Posts by imanidiot

Re: Excellent planning.

This is my take as well. How in the world was all of that in one facility and how did apparently a single computer error result in all of it getting destroyed? Not a good look for sure.

Re: yes, prosecute

"through profiteering, bribery and collusion, congress allows this to continue"

TFTFY

Re: No big deal

SpaceX was working on that, turns out it's not that simple and they've sold the 2 oil rigs they had bought for the purpose.

Re: Can I sue the EU

"The very fact that I clicked on something and that was recorded would be regarded by some as personal information"

No. You clicking on a "deny all cookies" button does NOT fall under GDPR rules and does NOT count as PII under GDPR. At the very least get your facts right before you complain about GDPR. The rules really aren't as nebulous and difficult as people make them out to be, unless you're in the business of operating right on the very edge of what may or may not be allowed and getting away with it because of "gray area". And the simple solution then is to stop doing that shit.

Re: Just ...

Or a bit of rocket thrust to create some acceleration force. Which is basically the plan. From the article:

"Mission control is planning to execute an engine burn and rotate Juice in a bid to jostle its components around and warm up RIME to encourage the pin to shake loose. "

Which would have been fine if they had made it a voluntary feature and informed the iSheep about it, instead of pushing it (very conspicuously timed) right when they announced the next generation iGadget.

Regomize is a smash of the words Register and randomize. It's perfectly fine.

Re: Not for profit

Similar to Philips' Natuurkundig Laboratorium (NatLab) research facility it seems that as time went on and the company got bigger, shifting (or lacking) focus and diminishing budgets coupled with a failure to properly monetize what came out of the lab led to management failing to understand or keep what they had. The magic works until it doesn't and once it's lost it's gone. I work in the area around Eindhoven and in a company with many many direct ties (both in people and what we do) to the NatLab and many people are still nostalgic for it, similar to PARC. But given how both NatLab and PARC ended up, I think it really is a case of the magic having died long ago and attempts to revive it have not been a very successful so far.

Re: Patents and Copyright are privileges, not rights

Not just that but it also means that "the little guy" who invented the next big thing after sliced bread could never actually benefit from his invention because someone with more money, means and connections could take his idea and just push him out of the market.

Out of all the things to rail against patents (as in actual patents for physical mechanisms or processes) are really not a big problem. They have very defined limits, they expire after a reasonable time, there are methods and processes in place to invalidate them if required for being obvious or ridiculous, etc. Are these laws, rules and regulations perfect? No, far from it, but they're not a massive problem or hindrance to the progress of society. Copyright, software and design patents though? Design patents are just utterly stupid, copyright has been lobbied to ridiculous lengths thanks to (amongst others) Disney corp and software patents need to be immediately abolished.

Re: Unscheduled Power fluctuation

If ChatGPT is any indication, it's a case of "I reject your reality and substitute my own" https://youtu.be/kvTs_nbc8Eg

Re: Nipples and sonic screwdrivers

Nipple? Hmmm, my usual designator for those usually refers to the nub a little lower down on the female anatomy... (No, not in polite company. Then it's just a nub. Nipple would probably get many in trouble too).

Re: Remember folks.

The correct retort is: "Why should I give a toss about shareholder value? My salary won't change, my job won't change, my workload won't change no matter how much "value" (put in the air quotes) I bring." Be prepared to lose your job as these pricks don't usually like getting shown the error in their thinking (or the reality of their lies).

Re: Who is 'we' ??

If you've got no morals and don't mind screwing people over to make a buck you might not mind what this guy did in the first place (or even think he's awesome for it). Plenty of dirtbags in the world with money to burn who would go into business with this guy to try to make a quick buck.

I don't think there's anything getting updated on the Voyagers anymore. Not in the least because the up-link speed is limited to about 16 bits per second and the current downlink speed is about 160 bits per second (with bursts of 2.8 kbit/s data a few times a year for plasma science data). And that speed is dropping further and further. The only reason we're still able to talk to the Voyagers at all is because of improvements of the Deep Space Network radio telescopes.

