In other news today...
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Roc Sandford's children Blue and Lazer have been in the tunnels, near Euston station, for the past nine days.
Probably didn’t think it’s a good idea to call him Red. (The emojis popping up for :ging don’t make fun nonebb-isms)
Joking aside, I hope they’ll be ok.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Joking aside, I hope they’ll be ok.
I mean, they dug themselves a tunnel and then attached themselves inside it...
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I had never heard of HS2 or their apparent rail project. What's the issue?
HS2 is a big project to build a high-speed rail line in the UK (and the company that's running the project). It's as big a fustercluck as the CAHSR in the US, especially in terms of overspending, but has got past the primary political stage and the legal avenues to stop it are now about all exhausted too. (There's also been a lot of work done outside London.) But for some people, that's not acceptable: illegal means are the next step. On this matter, the protestors are fighting a losing battle.
My complaints about it all are more technical, mostly relating to the excessive design speed the failure to consider fully how to connect the termini into the rest of the rail network.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
Joking aside, I hope they’ll be ok.
I mean, they dug themselves a tunnel and then attached themselves inside it...
I didn't mean mentally.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
Joking aside, I hope they’ll be ok.
I mean, they dug themselves a tunnel and then attached themselves inside it...
I didn't mean mentally.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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@dkf An overheard conversation regarding this matter:
- This rail line has got to be built and it is going to be built.
- Why has it got to be built?
- It's a rail line! You've got to build rail lines.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
excessive design speed
Isn't that rather the point of high-speed rail?
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The co-founder of the company, Mark Perlin, is said to have argued against source code analysis by claiming that the program, consisting of 170,000 lines of MATLAB code, is so dense it would take eight and a half years to review at a rate of ten lines an hour.
"Ten lines per hour" is such a ridiculous metric it hurts - it just doesn't make sense to measure it like this, and even if it was, 10LOC/h is pathetic. That said, I can believe reviewing 170KLOC of Matlab would take 8 years.
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@Gąska 170k LOC matlab code?
Why the hell is somebody taking these clowns seriously? --faithInHumanity;
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@cvi At least, it's not coded in Excel
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@TimeBandit Thanks, I hate even the thought of that.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
Why the hell is somebody taking these clowns seriously?
--faithInHumanity = faithInHumanity - 1;FTFMATLAB
(unless you wanted the NOP, of course)
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
The co-founder of the company, Mark Perlin, is said to have argued against source code analysis by claiming that the program, consisting of 170,000 lines of MATLAB code, is so dense it would take eight and a half years to review at a rate of ten lines an hour.
"Ten lines per hour" is such a ridiculous metric it hurts - it just doesn't make sense to measure it like this, and even if it was, 10LOC/h is pathetic. That said, I can believe reviewing 170KLOC of Matlab would take 8 years.
I personally reviewed almost exactly a million lines of code in under two years. For a little thing called Y2K.
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
The co-founder of the company, Mark Perlin, is said to have argued against source code analysis by claiming that the program, consisting of 170,000 lines of MATLAB code, is so dense it would take eight and a half years to review at a rate of ten lines an hour.
"Ten lines per hour" is such a ridiculous metric it hurts - it just doesn't make sense to measure it like this, and even if it was, 10LOC/h is pathetic. That said, I can believe reviewing 170KLOC of Matlab would take 8 years.
The moment I learned that this DNA testing kit consists of 170k lines of MATLAB code I’d throw it right out as inadmissible. Who wants to bet that this can’t tell a monkey apart from a tangerine?!
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
tell a monkey apart from a tangerine
Plz keep the Trump remarks in the garage
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
The moment I learned that this DNA testing kit consists of 170k lines of MATLAB code I’d throw it right out as inadmissible.
This.
The fact that they consider it to be too difficult to review should just be another nail in the coffin.
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@kazitor said in In other news today...:
(unless you wanted the NOP, of course)
I didn't want the MATLAB.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
excessive design speed
Isn't that rather the point of high-speed rail?
