Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: Racist?

>My understanding is that you need to bias it the other way and have more black people than white in order to get similar accuracy.

Or not. Police facial recognition used mugshots. Proportion of black people arrested (and so in mugshots) >> proportion of black people in population = system flags more black people as criminal

Was listening to a US history podcast review of Marc Morris's latest book - it consisted of 30mins apologising/justifying the use of the offensive title = "The Anglo Saxons"

Re: Did he save the Company?

Or worse, The MD logs in on Bob's last day, removes that /VMUnix file that is taking up lots of space - and then Bob is accused of leaving some sort of trap that destroyed the system.

Re: Just the one letter?

Accidental similar revenge.

A RaspberryPi was monitoring some equipment, the sort of "leave it alone for a year until something fails"

The user swore blind they had used the 'standard' shared password for all that sort of kit.

The Pi starts with the proper Queen's King's English keyboard and asks you to enter a password

To make WiFi work you have to set your locale - to here in the colonies

The password included an '@' ....

Re: Another Liam's Windows rant

And all of the major distributions worked.

After 30 years and a dozen major releases there are a lot of niche options.

I'm betting WinCE, NT-Embedded and IBM DOS2.11 also didn't work

Re: Bone to Pick

Macbook Air (at least my M1) doesn't have magsafe. Had to buy a magsafe-usbC adapter from cheapchinesecrap.com for when the killer feline decides that nothing else is allowed on its couch

Re: What is needed

If they have nothing to hide they have nothing to fear

Re: FISA will be renewed as usual

That's the advantage a certain US president had. When you post all the worst stuff yourself on your own Twitter feed it's difficult for them to blackmail you

Re: I'm not surprised

The Black Lives Matter protestors were African-American and so obviously linked to foreigners and so fair game for the FBI

Re: It's not THAT hard!

>takes "quite a few years" to train a doctor, so if you open up the taps now, you'll get more doctors in something like a 5-10 year

If only foreign doctors were trained on how to work on the unique British physique

> I think Keir needs more practise being ‘a normal chap’ just like Blair used to do

It's in the next service pack.

Slightly concerned about how the predictive text chose to correct that particular misspelling !

Re: Shows the strain Russia's economy is under

>So is Ukraine

A country facing the fastest entry to the Eu and Nato ever - with everyone in Europe/USA queuing up to pump investments into it.

>Meanwhile Europe is depleted of the few weapons it had,

Europe is depleted of the USSR era weapons it was stuck with and every arms manufacturer from Seoul to Santiago is booking next years bonus.

>the US is a gentle psychooperative shove away from civil war

The US is always one missed happy meal away from civil war, it has been since before the last civil war

>That pretty much gives China carte-blanche to take Taiwan

We just showed China what the world response is to the worlds #2 superpower invading a little farming country we don't give a fsck about.

What do you think is going to be the response to a bunch of "racial epithets" invading a country we rely on for the chips in our heated car seats ?

Re: Seriously?

>Will childcare, school, and whatever else cares for the sprogs

What are you, some sort of communist ?

Re: Seriously?

The big advantage of slave labour - the ones made on friday afternoon are just as good !

>What is a tankie?

It was a schism in 1960s left wing groups in Britain.

The Marxist-Leninists who whore knitted jumpers without arms were known as tanktop wearers - shortened to tankies.

They were opposed by the Moaists who preferred jumpers which opened up the front, these cardigan wearers were known as card-carriers

Re: Development of Business Patriotism

>"I'm Backing Britain"

I think that's the theme for the party conference:

<whooping noise> warning, country is reversing,,,,,,

Re: Bad name, won't work.

His other notable invention caused enough damage

Re: Very Large Fusion System

Wait till they privatise it, can't have everyone using it for free

Re: Step one

Obviously we aren't going to build one - even if it worked

It would involve "investment" so Conservatives and Labour2.0 will be against it

It's NUKULAR so the Greens are against it

It's not coal so Labour1.0 will be against it

Re: 100 million degrees!!

>What is that, Celsius or Kelvin?

That dinosaur skeleton is 100,000,001 years old.

How come so precise?

Well it was 100million years old when I visited last year

Re: Not a strictly true statement

>we haven't actually razed any cities down to bedrock using fusion weapons

Although a few tropical islands and some bits of the American southwest have been extensively redecorated

Re: "smaller is better"

That's the cunning plan. With only £1Bn to spend, the British chips will have to be smaller than the huge $50Bn American chips. Just like a Mini vs a Cadilac.

Re: "Not in a position to compete against countries like Taiwan..."

There is also "purchasing power parity", these fabs cost billions to build in Taiwan while in Britain sheds can be built for only a few hundred quid.

If we assume that a cutting-edge 3nm gen-5 fab, and a shed on an allotment are basically the same thing - then Britain could be a major player

Re: Given its dominance on the desktop and corporate server world

> it appears to still produce useful software

Alongside Powerpoint, Onenote, Outlook, Teams and other management time sucks ?