Posts by Tom 7 8318 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Jun 2009
Which is why the City claims to pay its fair share of tax in the economy. Given the two nationwide companies that I've worked for and had a hand in doing tax returns offered no regional breakdown of where the tax was earned and all paid via the head office I still have my doubts on that one.
I loved my P5 and it was fine in my shirt pocket - but then I'm one of those people you can put in a tailor made suit and it looks like sackcloth after 3 minutes!
It was not fine in my shirt pocket when pulling pants up after a crap though and didnt bounce well! I am still waiting for my old phone to pack up so I have an excuse to upgrade to one of these. I just hope enough people like them enough to start bug fixing the Linux versions as I have no interest in Android any more.
I think its perfectly safe to say its corrupt and idiotic. These machines are of a new design and wont have gone through normal legal testing procedures if they are going to be used. To do this when there are other manufacturers of validated machines available and waiting is a breach of procedures that at any other time would be in the courts on Monday morning.
You dont have to get a wedge to be corrupt.
Nice to see someone else uses stored procedures. I often wonder if there was something illegal about them!
On a non-stored procedure note a friend had an early db on the PC and the db file was well formatted and he asked me if I could speed up something that the db manager/interface took several hours to do - it was merely summing up some figures in one field so I wrote a bit of C to open the db file and just pull out those figures and add them up and print the value. It took longer for the floppy to spin up and provide the data than it did to add the figures so he was utterly convinced the program didnt do anything other than guess.
I used to be able to drive a couple of programs on keystrokes. Then the mouse came along and also other programs with different concepts of keystroke commands. My use of keystroke commands diminished and died though I often wonder about reinvigorating it. For some things it could be quite useful but if the mouse is necessary for any operations then keystrokes are out as the move from mouse to keyboard requires a spacial reset on the keyboard which removes any time saving.
As I've said elsewhere in this section I used to be able to touch type - taught myself on an old mechanical typewriter one summer while in the 6th form. I used Teletypes for my first programming which require some effort but I could hammer out stuff at a reasonable pace. Then I went on to design chips on various exotic machines some with odd number pads and random function keys. While I could still wizz along on my desktop VT100 I found the muscle memory for punctuation broke and slowed things down a lot. Then I got what is called in golf the oiks - which is where you overthink a simple thing like gently swinging a putter and end up with that 6 foot version. I've never managed to get back to the 70wpm though and weirdly I cant even type in my password when its dim!
I used to be able to touch type until the 80s when I used so many custom keyboards I got the oiks. The misses can and is very useful for document recovery. Trying to get the kids to learn while we are all in isolation but they really dont seem to see the point. I look forward to them poking their phones for their dissertations!
I'm running on 1 cpu and it takes about 4 hrs to do one while I'm using the laptop. Tried all 16 cores over lunch (PV running well here) but it cant run the fan fast enough to keep it cool - you could say it gives it a fever and breathing problems!
Need some compressed air to try and clean out fan and airways!
I used to drive 30 miles or so to work and some of it involved towns with lots of roundabouts. The XR3i used to get me into work in pretty much the same time as the VW camper - thought it was a lot more fun with the roof down and the straight through exhaust spitting like an angry wasp. Once I worked out driving like a lunatic didnt get me there any faster I analysed the situation.
Basically as IGotOut pointed out its largely other traffic that limits your time - doing 400 yds 10% faster normally means you just spend longer queueing at the junction.
But more importantly at speed you are not as able to judge the traffic ahead. The camper wouldnt do anything in a hurry and as a result you had the spare brain power to work out the traffic ahead - on low roundabouts you could even see traffic on the far side of it and many I time I could avoid braking on the approach and actually fly past the BMW that had overtaken me at speed but couldn't anticipate the gap in flow on the roundabout that I could. I was overtaken by the same car 6 times when driving across Chelmsford as a result.
But most important of all is idiot speeders slow the overall traffic down for everyone - they introduce turbulence into otherwise laminar traffic flow and fuck it up for everyone. That one idiot driving too fast down the outside lane of the motorway to be able to read the signs and cuts everyone up desperately trying to get to their turning leaves ripples in the traffic flow for hours afterwards.
Even in experienced hands this can cause problems. I've had devices that should have turned off after 10 seconds of holding the button down refuse to play until over a minute has passed. I had a router where the manual said hold the paper clip in the little hole for 10 seconds to reset to factory and the support engineer over the phone said 'not another one' and we chatted for near 5 minutes before the bloody thing reset -any longer and I would have started bleeding!
My first introduction to Adams was Dr Snuggles - a kids cartoon. I was off work with Bronchitis and guzzling Hills Bronchial Balsam and this cartoon cam on the telly and it was absolutely brilliant. I put it down to the morphine acetate in the afore mentioned balsam and only later discovered the H2G2 and even later that he had written some of Dr Snuggles.
It would only do that when its current path fails and it thinks it can sell a MASSIVE amount of them. And then would you buy 'RISC-V' chips from them? I think they may find it hard to match AMD and they could presumably put them out PDQ if they felt there was a big market for them.
I would like to see RISC-V become popular - I think it would require the biggest kickstarter and a lot of people suddenly wising up to whats potentially going on with their data.
Has anyone left Cambridge to live on a tropical Island lately? I cant believe that no-one in ARM knew about the sudden uptake in ARM products after the buyout? Either Softbank was sharing developer information internally (and so illegally?) or someone at ARM must have seen what was going on.
But given the 1600 micro-services will largely be interdependent the API's for them will resemble very closely the functions in a monolith so there is no reason for the monolith to be any worse than the interdependence. The problems arrive with complexity and the ability of those in charge of the thing to understand what's going on. The architecture is largely irrelevant if there are people in charge whohavent got a clue or haven't got the actual power to di the right thing.
And surely each micro-service has a discreet interface or its not going to be used except in a monolithic way?
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