Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Back-to-office mandates won't work, says Salesforce's Benioff

But if programmers aren't fungible then if you were a C++ programmer at one company does that mean you can't do c++ at a new company in a different line of business?

Or if you were a SQL server admin you can't learn to be an Oracle admin?

I suspect there are going to be a lot of retirement-consultant

Contracting full time and having to hussle for every new client is hard work. But if I'm senior enough that I can retire and I'm just "open to offers" that looks a lot more appealing - working from home and contracting suddenly don't look that different.

I suspect a lot of senior devs/dbas/bofhs are considering this - because they don't want to go back into the office, or their house is now so valuable they can just sell and move somewhere cheaper.

>Did the skills you are paying me for suddenly become worth less?

Assuming you aren't the only person in the world with those skills - I'm paying you the minimum I can pay to get those skills.

If I demand that you are in SF or NY then I'm going to have to pay more, because there are fewer of you and you demand more money to live there.

If I'm able to put out bids for a programmer but I'm not demanding they live in SF vs the same skill set living Idaho - then I can save some money. Programmers are fungible, I don't care if you were previously in SF and moved to Idaho or were always there.

But if I can get somebody in Idaho for $100K rather than $300K in SF, why wouldn't I look for somebody in Estonia for $30k or Elbonia for $3K ?

Arm most likely to list on the Nasdaq, says SoftBank CEO

Conservative UK government ... apply the National Security

So a, don't leave me or I'll never speak to you again threat ?

NSO claims 'more than 5' EU states use Pegasus spyware

Re: I don't understand

That's the advantage of using NSA spyware.

If you have a problem you don't have to call - just pick up the phone and start talking.

Semiconductor boom could be coming to an end – analysts

Re: What ?

If there are shortages because of supply chain fsckups

So if the same number of wafers have been run, because the fabs run 24x7. But they didn't get packaged, cos the packaging is low profit so it's done in 3rd world countries that got hammered by covid.

Or they got packaged but are sitting in a warehouse in China with the workers in lockdown or they can't get truck drivers, or it's not worth shipping them when a container costs $20-30K instead of $2k

Or every customer is ordering 10x, hoping to get 10% of what they asked for, and they're putting in 52 week lead time orders with a dozen suppliers - just in case.

So everyone goes into overtime to frantically meet this demand. And suddenly this unwinds and we have a glut

First steps into the world of thought leadership: What could go wrong?

Until you realise FIT is yet another container platform

Totaled Tesla goes up in flames three weeks after crash

Imagine if any of the firefighting water reached the ocean. It would react with all the Sodium in salt-water and the pacific would explode

Re: Am I the only one

But your gasoline car you need to include the carbon emissions of keeping the a couple of carrier fleets in the middle east to protect our Saudi allies from those evil Greenpeace hippies

Re: Another one.

There are a lot of Teslas on the road in the USA - probably 10x as the next competitor.

Most of the other manufacturers models are sold in small numbers, to meet 'must sell an EV model' rules and have very small low performance batteries.

China is the main market for non-Tesla and you aren't going to hear about a fire in China on the evening news.

EVs are still about 50x LESS likely to be involved in a fire than dead-dinosaur mobile, but a burning Chevy doesn't make the front of el'reg

Re: So when one of these things is junked ...

There's also the issue of getting rid of maybe 50kwh (180000000 joules) of energy without (further) damaging anything

So a self remelting/metal recycling car?

Just tap the molten aluminium out

Re: thinking outside the box

Or just launch them into orbit

Re: Deja vu again

It's in Sacramento - who is it going to harm ?

Re: "$10K over MSRP. Ran when parked. No low-ballers. I know what I got."

With cool flame decals -

Re: So when one of these things is junked ...

Ideally it would eject the battery in the event of a crash.

The first Tesla used 10000s of individual 18650 cells - would love to see it scatter them all like a cluster munition.

Re: Deja vu again

The article isn't quite accurate. Water and metallic lithium is bad, but not "explosive".

But batteries don't contain metallic lithium (water and potassium is even more bad, but you can put bananas in your cocktail)

The problem with Li-Ion batteries is that they contain their own oxidiser so smothering them with water (or CO2) doesn't really help - the general plan is to dump water on them to cool them down so the reaction stops and the fire goes out. The problem is then if they dry out and heat back up the reaction and fire can start again.

If it was in a scrap yard I would have thought leaving it to burn was probably the easiest option.

Original Acorn Arthur project lead explains RISC OS genesis

Re: RISCiX

The RiscIX could only run on a special Archimedes though IIRC, remember being disappointed it wouldn't run on A310

Bipolar transistors made from organic materials for the first time

Re: bipolar?

It's a power saving feature. The bipolar transistors can switch from super turbo speed mode into staying in their bedroom with the curtains closed not speaking to anyone mode as required

Re: Durability?

>Dogs can use human pace makers

I doubt it, a dog would never get into medical school

Re: Durability?

>A pacemaker only lasts 5-15 years before it needs replacing, so...

Without replacement , they last a lifetime

Re: Totally of subject

With an American twist, Boris Johnson would seem to be nominative determinism

Re: Gatekeeping @My-Handle

A technology that cannot be perfected in the Great British Shed - because it would involve somebody cleaning up first ?

