Re: doomed, doomed I say
Who sold them that shit anyway? That's the kind of sales people I'd like on my team!
Posts by fajensen
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Financial exchange's efforts to replace core systems with blockchain founder – again
How a crypto bridge bug led to a $200m 'decentralized crowd looting'
Meta asks line managers to identify poorly performing staff for firing
UK govt promises to sink billions into electronic health records for England
Thursday 30th June 2022 12:31 GMT
Re: "backed by £2 billion [..] in funding"
Those are rookie numbers! The pros can do "GBP 37 billion last we checked - and still going up": https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/127/public-accounts-committee/news/150988/unimaginable-cost-of-test-trace-failed-to-deliver-central-promise-of-averting-another-lockdown
Intel’s CEO shouldn’t be surprised America can’t get CHIPS Act together
The perfect crime – undone by the perfect email backups
Toyota wants 'closed loop' EV batteries in its future cars
Wednesday 22nd June 2022 08:17 GMT
Re: Value in old things...
Well, "we*" are allowing poverty to exist and thrive, so, "society" belives it has value: Obviously, we can't then have workarounds and hacks that diminish the effects of being poor?
*) My personal opinion is that poverty should not exist in an advanced economy like ours. Being "advanced" kinda implies that any medieval and 3'rd world stuff should not be allowed here. It diminishes our investment in "civilisation", as it were. However, The Daily Mail segment wants it differently and they are in government, so...
Wednesday 22nd June 2022 08:07 GMT
Re: "a closed loop battery manufacturing process"
Toyota kinda have to come up with a system like that to sell EV's in the EU market. They haven't got an EV-car yet, it takes a few years to get there, so they will have to have the production set up for "what it is like in 2025".
There are EU rules and directives about companies "taking their own crap back".
For car-makers the trip into new territory on recykliing started in earnest with the plastic and composite parts (the metals were already "done"), but, the scope of the "circular economy" is being gradually expanded and the enforcement is getting stricter too.
Used EV-batteries are an obvious next iteration, Toyota probably believe that if they can get in front of the process and set an example, that example will become what Everyone must implement, and then they will have a competitive advantage.
I like the idea too.
Microsoft promises to tighten access to AI it now deems too risky for some devs
Drone ship carrying yet more drones launches in China
Tuesday 31st May 2022 07:47 GMT
Re: Pointless PR
A normal battle ship has a ludicrous amount of people for its size, all milling around, and barely managing to avoid creating more problems than those they are supposed to solve. These ships are running at capacity :)
If robots are there for the fighting and shooting, or really just sitting inside sealed containers in a protective atmosphere, then one could have a lot fewer meatbags run around fixing things, and doing maintainance.
A normal ship's crew of perhaps 12-15 people would be sufficient. They don't even have to know what the mission is and with a crew that small one could afford to pay and feed them well enough to not really care.
Tuesday 31st May 2022 07:26 GMT
Re: @trindflo - intercept and expel?
The point of Afghanistan was to never win, but to use up loads of kit, and to keep at least one war cooking forever, benefiting "The Economy", and having a convenient "existential threat" around to justify it all. The problem being that the old USSR so rudely and totally unexpected shat the bed and croaked, leaving everyone grasping for new threats :p
I think Kuwait was different because they still had all those weapons and equipment stockpiled for when the USSR would pour through the Fulda Gap, so they took that opportunity to re-target, use it all up and restock.
But, Afghanistan was just retarded: We are spending hundreds of billions annually, and growing that +5% p/a, on a very technical millitary that basically just bombs some rubble into smaller rubble, because thats all the threat there was left to bomb in Afghanistan after 6 months.
But, we can rejoice, Russia is back in the game, things are normalised, we have a decent enough threat to fear, and the defence business will be roaring back to its old glory again.
Shanghai lockdowns to end, perhaps easing tech supply chain woes
Tuesday 31st May 2022 06:33 GMT
Re: Hooray! The lockdowns are ending...
Selection bias: I just assume that everyone too stupid and crass to not use their position to gob off about how other people should cook for 35p or demand we man up and work 3 jobs to survive, they are indeed a cunt all the way through.
