tengwar2 (u/tengwar2)

tengwar2 commented on Ga68, a GNU Algol 68 Compiler fosdem.org/2026/schedule/... · Posted by u/matt_d

srean · 2 days ago

Modula-2 happened way before my time but was quite taken by it. Especially it's fibres/coroutine features.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26688380

tengwar2 · a day ago

I used Modula-2 to build an automated lab system. It worked, but I found myself being annoyed by small features. For instance the type conversion keywords seemed to have no pattern to them, and the case sensitivity meant you were always hammering shift. Some good ideas, but I'm not sure that the problems of the time and the size of the available computers made them particularly useful.

tengwar2 commented on Man who videotaped himself BASE jumping in Yosemite arrested, says it was AI latimes.com/california/st... · Posted by u/harambae

627467 · 3 days ago

But shouldn't it be the prosecution proving the video is real?

tengwar2 · 2 days ago

They have to prove the case to the jury "beyond reasonable doubt". The jury are at liberty to decide that they don't believe an unsupported claim by the defence, and that the evidence provided by the prosecution is sufficient. As judges sometimes say at the start of a case, the standard is beyond reasonable doubt, not beyond all possibility of being wrong.

tengwar2 commented on UK Government’s ‘AI Skills Hub’ was delivered by PwC for £4.1M mahadk.com/posts/ai-skill... · Posted by u/JustSkyfall

AliClarkDevyce · 11 days ago

We (Devyce) just submitted our Innovate UK application - would be cool if a fellow HN user ended up working with us!

tengwar2 · 11 days ago

I'll have to recuse myself if the application comes across my desk, but good luck with the application.

tengwar2 commented on UK Government’s ‘AI Skills Hub’ was delivered by PwC for £4.1M mahadk.com/posts/ai-skill... · Posted by u/JustSkyfall

edoceo · 11 days ago

Damn, I'd have done it for £4.0

There is this thing that happens in USA where RFPs are issued in such a way only one vendor could pass the mark - does that happen in UK? Reckon PwC has connections to make that happen

tengwar2 · 11 days ago

Probably depends on the department. I do grant and loan assessments for Innovate UK, and they have a rigorous and largely (+) transparent method for assessment which I would be happy to explain in detail. If we award money, it's accompanied by a monitoring officer (I do that as well) who is subject area expert with project management business experience. The MO meets the project every one or three months to review progress and approve payment of an installation of the grant or loan. We certainly wouldn't hand over £4M without good reason!

(+ Some of the detail of the scoring matrix is not as transparent as we would like, but Innovate UK does take feedback and tries to improve it).

tengwar2 commented on Modetc: Move your dotfiles from kernel space maxwell.eurofusion.eu/git... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

BenjiWiebe · 16 days ago

'man bash'. Type G. Press PgUp until you see the FILES heading (took one press for my terminal size). There's your list of files. Alternatively, instead of G and PgUp, type /FILES<Enter>.

Of course, this doesn't help at all when software either doesn't have manpages, or doesn't include the list of files in the manpage. Just nitpicking your bash example.

tengwar2 · 16 days ago

This is HN, not Reddit. You can safely assume that every single person here knows how to use man, particularly if they mention using troff to format it properly. There remains a problem.

tengwar2 commented on Modetc: Move your dotfiles from kernel space maxwell.eurofusion.eu/git... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

deafpolygon · 16 days ago

Always check the man pages..

tengwar2 · 16 days ago

And I said that the man pages would be a part of what you have to examine. 95 pages in the case of bash (that's after running it through troff). man pages were fine when they were three pages long, but their lack of any internal index has become a problem.

Ok, now you might have a dozen files which could contain the information, where the location of each file can be modified by environment variables. It's tolerable if you are working on something you change weekly, but a practical problem if you do it yearly or it's entirely new.

tengwar2 commented on Modetc: Move your dotfiles from kernel space maxwell.eurofusion.eu/git... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

tengwar2 · 16 days ago

One of the annoyances of Linux is working out where configuration information is, following through multiple layers of indirection and files over-riding other files. This looks like adding another layer, another place to look, and if you're reading the man file for a shell (for example) it probably won't even mention that this could invalidate the information contained in that in the man file.

tengwar2 commented on The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app xdaforums.com/t/discussio... · Posted by u/Magnusmaster

dingaling · a month ago

Eventually though I suspect that web access to banks will be rescinded too, much like HMRC in the UK no longer permits companies to submit their taxes through the websites.

In the future, everything will need an 'app'.

tengwar2 · a month ago

With HMRC, the reasoning is that this forces the company to have an accounting package. They don't care which, they just define the API. Not unreasonable. There are more issues with MTD IT (making tax digital, income tax) due to some detailed requirement decisions such as the need to report different income streams separately.

tengwar2 commented on LaTeX Coffee Stains (2021) [pdf] ctan.math.illinois.edu/gr... · Posted by u/zahrevsky

pdpi · a month ago

Everybody knows that coffee stains are the only surefire way to tell whether a paper has been read or just printed out and ignored. A colleague in uni (way back in early 00s) would add these to her documents every once in a while to give them the "has been read" stamp of approval.

tengwar2 · a month ago

Could Garibaldi read Narn?

tengwar2 commented on CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them? (2021) newstatesman.com/business... · Posted by u/nis0s

the_real_cher · a month ago

> understanding large areas of business operation that you don't already know

Library card, google search, LLM, Annas archive, not even joking. I've seen the curriculum, its the kind of stuff you read a book about on a weekend.

> not particularly useful for networking, since the people you meet are at your own level.

I think you may have missed the point of the MBA.

tengwar2 · a month ago

A library card etc. are useful, but a very long way from the usefulness of a planned and taught course. And no, I haven't missed the point - you most certainly have. There are useful methods of networking, and they are based on breadth (how many people you meet), depth (how specific your discussions can be) and length of engagement. People from completely different industries whom you meet over coffee in a group exercise are not that, and would not justify the cost of the course. What does justify it is what you learn.

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