wumbernang

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by wumbernang 11y ago
Realistically everything is mostly shitty architecture and nearly on fire all the time. The best critique is surviving production and constant iteration and tackling limits and problems as they become apparent. If you see a problem, researc
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by wumbernang 11y ago
The mid-range HP stuff is pretty reliable. We had a DL380p Gen7 survive the switch underneath it catching fire. Had zero chassis failures on about 500 nodes in the last 12 years as well. Lose disks and power supplies all the time and the od
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by wumbernang 11y ago
Sounds reasonable but three points: 1. It's not anonymous. The ledger is enough to identify someone. 2. It's not 100% better than my current spreadsheet (one tab a month for the coming 6 months). 3. There's no motivation not
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by wumbernang 11y ago
No no no no. This is not right. 1. If you debug with this, you're debugging different code to what blew up in production for example. Subtle timing issues wiped out instantly and memory ballooning masked etc. 2. If you leave it in for
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by wumbernang 11y ago
Interesting - thanks for posting. He's waiting for a surgeon to have a meeting about him now. Not sure what the state of things is TBH.
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by wumbernang 11y ago
It isn't happening until it has happened. Also sure a compiler may drop but its useless without a pile of libs.
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by wumbernang 11y ago
We had 11 years of uptime on a VAX cluster at a company I worked for in the late 1990s. They took it down in 2001 to replace it with something that took up 2U of rack space, about 2kw less power and ran windows 2000. I turned up in 2012 to
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by wumbernang 11y ago
Transferred to another hospital overnight (this time a competent one). CT again. Found a small bleed and are currently waiting for a surgical opinion. He's in a shitty mood unsurprisingly!
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by wumbernang 11y ago
Thanks for the uplift; appreciated.
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by wumbernang 11y ago
Indeed. Thanks for the kind words. Glad your friend got through it. Terribly traumatic but a good outcome looking at your other post. Happy to know someone who got through it against the odds.
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by wumbernang 11y ago
Comedy timing for me. My father was taken into hospital 4 hours ago after collapsing and turns out he's got a brain bleed. They stuck him in a CT straight away and are now doing a lumbar puncture to see if there is any blood in the spi
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by wumbernang 11y ago
Ah yes. A guy I know designed a simple voltmeter based on a uC and a 3 digit LED display for some radio equipment. Shipped the design out to china. Look on ebay or aliexpress now... Boy is he pissed about that. Interestingly though the prod
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by wumbernang 11y ago
I'd be surprised if they did and don't forget that it's serialized/deserialized from something which will be hanging around in the GC in the form of a memory backed stream or something too.
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by wumbernang 11y ago
Basically, when an object goes out of scope, it isn't de-allocated instantly. Immutable strings aren't standard; they're an implementation choice.
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by wumbernang 11y ago
You're right and I glossed over most of it but the killers are concurrency, substitution and fixed deliverables. With concurrency, if you can prove that during the contracted period you had billable work outside the contract then that
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by wumbernang 11y ago
Yes. Specify an early termination charge of at least 50% of the contract total.
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by wumbernang 11y ago
It's better than nothing and likely better than something without source. Using the CLR which has no guaranteed memory zeroing and has immutable strings and GC and an exposed profiler and debugging APi is a larger concern IMHO.
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by wumbernang 11y ago
They're all pretty good as an ex-contractor in the UK. Even getting paid is quite easy if you sub your timesheets quickly. The killer is simply making sure that if you do the entire 6 month contract in 2 weeks that you still get paid f
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by wumbernang 11y ago
They do all the annoying paperwork for you at the registration service like the initial transfer of directors capital and appointments and crap like that. It's worth it. (I've killed 5 limited companies now so I have lots of exper
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by wumbernang 11y ago
When I'm paying the bill, its my network and responsibility as a parent so I'll take whatever measures I need and track what I want. This is partially to protect my arse from misadventure by proxy and partly to establish healthy u
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by wumbernang 11y ago
The phrase "circling the drain" comes to mind. Last ditch attempt at pretending to be relevant by gaming the search industry.
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by wumbernang 11y ago
You're an idiot. I've only ever bashed my head on the ground at very low speeds. You'd be surprised the damage you can do falling from head height. A bike merely increases the probability of that happening. High speed; forget
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by wumbernang 11y ago
It's not about you following the rules. If someone else doesn't, your head is going to hit the ground.
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by wumbernang 11y ago
I've been cycling for 22 years. I've smashed my head on the ground 5 times now. NEVER was it my fault. Just because you're not a dick doesn't mean someone else isn't.
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by wumbernang 11y ago
Just watch fail army for ten minutes and play count the heads hitting the ground. No thanks.
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by wumbernang 11y ago
Well it's always someone's fault. In this case there are only so many combinations of MIL-DTL-22992 out there. It wasn't even our harness. No idea where it came from. Serno didn't register, wasn't shipped with the d
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by wumbernang 11y ago
Ah yes my favourite people. So our radios and avionics go out with a test set. The wrench monkeys install it in the airframe and it doesn't work (the term used by the guy on the phone). So we say take the thing out of the airframe, plu
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by wumbernang 11y ago
Hence why I suggested the student manual which is a little more forgiving. TAoE isn't something you read cover to cover anyway, it's a reference book.
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by wumbernang 11y ago
I'm not talking about construction here; design approach. I don't have any schematics for what I'm working on; they get drawn up later when it's all working. I have to reverse engineer deadbug and Manhattan stuff which i
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by wumbernang 11y ago
True. I worked for a military contactor and had to deal with what RAF 'engineers' did to our radio kit. My current main scope, a Tek 453, was ex military and it had some after market repairs done by a monkey with soldering kit. To

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