Mega's unbreakable encryption proves to be anything but

Simpler solution

Men in black suits visit sysadmin

"Persuade" sysadmin to upload new version of client software

New version copies keys/decrypted documents to men in black suits

Sysadmin has nasty accident

A miserable work week spent toiling inside 'the metaverse'

Re: Disembodied business casual

I frequently visualise some colleagues as disembodied floating torsos

And me with a chainsaw

So in conclusion

Immersive 3D environments not good at simulating a 2d screen and keyboard ?

Next week we will discover that a monitor, keyboard and mouse are not the optimal way to control a bicycle

RISC OS: 35-year-old original Arm operating system is alive and well

Re: Just downloading now

>Hope it comes wit a development suite

Acorn Basic - what more do you need ?

Am I remembering correctly that lander was written in BASIC?

Re: Some features i would like today

>Yes, there were a lot of numbers allocated by Acorn. No, that would never work today.

Well you might need more than 16bits....

But since most software is obtained from app stores, and is signed by the author who has some sort of account relationship with the store.

With a bit of thought you could mix it with a MIME type as part of the number.

Eg. a 256bit ID would tell me it was created by XYZ Software, and possibly even prove that cryptographically, and tell other apps it is an MP3 file while still allowing XYZ software to distinguish various uses of MP3 within their own software.

Really it's meaningless today to have a "file extension" on a binary blob distributed over the net to a device that has no user visible file system.

Re: Some features i would like today

Still think dot works, we use it in internet addresses. Dos used \ to avoid accusations of copying CPM

The metadata on RiscOS was IIRC a 32bit ID. 16bit assigned to the software vendor and a 16but field for them to use internally. Rather like MAC addresses

Some features i would like today

File meta data id rather than everyone+dog deciding to grab all the common 3 letter extensions for themselves (looking at you autodesk)

On my A310 with 1Mb of RAM being able to drag memory usage limits around in realtime to give my program more memory at the expense of screen resolution or font cache.

And if only everyone else had adopted "." as the separator in directory paths we wouldn't have had 40years of escaping bloody "\"

Amazon fears it could run out of US warehouse workers by 2024

>Another option could be to let Amazon's HR division play a greater role in ...

staffing the warehouse.

1, There is an apparently unlimited supply of HR drones

2, HR drones will do anything you tell them, no matter how stupid the policy or procedure

3, If they don't like the work, who are they going to complain to ?

4, If a tornado kills a bunch of HR drones - there is no bad PR

Re: elon to the rescue?

>Robots as a solution? Not this decade, not with those warehouses.

In can be done with even more challenging shopping cart. Although they do burn down occasionally - at least the dead robots don't sue you

Yeah that doesn't work as well as you might think....

The USA were making military helmets with prison labor, what do you think they found out about the construction quality when they were deployed ?

We don't call it slavery. it's a unlimited internship available to our overseas associates in lesser developed regions

UK govt considers invoking national security in Arm IPO saga

A company founded by a European immigrant to take advantage of a publicly funded BBC educational initiative and a chip designed by a trans-women?

No that's the Tory dream

Re: It's all window dressing

>The idea that this is some kind of national security thing

Wait till 3 year olds find out about this option.

I wanna ice cream........

You can't have an ice cream until you've eaten your dinner

I need an ice cream ... because of national security

OK, here you are

British chips for British people

Hopefully it will cause foreigners to reconsider their dependence on ARM for their own national security

Graphical desktop system X Window just turned 38

Re: What I like about X

>on a hi-res screen laptop it makes fonts readable

That's why we need Display-PostScript to make a comeback

Microsoft pulls Windows 10/11 installation websites in Russia

Re: Putin, got one name for you mate....linux

Wait till America finds out that algorithms are ay-rab. Then they'll ban then in schools

Re: Putin, got one name for you mate....linux

> Linux is free,

I don't know, sounds sort-of "communist"

NASA tricks Artemis launch computer by masking data showing a leak

Re: Fake it till ya make it?

I read a conspiracy theorist on the internet who claimed NASA were actually building the SLS!

Like that makes sense in the real world

Re: At least...

Government killing teachers is expensive and inefficient, when it can be so effectively outsourced to the community

Also known as

The VolksWagon solution

Tesla lawsuit alleges unlawful layoffs at Nevada gigafactory

Re: WARN employees they are being fired?

>overwhelm .... unemployment services.

Now I have a Reaganomics solution to that....

Re: WARN employees they are being fired?

I think by the standards of today's GOP, Nixon was a communist

WARN employees they are being fired?

Is Nevada communist now?

No wonder he wants to move everything to Texas

Micron aims 1.5TB microSD card at video surveillance market

Re: LPDDR5 ISO 26262 ASIL D

Do games care about error correction ?

Re: Yes, but how much?

That's what we thought for hard drives for the last 2 years.

1Password's Insights tool to help admins monitor users' security practices

Re: fido2 not suppored by Micros~1 for local accounts

That's because Microsoft have their own authenticator app for your mobile.

Presumably easier to manage corporately than either accessing your local machine when you lose your Fido key, or remote disabling your Fido key when you lose it.

A great day for non-robots: iOS 16 will bypass CAPTCHAs

Click on the pictures of Vegans?