Interesting that you see the definitive Amiga as being the A1200 - the definitive one for me was definitely the A500/A500+ - it was definitely way more popular!
BTW, I don't think the software in this repository is compatible with PPC-based Amigas, is it? (Unless they have the add-on board that runs a 68000-series processor in parallel?)
It's a bit complicated and it depends on what exactly you're measuring. The 68000 CPU has 32-bit registers internally, the address bus is 24-bit, and the data bus is 16.
This allowed you to play Doom by calling a phone number, which connected via a VoIP trunk to an Asterisk server, which read your button presses and translated them into actions in Doom, and then streamed the result back over Twitch - trying to recreate the vibe of 80s/90s TV phone-in games! (These were a thing on Saturday morning TV in the UK.)
I never tested whether it would work with pulse-dial (i.e. rotary) phones - I think that would come down to the VoIP trunk provider!
I think the Technic Lego kits that I grew up with (that were more about how things worked rather than looking exactly like the thing) have been rebranded as "Lego Education": https://education.lego.com/en-gb/shop/secondary/
I have to confess I'm not really up to speed on the situation but, from the article...
> However, last month the watchdog said a revised deal that included selling cloud gaming rights outside Europe to Activision Blizzard’s French rival Ubisoft had addressed its concerns, indicating the tie-up would be approved.
Was this as a result of CMA's pressure, or would it have happened anyway?
(If it wouldn't have happened anyway, it doesn't feel like a climb down to me?)
In the actual example, I don't think the engineers were trying to patent something obvious - it's just not unusual for engineers to casually throw around the word "obvious" for things that are not, and it's unwise to have that written down.
Working a 4 day week isn't mentioned in the article - maybe the position you were approached for was special?
...but I would not be at all surprised if the requirement to be in the office was prorated too.
In other words, if you work 5 days a week (and that's probably the vast majority of employees, so generalising for an article like this is reasonable), you need to be in 3 days, but it you work 4 you might only need to be in 2.
...so I don't think the job you were approached for contradicts the position put forward in the article?
In previous employment (as a software engineer), I've been told to do this too - mainly around inventions we were trying to patent. The reason is slightly less nefarious than you might think - for example, someone might casually say that some aspect of their patent is "obvious" but they're saying that as an expert in their field who may have spent months or years thinking about the problem and alternative solutions. However, if it came to court, "even the inventor said this was obvious" is a pretty hard thing to respond to.
Thanks, both! This was used in a static build that decrypted and checksummed its binary before execution, which ruled out naive implementations of the attacks above. I agree there are ways round these too, but I believe it was just intended to discourage amateurs rather than protect against serious hacking.
I've seen this used preemptively - have the process ptrace itself on startup (and then do nothing with it) to make it impossible (or at least far-from-trivial) for other interested parties to ptrace it.
Yes, there are courses on Java and C/C++ (and also LATEX, MATLAB and Prolog!), but these are a few out of 60 courses in total, which include things like algorithms, information theory, distributed systems and optimizing compilers.
...although maybe Cambridge isn't a "standard" CS degree?
Your previous post said "you can't redistribute Ubuntu binaries or sources as-is, since they contain registered trademarks of Canonical" (emphasis mine), which I think isn't quite true - there has to be some modification involved to fall foul of Ubuntu's IPR.
It seems that it all hinges on what a "modified version" of Ubuntu is. Is redistributing their packages outside of a full disk image a modified version?
I think the problem is that it's hard to parallelize this effectively across a network with Internet-scale latency - individual matrix multiplications parallelize very well, but there would need to be coordination of each result, which would be much slower than just doing the computation locally.
In the case of Folding@home, evaluating possible folds could be done completely in parallel and only need to be coordinated on discovery of a plausible fold (which is rare), so distributing over a high-latency network is still beneficial.
Agreed. We compost fruit and vegetable waste in our garden, but it is scary how much other food waste (as well as meat and fish bones goes in our "blue bin" for external composting.
Entocycle (https://entocycle.com/) is one startup looking at this - using black soldier flies to convert food waste into high-protein animal food. (I'm not affiliated, but I think it's a neat idea!)
I live in London and am married with 2 kids, working in tech. Personally, I'm not seeing too much difference.
* Energy prices are higher, and this has had a knock-on effect, but I see it more on childcare (e.g. nursery) than food.
* There have been shortages of some foods - specifically there were shortages of tomatoes and peppers for a week or two a month or two ago, but not recently... and there are shortages of eggs, which I understand from my cousins, who are egg farmers, is primarily due to bird flu (most eggs in the UK are from British hens).
* Regarding NHS, we've not needed to use hospitals recently, but access to GPs has been same as usual.
* I've not seen an increase in crime.
* I hear that poverty is rising, but don't have direct experience.
* The Royal Mail is almost certainly dying, but I think it's been on its way out for years.
Like I say, this is just personal experience - I appreciate that I'm quite lucky at having an OK-paying job, so could well be insulated from problems that others face.
I think we're conflating Kubernetes with containers here.
I definitely agree that databases don't benefit from running under containers - they are pet-like (and so don't benefit from fast spin up or massive horizontal scaling) and tend to require host-level tuning (which breaks the container abstraction).
What Kubernetes brings is a well-principled orchestration framework that can easily be extended with custom operators for workloads such as databases that need it. (In fairness, he does refer to this in passing at the end.)
BTW, I don't think the software in this repository is compatible with PPC-based Amigas, is it? (Unless they have the add-on board that runs a 68000-series processor in parallel?)