Yes, but in this case the design speed is high even by the standards of high-speed rail. The problem is this acts as a massive constraint on where things can be routed, the level of noise, the wear rates on the infrastructure itself, etc. A design speed of, say, 20 mph slower would have reduced costs a lot while still achieving virtually all the same infrastructure objectives. (I believe that even a reduction of 10mph would have still resulted in the line being one of the fastest in the world.) It was all down to a wonky political decision taken about 10 years ago.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
It was all down to a wonky political decision
The root of many technical problems, whether governmental politics or company politics.
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@Gąska said in In other news today...:
The co-founder of the company, Mark Perlin, is said to have argued against source code analysis by claiming that the program, consisting of 170,000 lines of MATLAB code, is so dense it would take eight and a half years to review at a rate of ten lines an hour.
"Ten lines per hour" is such a ridiculous metric it hurts - it just doesn't make sense to measure it like this, and even if it was, 10LOC/h is pathetic. That said, I can believe reviewing 170KLOC of Matlab would take 8 years.
I personally reviewed almost exactly a million lines of code in under two years. For a little thing called Y2K.
Something about the way you formulated this post tells me it wasn't Matlab. Was it?
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@Gąska said in In other news today...:
The co-founder of the company, Mark Perlin, is said to have argued against source code analysis by claiming that the program, consisting of 170,000 lines of MATLAB code, is so dense it would take eight and a half years to review at a rate of ten lines an hour.
"Ten lines per hour" is such a ridiculous metric it hurts - it just doesn't make sense to measure it like this, and even if it was, 10LOC/h is pathetic. That said, I can believe reviewing 170KLOC of Matlab would take 8 years.
I personally reviewed almost exactly a million lines of code in under two years. For a little thing called Y2K.
Something about the way you formulated this post tells me it wasn't Matlab. Was it?
PL/1. 3GL stuff.
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@da-Doctah that explains the inflated line count.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I had never heard of HS2 or their apparent rail project. What's the issue?
HS2 is a big project to build a high-speed rail line in the UK (and the company that's running the project). It's as big a fustercluck as the CAHSR in the US
Hey, that's the one with the orbital lasers, isn't it?
This explains why the activists chained themselves in a tunnel.
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
PL/1. 3GL stuff.
The very first code I was ever paid for after college was PL/1. Think I did that for about a year of so...
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@boomzilla Don't look at me. I just design and test the chips, not manufacture them.
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Wonder when someone at Google will finally wake up and smell the roses?
After the tweet from the official Terrarria account, YouTube support declined Re-logic's request to try to solve the problem privately, choosing instead to publicly offer irrelevant suggestions to the game developer with over 30 million customers. First, YouTube asked if Re-Logic could access its banned email account, which the developer already explained was banned. Then, YouTube suggested trying Google's account recovery system, which is only for users who have forgotten their Google password. Finally, YouTube shared instructions for how to recover a voluntarily deleted Google account, which is in no way relevant to an account ban.
Sounds to me like they're employing only braindead zombies for support?
And that from a company which prides itself on their selection process for developers...
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@Rhywden I'm guessing that their "support" is done by some AI project. For very generous definitions of "AI".
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@Benjamin-Hall Maybe they went full potato and created ArtificalStupidity instead?
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall Maybe they went full potato and created ArtificalStupidity instead?
Why one would need to create Artificial Stupidity when the natural supply is nearly boundless, I guess I'll never know. But that sounds right.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall Maybe they went full potato and created ArtificalStupidity instead?
Why one would need to create Artificial Stupidity when the natural supply is nearly boundless, I guess I'll never know. But that sounds right.
Maybe they're trying to create something so utterly stupid it does the equivalent of an overflow and wraps around to the other side?
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall Maybe they went full potato and created ArtificalStupidity instead?
That would be a step up.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall Maybe they went full potato and created ArtificalStupidity instead?
