Posts by Bebu 2075 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jun 2022
《 "If they cut off Stackoverflow for their devs, Google is doomed."
Personally I'd expect the code quality to improve.》
I think the devs are now asking chatgpt and seeing some of the answers - "wuh dooomed...."
I never did understand why "stack overflow" - in the bad really old days this normally meant your run time stack was scribbling over your heap and usually fairly quickly ending in tears. Not sure whether stacks auto grow now or you get a SIGV.
Balkanization... wasn't the process that lead to Sarajevo 1914?
And all expenses european working holidays for military aged males.
I would have thought restricting the populace of the middle kingdom's exposure to what the rest of world is up to, is more likely to stiffle the creativity of its people than to lead to an indigenous flowering - if their own history is any guide.
Gulags have produced their Nobels but pro-rated not exactly productivity's first choice.
As Terry Pratchett's Lady Sibyl Vimes (nee Ramkin) family motto would have it -
"QUIS HABEMUS SERVAMUS" (What We Have, We Keep)
If you want to keep your data make certain that have it entirely under your control and not in the clutches any of CMOT Dibbler's contemporary spawn.
(Of course the preceding generations of the Ramkins would have to be the worst nightmare of the wokery ;)
Been fiddling with an el Cheapo Lenovo P11 using the pen and Gboard handwriting recognition interface.
I am quite impressed how well this pretty generic tech combo works. Even with my prescription standard handwriting it works surprisingly well.
I have composed a couple of A4+ sized emails taking perhaps 15% longer than on a desktop (Android 11/Bluemail v Linux/Evolution.)
Something like this with an A4 sized e-Paper display and ML enhanced handwriting recognition was what was envisaging as "just around the corner" 40 years ago. At that time I was more interested in being able to enter math and logic notations.
Of course we have always been fobbed of by the likes of these MS thigh cutters and Apple's thigh cookers (remember ;)
I was fascinated at the time by the GO PenPoint OS but never got my hands on any of the hardware or software only some of the developer documentation which I particularly remember as being extremely well written cf MS and other's efforts.
《> Boris Johnson pleads ignorance, which just might work
If he pled insanity, that would be more believable》
As a bonus could have the bugger sectioned (or whatever you call it in the UK)
Don't you have a place (Broadmoor?) where you place the seriously dangerous loonies?
I suspect the cabinet and most of the govt would benefit from such a (re)accomodation.
It wasn't much more than 100 years ago live theatre was a still thriving and provincial repertory companies fairly common.
So perhaps a need to see real actors might see a resurgence of live performance.
I don't imagine too many of hollywood's top billers passing an audition for one of Wilde's plays let alone something a bit more challenging ;)
I vividly recall a middle aged grader driver accidently watching a filmed performance of "The Importance of Being Ernest" and his being completely rivetted.
Perhaps audiences really do deserve better than the current studio pap.
《The whole "us/not-us" paradigm really needs to be better understood before we go any further》
Isn't this the basis of a whole lot of contemporary problems? eg Do "not-us" lives matter?
Of course understanding the basis of the "us/not-us" dichotomy at the fundamental level and the possibilty of its being biological and not entirely cultural, might undermine a few belief systems.
As the "Dad's Army" Scotsman, Pte Frazer would have said "we're doomed."
https://youtu.be/sxqvwkmTNy8 (Mostly for left ponders,)
《You will own nothing and be happy.》Mayhap*
But I won't be renting anything either so perhaps LG and I will both be happy. :)
*Catweazle had a decent appreciation of modern (1970s) technology and frequently used this word.
Surprized that a crappy remake of this series hasn't been attempted - perhaps not - between the woke, x-diverse and whatnot with fingers in the pie I doubt even deSantis' Florida could kill such a misbegotten result.
《the UK weather server appears to have had its location set to India and the season set to monsoon》
Perhaps should have stuck with Liz then :(
Although if you had kept Boris it would raining down buckets of bollocks and cartloads of bullshit.
"I'll just give up on TV. 95% of it is crap anyway."
Did that ages ago. Commercial TV decades ago. Everything now, even current affairs, seemed to be a rehash or poor remake of something I had seen years previously.
Heaps of dead tree books out there which won't talkie toaster you - even ebooks aren't too bad and both can be borrowed from public libraries (at least in the first world.)
LG after rebranding from Goldstar I think maintained LG = life's good - more like "lets grab."
I was thinking the UK needs a wall (but probably not a powerwall) to assemble the infinitely wise from both present and from the recent past to reward them all in the usual way that requires a wall.
For a nation that has been fubarred by its leaders to the same extent you might have to look as far as NZ also not overendowed with winter sunshine.
Musk selling solar systems to the Scots would really be refrigerators to the esquimaux not that I think any canny Scot wouldn't get the better of that twit.
I have seen exactly this from "clever" people within institutions of advanced cleverness.
As a colleague once observed "you have to wonder how they get home each night" or indeed how they manage get here each day in the first instance.
Boggles the mind they have never right clicked or whatever and seen "empty trash" - bit of clue but I guess wasted on the clueless and those with the curiosity of house brick.
