Posts by maffski

Re: Shafted three ways...

It's not due to Brexit. It's due to the EU. Someone in Thailand would also need an EU point of contact.

Re: I wonder if those servers are being run for and by Automattic...

...or if they are run for and by the WordPress Foundation

Neither, turns out Wordpress.org is completely controlled by Matt in person. Which means every single Wordpress site in the world updates solely on his whim. Which came a surprise to me as I thought that wordpress.org was the foundation.

He claimed that this is because the foundation is non profit and as .org provides updates to commercial organisations it wasn't allowed to control the site, however he also explained the foundation owns a for profit (WordPress Community Support) so there's no reason it couldn't run the .org in a similar way.

Re: Not the first time....

Yep, wouldn't be hard to do a licence that required time/code contribution or direct payments to the foundation once you get over a revenue threshold. But you do it by the licence, not by trying to bully or shame.

Re: That is an absolute dick move

To the down voters. Go click on some Spiffing Brit videos at random and then come back here and apologise.

Re: From Intel...

You should be careful. There have been some reports of horse migration causing plane instability.

Re: Zero Content File

I guess it only had 20 zeros. If there had been 21 it would have been fine.

Surely they've come up with a test that will identify the at risk chips and allow them to return the rest to the vendors, they won't be 'fixing' any of them in the time available

Although the 9400f or something may have just moved forward in the schedules

The answer is test what you're shipping and roll it out slowly.

'...The answer is test what you're shipping and roll it out slowly....'

The answer is to sue CrowdStrike into the ground so that every other security company decides hardening their drivers is a good investment.

This was due to a specific failure in the AGESA code for the motherboard BIOS. Ensure your motherboard is running the latest BIOS and potential overvolt that causes it should be blocked.

Re: Thank you Liam

"a teetering stack of dozens of layers of flakey unreliable code, which in turn needs thousands and millions of people constantly patching the holes in it, and needs customers to pay to get those fixes fast, and keep paying for them for years to come."

Guess what. Things are made of things. And very complex things are made of many complex things.

Doesn't matter if it's code, chemistry or joinery. It's all loads of imperfect stuff cobbled together.

Re: What about the people who can't visualize?

I have aphantasia, I get really nervous arranging to meet friends at somewhere a bit vague (e.g. 'meet you outside the cinema') because until I'm actually looking at them I have no idea what they look like. People that I've known for years and I couldn't describe them better than a police report.

Re: pile it high, sell it cheap

Another way of putting it would be that we have a very successful track record in generating and exporting IP.

In 20 years time we will be mining landfill sites for metals.

What do you think a scrapyard is?

Re: I see this a lot

You're not thinking meta enough. Get ChatGPT to write tests to validate the tests written by ChatGPT. Add enough layers and the chances of the same errors being in each tier approach 0.

Re: Shoddy reporting

The company isn't being closed. It's simply being delisted from the public exchange. The NHS trusts are having to list them as zero value as there is no public price for them to trade at, they could still be sold but it would be up to the trust to find a buyer and agree a price.

So this is mostly just a quirk of the accounting process. They haven't lost millions, mainly because they never had those millions to start with.

Or, in other words. The article is clickbait.

Re: Generates annual revenues of €41.9bn

You're right, poor people getting access to services subsidised by advertisers is a much worse deal for them then having to pay the cost to provide the service.

And if this is 'generating nothing' why are people paying to advertise?

Re: 'CFO's

Hopefully someone near the core of the opensource project was smart enough to run a commercial business offering support and/or remote hosting.

If you don't fit in with a commercial businesses way of viewing the world then you're not going to get any kind of engagement from them. Perhaps opensource projects should sell entirely optional licences, I suspect a lot of the time if techs went to their bosses with a quote for a licence it would get signed off without a problem.

Re: "Updated to add"

I don't understand how it is taking them so long to fix this.

They're probably still trying to work out why anyone thought it was a good idea to distribute virtual instances over physical servers alphabetically.

