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I didn't realise we were giving medical record access to a company whose owner is sponsoring a government hell bent on eugenic policies in the USA.
Posts by Majack
12 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Aug 2019
Some English hospitals doubt Palantir's utility: We'd 'lose functionality rather than gain it'
Palantir loves the smell of DOGE budget cuts in the morning
We heard you like HBM – Nvidia's Blackwell Ultra GPUs will have 288 GB of it
Wednesday 19th March 2025 21:50 GMT
Nvidia is all spin, and amd has dyspraxic marketing
NB Im dyspraxic so I get to say it.
I could throw Jenson further than trust what comes out of the top of that leather jacket. Having suffered first hand at the consequences of golf course decision making, I doubt any due diligence done by actual tech savy data centre staff will make a difference to the outcome.
Are we springing into a Y2K-class nightmare?
Thursday 17th March 2022 01:27 GMT
I love being proven right. :-p
Parts of the USA already don't observe daylight savings, Arizona for instance.
I would say the majority of the past 20 years of my engineering career has been to try and convince everyone to develop or store in UTC, and include an offset if local time needs to be recorded, and then only in the presentation logic do the conversion, potentially with a provided timezone if converting to a new local time. There is some business logic that are exceptions to this rule, generally around user specified scheduling, but its significantly safer, to use this approach.
Unfortunately I suspect many people don't see this problem, and considering how popular event sourcing has become, I do worry that off the shelf products have not thought this through, and will lead to Y2K2.
What many people don't know is timezone boundaries actually change over time, as hinted at by the registers reference to the tz-database. there are cases where a small town might find its timezone changes if it happens to be in the wrong place.
Bad things come in threes: Apache reveals another Log4J bug
Ransomware-hit law firm secures High Court judgment against unknown criminals
UK gives military's frikkin' laser cannon project a second roll of the dice
Infosys follows flag-waving US hiring spree with quieter Canadian and Mexican hiring spree
Monday 18th January 2021 11:28 GMT
Offshoring still doesn't work.
Location plays a much smaller role than time difference. If the person who needs the work and the people doing it, are not in regular contact, it just takes longer to get what is wanted. So unless you offshore the decision makers with the team, or better yet whole departments, you ain't going to make it work.
What do you call megabucks Microsoft? No really, it's not a joke. El Reg needs you
Monday 11th May 2020 14:16 GMT
Not *
Talking about azure, Not Amazon.
About bing. Not Google
Surface, Not apple
Xbox, Not Sony
Windows, Not Linux
Edge, Not Netscape (for the oldies)
Mssql, Not Oracle
Phone, Not Blackberry
Microsoft these days is all about aping their competitors, despiratley trying to out pace them to be the leader in that sector.
Of course office suite might be more difficult, maybe just calling them Microsoft in relation to those products is deserved.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
