Posts by wilhoit

Hide the keyboard – it's the only way to keep this software running

Re: Wat?

As if that were not confusing enough, there is a kind of synthetic "natural gas" that is called "water gas", because it is made by cracking water over hot coals. It is a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen.

Intel's processor failures: A cautionary tale of business vs engineering

When the government...

...makes you a gift of $20B, receiving government gifts automatically becomes the mission.

Dangerous sandwiches delayed hardware installation

Re: blowing up the bag may indeed have been the correct form of disposal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osTXEUHNcCQ&list=OLAK5uy_l8N6TQ6ogXmH-G-gViwO8YH-c_nABkXhs&index=2

Utility firms go nuclear over Amazon datacenter power deal

For once, AEP is right about something

...but why are PJM not raising this objection on their own behalf? They are the ones who will be in trouble if/after something goes wrong.

Db2 is a story worth telling, even if IBM won't

DB2 is a poor fit for "modern" workloads

... particularly any flavor of ORM, because joins are so expensive. That, in turn, is down to an isolation model designed for batch. I have always thought that IBM would like to build -- or, better, buy -- a more modern engine and that, whenever that successor technology might drop into their laps, they would give it all new branding, hence the slow-rolling of DB2. Also they would lose some new sales if the customers understood what a hardware hog it is.

114 billion transistors, one big meh. Apple's M1 Ultra wake-up call

For some time now, and for the foreseeable, the quality of the typical end-user experience is determined by the fact that TCP did not envision semi-connected networks. Hardware makes no difference to this .