Posts by wolfetone

All WMT does is mask the fact that middle managers are fucking useless.

You don't need WMT if your workforce trusts you and you're good at your job. If you're a shit manager, that's on you. Not on the employee.

Re: The AI bubble is already popping

I have lived through Black Wednesday. I have lived through Black Monday. I have lived through Y2K. I have lived through the dot com bubble. I lived through 9/11. I have lived through the various wars the USA have decided to fight for no other reason than their own personal interests. I have lived through the credit crunch. I have lived through the end of the Mayan calendar. I have lived through the rapture. I have lived through two Trump presidencies.

All of which, were disasters the like we never seen. But see them we did. And we've seen all sides of them.

It won't be great. But we'll be fine. We were fine before, we'll be fine again. Just that little bit poorer. Again.

Re: Don't believe it

100%.

There is absolutely no way either OpenAI or Anthropic didn't know their LLMs were running amok. The LLMs tell you what it's doing. So were they asleep at the wheel? Or did they do this on purpose and instead of saying "yeah we told it to do that" they're using this as yet another example of "oh my DAYZ man this AI is so lit that it's actually HACKING shit we told it not to touch! It's not even listening to us no more THAT'S HOW POWERFUL IT IZZZZ".

Everything to feed the stock market monster and keep that bubble from popping.

Re: Oh yeah!

Well I guess this Nightmare Eclipse is definitely a Micro$oft employee.

Yet again they've promised something and failed to deliver, and that has ultimately left me disappointed.

Re: Stop calling them NIMBYS

In that case - any chance we could get one built in Clacton?

Re: We should have outsourced it to Japan.

The major problem with HS2 is that the work has been outsourced. And outsourced by the outsourcers. On and on and on, until the bottom outsourcer wants more money. Then the one above asks the one above for more.

Isn't the figures for this something stupid like £170 million per mile spent already? When Artemis 2 cost something like £6,000 per mile?

Actually that's how we fix it. Scrap the rail. Set up a space ship thing to go from London to Birmingham. That'll be cheaper.

Re: Claude

Claude is a load of nonsense.

I've an issue trying to install Claude to some devices on a network. Got nowhere with it. So I thought I'd ask Claude about how I would go about installing it across the network. Claude told me it can't access it's own documentation.

DeepSeek though, well it knows full well how to install Claude and has all the access it needs to it's docs.

And I'm meant to believe Mythos or Fable are threats to national security?

Re: Run silent

I think Sheffield after the bombs have dropped is a good approximation of what Leeds looks like on a good day?

Re: Look

Credit where credit is due, Khan stopped that.

There is a threshold after which point any services the Met need have to be put out to tender and the mayors office has oversight on it. The Met and Palantir deliberately put the deal under that threshold to avoid scrutiny. Khan's office noticed and vetoed it.

So for as much as he gets wrong or is unpopular, he's done something right there.

Re: Wait, what?

Not only did that LLM cost real money to find it out, but it was deemed sooooooo dangerous it was BANNED!

And remember, all the good shit is BANNNNNNNED until you realise a few years down the line that it was just a bit shit tbh.

Re: Pop little bubble, pop!

The funding has dried up. There are no more investors really around to pump money in to this, as they've already done that.

The massive infrastructure/bit barn buildings they've broken ground on are slowing down to a halt. Various sites have had work stop on them for various reasons.

The next avenue is IPOs but SpaceX is already sinking. So I don't think OpenAI or Anthropic are looking forward to it because, really, they have no choice other than to go public with it.

Until then they will continue this circular economy but at some point even that money is going to run out when real bills fall that need to be paid with real money to someone outside of the circular economy.

Re: Time (geddit!) for a new Reg unit?

That lettuce was a better leader than Truss.

Re: Babe magnet

Then you need the "Free Kidneys, take two" sign.

Re: Old saying:

If it moves and it should - Bop it.

Re: It's not grudges or incompetence - it's marketing

The thing is other LLMs can do the same thing as Mythos. Maybe, possibly, the route to the solution is slightly easier with Mythos/Fable but regardless this is all just a PR stunt.

