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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 pro…

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…

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 co…

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 m…

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.

It isn't happening until it has happened. Also sure a compiler may drop but its useless without a pile of libs.

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 …

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 unsurpr…

Thanks for the uplift; appreciated.

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 again…

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 …

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..…

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 somet…

Basically, when an object goes out of scope, it isn't de-allocated instantly. Immutable strings aren't standard; they're an implementation choice.

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 perio…

Yes. Specify an early termination charge of at least 50% of the contract total.

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 profi…

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 entir…

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 kill…

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 misad…

The phrase "circling the drain" comes to mind. Last ditch attempt at pretending to be relevant by gaming the search industry.

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 prob…

It's not about you following the rules. If someone else doesn't, your head is going to hit the ground.

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.

Just watch fail army for ten minutes and play count the heads hitting the ground. No thanks.