Posts by Glen 1

Class move, Java. Coding language slips to third place behind Python in latest popularity contest

Re: Programming language popularity contests are like Ms World

They are literally trying to measure what people *are* using.

Not asking them what they *think* they should be using... or what *you* think they should be using.

UK housing associations offer framework worth up to £400m to eBay-for-plumbers startup (but it won't get to keep it all)

In before "python is a crap choice for this" by python haters.

I believe there are already websites that do similar eg Checkatrade.com. Perhaps not on a per-job basis though.

Putting the jobs to tender like this makes it attractive for folk *not* currently in the south east to bid on those jobs. Also for "make a loss on the initial bid, make the profit on the changes" gravy train.

Green with NVMe: AWS adds more Arm-powered instance types

Re: A Stone that Shatters Windows

*Desktop Environment

UK's NCSC reveals Premier League footie clubs to be ripe pickings for cybercrooks: One almost lost £1m to BEC attack

If the only number you have for them is from the fraudsters email footer, or their business card, its trivial to set up a backstop to appear legit.

Its not like the important/personal numbers are public knowledge. If you can phone the public numbers to talk to someone important, so can the fraudsters.

Bill Gates debunks 'coronavirus vaccine is my 5G mind control microchip implant' conspiracy theory

Its all about the effort you... Putin

VMware to stop describing hardware as ‘male’ and ‘female’ in new terminology guide

Even for me...

"“female” should be replaced by “jack” or “socket” while “plug” should be used instead of “male”"

As one of the resident Woke/SJW brigade who sees the renaming of stuff as generally a good thing....

In this case, even *I* am like "why?" There was never any good/bad connotation attached to male/female *connectors*

slave can be argued as bad

black having negative connotations can be argued as bad.

male/female? Wheres the implication one is bad?

Nvidia may be mulling lopping Arm off Softbank: GPU goliath said to have shown interest in acquiring CPU design house

Re: What is the point ?

..Or want to be the ones doing the asset stripping.

Lots of brains at ARM have the skills that could boost Nvidia's ranks, thats *before* we start talking about the tech licencing.

We've heard of littering but this is ridiculous: Asteroid dumps up to 50 quadrillion kg of space dirt on Earth, Moon

Re: SI units

It was 1 stone.

One *really big* stone

IGMC

Capita's bespoke British Army recruiting IT cost military 25k applicants after switch-on

Re: "it must still pay maintenance fees to Capita for the upkeep of the software"

If I buy a house, didn't get a survey and later discover something wrong with it, it has become *my* problem.

If I *did* get a survey... Is the problem something a surveyor should have spotted? Even If the problem is only discovered 10 years later? 20?

We pays our money and makes our choice.

Re: it's time this ancient, monolithic, waterfall approach to IT projects are also put to rest

My understanding is that the point of the new(ish) trendy agile canban woowoo is that it *expects* changes in specifications, and tries to factor them in.

The problem being that if the changes never stop (because, say, the folks in charge don't know what they're doing), then neither does the project. That suits Crapita all the way to the shareholders meeting.

Not sure if that's the case in this specific instance, but have seen it happen elsewhere. A manager sees the new shiny, and suddenly its a "must have".

After banning Chinese comms bogeyman, UK asks: Huawei in this mess? It was a failure of capitalism, MPs told

Re: Obvious

It was either going to be China or Iran.

US military whips out credit card for unmanned low-Earth-orbit outpost prototype (aka a repurposed ISS cargo pod)

Mass drivers? They have been outlawed by every civilised planet!

Great Maker!

UK formally abandons Europe’s Unified Patent Court, Germany plans to move forward nevertheless

Lucrelout is outright delusional. Just look at their post history. Were talking Eadon-level trolling. Remember that guy?.

"Not one remainer, no one reason, in more than 4 years."

Just like there is "No evidence" of Russian interference in the referendum. Like I said, delusional.

I can always tell when they are back on the site, as my recent posts all acquire an extra down-vote, regardless of topic. Ever since attempting to take them seriously.