Re: “Advanced technologies” aren’t always needed

What does China's massive pollution problem have to do with ANYTHING Cheezytheclown said? He said they have massive amounts of power available, which they do, because they don't care if a load of poor people living around a coal power station die an early and horrible death.

The basis of his story is entirely correct. The majority of semicon production isn't happening at nodes where the latest and greatest is required. EUV is basically only relevant for the very highest end CPUs and GPUs (and some other specialized chips that benefit from lower power and thermal). High end immersion systems are only relevant for the latest and greatest in memory (DRAM and such). Everything else is still happening or can be done on systems China is still allowed to buy. These trade blockades aren't going to hamper China all that much. They are pointless symbolism. But nobody dares to take an actual stand against China because we've outsourced way too much to there to be able to risk China recirpocating on things like resistors (nearly 100% coming from China), capacitors (nearly 100% coming from China) and all sorts of other passives and active components that we no longer make in the western world. They've got us by the balls and they know it.

Live long enough to tell those tales anyway...

Judging from interviews while she was still the big thing and things that came out during and after the trial, she was entirely and utterly convinced that it should work, just that she herself couldn't figure it out. But if she just got a few billion and set a bunch of smart engineers on the task the thing she dreamt up (that everybody told her went against all known physics) it must become reality.

She was already delusional as a student before she dropped out, convinced (by upbringing and sheer force of will) that she was the next tech messiah. By all reports she was rather mediocre.

I think by the time she should have realized it was never going to work, she had built her whole life around being the next tech messiah. Admitting she had been wrong the whole time would mean a total collapse of her entire life. She probably felt that either she'd make it work, somehow, or her life was over. Add into that a toxic relationship with Balwani and she was probably convinced she'd go to jail if she DID admit it was all a lie and that continuing the charade was the only way out.

So in short, I think it started out as arrogance and ended in stupidity.

Re: Wildlife??

SpaceX.

Problem is that there's not many places left on the eastern US seaboard where you COULD launch a rocket without risking killing or permanently deafening a lot of humans. Boca Chica was pretty much the only place left that still has decent enough road access and few enough people that it could work out.

On the other hand I've seen firsthand the shit suppliers have to deal with when supplying public entities (local and regional municipalities, large hospitals, etc in the Netherlands in this case) and with all the extra trouble of having to deal with the bureaucracy and never getting paid (on time or at all, with "yeah, the guy who ordered those no longer works for this department, we didn't sign of on the order, now get lost" being frequent), the cost, risk and hastle for suppliers is quite often also much higher than it would be for any other entity. So there's a little bit of a dual problem going on. On the one hand inefficiencies and difficulties in dealing with public entities means that suppliers charge more just to be able to deal with them without losing their shirt, and on the other hand you have suppliers taking advantage of the fact that at many public entities there will be no-one in purchasing that actually knows what things SHOULD cost and purchase orders just get signed off. Because it's not their money they're wasting.

Re: Another No Information Opinion idiot...

And yet people keep believing in the "american dream" and lies about how socialist policies (like most of the western world except the US have) are somehow unfair and "filthy communist tricks" or something.

Re: Internal system

"Strangely, accounting never figured out that our primary profit center involved building airplanes"

Building aircraft stopped being considered a profit center at Boeing in August 1997.

Re: A rather important question

Have you read the average student essay? For lower level subjects it's very unlikely they'll be anything but indistinguishable from AI generated "collage of existing materials" because for the most parts that's how a human student writes too.

Re: Trucked

How practical the truck is to actually use for long haul trucking due to absolute shit design (no surprise there, it's a Tesla) has nothing to do with how practical or usable (B)EV truck is. Especially for short haul (distribution, short distance, trash pickup, etc) it definitely works and many companies are proving that worldwide.

Re: "I am very smart"

Same bottom feeder types yeah. Timeshares in that way aren't really a think this part of Europe, so here it was (don't know how it is after Covid as sadly grandpa passed a few years ago) mostly "Tell-sell live" type dog and pony shows.