AI companies are running out of money. They're not getting the ROI. They're putting the prices up and reducing the offering to reduce the losses. They're being forced to go public when they don't want to just to keep the hype train going.

I said months ago, as did another commentator, that August will be the time this all implodes. Nothing happening recently makes this look any less likely to happen.

Hold tight!

Re: Papers Please!

I don't want to give them ideas, but it'll only take one owner of a gun license to think "hang on, can't we do this with VPNs?".

I hope so. But at the very least they will start to make having a VPN increasingly difficult to do. How they do it I don't know.

Re: I used to ....

Fucking hell, that's orwellian.

Re: Mass email using BCC

In a previous life I had to build something similar for a "volunteer" organisation, made up of people who think they know better.

Had so many run ins with people who refused to use it. I'd have parents complain to me that it's happened, and I'd go and tell the branch owner about the complaint and they couldn't give two shits about it. "It's just an email" was the usual reply. Absolutely no idea or understanding about it, and worse still absolutely no inclination to understand the problem either.

Re: A bit like the radiators in some of my older cars

Ironically, the egg white method of fixing a radiator leak was a favourite method of repair for owners of the mighty Lada.

Re: Mossad

Plenty of dead people knew. That's why they're dead.

Re: struggled with the redesign on the home page

I've sat here wondering how to answer this, as in 18 years here I've never had to justify or explain a comment outside of an obscure pop culture reference.

All I can say is: Why not?

It's one thing to say that knowingly using the word woke out of context annoys people. But it's different to say that I knowingly used it to annoy people. It's a subtle difference. And I guess really the term came to mind because of the comment lock out for an hour and how it brought to mind Sean Dyche's comments on VAR in football. In that respect it is the antithesis of what has gone before. The moment the article goes up the comments section is open for business as per a wonderful and beautiful open internet. Now though, one can't help but feel that it's possible that the comments section is locked like that for fear of some random reason. Fear of the comments going down a certain tonal route for example. When an explanation isn't forthcoming you just create a vacuum really to be filled. It just feels a bit like it's a reaction to an increasingly intense sensibilities and tighter pearl clutching. It doesn't feel so long ago the editor put an article about the comments section and reminding everyone to tone it down. Which brought Sean Dyche to mind which, I guess, was in response to something that could be parallel to this.

So really I am probably wrong in thinking I used it out of context. I think it's used in context, and I think it's correct.

As for being an equal opportunities annoyance, it is what it is and I'm alright with that. I think plenty here (if not all) get really arsey and cuntish with each other if they read something by a total random stranger and spend hours of their time arguing the toss, forgetting the other person on the other end won't have their viewpoint or mind changed the same way as they themselves won't be told. I am pretty certain there are people who will have been pissed off with me for referencing the Fairey Swordfish plane sinking the Bismark as the Sopwith Swordfish and the fact it sunk the Bismark. I didn't make that statement to piss anyone off. I got my plane manufacturers wrong, and at a top level view yeah the Swordfish sunk the boat but really it disabled it allowing the Royal Navy to sink it.

Now the fact remains for me is that you can only please some of the people some of the time. I've been here long enough I've not gone out of my way to fuck anyone off, but I also know genuine mistakes aren't seen as such or I'm misunderstood in a view and that in turn pisses people off. The whole idea of "This is my truth tell me yours" annoys people because it's not in their own echo chamber so you're immediately wrong. There are people who are out and out wrong here who should be called out on it, and thankfully are (looking at you MAGA lickers).

But to answer your question, as succinctly as I can - When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea,

Fin.

The Wiki Foundation 2: Electric Boogaloo.

Re: He should try "your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries"

No, this is an equal opportunities catapult.

Re: That old trick deflection?

Well when members of his cult think you can fill pot holes with melted down Nigerians you're gonna have an easy time having them believe any old bullshit tbh.

I, like you, did the same thing and have never had a problem.

Good friends don't let friends buy HP.