*shrug*

Do you think they automated that, or are they really that petty?

An axe age, a sword age, Privacy Shield is riven, but what might that mean for European businesses?

The point of the EU

The fundamental problem is that the EU wants privacy for its citizens, and the USA doesn't.

If the EU doesn't enforce this (or can't or won't), the EU is shown to have no teeth. (as was the case with "safe harbour")

If the EU *can* enforce this, the USA is shown to not be the exceptional little snowflake it thinks it is.

Expect tantrums either way.

Imagine surviving WW3, rebuilding computers, opening up GitHub's underground vault just to relive JavaScript

Wingdings

Everything must go! Distributors clear shelves of ALL notebooks in Q2, even ones gathering dust over last 12 months

" set up a home lab, test software"

Company time. Company kit.

If I have to buy it myself, its to train for the *next* job.

AMD pushes 64-core 4.2GHz Ryzen Threadripper Pro workstation processors

Re: ARM will rule them all

Sensible like a $999 + tax monitor stand?

We call it the "Apple Tax" for a reason.

Re: ARM will rule them all

The Apple "hate" largely comes from Apple itself not responding well to being called out on it's bullshit.

As in no longer replying to requests for comment if you're not prepared to brown nose them. Biting the hand that feeds IT and all that.

Microsoft might not have a glowing reputation around these parts, but I don't think *they* ever blacklisted el reg.

Its as if you're new around here...

As the FCC finally starts tackling its dreadful broadband maps, Georgia reveals just how bad they are

Re: Free

"free to be convinced by the largest holders of said monies that their policies of self-benefit will also affect you...somehow; and free to vote against your own self interests while you accept those beliefs."

Something something Brexit, Trickle down economics etc

UK smacks Huawei with banhammer: Buying firm's 5G gear illegal from year's end, mobile networks ordered to rip out all next-gen kit by 2027

Re: This will end in tears.

There are Brexiters in these here forums that think the EU is a racist organisation. By think, I mean use the accusation as covering fire. After all, it doesn't have to make sense to put folk on the defensive. Something about white majority countries.

Ironic given that most of Africa has tariff free trade access to the EU ("Everything But Arms")... something the UK *won't* have unless a deal is sorted out.

Doubly ironic given that the possibility of Turkey joining was given as a reason to leave... "Breaking point" wasn't it?

As "project fear" aligns closer and closer with reality, you have to wonder at the thought processes of folk who are still in denial about the downsides.

see also: the "Farage garage"™, expats complaining about "Brussels" potentially ending *their* freedom of movement, Sunderland being "unsustainable" in the event of no deal.

I just hope I'm wrong about the lack of upsides, if only for the sake of those whos jobs will be affected.

Sidenote: Its not just the "lefty" "woke" "snowflakes" (as an equally lazy stereotype) that think Brexit is going to be a shitshow.

GitHub is just like all of us: The week has just started but it needed 4 whole hours of downtime

Re: Eggs and Baskets

What makes me laugh is that one of the selling points of git is it's distributed model.

A single website is probably not something your project should depend on.

*googles*

Gitbucket and gitprep are self-hostable github clones - no idea to their application as a mirror.

IBM job ad calls for 12 years’ experience with Kubernetes – which is six years old

Re: Switching on the "monitor stand"

and you couldn't use it when University Challenge was on, or else Bamber Gascoigne's voice would go all garbled.

Linus Torvalds banishes masters, slaves and blacklists from the Linux kernel, starting now

Re: Say it with Love

No.

Nice quote, but new words are either made up, or older words take on new meanings.

How long before BAME is used as a slur?

See also: TERF

Re: male/female

Where is the implication that male or female connectors are good or bad? With black/white master/slave it's implications are pretty clear.

See also: idiots who think gay marriage affects men+women getting married.

Rip and replace is such a long Huawei to go, UK telcos plead, citing 'blackouts' and 'billion pound' costs: Are Vodafone and BT playing 'Project Fear'?

Re: > we voted for brexit

Apologies for replying to my own post.

Regarding cost of different speed broadband.

