Posts by Blank Reg

Re: Tea....

Watching your political system at work (or more accurately not working) makes it abundantly clear that ignorance is alive and well and thriving in the USA

Re: "And then there’s the Digital Yuan"

If the G7 join in and crack down on crytpo-currencies then they are dead, and all those "Crypto-billionaires" will be broke.

And I'll have no sympathy for any of them, when you join a ponzi scheme it's up to you to make sure you're not the last one out.

Re: There is an

have you watched any of the videos of people trying to drive in the city in a Tesla on full auto mode? It's more work and more stressful than just driving yourself.

And these suckers got fooled into paying extra for this crap. Anyone that has even a passing knowledge of AI knows we're not even close to full time autonomous driving except under certain near ideal conditions.

Re: Bit c-word

but then how could people keep making their fake money? once that happens people will lose interest and move on to the next scam

I used to have a pair of them on my desk, not much room for anything else once those were in place

Re: Insert meme here

"Why would any one want crypto? The same reason why people want money, so they can buy things they want."

The difference is that crypto is terrible for buying stuff. The percentage of retailers accepting crypto is so small it might as well be 0. But more importantly it fails completely as a currency as transaction rates are measured in minutes per transaction rather than 1000's of transactions per second.

Re: "more of a super-cruise-control"

You don't need anything that sophisticated. Cars already have a sensor in the seat so that the force of airbags can be adjusted. If no driver is sitting in the drivers seat then it should not be possible to set it to or stay in autopilot mode.

Exactly, that's how we ended up with religion, and we certainly don't need any more of those

Yup, it's just an open invitation for someone to prove him wrong. And I'm sure there are many who would love to do just that.

Re: Better Yet.

It's not the first time the SCOTUS has been wrong, nor will it be the last. I just don't know what can be done about it

Re: They will be competing with fixed 5G, not 1.5 Mb rural DSL

though they do stop working in 5 years or less when they fall out of the sky.

if they really are going to have 30000 of them then that means launching about 6000 per year just to replace the ones that fall out of orbit. what an enormous waste of resources.

terrestrial fixed mobile would be a better solution

Fixes was never the problem. Where they went wrong the first time was changing or removing public APIs such that anything written for the Microsoft version may not run elsewhere, and anything written for standard Java could fail to run on the Microsoft JVM.

While it is possible that a fix could cause the same sort of problem, it's really not in the same league as deliberately trying to destroy cross platform development

Re: Minions Finally Lose

Well this isn't the first time the US supreme court got it wrong. Google blatantly copied Java, there really isn't any argument there. And they used it outside the permitted use according to the license. I know most people didn't want Oracle to win, but really they should have.

Re: I need to look this up

I set up an account in the early days with an obviously fake name and had no trouble. I just checked and the account it still there, in fact dozens of people have used the same fake name.

Your name must be really weird.

Re: This will result in

"gets large number of our own side killed"

This is the US military we're talking about here, this is going to happen regardless

Re: Why the negativity

Trump is especially stupid though, he's destroys everything he touches.

Re: Words To Eat

The odds are not in Tesla's favour. They are up against ALL the other manufacturers, most of which can easily out produce and out spend them by orders of magnitude. I don't know who the top car maker will be in 5 years, but it's probably not Tesla

Re: Contracts? Must be nice.

That's only for you southern left-pondians. Here in the Great white north they actually need a reason to fire you. And in IT when layoffs do come around you're typically looking at 3 to 5 weeks severence pay per year of service with higher payouts if you're older and/or management.

Years ago during one of the IBM purges of expensive(older) employees I knew quite a few that had been with IBM for 25+ years that got cut. They paid off their mortgages with the payout and then were hired back as contractors months later when it became apparent that they had let go the people that actually knew how to make everything work.

Re: Oooh

I played with it quite a bit back in the early 90's but I thought it had died long ago

I expect you're right as there are just too many incompetent developers who need to make it look like they are irreplaceable. They are usually easy to spot, they are the ones that don't want to document anything nor explain how things work and basically never want to share any of their "secrets".

If I were an IT manager at a bank and found out that a developer was deliberately leaving serious flaws in the code then I'd be looking at having them criminally charged for industrial sabotage.

Re: Almost all uninteresting...

They had to do streams to appease the functional programming zealots.

Now I rather do like streams, but many people use them excessively and unnecessarily and in ways that have terrible performance. Just because you can use a stream doesn't mean you should use a stream

Re: RE: Master / slave

I don't expect the BDSM crowd to go for any such renaming of Master/Mistress

Re: A rather large piece of paper for a fair test

I suspect that the issue is due to the text recognition having much higher levels of accuracy. So the system may see an apple with 25% certainty, but because it sees whatever word is written with 90% accuracy it decides that is the best answer

Re: Great news for Parler users

The FBI already have the data as several people pulled 10s of Tb of data off Parler before they got shut down and have handed that over to investigators.

The problem is that there is no reason for any of these companies to move production to the US. They will go where they will make the biggest profit. If you want them to do otherwise then you have to make it worth it for them.

Re: Safety?

Ok, you go ahead play chicken with a supertanker that can take 10+ km to stop and has a turning radius of a couple of km. By the time they are close enough to notice a little sailing dinghy it's already too late to do anything about it.

And the same Judge Jeanine on who's show Fox is airing a segment debunking their crazy election fraud claims

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/19/business/fox-smartmatic-news-package/index.html

Fox doesn't want to do this, but they know they are screwed if they don't backtrack on all the lies

Re: Playing catchup

Graal Vm uses its own approach to native methods so you won't need jni

Re: Piggly Wiggly and the Perils of Good Smack and Great Crack

The difference is that when hedge fund managers start talking down a stock it can actually have an impact. when Joe random does it no one will listen.

Re: Archive for patents

Yup, I've seen a number of patent applications for things I did decades ago. They weren't patentable then and they shouldn't be patentable now.

Re: Not all countries are founded on socialist beliefs

There is really no need for anti conservative bias. Just report what they say and do, that's all it takes to make them look like idiots these days

Re: Just cancel them on mass

With over 300 days spent playing golf and 30,000+ lies, he did a pretty piss poor job of even pretending to be president.

I believe that in most jurisdictions you are not supposed to fly a drone where you can't see it. If he could see his drone then surely he would have been able to see a giant helicopter.

Re: Geeks versus Politicians

Although whoever provides internet connections to the new Parler servers could also rightfully shut them down if they choose to. They might have to become a tier 1 ISP themselves to avoid that possibility. Even then I'm not sure if they would be entirely safe.

Re: Disgraceful

That's the modern revisionist interpretation. It was about state slave militias, not so Joe redneck could carry any AR-15 to walmart.