The problem with rich cunts is that wealth amplifies their cunt'ish personality, and allows them to inflict their general stupidity, evil, or both, onto everyone else, who must suffer under it. Making it a civilisation-problem rather than just the usual some-idiot-gobbing-off-at-the-asda-checkout stuff, that we can deal with.
I am sure that Vladimir Putin worked so hard for his money and pulled himself all the way up by his bootlaces, like a real self-made guy. That doesn't make him anything less of an arsehole, does it?
Monday 30th May 2022 14:22 GMT
Re: Hooray! The lockdowns are ending...
Nope. But, We can go back to work rebuilding the economies of some rich cunts!
Our own economies will remain fucked, and that will be ensured by people like Jerome Powell strongly believing that too much is still being left on the table for workers - after ramming inflation rates into the rails, and scumbags like Boris Johnson and Putin fucking some shit up on every occasion they have!!
IBM ends funding for employee retirement clubs
Tuesday 31st May 2022 05:57 GMT
What are they going to do with all this money?
Invest it in assets that their mates on the political side can then inflate so they can make more money to invest in stuff that inflates and makes more money.
These are generally boring people. Their worst excesses will be stuff like wearing an item of brightly coloured cloting at a dresscode event, and maybe they will buy a newpaper or a few politicians or create a think-tank, so they can build some kind of audience for their mostly boring and ill-concieved ideas.
Elon Musk is pretty much the outlier.
Broadcom's stated strategy ignores most VMware customers
Tuesday 31st May 2022 05:34 GMT
Re: But it's a winning strategy.
I imagine that Broadcom has ideas about where that money will be spent.
A company that bought the software graveyard that is Symantic is all out of good ideas; Or maybe they wanted to grind down all that dead code and put it in various system-health products, kinda like the Victorians did with mummies?.
Tuesday 31st May 2022 05:28 GMT
Re: But it's a winning strategy.
Maybe. But, if "the volume" is not there, the risk is that they will become bound to serve the kinks of their "600 most favored clients", becoming more and more specialised, while "The Market" happily kicks off in some different and new direction: Someone else will provide the cheap gateway drug for Virtualisation, and those people will capture the "next thing".
Bang & Olufson tried a similar move, going only for "high-end customers", then finding that "high-end" don't invest enough in 15000 EUR TV's to keep the factory running. In the meantime the little people who bought faithfully at the cheaper end of the B&O product line discovered the Japanese HiHi equipment.
When management went nuclear on an innocent software engineer
Friday 27th May 2022 16:49 GMT
Re: nice story
nuclear waste is nasty but fits in a few oil drums
Why must the nuke bro's always lie?
Just shows again and again that nuclear power is the enery "solution" for the high-functioning moron, the kind that can do pattern matching and scripted actions just well enough to have a decent career and therefore believes that others barely can understand their unique brilliance,
.... so they dont have to make any effort at all.
Tech pros warn EU 'data adequacy' at risk if Brexit Britain goes its own way
Wednesday 18th May 2022 07:47 GMT
Re: diverging to make a political point about the UK's independence
I don't think there is a plan as such. These people are simple "smash & grab" looters. Hand to Mouth people.
The only consistent "strategic thing", I see, is that the Tory regime will prefer to create some fresh controversy or another fuck-up to cover up some other mess they have made recently, like people not being able to afford food, heating and electicity, over fixing anything.
Not that they care, but, it is bad for "The Brand".
Perhaps the "thinking" here is that, if one manage to kick off a trade war with the EU, those inconveniences can be blamed on "The EU", "Germany" and "The Frech", therefore nothing needs to be done about any of them them apart from many ranting articles about WWII and The Royals in The Daily Mail.
Bosses using AI to hire candidates risk discriminating against disabled applicants
Monday 16th May 2022 12:34 GMT
You don't apply for a job as a shelf stacker because you see a great career in stacking shelves. You do it because you want to eat.
That may be so, but, to get the job you first need to truly believe that your Dream and Only Purpose in Life is to become the worlds bestest, happiest, and most dedicated shelf stacker in order to first fool the AI, then HR and finally convince the recruiting panel!
The cruelty is intentional.
IBM's autonomous Mayflower ship breaks down in second transatlantic attempt
Monday 16th May 2022 06:34 GMT
During my journey towards becoming an old duffer, I have noticed a distinctive shift in management style.
