Hi there,
I’m just your average HN user from Patras, Greece.
Interested in computers, technology, science and similar topics. Curious about astronomy, maths, geography, philosophy, religion, photography, science fiction and many many more.
You can find me usually on Twitter (yes, I know it’s called X nowadays) or have a look at my own webpage and Linkedin for contact details.
I’m a software/telecoms engineer, currently employed but always open for any interesting proposals for remote only positions ;-)
If only the could allocate 2% of these resources to a REAL technical manager to fix Microsoft Teams and Outlook, their share price would bounce back ;-)
Very well written!
Now let’s wait to see what happens with the rights to Calvin and Hobbes when Waterson is not around. I’m sure we’ll see a reboot/re-run with merchandise, series and perhaps a movie, when the heirs take the rights.
TLDR (conclusion from the paper):
"By a combination of these techniques the satellite Cosmos 2546 (NORAD ID 45608) was identified with high confidence as
one source of the interference. Further analysis pointed to the Russian Edinaya Kosmicheskaya Sistema, an early warning
constellation to which Cosmos 2546 belongs, as collectively responsible for the wide-area transient interference causing GNSS
degradation across Europe since 2019."
I upvote every post related to the demoscene due to my age, so I couldn't let this one, especially when it's coming from RZR.
Imagine if we could get a new release from FC as well in 2026 (40 years since their founding)!!!
Is this a joke? Is this guy for real? And he calls himself a REAL engineer?
He’s a manager doing damage control because all this time Microslop is greedy and has stopped caring about power users.
We’re not first time users, we don’t want Microsoft BOB as our UI, we don’t want ads and internet search “functionality” in our Start menu, we don’t want AI everywhere and we don’t want things hidden from us.
Make Windows 11 Pro for real pro users and 11 Home for new users. I hope a few people from MS are reading this, especially Mr Engineer.
I’m going to get downvoted for this, but I don’t care.
I totally agree. In this strange era we're all in, it seems that not using proper capitalization is a sign of "importance". Other high ranking people/CEOs/technologists don't use the correct rules, especially for important announcements like laying off 4000 people.
O tempora, o mores!
I agree 100% with the author, clean, easily readable and well structured URLs make the web a better place. URL is a hierarchical structure as introduced in the RFC1738 by a guy you might have heard, Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web :-)
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1738
Easily readable URLs is something I learned in the 90s and I still try to enforce in everything I create.
AI is here to stay but not in the way big corporations dream of it. People will continue using AI but when the AI bubble pops, sooner than later, things will stabilize and adapt to real usage with a different business model.
As you correctly state, the cost of AI as a Service (AIaaS) will increase for end users, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing. It will allow the "real" users to continue having access to it and sieve out the ones who are just playing around. Prices for RAM, GPUs, SSDs will normalize a lot and more people will move towards local models.
Similarly to what happened with the dot-com bubble (I saw it happening), it doesn't mean that everything will disappear, but that it will change/adapt. All of us AI realists are currently being treated like technophobes when we say things like that ;-)
Being a similar age with the author, I can relate with many things (like so many people in the comments below). The writing style is a bit strange and as mentioned by others, it might have been (re)written by AI, but the message is still there.
Impressive! Seeing all the before and after photos is a nice touch.
With regards to the actual web page, white text on light background (partners part) makes it nice easily readable.
Love this, reminds me of a Windows program (whose name I’ve forgotten) that I was playing with some decades ago… Solarwinds or something similar. You could add planets/masses and play with orbits, trajectories and all sort of options.
Interested in computers, technology, science and similar topics. Curious about astronomy, maths, geography, philosophy, religion, photography, science fiction and many many more.
You can find me usually on Twitter (yes, I know it’s called X nowadays) or have a look at my own webpage and Linkedin for contact details.
I’m a software/telecoms engineer, currently employed but always open for any interesting proposals for remote only positions ;-)
https://www.kosmatos.gr
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kosmatos
https://twitter.com/NKosmatos
https://meet.hn/city/38.246242,21.7350847/Patras