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Might not be as dumb as it sounds. It doesn't sound like it's their current product, and it's not unreasonable for a customer to want a guarantee that a train i
by ajb 3y ago
Might not be as dumb as it sounds. It doesn't sound like it's their current product, and it's not unreasonable for a customer to want a guarantee that a train is going to keep working the same way for 30 years, and not need completely retesting from scratch just because Microsoft made a new release. If it's not networked, there's no security issue.
It's a bit sad that our initial expectation, that software would be like mathematics, where you can keep building on previous results no matter if they were from last year or last millennia, didn't work out.
- pretext-1 3y agoIt’s a remote job offering so it must be networked somehow. Probably behind VPN and Remote Desktop though.
- refulgentis 3y agoSource? Looks like it's in Erlangen, a German city.
- tauchunfall 3y agoIt's the first word in the title. >Remote: Windows 3.11 Administrator (m/f/d).
- notso411 3y agoWhat is mfd
- ahofmann 3y agoMale, female, diverse. It's the law in Germany to advertise jobs as open for every sex and there is a third sex in Germany, called 'divers' (means: other)
- TazeTSchnitzel 3y agoIt's very strange to me that they do this for job postings in English, but it's probably a consequence of how the equivalent Germam postings are impossible to avoid gendering: Ingenieur is “male engineer”, Ingenieurin is “female engineer”, etc. There's workarounds like Ingenieur*innen but that's an unpronounceable neologism. And I guess there might be an ambiguity there about whether the divers is covered.
- wil421 3y agoWhy do you have to specify a gender? In the US I would assume anyone could apply and capable candidates would be considered. Doesn’t mean you would get a job if they were really seeking a female or male. Not trying to go into a gender or political questions, only curious how another country works.
- Zak 3y agoBecause in German, it is grammatically impossible not to.
- Pamar 3y agoExactly. Language like Italian, French, German (and more) assign a "gender" to any word. "Chair" is female in Italian, male in Germsn (iirc). And articles like a, the, this, that have slightly different forms for male and female (German also has "neuter"). Articles also have to match the gender of the word: "la sedia rossa" (the red chair in Italian) vs "il divano rosso" (the red couch). English has "gendered" words in rare, exceptional cases (master/mistress?) but for Latin-based languages it is the opposite.
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- Zak 3y agoEnglish has several of them for professions, e.g. waiter/waitress, aviator/aviatrix, actor/actress, but in modern English the masculine is always treated as neuter/generic. If I post an ad hiring an aviator, nobody would think that means means only men can apply either grammatically or factually, nor is anyone likely to correct me if I describe Natalie Portman as an actor instead of actress. German can be weird in that the grammatical gender of a word doesn't always match the sex or gender of the person it describes. The most famous example is probably that das Mädchen (the girl) is grammatically neuter but unambiguously describes a female person. Nouns describing professions, however usually (always?) have a masculine and a feminine form and do describe the sex or gender of the person. An ad hiring a Fahrer would have the same meaning as "male driver" in English. That would be illegal sex discrimination in the USA or Germany. The linked ad also included the following text, which has no connection to reality for the English translation: > Note: In order to improve the readability of the text, the masculine form is used to refer to persons, functions, etc. However, it stands for all genders without exception.
- jeffreygoesto 3y agoThere's a lot you could know about Erlangen... https://youtu.be/Z4Ic1mzzAiI https://youtu.be/Z4Ic1mzzAiI
- HeckFeck 3y agoPresumably, a deep knowledge of Erlang wouldn't be amiss when working there.
- nativeit 3y agoThank you for stepping up and taking this pun for the team.
- tauchunfall 3y ago>It’s a remote job offering so it must be networked somehow. Why do you assume that? The Siemens SIBAS 32 system can be used at home, and an old PC system with Windows 3.11 should be the smallest problem to use at home. The question is, if that's enough to simulate an environment similar to the train.
- petee 3y agoThey are suggesting the train system being offline, not the programmer/build system
- edf13 3y agoAnd that's where the security holes potentially are.
- stavros 3y ago> It's a bit sad that our initial expectation, that software would be like mathematics, where you can keep building on previous results no matter if they were from last year or last millennia, didn't work out. If you think that, you haven't seen some of my dependencies.
- picadores 3y agoDepraved degenerated decadent debouched and dangling dependencies. Cthullus madness has nothing on this. It may be co-dependent on its future self. Barock pipes, going allthrough the project, knowing no boundaries when it comes to language, platform and versioning. Laakon in cables, these spaghettis of missery, create work from 5 minutes safed work, to build the best problem-accelerator there ever was, flooding it all with exotic particles on collission. Dependencies you can depend on, like a druggy on his dealer. A spider, excreeting web, made from nutrients, it extracted from itself - which it caught in the web. To be aware of them, is to become aware of mortality, as time decays everything away, even this gordian knot, whos fraying leather belts, whip those who untangle it. God may be all powerfull, but his ability to strike us down, for that unholy abomination of a universal dependcy, implies the universal simulator not having found all modules. It still runs, but once stop it shall never rebuild. Scratch your chin and mumble: "It depends.." cause in the deep ends - it always does. PS: I got carried away, thinking about my own, sorry.
- datadeft 3y agoBetter yet, why do we need operating systems with the bloat that they got today? Win3.11 was a decent system at the time and if all they need is included in it and there is no security repercussions than I guess it is ok.
- dghlsakjg 3y agoIts super easy to get a no-bloat operating system. Not from microsoft, but there's a flavor of linux for everything.
- Wowfunhappy 3y agoHow well does Linux run on Windows 3.1 era hardware?
- phlummox 3y agoAs someone who ran Linux on Windows 3.1 era hardware, perfectly well.
- TkTech 3y agoVery well, and striped down kernels run on hardware with even less resources today (embedded systems) than 3.1 minimum requirements. If a platform has lost support, and there's sufficient money in it to justify it, you can always go back in time to an older kernel. What really sucks is when a platform vendor maintains their own tree and it gets lost to time. The real pain is populating the userspace if you need more than just busybox.
- arp242 3y agoThere's distros for this: https://github.com/marmolak/gray486linux https://github.com/marmolak/gray486linux – it's based on Linux 6.7. Never used it; don't know how well it works in practice. But it's the type of thing that can be made to work. Looks like some minimum requirements are a tad higher than the minimum of Windows 3.1 though, so it depends a bit on what you mean exactly with "Windows 3.1 era hardware".
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- morpheos137 3y agoIt would if we built software like other durable public infrastructure. Instead we are continually reinventing the wheel.