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@acrow Thereby collegially creating work for the administrative court judge too, yes. But that runs risk, albite small, of shedding some bad light on you.
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@Bulb The administration is Teflon (tm); nothing ever sticks to them personally from the courts. But you're right, something else is likely amiss here. The article wrote:
A junior council worker who thought they were testing a dummy website rejected and approved real planning applications
Testing a "dummy website" sounds like a new platform being deployed. And it may not yet be fully functional. Which would explain the inability to process appeals.
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@acrow Actually, the article probably (reading it is ) does not mean it cannot be appealed, but rather just that it cannot be fixed without appealing. That is now
- The applications that were approved in error are approved. The agency can't appeal their own decision and the applicant won't.
- For the applications that were declined in error the applicants will have to, to stay on the safe side, call up Satan & Belzeebub, Inc., attorneys in law (or similar suitable company) and ask them (for appropriate fee) to write correctly worded appeal on suitable letter head and send it by registered mail to the agency.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@Bulb Showing activity and reversing a decision based on an appeal are two entirely unrelated things. You can show a great deal of activity, reviewing all the appeals veeeerrry slowly. And then ignore them all anyway.
Well, no you can't, actually.
There are requirements as to how the review is supposed to go, including legally mandated deadlines. Sure, you can drag your feet and have your office get dragged to administrative court for failure to perform obligatory actions, but nobody's gonna want to do that for something as silly as this.
Stonewalling is kept for cases where there's something to be gained.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
Showing activity and reversing a decision based on an appeal are two entirely unrelated things.
No. All the work to reverse a decision based on appeal is very good at filling the timesheet with activity.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
It isn't often that I side with New York in anything, but fuck those companies.
It worked for rent! Why not?
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curses in sportsball.
Brought to head recently in Ireland when Mayo failed to win their 8th final since the start of the millennium. Moral of the story. Beware Gypsie curses.
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A boat on the water with commercial cargo on it, and not a soul in sight.
...I don't even have the energy to be sarcastic about it. As soon as this thing is out of primary radar coverage, it will never be seen again.
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@acrow Hm:
The ship relies on electric power, packing a 7 MWh battery. As a comparison, the average electric car has a battery pack somewhere between 40 and 100 kWh. In fact, the Yara Birkeland’s battery pack is approximately the equivalent of 70 Tesla Model S battery packs in capacity.
and a bit later
The battery is paired with two 700 kW tunnel thrusters for propulsion. There’s also a further two 900 kW Azipull pod thrusters, which propel the ship in addition to adding maneuverability.
That's a total of 3.2 MW installed power. The batteries can sustain that for a bit over two hours. At measly 13 knots that's not getting far. It's probably not cruising at all flank, but it won't be a tiny fraction either. So 10 hours tops. 10 hours at 10 knots will get you a 100 nautical miles… a sea-going vessel needs thousands to get anywhere useful.
And since the battery size they give for cars is correct, and the multiple and the value match, it's not just a simple missing zeroes.
Also
Cargo capacity is 120 twenty-foot equivalent units
That's tiny. It's a small feeder. If it's sea-going at all, it will just crawl along the coast from a smaller port to a bigger one just next to it. The couple hours endurance might then even be sufficient though.
@acrow said in In other news today...:
As soon as this thing is out of primary radar coverage, it will never be seen again.
Ergo, it isn't going out of radar coverage.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
Ergo, it isn't going out of radar coverage.
Indeed. Article even mentions that it's going to be hopping between two municipalities in Norway (at least initially) where they can monitor it. Both of them are along the same fjord, so that's not fully out in the sea. Distance is apparently around 13km. Seems like a reasonable test site for an automated transport ship.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
Distance is apparently around 13km.
But many times longer than that by road. The Norwegian fjordland is seriously awkward to navigate by anything other than water.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
But many times longer than that by road. The Norwegian fjordland is seriously awkward to navigate by anything other than water.
