Posts by Julz

You

Only know, that you are who your mother told you, you are. Nothing more, nothing less.

Just

That:

“ I'd propose that people declare their age (without any verification) and if under 18 there is a total ban on all forms of advertising, data mining or use of the data by the companies - that way the social media companies wouldn't be so keen anymore.”

Then everyone can just say they are 16 and enjoy an ad free data protected service. Sound like a solution :)

Re: Don't need to exchange lots of rich, complex messages.

And that is just bad engineering.

Re: Peak enshittification

Just no.

It's

Worse than that. After years of outsourcing the companies core IT systems and cloudifying everything; good security (and a whole load of other NFR's) is now impossible to achieve. The corporate obsession for lower costs (at a balance sheet level) at any cost (no moral values here) will always result in products and processes that only just work with 'work' defined very loosely. The corporate way out of this is to insure against the introduced risks, which like outsourcing, seems to make it someone else's problem; at a cost. The result of all of this is that the products and services are shit, yet cost the consumers more, but hey all of the companies in the gravy chain are indemnified.

Welcome to the machine...

Re: So trump....

He needs a crisis so he can declare a nationwide emergency and stop the elections that would surly dent his power if not his ego.

Re: XEN

Well, ask Oracle about that...

Re: In-flight refueling?

The batteries are in separate mission bays so its, pull it out of the water onto a ship, replace battery packs, put it back. Recharge the batteries on the ship at your leisure...

Thanks

From your posts link, the term Commonwealth Hackish, leapt out. So here is another link:

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/C/Commonwealth-Hackish.html

Explains a lot...

Oh

Please just that "And ban the use of Excel completely!".

You

Could just RTFM...

Re: Performance hit

Micro kernels have a sort of IPC style communication between the various OS actors but this in not necessarily the performance issue that you might imagine. The piece didn't mention the other main micro kernel around in the 70s/80s/90s; Chorus Systèmes offering.

As I've mentioned before, this was used in ICL's GoldRush system and specialist hardware was used to aid both intra and inter processor comms and memory management. The result was that, for it's time, it flew performance wise. Given that it used Sun UltrasSPARC IV processors, I would hope current tech would do better even without the MMU tweaks, especially given the amount of close to CPU memory that is now available. All micro kernels need is the amount of attention that the Linux kernel has had over the last thirty odd years and they would be equally performant.

Microkernels are, as Mr Tanenbaum argued (I did too but no one really listened to me ;), a much better solution than a monolithic kernel in so many ways. It's such a shame that they are languishing near the scrap heap. Let's give them some love...

Re: My irony meter went SPROING!

I've often thought you should get a bill from the NHS at the end of your treatment/episode that would itemise the treatments and their price but at the grand total say that the cost to you is zero. This would both inform the people using the system of its value and force the various parts of the NHS's dismal infrastructure to play nice with each other.

Re: "I've seen these age checks popping up for large sections of Reddit"

URL?

Re: Tape as a Backup Media

Forth Bridging. Background task that used to be undertaken by mainframe operators to copy archived tapes onto new tapes to avoid aging issues.

Maybe using something like this.

Re: "Approaching at Hypersonic Speed"

Of the order of 100km sec-1 at a v v v low frequency.

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/162184/what-is-the-speed-of-sound-in-space

It’s

A race. The prize is real AI and only one can win.

Re: I think there's a lot to be said...

Now your all just yacc’ing on…

Hum

Close to the bottom.

Re: Too little, and way too late

Killing our space program and buying Polaris was also in the mix.

No

That's the job of GCHQ.

Well

They did say "energy", no mention of how much...

There

are millions of phones and other computers but not so many networks...

The

Irony of the War Of Independence runs deep.

Re: Disastrous Public Sector Oracle Project

I wouldn't be that charitable.

Re: what exactly causes our devices to consume energy

Then add in all in bit barns whirring away providing the mostly useless content not to mention AI rubbish.

Re: often making better designed and better built cars,

Hurrah!

I

Also remember that initiative. It paid (well some of it) for my job at ICL for a number of years. Other than my personnel benefit, it achieved not so much. Anybody remember Goldrush?

Hum

You can make more, just need enough nuetrons.

Re: Fun fact

As stated above; it's a clone of an Airbus 320, so what sort of competition is that?

I use them for stage lighting; no fuses...

The

Attitude steams directly from the top.

Re: "..the dull blue-green glow of hubris.."

Roger Waters…

Well

For starters, they are not surrounded by an unlimited supply of cooling fluid.