The other problem with the Concorde was terrible fuel efficiency
To be fair, Concorde's fuel efficiency was way better than what some other aircraft could do at that kind of speed.
Concorde really was a technological marvel of its time.
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Japan assembles superteam of aircraft component manufacturers to build supersonic passenger plane
Realizing this is getting out of hand, Coq mulls new name for programming language
Excuse me, what just happened? Resilience is tough when your failure is due to a 'sequence of events that was almost impossible to foresee'
Saturday 12th June 2021 09:37 GMT 
Partial Failures
Partial failures are the hardest to spot and defend against. So many times I see high-availability systems die because they failed in an obscure and non-obvious way.
And as we make our systems more complex & interconnected (ironically to try and make them more resilient!) they become more susceptible to catastrophic outages caused by partial failures.
Student Loans Company splashes out on 20,000 cybersecurity training courses – for just 3,300 employees
Thursday 10th June 2021 11:10 GMT
Re: "Mastering GDPR, Governance Security, and Compliance in Office 365" at £3,260 per head
I don't know about this particular course, but we've had some of the Office 365 courses run by Microsoft engineers (not trainers) and go into way more depth about the topic than is available in the standard docs. Those courses were not cheap but the staff who attended them rated them as some of the best they've every attended as the engineers knew their stuff and didn't blindly follow a PPT.
Version 8 of open-source code editor Notepad++ brings Dark Mode and an ARM64 build, but bans Bing from web searches
Seagate finds sets of two heads are cheaper than one in its new and very fast MACH.2 dual-actuator hard disks
Need some chips? The Raspberry Pi Pico's RP2040 is heading to a channel near you
Ganja believe it? Police make hash of suspected weed farm raid, pot Bitcoin mine instead
AWS Free Tier, where's your spending limit? 'I thought I deleted everything but I have been charged $200'
NASA to return to the Moon by 2024. One problem with that, says watchdog: All of it
Dominic Cummings: Health secretary's 'stupid' targets delayed building UK test and trace system to combat COVID
We’ve found them! Govt reinstates records previously missing from the Police National Computer
Tuesday 25th May 2021 11:13 GMT
Re: Well, the data was recovered
Unless your back up solution is written to understand your database application, restoring individual records in a database is usually not a trivial exercise. It's not like you're picking a couple of files from a filesystem backup. You're going to have all sorts of referential integrity pointers that you're going to have to re-setup as you re-insert the data back into the system.
In short: Databases can be big & complex beasts. You only truly value your local DBA once you f**k up and they pull you out of the hole you've dug yourself.
Cloudflare stops offering to block LGBTQ webpages
Cisco: A price rise is coming to a town near you imminently. Blame chip shortages
Facebook Giphy merger stays on ice after failed challenge to UK competition regulator
Colonial Pipeline was looking to hire cybersecurity manager before ransomware attack shut down operations
Google Docs users, you are on notice: Code rewrite may break browser extensions
Copper load of this: Openreach outlines 77 new locations where it'll stop selling legacy phone and broadband products
GitLab's 10-day certification freebie offer lasted only two because, surprise surprise, people really like freebies
The quest for faster Python: Pyston returns to open source, Facebook releases Cinder, or should devs just use PyPy?
OVH outlines three-point 'hyper resilience' plan after Strasbourg fire
The Starship has landed. Latest SpaceX test comes back to Earth without igniting fireballs
Apple patches iOS, macOS, iPadOS, watchOS, kitchen-sinkOS bugs said to be exploited in the wild
UK watchdog would cease to enforce data protection law if Supreme Court sided with Google, its lawyer tells judges
As Linux 5.12 released, Linus Torvalds warns next version will probably be rather large
Microsoft realises constant meetings stress people out, adds Office 365 settings to cut them short or start them late
Monday 26th April 2021 07:51 GMT
Re: Typical Borkzilla
As a manager, if you need to block your team for an entire hour to inform yourself on progress, you're doing it wrong. There's a big chance that Sally doesn't need to know about Jack's problems, and is wasting time listening to them. You're the manager.
For the size of teams I manage (all less then 10) I disagree.
Before lockdown I'd have weekly meetings with each team and during the meeting someone would mention something and others would pick up on it and they'd discuss the topic. It was my job to tread the fine line between allowing this to happen as it was a Good Thing and stopping the discussion going waaayyyy off topic or the meeting dragging on.
Now with lockdown, I tend to be a bit more lenient on keeping team meetings focused as it's bloody good for everyone's mental health just to have a little bit of group banter.
Watch this: Ingenuity – Earth's first aircraft to fly on another planet – take off on Mars
Seeing a robot dog tagging along with NYPD officers after an arrest stuns New Yorkers
Pentagon confirms footage of three strange craft taken by the Navy are UFOs (no, that doesn't mean they're aliens)
Saturday 17th April 2021 14:10 GMT
Regardless of what that was, we’re surely not alone in this vast galaxy of billions of stars let alone the vast universe with billions of galaxies.
The chances of there being other, intelligent life, out there across the cosmos: Very high.
Chance of us encountering these other civilisations: Zero. (Untill our knowledge of the fundamental laws of physics changes to allow practical interstellar travel)
Ever wondered what it's like working for Microsoft? Leaked survey shines a light on how those at the code coalface feel
Jackie 'You have no authority here' Weaver calls on the UK to extend Coronavirus Act provisions for online meetings
Windows comes to Apple M1 silicon as Parallels delivers native desktop hypervisor
Thursday 15th April 2021 06:48 GMT
Oracle has not said if its VirtualBox desktop hypervisor will target the M1, but a port is considered very unlikely due to technical issues
I read that thread. I don't think it's "technical issues" I think it's people getting confused what hypervisors do & do not do and hence what they can expect.
There's no place like GNOME: System 76 introduces COSMIC desktop GUI for its Pop!_OS Linux
Average convicted British computer criminal is young, male, not highly skilled, researcher finds
FSF doubles down on Richard Stallman's return: Sure, he is 'troubling for some' but we need him, says org
SAP: It takes exploit devs about 72 hours to turn one of our security patches into a weapon against customers
Wednesday 7th April 2021 07:01 GMT
Re: Rock, meet Hard Place
You've made an assumption: That manufacturers thoroughly test their code before shipping. From bitter experience, they don't.
Some of this is down to laziness.
But for large pieces of software, testing can take weeks to run and cost six or seven figure sums. And that's just to run the tests that have been written. It could be an order of magnitude larger (or more) if tests have been written for every code path.
But a large part is that the customer's use of a vendor's products in ways more complex or creative than the manufacturer ever thought possible. And when it comes to distributed systems, testing is a harder still. (Hello race conditions!)
Summary: Testing is hard. Good testing is even harder.
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