The alternative is advertising content based on the content of the site rather than the visitor.
How about no advertising? Works for me.
3364 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Aug 2009
The massive display claims a resolution of 46,080 x 12,960 pixels. Put another way, that works out to just shy of 600 megapixels, or in TV marketing speak 46K.
Given that 1920 pixels wide = 2K, 46,080 pixels is 48K. No marketroid is going to miss an opportunity to claim that his is bigger than the next guy's.
The entire taxation system is so full of loopholes
There's a company that publishes a guide to what our our tax laws actually mean each budget and IIRC it's currently a set of books running to 15,000 pages (maybe more). With a tax code that complex it's no wonder arguments about what tax is actually payable are more complex than medieval theologians' disputes about angels and pinheads. In comparison, until the PRC got heavy with Hong Kong, their tax code could be summarised in ~100 pages and was regarded as highly efficient and simple.
Some time back (I think BC – Before Covid), MIT had an online trolley problem web site in the context of self driving vehicles deciding whether to kill passengers or pedestrians to see how people would answer when faced with various combinations like that. I don't know what their overall findings were, but I classified as someone who'd save the maximum number of lives regardless of who the people were. (Basically I'm a negative utilitarian.)
So is the plan to bring in a "doctored" cake the day before the mandatory drug tests and offer it to people in more senior roles?
Unless the management are paying more for the proper tests, poppy seed cake would be very effective and require no doctoring. Not, of course, that I'm suggesting doing anything nefarious.
At the typical adoption rates there should have been 90%+ adoption by now
I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry at that. A few days ago a glitch on my firewall broke DNSSEC until I rebooted it – the only domain affected was Mythic Beasts(*), who host our DNS and mail (which was how I realised DNSSEC was broken). If I'd left the problem in place other domains might have had problems after their cached records expired, but I have no idea how far DNSSEC has actually penetrated.
(*) MB run with relatively short TTLs on their records so problems turn up faster.
So why not just bite the bullet and start using DNSSEC? Get rid of these nasty low probability hacks?
DNSSEC can only be implemented by those running the domain's servers. The 0x20 bit hack can be implemented by clients., allowing a smidgeon of extra security until the domain owners get their fingers out.
32-bit time_t lives on in a lot of file formats.
Sure, but I suspect most of those file formats can be saved for another 68 years by presuming the fields are 32 bit unsigned and turning them into 64 bit time_t on input. Most will be file archives of one sort or another or calendars and no Unix file was ever created before 1970.
Object-oriented languages are fine for UI, not very useful for real-programmers that use only the command-line!
Most of the windows on my screen are terminal emulators running shells + two emacs windows so I'm old school. One of the systems I've worked on(*) was a fully OO GIS. OO is very useful for modelling real world objects, which is after all where it came from (Simula being the spiritual precursor to Smalltalk). As such it's good for handling real world utility networks and assets. We had a lot of customers all over the world, many with terabytes of data (and this was in the 90s when disks were measured in gigabytes).
(*) Designed and wrote the language and system level level code for to be accurate.
Took me 30 seconds to find a pdf download.
On my bookshelves I've got three Forth books that I've had for yonks(*), plus the 1981 BYTE book on Threaded Interpretive Languages by Loeliger. I've also got copies of most of Anton Ertl's papers on TIL implementation. Don't need any more.
(*) 40+ years for at least one. I'm a high priest of vintage tech, most of which was new when I learnt it. Now get off my lawn.
(Why didn't I keep a copy? And why did I throw away a lot of legacy kit that was "just taking up room", as the wife said at the time?)
From personal experience (and similar regret), the final clause has a lot to do with it. Especially if said in a particular tone of voice.
Used correctly with expert placement one could conceivably bring down a surprisingly large building with a a surprisingly small amount [of explosives]
Me, mid-70s, drinking with a friend in a pub shortly after the Birmingham pub bombings. Friend is ex-army, specifically a sapper with considerable demolition expertise. He was saying, in a relatively loud voice, something along the lines of "Bloody IRA, absolutely useless with explosives! Use the wrong ones all the time, that's why so many people survive. With the right explosives I could kill everyone in this pub, using far less than the Irish gits do!". I looked round and everyone near us was staring, backing away slowly.
Going down the A30 in summer can sometimes take longer than a flight to Orlando.
It's probably better to take the M4 across the Severn crossing, though, rather than waiting for the Aust ferry.
However to get from Wales to Cornwall, it might be better to use the M4 then M5 or A38.
Bravo, chaps! A thoroughly British thread. None of that new-fangled satnav nonsense here, just manly chat about driving routes like God intended. I only wish there was a Union Jack icon.
so each individual paper/patent is almost insignificant, but in aggregate, something more interesting emerges.
The problem with that is that you have to find and read all the papers, which will be largely repetitive padding, in order to get the interesting idea. This both wastes time and delays understanding and generally hurts research.
Good to know the one in this photo only cost £180 then.