A new type of leadership is rising, men in their 30's, who are very good at talking, presenting and selling, while being even better at never implementing any of it, so they can sell more, faster, get more "wins", and move up faster, than we BOFs who are hindered by also implementing what we just sold.
Google cancels bi-annual performance reviews, shifts to GRAD system
Friday 6th May 2022 09:12 GMT
Re: Always strange to see this line parroted
The pay is one factor, but, I think that "Not being assholes towards staff" is the bigger one.
Being stingy and inflexible with time-off, tight schedules while insisting on holding several weekly 3 hour progress meetings where there is always one idiot manager that has a 60 slide deck as an opus to his greatness and this is tolerated, minimally deal with bullying and harassment by keeping the offender in place and relocating the offended, ghosting people then complaining about their commitment to The Cause, on top the usual excessive certification-, bureaucracy- and documentation- circles of Hell.
All this builds up resentment over time until the cup is full. Once it is, nobody good cares about the 14% because the market price just went higher for also tolerating all the other bullshit.
In IT, no good deed ever goes unpunished
Monday 25th April 2022 15:32 GMT
Re: The EDI project .....
Instead of just solving problems and improving things, the clever Management likes to keep a back-catalogue of things that can be fixed.
Because, when someone in HQ desires that they deliver savings or efficiency KPI’s are introduced, they can deliver something and then they will get something in return.
Fixing something without instructions is basically sabotaging their next bonus. It makes them angry. It also makes them angry when nobody has any solutions.
So, by all means document issues and solutions, but, never fix anything unless there’s something in doing it.
If you fire someone, don't let them hang around a month to finish code
Tuesday 5th April 2022 09:27 GMT
Re: Unhelpful comments
Ahh, Those were the golden times: ONE book for the CPU, another book for the Peripherals.
Each book amounted to about 120 pages or so. One could read the documention for an entire system on the train.
Todays CPU are a 1200 page volume for the version 1.0 CPU, then six more with the Errata's and descriptions of variants, then one more tome for each on-board peripheral or bus, and each of those books have erratas, but, those mostly come as PDF's and are left to "the user" to discover.
Tuesday 5th April 2022 09:13 GMT
Re: When firing yes, when quitting probably not
If someone tells you they are quitting then lock them out on their last day not before.
Most organisations are narcisstic to some degree. And, narcissists does not handle rejection very well.
The higher the level of group-narcissim is, the more the organisation will try to take revenge over being failed by the quitters!
Monday 4th April 2022 09:57 GMT
Why, no idea
"Our" fairly large and reasonably innovative at the time project got transferred to India for "maintainance".
Our site were to be the 3'rd line support. However, those indian capital wankers kept toying with the code, breaking it, then whining to everyone up the coporate "value chain" about how smart they were to find all these bugs, followed by more whining when instructed by developers "to put it back to how it was and stop tinkering, that will fix it!", quite soon, we were instructed to just fix all of their breakage - a.k.a. put it all back to how it was, except for those parts we missed.
This pissed everyone royally off so, in the end we gave the Indians what they were angling for: The full ownership of the entire code base, except, part of the handover was a localisation project. That was done totally By The Book: All strings, "all" of course meanbing also the comments, were replaced with numeric codes, referencing text strings, so the precompiler cold do translation of all of those the strings for proper Localisation and the local team could read the comments in their native language.
Or should have, because, along the way, the comment-string localisation database somehow got lost inside of ClearCase and since it was not our teams product to support anymore, indeed ther was no more funding .... nothing could be done about finding it.
Eventually, the "Splat" on The Bottom Line from India made the codebase come back. But, the team is gone, the rest of the code has been sucked into Rational Rose RT and turned to gibberish, and all the comment strings remain lost in ClearCase.
10x prices, year-long delays... Life as an electronics engineer in global chip shortage
Friday 25th March 2022 07:09 GMT
Ahhh, The benefits of dumbass, geriatric, serial fuck-up & fail-up, "leadership" running a trade war on their main factory without any further thoughs or preparation being made for it!
Already in 2018, my TBTF-project was quoted delivery times of more than six months on simple screws, clips and fasteners. I guess the proceedings are slowly moving up the value chain and Pharma will be next to become stuck in some ill defined bureaucratic miasma?
