* Posts by snifferdog_the_second

8 publicly visible posts • joined 22 May 2018

ChatGPT becomes ChatRepair to automate bug fixing for less

snifferdog_the_second

I have no faith in this. Anyone else spot the superfluous 'else' statement after the 'return'? As a human, that's the first thing I would take out (pet hate).

Businesses should dump Windows for the Linux desktop

snifferdog_the_second

"Windows is still built on a standalone PC operating system foundation" This is so not true. Windows NT (which all modern versions of Windows are built on) was rewritten from the ground up and has a robust security model. Also, you have a strange idea of what Inter-Process Communication means.

Google weeps as its home state of California passes its own GDPR

snifferdog_the_second

Fascinating article, and very well written, thank you.

No fandango for you: EU boots UK off Galileo satellite project

snifferdog_the_second

So, to everyone who voted leave - happy now?

Four hydrogen + eight caesium clocks = one almost-proven Einstein theory

snifferdog_the_second

A Tribute to the late, Lamented Ian Dury

A Gnat's whisker, yes, very technical. Dumbing down, are we?

Anyway, see:

https://tinyurl.com/y9w8a59a

Microsoft, Google: We've found a fourth data-leaking Meltdown-Spectre CPU hole

snifferdog_the_second

Show some understanding, people

We're going to see more of these. To get the performance that users have come to expect, modern CPU's are so fiendishly complicated that nobody (even the people who design them) can possibly know how they will behave in all possible situations. I have every sympathy with the chip designers. Getting your head around CPU design these days must be extremely challenging.

And, to some extent, I blame software developers like myself. We have got lazy. "CPU's are fast" we say, "we don't need to bother about the efficiency of our code". I installed Windows 10 recently on a machine that, a few years ago, was state of the art and always had excellent performance. It ran like a dog, even doing something mundane like popping up a menu. Draw your own conclusions.

snifferdog_the_second

@razorfishsl: No