Posts by Dan 55

Re: "the UK remains open to association"

This, I believe, is what happens when a timescale isn't set in stone in an agreement, perhaps due to a failure when negotiating it.

If one side isn't keeping the letter of the agreement and complains the other side isn't playing fair because it isn't keeping the spirit of the agreement, it's pretty preposterous. But that's how the UK rolls these days.

Perhaps if the UK started keeping the letter of the agreement, then both sides could start looking at keeping the spirit of the agreement.

Re: Of course Trump won

Then various people on Twitter never RTFM or actually tried the options in Mastodon. I expect they're just repeating any old nonsense they've read.

Re: Requirements

Good job this voting and unbanning was decided by recommendations from Twitter's moderation council and advisory groups just the way that Musk announced a month ago.

And then when Trump said he was bigly fine where he was he unbanned Kanye West and Andrew Tate, again in line with Twitter's non-existent moderation council and advisory groups' recommendations.

And let's not talking about breaking down Twitter and rebuilding it in his image. It's almost as if Musk is a chronic narcissist who needs everyone's appreciation or something.

Re: Substantially less by the looks of it

It probably won't last past the traffic generated by the first goal scored this weekend.

Re: Autonomous cars

Doesn't stop Musk promising the same things year after year.

Re: Easy choice Elon

Maybe he's playing 4D chess and is going to leave again tomorrow with another three months pay.

Re: Easy choice Elon

Not an easy choice for those on H1B visas.

And let's see what outragous conditions those who leave have to sign up to and if he actually pays them without going to court first.

Also, Musk is still a dick.

Re: Remind me where the procedure is in a REST call.

One is CRUD on a data orientated view, the other is calling functions by name and passing parameters.

If you wanted a generic way of calling REST APIs and RPC APIs, you could use the term... API.

None of us here have any idea whether it's a SQL database or flat files or in-memory storage behind the scenes, and it would make not a blind bit of difference to the REST interface, the web frontend or the Android app as REST is data orientated.

Now Musk's claim was the app was poorly batching > 1000 RPCs to render the home timeline. The app guy said it was bollocks and other guy confirmed it and a minute of thought would tell you that if an app were batching > 1000 REST calls then that would be a spectacularly bad design that would have been thrown out right near the start of the development process.

Then Musk went on to pull microservices and stopped people who were using SMS authentication from logging in. In a complicated service such as Twitter you do actually need microservices or Twitter would have to go down every time a new feature was deployed.

It seems Musk is the Stack Overflow programmer.

Re: Sooooo....

I do. Remind me where the procedure is in a REST call.

Re: Sooooo....

I guess it's because Twitter uses a REST API, not an RPC API.

Perhaps a bunch of employees are now working 80 hour weeks redoing all the APIs to be RPC APIs so Musk can say he's right.

I think they are at that stage where they give zero fucks. And besides, if any more are fired, Twitter will die on its arse and never get up again.

All they need to do is offer one of those standard off-the-shelf pop-ups and if the user unticks a category then do as they ask because it's their data in the first place. Apparently it's rocket science, maybe Musk could offer some help when he's finished at Twitter.

Re: Why Does El Reg Have A Picture Of The Assembly Hall Of The Church Of Scotland......

Quite easy I would have thought... Germany and Scotland.

Re: Some functions are very simple

If it's a non-obvious implementation of something and the source material contains a full description, of course I attribute it. Why wouldn't I? I don't hate future me.

Re: You want the State to manage social media platforms ? Are you insane ?

If there is no postal voting, people would have to vote at their polling station.

It seemed the other AC had an objection to the entire concept of postal voting. I don't know if you are the same AC, but I did not know that everyone got a postal vote without requesting one in the US (or perhaps it varies by state). The requirement to request a postal vote seems reasonable, I'm not arguing against that.

Likewise "early voting" also strikes me as a bit odd and makes security more difficult, but each to their own.

Re: You want the State to manage social media platforms ? Are you insane ?

Postal voting is a thing all over the developed world. Or would you rather send everyone home around election time... sounds a bit authoritarian.

Re: "It is, however, so much more."

If you have a proprietary messaging system then that by design cause a network effect and therefore there will eventually be one "too big to fail" winner in each area like Twitter or WhatsApp. Nobody could come along and make money out of a FOSS network like Mastodon.

Google worked this out and de-XMPPified gtalk.

If he took on too many people then it seems odd that there so many contractors and Musk fired permies before contractors.

Re: I really don't understand the 50% workforce, 80 hour week thing...

So Mastodon, WebRTC, Diaspora, and PeerTube then.

Re: For a Comparison

The commentards from Tufton Street will be along shortly to tell you her mistake was not going far enough.

Re: No free lunch for bots

It could, but as of yesterday the $8 blue tick doesn't exist for new subscribers.

It's difficult to keep up, I know...

Not with the way it's going to go up in flames. Just twisted metal and molten glass, rather like his Teslas.

So say the very stable genius pays $500k/yr to attract an employee who want to spend 16 hours a day in the office (how is this even legal, but never mind, it's the US)... what avantage is there over paying $250k/yr for two employees to work 8 hour days?

It seems to me that's not the deal... the deal is Musk isn't paying overtime to those unlucky enough not to get fired.

What an absolute genius... fire half the staff, make the other half work twice as much. Brilliant!

It appears he wants to turn Twitter into a bank to try and stave off bankruptcy. I'm sure many people will leap at the chance of giving the Bank of Musk their life savings.