All these bad punners should be grounded.
Posts by Gene Cash
5697 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Mar 2007
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Train-knackering software design blunder discovered after lightning sparked Thameslink megadelay
This page is currency unavailable... Travelex scrubs UK homepage, kills services, knackers other sites amid 'software virus' infection
Snakes on a wane: Python 2 development is finally frozen in time, version 3 slithers on
> anything other than a boneheaded decision
Actually, the change was to fix boneheaded design decisions in the original language, and Guido Van Rossum basically stated it as such. There wasn't a good way to do it w/o breaking backward compatibility, so as another poster said, they "grasped that nettle and moved forward"
Re: More lazyness than anything
> fully integrated unicode support turned up a lot of latent user application bugs
Can I have a "oh fuck yeah" upvote button please?
However, the "EVERYTHING'S UNICODE" mindset does make it a lot more difficult to write out bytes to things like image files and embedded devices.
NASA's monster rocket inches towards testing while India plots return to the Moon
Re: We're still catching up to the NASA of the 1960s in many ways
>> first moment when the Empire Star Destroyer flew over the camera vantage point in the original Star Wars back in the day.
> "As impressive as the CGI in Star Wars." Not sure I'd take that as a compliment.
Pedantic bit... that moment was most definitely not CGI. It was filmed with a large model and some of the first computer-motion-controlled cameras.
It's always DNS, especially when you're on holiday with nothing but a phone on GPRS
Re: It was a quiet Friday night and I wasn't on call,
> The Ops team had a list of names and numbers for the different application suites
That's the way it should work: the people responsible for the code are the ones that get bothered.
It's amazing how quickly the code gets fixed when that procedure is followed.
Today's budget for application improvements is brought to you by the letters "Y", "K" and the number "2"
Y2K? It was all just a big bun-fight, according to one Reg reader
Re: Saved our bacon Y2K did.
> where if something shows up that "shouldn't exist", the reaction is to make reality match the paperwork, no matter how critical the equipment might actually be
You'd be looking for the "offog" and and Eric Frank Russell was looking for one in 1955:
https://www.baen.com/Chapters/1439133476/1439133476___3.htm
Beware the three-finger-salute, or 'How I Got The Keys To The Kingdom'
How do you ascertain user acceptability if you keep killing off the users?
Want to live long and prosper? Avoid pirated, malware-laden Star Wars free vid streams – and pay to watch instead
The IoT wars are over, maybe? Amazon, Apple, Google give up on smart-home domination dreams, agree to develop common standards
Re: I already have an IoT standard
I made a useful IoT device, with a Wi-Fi-capable Arduino board and a high precision temperature sensor board from Sparkfun. It's housed in a Stevenson Screen I 3D-printed.
I have a cron job poll it every 5 minutes and stick the info into a sqlite3 database. A Python script using matplotlib makes pretty pictures. I already have an Apache instance running for other things.
However, the basic reason for its existence is to help me decide what to wear on the motorcycle to work. I got tired of squinting at shitty thermometers, and the nearest weather.gov sites are 15 miles away and only updated once an hour.
I was NOT going to pay $150 for an inaccurate "weather station" piece-of-shit from Acurite or Lacrosse. Those c*nts have captured the market here, and they suck.
So it's "genuinely useful to me" and serves my purpose.
Xbox Series X: Gee thanks, Microsoft! Just what we wanted for Xmas 2020 – a Gateway tower PC
US and China wave white flags, hit pause button on trade war
The Democrats have completely played into Trump's big orange hands, and made total fools of themselves. They've jumped up and down and yelled, then come up with really weak charges.
You want to know how people like Trump get elected? Because the other party is, amazingly enough, even stupider. With the Democratic party infighting and general idiocy, I expect there will be no one to gather enough of the splintered votes to oppose him. :-(
These are the droids you're looking for: Softbank launches Japan cafe staffed by bots
Works for me
I go to McDonald's solely because they have a *working* self-order screen. (as opposed to the useless broken shit at places like Wendy's)
Finally I can order without explaining it 4 times to someone that doesn't speak English as a first language and still getting it wrong 50% of the time. (Not that there's anything wrong with that, but a language barrier when I've got to get something to eat is not welcome... the language barrier is partly my fault as well, due to my rough Southern accent)
I certainly don't go there for the food, but they've got my business because of the technology.
