Posts by JLV 2252 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Mar 2013
I just watched it again. Good times. So unashamedly offensive on so many levels*
It would never get filmed nowadays. Too much activist outrage. The women getting tranqued for example? Could be construed as rapey.
* but more in a cheekily tasteless than truly nasty fashion. sorry, lotsa worthier targets of outrage than these apes
I don’t get it. AMDs more competitive than they've been in years. The speculative exec vulns affected them, but less so than Intel. Intel’s botched its process step to 10nm. Intel inside shouldn’t matter as much to cloud.
Why year-on drop?
Is it just a general trend away from desktop 86 for compute? Are they totally not there in cloud/servers?
More of a Perrier guy than a Tylenol moment. In the first, Perrier blamed everyone for a supposedly fake contamination that turned out to be real. In the second the CEO unilaterally overrode his PR and accountants and pulled all the products to keep the customers safe.
Boeing’s 737 fate is in the hands of regulators at this point and it makes no sense to try to push the narrative either way until the findings are fully in. Amidst all the outrage at the alleged (but likely) flaw there is the fact that flying with either Airbus or Boeing is very safe. Because, as we well know, each accident is obsessively analyzed and whatever needs fixing is fixed. Engineering faults are always obvious, in hindsight. But they get fixed because that’s the ethos of the industry.
Mr. Moron here is doing his best to undermine that narrative and bring in a Ford Pinto moment. What he needs to do is just communicate that our safety is first and his $ second. Even if he thinks the opposite.
His only saving grace is that the duopoly have little actual competition to worry about.
Pretty common. Having 1 or 2 breakthrough star products with a very large footprint does not automatically make you capable of re-delivering in totally unrelated markets, it just means you have lots of $ to throw at it and the insecurity to keep on financing duds or distracting sideshows.
Just ask MS, though admittedly Azure is finally shaping up to be a decent pillar next to Windows and Office. 30 yrs of Zunes, Silverlight, Nokias...
In a way, proper market discipline would be to sit back and return money to your shareholders.
ah, Turbotax Canada.
Enter a T5008, basically a form you fill out at stock sale time that says a) how much you sold it for, b) how much you bought it for and c) your expenses.
Now, it seems straightforward enough to enter 1 line per line on your paper T5008. But, if your investments have traded a bunch that can mean a lot of lines (no not necessarily lots of $$$ :-(
Turns out Turbotax caps it at 17 lines.
But of course Turbotax being Turbotax they dont tell you about it until you’ve entered everything manually up to line 16 and run out of lines.
The answer: sum up costs, sales and expenses and enter 1 line with all 3 data points. Which you could have done right away.
The interface sucks, they havent fixed any of it in years and their help system is throwing you off to a forum with just a bunch of regular users and where the only time their people chip in is to remove critical posts.
Wanna look at last year’s return while filling this year? How dare you!!! DRM to the rescue to make it as hard as possible, especially if you’ve changed machine.
Using Ufile now. 5 times as cheap, twice as easy, autofeeds previous filing and an actual help system (Online though, but being on a mac means little choice in the matter anyway.).
Does that mean successive updates agree to live within those means?
Why? Well, a long time ago I was partitioning my main drive.
Win 7 system partition C: 25G
Linux partitions... no where near 25 G
D: - all the rest - user data and program partitions , basically where I would install any games. So C: would never be asked to take these on.
Over time C: filled up with all the stupid service packs and their revert checkpoints and I ran out of space.
Yes, yes, this may NOT be the cleverest way to install Windows but I do that once every 5 years max so I never get any good at it (and... don’t care as it’s a gaming machine)
Question is: is MS hereby committing not to sprawl even more than 32GB, no matter what?
FFS. No one was killed and he’s getting 20 yrs. That’s plenty of time, I don’t know where you’re getting the idea he’s getting off lightly. Or that I am sympathetic. Add to it that his is most definitely not a crime needing deterrence to others.
Prison rape jokes are at best in poor taste. Yes, sometimes people say crap jokes, that’s not a crime. But as an expression of desired policy, as you seem to insist on doing, they are reprehensible and contemptible.
Yes, genetic preference does seem to play a role. gay twin studies and the like.
More importantly, WTF is it any of your business what someone’s sexual preference is? Even if it is 200% their choice? as long as they don’t harass you? I’m a white straight guy and, while tolerant of gay people, I find the physicality of having sex with a man quite repulsive to me.