The example I used above for Virgin Media's 100mb connection was so I was comparing like for like (approximately). For the 30mb figure given in the post I was replying to, here are some UK prices for context:

• Plus.net 36mb for £23.99
• BT 36mb for £26.99
• Vodafone ADSL 35mb for £23

So Vodafone's 5G price (£30) is more expensive, but comparable

Re: > we voted for brexit

"That fibre on the other hand is 10Gbps *to every user*"

"Also that mast won't have anything more than 10Gbps connection anyway "

The fibres to the mast, and the fibres to the premises terminate in the same place - at the exchange. There isn't going to be enough back haul there for 10Gbps per user either way. That's unless you're leasing the whole line, and paying accordingly.

Complaining about contention for one, but conveniently ignoring it for the other, just makes you look ignorant. Fibre will always be faster point to point, but that doesn't matter if the bottle neck is somewhere else.

"I see 5G as major BS which is used to sell new phones."

Something can be both useful and require marketing. Just look at how wifi has changed over the years. Electric cars? Smartphones? Twas ever thus.

Re: > we voted for brexit

"Irrelevant as you (or anyone else) is *not* going to pay 10* price for that speed. You believe ISPs will sell that speed at the same price you get now 30Mbps?"

10* the price? Try again.

Vodafone £30 per month for unlimited data "fastest available" 5G price plan.

Compare to Virgin media's "£28 a month for 18 months then £44 a month" for 100mb

That's *right now*.

Of course, thats signal dependant, and VM will no doubt increase speed to compete as 5G coverage increases.

"Also, all of that 5G "speed" is *shared* speed among all users. 200Mbs to 100 users isn't any more than *DSL now and *much less* than even slow fiber."

Try again. 150-200 is the expected average. Its the "above 1Gbps" peak part that is shared between phones. Even then, it will be the back-haul that's the bottleneck.(underlying tech tops out at 10Gbps as previously stated)

If you want actual, tested, reality, my phone on *4G* just hit 9mb in a speed test on *2* bars. National average looks to be about 25mb. Source

With 5G looking to be 10 times faster, it is most definitely comparable to a regular internet connection. Hell, only 4 times faster than the national 4G average is comparable.

*shrug*

Im not going to specifically upgrade for 5G, nor would I want it as a home connection (I don't want cariier NAT), but you laugh it off as if its a fantasy, when a decent 4G signal can *already* beat a crappy wet string ADSL connection in some places. I know, because *I've already done it* with a 4G router on a client site.

Re: > we voted for brexit

"Seriously, why the hell do we need 5G when we have fibre-optic cables?"

because having a 5G mast hanging of the end of 1 fibre is less hassle than installing many FTTP connections.

Remember, 3G speeds were already comparable to many folks home broadband in the few cases where it worked *reliably*. Part of the selling point of 4G was greater range/capacity with the same base stations in part due to frequency changes.

According to my mobile network 5G should "average speeds of 150-200Mbps, and peak speeds will reach above 1Gbps". 5G can top out at 10 gigabits per second depending on equipment.

If you want to pay for FTTP go ahead, but many of us in urban areas will be enjoying a better connection just by upgrading our phones in the next few years. For those in non urban areas it may take longer, but not as long as waiting for the fibre train to arrive, I'll wager.

South Korea joins the ‘we’re going to be self-sufficient in more tech and then export bucketloads’ club

Re: Every country cannot be self-sufficient in everything

or... everyone buys the from the cheapest supplier that is "good enough". Creating defacto monopolies, if not for individual companies, then for countries/areas those items are produced.

Which is exactly how we got here in the first place.

Remember Thailand's floods affecting hard drive supplies in 2011?

The capacitor plague from Taiwan?

When people try to switch suppliers en mass, there is a lag while production is ramped up. The thing is, such increases not sustainable, as once supply is restored, everyone switches back, because of the same reasons that made them pick those suppliers in the first place.

Yes, there are things you can to do mitigate, but at a cost. At some point a bean-counter is going to try to shave that cost.