UK Ministry of Defence takes recruitment system offline, confirms data leak
C: Everyone's favourite programming language isn't a programming language
Thursday 24th March 2022 09:35 GMT
Re: C int
OTOH - There is an opportunity in every thing.
I have ocasionally made windfall money helping getting a Board Support Package (BSP) to run on a new system, because many, very good programmers in other ways, does not understand "ancient" stuff. Like how to tell the linker to not shit over the interrupt vectors, the embedded os shadowing of important library functions, not-implemented interrupt handlers and so on.
Thursday 24th March 2022 09:06 GMT
Well, IMO, the Rust and Swift people could clone something "simple" like FreeRTOS using only pure Rust or Swift. Then they will acheive a Purified Operating System, a good idea of how well (or not) their favorite language is suited for it and, I Bet, a whole new suite of security flaws for academics to write papers about.
Whining about C is a somewhat stale tradition and brings nothing new, IMO.
Complaints mount after GitHub launches new algorithmic feed
US is best place to be a software engineer, salary survey finds
Salesforce sued in attempt to block release of Capitol riot info
Ukraine's nuclear plants: Chernobyl off diesel power, explosions explained
Ukraine asks ICANN to delete all Russian domains
Wednesday 2nd March 2022 12:51 GMT
Re: "your authoritarian government is committing human rights abuses"
It's very sad to see commenters on various platforms ...
It is not just some arsehole "commenters", it is our politicians saying it, by advocating that we should now bend every rule they themselves put in place to keep the brown people out!
Wednesday 2nd March 2022 12:46 GMT
Re: proportionality
Maybe not, but, Zelenskyy talking about Ukraine rebuilding their nuclear weapons to defend against Russia was probably not the best way of managing ones relations with Vladimir Putin.
The Russians would have lists of at least some of the stuff that went "walkies" when Ukraine disarmed!
Russia 'stole US defense data' from IT systems
Journalist won't be prosecuted for pressing 'view source'
Thursday 17th February 2022 08:32 GMT
Re: There’s more than what meets the eye
I agree, I think far too many of our leaders really are at least as stupid as they appear to be. Possibly they are even worse when they are "off stage".
I believe this is happening because there is a huge control fraud going on: People with interests to protect actively works to insert dumbasses and nincompoops into all areas of society that can possibly regulate or interfere with their interests.
There is also people who are interested in dimishing democracy. Someone like Putin, for example, likely got a very good return on his investment in the ERG. The best part (for someone like Putin) is that most of the continued funding of that operation came from the defrauding of the British Taxpayer!
Dido Harding's appointment to English public health body ruled unlawful
Wednesday 16th February 2022 16:21 GMT
Re: Guilty of not doing a equality report
Yes, Indeed. It was a control fraud, IMO.
The point is to hire someone incompetent and useless for key postions so they are mostly incapable of discovering the fraud, incompetent when it comes to prevent it, and easy to get entangled in the scam for just a nominal cut of the loot.
Dido Harding has the kind of resume that fits the role of flailing leadership :). Someone placed in the organisation in senior advisory position would have been the ones running the day-to-day scamming.
Wi-Fi not working? It's time to consult the lovely people on those fine Linux forums
Tuesday 21st December 2021 09:10 GMT
Re: ....but what if the manual doesn't mention what the device is doing?
Or do marketing "geniuses" care about that kind of thing?
Why would they? They are selling Marketing, not Product.
One buys some thing online, then for weeks after all the adds are for the exact thing one just bought. The add-sellers for sure will use that data to tell their clients that "98% of all people who experienced this add purchased the product". Their clients will suck it all up and buy more "targeted advertising".
Tuesday 21st December 2021 08:01 GMT
Re: "first read the fine forum thread until the end"
What knowledge? Today, finding information is like picking peanuts out of a pile of not very healthy stool!
For Example: My new sports watch came with two fat bundles of disclaimers and warnings in every possible language there is, except perhaps Emoji, and tiny folded paper with pictures on it "explaining" how to turn it on.
The Internet's problem solving skills are: "try this, try that, try that other thing, try reinstalling xyz, in a Borges Library of ignorance, hiding the incapability of Ever knowing the Root Cause of any Problem!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