Yeah. To be fair, this was on the south east cost (IIRC, I had just very briefly looked at the map) and both places are on the same side/shore. There was what seemed to be a larger relatively straight road connection. Seems to me like it really is more for real-life testing. However, I can see how that would be useful in that landscape if it matures sufficiently.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
To be fair, this was on the south east cost
That's near Oslo so it isn't real Norway. Might as well be Sweden or Denmark.
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@cvi Funnily enough, there is a (small) part of Norway that feels extremely Danish. It's the area around and south of Stavanger, and it feels really odd by comparison to the rest of the large fjord just inland from there or the mountains beyond it.
That the area near the Swedish border feels a lot like the bit on the other side of the border is entirely unsurprising.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
Funnily enough, there is a (small) part of Norway that feels extremely Danish.
That's because it was stolen from the Danes.
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
Wow, they had to shop it all the way to Sierra Leone?
Gotta test it somewhere that actually has ebola. Fortunately, the usual approach of using US college students won't work in this case.
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A lot of developers are still on 8
Some of us are still supporting 7
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@DogsB quoted in In other news today...:
A lot of developers are still on 8
I've not seen any pressing reason to go to a later version. Text blocks are the most tempting (with
var
from a few versions back being a fairly close second), but I instead put my larger SQL statements in their own files (as that's generally clearer anyway). Having the deployment flexibility of 8 is worth it for me.
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@DogsB The feature they chose to showcase first is
public abstract sealed class Shape permits Circle, Rectangle, Square { ... }
What is the actual benefit of this over a comment “Don't create more subclasses. Trust me, it's so tricky it's not worth it”?
Filed under: [Shape isn't a sensible superclass of Square anyway].
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
What is the actual benefit of this
It makes the space of subclasses of the class into a closed space, i.e., one that the compiler can inherently know completely, and use its knowledge of that completeness to make optimization decisions.
Sounds trivial. Really isn't. Open world vs closed world is one of the most fundamental differences in type systems there is.
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@DogsB how the fuck can Java "fall behind" Kotlin? Kotlin has always been ahead, that's its job.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
A lot of developers are still on 8
Some of us are still supporting 7
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@DogsB The feature they chose to showcase first is
public abstract sealed class Shape permits Circle, Rectangle, Square { ... }
What is the actual benefit of this over a comment “Don't create more subclasses. Trust me, it's so tricky it's not worth it”?
Filed under: [Shape isn't a sensible superclass of Square anyway].
Smells like an enum, this example does. But, enumerable sets of types are a use this supports that is useful.
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
Smells like an enum, this example does.
More like a tagged union where the tag is the type.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
Smells like an enum, this example does.
More like a tagged union where the tag is the type.
Yes, that's called “enum” these days. Not sure which language started with that.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
A lot of developers are still on 8
Some of us are still supporting 7
We're on 8. But if my framework supported it, I think text blocks would be a compelling reason for me to upgrade. TIL, because I haven't really been paying attention since we're stuck on 8.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
Smells like an enum, this example does.
More like a tagged union where the tag is the type.
That also smells enumerated
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/10/science/kea-beak-tools.html
Actually readable link:
https://archive.is/rwG10
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Yup...guess that would do it.
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@boomzilla No report whether anyone was heard saying "what does this button do?" before everything shut down.
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla No report whether anyone was heard saying "what does this button do?" before everything shut down.
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Filed under: Move fast and break things
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
Funnily enough, there is a (small) part of Norway that feels extremely Danish.
That's because it was stolen from the Danes.
Nah, the Danes gave Norway to the Norwegians instead of giving it to Sweden.
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@Carnage I never know which of those countries would be the best place to ask for a Calamari Smørrebrød.
Filed under: the absolutely awful and don't-really-work-in-English puns thread doesn't exist, and that's a good thing.
(inb4: I'm also looking for the off-by-a-few-centuries thread)
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@remi said in In other news today...:
@Carnage I never know which of those countries would be the best place to ask for a Calamari Smørrebrød.
Filed under: the absolutely awful and don't-really-work-in-English puns thread doesn't exist, and that's a good thing.