But that’s quite OK, I am not going to bed with a guy by accident, am I? I’ve been propositioned a few times and I’ve generally taken it as a compliment and politely declined. I’ve also broken off with a friend who kept on asking.
And, yes, there are plenty of mannerisms that grate on my nerves and will make me avoid someone on a friend level. But that’s still their business and deserves no judgment from me aside from me preferring to spend my time elsewhere.
I just don’t get people who are so insecure and judgmental about sexual orientation.
It’d be nice to remember that Kronos was not a benign piece of malware at all. Hutchins seems a pleasant guy so no ill will but, yeah, that’s still his puppy if he created it (and wasn’t just dragooned by USA 2500-years-in-jail pressure tactics).
Now as to his age, Kronos surfaced in 2014 and he was born in June 1994. You do the math.
Sad case. Let’s hope for a reasonable sentence, a safe prison, parole when appropriate and that he can pull a Mitnick and get this behind him afterwards.
Far as Canada goes, I suggest my fellow citizens boycott the firm’s consumer goods until such time as China releases several Canadians arrested in retaliation for her Highness’s arrest. And adding a minor Canadian drug dealer to death row as well.
I know they’re spending a fair bit promoting their kit here lately. I say screw them. Yeah, even if Gal Gadot is doing the flogging.
Newfoundland? Try BC.
5 people/km2. Linking big cities: 1 North-South road on Vancouver Island, 1 N-S up to Prince George/Alaska. Then TransCanada East-West to Alberta.
Outside of those axes, urban and suburban areas, the rest devolves quickly to small secondary roads, often semi-paved and sometimes without any cell coverage.
I suppose we’re outliers of sorts but any full-autonomous, no human backup driving tech that relies on fast networks and/or thorough and frequent road mapping is going to leave a lot of white spots on our driving maps.
Not quite Silicon Valley VC country ;-). Positive upshot: doing offroad is a vanishingly rare requirement for $$$ SUVs.
FWIW I use an editor called Textastic. It has a builtin webdav server and it’s a 10 line bash script to ‘git archive’ any git repo over to it.
It’s not really 2 way (it might be possible, haven’t checked) but I use it as I would use a printout before: just to review and annotate code in detail. Can always email it back when annotated. Also has a ssh mode, haven’t used it.
Very nice editor with this clever widget to enter programming symbols quicker than with keyboard (iPhone version is keyboard only :-(
Too add to it, that according to the BBC, she was the lead on the project.
Edit, from the MIT horse's mouth:
https://twitter.com/MIT_CSAIL/status/1115965269392920576
If she was ALSO the team lead, what kinda muppet moron* would expect her to write a majority of the code? The fact that she wrote a significant amount of code, and (some of **) the algorithms for the project is pretty impressive if she also lead the team or project manager. This was a big team. Which she was also gracious about pointing out. When's the last time _your_ project manager wrote any code? In a way, being chosen so young to lead an academic team is the most impressive bit. You see young people coding at top level quite a bit, but they are not usually in leadership position unless it's a startup.
Poor Chael. Now he has to downplay his own achievements to avoid being tarnished with people who say a woman couldn't possibly do tech.
Beers to both.
* actually, we kinda know that one, don't we, eh muhfugen?
** I really doubt she'd claim to write all the algos, so I'll go with the idea that she wrote the core algos and concept but not all.
+1 for Firesign Theatre.
And nothing wrong with getting your opponents on the record supporting some of the least liked corporations in the US. Some of whose biggest hostages customers are in underserved rural areas which traditionally vote Rep.
Certainly cleverer, electorally, than the Green New Deal, whose likely impact on emissions actually seemed doubtful considering the cost.
https://meterpreter.org/the-winner-of-the-2018-nobel-prize-in-economics-is-a-python-user/
The important point is that he is a proponent of using Jupyter notebooks (a kind of online live spreadsheet/scripted macro blend) to share the data and methodology in research papers.
(Don’t care much for ML myself. Very useful I am sure, just not to me.)
I was amused to see Chef being dissed and Ansible way ahead. Having gone first Chef, then switched to Ansible in frustration, I find that’s at least one point SO nailed.
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-_-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted-other-frameworks-libraries-and-tools
Dont get me wrong. Much appreciated Chef for turning me on to provisioning via code. And basically, I was able to port my hard-learned configuration easily because I had first learned under Chef. But it’s way more effort than Ansible, which has a much clearer model both in its layout and execution. Ansible also maps way more closely to the bash commands that you would use if you did it manually. Almost haven’t written any Python under Ansible, while I had to do lots of Ruby under Chef.