"Genuine People Personality* support assistant"
Douglas Adams forsaw so much of this dystopia - we are spoilt for choice trying to identify a contemporary Sirius Cybernetics Corp. (qv) - that one suspects he would have been happy that he departed before having to live through it.
If software vendors (ISVs) and hardware vendors started certifying their products against SuSE, OL on an equal basis with RHEL most of the reasons for running RHEL/CentOS evaporate.
Actually validating against a SuSE-RHEL chimera probably wouldn't be too onerous. Most software isn't sensitive to the latest kernel buggery. Hardware is a different proposition but I cannot imagine SuSE or Oracle not being on top the latest kernel patches.
1. potential customer signs up for a 4 week trial (say) BUT NO payment details supplied by customer
2. on signing up the customer is notifified that they will receive (in week 3 or 4) an invitation to subscribe
....
3. week 4 client upgrades trial to subscription with payment details or trial ends with customer abandoning service.
....
4. annual renewals the same - a notification period to renew or let lapse.
For an added bonus would be nice if no one stores payment methods.
In case any reader is unaware of the Illumos (~openSolaris) and openindiana projects they might wish to have a look.
Nice to be able to compare three families of *ix kernels (sysv, bsd, linux) and distros built over them.
I recently had reason to look at the SmartOS virtualization offering which is built using the illumos kemel and offers both KVM and Bhyve virtualization options. Worth a look if only out of curiosity
I always tell people that rebooting doesn't fix a problem, it just makes it go away for an unspecified period of time.
The wager is that the unspecified time will be on the far side of the "my problem" and the "not my problem" boundary.
Pretty much the playbook of government and associated entities.
(NZ version of VAT) was changing from 10% to 12.5% ... assuming politicians would not change their minds.
I doubt that politicians possess any such function Implemented in what passes for their brain viz mind.
I quite readily believe depending on the wind direction that they could not only change the rate of VAT but also apply multiple rates to different products and services. I would allow for a table of rates v. product etc class to be loaded from a configuration file and hooks to enter or deduce the product class.
"Although I am reminded of all the times that stuff starts magically working as soon as the relevant expert is watching from over somebody's shoulder."
Quantum version of sod's law? The superposition of the good fairy and bad fairy (gremlin) wave functions that describe the operation of the device collapse with the measurement by a competent observer into the "good fairy" state. The normal user always gets the gremlin.
I never considered Windows in any form attracted anything but the most malign forces of the world.
《the University of Life. And it's well know that that university doesn't offer a Critical Thinking course.》
Unfortunately a good many (slightly) more prestigious institutions are also notable for this omission.
At least the UoL's alumni are usually proficient in the dialectic application of the boot.
I am wondering whether the arrangement of wheels dictated by the positioning of batteries or optimising the efficiency of the electric drive chain is reponsible for the peculiar steering properties.
Of course its also axiomatic that anything associated the Twitlord come prefucked.
I would have thought with modern automation (robotics and ML) a corporation could build vanilla 2-4 RU servers in the US without having to employ much more than janitors, guards with the odd storeman and still get substantial subsidies and grants from all levels of US government.
All I can imagine is that India is (or will be) a major buyer of this class of servers and HP has an eye to a "buy local" requirement.
I guess it could a case of jettisoning rapidly obsolescing technology (x86_64 etc) into less developed economies.
I suppose it does also fit into the US (&AU) foreign policy initiatives to draw India into their, possibly peculiar, vision for the Indo-Pacific.
Will be interesting to see whether Dell has similar plans.
《Of course another one of the subtler jokes is of course that nutritionists (sometimes confused with dieticians in the UK) are not regulated in any way at all (dieticians are).》
So I put on a Nutitionalist's hat to advise gullible whales to consume used button cells (batteries) as an effective and somewhat faster way of losing those extra llbs/Kgs than the now discredited Toner diet?
What scares me is that there enough Darwin Award nominees out there to land me in serious trouble if I were to somehow find my way to espouse this nonsense to a weight loss social media group.
See you in the NT (as it were.)
I think there were some choice words in "the House" over that tourism campaign and the (?)responsible minister and apparently braindead public(civil) servant(s) enjoyed a well sunk slipper.
The Advertising Agency must have been either a subsidary of BOFH Global or PFY Transnational or more likely the Top End "creatives" were having near death drug induced hallucinations.
I am sure the bumper stickers and other associated merchandise are still available from under the counter (in the usual brown paper wrappers) courtesy of PFY Promotional Products (Xinjiang.)
Not sure the boss' longevity coefficient is much higher. The PFY might provide two blindfolds for the traffic sprint but you you can wager your last £/€/$/¥ that, either with the PFY's connivance or from the BOFH's instinctive cunning for self preservation, the BOFH's blindfold will be as opaque a pornstar's panties. Hell - he has to see to be able to shove the boss under an appropriate bus.
"I like to look at my clients as a whole in order to determine the best journey to fulfill their purpose. look at my clients as a whole in order to determine the best journey to fulfill their purpose."
Their journey from the window to the carpark one suspects.
