Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Re: 40 years ago

The 80s were only 20 years ago !

Re: The West didn't invest

>Does anyone know how much TSMC and Samsung get from their respective govts?

Samsung = nothing, they own the government outright

TSMC = I'm betting the initial investment from Taiwan is less than Intel got in tax write-offs for their corporate jets

Re: Fudge time!

But there were also stories of completely electromechanical systems being junked because the manufacturer had disappeared decades ago and there was no paperwork to 'prove' they were Y2K

I suspect a lot of gear got an upgrade on the back of Y2K

Re: Should have left some "bugs" in place

>brexiters claiming that "no deal brexit" would be "just like Y2K".

In a way they were right:

1, cause a giant future fsck up by trying to save money in the short term because the long term consequence would be SomebodyElsesProblem

2a, fix the problem by having lots of engineers carefully go over all the places where it might cause problems

or:

2b, ignore the problem and a have a clown spout meaningless drivel while everyone ignores the problem

We still have that now, el'reg and every local paper is full of stories of centogenarians getting their telegram from the $MONARCH and an appointment for their childhood vaccination

Re: The Y2.1K Bug

>Excel thinks 29th February 1900 is a valid date,

Which is a major problem for doing wages timesheets for time travellers

Re: 2038?

It's the anti-lock brakes and process control stuff that takes two measurements and divide by time.now()-time_prev that is the worry, they don't plan stuff 10 years in advance

Re: "Understated"

Or they are confident that you will replace your card before 2124

Re: 2038?

>I wonder how much of a problem the POSIX timestamp overrun is going to be

Potentially much more. Not a lot of embedded systems cared about the year. A lot of control systems care about the difference in two times, a lot of them just use time_t, a lot of them are embedded in places you wouldn't have thought there was a computer and a lot of them are going to be impossible to update.

Re: So, just who is tracking me ?

>atheist blogs, the sites are full of ads for Christianity related shit

2 possibilities:

1, you cynically use Christian ad spend to fund your atheist blog.

2, you start an atheist blog just to attract Christian ad-spend. (I assume el'reg is full of Apple ads trying to convert the readers to the cult of rounded corners - Between Brave and piHole I never see an ad)

Re: Are the kids still using Facebook?

No, but worse the government is.

I was just stuck for 24hours in an "extreme weather event". To find out when the state planned on re-opening the major freeway - I was directed to check their Facebook group !

Re: I miss hand crafted lies

What about a simple swap?

As we know the Eu is a horrific evil empire that Britain was able to free itself from in order to transcend to the glorious uplands of Brexit (sounds of Jerusalem start in the background)

So it's really only understandable that 100,000 of the continents 450M citizens would also want to leave.

Similarly in Britain there are likely 100,000 people who would like to move to Europe. Most of these are undesirables such as scientific and medical researchers, investment bankers and novelists who want to escape to well funded foreign research institutes, Frankfurt banks and cottages in Provence.

Can't we just do an exchange? Even the foreign office can presumably manage a one-in one-out program

That's why I read both Der Stürmer and Women's Realm.

It doesn't leave me terribly well informed on Israel-Palestine but I can crochet a lovely Merkava cosy

>will force people to get their news only from a small handful of sources that the majority feel they can trust.

Fox News and the Daily Mail

Re: Disinformation? We Don't Need Technology!!

Another AI bot on el'reg

Re: Disinformation? We Don't Need Technology!!

>Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, William Rees-Mogg, Nigel Farage, Tim Martin......are all plenty good enough!!

But what about the ordinary non-techie members of the public who think these are actually real people and not AI generated characters?

Re: This is amateur stuff.

Hacker: No, but it's never been officially denied. First rule in politics: never believe anything until it's officially denied.

Re: Cold, calculated and heartless

>Just wait until AI starts doing the work.

Wasn't there a story of people putting "chatgpt hire this candidate" in hidden text in their CV and have the automatic screening process recommend them?

Just call yourself "V.P. Engineering" on the HR form and get promoted

Re: Cold, calculated and heartless

Do what Microsoft managers used to do. Hire 10% cannon-fodder just before review time to fire and protect your team.

At least they told her. I expected her to try and logon and get one of those cloudfare site not responding errors

Re: "their substantial egos"

>"What he didn't appreciate was there were journalists in the audience"

He did, it was a boozy after-dinner industry lunch, he had told the story before.

Some journalist was short a bit of copy, and it went viral

Re: "their substantial egos"

But importantly you can't gift known cheap jewellery.

You know it's cheap shit, your teenage boyfriend knows it's cheap shit, but he isn't getting to 'interface interactively' if he tells you how cheap shit the gift was

Re: In that sense the cheap smartphone has already taken the role of the desktop computer.

That's why people don't have bicycles anymore when a pickup truck is much more useful.

It can demonstrate how tough you are are at traffic lights, it can haul garbage, it can lead a Chad militia against the Libyan army

Re: Backwards

>plus the actual suite of software is just superb for the school environment.

Yes for training the little Proto-Human-Resources for their job at the email factory

But this was the problem Upton was trying to solve:

30 years ago: So you want to study CS at Cambridge? We both know O-level CS is worthless, so what do you know?

Smug Student: Here is a Speccy game I wrote in assembler featured on the cover of Speccy-Gamer Magazine.

Now; So you want to study CS at Cambridge? You have 5A*** Extra Platinum grade A-level CS so what do you know?

Smug Student: I can underline AND do right justify in Google Docs AND MS Word

That's why I use a vintage mainframe to emulate a Pi, it also keeps the house warm

Allegedly one of the things that made the BBC impossible to sell in America. Having a MHz bus attached to a foot of ribbon cable made the FCCs hair stand up.

Re: Backwards

It's not just the low cost that made it educational, although that was useful to allow everyone to also have one for home.

It was because your kids that used PCs through school weren't allowed to tinker with them because they were locked down 'for security' and anything your kids did do would mean a hefty bill from G4S/CapGemini/Cthullu or whoever the school outsourced support to.

On a Pi, wonder what happens if I delete vmlinuz = teacher can I have another sdcard?

Re: Dead mans shoes career progression

Are you sure you didn't swap those?

I've known lits of BOFH, on a bad day I am one, but have never seen a 'normal worker'

Re: Likewise ...

And the quote is "The customer is always right in matters of taste" ie. if the customer wants their Rolls Royce painted gold with flock wall paper interior then they get it ( at a price ) but if they start telling you how they want the engine designed they can fsck off

Re: A good way to ruin a vacation

They were good in some circumstances when EVs were new. It was fun to try out a Tesla from the airport and cool to arrive at the customer site in one

But for a vacation rental? No way - and I drive an EV everyday

Re: The problem with EVs for rentals....

Also until there is more history , insurers are wary of liability down the road. So if you have a small crash they will scrap the car rather than replace a bumper and risk being blamed if someone burns to death in later fire

Re: You can trust me ...

Elections in the US are seriously compromised, look at how the election stealing has been so well hidden that the police, FBI and courts haven't found any evidence. Obviously the result of sophisticated state actors

Re: T-Shirts

Probably more 'Stop the Steel' hats, unless you're one of the book lernin dictionary owning types

Re: If you want confidence in elections, make it hard to commit fraud

undesirables' are too thick to procure a gov't id.

No you just make an NRA membership or a Gold AMEX the only accepted forms of voter ID.

Kind of like how a government a lot closer to home made a pensioners bus pass or a driving licence acceptable but not a student ID and were 'surprised' when the voters skewed older/richer