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Reports that Maria Corina Machado (peace prize winner) will be the next leader - so that is a good sign. I've also seen many reports and videos of locals celebrating.

Ah yes 2020, we know it so well.

Gandalf used a staff and the one I knew never used one :)

We live in crazy times. I shudder what Brexit would have been like today with all these AI fakes, truly scary times.

Whilst that is an option, it wont cover the share price hit from the fallout, which would wipe out more than the debt as when the big domino falls, others will follow as the market panic shifts.

So kinda looking at a bank level run on tech companies if they go broke.

it is a large spinning plate that can only keep spinning with more money, so the plate gets bigger and bigger, with everyone betting that it would carry on spinnning by itself to the stage that it has become too big to fail, due to the fallout, the impact on the stock market upon others companies would wipe out more than the sum of their debts. It's kinda at that stage now as when one domino falls, the impact on others will follow.

Just a case of too many companies have skin in OpenAI's game for it to be allowed to fail now.

Nobody going to take a walking stick of an old man or some disabled person using it to walk, not unless it looks like it can pull apart into a sword. But security today and discretion does leave much in the wind.

They should have just said any computers other than mobile phones, by drilling down they enable security to fail at their job as people could bring another SBC and go its not a raspberry Pi and that highlights the crux.

Concern is this sets a standard moving forward that does not single out one SBC from others unfairly, which is what they are doing here.

Next it will be smart phones which can do many of the things these devices can do when rooted the right model.

Not hard to make a walking stick that can do wireless shenanigans, that gets overlooked by all.

Oh well, be mobile free zoning soon at this rate.

Much like saying you can replace an accountant with a calculator in 1970. Ai coding has its place, but it has a long way to go and if anything junior devs and AI coding agents do raise a whole topic of debate.

Is learning to code with AI coding agents going to make you a better programmer than one who learns to code without such tools?

Well this will change the industry, clearly some caps need to put in place in how many times, as well as how long sperm can be used in these situations.

I agree, need central control and the boat the obvious choice as would need to send out to all nodes to switch and make sure all have received, so would want any switching done with a delay (say in 5 minutes switch to region XYZ), so the mesh does its magic to get the message out.

Phone number, which means I have a SIM I ported, able to make calls, send text messages from what is a ghost number, that can't receive calls or texts and presents in all effect to the outside as a non-existent number. So ended up getting a new number with GiffGaff, which at least has credibility I trust.

Well, OFCOM lost all credibility with me and many on how they failed to fix the Vectone UK mess. Vectone UK was a virtual operator, however they owned the number range they allocated(Most MVNO's get a block from the provider they use for their network, Vectone behind the scene would shop around and by owning the number range, could made switching core network easier I presume). So even when you ported to another network, as they owned the number, they would set up routing to the new provider(This is how number porting works, of which I was unaware as I'm sure many are not). Issue is that if the provider goes bust, all those numbers go with them. So anyone who had a number that originated from them, even if they ported it to another network, suddenly lost not only their number, but any way shape or form of getting it back. The impact was devastating for many, including myself. All 2FA, or any account ties to that number you found yourself unable to control. Even if you had access to the account, to change the number would see them use best practice security to send a verification code to the old number. THis created a right nightmare as you can imagine with all the automated support we now have. So months of fun and games, with the odd gotcha popping up overlooked from time to time.

OFCOM failed to do anything, they could have forced them to sell the number range, taken over control of the umber range, or proactively thought out such situations due to the way they port numbers being that the new provider gets control of that number and not at the mercy of the previous provider, which in this case went bust.

Many other stories on this here: https://www.ispreview.co.uk/talk/threads/vectone-is-dead.406...

But like many, I myself contacted OFCOM and found a chocolate teapot far more comforting and with better results.

What with the UK pushing digital ID, funny anecdote there - I did jury service recently and they do not accept a digital ID as proof of ID, nor do they accept a selfie either as proof of age or ID ( we all had a good laugh as was done in the best possible taste ).