If extreme porky density distorts and undermines reality then our politicians would have thrust all of us over that event horizon years ago. Boris could have done it singlehanded.
I believe when one crosses an event horizon time is stretched out to eternity which would explain much about contemporary UK politics if indeed Boris has shoved us over that edge.
Given Minecraft + ChatGPT appears to approximate a constant I would have to wonder whether AI/ML drongos are the same the as the Gaming bros?
Would explain a lot.
I don't have spoon long enough to sup with either devil.
I would not be the first to observe that humanity is more likely to perish from its own stupidy than from any other case.
《Actually the notion of averaging an entire year's income to determine whether somebody gets benefits sounds quite sensible to me. What seems to be the actual law sounds silly. What am I missing?》
As I understand one of the manifold problems was it was applied prospectively to future income and not accurately reconciled with actual earnings. Plus the interaction with other benefits wasn't taken into account.
I also believe the ATO supplied the clients data to Human Services (CentreLink) subject to an explicit undertaking from Human Services that the data would *NOT* be used in the way it was.
So a complete *clusterfuck* delivered and maintained with actual malice by Scott and co.
The sheer nastiness of this completely avoidable tragedy should shame our whole nation not just the damned souls of those responsible who so far are totally unrepentant.
I am sure in whatever circle of Hell I undoubtedly will eventually reside the resident devils will be happy(?) to lend me their pitchforks and hot pokers to give these bastards a good long prod.
I have a vague recollection this smash and grab actually started in the UK (England?) but was shot down fairly quickly, presumably by a smarter (than our) sir Humpty or a least a humpty that didn't relish his being dragged before some EU court for violation of its citizens' fundamental rights. Brexited that one away :(
Although not really having an real knowledge of Rust, it seemed, even in this fairly early stage of its evolution, to be rather large and increasingly complex to the point I wouldn't discount its surpassing C++ in both.
If programmers require both a deep and broad knowledge of the language to produce correct (which isn't quite the same thing as safe) code, I am not so confident this will be such a great advance. Perhaps the availability of industrial strength components (libraries, tools) and restricted domain specific patterns will address this.
I was wondering about tools for (formal) verification and/or validation of Rust code and was pleasantly surprised, after a few clicks, to discover an apparently well developed ecosystem.
Should be interesting...
《...– hoi polloi got just two buttons.》
The apparently deliberate omission of the redundant "the" really made my day.
Of course it was such a bloody useless day that getting a black jelly bean from the packet would have also made my day red letter.
Never really fussed about mice - just getting one that could plug into the hardware was a win for a lot of my time. DIN socket PC/AT, PS2, Sun odd DINish socket, HP7000/7xx (HIL?)... and finally usb.
The opposite scroll direction for the wheel got me really going on a mac until the PFY showed me how to reverse that insanity (fortunate as could feel an outburst of defenestration coming on.)
I didn't quite realize that Brexit wasn't the just product of a few faredge nutters but now appears to me, from the preceding posts, that it was likely the product of a number chronic cancers in English society and the ripping apart of poorly formed scars which, if not resolved this time, will disolve the UK and relegate England to NZ status in the national league tables.
I am rather curious as how the taishoku daiko perform their task. In person? Can imagine it would be excruciatingly formal.
Apologies JP speakers if I have commited a "the hoi polloi" on "the taishoku daiko."
I would have opted for the singing telegram rendering "Adios au revoir auf wiedersehen" or the "Syonara" song.
《Am I the only one wondering what the heck an AI Agent trained on zillions of Twitter posts could possibly be good for?》
Only thing that comes to mind is a replacement bionic brain for Trump or indeed Twitmeister himself.
I recall an old joke where some codger explaining the name of the then new fangled twitter to another codger - to put it more politely basically he held its was a portmanteau that could be a synomym for the perineum. Quite clearly twitter has now well and truly plummeted up the back passage.
I also wonder whether many organisation just don't have the people and/or processes to keep their perimeter devices patched and correctly configured.
I can imagine that in recent times, corporations have created IT/SEC departments, employed companies of security thespians who warm seats before the consoles from the usual security software suspects.
I would guess most real firewall couldn't run xagt so no assistance from that bit of buggery.
So not really surprised.
Covid measures including working from home accelerated the further uptake of non-literate communication technologies so that now even less is recorded in writing than even three years ago.
From my observation, teleconferencing is largely a waste of time, leaving the benefits of socialising aside which I don't actually discount. But ask yourself what are the artifacts of these interactions that can be consulted at a later date?
Unlike a real meetings of yore it is rarely the case that anyone takes minutes or the participants diarise the discussion.
CWFT.
Email which, when discussing a complex problem, often resembled a Socratic dialogue that could be consulted, or even incorporated, when documenting the conclusion or solution, has degenerated into mostly mindless, meaningless twaddle.
Instant messaging and its unspeakable offspring - social media - is mostly a void filled by the vacuous who are unable construct an intelligible utterance let alone a coherent sentence.
The writer who employs his weekly eight hours of commuting for reading is to be commended and is fortunate. Unfortunately I and I suspect many others are unable to read comfortably or efficiently while in motion.
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