The bottom line rules all, it would seem.

.NET Core: Still a Microsoft platform thing despite more than five years open source

Re: The problem as I see it

The TIOBE Index is *descriptive* not prescriptive.

Certain languages are *unsuitable* for a beginner actually wanting a job, as most of the the jobs are for senior/experienced devs only (e.g COBOL, perl, assembly)

Rhetorical questions:

Where was swift a few years ago? How did it get on the index if folks only learned what was already there?

Another anti-immigrant rant goes viral in America – and this time it's by a British, er, immigrant tech CEO

Re: He's not an imigrant

Given the pushback in these very forums against some benign name changes, its hard to tell if you're being sarcastic...

Mind the airgap: Why nothing focuses the mind like a bit of tech antiquing

Re: I was suspected of Dyspraxia...

"Occasionally someone can't so all they can do is follow you round downvoting you."

After a fairly recent anti-Brexit rant, I found that my downvote total had more than doubled. Hundreds of downvotes in the space of a few days. No single post had a notable (new) spike. Flipping through my post history, I found that 1 or 2 new downvotes had appeared on my posts going back nearly a decade.

Nice to know I touched a nerve.

I remember working on a loaner ibook thingy years ago.

Thought id try to put Ubuntu on it. It was a slot loader, so I burn a CD (DVD?) and put it in the slot.

Nothing. The drive didn't want to take the disk. There was a foam seal around the opening that was holding the disk in place.

I hadn't used a slot loader before,so I wasn't sure if there was a knack. I *gently* applied pressure, and the disk slid in.

*CLUNK*

I pick the device up

*RATTLE*

Turns out the previous owner had removed the drive, and Id just posted the disk into an empty drive bay.

Manchester, UK seeks IT-slinger: £235m for number-plate-and-fines system to clean up vehicle emissions

Re: ANPR

As fictional as his Lambo, so that checks out.

Utilitarian, long-bodied Nokia 5.3 has budget basic specs - but it does cost £150

I have found a factor is not holding the device in place for long enough. It can take 1-2 seconds.

I have a pingit device attached to my watch strap. *Very* handy. These days, its unusual for me to need my wallet (I keep other stuff in there, so I still carry it).

As for security, my thinking is that if i'm going to get mugged, they will get my watch and wallet anyway. Skimming my wrist will be more obvious than skimming my wallet, and I'm rarely - (maybe once a year), in an environment crowded enough where it wouldn't be pretty obvious what was going on.

Still more secure than swipe and sign.

E-scooter fanboy so hyped for Teesside to host UK's first trial

Re: Here's an idea...

Or perhaps its about milking folk for the tax/fee revenue.

Makes you wonder how the (UK) gov will cover the loss of petrol tax revenue...

Re: Here's an idea...

That's a small car. We already have hire cars/vans/trucks. If you want electric you can hire a Nissan Leaf.

I seem to remember some pilot schemes where you could hire smart cars on a PAYG basis, and leave them wherever for pickup, but I don't think it lasted very long.

A rack of bikes/scooters takes up waaaay less space than a car park, and can therefore be located where people actually want to go, rather than the current trend for de-car-ification (sorry) of our city centres.

In the UK at least, having to pay for parking is a growing problem. Local Councils seem to want to attract the people (or rather their money), but don't want the traffic. People are voting with their feet (and wheels).

Compare: shopping online. vs out of town retail park/mall vs city centre retail district.

You can literally get more done from the passenger seat while sat in traffic than traipsing round the shops. There is something to be said for seeing what you are buying, for clothes etc, but once you know you are a certain size in a certain store, is it worth another journey?

Sidenote: At the moment, a lot of these gate-keeping schemes are based on emissions. (congestion charge, VED). What is going to happen once everything is electric? kW of engine (motor) power?

I suppose the emissions will have just moved to the power plants. However, as we move to more sustainable energy sources the gate-keeping will be revealed for the lie we already know it is:

Its not about emissions, its about not having so many vehicles on the road it gridlocks our beleaguered transport infrastructure.

