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There were some AI pictures in the talks I saw last week. But they where put in to illustrates a point - I doubt otherwise the engineer would hire an artist for some bespoke art for their talk. It's probably better than just copy and pasting off the internet without much attribution.

I used to when they first came out. There are some genuinely good talks in the archives. However there is definitely a trend and style to them.

I think the narrative is "we convinced a bunch of Tories to cross over to us because the actual Tories shat the bed and we think their votes are more valuable/reliable than the twenty something left-leaning radicals who would rather complain about ideological purity than turn up to vote".

I'd like to see some actual polling data for how many Labour voters are defecting directly to Reform.

The SID chip was such a nice sound engine it's a shame I never had a C64 to hack on as a kid. I started with the ST's crappy YM chip.

When Boris (?) cut the Foreign office contribution to the world service I thought it was a terrible idea but good old Auntie kept it ticking. This cut compounds on those bad decisions when soft power is one of the few things we have in this world.

It used to be more common. Back in the 90s when I was working in an office we'd often head to the pub for Friday lunchtime and roll in later in the afternoon. Going along for a free lunch and a few beers with visiting sales reps was also pretty common.

I couldn't do it now - the thought of nursing a proto hangover before I've even got home seems insane in retrospect. God knows how much productivity used to be wasted due to work time tipples.

Fair.

Still enjoyed it more for not being a third act CGI slugfest.

Care needs to be taken with big orgs like the NHS to not try and boil the ocean with massive IT systems. Concentrating on open interoperability standards allows for smaller more flexible contracts and the ability to swap out components when needed.

Open source licences would be the ideal default although at a minimum the purchasing org should have a licence that allows them (or subcontractors) to make fixes without being tied to the original vendor.

You would have thought for $33mil a pop they would have some countermeasures. I guess they are still several orders of magnitude cheaper than a jet with an expensive pilot so are more disposable?

Why? Do Ferrari drivers really need to cycle through sound effects to feel as though they are doing it right?

I assume you need fairly sophisticated SAM systems to take out these drones. Are they all coming from Iran? Is this a step up in their missile capability?

The other option is to use VirtIO with Native Context support as a software based partitioning scheme that is relatively lightweight compared to the mdev approach.