Sony chose to use the words "purchase" and "buy" on their pages, and hide some sneaky text in the EULA that changes their definition to remove the implication of ownership. They know that using terms like "rent" or…
In some European countries, yes, but other countries like the US have different laws. The UK doesn't have a classification for a speed pedelec, just the 25kph class.
It really doesn't. You're purely relying on radiation fins to carry heat away, which are incredibly inefficient. > The radiator surface area problem also scales uncomfortably. At 838 watts per square meter, rejecting 1…
Not related to the story, but that your go-to example of converting to a for-profit organisation is a hospital is horrifying to me
You do it to yourself, you do, and that's why it really hurts. > Importantly, the company did not mandate AI use (though it did offer enterprise subscriptions to commercially available AI tools). On their own initiative…
This isn't a good idea regardless of why it's being deprecated. If it's no longer being maintained then put a depreciation warning and let it break on its own. Changing a deprecated feature just means you could maintain…
Western employment has survived because automating and outsourcing labour has pushed people to take up knowledge/services work. If AI is somewhat successful at automating knowledge work, what feasible job could exist…
There are plenty of non-US index funds, like EU, UK, Japan and others. There are also indices that track smaller companies rather than just the S&P500 or Nasdaq. Or diversify in both directions - small US, and big and…
This is often made worse as a result of hiring outside consultants. Firstly they don't have the institutional knowledge you have when starting a project, but they also aren't incentivised to properly document and hand…
Except it's getting so difficult to find the companies producing the more durable alternative, so everyone is forced to buy the flimsy piece that falls apart
Given that no models are profitable for the parent company afaik, it's only a matter of time before the money-squeezing begins
Consulting companies destroy valuable institutional knowledge and make the government less effective, so I'm onboard in theory. The flipside of removing them is you now need to hire experts/specialists to do the work…
This is the reason I chose to go with AMD's 7000 series for my 2022 build. I wasn't aware of Intel's limitation when I built my first computer in 2016 so when I wanted to upgrade a few years later I wasn't expecting to…
To make 1 gram of antimatter, from E=mc^2, would take about 90 Terajoules. For reference, the atomic bomb that dropped on Hiroshima released about 60 Terajoules of energy. So you would need at least (and with the…
I'm not worried about the label, but I am worried about the implication - since software made the jump from physical to digital/OTA distribution, there's been a decline in software release quality because "we'll patch…
Tech isn't siloed for no reason. In the UK government, before programming was considered a high-value skill, the vast majority of programmers were women. So much so that programming was measured in girl hours (which…
Maybe, but it was already public knowledge: > In September 2023 the government regulator, the Office of Rail and Road (ORR), had issued an improvement notice to Network Rail about overcrowding at the station, warning:…
Yes, being able to see all the traffic on a given network is a legitimate threat to Tor's anonymity. IIRC There is an alternate method of connecting to an endpoint which uses a 3rd node as a rendezvous point which is…
Self-driving in Europe is more problematic in a couple of ways. Firstly the road structure is very different to the US, streets are much narrower and less car-centric so models are harder to train; secondly regulating…
How robust is the system to fix bugs? Can you just point at a thing and say "fix this bug"? How does that side of it work?
As a physics graduate, I always knew the explanation was incomplete (like all analogies, they have to break down somewhere), but laying them out like this was quite surprising. I've not read his book, but seeing an…
The problems with GIMP are the same as Musescore before it was bought out - Having dedicated designers/programmers allows more sweeping and coherent changes to be made. Voluntary fixes are necessarily smaller in scope…
Wonderfully uplifting, I love the idea of people quacking for a good joke! (Indonesia)
Title is misleading. Twin Galaxies hasn't reinstated Billy's scores as legitimate high scores on their current record table. Instead, they have created an archived record table as the scores were before ownership…
The average developer doesn't put the same care into what they're developing the way they had to in the past. Computers were slow in the 80s/90s, so if you wanted your program to run fast, you had to know how cache and…
Sony chose to use the words "purchase" and "buy" on their pages, and hide some sneaky text in the EULA that changes their definition to remove the implication of ownership. They know that using terms like "rent" or…
In some European countries, yes, but other countries like the US have different laws. The UK doesn't have a classification for a speed pedelec, just the 25kph class.
