Re: Hi, I'm the "Google kernel contributor" that this article is about.
Thank you for your balanced, good humoured, and detailed explanation. How software development happens in the real world...!
Posts by Daytona955
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Linus Torvalds flames Google kernel contributor over filesystem suggestion
The UK's bad encryption law can't withstand global contempt
Amazon says Elon Musk's wicked, wicked ways mean SpaceX's Starlink 2.0 should not be allowed to fly
A developer built an AI chatbot using GPT-3 that helped a man speak again to his late fiancée. OpenAI shut it down
Future airliners will run on hydrogen, vows Airbus as it teases world-plus-dog with concept designs
The self-disconnecting switch: Ghost in the machine or just a desire to save some cash?
Built to last: Time to dispose of the disposable, unrepairable brick
Brits may still be struck by Lightning, but EU lawmakers vote for bloc-wide common charging rules
Microsoft boffin inadvertently highlights .NET image woes by running C# on Windows 3.11
Wednesday 22nd January 2020 17:38 GMT
Re: VisualBasic developers are daft enough to fail to realize this
'simply ticking the box labelled ".NET Framework 3.5 (includes .NET 2.0 and 3.0)" in "Windows Features"'
Ha Ha!!
Good luck with that. You're far more likely to need to do this if you need .NET <= 3.5:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/deploy-net-framework-35-by-using-deployment-image-servicing-and-management--dism
Beware the three-finger-salute, or 'How I Got The Keys To The Kingdom'
Don't miss this patch: Bad Intel drivers give hackers a backdoor to the Windows kernel
Deus ex hackina: It took just 10 minutes to find data-divulging demons corrupting Pope's Click to Pray eRosary app
Holy smokes! Ex-IT admin gets two years prison for trashing Army chaplains' servers
That time Windows got blindsided by a ball of plasma, 150 million kilometres away
Saturday 21st September 2019 21:38 GMT
Re: isopropyl alcohol?????
"In light of that I've been under the impression that the obtaining of the dreaded isopropyl alcohol in the UK was a matter for dark alley discussions with dodgy contacts possessed of either cockney or Russian accents, all the while nervously checking for narcs."
Or ordering it from your favourite tax-avoiding, minimum-wage-paying box shifter. In aerosol form anyway. Used to pop into Maplin...
New UK Home Sec invokes infosec nerd rage by calling for an end to end-to-end encryption
Let's talk about April Fools' Day jokes. Are they ever really harmless?
Kids can be so crurl: Lead dev unchuffed with Google's plan to remake curl in its own image
If servers go down but no one hears them, did they really fail? Think about it over lunch
Mobes 'n' mattresses flinger Xiaomi growing like the clappers – outside China, at least
Samsung 'reveals' what looks like a tablet that folds into a phone, but otherwise we're quite literally left in the dark
Can't get pranked by your team if nobody in the world can log on
Phased out: IT architect plugs hole in clean-freak admin's wiring design
Saturday 11th August 2018 22:13 GMT
Re: Bridge rectifier?
I remember getting old throw-out 405 line tellies to play with in my early teens (~1970), with selenium rectifiers. In one, I remember accidentally shorting out >1/2 the segments by mis-routing one of the connecting wires and letting it rest against one of the fins. The remaining segments objected to the over voltage went pop. And yes it really did stink. I wasn't very popular at home...
Drawing arcs with a screwdriver off the EHT was fun too. Until you got your finger too close to the edge of the insulated handle, and the arc jumped from blade to flesh!
Engineers, coders – it's down to you to prevent AI being weaponised
Monday 23rd July 2018 09:40 GMT
Engineers, coders – it's down to you to prevent AI being weaponised
It's a bit flippin' late for that!
When I was a fresh faced grad on the milk round in 1978 one of the companies was proudly showing video of an 'AI' targetting system tracking a tank moving over rough terrain with visual obstructions.
I didn't take the job. But I'm under no illusions that my decision made any difference at all to the development of automated tagetting systems.
4% of Google's staff might feel better about themselves, but it won't stop people getting killed by automatically targetted weapons.
Shutting the stable door ~5 decades after the AI horse has bolted...
Developer recovered deleted data with his face – his Poker face
Crunch time: Maplin in talks to sell the business
Ubuntu reverting to Xorg in Bionic Beaver
User stepped on mouse, complained pedal wasn’t making PC go faster
'The capacitors exploded, showering the lab in flaming confetti'
Monday 22nd January 2018 09:11 GMT
It being far in the past, I can now confess that, in a Nuffield A-Level Physics lesson using a bunch of plastic encased electronics modules, I connected the largest electrolytic I could find across the bench supply as a smoothing capacitor, with the polarity 'accidentally' reversed. It was quite spectacular.
Sorry Mr. Leggett...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
