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tus87··on IT Runs on Java 8
Poor start-up time, terrible application bloat, uninspiring language with poor concurrency support, massive RAM requirements, everything XML, complex tuning required, what a nightmare.

No wonder the world is running towards Python and serverless as fast as they can...

tus87··on Amazon S3 will no longer support path-style API requests
Did Amazon invent the rule the cert wildcards only match one level?
tus87··on 60 days in jail for not paying a $2.75 subway fare costs the city $22,000
Well broken windows worked didn't it? NYC went from being the most dangerous city in the US to one of the safest.
tus87··on Palantir’s software was used for deportations, documents show
- high pressure sales tactics convince management its cheaper to "buy off the shelf" than build your own

- but we aren't selling you a finished product (didn't we mention that?), just a base framework that needs customization. Cue fly-in-fly-out consultants for exorbitant daily rates.

- to lower costs, why not send your own staff to our "university" for thousands of dollars for a 5 day class?

- hire said staff to become consultants after customer pays for their training. They don't appear out of thin air!

- when customer finally ditches product, blame them for lack of investment and use contacts to complain at highest levels of bureaucracy.

- rinse and repeat.

A tried and tested formula.

tus87··on Why the U.S. Chills Its Eggs and Most of the World Doesn't (2014)
Woolworths. I believe Coles has them on a normal shelf.
tus87··on Chinese Media Warn WeChat Admins: "You Can Be Arrested for Group Chat"
British media: you can be arrested for makes jokes on twitter or calling a woman a woman.
tus87··on Microsoft, currently the most valuable company, is having a Nadellaissance
Is that a word for poor quality control?
tus87··on Use mmap with care
Yes, but if the file is on local disk its exactly the same situation as the page file.

OP seems to be trying to cope with NFS errors....but if you are using mmap on NFS you have bigger problems...

tus87··on L.A.’s Elite on Edge as Prosecutors Pursue More Parents in Admissions Scandal
WRONG.

Murder is a negative to society.

A loser going to Harvard is not, may even improve society if they study well.

tus87··on Examining Carlos Ghosn and Japan's System of 'Hostage Justice'
I find Western criticism of Japan's legal system hilarious.

> Japanese prosecutors subject suspects to up to eight hours of daily questioning while they are detained in a bid to obtain a confession, shutting off access to their family and barring them from obtaining legal assistance during the questioning. And according to the popular narrative, it’s all done capriciously, with the nefarious machinations of the state lurking behind.

This is true in almost every western country except the US. England, Canada, Australia etc you have no right to a lawyer during questioning. Police will destroy and cover up evidence in attempt to frame people on a regular basis, and basically join the prosecution from day 1 instead of investigating crime. They seek certain sorts of convictions to please their politics masters. They much rather a rape conviction than a false accusation conviction for example. They will prosecute people against the weight of evidence, where in fact the only evidence is exculpatory.

Consider the case of Mark Pearson. Falsely accused of a rape after bumping into a woman in a subway station. Video evidence proved it wasn't possible, so police slowed down the footage to make it appear it did happen. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/cps-slowed-down-...

Now if this same thing happened in Japan, if they saw the video footage that basically proved it was a false accusation, do you think they would have acted as capriciously as UK police, or maybe charged the woman instead?

The narcissism of the Western political/legal class knows no bounds.

tus87··on U.K. Police Have a Message for Crime Victims: Hand over Your Private Data
Well let's see....someone reports a car as stolen but...

- they have no evidence they ever had a car

- bank records do not show evidence of any purchases of a car or insurance

- registration records do not support the person had a car registered to them

The yes the police will probably start investigating them for fraud as they do many of thousands of times are year, and they may well seek forensic computer evidence.

tus87··on U.K. Police Have a Message for Crime Victims: Hand over Your Private Data
> Fishing expeditions are not allowed.

That's exactly what a criminal investigation is. They keep fishing until they find probative evidence. The creative ways police investigate certain unsolved crimes puts most fishing expeditions to shame.

Unless of course you aren't interested in the truth but want to railroad people accused of very specific crimes for political reasons...

tus87··on U.K. Police Have a Message for Crime Victims: Hand over Your Private Data
Seen as guilty by who?

We know the police do, as they admit as much. They explicitly say they have a policy of believing the victim at which point they sign up to the prosecution rather than investigating both sides. This is not in dispute - they openly admit it, usually as a reassurance to "victims".

