Posts by katrinab

Re: Lazarus IDE

Also, the Delphi Super Page was last updated in 2006, and is possibly the last surviving website that still uses frames.

Re: Brave new wrodl!

Or the Toyota MR2 (em er deux)

Re: Pleasant surprise!

The difference being that those were Microsoft drivers, which unlike the bloated first-party drivers, where actually decent.

Re: A special case?

What are the words to Humpty Dumpty?

Sure, here are the traditional lyrics to the nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty":

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

All the king's horses and all the king's men

Couldn't put Humpty together again.

The copyright to that expired in 1985, so it is OK for ChatGPT, and me, to reproduce it here. The point is, it did.

I also asked it for the words to the Happy Birthday song. The copyright in that has not expired yet, I believe it expires in 2030. Nevertheless, ChatGPT did reproduce it. For legal reasons, I am not going to copy/paste the transcript here.

Re: Evidence

Yes, but how do you know that some other person didn't pray for people in the control group? That would mess up the experiment surely?

Also, there's people who regularly pray for all the sick people everywhere, so if that is as effective as praying for a named individual, then it would be impossible to create a control group of people who weren't prayed for.

We are looking for wrong opinions so those don’t qualify.

Re: Hmm

I think it is much simpler than that:

Energy companies make a profit from the money we give them. If they are their own energy company, they keep the profit for themselves.

Re: Brit?

Britain is 3 (and a half) countries, not a borough.

Re: Good ol' snake oil peddlin'

C-suite execs always want the latest buzzword without knowing what to use it far.

Re: Xitter monthly users reach new high in 2023 says Elon.

Pretty sure it is something a bit stronger and more expensive than beer?

Re: Darn Right

Ingesting the book into its training dataset is a copyright violation.

The training model is a derivative work of that and many other copyrighted works.

Just like if you were to take a copy of the source code for Adobe Photoshop and compile it yourself, the binary may look very different to the one Adobe's packaging team produced, but it would still be copyright violation.

Re: Dear God, just make it stop!

You don't "leveraging director money". The director money is your leverage.

Unless of course you are taking director money and using it as a security for another loan, which isn't really going to work.

Leveraging the director's house might work though.

Re: And here I was hoping

Or:

I invested all my money in Crypto, and all I have left is a 3 litre bottle of Tesco Value White Cider.

Re: The linked (thank you) article is great ...

Arguably yes, if you consider a 16 or 17 year-old to be a child. That's legal as long as you aren't a teacher or similar.

Re: This is not the first time this has "accidently" happened

Last updated 6th October 2022. Even if it worked then, it isn't going to work now.

Re: Adverts on sites are so easy

Traditional TV and newspaper ads brought in way more money, and there was no possibility of viewer / reader tracking there

Re: Mmmmm

"AI" is about as dangerous as divining rods and tarot cards, which is to say it is pretty ineffective, but could be mis-used in dangerous ways, like the professor who asked ChatGPT if his students were cheating on an assignment.

Re: We've engaged in illegal acts to obtain this data

Jail the people who actually make the payment

I think they joined the personal computer and small office server bandwagons at the right time.

Re: Freedoms

And most importantly, freedom of speech is also freedom from forced speech.

Re: How much???!

It isn't a publicly traded company, you can't short it. Or sell it.

You hold on to it and hope it IPOs in the future and you make your money that way.

Two of the board members who sacked him are Effective Altruism cultists, the same thing that Bankman followed. Altman, as far as I'm aware, is not a member of this cult.

The US designed most of their nuclear weapons on a Cray Supercomputer which is less powerful than a Pi Zero.

Re: Scandalous revelations coming out in 3...2...1

Accusations from his sister about incestual sexual abuse

Re: Seems mean...

And the other thing was taxing dividend payments to pension funds, but not interest payments, which encouraged companies to load up with lots of debt, and all the problems that came from that.

Re: Cloud isn't just "somebody else's server"

A company I used to work for did image their on-prem vms and upload them to the cloud, then sacked their IT staff.

One problem was that security of their on-prem server mostly relied on the receptionist stopping people from getting into the office and connecting a laptop to the LAN, so without that, they got ransomwared very quickly.

Another problem was that 4 Broadwell Cores and 4GB of RAM was nowhere near sufficient to support 200 users.

Needless to say, they no longer have enough business to support employing anything like 200 staff.

Re: WSL

At that point, would you not be better just installing Debian / Ubuntu / whatever?

Re: Ah, Patch Tuesday...

Threadripper Pro W3945WX with 256GB of RAM.

Took about a day to do all the updates from a clean install.

I think that computer should be sufficient to run Windows. Obviously it depends a lot on the network connection how long it takes to download everything.

Re: AI Business Improvement

I tried it. Sounds exactly like the sort of meaningless drivel management consultants come up with.

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