It really doesn't. You're purely relying on radiation fins to carry heat away, which are incredibly inefficient. > The radiator surface area problem also scales uncomfortably. At 838 watts per square meter, rejecting 1…
Not related to the story, but that your go-to example of converting to a for-profit organisation is a hospital is horrifying to me
You do it to yourself, you do, and that's why it really hurts. > Importantly, the company did not mandate AI use (though it did offer enterprise subscriptions to commercially available AI tools). On their own initiative…
This isn't a good idea regardless of why it's being deprecated. If it's no longer being maintained then put a depreciation warning and let it break on its own. Changing a deprecated feature just means you could maintain…
Western employment has survived because automating and outsourcing labour has pushed people to take up knowledge/services work. If AI is somewhat successful at automating knowledge work, what feasible job could exist…
There are plenty of non-US index funds, like EU, UK, Japan and others. There are also indices that track smaller companies rather than just the S&P500 or Nasdaq. Or diversify in both directions - small US, and big and…
This is often made worse as a result of hiring outside consultants. Firstly they don't have the institutional knowledge you have when starting a project, but they also aren't incentivised to properly document and hand…
Except it's getting so difficult to find the companies producing the more durable alternative, so everyone is forced to buy the flimsy piece that falls apart
Given that no models are profitable for the parent company afaik, it's only a matter of time before the money-squeezing begins
Consulting companies destroy valuable institutional knowledge and make the government less effective, so I'm onboard in theory. The flipside of removing them is you now need to hire experts/specialists to do the work…
This is the reason I chose to go with AMD's 7000 series for my 2022 build. I wasn't aware of Intel's limitation when I built my first computer in 2016 so when I wanted to upgrade a few years later I wasn't expecting to…
To make 1 gram of antimatter, from E=mc^2, would take about 90 Terajoules. For reference, the atomic bomb that dropped on Hiroshima released about 60 Terajoules of energy. So you would need at least (and with the…
I'm not worried about the label, but I am worried about the implication - since software made the jump from physical to digital/OTA distribution, there's been a decline in software release quality because "we'll patch…
Tech isn't siloed for no reason. In the UK government, before programming was considered a high-value skill, the vast majority of programmers were women. So much so that programming was measured in girl hours (which…
Maybe, but it was already public knowledge: > In September 2023 the government regulator, the Office of Rail and Road (ORR), had issued an improvement notice to Network Rail about overcrowding at the station, warning:…
Yes, being able to see all the traffic on a given network is a legitimate threat to Tor's anonymity. IIRC There is an alternate method of connecting to an endpoint which uses a 3rd node as a rendezvous point which is…
Self-driving in Europe is more problematic in a couple of ways. Firstly the road structure is very different to the US, streets are much narrower and less car-centric so models are harder to train; secondly regulating…
How robust is the system to fix bugs? Can you just point at a thing and say "fix this bug"? How does that side of it work?
As a physics graduate, I always knew the explanation was incomplete (like all analogies, they have to break down somewhere), but laying them out like this was quite surprising. I've not read his book, but seeing an…
The problems with GIMP are the same as Musescore before it was bought out - Having dedicated designers/programmers allows more sweeping and coherent changes to be made. Voluntary fixes are necessarily smaller in scope…
Wonderfully uplifting, I love the idea of people quacking for a good joke! (Indonesia)
Title is misleading. Twin Galaxies hasn't reinstated Billy's scores as legitimate high scores on their current record table. Instead, they have created an archived record table as the scores were before ownership…
The average developer doesn't put the same care into what they're developing the way they had to in the past. Computers were slow in the 80s/90s, so if you wanted your program to run fast, you had to know how cache and…