Analogue radio given 10-year stay of execution as the UK U-turns on DAB digital future

Re: What a surpirse. It's muppetry.

"allowing new cars to still have analog receivers fitted"

Allowing? As in not banning? Even ignoring the chicken and egg problem, that's a dumb thing to say.

Given the crappy reception of DAB in many parts of the country, the cars would effectively no longer have a radio.

Which would just create an after market demand such as with phone docks. Or even making older cars more desirable.

Big Tech on the hook for billions in back taxes after US Supreme Court rejects Altera stock options case hearing

As for the racist delusion. "Most African countries enjoy duty-free and quota-free access to the EU market" (pdf)

It isn't remainers baying about uncontrolled immigration. The Vox pops about needing to leave the EU because of the muslims. But, hey don't let facts intrude on your delusions, amirite?

You have already been given several reasons by other commenters, you just ignore them or dismiss them without actually refuting them, Thus my comment about "La-la-la-not-listening". Its like talking to flat earther. Whats the point in engaging with someone who cant form a cogent counter argument?

At least CodeJunky actually makes points. You just sound like General Melchet, eager to send the boys over the top. Ignorant to any thoughts that don't already agree with your mindset.

From the exodus of manufacturing, to half our exports suddenly being less competitive thanks to tariffs imposed by our biggest export market Our fishing industry, so beloved of people whining about sovereignty, currently sell most of their catch into the EU... which , as it looks like we are heading to no-deal, will be subject to tariffs and customs checks. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.

So when the head man himself says that Nissan Sunderland is "unsustainable" in the event of No deal. Well... what? Do think he never said that? Thats its somehow lefty propaganda? Do you think hes lying? Just trying to get a handout? Do you think hes an EU plant? or do you just not care?

The latter, I think. Thats what makes you immune to evidence. I belive its called wilful ignorance. With a large side helping of conformation bias.

Re: YOU are paying those taxes

I don't think Bob would ever advocate people/companies paying more tax. Tax is SOCIALISM after all

"Private medical care is much cheaper than the NHS"

The amount spent in the US would suggest that isnt true. The US *Tax payer* pays more per head than we do for the whole NHS, and they still need private insurance *on top* of that. Link

Any local difference in price for private care is going to be down to UK insurers/providers needing to compete with the "free at point of use" NHS.

" paying for people to live broken lives on welfare"

"If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."

I mean, we could go through your delusions one by one, and your "La-la-la-me-no-listening have a logical fallacy with no sources" replies when presented with counterpoints, but I will just deal with the biggest one.

The delusion that rEU is the UKs equal. Germany *ON ITS OWN* has a big enough economy that we would be the junior partner in any trade deal. That you hold onto the delusion that the UK can go to-to-toe with the EU - an economy that is the second largest in the world and a GDP over 4.5 times the UK.... your grip on reality is tentative at best. Link including GDP table

Everything else is you just saying "here are some idiots who agree with me" without siting any sources - as if that is some kind of appeal to authority.

We're not going to convince you. Trying to bring facts and reality to the table just causes you to dismiss it as remainer propaganda, or a lefty conspiracy theory. Fortunately reality doesn't give a shit about your delusions. Unfortunately voters are easily duped.

How much cognitive dissonance must the U.S. right-wing have to go through to still be convinced Trump is the right guy?

Just out of interest, what would it take to convince you you were wrong?

There are DDoS attacks, then there's this 809 million packet-per-second tsunami Akamai says it just caught

Re: And the next step...

"we are talking about valid source addresses that are not the senders actual source address."

The first hop to the ISP is where it is *easiest* to detect this.

Dems take a crack at banning Feds from using facial-recog tech. Congress will put it on todo list after 'learn Klingon'

Kinda makes you wonder if reverse psychology would work...

After huffing and puffing for years, US senators unveil law to blow the encryption house down with police backdoors

Re: stupidity out of ignorance or avarice

Indeed, a bit like how people during Shakespeare's time didn't need middle English translated.

If you need me, Ill be off keeping my unit tests on fleek.

