brianorca

brianorca , 1 day ago to technology in Microsoft insiders worry the company has become just 'IT for OpenAI'

I’m saying it’s happened before. AOL. Palm. Yahoo. Blackberry. A company with an effective monopoly gets complacent and fails to serve their users. They get replaced.

brianorca , 2 days ago to technology in Microsoft insiders worry the company has become just 'IT for OpenAI'

But that’s also a path for them to no longer be a monopoly, if the right competitor makes the right moves.

brianorca , 4 days ago to technology in McDonalds removes AI drive-throughs after order errors

You can do that kind of imposed structure if it’s an internal tool used by employees. But if the public is using it, it has better be able to parse whatever the consumer is saying. Somebody will say “I want a burger and a coke, but hold the mustard. And add some fries. No make it two of each.” And it won’t fit your predefined syntax.

brianorca , 5 days ago to programmer_humor in It's easier to remember the IPs of good DNSes, too.

Because bits are not expensive anymore, and if we used 64 bits, we might run out faster than the time needed to convert to a new standard. (After all, IPv4 is still around 26 years after IPv6 was drafted.) Also see the other notes about how networks get segmented in non-optimal ways. It’s a good thing to not have to worry about address space when designing your network.

brianorca , 5 days ago to programmer_humor in It's easier to remember the IPs of good DNSes, too.

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brianorca , 5 days ago to technology in McDonalds removes AI drive-throughs after order errors

It’s more than voice recognition, since it must also parse a wide variety of sentence structure into a discreet order, as well as answer questions.

brianorca , 5 days ago to technology in Leak: EU interior ministers want to exempt themselves from chat control bulk scanning of private messages - EU Reporter

That sounds more like they are excluding most corporate internal systems, (which would also happen to cover the systems run by government.)

brianorca , 7 days ago to linuxmemes in With GPL, you're programming Freedom. With MIT, you're programming for free.

If someone is paying you to write code, they have some say in the contract about how it is licensed. You could be upfront about only doing GPL, and they could be upfront about saying no. But if you try to do it after the fact, that’s a violation of the contract.

brianorca , 8 days ago to news in Wells Fargo fires workers over fake keyboard activity

True, having the right metric is important. But having no metric might be an overreaction to the crisis caused by bad metrics.

brianorca , 9 days ago to news in Wells Fargo fires workers over fake keyboard activity

Of course lots of Wells Fargo previous PR disasters resulted from having meaningful metrics from management that just happened to be anti-consumer side effects.

brianorca , 11 days ago to technology in YouTube looks to be testing server-side ad injection to counter ad blockers

They don’t want you if you’re not watching ads or paying money. They don’t want to give you bandwidth for free.

brianorca , 13 days ago to nottheonion in Trump Finally Weighs in on Controversial Shark vs. Electrocution Debate

People do sometimes get electrocuted in fresh water, but only when a boat in a marina has shore power (120V) and a bad connection of the hot side into the water. This can only occur with shore power, because otherwise the circuit can’t leave to boat. It also doesn’t occur in salt water because salt conducts electricity better than the human body.

An EV battery might have enough voltage, but the current would prefer to travel directly from - to + on the battery itself. You would have to literally get in the way of that for it to affect your body. Most situations where that could happen, such as touching the electrodes directly, would be almost as dangerous even when you are dry. And again, salt water would conduct it much better than your body, therefore bypassing you, as long as you don’t get in the way.

brianorca , 13 days ago to memes in Elections

Canines have five digits on their front paws, just like we do. Their “dew claw” is equivalent to our thumb, so the outside digit is still a pinky digit.

brianorca , 14 days ago to nostupidquestions in Is it more energy efficient to charge a phone/tablet using a desktop/laptop while your computer is being used vs using the charger?

USB PD (Power Delivery) actually does use a higher voltage for more wattage. Standard USB is limited to 5V at 0.5A and sometimes up to 5V @ 2A on quick chargers. But PD chargers can give 20V and 3A for 60w or even 5A (100w) with properly rated cables. There’s even a proposal for up to 48V at 5A to get 240w. This is all determined by a negotiation between the charger, the cable (which does have a small chip for this purpose), and the device, therefore PD chargers must support multiple voltages.

brianorca , 15 days ago to linux in Linux really has come a long way

Sounds like sleep. Hibernate is when it turns completely off, such that you can leave it unplugged for a weekend and still have battery when it pops you back into your session. It takes longer to save and restore the session than sleep does.