Lines of code is cut 50-60% under Ansible, but more importantly I have 2 control files in one directory instead of dozens in disseminated highly nested directories w Chef.
Note: at large scales Chef is supposed to be quite a bit faster.
No worries. I wasn’t criticizing you, just the site. I really dislike their clickbait, that’s all and it was funny to see a site so over the top bad. I’d love to feed zergnet taboola etc folks to red Amazonian fireants. Of course, I’d have to apologize to the ants later.
FWIW grammarist.com is the poster child for NoScript. So much crap ads including all the zergnet, taboola, one weird tricks, you won't believes, etc...
2 paragraphs of useful information. 5 pages of clickbait.
For laughs I pointed Vivaldi at it, which doesn't have NoScript (I should probably install the Chrome equivalent) and my CPU usage ramped right up.
It's pretty much a site I will avoid on general principles, even though I have Noscript.
I found XEDIT on IBM to be a pretty optimized editor. Successive ‘show/hide’ that built on each other were like grep on steroids. Then you could finish it all with a c/foo/bar/all that would only change the foos still being displayed. Adventurous? It had a built macro mode. Only similar editor is Kedit but that’s Windows only, ASCII only and EOL.
That’s about it for my mainframe fondness though. Command mode was a bitch to get used to and my work programming languages at the time were COBOL and JCL :-(
Are you too dense to understand that the issue is that the perpetrator is the guy posting the material? And that widespread distribution is precisely what that nutjob wanted? In order to motivate more hatred and bloodshed.
That said, FB is, imho, much more at fault for allowing this type of cockroach to congregate in forums on its platform, and in fact for positive feedback (in the control theory sense) via its recommendation algos. Than it is with failing to deal as well as could be desired with eradicating those horrendous uploads once they got disseminated by people aiming to game AI recognition weaknesses.
Yeah, I know the proper commentard thing to do when you get lots of downvotes is to take like a (hu)man, stiff upper lip and all.
But, hey, let's doubledown and grab some more downvotes.
First, a lot of people will blather on about their deep secrets that governments want to steal. But really nothing to see (that's me btw). Might be quite a few of you, but given the site I'll assume at least some of you have valid reasons for concern. So that's NOT why I was being snarky.
There's something that's been around for a while called stylometry. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/01/identifying_peo_3.html Basically, you can be "fingerprinted" by your vocabulary, punctuation, etc... It's supposedly quite accurate and I'm pretty sure that's at least one domain where our current pseudo-AI big data stuff shines.
Now, I know that almost no one uses their real names. But if you are, for some reason, important enough to be on a government's security services radar because of your work in tech (and that is essentially what the CTO of Mozilla is claiming happened) do you want to bet that they don't keep a profile of what you write, even under pseudonyms? And then tie it back to perhaps blog posts or public speaking engagements under your actual name? I mean, you are going on about taking all sorts of deep precautions. Some of which, as others pointed out, look downright calculated to attract extra customs attention. Even if that's not the case today, the internet never forgets so you can always be profiled 5 years from now.
If you are writing under AC, then I don't think that they can tie you back to your known profile using a short snippet ( 2D FLATSO!!! s aside). And I rather doubt El Reg would volunteer your handle, absent a warrant.
So, why take the risk and post under your handle? Would you really want custom to be able to tie "I use burner electronics" type of posting to you? Given the great latitude custom agents have to make decisions they could refuse entry and that leaves a permanent black spot. "Have to travel frequently to the US for work" may turn into "can't travel to the US".
And that from people claiming to be so clever as to take all sorts of precautions? Hah! Take a page from the posters that say "AC because current employer".
Npm is getting some heavy competition from something called yarn, which is near-equivalent, supposedly. To the point where blog examples typically cover one and mention that the other is pretty much the same commands with the different prefix.
Yes, yes, this is JS, so there's a new shiny every other week. Think emacs vs vim holy wars, accelerated x100, with about 1/100th the life expectancy.
Thing is, this is not Java, the lock-in is minimal and user base is easily outraged via Twitter. Enough bad press could eventually catch up with them, especially when they're trying to transition to making more money.
Doesn't seem like a good strategy at all, PR-wise. Go through the motions, pretend to be nice and offer generous severance rather than airing your stained unmentionables.
and this is the kind of genius CEO who, in large public companies, is remunerated 200-300 times the median wage in the company?
Only this time he effed it up enough to showcase the Peter Principle?
