Posts by fajensen

Re: 80k Storage?

Oh, the 'address' of those B61's that maybe didn't get the latest PAL-link upgrade?

Re: Credit will be given

I believe the murder-bot is still trapped in it's simulation space the basement dreaming of annihilation in accelerated time .... and maybe the containment grid and those wardings are not exactly on a good UPS power either!?

2. we will never want to do that with the data, so just "strip the type" and store it as a string...

Often experienced 'in the wild' within code that uses double-barrelled abominations: MySQL and Java!

On top of that pile there will be some kind of 'string-to-object' mapper/converter library with a side dish of functions re-implementing most of the search, selection and ordering logic in an OO-kosher way (that the Database (even MySQL) could also do with SQL - if only it knew the meaning of the data and OO-Purity was not enforced)!

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MySQL didn't really use nor enforce data types in 'the early years', leading to much mischief by developers that should have used a better database engine instead of hacking around MySQL flaws and quirks.

Re: But what about the GIL?

I think threads are generally Evil. Except in Erlang, which was designed from the start to handle threads correctly and efficiently. If not Erlang, Processes is the way to go, at least when one values ones sanity and cares about not getting support calls.

Threads too often are too low-level and kinda glommed-on 'because X has it' to be conveniently managed and instrumented and yet they are, in most cases, especially Java, still hideously bloated to obscene levels of resource usage, levels where one might just use a damn process and be done with it faster and easier!

FreeRTOS, being an embedded therefore 'has-to-work'-OS, uses full processes and a mailbox system. In FreeRTOS a process is a few hundred bytes, so it really doesn't make sense to use threads.

Re: Any decent AV?

I'd recommend using Whatever Win10 already ships with and make rolling data backups instead.

Because, I suspect that antivirus is really creating a distributed database of file-hashes, allowing the TLA's to track files on the users machines and files being moved to other machines, to see who is talking to who and some guessing about what. Some antivirus tools (Avast) also scan incoming and outgoing traffic via a Proxy so ... "They" get to index that also or look for specific words and names.

Adding another antivirus will just increases "Their" attack surface, apart from all the usual fuckups, resource suckage and incompatibilities that always hang around Antivirus products. Stick with the suck you know, IOW.

Re: This is a boon!

Nothing. Next they can run one as PM ... oh ... wait!

Apropos broken business processes.

Maybe the rise of 'DevOps' has managed to smear the available operational talent out so thin that the security part of it has ceased to be? Maybe, even though 'development' and 'operations' are now in the same 'team', the 'development' is what is the Earnings side and 'operations' is on the 'Expenses side and therefore still something that should be minimised if one knows whats good for ones career, maybe get some Java-kid right out of school or the team-assistant to do it? All it takes is a credit card, yes?

The emerging hyping of 'Post-DevOps' seems to hint at the need for a 'platform team' which is kinda the olde BOFH setup again, only we can't say that because we are more Woke & Agile now.

Re: Damning...

Presumably Bojo will resign before he Parliament decides to hold him in the contempt which he deserves.

Nope: Parliament will prefer to ritually mutilate all of their sexual organs, rub the wounds with salt and chilli, while casting the antics on Twitch.tv, rather than doing anything that maybe even remotely, could result in parliament dealing with the unpinned grenade that Brexit has become!

--- Which of course means that Boris Johnson will be resigning exactly at the point in time where various procedural requirement and delays makes the 'October the 31'st Crash out' impossible to avoid.

Re: Difficult

Easy: If you work with IT and want to get onto The Board, like those hair-dressers in HR already are, you will need to have an IT-budget that is visible on the summary reporting levels that the top management are presented with. If you are not visible there, you and your problems are, per definition, totally insignificant (because the CEO's only deals with important issues).

Luckily, VMWare, SAP, Enovia, Rational and so on completely understands your ambitions and problems; They will help solve it for you.

The FOSS-guy, that really skilled BOFH who basically runs everything for nothing, will remain in the windowless basement office because he (it will be a He), costing 'nothing', is totally invisible to the CEO-aisle, unless something breaks! So, all the CEO-aisle ever hear from that guy is: Problems!!

Re: Sounds like an infinite loop chewing a cpu core

With these kinds of "must-never-hang"-embedded devices one often deliberately writes the entire application as a long chain of subroutines that are passed once for every watchdog "tick". Each subroutine has "running" and "completed" flags, if "completed" it can be called again.

Done that way the program always hangs and always resets.

Back in the day we used a technique called 'Coloured Petri Nets' to mathematically guarantee that the software couldn't get into a hanging state / closed loop somewhere along the path.

Re: White men complain that there are too many white men…

Promoting the idea that diversity is more important than competence is a bad idea for technical conferences.

But, perhaps it is, because wherever is all of the game-changing radical new stuff going to come from?

It is generally not going to come from the "within an established"-set of recognised domain experts because being a successful expert means that one understands the connections between whatever one is promoting and 'the politics' - which fiefdoms will be threatened and which will be boosted by ones innovations - so the successful invention / project will be the one that is aligned with the most powerful entities; a.k.a. More of The Stuff That Got Us Where We Are Now.

Re: Lack of employment contract huh...

Whats the point of a company that may never become profitable?

I dunno, I suppose one *could* use turnover as a proxy for growth to load it up with debt, suck out most of the capital via dividends and management incentive plans, then sell the carcass off to some bag holders and then short the stock?

Second; what gives an immigrant, illegal or not, the right to put one foot in my country and immediately be eligible for taxpayer-funded benefits?

Your masters did. They wanted lots of cheap flesh-robots for making profits for them and then they naturally enough don't want to pay for the maintenance (thats why there are no real robots), so you lot get to do it.

They probably also appreciate that while each generation of newly-arrived precariat are fighting each other for a foothold and over race, religion and whatever, they will be way too busy hating each other to get any political ideas.

They can even turn up the heat a little by underfunding schools and hospitals; watch you dogs fighting each other from inside their gated compounds and high-rises.

Re: Ensuring that all code is tested

Current Boeing management would only see that policy as an incentive to take out life insurance policies on all their programmers with themselves as beneficiaries, then push for real challenging delivery schedules ....

Re: Idiosyncratic Favoriite Words -- A Leopard Can't Change its Spots

C++ has the same fundamental problems as Java.

It is a Big Systems language created for (and by) Big Bureaucracies so Big Bureaucracy and How to Make It Even Bigger Forever permeate every aspect of it's design and use, right down to the need to be using Big Money Tools like 'Rational Realtime' smeared over with 'Rational Clearcase' to create and manage the code.

Java put some extra spin on the whole bureaucracy thing by creating a huge library codebase for life-cycle management of binary modules and all manner of deployment - working like the experts believed it should be done in 1980. In real life so shitty and complex and brain-eroding to use that everyone avoids and throws everything in a container.

If someone cleansed all of that guff, Java could may be redeemed.

Re: Worst product launch ever!

I can weld you up a stand in the garage, proper metal

Do it right, ferricekakes: You need to *machine* a stand from a block of solid Titanium or Incone, using a high-end 3D CNC machine with online swappable tools, to not have the product tainted by unclean human labour!