Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Arrogant, subtle, entitled: 'Toxic' open source GitHub discussions examined

Re: The bleedin' obvious

Technically correct, the best kind of correct

The problem is that codes of conduct tend to be written by the sort of people who inhabit committees

I'm not sure my C++ coding guidelines need to "Acknowledge that the lived experiences of marginalized groups are valid."

Re: if you think tech forums are toxic

Sir, the technical deficiency in your code and the fluency of your prose suggests a heritage rich in interspecies intercourse.

I remain your most humble servant

L. Tovalds

Re: Racist, Sexist, and Antisemitic

Sounds Luke a typical Mac user

Re: Hoping they can publish a fix soon.

>behavior you'd expect from unsocialized men.

Your comment violates our community guidelines on sexist language and you will be 7zipp'ed and feathered

Old-school editor Vim hits version 9 with faster scripting language

Re: Others preferred

ed is normally vi in ed mode

Re: Others preferred

If you have a totally borked machine you know vi will still run.

Otherwise I use VS code like everyone else.

Although it does confuse the younglings when you fire up vi to edit a config file

Re: never knew

The new scripting language just starts up Emacs in the background

Intel’s CEO shouldn’t be surprised America can’t get CHIPS Act together

Put it this way, there weren't many WASPS on the Manhattan project.

Re: TSMC & RCA

TSMC was founded in 1987 by a guy who spent 25 years as a very accomplished semiconductor expert at TI

>White Taliban" country with ...thousands of nukes!

Although targeted by people who believe the Earth is flat

That, once they purge all the foreigners and atheists, they will be maintained by people who don't believe on book-lerning may or may not be reassuring

Re: Wow, the pressure.

>Europe is socialist”…. Can you evidence that ??

Where government has rules which differentiate between workers and cattle.

>We’ll happily have an Intel Fab in the UK

As long as your free capitalist government gives enough free capital to the company, that can be arranged

Re: Wow, the pressure.

But Europe is socialist, he would have to give workers human rights

Better to stick to a free capitalistic market where the government just gives you free money.

Re: Subsidies

Not just subsidies to build the plants.

Expect requirements for US government agencies, government suppliers and recipients of US government grants to be required to buy Freedom Chips made in America

Is computer vision the cure for school shootings? Likely not

Re: Assault weaponry. - SNOWFLAKE ALERT

>"anything under 120mm is a bit gay"

Nothing to do with sexuality, we are merely reclaiming the word 'gay' to describe the exuberant joie de vivre that has always been associated with the recreational use of heavy artillery.

>Achilles (sacker of cities, lover of Patroclus), Alexander the Great (defeated only once, but the sight of Hephaestion's thighs) and T E Lawrence

So another bunch of white western imperialist aristocratic elites then ?

Re: Assault weaponry.

This is where we are going wrong.

Instead of trying to ban bigger guns we need to ban small ones. If the right to bear arms is to protect against a tyrannical government then we need decent weapons 105mm recoilless minimum, although anything under 120mm is a bit gay.

We should also relax the ridiculous restrictions on driving an M1 Abrams as your regular commuter. It gets better gas mileage than your RAM pickup, and we have 1000s in storage so improving the shortages of new cars

Re: Likely not

Wouldn't there be an outcry against automated guns potentially shooting black children ?

The police unions are going to be mad about demarcation

Re: AI gives responders better intel

We know gun sales go up after a mass shooting.

Anyone looked at the numbers of guns per dead kid? How much higher is it if the kids are young or white?

Can we have enough shootings to boost GDP?

Re: human verified

In the case of sharpshooter, the microphone network to locate gunshots, it seems that the system was mostly used afterwards to justify an armed response.

The human expert could go in later and reclassify as a gunshot something the system had not, if it was in a convenient place/time for the police story

Re: AI gives responders better intel

Once we paid for all these cameras and the AI proved so good at identifying, if not preventing, school shooter - it would be waste not to use them to identity drug users, or gay students or those not walking on the right side of the corridor

That's because America isn't real, the whole country is filmed on a backlit

Re: Identifying guns

That's the brilliant part of this system. It identifies the gun and then does nothing.

But it does let you have much more up-to-date school shooting statistics than if you had to wait and process the reports manually.

>the problem is the culture, and/or serious mental health

But there are more than 350million of them, how are we going to get rid of them all - except by leaving them alone and letting them get on with it

Samsung beats TSMC to be first to produce 3nm chips

Re: Surreal ...

I was impressed looking at 2um gates on an etched chip under a microscope

Microsoft plans to dig through your Edge Collections to make suggestions

New feature

It shows a puppy looking sad if you try and download Chrome and shoots it if you go to Brave or Vivaldi

Moscow court fines Pinterest, Airbnb, Twitch, UPS for not storing data locally

Re: Pointless fines

I've banned Putin from my treehouse

Re: "legalized the import of products without the authorization of the trademark holder"

Supporting piracy is fantastic, it totally destroys any native tech industry.