The only real problem I foresee with this use(fantastic use case btw) is if you travel across regions, does the kit currently get automatically switched to correct frequencies and power limits?

When my first thought was of an SBC, then a media AI cloud product was not high up on my guess list.

Sure it will get updated to same as Linkedin - Helping developers build with AI at Google DeepMind.

Imagine many on here have out of date bio's and best part - it don't matter, but sure can make some funnies at times.

Totally - if anything I want something more like Orac persona wise from Blakes 7 to the point and blunt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9vX-x9fVyo

Alas no documentation I have on those NCR towers, or much could add (though very robust kit as never had any issue with them hardware wise and even in a warehouse/distribution hub and decommissioning one with over an inch diesel soot caked inside and thinking I need hazard pay). Alas lost a lot of my manuals in a move, along with old systems couple decades ago. All I have left are some IBM stuff, well duplicated across the net, IBM good with there online documentation. Just wished had the ICL and Honeywell mainframe manuals I had still.

I did some HP-UX in late 80's, migration of servers across the country for a courrier company from NCR towers to HP servers running HP-UX (sorry don't recall the models of hand).

Had fun porting sortware across, a radio system that was unable to test fully unless in the field (which it did first time, which was amazing). Had many good chats with HP engineers back then (we did a large purchase as a global company) and one I still recall was early editions of HP-UX having an error code of 8008, until somebody in senior managment at HP saw it one time (no customer had ever complained apparently about it).

I liked HP-UX having previously worked on IBM RT systems running AIX, as well as NCR towers with there more vanilla System V. Though did have SMIT with AIX and SAM with HP-UX for those manual saving moments of ease to fall back on. Though my favourite flabour of unix of that time would be the Pyramid systems dual universe OSx. You could have a BSD or an AT&T enviroment at once, able to use both flavours in scripts by prefixing with bsd or att, to run that command. Don't recall how it handled TERMCAP/TERMINFO of hand (that was always an area of fun back then).

Fun times, in the days in which O'Reilly and magazines like Byte or Unix World, were the internet, along with expensive training courses and manuals that you would use and thumb every page of the multi tombed encyclopedic stack they came in.

Best C platform for developing that I did use in that era, hands down the VAX under DCL, the profilers etc, pure leaps and joy.

That's a future thought when it comes to electric aircraft - remote/emergency refuelling. I know they have tested lasers, and even sent a megawatt in 30 seconds over a distance of a few miles, though current convention of the laser back into usable power is around 50% efficiency. All gets down to a needed leap in electricity production and wished the World would get together on fusion reactors and knock it out the park over a mad race to be the first and lock down patents.

So same as Esperanto then.

I see mention of the voltage of 200 mV/mm, though no mention if AC or DC, presume it is DC.

I have seen a few articles over the years on stimulating wound healing and did a little digging and found it goes back further than I appreciated:

1843: Carlo Matteucci (Italy) observes that wounded tissue generates a steady current — the first evidence of endogenous “healing current.”

Modern experimental era (1950s–1980s)

1950s–1960s: F. W. Smith and others at the Royal Free Hospital (London) and USSR researchers start applying DC microcurrents to chronic ulcers.

1960s–1970s: Robert O. Becker (NYU, later VA Medical Center) systematically studies wound and bone healing with DC and pulsed currents — showing accelerated healing and even partial limb regeneration in amphibians.

1972: Becker and Murray publish seminal paper: “Low intensity direct current stimulation of bone growth and wound healing.”

Late 1970s–1980s: Clinical trials on pressure ulcers and diabetic wounds using microamp DC show improved epithelialization.

Clinical device development (1990s–present)

1990s: FDA approvals for electrical bone-growth stimulators, later expanded to soft-tissue wound dressings.

2000s: Research into pulsed DC, AC, and capacitive coupling grows; low-frequency (1–200 Hz) electrotherapy devices enter wound-care practice.

