Posts by RichardB

Hacked?

Here was me expecting an article about how someone had reindex the tables in their solar wind database so it actually worked in timeframes not involving cold coffee.

Not even convinced most of those mentioned in their charts are work jargon.

They are just simple descriptive filler lifted from elsewhere.

Perhaps those that disagree with their usage can come up with some better versions to express the same concepts?

Dekker

Would be nice to give a little credit at least to Sydney Dekker, especially since you mention one of his books "Just Culture".

The Field Guide to Human Error is also an excellent eye opener, and to really rub it in take a read of Dietrich Dorners book The Logic of Failure.

These have been around some time, and have a huge impact on how we can choose to operate IT systems safely.

Interesting to get through that and not see any reference to the incredible but commercially failed RethinkDB, and the story written about it's demise.

https://www.defmacro.org/2017/01/18/why-rethinkdb-failed.html

So whatever did happen to ram raiding?

I guess it doesn't work so well on electric mopeds...

/S

Glad to see no one making too many Sarky comments on here about the medium term prospects of their tourism industry.

Maybe once the paperwork is finally in place we may have moved on from beer related lockdowns.

Is there any uproar about any of this?

I mean, when it was boatyards and steel, people were complaining in the street.

I get the feeling IT can be wiped out without a middle class whimper.

Planning Committee....

Right lads, a .303 has a range over 4500 yards.

How big do we have to make one to get to space?

13m you say? What's that in real money? 14 yards you say?

I'd have thought the movie FAKK 2 might have some prior claim.

What's the bikini got to do with it?

Does it go through an atoll or something?

Appmaker was treated just like all those other too good sci fi shows on TV when that had schedules.

Piddled around and hidden behind the sofa. Oh and you had to have the right subscription.

Not properly linked from the menus, had to spin up a 'default sql instance' on cloud in order to use _any_ sql.

As with so many things people make, it was almost good. Almost just enough to get people going. But no. They went and ****ed up just a few details to make it die an early and broadly ignored death. One can only speculate at the bullshit internal politics that must have driven those choices, and what agendas those competing teams must have, and how big a bunch of tits anyone who pushed it into their organisation must look right now.

Editing?

Normally a big fan of the publishing here, but, is the Ed still on vacation?

Why would you trot out lines of stats about the types of injury and then move swiftly into the bold (and apparently unsupported by the stats you just quoted) assertion about head injuries?

Please, Reg, a little discipline would go a long way.

Perhaps more to the story...

"Speaking through a megaphone pointed at Google's offices in San Francisco where he had until recently been employed,"

Can't help but wonder if perhaps some people were already on a sh1tty list.

Seems easy to stop them republishing politicians lies. Just ban politicians from the platform.

But where do you stop then? Your mate Bob from school posting Meme's that have political slants?

Gill from work who posts something a little bit edgy about a new law?

Announcement from the government that inflation is 2.4%?

Ah, Ops awakens

be nice to get the sqlproj back

"flew over to Marshall Space Flight Centre in my T 38"

Cracking bit of understatement just casually dropped in there.

I'll Just hop in and fly -my- supersonic jet over there....As one does.

Nice to see the important bit buried deep in the article.

18 or 300 or 400.

Really? There's a hundred missing maintainers, but these noisy 18 are the headline?

Where are the missing hundred? Did M$ and 0racle dissapear them?

Why the focus on Robots, not power tools?

Machines, whether physical or informational have been providing automation of tasks for... ever?

The government is never going to be able to keep pace with businesses on this and for sure education will never even keep up with the government.

In short...

be careful what you stick in it.

be careful what you stick it in.

respect boundaries and limits.

somethings aren't what you think they are.

Or, you know, get free publicity.

Much like your 'local' coffee vendor deliberately messing with your name...

Six lines

It was obvious, in hindsight, that runaway anthropomorphic climate change would eventually trigger the black hole death of the local galaxy.