Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Musk: Twitter will have 1 billion monthly users inside 18 months

Re: Track record..

It a symbol of how far American society has come.

"I have a dream, where black children and white children can walk together hand in hand ...."

Unfortunately this time it's to burn down a synagogue

Re: 2 million sign ups daily average

And having fired both the automatic bot detection team and the manual bot counting team - there are now no bots recorded

AWS joins the water positive gang, claims it will be there by 2030

So my house is water positive

Between the water I put in the sewer and the rainwater from the gutters I emit more water than I take in from the city supply.

And yet they still want to charge me $750/year ?

How not to test a new system: push a button and wait to see what happens

Re: Alternative Lesson: "Never turn anything off if..."

Or just employ a chaotic monkey to run around unplugging things and turning stuff off at random

Re: “eerie quiet”

>Question “What is the worst sound in a server room?”

Velociraptor ?

Re: never turn anything off if you don't know how to turn it back on.

Hope you had an off site backup

Re: How to make an IBM engineer hyperventilate ?

Truck question, if he can count with using his fingers he's already been RIFed

Re: Alternative Lesson: "Never turn anything off if..."

Thankfully in these days of full stack hyper cloud convergence you don't discover some vital service was running on a developers machine - but you don't know which one

Orion snaps 'selfie' with the Moon as it prepares for distant retrograde orbit

Re: Get it right please

No Dark Side was Tom Petty. The Floyd had Full Moon Fever

Re: they are obviously just nostalgic for the days of George III

And since then, life was wild, rich and largely tax free.

Re: Just barely on the far side of the Moon is not

Suburban space - within easy commuting distance of Florida

Re: outdated imperial units

We normally refer to them as "medieval units" when dealing with the locals.

It's also nice to remind them that they are obviously just nostalgic for the days of George III - when America was Great Previously

Re: Contrast Orion's journey with Apollo

Road safety tip: Never use your sextant while driving

Re: What's wrong with this statement?

>but convert them to outdated imperial units for reporting to the three countries on the planet that are still backward enough to be using them

But not, unfortunately, to Lockheed Martin

Also, WTF! You can understand manufacturing the parts in the USA using medieval units and even using archaic-standard nuts and bolts. But who in the name of Cthulhu does orbital calculations in foot-poundals ?

Re: Reg standards

Shrinkflation - they had to make brontosauruses smaller

Re: that selfie...

That's why NASA never talk about the 4th crew member of Apollo11

Re: that selfie...

There are no stars in the picture and the photos don't have the little black crosses that prove they are on the moon

Reg standards

130km at 9.8 ft/s - so no chance if an embarrassing units cock-up then !

Re: On the 7th day

They needed the soundstage for the new Marvel movie.

(Joking - Marvel movies aren't real)

EU still getting its act together on European Chips Act funding

Re: and in other news....

>Infinity Is Never Enough

Bond Movie Shurley (ed) ?

Re: Meanwhile, in the UK...

No it's lithography.

We have skilled neanderthals trainees chipping flints as we speak.

And don't call me Shirley

Re: Tough options

Yes, just saying it's slightly trickier than just waving a magic wand at the magic money tree

Re: Tough options

I thought it was originally Timex in Grenock ?

Of course semiconductor companies change hands so often it may have ended up as Siemens.

- One expert in my field has worked for about a dozen US defence/aerospace companies, without changing desk.

Re: Tough options

>Just closing a fab is not really an option.

Yes, that's why Greenock is still today a world center of high-tech manufacturing

Re: Meanwhile, in the UK...

A proper British computer will be made of brass

As soon as the Imagineers in Hoxton have come up with a pleasing font for the logo, then the job of actually making the analytical engineer can be handed off to some skilled artisans - if there is any budget left.

Re: Tough options

I don't know - I'm more familiar with the unbelievable efficiency and effectiveness of UK science funding

Tough options

1, Create a pan-european nominally commercial semiconductor version of Airbus = good luck with that !

2, Fund existing european semiconductor maker = Greece pays Germany to prop up some failing 80s German company ?

3, Grants to a S.E. Asian chip maker = they build a plant in some poor region promising jobs, import all the skilled roles and close as soon as the subsidy runs out.

4, Chuck money at every country directly in proportion to their payments into the program = just move money around -20% admin costs

Boss broke servers with a careless bit of keyboarding, leaving techies to sort it out late on a Sunday

Re: Big red "cause a massive problem" button

Well that's one way of breeding daltonism out of the population

Re: Big red "cause a massive problem" button

>The first couple of times, I had to overcome some serious inhibition to actually push the thing.

