Posts by Michael B. 231 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Nov 2007
Give it a rest. There seems to be some creeping campaign online to blame Reeves for everything including stuff that happened before she was chancellor.
Offshoring has been going on since I started in the IT business *cough* years ago. They were offshoring jobs even before the UK had a minimum wage which we were told was going to destroy all jobs. No this is just greed from VodaThree and I hope they learn hard and fast that this is a dumb idea.
I can see their point of view as suddenly ( well with a bribe) the US has switched from China Bad to China OK so apart from the bribe there could have been something else going on. As you don't really know what is in the BIOS of these cards or on their chips - you could subtly alter and degrade the output to give US AI models an advantage over the ones trained on these Nvidia cards which even airgapping doesn't help.
Ah yes the standard YouTube scam template
$Name was working in $Industry and was disgusted by the practises and left to found their own company. $Name created a $(Faster|Cheaper|More Efficient) Product that is disrupting the profits made by $Industry. $Industry is mad and is trying to get this banned. Buy it now before $Industry gets their own way and get this marvel banned.
Why would you want to do that? In the full install is:
C++ and libraries for 4 architectures for multiple builds.
Java
Python
R
Node.JS
.Net Framework versions going back to 3.5
4 different .Net Core version.
Android
Unreal
4xWindows 10 SDK
1x Windows 11 SDK
C++ build tools for Linux
Language Packs for 14 languages
Unless you are truly multi platformed then you are just hoarding stuff you don't need.
If Microsoft hadn't been so lazy and not ported WCF and instead relied on that god damn awful gRPC they could have quickly wrapped the external interface in a .Net Framework service and had a .Net Core stub. The performance might have been a bit naff but you could always blame Word/Excel etc. and nobody would have been none the wiser.
It just seems that the MS .Net Core development teams just want to hang out with the cool kids and not do any actual hard work these days. Oooh look it's 0.001% faster shiny shiny.
I'd be interested in how it was done as I knew about build events, but I had no idea about executing code on launching the .sln. It's actually something I'd like to do as I'd love my project to check that depedencies are all up and running.
I quick look at the home pages and the articles shows that the articles are very heavily minified whereas the "home pages" have very spacious easy to read HTML. The JavaScript doesn't seem to be the fault either as you can run the pages with JavaScript disabled and it looks broadly as it should do.
Nerd hat on. We don't know what ancient Egyptian actually sounded like as they didn't, except in certain circumstances, write down the vowel sounds. (I believe that Arabic is the same.) The closest we can get to it these days is coptic which is the direct descendant of ancient Egyptian, and we do know how to pronouce.
I wonder if this is due to the wondrous quote in the wordfence blog from their creative director, who has never heard of the computer misuse act.
“Last year we had some serious problems after someone obtained a huge list of license keys and downloaded all of our products. The keys and files were then distributed on their file sharing site, which has since been taken down (not by us, ironically!). The drop tables function was put in place to try to stop this at the time.”
This is so blatant and open I'd have a hard time believing it is not true. The suing is probably from the rest of the directors once they released what their colleague has done.
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