Don't confuse leadership with traits such as megalomania. Being a leader does not imply you crave power or control.
Posts by A Non e-mouse
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Elon Musk finally finds 'someone foolish enough to take the job' of Twitter CEO
Re: As usual, hire a female CEO when the company is collapsing
I discovered today that the tactic is called The Glass Cliff.
Dump these insecure phone adapters because we're not fixing them, says Cisco
Microsoft may charge different prices for Office with or without Teams
Modular finds its Mojo, a Python superset with C-level speed
It's all about choosing the right tool for the job. Is a dynamically compiled language like Python going to be as fast as hand crafted assembler? No. Is writing code in Python faster & easier than writing in assembler? Yes.
To be clear I'm not saying everyone should switch to writing in assembler. You write in a language that's appropriate to the problem space you're working in. Python is a good general purpose language but it's not always the fastest language at run time. The problem with general purpose languages is that people expect them to solve every problem well.
Python still has the strongest grip on developers
Re: Speaking of Flask...
It's not that Django or Flask are insecure, just that they're not designed for serving static content. You put your static content natively in Apache/Nginx and then also use Apache/Nginx to provide a proxy front end to the Python app. Apache/Nginx can then run multiple instances of the Python app to further improve performance for your end users.
I've been working with Java since Java 1.3 and over the past couple of years have been making more use of Python. (All my new projects are in Python)
I agree that type safety is an opt-in after thought in Python and I miss the strong type safety of Java, but I feel more productive in Python - especially for smaller projects. I also like the way packages are handled in Python by Pip & VirtualEnv.
I use the Jetbrains tools for both Java & Python programming and I can assure you that Pycharm is not a glorified notepad.
(NB - Not paid to promote Jetbrains, just a satisfied customer)
Fed up with Python setup and packaging? Try a shot of Rye
Biden proposes 30% tax on cryptominers' power bills
Re: Snake Oil
Grady at Practical Engineering has a good explaination of what happend:
Unlike your iPhone, Apple's batterygate controversy refuses to die
Boffins claim to create the world's first wooden transistor
Complements A&A's Wet String ADSL.
China again signals desire to shape global IPv6 standards
US watchdog grounds SpaceX Starship after that explosion
Re: I suspect
It does look like the flight termination system failed too.
In one of Scott Manley's video analysing the launch, he says the flight termination system did work: It just didn't work how people thought it would.
Scott believes the flight termination system just pierced holes in the tanks with the expectation was that this would be sufficient for the rocket to disintegrate.
Elizabeth Holmes is not going to prison – for the moment
If you don't get open source's trademark culture, expect bad language
I suspect the person who came up with the implementation forgot (or didn't know) who has power in open source. The top people in open source actually have very little power. The power is in all the contributors & supporters. As these are volunteers, you can't order them to do anything.
A classic is what happened with Libre/Open Office. Oracle tried to force one thing and everyone else said "Nope", walked away, forked the code and LibreOffice was born (almost) overnight. A few years down the line, LibreOffice is the default and OpenOffice....?
SpaceX's second attempt at orbital Starship launch ends in fireball
UK pensions dept hands Softcat £250M for Microsoft subscriptions
Child-devouring pothole will never hurt a BMW driver again
I thought the procedure for getting the local council to fix a pothole was to draw an image of a penis around the hole?
UK government scraps smart motorway plans, cites high costs and low public confidence
To improve security, consider how the aviation world stopped blaming pilots
Benchmark a cloud PC? No way. Just trust us, they work, says Microsoft
Tesla Semi, out since December, already facing a recall over brakes
Re: Trucked
The Engineering Explained video I linked to above also mentions that something like 80% of trucks journeys are never loaded to the maximum legal weight for a truck. So sure, a BEV can carry slightly less than a diesel/petrol vehicle, but for many (not all, just many) use cases, that's perfectly fine.
Drones aim to undo Ukraine's landmine problem
Parts of UK booted offline as Virgin Media suffers massive broadband outage
A notspot networker at wavemobile raged on Twitter that they'd had a "sleepless night thanks to @virginmedia and ZERO information or apology..."
If you're in a life or death occupation, then you should have more than one 'net connection at home so this should not have affected your work. If you're not on life-or-death duties, then get a life and put things into perspective.
Bank rewrote ads for infosec jobs to stop scaring away women
Judge grants subpoena to ID Twitter source code leaker
Nostalgic for VB? BASIC is anything but dead
Boeing Starliner's 1st crewed trip to the ISS delayed again over battery overheating risk
How Arm aims to squeeze device makers for cash rather than pocket pennies for cores
Europe's right-to-repair law asks hardware makers for fixes for up to 10 years
Enter Tinker: Asus pulls out RISC-V board it hopes trumps Raspberry PI
China debuts bonkers hybrid electric trolley-truck
Re: European Pilot
(Obligatory?) Tom Scott video.
Microsoft and GM deal means your next car might talk, lie, gaslight and manipulate you
Or, if a diagnostic light pinged on the dashboard, the driver could ask the assistant whether it needed immediate attention
If you need to ask the car if the warning light is important, you're whole UI is broken.
Car designers really need to walk across the metaphorical street and speak to the aviation industry on they decades of research of user interfaces and human factors.
Brit newspaper giant fills space with AI-assisted articles
Re: The ship sailed a long time ago
There's a good Tom Scott video talking about truth and facts which is what's being discussed here. (It is a bit long, but worth it)
Switchzilla revisits training and cert tools with looming debut of 'Cisco U.'
the best of Cisco’s existing training content
The same Cisco content that:
* Assumes America is the only country
* Is written for software/hardware Cisco shipped years ago
* Practicals that don't work if you follow them to the letter (Or on the current software/hardware)
* The onerous T&Cs that say if the trainer dares to use their own version of the course[1] with all the errors corrected and based on current software/hardware verions they get struck off.
[1] I'm not saying the trainer doesn't pay Cisco its dues for running the course.