And then there were two: HMS Prince of Wales joins Royal Navy
OpenBSD bugs, Microsoft's bad update, a new Nork hacking crew, and more
Your duckface better be flawless: Huawei's Nova 6 mobe has a needlessly powerful selfie camera
We know this sounds weird but in future we could ask fiber optic cables: Did the earth move for you... literally?
Newly born Firefox 71 emerges from its den – with its own VPN and some privacy tricks
Stand back, we're going in: The Register rips a 7th-gen ThinkPad X1 Carbon apart. Literally
No "do not remove" sticker present
That's because those stickers are illegal on this side of the pond:
"FTC Gives Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo 30 Days to Get Rid of Illegal Warranty-Void-if-Removed Stickers"
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xw7b3z/warranty-void-if-removed-stickers-sony-microsoft-nintendo-ftc-letters
One of the extremely few places we're slightly better than European consumer practices.
ESA toasts 10% budget boost by stretching ISS support out to 2030
So jealous
> Unlike NASA, which operates on a year-to-year basis (albeit with a much bigger budget), ESA's budget gives the agency five years, which makes planning a tad easier.
That's a corker. NASA has been not-so-royally f*cked by the space mission du jour "planning" where we just do robotics go to the Moon Mars Lunar Gateway Moon is it still the Moon?
The president tells NASA to do something, mainly for a sound bite, NASA dutifully spends a couple hundred million planning, then get told to trash all that and do something else.
So our future in space comes down to wacknuts like Musk and Bezos spending their personal fortunes. Then some fruitcake goes "but that needs to be spent here on Earth for the poor!"
Apple's latest keyboard travels back in time to when they weren't crap
Anomaly-free SpaceX fires up SuperDracos, ISS astros go iFixit in orbit, and Buran turns 31
Judge shoots down Trump admin's efforts to allow folks to post shoddy 3D printer gun blueprints online
Don't miss this patch: Bad Intel drivers give hackers a backdoor to the Windows kernel
Astroboffins capture video of Mercury passing across the Sun's surface
Are you as handy with privacy certs as you are with a screwdriver? Ikea has the perfect vacancy
40 million emoji-addicted keyboard app users left with $18m bill – after malware sneaks into Play Store yet again
Re: Why?
Because the standard word-prediction logic in the standard keyboard is shit, and there's much better available elsewhere.
Plus I like my keyboard with arrow keys, and keys designed to make selection/copy/paste much easier.
Plus there are indeed specialized keyboards, such as ones designed to work with ssh terminal apps like ConnectBot.
The eagle has handed.... scientists a serious text message bill after flying through Iran, Pakistan
Time to check who left their database open and leaked 7.5m customer records: Hi there, Adobe Creative Cloud!
Re: Only amateurs use cloud editing software
Only the download and subscriptions checks are in the cloud
Yup. Meaning the applications "installed and running locally" tell you to piss off when your network connection is down and it can't contact the Adobe license server. So it's "network's down? artists are down"
Amazon fails to stop ex-sales staffer winging it to Google Cloud
Re: In California, U.S.A....
If you look at the history of Silicon Valley firms, especially the early days of semiconductor firms like Intel and Fairchild, you'll see this is a big part of what caused it to grow. People didn't like their current job, they were free to get another one, or even start a new company.
Mark Hurd is dead
Fancy yourself as a bit of a Ramblin' Man or Woman? Maybe brush up on your cartography
Nominet continues milking .uk registry cash cow with 4 per cent price rise for... what exactly?
WeWork, but We don't IPO: Self-styled techie boarding house calls off cursed stock offering
Pro tip: Plug in your Tesla S when clocking off, lest you run out of juice mid hot pursuit
Every dog has its day – and this one belongs to Boston Dynamic's four-legged good boy Spot
Chef melts under heat, will 86 future deals with family-separating US immigration agencies
The Central Telegraph Office was serving spam 67 years before vikings sang about it on telly
NASA's lunar spy looks for hide-and-seek champ Vikram, Starliner test success, and more
Linux 5.3 kernel bundles new, cuddlier, swear-free Torvalds with AMD Radeon Navi graphics support
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