Posts by Lord Elpuss

Re: Great news

"It won't stop until it hits something."

Yes so one day it will stop. Not any day soon, but one day.

Tilting the playing field IS a competitive tactic.

All's fair in love and business...

Re: "They add great value when the time comes to lay people off."

"To get fired from a HR position you have to be pretty much unspeakable, because you need to have pissed off all your own colleagues as well as the rest of the company."

Not true. HR roles are being hit by some of the deepest cuts presently; because what most of what they 'do' can be largely automated or replaced with AI-lite aka chatbots.

Jake may have used literally every software package released since 1959, but he's not suggesting Sendmail as an alternative to Outlook. Simply that he's used it, and it has a steep learning curve.

Re: "He was also unable to do a decent wolf whistle!"

"Wolf whistles are indecent by definition, aren't they?"

Really no. Don't be that guy. Or girl.

Re: Don't give money charities you cry...

Like those poor mugs who spaffed their donations up the wall so Patrice Cullors could buy herself a new mansion? You're quite A OK supporting that, along with calling those who object to it racists... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

And for the record, you don't need to sign your posts. Literally nobody gives a shit whether you're A, B, Z or The Poster Who Used to Call Himself Q.

Patrice Cullors, is that you?

Re: BLM is (was) also a charity

Wrong. Thanks for playing though. Better luck next time.

Re: RNLI vs chuggers

You keep commenting without saying anything. A bit pointless, even for you.

Re: RNLI vs chuggers

DoubleLayer I think you're right. My point isn't that I feel these services should necessarily be restricted or cancelled; simply that funding, in the broadest context of ANY service, is by its very nature finite AND intended for a specific objective. Allowing those who are not in scope of this objective to take advantage of the service decreases the quality and availability of the service for those for whom it IS intended, which isn't fair as it's their money (directly or indirectly) that paid for it. See also: restricting access to the NHS to legal UK residents.

I don't believe it's practical to ask RNLI boat commanders to deliberately ignore anybody struggling in the water. To do so would be inhuman, not to mention impractical (ask them for ID before picking them up? Throw them back if they can't show UK residency?) HOWEVER - the RNLI should not promote itself as a service to non UK-residents, and (in my view) should make it clear that that is NOT why it exists. It has neither the funding nor the mission to save the world.

That is my point.

Re: RNLI vs chuggers

And you are clearly unable to explain; you thought you'd just throw some random shit in and hope it went unquestioned.

Re: RNLI vs chuggers

What's that got to do with the price of peanuts? I don't see the correlation.

Re: BLM is (was) also a charity

I didn’t confuse anything. BLM, and everything associated with it, is nothing more than a scam concept staffed and supported by grifters, workshy oxygen thieves and professional victims, with the singular intent of padding their nests at the expense of the gullible and weak.

Clear enough for you?

Re: RNLI vs chuggers

” Rescue doesn't care.

Idem.“

Well; when it comes to funding, they should. Not to mention the fact that it’s a tool in the smuggler’s arsenal knowing that if all else fails, we can dump them in the water and they’ll be picked up anyway. Remove this safety net and a part of the smugglers’ value proposition goes away.

Re: "As part of this journey"

Not to mention "circling back"

Re: RNLI vs chuggers

Where I am, chugging and/or shaking the bucket is illegal. If you want to collect on the street, you can stand there with a hi-viz and an (approved, licensed and tamper-proofed) collection receptacle, but you can't approach people or shake/jingle at them in order to attract attention. Occasionally some scummy out-of-town students on 100% commission will try it on, and the local population seem to relish the challenge of teaching them a well deserved lesson when they step out of lane.

One of the vastly better laws, in my opinion.

Re: Measuring efficiency

Samaritans' bad result had next to nothing to do with supplying phones for volunteers. A VoIP server and a bunch of handsets costs pennies in the scheme of things.

Of course if you're giving hundreds of your volunteer staff un-MDMed iPhone 15s and expecting them all to be there and accounted for at the end of the month, then yes that could be an expensive proposition. But then that's fully, 100% on you for being an idiot.

Ooh do you?

Re: BLM is (was) also a charity

"So is Eton college. What's your point?"

My point is that BLM was set up by, run by, and ultimately abused by scumbags who used it to line their own pockets. Eton College generally wasn't, and isn't.

I fail to see which part of this is hard to understand.

You're raging at nobody, sweet pea. Shouting into the ether. Whistling into the wind.

There is a derangement syndrome here, but it has nothing to do with Chunky Cheeto.

Re: Except

"Nothing to do with Trump"

It's everything to do with Trump. Don't be naive.

Re: Sweep

"Zero is already taken."

It doesn't generally work like that. Fines are payable - at least in escrow - within a short period of judgement being made. They can appeal and might have the money returned to them if successful (and interest is generally applied either way) but they don't get to simply delay in perpetuity.

"An SoC simply means auxiliary components are integrated with the CPU and GPU on the same die."

I admire how you just casually throw 'simply' into that sentence.

"What makes Apple Silicon perform so well is its fast I/O (the basic M3 already has a 100GB/s memory bus, plus a clever cache and paging strategy) and UMA (which avoids having to move GPU data between RAM and GPU memory)."

You just described Apple's SoC. Which is my point. Well done.

Re: All Apple’s Machines Are Glorified Laptops Now

"Even their desktop machines are basically laptops in bulkier cases."

You could say literally the same about any manufacturer. Laptops and PCs are generally all variants on the same core chip or SoC, with different ancillary devices like battery, screen, power supply and active cooling added on dependent on the use case.

The only real 'different' devices these days are servers. And even - many to use the same core silicon with the R&D budget expended on GPUs.

Re: Being polite is great

Exactly this. So you let the asshole boss get away with it by not saying he's the reason, and at the same time you throw the CEO, a decent guy, under the bus by allowing a toxic situation to exist in his company and deliberately keep that from him?

Re: Being polite is great

Still doesn't stop you saying "yes I'd be happy to help, here's my rate. Payable a month in advance.".

Then you're being cooperative and a team player, whilst ensuring that the probability they will actually retain your services is essentially zero.

Did NOT need that picture in my head just before lunch.

Re: sigh

Agree.

Re: re. would that not mean that White people are now in the Global Minority

I checked the dictionary definition of Oppression and interestingly, there's no mention of a timescale before it becomes applicable. Maybe you should contact Oxford or Collins with your 'views'.

Or better yet keep them to yourself, and try not to be such a sneaky little racist next time.