There is no market for a home grown Office suite if you can use MS Office for free and no sense in writing any software I'd your customers assume they can steal it.

No point in studying CS in Russia, may as well get a job in fast food.

Can't see that having any long term economic or strategic effects

Intel demos multi-wavelength laser array integrated on silicon wafer

The press release describes dfb lasers, they are a completely standard design, if rather tricky to implement

The main reason they aren't more common is that if you need lots of laser power there are cheaper alternatives.

Intel to sell Massachusetts R&D site, once home to its only New England fab

Re: Another End of an Era moment

>I hope there are no contamination issues

Intel Byte Ordering has seeped deep into the bedrock

US seeks exascale systems 10 times faster than current state-of-the-art computers

Re: 10 times faster ?

Yes, my point is that this isn't like going from a Cray XMP to a Cray YMP in the old days.

If your job runs effectively on a 60,000 node hybrid Xeon+GPU machine, it's like to run pretty well on an 100,000 node version. Yes it's the interconnect technology and cost that drive these machines but there isn't necessarily an obvious hard limit at today's scale

Re: uptime?

We don't have to use them, we just have to build them.

We need to have the biggestly computer or we lose

Actually using them would require having lots of highly educated scientists, do you know how expensive that would be? And it would be a terrible waste of all that expensive education if they were just modeling stuff when they could be leveraging dynamic synergies on Wall St

Re: 10 times faster ?

But supercomputing scales, you want 10x today? Just buy 10 systems and put them in the same building.

When you have a 60,000 node supercomputer you aren't considering the bits of a job that don't parallelize

How can we make the VC world less pale and male, Congress wonders

Re: 'what wasn't specifically mentioned'

Yes, that was my attitude when my university concluded that our physics dept lacked diversity. What, we're like 50% first generation Asian immigrants - but they don't count according to admin

Failures like Facebook, ibm Netflix are run by white guys. Successes like Microsoft, amd, nvidia are run by Asians.

Never bet on the white guy in tech (except tim)

Re: 'what wasn't specifically mentioned'

Similar story saying no Wall St firms employed minorities.

Just good WASP names like Goldman, Sachs,Lehman etc.

If Asian-Americans re over represented then they obviously don't count as a minority. So minorities are still underrepresented

How can we make the government

less white and male asks the VC industry

PowerShell pusher to log off from Microsoft: Write-Host "Bye bye, Jeffrey Snover"

Re: Enjoy your retirement Jeffrey

>you had to manually log on to 500 machines.

The kvm switch was a great breakthrough for Azure

NanoAvionics satellite pulls out GoPro to take stunning selfie over Earth

Re: Did they build a little robot to yank the battery?

If you look at the photo carefully you can see it's all back projection. But the studio made the subtle error of showing the Earth as some sort of sphere

Ditching VMware over the Broadcom buy? Here are some of your options

Re: Is xen still a thing?

Yes, it just seemed that reboots cos of OS upgrades were much more likely than needing to restart the hardware but keeping the OS running.

Is xen still a thing?

Last time I ran IT for a startup we used it when we had to have Windows server stuff

Thought it was cool that you could move a running OS to a new machine, mostly pointless but cool

Restructure at Arm focused on 'non-engineering' roles

Re: In other news...

>I don't think UNITE needs to get its knickers in a twist about losing skilled technology workers.

It isn't. It's worried that all the admin and ancillary staff will be offloaded and outsourced to some sub-minimum wage/immigrant staffing outfit.

The managers need to say they are cutting staff to boost the stock price, but they don't want to lose any chip designers. Firstly because they need them, but also if they start making any highly skilled tech workers redundant then all the others run for the exits.

Re: Road to hell

Yes but this isn't a startup IPOing to raise capital to expand into a real company. This is a hedge fund trying to offload its only valuable asset to claw back some money to fill the WeWork hole.

Re: Road to hell

Softbank own ARM, Softbank sell ARM, Softbank gets money. Not clear how this enables ARM to suddenly grow and hire more

To Washington's relief, GlobalWafers to spend $5 billion on Texas plant

Re: Yay, another wafer plant in the middle of a desert

fan/fab

Re: Yay, another wafer plant in the middle of a desert

Also this isnt a fan, which is why it only costs $5bn, they just make the raw wafers

IBM settles age discrimination case that sought top execs' emails

Re: Pull the other one -- It's got bells on!

Because a trial might be very upsetting for the fired workers and IBM is fundamentally a philanthropic organization that would do anything to make things better for its workers who are just like family

Misguided call for a 7-Zip boycott brings attention to FOSS archiving tools

Re: I like 7Zip.

I suppose being Boris's dad is a reason to claim asylum, but I suspect blonde idiot senior is just as bad

Re: I like 7Zip.

If we are doing boycotts of stuff invented by Russians can we ban everything bloody Kolmogorov ?

Not enough desks and parking spots, wobbly Wi-Fi: Welcome back to the office, Tesla staff

Re: When the show is run by clowns

If it employed clowns they wouldn't have the same problem with too few parking spots