RachelF

OK, that makes more sense.

Yes, the idea of businesses is to reduce costs. Labor costs are a big expense.

It's harder to do than it looks. Offshoring to places with lower wages has kept wages for many white- and blue-collar workers in the West from growing. But it is hard to do correctly.

I suspect AI or AGI or AI with agents will take a longer time to actually work reliably than many suspect.

Recently there's been another shift - processing power.

In the past you could do almost anything on a personal computer, it was generally about as fast as mainframe or high end workstation.

Training large AI models is currently impossible for most home users. They just do not have the processing power.

Very true, the Australian scene is so dismal, it makes the UK look great.

Interesting that the examples in the article are from Australia.

Perhaps employee protection is better in Australia than in the US?

Yep, this is a big factor for banks. No audit trail in face-to-face chats.

Thanks for that.

The paper is way overhyped. They've just built a meta material near field antenna. Nothing new I can see.

There are other papers available via Googling that glucose can be measured at around 4.2GHz. Seems hard to do it reliably, though.

Yes, the article is thin on facts. No mention of the frequency that they use, and how they measure the glucose level, which I'm guessing is some sort of spectral response.

I'll take a closer look at the paper in Nature.

So true, and well put. I read all the Aubrey Maturin books first and then read four Hornblower novels.

Aubrey Maturin is better in terms of style, plot, environment and language.

I'd recommend the Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series to anyone who likes O'Brian. He writes superbly too, but has more action.

Windows has a proposed memory encryption option along with memory compression.

Both Intel and AMD are working on embedding this into their CPUs.

However, the target use appears to be servers with multiple VMs, not laptops.

The public forgets pretty quickly - the media has been very quiet about the two Boeing whistleblowers who apparently killed themselves.

The FDA has to give the factories 90 days notice of an upcoming inspection.

They were never really properly investigated.

Eban's "Bottle of Lies" book is shocking: https://www.katherineeban.com/bottleoflies

Peter Attia on Youtube also did an investigation on this.

If you're lucky your drugs have the right amount of the active ingredient. If you're unlucky they have chalk dust in them. If you're even more unlucky, they have carcinogens in them.

Some bird species can live quite long, especially for their size, compared to mammals. 120 gram lories and parakeets can live to 30 years in captivity. They appear to keep breeding until they die.

There are sulphur-crested cockatoos (a type of large Australian parrot) that are documented to have made it over 100 years.

Thanks for that!

Interesting, but why bother. Pi's were great when they were cheap, but one can get a better performing Intel N100 box for a similar price and power consumption now.

The only reason I can think of to use a Pi is GPIO.

howstuffworks.com in the 1990's was an amazing website

I just went to it and had a look. Turned to junk now by the looks of things.

Yes, Chrome is necessary for some sites that don't work on Firefox.

Another trick I've seen in the public sector is to advertise the job for 10 minutes. Typically from 12.00 to 12.10pm.

That way, they've advertised, could not find anyone suitable, and can employ the person they really want.

Been fooled by QNX before, a long time ago, and it cost us a lot. Never again. Go away now QNX, real-time Linux has won.

This is not novel in general - the same technique has been used in lens alignment for decades.

I wonder how this will work on Windows Workstation hosts?

This can also be viewed as advertising - there are board members in common between The Economist's holding company and Novo N.

A GLP-1 drug trial 12 years ago by a major pharma company was stopped because of increased suicide risk (2 in 10,000) among the cohort.

We will see what happens long term the second time around.

Yes, there is cheaper hardware like the Adalm Pluto with enough bandwidth and dynamic range, but it is not supported by the looks of things.

Our "Director of First Impressions" (receptionist) would like a word with you ;-)

True.

The modern company is a very very limited liability company:

- Cut corners so your jets crash and kill people (Boeing)?

- Cheat on emissions testing so your product kill people (VW)?

- Hush up drug trial results so you kills people (Pfizer)?

- Sloppy security leads to hundreds of millions of people's personal data being leaked (too many to mention)?

What happens to those in charge? Nothing. Perhaps they leave with a big golden handshake. If it's really bad, they get a don't do it again agreement with the Feds.

No accountability means no feedback/skin in the game. So nothing gets better.

The title of the article is incorrect, the worms live in the crust, not "beneath the planetary crust" (in the magma).

The Economist magazine is not what it used to be, sadly.

Good to see some competition, the FlipperZero is very pricey for what it is. Then again, I guess you're paying for the software.

For the more budget concious - you can get ESP32 modules with USB C, Wifi/BT and a few IO pins from AliExpress for $4. These things are amazingly cheap.