Posts by WurliMonkhaven

Thanks, Edward Snowden: You propelled China to quantum networking leadership

Re: Not Snowden

Hossenfelder is a hack, anyway. Her views on free will are severely flawed. You hear her talk and it's very clear she's a physicist first and a philosopher last.

US faith-based healthcare org Ascension says 'cybersecurity event' disrupted clinical ops

Re: Ascension - a "faith based" healthcare organization must have better protections than most

Interesting fact, in 2010, over a quarter of all healthcare services on Earth were managed by the Catholic Church.

The Catholic Church is the single largest (non-government) provider of healthcare on planet Earth. According to Wikipedia, this includes roughly 13,000 clinics, 16,000 homes for the elderly and those with special needs, and 5,500 hospitals, most of these in developing countries.

It ain't all bad :)

Help! My mouse climbed a wall and now it doesn't work right

Re: "simply accepted the news silently and continued about his day"

"Lads, we found him. Pack it up."

Zilog to end standalone sales of the legendary Z80 CPU

Re: MSX

Oddly, as someone who is absolute trash at maths, I found my own Mandlebrot implementation (ASCII in a .NET CLI) pretty easy. Ya just gotta remember the song!

"Just take a point called Z in the complex plane,

Let Z1 be Z squared plus C,

And Z2 is Z1 squared plus C,

And Z3 is Z2 squared plus C,

And so on,

If the series of Z's should always stay,

Close to Z and never trend away,

That point is in the Mandelbrot Set!"

The maths is honestly super easy to implement. Don't let the mathsy words trip you out. Complex plane for a programmer usually just means "X/Y plane", for example.

Your kids' chances of becoming programmers? ZERO

Code Monkey Like Fritos

This is absolutely legit. One of my biggest frustrations these days as a fairly young coder is that there aren't actually many opportunities for an engineer to really... do any engineering.

Oh sure, there's problems that need fixing. Stuff that needs doing. But it's all just bodgework and CRUD. I feel like I'm underperforming all the time because I'm *bored* all the time. The actual exciting work is so rare compared to "we need you to put data in the database".

We don't write using languages any more. We write using APIs.