Re: A solution looking for a problem
A brick on the accelerator pedal drives more safely than the average Audiot lunatic.
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US watchdog opens probe into Tesla's Autopilot driver assist system after spate of crashes
Tuesday 17th August 2021 12:37 GMT 
Re: A solution looking for a problem
What is the “problem” that a self-driving car solves
I've been getting more and more tired lately, after long journeys. But since I've had self driving available for the longer stretches, I've found I've been arriving a lot fresher and less tired at the destination.
Some of that driving load is taken off me and I'm then free to just concentrate on watching what's happening around me and keeping safe margins.
Starliner takes off ... back to the factory and not space
Beige Against the Machine: The IBM PC turns 40
Friday 13th August 2021 09:30 GMT
I got my first PCXT, a rejected and faulty one destined for the skip for free, fixed up and sold. Then I built a PCAT clone out of faulty bits. Then I carried on in this fashion for years. Never paid for a desktop PC, maybe the odd card. It's all been company issued laptops, many of which I kept when they were replaced and I still have them.
Chocolate beer barred from sale after child mistakes it for chocolate milk
Wednesday 11th August 2021 12:45 GMT
Re: Beer Definition
Meantime Chocolate Porter.
Rudgate Chocolate Stout.
Hotel Chocolat Beer
Sam Smith Chocolate Stout
Are just some of the chocolate beers brewed in Britain. I don't think UK is the only place that makes them and also messes about with all kinds of other strange beers - like Yorkshire pudding ale and Sticky Toffee Pudding Ale.
Good news: There's a slightly increased chance of asteroid Bennu hitting Earth. Bad news: It's still really slight
Boots on Moon in 2024? NASA OIG says you better moonwalk away from that date, because suits ain't ready
Apple responds to critics of CSAM scan plan with FAQs, says it'd block governments subverting its system
Tuesday 10th August 2021 07:58 GMT
On the face of it, forcing all the pervs and pedos onto to rivals is no bad thing for Apple. If you have products that offer strong security, then they might be attractive to the criminals leading to your products becoming known as the ones favoured by them. Which would make the products less attractive to the majority innocent market. This move by Apple pushes the stigma onto rivals.
AI algorithms uncannily good at spotting your race from medical scans, boffins warn
Tuesday 10th August 2021 07:18 GMT
Re: AI and Race
Individualised medicine is indeed far more effective than general treatment. However, organisations like the NHS have such a huge workload, they are forced to use a treatment that works for most people, a bit like mass education pedagogical methods don’t suit everyone.
It is true that conditions such as sickle cell anaemia affect people of African heritage more than others, and cystic fibrosis will affect people of European heritage more than others. To acknowledge this and understand why would surely help in research for treatment.
You can now live life like Paul Allen on Microsoft cofounder's luxury yacht for '£1m a week'
Tuesday 10th August 2021 06:47 GMT
Re: I can't think of a holiday venue I'd want less.
You don’t have to travel far. I’ve done work jollies where we were put up for a couple of nights in 5 star hotels in Park Lane. Having people fawning all over the place trying to do stuff and show you around the place is really very uncomfortable for me. I don’t need or want servants. I’d choose Premier Inn over The Dorchester if they were the same price.
Apple is about to start scanning iPhone users' devices for banned content, professor warns
International Space Station actually spun one-and-a-half times by errant Russian module's thrusters
Russia says software malfunction caused Nauka module to unexpectedly fire thrusters, tilt space station
Happy birthday, Sinclair Radionics: We'll remember you for your revolutionary calculators and crap watches
Friday 30th July 2021 16:27 GMT
Re: I want a C5
I do believe if it were released today with a modern motor and battery combo it would probably be successful.
Nah.
https://www.theengineer.co.uk/sinclair-c5-revamped-by-sir-clives-nephew/
Friday 30th July 2021 14:37 GMT
Sinclair actually launched two monochrome mini TVs, the MTV1 in 1977 was a miniaturised conventional CRT with cathode behind. The FTV1 (TV80) came along in 1983 and had an amazing CRT with a sideways electron gun, to a shrunken screen that was then made conventional format using a lens. It also used a flat pile battery from a polaroid camera. Sony and Panasonic also did a CRT pocket TV, but Casio came along with LCD and blew them all away.
'$6 in every $10' spent on cloud infrastructure is with AWS, Microsoft, or Google
The UK is running on empty when it comes to electric vehicle charging points
Great reset? More like Fake Reset: Leaders need a reality check if they think their best staff will give up hybrid work
Thursday 29th July 2021 08:24 GMT
Re: It Depends…
A 1 hour commute is just a really stupid waste of money, CO2, and most of all time. Plus if it involves road transport then some risk too.
