Posts by deadlockvictim

Weird Al «Mission Statement»

Weird Al's song «Mission Statement» came to mind when I attempted that first paragraph.

At least the author didn't attempt to architect anything.

The YouTube video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4

Re: If a tiny typo brings down half of Brazil, perhaps we’re the nuts

Yes, and the whole point of Azure is to earn Microsoft shitloads of money.

Mechanical Changes

Mechanical Changes are what happens when you treat your hardware like Lego.

Lego, though, doesn't have to deal with the complexity of hot-swapping.

It might even be that servers have to be off when you replace NICs.

CI/CD

DR is already "Disaster Recovery"...

Do you mean that it is a bit like what CI/CD means?

Our communications team and developers both this term to radically different things.

Offline

You are welcome to take your Windows box offline.

If you stay online, then you are Microsoft's bitch (or Putin's depending on who gets to you first).

Subscription

I'd rather YouTube went down the Spotify route, charged a subscription for access with some videos being free to access and got rid of the ads.

Be warned about these links

Not because of the contents (which while amusing are also anti-semitic & factually incorrect) but the layout: black background, neon green & yellow text, and, as a previous commentard as mentioned, indiscriminate use of all-caps.

This is sore on the eyes and gives one the impression that the writer had not had much sleep in the past 48 hours and was getting by on coffee, sugar or possibly something less legal.

It is a nice reminder of earlier days though.

Re: "The UK’s GREAT"?

'British' as the adjective of the United Kingdom has always rubbed my Asperger's up the wrong way.

I have no problem with the good folk in East Belfast saying they are loyal subjects of his Majesty and that Northern Ireland is a part of the United Kingdom but when they say they are British, it is just geographically wrong.

They are Irish, in so far as they were born on the island of Ireland, their families have lived in Ireland for the last 300-ish years and they lived the vast majority of their lives on the island of Ireland. They are Irish, whether they like it or not. And it's not too bad, as far as stables go.

Uplifting

So the answer was inside us all along.

How inspiring!

Re: This is when...

Chuckufarley» "There were signs and signals and bribes and brides"

That's a great line. Did you plagiarise it or it all yours?

Re: So

No, DNA specifies the sex of an individual. Sex is not gender.

Re: Dance with the Devil

"The NSA or GCHQ cannot compel cooperation - they can ask, but even so within limits"

Extraordinary rendition anyone?

Re: 10 exaflops of "AI performance"

Thankfully then we know what the question is.

I was at lecture once where two hyperdimensional beings (who looked a lot like small white mice) who revealed to us that it was how many roads must a man walk down, before you can call him a man.

Re: They're just very crappy tools.

BS being something it says and has no idea whether it is true or not (BS, for non-native speakers of English, is bullshit).

ChatGPT can not lie because it has no idea what the truth is.

It just sounds so authoritative and certain when it should use more subjunctives and phrases to indicate that it is to the best of its knowledge.

Re: Meaning of "woke"

Whenever I hear the term 'woke' being (ab)used, it is almost always from someone on the Right exclaiming horror at someone that deeply offends them, not that that is hard.

So, 'woke' means 'not conforming to what we on the Right want to happen/have happened'.

It is essentially a modern version of how the word 'liberal' was used.

Re: Rarely observed.

Are you positing that the cat can never be sure if his human is awaiting loyally outside his box until he looks?

Re: Perspective (for our US readers)

Be careful how you invoke evil.

This sort of evil contained within Hunter Biden's Laptop® has not been seen since Republicans learnt what playing Dungeons & Dragons was doing to the Youth in America.

The number of new covens being formed then and of young people even considering not going to church reached such high levels that Something Had to be Done.

Thank God that this was Reagan's America and that Good People could rest easy.

Re: "Going forward, Twitter will be broadly accepting of different values"

I love the way that the word 'broadly' is doing so much work here to render the rest of the sentence meaningless.

It is like adding ' he lied' to the end of a statement.

Re: Must try harder

True and their definition of 'smut' is quite wide-reaching.

Just the word 'woman' into any browser on safe-mode and you will already have 'smut'.

My guess is that the Pakistani authorities are authoritarian in nature and expect other bodies to be equally so.

And with authoritarian bodies you have to project strength and demand.

And so, the very idea that they could summon 100 underlings to go and actually make the changes themselves is outside of their ken.

Who would be weak enough to let anyone to do that?

Probably the same people who let their womenfolk outdoors without the permission of their father, brother or husband.

Re: Show us the stats

Really?

By whom?

Would you supply some evidence to back this up please?

And what exactly do you mean by 'business endpoint'? MacBook Pros? Some new class of cloudy offering? Are Apple planning to take the IoT world by storm with a cutdown version of MacOS devices everywhere?

Re: Hexidecimalization

I agree, the Imperial System would have an awful lot to recommend it if everything was evenly divisible by 12 and only 12.

Re: What a load of cobblers

That's right: cakes don't kill people, people kill people.

Oddly enough, Eddie Izzard springs to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZVjKlBCvhg

Basil Brush laugh & boom boom

Title says it all really.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtxbM7-jAD0

Re: It's just a tool

PST» Lots of wicked articles are written using MS Word. Terrorists probably use Excel databases.

This sounds like a perfectly valid reason to ban Word & Excel. I don't see what the problem is.

automatically-generated code

I see the SQL code generated by Entity Framework and if this is anything to go developers can code faster but the quality of their code is falling off a cliff.

Out of interest, I wonder what percent of the forthcoming layoffs at Microsoft will be developers and what percentage of the reasons for their layoffs will be AI doing their jobs for them?

Re: "job for life" died at the end of the 1980s, Amazon is no different!

Ronald Reagan, this is your legacy.

This is what you have left America: all-powerful corporations & their executives and workers who can be disposed of at a whim.

You really were the antithesis to FDR.

Re: Yet Another BS "survey"...

My takeaway from the article is that the typical engineer will start in or around the average industrial wage and rises from there.

It's not explicitly mentioned there, I simply extrapolated backwards from those deemed to be in demand who get the surgeon-type salaries.

Re: Yeah, smart appliances are DUMB.

Instead no new vehicles with ICEs will be produced after a certain point and the price of petrol will be sky high on account of its relative scarcity.

That certain point might be 2050 but I do think that it will happen with the next two generations.

Just be sure that your children/grandchildren have a large reserves of fuel onhand for your Mustang.

Re: Decade or two too early

So, do you reckon this is akin to the Newton from Apple in the 1990s?

It was a nice idea but realistically unimplementable in 1990s' hardware (although Palm didn't do a bad job some years later).

It certainly wasn't the iPhone that would follow 12 years' later.

Re: Disingenuous

Point taken. I was a bit too quick in my rush to post.