Re: Targeted ads
> urinal has bluetooth
More commonly, blue cake.
Posts by W.S.Gosset
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Years of development, millions of lines of code, and Android can't even run a toilet
If anyone can explain why Jupiter's Great Red Spot is spinning faster and shrinking, please speak up
India, Japan flex cyber-defence muscles as China kicks the Quad
Ethereum dev admits helping North Korea mine crypto-bucks, faces 20 years jail
Australian regulator finds Google dominates adtech, seeks powerup to fight back
Japanese boffins say they've created plastic optical fibres to reach places that might break glass
tz database community up in arms over proposals to merge certain time zones
Don't touch that dial – the new guy just closed the application that no one is meant to close
Amazon delivery staff 'denied bonus' pay by AI cameras misjudging their driving
Want to feel old? Aussie cyclist draws Nirvana baby in Strava on streets of Adelaide because Nevermind is 30
Metro Bank techies placed at risk of redundancy, severance terms criticised
Fukushima studies show wildlife is doing nicely without humans, thank you very much
Sunday 26th September 2021 23:15 GMT
Gormless?
> This inexplicable, gormless invasive species, which has turned up in South America, Europe, China, South Korea and just about everywhere else it isn't wanted, has a voracious appetite, a prodigious reproduction rate and few predators in most of its adopted new homes.
"Gormless"?
Given its high and global success, its blithe equanimity in the face of futilely ravening predation, and of course its prodigious sex life, I question your questioning of its gorm, sir. I would say that it DOES have gorm. Much gorm, in fact. Indeed, it could be said that its gormosity stands as a shining example to others, an example to all species, of how to live a life of mindful gormfulness.
It may be that your gormometer requires calibration.
Indian state cuts off internet for millions to stop cheating in exams
Monday 27th September 2021 19:33 GMT
Re: I wonder why...
Short answer: money.
Consider that India can only afford to spend on healthcare US$73 per person per year. By comparison, Australia spends ~A$7,500. If healthcare were hospital beds, it's like all of Australia having to use a single hospital, say the Royal Adelaide or the PA Hospital in Brisbane.
They couldn't even afford to lend cheap calculators for the duration, let alone wrap buildings in wire. Not at their scale.
Monday 27th September 2021 11:02 GMT
40 to 1 odds
My initial reaction when I saw the numbers was: bloody hell, they've got Buckley's of getting a job. Then twigged it was only 40:1.
In Australia it is typical to get triple digit applications for jobs. Supermarkets, for example, often get over 300 applicants for each job, like checkout operator or shelf-stacker.
Lots of hidden unemployment in Australia...
Monday 27th September 2021 10:57 GMT
Cheating
Standard throughout Asia, I'm afraid.
When I was teaching at uni, we found the Chinese were the most sophisticated, and organised themselves in groups. I remember once we gave 0 to a whole ream of assignments where they'd posed as the head lecturer to trick the textbook publisher into sending them the instructor's guide with worked answers to all the tute questions. To a PO Box they set-up then quickly let lapse. First and last time we used any of the textbook questions... "Interestingly", every single one of them turned up to protest vehemently, some of them very aggressively.
'Quad' group seeks to set security standards for global tech industry
Calculating the big picture: Future HPC efforts will soon see off its von Neumann past
Monday 27th September 2021 19:19 GMT
Cold fusion
Cold fusion is actually real. The problem is inconsistent replication. Set up 100 tests, all apparently identical, some show fusion products, some don't. The US Navy's research group has been funding research into it for quite a while, to try to work out exactly what's required to make it consistent.
Airbus to help build Mexican Moon-mining automata
Yugabyte's double-decker DBaaS follows Cochroach in distributed RDBMS
Sunday 26th September 2021 20:33 GMT
Re: Relational?
Thanks for that. Sorry, it was late and I was just bimbling on my phone with my brain at half-mast. Now it's early and I'm nursing a coffee.
You pointed me at https://docs.yugabyte.com/latest/architecture/transactions/isolation-levels/ .
So, sadly, it appears it does NOT do full serialisation. No predicate locking, only locking of existing data. That is, it can not protect against changes in scope intra-transaction. Or rather: increases in scope -- decreases will be blocked. So: not SQL-92 compliant. (Very few "r"dbms's are) Oh well.
Of graver concern is the implication that the isolation management is not handled by the engine. It's handled by the interface layers. Note the distinction between the YSQL and YCQL APIs. Different codebases replicating the same functionality ... there's a maintenance nightmare waiting to happen. I remember Sybase ran that route for speed, different tweaked codebases for different query plans, and some were buggy: you could alter say the order of your tablelist and trigger a Cartesian product. Eurgh. I banned Sybase in our Sydney office when I discovered that.
Sunday 26th September 2021 09:41 GMT
Relational?
They're both talking like standard 3GL-style people, especially when they imply their idea of relational is SQL as a language. Does anyone have any insight into both or either of their underpinnings' actual relational capacity? Not just whether transactions are genuine, but critically their isolation levels. Precious few rdbms's can manage full isolation/predicate locking (e.g. Oracle needs to be shut down and restarted with a special setting, after which its locking granularity is Table...)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
