Posts by A Non e-mouse

Maybe it's to do with the small fan size on an SSD?

In my first place of work, they used an external bureau service (as it was called then) to run our payroll. After a while they decided to bring it "in house" as it was cheaper than paying a monthly subscription.

What goes around, comes around.

Absolutely. It's all about wining the war and loosing the odd battle.

The gravy train reached the end of the line.

I wouldn't recommend an electric car to someone who can't get a home charger installed and switch to an appropriate over-night charging tariff. (I'm paying 8p/kWh to charge overnight)

Also, my car's manual says to not regularly fast charge as it reduces battery life.

Re: Deja vu all over again

Nah, education has A1. It's got most applications - but they're only usable via a browser.

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.

We looked at the 68000 when I was at Uni. Only a year or two after I'd left, it was clear the 68000 series was dying and x86 was winning. Yes, there were other processors such as SPARC, PA-RISC, Power but they were niche and very expensive so out of the reach of the hobbyist.

Re: Snake Oil

Grady at Practical Engineering has a good explaination of what happend:

If Apple were trying to hide the problem with the battery, I would sympathise with claim. But according to the article, Apple offered a free battery replacement to all affected users. So I'm not sure what leg Mr Gutman has to stand on.

Re: Dodgy stats

Have you checked your home broadband connection? Many UK ISPs have been quietly providing IPv6 for some years now. Sky is one of the biggest that I'm aware of, but they're not the only ones.

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.

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....?

Re: Complexity ≠ Reliability

When they were desiging the Harrier jumpjet, they realised the safest design was having just one engine rather than multiple.

Re: Benchmarks are important sometimes..

I've got a small niche piece of software that needs a full-fat MS-SQL server. I took a look at running the SQL in Azure as I didn't want to have to manage a MS-SQL server. I think the cost break-even of on-prem Vs Azure SQL was 13 months. No brainer.

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.

So Twitter's lawyers are obviously going to be cautious in adding additional parties

The lawyers paid by Elmo? I doubt it.

Re: Xojo all the way...

it's very stable and simply works, so whilst there is a plan to move over to something C based

Why? As you say, it works, so why recode it?