That would be a waste of time and resources. Nothing can beat natural stupidity
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@TimeBandit It's so plentiful, available in so many forms, and nearly free (at least in, say, the South Asian varieties).
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall Maybe they went full potato and created ArtificalStupidity instead?
My investments in Artificial Dumbness have been paying off since the 80s!
(I played so much M.U.L.E. on my C64.)
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall Maybe they went full potato and created ArtificalStupidity instead?
Why one would need to create Artificial Stupidity when the natural supply is nearly boundless, I guess I'll never know. But that sounds right.
Maybe they're trying to create something so utterly stupid it does the equivalent of an overflow and wraps around to the other side?
Oh no. I'm getting flashbacks from Portal 2 of how they built the dumbest AI ever to keep their really smart AI in check. They wouldn't ...?
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall Maybe they went full potato and created ArtificalStupidity instead?
Why one would need to create Artificial Stupidity when the natural supply is nearly boundless, I guess I'll never know. But that sounds right.
Maybe they're trying to create something so utterly stupid it does the equivalent of an overflow and wraps around to the other side?
Oh no. I'm getting flashbacks from Portal 2 of how they built the dumbest AI ever to keep their really smart AI in check. They wouldn't ...?
It's not regularly stupid, but designed stupid!
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@TimeBandit 11100 ppm sodium hydroxide. A little over 1% (by weight, I assume). If I did calculations right, that works out to a bit under 0.3 M. Yeah, probably don't want to drink that.
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@TwelveBaud I like the sheep one.
FFS how do your embeds work but mine done?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
FFS how do your embeds work but mine done?
Self diagnostic report issues in language system: service is responding erratically
Should we reboot him?
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
It embeds, but does not open, saying I don't have access…
Anyway, while it shows that there is a layer that would deserve better security, it also shows that it isn't a big risk because all those redundancies that are in place, and need to be in place for million other reasons anyway.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
It embeds, but does not open, saying I don't have access…
Anyway, while it shows that there is a layer that would deserve better security, it also shows that it isn't a big risk because all those redundancies that are in place, and need to be in place for million other reasons anyway.
Until someone decides to save money by reducing them. Considering that this is public infrastructure, it's only a question of time before someone start pushing that this "waste of tax money" should stop! Actually, I bet my shoes that such requests are already in place somewhere...
So, in the end, this "hack" is actually a good and very useful news.
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@Kamil-Podlesak Would any politician dare to remove the requirement for them from the regulation? Because it's not like it would be up to the utility company to chose what to set up—there are standards they must implement.
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@Rhywden From the comments emerged this gem:
https://www.reddit.com/r/GoogleFi/comments/kwq53m/no_money_owed_service_canceled/
tl;dr: Guy gets a $0 bill, get service cancelled for nonpayment, telephone numbers held hostage due to the unpaid bill.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@Kamil-Podlesak Would any politician dare to remove the requirement for them from the regulation? Because it's not like it would be up to the utility company to chose what to set up—there are standards they must implement.
Yes, that's my point: Many politicians would gladly change the requirements to "allow new, innovative technologies without bureaucratic red tape". Which is, of course, something totally different than removing the safety regulations altogether, isn't it?
That's why it's important to have a showcase demonstrating that "new, innovative and disruptive technologies" might not be always the best idea.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden From the comments emerged this gem:
https://www.reddit.com/r/GoogleFi/comments/kwq53m/no_money_owed_service_canceled/
tl;dr: Guy gets a $0 bill, get service cancelled for nonpayment, telephone numbers held hostage due to the unpaid bill.
I regularly get €0 credit card bills. And for some reason the bank autopayment system chokes on them and requires manual approval from me. Whereas bills between €1-€200 are paid automatically. But I'm rather sure that non-approval of the €0 would result in swift closure of my credit card.
But it gets better. My company almost got components shipments withheld by D----y, because there were too many "unpaid" overpayment refund "bills". I.e. D----y almost stopped our manufacturing process cold because they owed us money.
Edit:
Decided to hide the guilty after all.