2010s–2020s: Rise of microfluidic and bioelectronic dressings (like the Chalmers study, 2023), nanogenerators, and self-powered wound patches — merging electronics and biology.

Looking into the AC/DC aspects: DC = best for directional healing and wound closure. AC = best for tissue conditioning, circulation, and long-term comfort.

Combination or cycling gives the fastest and safest overall healing, especially for chronic or deep wounds. Also, prevent polarisation irritation over prolonged usage.

Certainly does feel like a technology that has been sleeping in the wind, and a future first aid tool. Of note, electronically, such a device could also aid in cleaning the wound by killing bacteria, which may be one reason that healing is improved.

I wished such sentiments prevailed in upper management, as it is true. Much like owning a car that can drive itself - you still need to pass a driving test to be allowed to use it.

The quote from Yes, Prime Minster - "The only way to understand the press, is to remember that they pander to their readers prejudices" which makes those news aggregations sites more appealing, though cheaper to stick with other avenues for balance.

So much wisdom on comedy, even 80s comedy Who reads the papers? - Yes, Prime Minister - BBC comedy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGscoaUWW2M

They also high-street stores as well for that human experience.

Having worked on reinsurance software in the 90s, one question that springs to mind, which came to light from the asbestos claims era, was brokers commission. What did happen was brokers would package up risks and sell those off (taking commission) which would see other brokers bundle those up and again package them and others up into a bundle and sell those off. So when a claim came down the line, that was huge, like the asbestos claim in period https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%27s_of_London which saw such a diluted risk and brokers commission leaching all profit, brought many down financially due to exposure.

So interested how things are today regarding brokers endlessly packaging up risks they sell on, rinse repeat. I'm aware of certain changes that came about to reinsurance brokers in both the Lloyds and London Markets on the back of the asbestos claim era, but not sure of the the CAT model risks/insurance regarding brokers endlessly packaging up to offset risk exposure vs regulations limiting how much they can do that - more so the USA market.

So curious - is there a risk from brokers diluting risks for commission profits in this market or is that saftly covered against and regulated?

Finally, France will be happy after years of being pushed back on this with the drive for solar and wind turbines, which sadly all got supplemented via gas on the back that nuclear was bad.

Sadly, with electricity becoming more reliant on gas and other fossil fuels when it is not so sunny in winter, or on those cloudy days with no wind, means fossil fuel usage ends up higher than if they had stayed and expanded nuclear - instead they closed many plants(Germany a prime example, in favour of....gas).

Then the whole over-dependence on Russian gas and oil really did whammy the energy price market, not just for Europe, but with a knock-on effect across the world. One we still pay for today.

Depends on the model - if you have a sparse model with MoE, then you can divide it up into smaller nodes, your dense 30b models, I do not see them flying anytime soon.

Intel pro B50 in a dumpster PC would do you well better at this model (not enough ram for dense 30b alas) and get close to 20 tokens a second and so much cheaper.

I think many would be amazed at how the space used on a game today is broken down in space usage. Most will be along the lines of cut scenes, graphics, audio......library and librarys galore...logic code of the program that is unique to the game and finally some text file hidden away.

But talking your AAA kind of titles that seem to be the norm, not your chess games, though even then, graphics sure has gained space in those programs. Though I'm sure somebody active in the industry could paint a better picture.

Anybody active in the industry able to offer or point to better breakdown?

I gave it a puzzle recently to test it out "An Ex-cop lost has home, his car and his girlfriend. What did he loose first?"

The AI thought and concluded that he had lost his job first, until I pointed out that it was not the first thing he had lost - which was his umbilical cord, a far better answer, in the AI's opinion.

Which raises many aspects - Can an AI disagree with you? Will AI develop solid out-of-the-box thinking as well as in-the-box thinking, will it grasp applying both for a thru the box thinking and solutions...

After all, we have yet to perfect the teaching of children, so the training of AI, has a long way to go and will get down to quality over quantity, just deciding what is quality and what is not. After all - Garbage in, Garbage out, is probably more important today than it ever was in the history of technology.