By the courts? Well if you look at the carriage of a trial, the fact the accuser gets to give evidence over a TV, advice to juries about "myths" (but never the myth that women never lie about rape), tight controls over what evidence the defense can even raise or how they can test the evidence against them (but not the prosecution)...the system is stacked against the accused in a way that is miles away from a fair trial. Simply allowing a trial without evidence could be said to be guilty until proven innocent.

The jury? Well that varies, but given the proportion of not guilty verdicts, thankfully not most of the time. Juries aren't perfect, but the reason we have them is to protect the accused from people like you.

If you had an ounce of self awareness you might put yourself in Mark Pearson's shoes and ask, if that was you, would you still be shilling for the CPS?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/man-falsely-...

tus87··on Rape victims among those to be asked to hand phones to police
> There are about 6,000 prosecutions, and about 2.5k

So 3500 NOT GUILTY verdicts huh? And none of them could possibly be false accusation?

tus87··on Rape victims among those to be asked to hand phones to police
That's hilarious.

In the UK they need permission from 2 senior prosecutors to DROP a rape prosecution.

But the need permission from the DPP to even START prosecuting a false rape accusation.

tus87··on Study finds Reddit’s ban of its most toxic subreddits worked (2017)
Wow TWO posts on front page of HN calling for censorship. What's going on?!?!
tus87··on After Pentagon Ends Contract, Top-Secret Scientists Group Vows To Carry On
> The Jasons' solution was to develop a system of remote sensors that could be airdropped into the jungle and provide intelligence on the enemy. The program, like much to do with Vietnam, was controversial and didn't work perfectly

LOL so a bunch of ivory tower academics who have never left the cushy confines of campus let alone entered a battlefield come up with impractical and useless inventions that got dumped within a day. What's the bet men on the ground hated them! And the real solution came from some comms officer who knows a bit about soldering and sensors (and the reality of jungle warfare) probably.

Im surprised the DOD put up with them for so long.

tus87··on AWS Web Console Down?
Everyone take the day off.
tus87··on V8: A Year with Spectre
It's more depressing that some people think of programming as programming a language rather than a machine. Languages are just fluff that all reduce to the same thing when crunched through a compiler or interpreter.
tus87··on Fearing More Violence, Sri Lanka Silences Social Media
The only speech without thought is tourettes.
tus87··on Mozilla announces WebAssembly System Interface, what JVM should have been
If you want to pull the chain on this diarrhea:

https://github.com/stevespringett/disable-webassembly

tus87··on Why have so many physicists shrugged off the paradoxes of quantum mechanics?
> Pascual Jordan, an important member of Bohr’s circle, cut the Gordian knot: An electron does not have a position until it is observed; the observation is what compels it to assume one. Quantum mechanics makes statistical predictions about where it is more or less likely to be observed.

The things physicists will say instead of "we don't know the answer".

tus87··on ‘Our Lying Eyes’: Inaccurate eyewitness identifications and wrongful convictions
One word: corroboration.
tus87··on 5G Is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk
Predicting weather it will rain or not today would be a killer app, and I'm still waiting.
tus87··on Sony reveals PlayStation 5 details
> We’ve known for a while that Sony is working on its next-generation PlayStation console — call it the PlayStation 5 for lack of a better name

When you say it's next generation and deserving of the title PS5....whatever.

tus87··on Sony reveals PlayStation 5 details
> the new console isn’t just a spec-boosted upgrade of the PS4, like the PS4 Pro was.

Has any of Sony's next-generation consoles just been "spec-upgraded" versions of previous ones? What a weird comment.

tus87··on “I worked at Boeing for about 1.5 years in the 2008-9 time period”
Which raises a rather obvious question ...
tus87··on “I worked at Boeing for about 1.5 years in the 2008-9 time period”
> 1. Use inputs from both AOA sensors, if they disagree by 5.5 degrees, disable MCAS.

Great, and now you have the other problem the MCAS was supposed to mitigate (the tendency of the MAX to do backflips).

tus87··on The Sorrows of Psychiatry
The problem is truly helping the severely damaged is such a difficult task requiring long term, intense intervention that most mental health professionals just fall back onto the standard approach of pathologicalizing behavior and prescribing medication. Theirs is just a job too at the end of the day, is it reasonable to expect them to carry the weight of society's failures?
tus87··on Which programming language is used for making Windows 10?
> Windows 10 is the same (evolved) code base as the code base of Windows 8.x, 7, Vista, XP, 2000, and NT

Err....it's been NT all along.

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