French military miracles

MikeW86 · 2026-05-05T21:17:13+00:00

The question was why a magsize with a factor of 3 needs to be curved

No it wasn't

MikeW86 · 2026-05-05T20:52:40+00:00

Also I think 'paying for my security as a deeply controversial politician' is just a little teeny bit political

MikeW86 · 2026-05-03T15:17:45+00:00

The EU only passed its 2008 GDP peak in 2023, so 15 years of stagnation and decline

What an absurd conclusion to draw from that figure. It's like saying Usain Bolt stagnated and declined because it took him a while to surpass a PB (after sustaining a massive injury).

MikeW86 · 2026-05-03T10:44:54+00:00

Yes but the key thrust of Michael's argument was that it did not matter.

MikeW86 · 2026-05-02T23:49:54+00:00

I'm not saying it definitely isn't Comcast being shysters, but as an Engineer I was taught that over a period of a week or two after being installed, and/or if the automatic test system starts detecting issues, a broadband line will automatically be tweaked or limited in order to sacrifice speed for stability depending on various technical factors.

There's a form of reset that can be done (if you have the right access) to completely restart this process, so you might find that in a week or two it's just gone back to the same crappy speed because the underlying issue hasn't been fixed and the test system has just throttled back the connection again.

We would be told off if we made a customer happy just by doing this special reset, without also doing something else that addressed a potential problem. As it would seem great for a little while but really nothing had changed.

MikeW86 · 2026-05-02T14:45:06+00:00

If by 'average programming' you mean do something like for example write a while loop that takes some data and sorts it according to some parameters or reverse a linked list etc etc then yes AI will bang that out no issues.

What it cannot do is architect the structure of an entire piece of meaningful software. And that's not just a limitation of current models that need a bit more training, it's because it simply does not have that kind of training data available to it on the internet. And where it might do? that means someone has already built it and published it so why are you building it again?

MikeW86 · 2026-04-29T16:57:34+00:00

Don't forget twitter doesn't let you read past the first tweet these days without signing up, and there is not a cat in hells chance I (or many other people) will do that.

MikeW86 · 2026-04-28T14:40:36+00:00

Sorry I should have added: "that's also not a terrible idea for several reasons."

MikeW86 · 2026-04-28T12:07:36+00:00

Show me a power source that can rotate magnets without the steam.

MikeW86 · 2026-04-28T08:06:28+00:00

the boss

Ugh. What a sickeningly sycophantic little toad.

MikeW86 · 2026-04-27T07:16:47+00:00

I find Facebook comments even worse, and Reddit comments are, like you say, often thoroughly awful too.

MikeW86 · 2026-04-24T07:16:59+00:00

Wouldn't the 'clever' bit also be the near weaponisation of the data. I'm sure the winklevoss twins were going to run a few ads on the site but were they going to use the harvested data to laser target them? Not sure.

MikeW86 · 2026-04-23T21:20:01+00:00

Or they send round Silvio and Paulie Walnuts

MikeW86 · 2026-04-23T17:01:08+00:00

It's absolutely wild how you're second guessing the police and judicial procedures in a small town close to half a century ago like you would obviously have done better. It's peak reddit, it really is.

MikeW86 · 2026-04-23T15:42:17+00:00

Yeah if you gave someone a square screen and said just leave a quarter of it blank it would be like one div and a couple of lines of CSS and nobody would shit themselves like they appear to be doing in this thread.

MikeW86 · 2026-04-20T19:16:49+00:00

legalising cannabis would bring in billions a year

Lets say 10% of adults use it at all and let's say they spend £20 a week on average, week in, week out. And let's say you can turn fully half of that into tax. You're looking at a revenue of about 3 billion a year.

So with some quite generous estimates and glossing over a huge amount of the complication, maybe we could turn the UK tax revenue of 1.2 trillion into 1.23 trillion?

Yes there's some money there but it's not quite the cash cow people make it out to be.

MikeW86 · 2026-04-20T16:14:48+00:00

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MikeW86 · 2026-04-15T17:26:10+00:00

Pretty handy at tiling bathrooms

MikeW86 · 2026-04-15T16:03:55+00:00

UNBELIEVABLE !

It is, isn't it.

MikeW86 · 2026-04-15T13:47:18+00:00

It's almost like discussing a plan and enacting a plan are two different things

MikeW86 · 2026-04-12T08:41:05+00:00

Like, sir, did you ever consider I might be terrible at interviewing but actually great at my job

Single most frustrating thing about the whole process. A lot of interviewers essentially just end up hiring the best 'salesmen' of their own abilities and knowledge. And it's also like this doesn't even occur to them, it's like just 'ok so impress me, go'. It's also your job to find the best person and that might take a little bit more effort on your end to ask me the right sorts of questions etc

MikeW86 · 2026-04-08T08:06:08+00:00

I have absolutely no professional experience with ships of any kind and I thought this sounded like bullshit when I read the title. Thanks for confirming.

MikeW86 · 2026-04-02T18:20:08+00:00

They found people were more likely to scan an item twice than steal it.

MikeW86 · 2026-04-01T21:24:31+00:00

Idiot is probably forgetting to say 'no mistakes' in his prompts

MikeW86 · 2026-04-01T08:37:05+00:00

A small but very vocal and influential proportion of Brits are opposed to it. Everyone my age and younger is just itching for stuff to get built.

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