Posts by Pascal Monett 18221 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
I would prefer : get your finger out and do the updates, then you can consider it done.
Management will wait until tomorrow to have its precious Jira timesheets if it means quashing some bugs that have been present since years. And of course they are present since years, because the bug was created in a piece of code that Atlassian has been re-using ever since.
Logical.
There is an even more increasing urgency to decarbonize energy production but, funnily enough, nobody is talking about that.
An EV or even a hydrogen vehicle is all very nice, to be sure, but if the electricity is generated in a coal plant, all you're doing is displacing the pollution, not eliminating it.
No it isn't.
At least, it's not the only way.
It is, however, become the way for people who can't be arsed to properly define the needs of the software and require multiple iterations to finally think : "yeah, that'll do".
The Apollo program wasn't built on agile.
I'm willing to bet that JWST wasn't built on agile.
Agile is just the excuse for the majority of people who can't plan properly.
Pride themselves ?
More like talk about it.
Over-engineering costs money. The CloudTM is about making money, not spending it.
And, as this episode has proven, they didn't over-engineer their cooling systems, they put in the bare minimum to ensure "normal" operations.
Well they're going to have to go back and over-engineer that part a bit, because I'll wager that next summer, they'll be seeing those temperatures again.
It's a GPS. What the hell does that have to do with how the vehicle functions ?
I don't care that it's a tracker, the only thing it needs is power from the battery. It has nothing to do on the CAN bus.
But of course, as in all the stupid things people do, they've linked it to the CAN bus.
Morons.
Crypto is not fine.
Exchanges are regularly folding and "clients" lose everything, while somebody makes off with the money.
The only way crypto will be fine is if it is handled by companies that have banking charters and the obligation to support the accounts of their clients - in which case, I ask : what's the point ?
Every country already has its currency that people use credit/debit cards/smartphones for without practically touching any coin (except the USA, but they obviously have a very shitty banking system, on top of their very shitty Internet network and their even more shitty telephone system).
Crypto is useless. Improve your banking system and the problem is solved.
"Not just restrictions but the almost-complete closure of access to foreign high-tech products is being deliberately, intentionally used against our country"
I wonder why.
Might it have something to do with the fact that you entertain Soviet-era fantasy about how your country is managed and what is going on in it ?
Maybe if you stopped murdering journalists who are just doing their job and face reality, things might start going for the better ?
You don't really understand the constraints of launching a telescope on a firecracker, do you ?
The best rockets we have at the moment cannot carry anything wider than 5 meters. JWST has an operational mirror surface of 20 meters.
How do you think that happened ?
It happened because brilliant engineers thought of and constructed a folded telescope capable of deploying itself a million miles away.
Hats off to them.
It's the first time Humanity has done this. First times cost.
The next JSWT will be cheaper, because we've already done it. But there will be no single mirror.
Not until we have rockets that are 21 meters in diameter.
I'm so glad for all those people who wanted to stick it to The Man.
What a shame they chose a company that didn't have a banking charter, which would have guaranteed their money.
I wonder how many more morons losing everything it will take before they finally grok that you put your trust and money in a bone fide bank, and stop listening to siren calls ?
Life is work. Deal with it.
Intel is clamoring for subsidies ?
It has made 306 billion dollars since 2019. Why should the Government hand over even more money when Intel is already practically printing its own ?
I never use emojis at work. I do use the smiley, which is not an emoji for me before I was using it before emojis existed.
If I'm texting with someone I know, I can use the wink smiley occasionally, but that will be the extent of it.
With my wife however, I'll use whatever emoji fits my SMS the best.
Azure wouldn't exist if it weren't for Linux.
Borkzilla actually tried to make its Azure platform run on Windows Server, and it failed abysmally.
So yeah, Borkzilla is now a Linux advocate - except on the desktop.
The leopard isn't changing its spots, it's just trying to survive in a world which needs it less and less.
Color me shocked.
Shocked, I say.
I wonder when that project will get to £10 billion.
I'm guessing before the end of the year, and with nothing to show for it.
Really, why does UK Gov keep throwing money into that pit ?
Oh, sorry, silly me : snoughts in the trough.
You mean, like the carbon nanotubes we've been promised for the last 25 years ?
Or the revolutionary batteries we still can't buy but have not stopped hearing about ?
Research is indispensable, but I would really like for these people to stop hyping up a product that doesn't exist and won't for decades.
It's like that fly at the picnic. Won't go away, and you can't do anything about it except shoo it off.
Annoying.
Call me back when they have a product that sells.
Yes, it's called buying the car.
If I buy a car, I expect all of it to work for the price I pay.
The only thing I am willing to pay for after the purchase of the vehicle is the yearly update of the GPS data.
And that is final.
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