AKA the Father Dougal effect

Guess the most common password. Hint: We just told you

Re: How to avoid getting hacked...

Real programmers write(*) their own password manager - after reading Bruce's Applied Crypto book

(using a compiler they wrote themselves on an operating system they created)

So when you need to login to HARDWARE makers site in order to download a driver update (why ?) - you open up the password manager with all your banking passwords in it ?

Sounds like it would be more secure for me to just use "passwd" or my preferred "fsckoff"

UK bans Chinese CCTV cameras on 'sensitive' government sites

Re: At what cost?

>the processor and network chips are of Chinese origin.

Probably also want to stay away from Sony imaging chips. Remember Pearl Harbour !

Too soon? Amazon commissions FTX mini-series

Re: audits for VCs?

Did you promise billion% returns?

VCs don't get fired for losing money on failed companies, they get fired for not investing in the next Apple or Microsoft when it's 2guys in a garage.

New York cracks down on carbon fuel-based crypto-mining operations

Re: Why are crypto miners a thing?

Why are diamond miners a thing? You spend vast amounts of energy, create vast amounts of toxic waste and kill lots of people - to get a shiny rock that you pretend has value cos you pretend it's rare

Re: What is in it for Kentucky?

>So what does Kentucky get out of it,

Politician posing in a hard hat by a truck with a bunch of manly-men coal miners plays well to a certain demographic.

Re: Power plants don't have an on/off switch

>We cannot just flip a switch and turn on a natural gas ... generation facility when the weather forecast calls for a calm & cloud day

Erm you can, that's precisely why people have been building gas plants - to do very lucrative peak demand load capacity.

The smaller town scale ones based on jet turbine engines can spin up in under a minute - the larger ones which are basically just coal stations replumbed to burn gas take a lot longer.

Nuclear and hydro can ironically be spun up very quickly but since they are almost all fixed cost - once you've built them you tend to run them flat out as base load.

JWST snaps first chemical profile of an exoplanet atmosphere

Re: Mission: Emissions Admissions

You can, with essentially the same type of detectors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0wu-1OaFJ8

Re: Atmosphere for life

>Life was around for 800 million years before oxygen started to be produced. I

If we cyanobacteria don't do something to cut back on oxygen emissions we will destroy the atmosphere. These new-fangled photo-synthesizers are producing too much toxic waste - they'll make the Earth uninhabitable in a few billion years

Re: Pie-eating

It's the Banach-Tarski theorem of cakes. If you cut a piece of cake into smaller pieces each has no calories and so even if you then eat them all the total has no calories.

UK competition watchdog investigates Apple and Google 'stranglehold' over the mobile market

Re: So Apple admits they are a duopoly.

>Now, are the CMA actually going to do anything?

Of course they are, these colonial upstarts will tremble before the might of His Majesty's Government

Re: Shortsighted oversight :/

>But Microsoft did its usual foot-shooting exercise and that was that

I wonder if they were still scarred by their monopoly court cases?

The old reliably Evil Microsoft could have made the Winphone a success by simply blocking any other mobile platform from a bunch of Microsoft tools (Exchange server/ Office365/ etc) , while making it very easy to secure and administer Winphone through your corporate tools.

Orion reaches the Moon, buzzes surface, gets ready to orbit

Re: It’s 2022

If this mission is a success do you think that one day people might be able to reach the moon ?

Re: Poor live coverage of flyby, NASA answered criticism with new Nasa stream for Artemis footage.

Didn't they also say nobody was allowed to film the launchpad ?

Time Lords decree an end to leap seconds before risky attempt to reverse time

Re: Cop Out

>It takes less words in german due to the practice of taking all the spaces out and counting several words as one

Is there a German name for this practice ?

Re: Let it slide

That was the downfall of French revolutionary time. Rather than a day off in 7 you got one day off in 10.

This forced the French to invent l'automobile so they had something to set fire to in protest

Re: Cop Out

I think that anything involving 'atomic' time probably post dates French imperial hegemony

Re: We fear leap seconds.... Julius added whole eigthy days...

I think in their day it was all MVS

Jaguar Land Rover courts coders caught in big tech layoffs

Re: Need more than coders

>Tells me the software is buggy as f*ck

So the software leaks memory faster than the engine leaks oil?

Nice to see the LandRover tradition being upheld

Software company wins $154k for US Navy's licensing breach

If you can't trust the US military to behave, who can you trust?

That headline?

The old el'reg wouldn't have missed the opportunity to make a "better to be a pirate than join the navy" Jobs quote