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The empire of C++ strikes back with Safe C++ blueprint

Re: Herb Sutter on Safety+Security

And Herb again, only a little more recently :-)

https://cppcon.programmingarchive.com/?mgi_13=7781/peering-forward-cs-next-decade-herb-sutter-cppcon-2024

Developer tried to dress for success, but ended up attired for an expensive outage

Re: People do the stupidest things

I was driving along a main highway, when I noticed an accident scene ahead (police/ambulance/fire vehicles, lots of flashing lights...).

I slowed down, approaching cautiously, when a police officer started waving me forwards.

I drove forwards slowly, but stopped when I realised (by looking up through the sunroof), that the police office was actually waving in a rescue helicopter to land on the road! I was seriously p*****d, as they hadn't actually done anything about closing the road before landing a helicopter on it!

On a side note, the actual accident was an interesting one... there was a fairly sharp 90 degree-ish corner (with a Cafe on the outside of the bend). A truck going around the bend had an insecure load, and a tyre rolled off the truck deck, and bounced its way through the wall of the Cafe into a patron...

Has Windows 11 really lost marketshare to Windows 10?

Re: The flagship OS and its hardware requirements

My desktop PC (at home) is a Core i7 (1st gen) from 2010. Still runs fine with W10 (after an SSD upgrade).

I do keep thinking about replacing it, but the only reason for that would be to get a more energy-efficient machine.

Kia crashes CES with modular electric vehicle concept

Robotaxi?

"Kia eventually plans to introduce a robotaxi model of the PV5 as well."

Does that mean I'll soon be able to hail a Johnny Cab?

Microsoft floats bringing a text editor back to the CLI

Re: vax/vms eve?

I fondly (???) remember switching between using eve on VMS at University, and Wordstar on CP/M in side-line work...

Deleting lines got interesting at times :-(

(Delete line in Wordstar was Ctrl-Y, Ctrl-Y on VMS was the interrupt key that generally killed whatever you had running!)

Thousands of subreddits go dark in mega-protest over Reddit's app-killing API prices

Re: In the bad old days of WordStar, WordPerfect, DisplayWrite, MultiMate

Silenced, or having a good wine?

It's been 230 years since British pirates robbed the US of the metric system

Re: Hooray for Avoirdupois and pounds, shillings and pence

> A 2x4 would be a "fifty-by-one-hundred", just so we're clear.

100x50 if rough sawn, 90x45 dressed...

OpenVMS on x86-64 reaches production status with v9.2

Re: In the bad old days of WordStar, WordPerfect, DisplayWrite, MultiMate

Ahh.... lots of fond memories of programming using VAX Pascal (circa mid-80's)

I suspect if I had to go back to it now I would be disappointed :-( (Having done a lot of work since with Delphi/Object Pascal)

When forgetting to set a password for root is the least of your woes

Unguarded terminals...

Back in the days of VMS, a favorite activiy on finding an unguarded terminal was to modify the login script to alias 'dir' to 'dir/exclude=*.*', and then logging out...

The cries of agony from unsuspecting users complaining all their files had been deleted :-)

Fans of original gangster editors, look away now: It's Tilde, a text editor that doesn't work like it's 1976

Re: In the bad old days of WordStar, WordPerfect, DisplayWrite, MultiMate

WordStar was the first editor I used extensively. Sometime later I started using VAX/VMS, and deleting lines in the editor was painful :-(

(The WordStar command to delete line was Ctrl-Y. On VMS Ctrl-Y was the interupt process...)

Boffins use nuclear radiation to send data wirelessly

Re: How about a really large archive?

> Morse + lots of bombs

"So long and thanks for all the fish", as you head to orbit in your Orion spaceship?

Radioactive hybrid terror pigs have made themselves a home in Fukushima's exclusion zone

Re: Last sentence ...

> The conclusion of which will almost always be "bullet trauma".

Otherwise known as high-velocity lead poisoning.

Ten exabytes wedged into a rather large box by Cleversafe

Each datacentre has 21 racks containing 189 nodes..

189 * 45 * 3 = 25515 TB per datacentre

25515 * 35 datacentres * 16 sites = 14288400 TB approx. 10 Exabytes

(and 4.7 million hard drives...)