Posts by Abominator 231 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Sep 2020
You can earn 300k doing the same at any commercial business that cares.
The government pays train drivers significantly more than this. Bad government cyber security allowed the NHS to get taken out nationally and regionally many other times.
Why would you bother?
As for Liverpool, 70% of employment is from the public sector so no change there then.
Maybe Rust developers just go write their own OS. See if people use it or not.
There is RedoxOS. How's that going?
From what I can tell there is next to no interest. So doing a bit of a cuckoo.
The amazing lack of self awareness. Hey, we are nice guys and just here to replace everything you are doing if we were allowed!
It's quite interesting. First up, I am British and voted remained. Center group type of person. I don't like leftists or the right. I sympathise with a small number of arguments of each.
To this law suit...
I had not thought that if I go a setup a new account, and start to follow people who are politically distasteful, knowing the free account is supported by advertising. Then just waiting or worse searching for highly controversial posts and photographing corporate advertisements alongside.
Then to publish this as research to put of other advertisers and damage the business model of the platform in a specific and targeted way.
I have been a Twitter users for many years. It's always been littered with trolls and extremists from the left and right. I would say it was more heavily loaded with hard left and was over the top on the rainbow hair people that seemed to be oblivious to the damage being done to children pushed to identify as the opposite sex rather than perhaps they were just gay. Thankfully, it feels like a lot of them have left Twitter/X and they have since been found out with the Cass review. They all seem to have moved to Reddit which was pretty much anything goes, but now it's been taken over by the rainbow hair people...words are violence types. How little they know.
Anyway, back to the whole law suit, this will be an interesting trial to watch progress, because now their tactics have been pointed out....faking research to damage a business they had a political agenda against the owner for. It would not suprise me that the same kind of tactics have been used for other nefarious purposes.
Modern ISO C++ can be used to write completely memory safe code and the compiler will verify it for you. What's wrong with that?
https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/20/rust_microsoft_c/
Stroustrup got back to us, defending the language he invented.
"We can now achieve guaranteed perfect type and memory safety in ISO C++. That is, every object is used according to the type it was defined with. That implies that we eliminate uses of dangling pointers, catch range errors, and eliminate data races. Note that every 'safe' language, including Rust, has loopholes allowing unsafe code."
The thing is you can write unsafe code in Rust and when I look at all the interesting low level stuff around allocators....it's all unsafe code!!!!!
Massive yawn.
People have had years to write things in languages like Java etc that are 'memory safe' according to their marketing teams. Yet they also continue to have horrible vulnerabilities. I'm thinking the entire Atlassian suite of software which is fully Java based. Poorly trained developers generally write bad code. There are very much limits to stopping human stupidity.
I have regular seen memory leaks in C# code, VBA etc. Circular object references and more.
Calls to rewrite everything of what is probably highly tested code because of more a religious agenda to use Rust is just going to put people off. Also the language is not even ISO standardised.
if they founders keep a majority voting share and they use the capital to invest and expand the business then they could be onto something really good.
Or they may do neither of those things and that will be the end of Raspberry Pi.
Been using these for years and these days spend more time with the Arduino's. For when you need really low power.
My grandmother says not the case, she does not like rust, but she is thinking rust on metal.
This is Rust developers talking about if they like Rust.
It's like asking professional Java developers if they like using Java. Maybe that's a bad analogy as they all go on to then try Scala in some failed project, then Kotlin, etc.
There is a great thread online about the whole Microsoft UI eco system. How the developers now have no say and the designers are in control. But they all use Mac's but design unusable UI's that they never have to use.
Windows 8, 10, 11. It's all fucked. Outlook is also fucked and they are coming for Word and heaven forbid Excel.
What is there revenue model? Are they selling the designs or they selling the chips?
I don't see how they make money out of an open source CPU designs, unless there is a proprietary element to it.
Otherwise, the big tech firms can do an Amazon like when they take the open source software and then run that up as a services and change for both the hardware and managing the software.
It's why Casandra DB etc changed their licensing models. Open source but not quite.
I remember early on during the pandemic when the government back loans were introduced.
People were complaining banks were taking too long, so the press and other politicians were screaming for the checks to be removed by banks. Checks there to stop fraudulent loan claims due to the pandemic.
Eventually the government relented and ordered banks to streamline.
Well, that has consequences. For everyone who says this is now bad, at the time the government and banks were the bad guys being too cautious and slow.
The way the press whips hysteria is half the problem. It would have been better to let many businesses go to the wall rather than enable this amount of fraud.
I blame Chome in particular Electron for much that has gone wrong in the last decade.
20 years ago, I had a fully functional and free massager app that was quick, worked reliably, took up a small amount of screen space and ran in 10MB
Today we have Teams and similar bloated products that need half a 4k, 27 inch screen and consume north of 1GB for worse functionality and user experience.
Web 2.0 looking back was a fucking disaster that made everyone want to embed the web in native apps and ultimately try and replace native apps.
The book is possibly the best on assembly for any CPU I have seen. A really good read. Not often you can say that about assembly books and I have read a lot.
To be so heavy handed like this to someone who has engaged with them and helps people get the best out of their product shows what morons they are now running ARM.
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