(inb4: I'm also looking for the off-by-a-few-centuries thread)
If you spell it smørrebrød, you can exclude Sweden.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@remi said in In other news today...:
@Carnage I never know which of those countries would be the best place to ask for a Calamari Smørrebrød.
Filed under: the absolutely awful and don't-really-work-in-English puns thread doesn't exist, and that's a good thing.
(inb4: I'm also looking for the off-by-a-few-centuries thread)
If you spell it smørrebrød, you can exclude Sweden.
And that's always a good idea.
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@remi said in In other news today...:
@Carnage I never know which of those countries would be the best place to ask for a Calamari Smørrebrød.
Filed under: the absolutely awful and don't-really-work-in-English puns thread doesn't exist, and that's a good thing.
(inb4: I'm also looking for the off-by-a-few-centuries thread)
If you spell it smørrebrød, you can exclude Sweden.
And that's always a good idea.
Yeah, Sweden is pretty exclusive.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
Filed under: Move fast and break things
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
Yes, that's called “enum” these days.
That's slightly different. There the set of values/instances is closed, whereas with sealed classes the set of subclasses is closed.
Not sure which language started with that.
It's awkward to search for that, but it appears to be an innovation in Java 5. Looking at the documents from the time, it seems that the antecessor for this was a Typesafe Enumeration pattern that was a lot wordier and often implemented wrongly, and
enum
was initially regarded as being syntax to hide the complexity required. (I read the JCP request that specifiedenum
and it is very bare-bones indeed; there's no real indication of the thought processes involved in its development or the rationale other than “make that pattern easier to use”. )I've been able to find that the preceding pattern was really quite ugly by comparison, and very much something that's a way to hack together something that works like rather like an enum without allowing integers to participate, unlike in C. Alas, searching for the history of the pattern is much more difficult because so much has been written about it since. However, the buggy version that many people were using is just about the most obvious way of doing it (with the tools of the time) once you decide you want your enumeration distinct from integers.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
Yes, that's called “enum” these days.
That's slightly different. There the set of values/instances is closed, whereas with sealed classes the set of subclasses is closed.
In Java it is different. But then you have the languages where “enum” means full-blown union type. I know Rust calls them enums, but also don't think Haskell does (they are generally referred to as algebraic data types there and declared using
|
s) and I don't know what ML calls them.
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Rather than guessing a valid authentication token to insert into a fraudulent OMI web request, you simply omit all mention of the authentication token altogether, and you’re in!
And here was me thinking that Microsoft was at least a little competent at this cloud thingie.
My favourite bit.
Complicating matters is that running OMI is not something Azure users actively choose.
As Wiz explained: "When customers set up a Linux virtual machine in [Azure], the OMI agent is automatically deployed without their knowledge when they enable certain Azure services.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Rather than guessing a valid authentication token to insert into a fraudulent OMI web request, you simply omit all mention of the authentication token altogether, and you’re in!
That's up there with being able to access a machine by just pressing Esc to cancel the login dialog and go back to the session of whoever was in there before.
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In a statement, the company confirmed that "certain customers" were affected by the breach and explained that the information includes Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers or state ID numbers, passport numbers, financial account and routing numbers, health insurance information, treatment information, biometric data, medical records, taxpayer identification numbers and credit card numbers and expiration dates.
Why the fuck does a slot machine company have any of its customers' medical records?
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
That's slightly different. There the set of values/instances is closed, whereas with sealed classes the set of subclasses is closed.
Not sure which language started with that.
It's awkward to search for that, but it appears to be an innovation in Java 5.
Each enum instance can is also a subclass, they can override top-level methods.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
In a statement, the company confirmed that "certain customers" were affected by the breach and explained that the information includes Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers or state ID numbers, passport numbers, financial account and routing numbers, health insurance information, treatment information, biometric data, medical records, taxpayer identification numbers and credit card numbers and expiration dates.
Why the fuck does a slot machine company have any of its customers' medical records?
They bought it from spy media?