Posts by Dan 55

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.

Re: I assume that

OneWeb was the UK system.

It had its satellites held hostage by Russia, was taken over by Eutelsat, and now appears to be signing deals with Asian countries.

Re: He changed his mind again on Official within hours

Source: Nissan.

Re: He changed his mind again on Official within hours

Nissan made the world's first Li-ion battery powered car in 1996. Telsa took the same idea and bolted on ham-fisted software which made it play space invaders and kill their drivers as they drive into the sides of lorries, but it's okay to do that because Musk wants his software beta tested. He also calls it autopilot when it's anything but.

As for Space X, we get to see new rocket designs blow up on the launchpad instead of boring old stick-in-the-mud NASA taking longer with the design and aborting the launch.

Re: Oh, we know the value.

I guess the $8/mth is to prove to a potential audience of millions that you are who you say you are.

The only thing the blue tick means is someone is paying Twitter $8 a month for that account, there is no ID verification.

I can't see any reason to use Twitter to talk to friends or family when there are closed chat networks (WhatsApp, Signal, Messages, etc...) that do the job better and don't broadcast your message to the world if you use the wrong setting/option.

Re: Thankfully we are out

In a recent survey, 9/10 guests did not want to stay somewhere which burned to the ground while they slept. The remaining 1/10 were a pyromanics and believed onerous government regulation deprived landlords of an income from a key niche market.

Re: NEED?

Windows 8.1 had quite a good set of parental controls which worked with local accounts.

Windows 10's is dumbed down, needs Microsoft accounts for all members of the family instead of local logins (kids get email addresses too), and the kids log in with the same password as their email address. There's nothing like teaching complex passwords right from the start.

Something tells me Big Tech aren't exactly on our side.

Re: This is the way it should work...

What does the Bill do?

Under the Bill’s sunset provisions, retained EU law set out in secondary legislation will expire at the end of 2023, unless the Government decides that it should be preserved and remain part of UK law. The Government may also decide to postpone the expiry of any EU-derived secondary legislation to a later date, but not later than 23 June 2026. It can also decide to restate legislation, replace it or revoke it (without replacing it). Any replacement legislation must not increase the regulatory burden.

Then there's this heading a bit further down.

Impact on employment law?

And three paragraphs under this heading, which you may read in their entirety.

There you go.

Re: This is the way it should work...

Have you forgot about the great book burning planned for the 31st of December 2023? This will affect employment law.

If you just got a few lines of text then open in a new private tab to see the whole article.

Re: This is the way it should work...

When put on gardening leave the usual thing is you're on leave for the rest of your notice period, i.e. it's linked to your notice (especially the way Twitter did it, i.e you're fired, your account is deleted, and your badge doesn't work), and the employee could argue that revoking gardening leave requires the company to revoke notice of termination as well.

There is also the possibility, at least in the UK, of suing the employer if they put you on gardening leave for not having a gardening leave clause in the contract. So that's another card the employee could threaten to play.

Finally there is working to rule, aka "quiet quitting", and if the company decides not to pay compensation for working the stupid hours their colleagues do, the employer would need to show exactly what clause in the contract they've broken.