Posts by A Non e-mouse

Re: Bezos lost

I'm not including the 'starship' concept under development as that has'nt got to orbit yet

Why not? It's part of SpaceX's bid and shows they have the start of working hardware and not just pipedreams.

On education pricing, the first hit (A1) is still free.

(And if you read the article, education pricing isn't increasing. Yet)

Re: Really?

Obligatory XKCD.

Re: What happens if...

I've seen people run ESXi three deep.

Re: Bloat

I use both InteliJ & PyCharm on a 7-year old laptop.

I accept that at launch my laptop's fan kicks in as the IDE re-indexes the code & libraries (More for InteliJ than PyCharm). But that only lasts a second or two and after that, the fan is silent and the IDEs are as fast as I need. e.g. auto-complete suggestions pop up instantly and are intelligent in their suggestions, finds are pretty much instant, etc.

I used to use Eclipse (on the same laptop) and that was glacial in comparison to the JetBrains products.

If it wasn't for the release notes saying "Updated JVM to version <BLAH>" I wouldn't have guessed the products were written in Java.

It's interesting that in the past everyone used to complain that MS had no APIs and it was all unscriptable GUIs.

Re: Appreciate the need to document for tender

If the contract was just to supply a big database, it would be simples. The issue is that the contract isn't for a database but an application and that's a whole different ocean of fish.

Re: To be fair

I was involved in a project where we discovered that a slip of the pen had resulted in the wrong type of cable specified. The lawyers told us it was cheaper to let the contractors install the cable, then pay someone to pull it out, throw it away and install the correct one, than it was to vary the contract specification by one word. (The material cost difference between the cables was close to zero)

That's the joy of being in the audience: You're free to criticize as much as you want safe in the knowledge that you won't actually have to come up with an answer yourself.

Re: Rural coverage is still very poor

It's not just rural coverage that's a problem. Walk away from windows in some buildings and wave goodbye to a signal.

I met an instructor who said they liked students who made lots of mistakes as the students learned a heck of a lot more from undoing the mistakes than those that got things right all the time.

It sounds corny, by mistakes are great learning experiences. Just don't make them a habit ;)

Even Elon gave a congratulatory tweet.

I think someone's sarcasm detector has failed this morning.

Re: Synthesize your own

But is a FPGA synthesized core as fast or as energy efficient as a physical CPU?

Re: Humankind

We're just caretakers of this planet - and we're doing a really s**t job.

Re: You Guys Should be Songwriters

You're clearly new around here. The "Super Cali..." sub-head pun has been ongoing for several years. My search engine foo reveals this as an example from 2017. If your search engine skills are better than mine (Not hard) I'm sure you can catch 'em all.

Re: Would prefer the user to decide

I think it's more than just performance. It's that it breaks other things. ("memory ordering issue")

Re: Dark matter believers

But not as much as getting hold of the fuck that stole the spectrometer.

The sad thing is that the thief probably didn't know what they had stolen and when they realized it wasn't a shiny smartphone they probably just threw it in the bin.

Re: Public Sector Budgets

The theory* is that you asked for too much money this year so you'll need less next year.

* That's Bean Counter logic, BTW, not mine.

Re: Colour me surprised

data plan costs did not increase when the EU banned roaming charges

On our corporate contract, whilst EU roaming charges dropped to zero, non-EU roaming charges sky-rocketted. Gotta fund those executive bonuses from somewhere....

If only we knew how to get it out clinicians might not need AI / startups and lots of money

There's your problem. From a Bean Counter's view, Clinicians are terrible. They have to be paid to work, have to have paid time off, sometimes get ill themselves, cost a fortune to train, occasionally get things wrong and in parts of the world with employee rights are difficult to get rid of. AI is a simple fee, which is predicable, easy to fire (i.e. turn off) if you don't like it and people blindly believe because "It's computers"

I'm sure Bobby Tables has attempted to sign up multiple times over the years

Re: Engines?

The engines have to run hot with reheat to do their job.

Not for crusing they don't.