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retcon··on The collapse of complex software
>> We haven't really found a way to reuse these among different technologies.

The Common Language Environment on VMS, or its lesser(but infinitely more available hence virtuous by effect) imitation, dot net CLR . FFIs, if you bought a good environment. Sounds like if open source implementation of good foreign interfaces existed, the OP's problem wouldn't exist, let alone system level interoperability.

retcon··on The collapse of complex software
KDB is unique for translating "in house" tech to marketable CV entry status. Having Haskell and CS(FB) experience requires educating the recruitment agencies, for comparable recognition. Personally I consider every ill in computing as symptoms of the intellectual property system, from making reading potential prior art (aka learning) verboten to non disclosures making the Peter Principle look like the common cold to covid.
retcon··on The collapse of complex software
Correct, sales does have to scale factorially to the development man years. That's the problem with the prevailing economic contradiction. See Jamie Dimon, JPM, three days ago.. I've never witnessed a bulge bracket chief concluding the most public statements with, roughly, "doh, I dunno, it's crazy" before. My father cut his banking teeth in the Great Depression. That was actually much more simple. (Whether because the tools of the trade were more simple or just thankfully..) "Hurricane" is the search term for Dimon's delivery...
retcon··on The collapse of complex software
The cumulative system design contributing to MULTICS, however, probably was a order of magnitude greater work than the implementation effort. On the shoulders of Giants may be clichèd , but it also seems increasingly as if the contemporary world has decided to deprecate inherited wisdom. Blame awful policy decisions starting under Regan..
retcon··on FAA Continues to Stall on G100UL
The Fabian Extend and Embrace Society?
retcon··on A CIA hacker’s revenge
I can't get past the question about the conditions under which the disclosures became deemed necessary. Everything else definitely never ought to be clear or you have a problem with arbitrary decision making agency out of hand.
retcon··on Framework laptop water damage repair attempt using partial schematic [video]
Module level repair novel you say?

Parts Removal and Replacement Videos - PCs and Smart Devices - Lenovo Support GB

https://support.lenovo.com/gb/en/solutions/ht505031-parts-re...

retcon··on A vision of a multi-threaded Emacs
>I see more forum activity from newcomers

It terrifies me how often new users today are gasping for breath on the shores, ungainly four limbed tetrapods gasping for breath...this isn't progress and it's not evolution, there's so much more of everything but it's not at all higher quality for novice users than I grew up on forty years ago.

> more high quality packages emerging each year than ever before

I question my own ability to quantify modern software quality. Compared with what? My working lifetime has been dominated by corporate shovelware and that's absorbed multiple generations of misguided human and fiscal wealth creating structural deficit immeasurable compared to the Cambrian bounty of my early years. Edited last sentence for clarity.

retcon··on Canadians Unable to Afford Safe Housing Are Turning to Medically-Assisted Death
And that's at your lower bound.

Here's why:

Edit putting this here as intended

Viktor Orban's Bank" Financial Times feature of this morning. https://archive.ph/tINOK

This won't help "Hungary Loses the trust of its European neighbours"https://archive.ph/rXucw. Also FT earlier .

I contrast these articles because Orban ended foreign currency and foreign banks mortgage loan supply and nationalized the risks, now linking domestic mortgages to the political situation which is for everyone now a reckoning but any reckoning Orban isn't the best prepared for.

retcon··on Ask HN: Is Security Possible?
Those are good reasons why the National Academy of Science doesn't think that computer security can be responsible to professional standards:

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/18446/professional...

retcon··on Qantas ferried an engine on the wing of a 747 (2016)
Admittedly for a unique minority Concorde wasn't a novelty at all: the very few journalists who covered Washington and London global political developments (and who were indulged the budget) used Concorde more often than any red eye shuttle. I actually associate the atrocious decline in public US - UK understanding to this absurdity. The absurdity being how much we needed a humanist perspective on transatlantic relations after 9/11 but got informationally waterboarded instead by sheer volume of grade school quality wire release. The cost of running Speed Bird even a little longer for diplomatic corps reporting should have been a mutual national priority.
retcon··on Ultra compact GAN ATX power supply delivers up to 250 Watts
... dreams of the EPA obtaining warrants for the fraud on the public for the disposal costs of so much wasted electronics...
retcon··on The billable hour is a trap into which more and more of us are falling
I have, and many besides, billed every last penny on the basis of "what I may miss I still understand better than anyone else". My 0.01% failures are 100% of my proposition.
retcon··on Much philanthropy is a routinized exchange between salaried bureaucrats
When I worked for what was the fastest growing public publisher in London over thirty years ago, salespeople actually shared their tax slips to boast. "Super tax" was the euphemisms for how much was calculated you needed to have deducted from your payroll every time you hit a campaign out the park and increased your tax offices estimate of your annual return. Which we did. Often. See the Guinness records book for the PGA tour guide of'93 which was the apotheosis and the end of that lark. (Almost all advertising it weighed six pounds or something crazy but quite sane compared with the first dollar points paid to direct sales)
retcon··on Current guidelines for sun exposure are unhealthy and unscientific – research (2019)
Anecdotally I've never seen anyone who has acne and a tan.
retcon··on Why America has so few carpenters
75 year ago in the race to rehouse the UK the government paid for new builds cost plus. My father wrote(and sold for broadcast) a eponymous radio play on the phenomenon of everyone adding five points to the BOM and labor and getting paid automatically by the Ministry of Works. It was D noted.