When one open-source package riddled with vulns pulls in dozens of others, what's a dev to do?

Re: In the real world

Sooooo you trust the operating system? the CPU manufacturer?

While its not *quite* turtles all the way down, there are more layers than most people will see in their entire careers.

Re: In the real world

Yes, but how many levels of abstraction below the one we work on do any of us really understand?

There has to be trust *somewhere*, else we would all be (bad) chip designers. Or possibly (bad) kernel developers.

There comes a point where you call a function and "magic" happens.

Here's a headline we'll run this century, mark our words: Alien invaders' AI found on Mars searching for signs of life

Would it not make sense to have a separate craft to sort/store transmit the data?

If a stationary lander (or orbiter) can act as a server with occasional uplink, that would free up the rover to do more rovery things.

You could even use some of the current orbiters as comms satellites for when the rover is over the horizon.

I think given the number of probes and craft we will be sending to Mars over the next 10-20 years, it would be worth the investment in setting up a high bandwidth satellite comms/storage network. With the last hop to Earth being a "Big Dish" or possibly even a laser. Want more transmit power? Put more solar on it.

NASA mulls going all steam-punk with a fleet of jumping robots to explore Saturn and Jupiter's mysterious moons

Re: Control?

If they plant the base in the impound lot, you could get a free* ride back to base.

*free apart from the fines and fees etc

You'd think lockdown would be heaven for us layabouts – but half the UK has actually started 'exercising more'

Re: Snowflakes....

So many things wrong with your post. Talk about out of touch with reality. Ill just deal with the main points.

"far too fragile for life, "

Or rather - they're not about to put up with your bullshit, and have enough of a backbone to act accordingly, rather than be so cowed that they never speak up.

see also: feminism, civil rights, gay rights, rewinding...Sufragette movement, abolition of slavery, rewinding... no taxation without representation, rewinding... The magna carta existed because a bunch of lords were no longer going to put up with the King's bullshit.

In a more modern context: Unwanted sexual touching is sexual assault. Slapping someone on the ass is a) often unwanted b) usually sexual in nature. Therefore anyone who does that where it was not consented to, has committed sexual assault. Spelling it out like this often annoys certain people, their thought pattern seems to go like this:

People who do sexual assault are obviously Bad People, and *they* are not Bad People, therefore, what they do *cannot* be sexual assault. If the victims make a fuss, they are accused of being "too sensitive" or "fragile". Its like the folk who think they are good drivers because they keep taking risks and haven't been in accident (having caused plenty).

"demanded salaries way in excess of their actual abilities"

its called market forces. The managers didn't have to say yes to those demands, but they did. Why? If the managers don't see your worth relative to the yunguns in the same way as you do, some of that blame lies with you. You can be secure in the knowledge that you are right as you apply for a dwindling number of higher level jobs. Hope you kept those skills up-to-date.

"By their own choice"

Gentrification is what happens *after* these young folk who *go on* to become professionals move in. Until then, its the cheapest place to live, crime rates are high as no-one has anything. Think Brixton or Queens from 10-20 years ago. The trendy coffee/wine bars spring up because its where their market *is*, not the other way round. Leafy suburbs are for rich people.

"So they have their own little community already then."

Spoken as someone who has obviously never lived in a house share.

"...hospitality do have a lot of young staff and are down the swanny, but that's a small proportion of the young."

No. it really isnt.

Chart

Young folk are more likely to be in hospitality or retail than any other industry.

"you can't be furloughed from not having a job"

A few that might have been true during the age of "The young ones" ~40 years ago. Show me a student that doesn't have a job today, and I'll show you someone who is being bankrolled by their parents. Maybe that's more common in the US, but over here, part of the leaving-home-for-uni right of passage includes financial independence. Unless, of course, your parents are absolutely loaded, but most folks just aren't that rich.

In conclusion, your worldview seems to be of someone who doesn't think the world has changed in the last 30 years. It has. With Millennials now pushing 40, it's not just "young people" with these newfangled viewpoints. Society is always changing. Keep up or get left behind.