Meanwhile customers starting with a letter Q report performance has always been excellent.

Asimov described so many things you'd think he was making them up.

Re: Extinguishers...

Aus is big. The safest, cheapest and easiest solution is to do exactly what they did. Space the batteries out and let it burn.

Re: Fastly 'fesses up'

I notice they don't bother to mention what the 'customer configuration change' was. If I was cynical I might be inclined to think it was something so simple they'd be embarrassed by revealing it.

Re: it would have been interesting to see what was in those "final codes"

Unless, of course, they have previous data of predicted vs actual grades that show teachers of larger classes are more likely to overestimate predicted grades.

Re: Still. The Farage Garage will be open for business on time.

How about we dress it up as 'People were asked a question and those that answered gave their preference.'

In the same way you could title this article 'It may date back to 1994 but there's no end in sight for the UK's Chief customs system as Brexit rules beckon' or you could go with 'System from 1994 is still capable and so will be maintained'

Re: Linux and more

// This is a skanky hack!

That strikes me as a very useful comment - a warning that you should think about it rather than read it.

The ones that annoy me are things like:

// Check that the customer has sufficient balance to place the order

That shouldn't be described by a comment. It should be described by a method name.

Re: United, together

But the union has management as well. Who are, by your own reasoning, in it for themselves.

Re: You can add another

And yet contractors get paid more than permanent staff? Your work is worth what it's worth.

That can be wages, taxes, sick pay, holiday pay, a staff canteen, stock options, free bagel Thursday, whatever.

And you demanding an extra £8000 per year depends entirely on relative costs - can you really leave or is it an empty threat? Can I replace you with someone else for less? Will that cost more in productivity than I save in wages? Can I replace you with automation? How much investment will that take?

Of course Apple cares. A custom CPU package would cost more.

Re: Tempora mutantur, et nos mutamur in illis.

'When I was young it was the dog that ate your homework'

It's the giant mutant star goat you have to watch out for.

Re: What is the point ?

'Lots of brains at ARM have the skills that could boost Nvidia's ranks'

It could go the other direction as well. NVidia are extremely good at market segmentation and they might think that while Softbanks 'just charge more for everything' approach will drive customers from ARM some careful technology segmentation might see specialist industries paying up.

Re: why aren't postal votes considered a fraud risk in the US?

They are. The results of elections have been very carefully analysed and there have been a number of studies that conclude the risk is fucking tiny.

So you agree with Trump that an increase in mail in votes will lead to '...the MOST CORRUPT election in our nations history...'

This is the issue I have with all these 'truth checkers' - they seldom seem to be actually checking what was said and instead going off an OMG interpretation

"Not one non-hole driller has been able to explain what tangible benefit they think they have by not drilling a hole in the bottom of this boat". The answer is, of course, not fucking everything up.

Not terribly relevant but almost all boats have at least one hole in the bottom.

You don't seriously think that the PM hasn't been sacked (or quit) several times already ?

It's government funding. The PM(s) will have been promoted.

Re: USB

To be fair it was the USB A socket that finally proved the existence of 720 degree quantum spin.

Re: Wishy washy

'ALL Lives Matter!'

What, exactly, do you have against zombies?

'unless they can convert the satellite from Ku-band to L-band, then they cannot be configured to operate with existing GPS receivers.'

Why would you want to do that? Do you expect billions of existing perfectly good GPS receivers to be updated to support an additional standard?

There's no reason why these satellites can't provide navigation, comms (the British military currently buy commercial bandwidth I believe), and emergency location beacons.

I don't think we need another GPS, but if you're going to do it you may as well get all the services you can.

Try reading it as 'people who sell models insist you need to buy models'

Re: "Intel never thrilled me" - "x86-64 isn't at all bad"

x86-64 isn't Intel. It's AMD.

Re: It's almost as if...

...people are capable of calculating the opportunity cost from being sat at home for three months