Indeed. A huge proportion of Gen X professionals were self taught children who learnt on home computers and then grew up.

CS degrees don’t teach you how to code. They teach you computer science.

The even harsher military action by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip […] makes it increasingly difficult for the German government to see how these goals will be achieved.

(Emphasis mine)

Is that a bad translation? I hope so, otherwise he seems to be saying if Israel could be successful he would support it.

Edit: I think it’s quoting without context and he’s referring to the goals of “the release of Israeli hostages and purposeful negotiations toward a cease-fire in the 22-month conflict”.

Agreed. The headline is terrible. Headline Case Doesn’t Help Either.

Pretty sure Gremlins caused the creation of a new certification in the US. Too many complaints about it being PG.

Hey! Spoilers!

I think it’s cheese-stringification.

A lot of the security fixes since spectre have focused on exploiting speculative execution (a key CPU performance feature) to cross security boundaries. Defeating speculative execution when switching from user to kernel space (for example) adds a lot of overhead.

The new kernel add controls so that machines that don’t need to worry about these exploits to disable the performance killing fixes.

Oh no!

Anyway,…

Oh no!

I see. EVs have much more incentive to minimise inefficiencies. Yes.

Since EVs are much more limited by inefficiencies…

I don’t follow?

Driven an EV for 8 years. It’s on its second set of tyres. My diesels cars before this one would get through a set every 18 months. I keep an eye on the tread depth too.

I don’t know why, but even with all the torque, they last. I wonder if the style of power transmission is easier on the tyre compound. Electric motors being a continuous force Vs an engine being lots of explosions, maybe.

Kids?

It’s a few hundred lines of C across 7-8 files. It checks the password hash against a set of predefined ones and then calls a script if it matches.

It doesn’t need a lot of maintaining.

Proton is based in Switzerland. Not EU.

Edit: Apparently that’s changing.

Because of legal uncertainty around Swiss government proposals to introduce mass surveillance — proposals that have been outlawed in the EU — Proton is moving most of its physical infrastructure out of Switzerland. Lumo will be the first product to move.

and will also pay a courtesy call on King Charles, according to an Indian government statement.

That doesn’t sound like a state visit. The sounds like he’s dropping in for a cuppa.

So I can never commit a test without also implementing the functionality?

That’s madness.

Irregardless means what? It’s a double negative, so it’s “regardful”?

You’re both right. You’re both wrong.

• You write tests for functionality before you write the functionality.
• You code the functionality so the tests pass.
• Then, and only then, the test becomes a regression test and is enabled in your CI automation.
• If the test ever breaks again the merge is blocked.

If you only write tests after you’ve written the code then the test will test that the code does what the code does. Your brain is already polluted and you’re not capable of writing a good test.

Having tests that fail is fine, as long as they’re not part of your regression tests.

Relays?