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by tauchunfall 3y ago
>Perhaps this is one job that shouldn't be remote.. I guess with some luck you can work on these hardware drivers for Windows 3.11 at home without any access to the network or train. What you need are specifications and maybe some p
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by tauchunfall 3y ago
>we have the comfort of knowing the designer used the correct pronouns The text is probably translated from German. In this case they did not mean correct pronouns, but they meant they did not use inclusive nouns for simplicity reasons.
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by tauchunfall 3y ago
I read in a thread from 20 years ago that some systems in the trains use Windows NT. I guess they still use it. I think they can't update the internal system responsible for the engine and brakes that easily, as well as the cockpit con
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by tauchunfall 3y ago
>I am surprised that Siemens have, in some degree, allowed ongoing support for this. Whichever operator uses it must be fairly big in order to bend them to still actively manage it. The ICE 1 and ICE 2 trains use this for their internal
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by tauchunfall 3y ago
It is called "Springer" (translates to: jumper) in German. Sometimes "Pferd" or "Ross" is also used (translates to: horse and steed, resp.). That's why "Knight's tour" is called "Spring
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by tauchunfall 3y ago
>I go with whatever side has the evidence. But what is evidence? A photo of a sea monster in a Scottish lake can be evidence. Or a NASA photo of a large face on mars. In both cases misidentification of objects is probably involved. Then
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by tauchunfall 3y ago
Even when "a software glitch" is not precise enough the article is very concise and gives an up-to-date view on many aspects of this saga.
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by tauchunfall 3y ago
There is also a detailed description of the system in [1]. An interesting incidence/problem report is in [2] at 1h:03m:00s, where an replication error in their Riposte message store system is described. After a defect counter hardware
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by tauchunfall 3y ago
For those who don't want to pirate it, there is a summary which tells the story using scenes from the TV series. >Post Office Scandal Explained https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdQQib3rmkE
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by tauchunfall 3y ago
There is a cloud-based system which will be the successor of Horizon legacy (from 1999) and Horizon online (from around 2010). >Is Horizon still being used? >Yes. There have been several versions of Horizon since its introduction in 1
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by tauchunfall 3y ago
>One thing I don't understand though is exactly what the bug was? It was not only the bugs but also the UX and the overall process that made things worse. The system did things that the postmaster was either unaware of, or did not i
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by tauchunfall 3y ago
>Fujitsu inserted transactions They inserted transactions for corrections of discrepancies where you could not see they were authored by them; it was just assumed the postmaster did. They did not let postmasters know about this; probably
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by tauchunfall 3y ago
Yes, it's stunning. Print-outs of the support system tickets are shown in the inquiry [1] (e.g. the ones with former technical support engineers). For instance, there is one from October/November 1999 with conversation history of
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by tauchunfall 3y ago
Reading the Riposte page from your Wayback Machine link it seems Eschergroup gave Fujitsu UK the hardware concept with redundant workstations, and Fujitsu extended it for the data integrity concept of their application [1] ("2 Horizon
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by tauchunfall 3y ago
>not a single person within a large team exhibited any kind of moral responsibility or something that looked like a conscience. That's not true. >Richard Roll is the real life Fujitsu whisteblower behind the character in Mr Bates
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by tauchunfall 3y ago
>added them to the riposte xml message database I've watched some parts of [1] on youtube, and it seems the riposte system is on the machines in the post office. if it is also used in headquarters, I don't know. they have messa
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by tauchunfall 3y ago
Of course, I have to take this with a grain of salt, can't verify it, but what a story. Post office should have used your Turbo Pascal-based system, the post master would not be forced to become a taxi driver. This reminds me I always
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by tauchunfall 3y ago
My comment was about the Hertz car rental system, not Horizon. Regarding software bugs in Horizon: Some of the bugs are mentioned in the early chapters in the book by Nick Wallis. I first read an article by the Guardian which only mentioned
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by tauchunfall 3y ago
>Any errors could then be addressed as bugs with the systems provider. Were bugs actually involved? I could only find this sentence in the article and it leaves it open if it was a bug or an user error. >Many of the Hertz cases involv
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by tauchunfall 3y ago
I have the feeling that even a single capable software engineer from a bank (or any client) who is put into different teams of the contractor and reports back to the client, would already make a big difference. Does not replace testing at a
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by tauchunfall 3y ago
They had teams with software engineers with different levels of competence and experience [1]. There were good, mediocre, and members that were not so capable. Which is true for many teams. When at least the good members have the time and r
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by tauchunfall 3y ago
>But nothing in your quotes shows anything especially incompetent They did not care about data integrity and schema migration. It's probably the most incompetent thing one can do when working with data in such a system. That's
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by tauchunfall 3y ago
>I've yet to see a project where Gradle daemon a) does anything useful Also my experience. Only using Gradle deamon does not help making a multi-project setup much faster. You also have to enable build cache, configuration cache and
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by tauchunfall 3y ago
True, you would not return 1000 objects at once to the frontend. I first thought it's just a backend use-case, where processing 1000 records in a paginated result is common, but the parent mentions "rails", so it sounds like
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by tauchunfall 3y ago
I tried it yesterday until far past midnight. gomponents is amazing! I find the abstractions just right. it now looks possible that I can port my minimalistic bun/deno setup with htmx to go. I found "gow" watcher that allows
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by tauchunfall 3y ago
I would also say it does not really matter that it's implemented in Tailwind. But they propose these components as "copy-and-paste code snippets" and of course it makes a difference when you copy and paste components with sty
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by tauchunfall 3y ago
yes, you have to navigate a bit through the linked pages where it mentions the htmx extension that is used in combination with JSON responses: `hx-ext="client-side-templates"`.
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by tauchunfall 3y ago
I recently rebuild some parts of a large APM (application performance monitoring) solution to find out how much JavaScript is needed to have similar functionality (minus the backend, of course), e.g. faceted search. It's interesting ho
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by tauchunfall 3y ago
>I'm a backend guy, I don't understand how to set up node I understand that Node is mostly known as a frontend tool and Rails uses it for that, but as far as I remember Node was as least initially developed to bring JavaScript
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by tauchunfall 3y ago
>It is often said that programming for a computing machine forces one to think clearly...it disciplines the thought process. Gerald J. Sussman's "Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics" (2001) also focuses on

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