Edit: My memory was wobbly the title was simply"Money". This (carte blanche for lousy work) created the next housing crisis that's created the currently forty years old UK housing crisis. My father ran the largest mortgage book of that era so saw the disaster up close and filthy.

retcon··on Workarounds to computer access in healthcare organizations (2015) [pdf]
The UK has no link between doctors and hospitals, for a shining example. This reason alone is why so many expats I know return and receive better care from any old HMO just because the billing system glues together the case histories essential for infrequent attendants to primary care due to travel etc.
retcon··on Workarounds to computer access in healthcare organizations (2015) [pdf]
In healthcare ten years doesn't even cover the original rollout you may be complaining about...
retcon··on Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (1981)
Indeed. Since much earlier in the article the author says,

[Edit wrong paste before sorry]

>In designing a language for use with computers, we do not have to look far to find helpful hints. Everything we know about how people think and communicate is applicable.

Taking grammatical structures as the principal guide, I'd say that functional language design is the goal.

retcon··on ACM Digital Library Archive is Open Access with 50 Years of Published Records
I don't mean this negatively at all but I am daydreaming of a time machine and taking this decision back to 1995 and tripping over all the technology fads we might have been spared. Good. This is what makes it worth having children for.
retcon··on Tether Required Recapitalization in May 2022
Is it not well known that the Lehman International (London) book turned the all history record yield when finally unwound by the liquidators, and made LB fundamentally solvent at the death?

Edit: solvent at crisis time. LBI wasn't linked to onshore information systems.

retcon··on Tether Required Recapitalization in May 2022
> I will bet you $5,000 that [...]

Sure, buddy...

Course in a good market you'd lay that risk on the order book not come fishing for suckers here...

retcon··on Tether Required Recapitalization in May 2022
This might be fine in a open regulated market. See my above comment.
retcon··on Tether Required Recapitalization in May 2022
This is why in regulated markets you can inspect the ticker: to provide a audit record for proof that nobody is funding themselves or the asset by arbitrage.
retcon··on Gov.uk drops jQuery from their front end
It's only8 minutes since your responseso I'd just like to say that I almost immediately got the gist of your product before any changes. Long advertising experience means like a remedial English teacher I'm better than most reading poorer copy but I consider your(unchanged) copy very good. Unfortunately without the words"audit", "WORM" and"incident search" present or prominent I'm not your market. But I could think of many thousands of publication sites longing for your tool, if those terms applied.
retcon··on Long-Term Building in Japan
> reverse-claustrophobia

Agoraphobia ;)

retcon··on Unfinished Business with Postgres
>near miss when a disk was lost that caused a rather horrific amount of effort and some nailbiting in restoring from pgbackups.”

I hope that eliminating a single drive fault failure mode isn't part of the unfinished business.

Twelve years ago RAID 6 and 60 definitely existed. Battery backed FC arrays of considerable sophistication have existed for far longer. I'm thinking HDS arrays circa 2002 for peak redundancy complexity (before integration reduced parts and physical runtime concerns making the installation environment as important as the technology.)

retcon··on Billing systems are a nightmare for engineers
>/as Qonto is a 'neobank', we wanted to charge our customers directly in their wallet, through a ledger connected to our internal billing system. The team started from a duo of full-time engineers building a billing system (which is already a considerable investment), to currently a dedicated cross-functional team called 'pricing'.

Stored procedures (ca. Oracle v6) suddenly sound a walk in the park.

retcon··on Japanese audio brand Onkyo files for bankruptcy
[Edit] (large format) ,[/] Surround American made monitors designed by the Pet Sounds engineer Alan Sides.

https://oceanwayaudio.com/as-the-sea-level-rises-for-immersi...

British (also available in consumer version and pretty finishing): ATC SCM150

https://atc.audio/hi-fi/loudspeakers/classic-series/scm150/

American: JBL M2 https://jblpro.com/products/m2

(Or just buy JBL commercial theater smaller models like many installers do)

German: Neumann KH420 https://en-de.neumann.com/kh-420

Yamaha NS-5000 https://europe.yamaha.com/en/products/audio_visual/speaker_s...

All these cost about thirty thousand dollars including appropriate amplification and tax before installation. I make this a loss leader run by all the industry for labor and materials only. Every one is a halo product and worthy of that description.

retcon··on Coinbase warns that bankruptcy could wipe out user funds
I think your statement about the idea that Coinbase isn't living on the float about as likely as the notion that nobody in crypto is desperately trying to create a fiat currency fiefdom. As such, your views come across as the kind of statement that are illegal to distribute concerning regulated investment.
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