Posts by MrXonTR

Re: Count me in, please.

I logged in just to say, mine's the one with SPF50 in the pocket.

"feel free to brew me a mug of strong Earl Grey with half a teaspoon of sugar and full cream milk"

Fetch me my fighting trousers!

- https://youtu.be/0iRTB-FTMdk

Re: Remind me

Also don't forget the stainless steel they chose is such a cheap alloy that it will rust if it ever gets wet. Fingerprints are caustic enough to damage it.

Elon Musk is the John Delorean of our generation.

Re: Seriously, author?

Termination proxies already communicate that sort of information with "X-Forwarded-For", "X-Forwarded-Host", and "X-Forwarded-Proto" HTTP headers. I can't imagine it difficult to have one more header that carries some session data. Or perhaps the proxy can be in charge of confirming sessions on behalf of the application, which only needs to know who a user is after authentication.

Re: Has the man

Police have said they have a good lead on the case.

WTF!?

I'd heard of font vulnerabilities and assumed it was some sort of buffer overflow because it's always buffer overflows. But they were executables all along? Ew! No wonder people like to block them now. It's like tucking into a bag of crisps and discovering somebody's severed fingernail at the bottom.

Re: Welcome back Java promise!!!

The big promise of Java was "write once, run anywhere" but it implied "compile once" because apparently compiling for different targets it just too hard dammit! But it isn't that hard really and fully compiled programs haven't gone away and Java was always a runner up to C++. WASM itself is pretty much a niche on the web since most apps don't need it and WASI will probably remain niche too.

Re: Well...

The description of the concrete incident reminds of the principle of fail-safe, on perhaps the lack of it. Instead of assuming a road is a road until you see specific signs like a red "STOP" one, you assume that nothing is a road until proven otherwise. Is it flat but wet? Either not a road or a dangerously slippy road. Is it wet and raining? Then probably acceptable to ignore the previous condition but slow down anyway.

The "10 car pile up" was actually "backed up" because this was fail-safe. There wasn't enough bandwidth and so the cars chose to not risk it. Although I am confused what they need all that bandwidth for. Are they streaming video to a dark room full of preteens trying to score 1000 points for hitting a pedestrian? (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105629/)

Re: un-neutered male

Once a tom cat has learnt to spray things he'll generally never stop even after surgery. It's best to get 'em young.

At my old school the science teachers had a long running gag of sending the troublesome kids on errands. On one memorable occasion a lad was sent to the lab tech to receive a "long stand" and returned briefly with a very tall lab support stand. Mrs Hutchinson (best lab tech ever) had been waiting for this opportunity and had placed it just inside the door.

A town square...

...reminds me of bonfire nights. And here we'll hang around waiting for it go bang, in supposed remembrance of a failed attempt to overthrow the government by a small angry group who didn't like the way democracy was going for them. Maybe in the future we'll burn Elon effigies around this time of the year. Penny for the Musk guv'na?

I'll take the bait

Using Chernobyl as an indicator of danger is the wrong argument to make. So far there have been 78 recorded deaths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_and_radiation_accidents_by_death_toll

A greater number of people have died from mishandling of radiotherapy and x-ray machines. This should be much scarier than nuclear power plants because people are closer to these things on a daily basis.

However those few hundred losses pale in the face of renewable energy. One event at a hydroelectric dam can kill up to hundreds of thousands at once!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure

Even that is grossly overshadowed by fossil fuels which are responsible for 8.7 megadeaths per year (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2021/feb/fossil-fuel-air-pollution-responsible-1-5-deaths-worldwide). That's not a one-off like a Chernobyl disaster, it's every single year. And it's getting worse because despite all the evidence global use is still growing.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-fossil-fuel-consumption

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Your pathetic fear mongering won't work here. The real obstacle to Nuclear power is it's huge up front cost. Try using that to deter people instead.