Posts by Blank Reg

Re: Ah.

You'll need to find yourself an alternate reality if you hoping to see IBM behaving decently

Re: Heh

A fine is fine, but if they really want to deter this kind of behaviour they need to lock up whoever made the decisions to erase evidence

The potential damage is limited by the fact that we are far away from robots being able to build robots from scratch. There are far too many humans required in the supply chain all the way from mining and refining raw materials up to final assembly and even power production.

To defeat a robot army you need only shut down the power and wait a few hours until their batteries are dead.

Re: Elmo will stay on the sinking ship

I'll do it, as long as my multi-million dollar salary is paid up front. I don't trust him to pay his bills.

What's the worst that can happen? I couldn't possibly screw up twitter more than it is already.

Re: AIM9-X

What they need is a much slower plane so that they can fill it with holes instead of blowing it to bits. unfortunately they have been too high for helicopters, maybe an ac130 gunship?

And yes I know about the previous failed attempts to shoot down a wayward weather balloon, but these latest ones are reportedly much much smaller so they won't need too many holes to bring them down

Or maybe the Space Force :)

Re: Harmony by disharmony

I turn my phone off at night, so I never get disturbed by them

Re: How the hell...

IBM will always have people to layoff so long as people continue to age

Capital gains would only apply if they sell shares. if you take out a loan with your shares as collateral then you will pay no tax as there is no capital gains and no income

Re: Will this AI engine efficiently assist...

CNET, not CNN

Re: Just a symptom...

you need to learn to sharpen an axe

Re: Nuclear power is fantastically reliable

The amount of used fuel is actually quite small and can be stored safely.

Re: Tesla could be in real trouble

That shouldn't really be a surprise. As I'v'e said before, the electric part of EVs is the easy part, consistently producing high quality vehicles and doing it profitably is the hard part. It took the better part of a century for most auto makers to get there, some still aren't. To think you can just put together a company from scratch and pull off the same levels of quality manufacturing is a good example of Dunning-Kruger in action.

Re: Microsoft is like a politician

"MS may find that their buy is not as good business as they might have thought it would be."

So pretty much the same as most of their big acquisitions.

Re: Obvious answer.

Well if the candidate doesn't need to be alive then maybe they don't need to be real either, so I nominate Obi-wan. He'll come in handy when the Feds come knocking

These are not the consent decree violations you're looking for

Re: RE: lefty twitter users

I can see why you posted as AC, wouldn't want people to know you're stupid enough to believe that crap.

Re: Nuclear fusion reactors are very common. They're called 'stars'.

Deuterium is less of a problem than tritium. I live not far from one of the largest tritium producers in the world, their yearly production is only a few kg.

Re: Net Worth - down about $70bn

His net worth will be negative once tesla reaches a reasonable valuation

That can certainly be a factor. but there are multiple reasons why a language would have a surge in queries.

As already mentioned c++ 20 adoption would certainly have an impact, and as C++ is so complicated that compounds the problem. we might also be seeing the effects of older programmers retiring leaving others to carry on in an unfamiliar language. Python and Javascriot are poorly designed languages that are also very popular, especially among non-programmers, so it's no surprise seeing them at the top of the list. Java is better designed than those two but is increasing in use so it remains near the top of the list

Re: What do we expect?

Sure my house has gone up 5x but that's irrelevant as long as I'm just living in it. I paid off my mortgage in 11 years, but i had a strong incentive to do so as my first mortgage was at 12% interest. For the past decade we've had stupidly low interest rates and it seems far too many people thought that meant they should take on an extra large mortgage, and at the same time not try to pay down that mortgage as fast as possible.

Now interest rates are finally getting back to normal and many people will be screwed as they won't be able to handle a 50% percent increase in monthly payments on a house that is declining in value.

Re: Hard Currency

blockchain as a currency is a̶l̶m̶o̶s̶t̶ pure speculation

Re: Still 5,280

or maybe US survey foot

Re: Catch-22

But for how long? There will likely be issues popping up soon that are essentially unsolvable by the remaining staff as the required knowledge has left the building

This isn't really a surprise as Tesla are always a top contender on the yearly least reliable vehicles list

Re: Easy choice Elon

The orange man needs no help to take himself down. He can do that just fine with his colossal stupidity and ignorance

Re: vac

The alternative to not vaccinating people would have been much worse with the death count vastly higher and health systems collapsing around the world from so many more seriously ill from covid.

As the unvaccinated die at a far greater rate then maybe the problem will solve itself as Covid shows no signs of going away any time soon.

Re: And the secret of comedy is...

musk isn't smart enough to figure that out.

The Supreme Court made corruption legal when they said companies are people too and cash is free speech.

What idiots

"Twatter has been severely mismanaged"

Elon - "Hold my beer"

Re: So

That depends on how quickly tesla collapses.

Well that idiot has said that he thinks we're living in a computer simulation, so none of this is real to him

It's IBM so they are probably looking forward to firing people at will without having to worry about yet more age discrimination lawsuits

Re: "In other contexts, we use spell-checkers...

I've been trying to hire for roles requiring hard core algorithm ability and have struggled to find people. having interviewed over 50 candidates only one passed the technical test. I took the same test and recall wondering if I'd missed something as it seemed too simple.

I get people with a PhD that can't string together much more than hello world and others that seem like they can't understand any algorithm more complex than bubble sort. Something is wrong with how we are teaching computer science if this is the result

Re: re: How could Twitter possibly be turned profitable?

Allow hate speech, lose users by the millions, which then snowballs into the 10s of millions, go bankrupt

Re: Other rules may apply

Western military suppliers should be doing just fine.

Re: They claim 40k users

How many law enforcement agents watching for idiots plotting their next crime?