I really never did get it and I would only consider jobs that were within easy travel of home. I had a near argument with a thick recruitment guy once because he wanted me to go for a job that would have been the worst motorways in rush hour. He said “everyone needs to travel” . Nope. Not interested.
Why do people waste all that time and money for such a stupid reason?
Thursday 29th July 2021 08:12 GMT
Re: Going on-site has certainly been made redundant in IT
“ Why pay UK wages when you can get someone cheaper to work from India? Or Vietnam? Or China? Or Russia?”
I don’t think it makes a difference if the someone in the UK is wasting time commuting or not. Except if they are you can also save money on office space and all the other costs that go with it.
Dell won't ship energy-hungry PCs to California and five other US states due to power regulations
Tuesday 27th July 2021 13:34 GMT
Re: @45RPM
News flash... Rolls Royce are trying to build an electric plane to take a couple of passengers 100 miles... cross the Atlantic with a 747s load like that... not going to work too well is ut?
I don't think RR intend this to be a commercial product.
But this is a first step. The process of getting something working and then learning from it, developing and improving it. Applies to all EVs at the moment. There are EV cars now appearing that are way better than just 10 years ago. Need to take a first step, see what works and what needs to be improved. If we just listen to the whingers and do nothing, where would be be?
Tuesday 27th July 2021 10:35 GMT
Re: @45RPM
@codejunky
I was thinking about domestic hoovers where my new one makes light work of any job it faces.
I agree it wouldn't last 5 minutes in a commercial role, but its suction run rings around any other domestic one I've owned and its form factor makes life easier and therefore takes a fraction of the time.
Tuesday 27th July 2021 09:40 GMT
Re: @45RPM
Vacuums, for instance, are much better now since manufacturers were forced to adapt and innovate.
The problem with stuff like kettles though, is if you half the power available, then to do the same job you have to use the other thing that can't be restricted - time.
If it takes a kWh to do a job then it will, give or take, proportionally more time to do it with less Watts. You save nothing.
If we had stuck with the old fashioned hoovers but with weaker motors, it would take much longer to clean up and the no power would be saved. Luckily these devices were forced to improve and this is how it's supposed to work.
Of course screen refresh cannot go by this measure, so gaming PCs are a different story.
What is your greatest weakness? The definitive list of the many kinds of interviewer you will meet in Hell
Tuesday 27th July 2021 09:51 GMT
Re: Dignity
Yes, when I had a mortgage and young kids and silly debts I did used to put up with shit and worry about jobs. Once you've crossed the ocean and have the retirement option, you don't have to give a shit and it becomes a lot easier to pick and choose. I also think being free allows you to do your best work too.
For a true display of wealth, dab printer ink behind your ears instead of Chanel No. 5
Monday 26th July 2021 18:19 GMT
If you are on the instant ink scheme, where the printer phones home and for £1.99 a month they send out new cartridges when your old ones are nearly empty (subject to a page limit). Miraculously, the cartridges on this scheme go on forever, so 12 months of £1.99 a month and they are still going strong.
Funny that.
Russia's ISS Multipurpose Laboratory Module launches after years sitting on a shelf, immediately runs into issues
Activision Blizzard accused by California watchdog of fostering 'frat boy' culture, fatally toxic atmosphere
Autonomy founder Mike Lynch loses first stage in fight against extradition to US
Everyone cites that 'bugs are 100x more expensive to fix in production' research, but the study might not even exist
Pipe down, Jeff. You've only gone where Gus Grissom went before, 60 years ago today
Wednesday 21st July 2021 16:00 GMT
I don't think doing something with the national effort of a wealthy nation and being motivated by paranoia about a competing ideology is the same as going to space by your own enterprise as a group of 4 having a laugh and wearing boiler suits and being able to reuse your steam-emitting booster which landed upright on a pad. Grissom didn't do that. Bezos acknowledges Shepard.
Tomorrow's wireless world will be fatter, faster, and creepier
Good news: Jeff Bezos went to space. Bad news: He's back
Wednesday 21st July 2021 05:05 GMT
Re: Avoidance
That's a bit playground level of argument. So if you don't like the government you have to leave the country?
Playground level? Wow, that’s seriously hypocritical. You come back with a Wetherspoons pub bore level straw man argument.
If you can’t see the difference in between choosing an alternative retailer and the upheaval of transplanting your life to another country then you’ve got no valid argument.
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