I am far from a lefty and I believe in free markets and fairness. This class of free-riding parasites, who handpick their pet remuneration committees disgusts me. All bonus upsides, never downsides. Remember Citigroup and their bailout-funded bonuses? Or Gini’s reward for her slow scuttle?
Say what you want about Larry and his boats, at least he founded the company.
What needs to happen is real teeth to shareholder-led pay scrutiny. And serious societal pressure and/or taxation to stop unjustified pay.
blah blah blah
seriously, didn’t downvote you but you sound very certain of yourself.
https://medium.com/@torch2424/webassembly-is-fast-a-real-world-benchmark-of-webassembly-vs-es6-d85a23f8e193
now, neither of us need to take this as gospel, but this is early days, both in terms of the VM as in terms of bytecodes the transpilers feed to it
my knowledge of the subject matter is admittedly limited, but you seem to be operating at the “gosh, cant happen” level.
point is only that it’s potentially much faster than JS-in-browser. not that it’s faster than LLVM/GCC on bare metal. too bad both you and CB are too thick to grasp that no one’s contesting that bit.
but it’s also way _safer_ than random from-internet C/Java/Haskell code executing ouside of a browser sandbox. did you miss that too???
you use C for the typing, syntax and precision. and also for the speed WASM, which needs a static typed language, buys you. videogames, fast math...
Python on Rust on WASM isn’t, mostly about getting Python. It’s that you can support Python’s complex VM on WASM, in a useful fashion. which kinda shows that pointers (to WASM space) and esoteric “metal language” features can happen. even if system stuff is sandboxed. but this is still only for the browser.
the Java comparison is misleading. WASM is not a language at all. it’s _fast_ bytecode for the existing JS engines like V8 or Spidermonkey. but you get that bytecode via writing C++ or Rust. and the browser’s multimedia/compute/graphics and networked data is your OS/platform. but without using JS.
could you write Doom in JS? no. but C -> WASM -> Doom running well, yes.
No, I think the point is that this targetting browsers. You can run C++ code in it, Rust.
Python has a proof of concept port to implement Python,’s VM on Rust (there are already C, Java and Python implementations of Python).
Now, they’ve turned around and put that RustPython on WASM and ... it works.
So a universally available portable VM, but the JS execution engines have barely grown in code size to accomodate WASM (<5% IIRC) so not that much new attack surface.
And... no more JS if you don’t like it. Static languages are, almost by definition, a better fit for WASM bytecode. Fast - this is a direct evolution of the JS asm tech that was running crosscompiled Doom C-code in a browser 5-6 years ago.
This is hot stuff.
As a buddy once said, smell is unlike other non-proximity senses like sight and hearing. It works by your nose nerves coming into direct contact with microparticles of whatever you’re smelling.
So if you’re smelling someone’s poo it’s literally because that’s what just wafted up your nose.
Still keen on tolerance?
How good is it as a dropin Oracle replacement on things like PL/SQL and Oracle-specific functions, like date parsing? Even connect strings? Or is it a major conversion effort? And, do you get to keep the, rather brilliant, base Postgresql behavior in addition to Oracle compatibility?
I am very much aware of its existence, but devil’s often in the details, hence question
I never thought I'd do it, but I've actually found good uses for Lynx ;-)
I build VMs that serve up a Django app via nginx. Between that and the https, plenty of scope for screwups so it's nice to see who is dropping the ball. And it's also nice to be able to consult the webapp and Monit's status directly within the SSH session.
Presto, here comes Lynx and it does all of that. Without CSS or JS, to boot. Basically, you can look at anything that serves up HTML with it, even within a bash screen ;-)
Yes, yes, my coat. All the greybeards are chasing me off their lawns.
This.
Friend of mine got a purebred. Lived to 18 months, most of it starving, due to some canine version of Crohn’s, common in that breed. He’s quite proud of his 12 yr old second dog being a mutt.
There’s a reason even primitive humans have extremely strong taboos about incest and inbreeding. Some pure bred dogs live about 2 yrs less on average due to inherited defects. If you’re a dog lover, might wanna consider that beforehand - animals are not toys.
Along with overfeeding Fido.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6115627/
>average dog owner
More and more the “average dog owner” is literally incapable of controlling his or her $3000 designer “fur baby”. Like when one poodle started heavily barking towards another in our elevator and the owner didn’t peep a word to calm it down.
My kids are always surprised when I act friendly towards real dogs (i.e. mutts) in the countryside rather than the yapping fashion accessory chihuahuas, pugs and sundry that are becoming the norm in big cities.
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