that's "Let's sell the concept, then we'll get someone to implement it" to you?
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