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Pricing section of your website has no prices, I'd suggest calling that section something else.

I watched a video where a guy asked people how many moons the earth has, the person on the video said seven. I am not surprised in any way the script had huge success.

It is great and should be celebrated. For me the big win is no longer having to hand over high-way robbery amounts of money for the Heathrow express. Having a better and cheaper service to Heathrow terminals is brilliant. Byeeeee Heathrow express!

Made me chuckle. Until SSD are within the reach of a reasonable price range we're out of luck. I have resorted to leaving my NAS off and turning it on when I need it.

For reference here's the drives I have. I don't think they're by any means the loudest and nor are they the quietest. The perception of noise can be a lot to do with surroundings, if you have wooden floor instead of carpet and a whole number of factors. For me the constant whiring is too much.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07H289S79/ref=ppx_yo_dt...

I have pretty much this existing setup. One thing I'd add is that it's quite noisy. If you have somewhere you can put it, and your house is all cat 6'ed up then great. But if like me you have it in the same room as you, you wil notice it. And it's not the pc, the fractal case has very quite 120mm fans, it's the HDDs.

I remember being on a stand next to SGI at E3 in 1997. They had a giant black truck in the arena like the one that Knight Rider drove into. They were selling these machines that looked way more powerful and expensive than anything the games industry could afford. People at the show were mainly debating when and if Intel could release a 1ghz processor. Stange what you remember.

Don't worry Bill, this becomes a mere twinkle in the night sky when you realise you missed 'the internet'.

I went for an interview once at a hedge fund. There were a surprising amount of questions about web scraping. I very much got the feeling it was an active and ongoing problem. So yes I do think there’s a business in there.

My career as a games programmer was very much started by this magnificent machine.

I think ‘Hey Hey 16k’ says it all.

https://youtu.be/Ts96J7HhO28

RIP good sir.

At this point I feel unsurpringly betrayed. As others have pointed out there is no going back. With little to no visibility on what the phone, the ipad, the mac-mini is doing, are they safe? I hear there's no device level scanning, has that been confirmed by someone other than Apple?

What are you guys also doing? Is there a website that helpfully details how to get yourself out of the eco system?

I can tell you what I have done so far, but it's very much work in progress.

- Removed all photos from iCloud and turn off all iCloud stuff.

- Backup up phones to my mac (encrypted), will transfer to nextcloud and NAS.

- Built a NAS and now storing photos there - looking at. running PhotoPrism, but haven't made that work yet.

- Transfered useful cloudstuff to Hetzner's NextCloud hosted. and enabled E2EE on certain folders.

- I use NordVPN but I always have done.

I realise it's a lot of effort to go to so I can privately store a pictures of me eating an ice cream in Rome ... but as we all know that's not really the point.

Is there a credible open source version of G-suite that you could drop onto a self hosted VM (similar to how you might host GitLab)?

It would offer email, photos, and office. Would also receive all the necessary security updates.

There has to be a business in there as gitlab seem to have done quite well with this model.

Then we could all move to that.

There’s an increasing groundswell of trust in AMD and their Ryzen chip. It’s great news, I’ve owned one for two years now and it’s fab.

The new XBox will feature a custom Ryzen of some form. Who’s next, Apple?

Queue the market for Tesla hack garages where all upgrades can be turned on for £100.

I remember having ‘a go on the Internet’ round my friends house in the early nineties. He said go on type anything you want to know about.

So I searched for ‘Amiga games’. It came back with a screen full of junk.

I looked at my friend and said ‘none of this has anything to do with Amiga games’.

He said no you need to ‘+computer’ ‘-Spanish’.

I said to him, ‘who’s crappy idea was this?’

Needless to say we all got better at booolean searches and Altavista was light years ahead of yahoo.

Google was a welcome change, made the internet a cool place for about 10 years.

I completely agree with this. It's a process that's practical, fair and scalable.

I'm currently interviewing and so far I have had a 48 hour weekend project, a 3 hour code assessment, and I'm expected to endure 3 days of interviews. I'm fairly close to throwing in the towel and saying I can't be arsed with this.

Yes! More than two users connected to a server at any one time.

AMOS on the Amiga was largely what got me into games programming. Loved my Amiga so much.

Sounds crazy, but how often do you see CTO’s that know nothing about technology.

I can upgrade the ram, the most useful piece of information in the review. If I could upgrade the SSD too, I'd be tempted.

Detroit become human is an amazing example of storytelling and emotional character involvement.

The game takes no prisoners and the decisions you make can mean a rather bleak end to your characters and more importantly your story arc. There is no going back, what happens happens.

There is however an opportunity for glory (depending on your perspective of glory).

This is what games should capture, the bitter and the sweet.

Really smart.

It's worth mentioning that the Q3VM was the entry point to many of the exploits created for Q3, just something to bear in mind.

I worked as an AI engineer on a few Playstation titles, by far the most important part of AI is messaging whats happening to the player. Usually a well scripted animation or voice cue will beat and cleverly written reasoning engine.

We always had loads of cool ideas, like enemies running out of ammo and throwing clips to each other. But the reality is, the player will never see it.

Uncharted does a great job of messaging the AI's intent to the player. The AI itself is fairly decent, but the messaging of intent is excellent.

Is that how it works? So in order to progress in other fields such as physics, medicine, robotics - the current incumbents must retire?

Anyone can have an idea.

My friend and I used to play from 40 life rather 20, also seemed to even out the effect.

I guess given straight choice though, would you have preferred to keep your hair?

Maybe that's what this is about. I know I would, given a choice. I like my hair.

"Deepmind hasn't shown anything breathtaking since their Alpha Go zero"

... what about when the Google assistant near perfectly mimicked a human making a restaurant reservation .... the voice work was done at DeepMind.

All the problems in AI haven't been solved yet? Well no, of course not. Limitations exist and our solutions need to be evolved.

I think perhaps the biggest constraint is requiring huge amounts of training data so solve problem X. Humans simply don't need that, which must be some indication that what we're doing isn't quite right.

I agree, however I had bills to pay, it's the end of the month.

Well before the system migration they rented their online services from LLoyds, and it it was great. Also if you go into a TSB branch they're really good. So until now, I've been happy.

I am a TSB customers and the service has been insane.

Here's some of the highlights

- Login screen regularly throws a message from the backend saying 'java.lang.NullPointerException' (so now I know what the backend written in)

- My balance was totalled incorrectly, which made me appear to be very wealthy.

- Payments had gone missing from my statement (how do I know they were missing, one of them was my pay)

- When I did login I tried to transfer some funds and was met with 'Payment successful' followed by a java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException. Had the payment worked? Who knows

- They have a fundamental scaling issue.

I've never seen anything like it. I do not get the impression this will be fixed quickly.

It's a miserable program that started off bad and never really got any better. Only thing worse than using iTunes is using iTunes on the PC.