Posts by Charlie Clark 12180 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Apr 2007
The Momentum True Wireless 2 fit snugly into my ear, offering decent sound isolation from outside noises. There's also active noise cancellation (ANC), which does a decent job at filtering out the drone of road traffic, albeit at the expense of battery life.
This sounds great but is in practice dangerous in many real world scenarios: if you are anywhere near traffic, you must be able to respond to it and not drown it out! I recently got some Sony WI-SP500 to replace my Jabra sport, which I took to wearing in only one ear when out and about, and can confirm that the Sony buds do respond to external noises so that you can hear things like announcements, etc. Of course, if you're somewhere where it is safe and reasonable to want to cancel out noise (in bus, train, plane, airport, etc.) then it's a godsend to have and I think some headphones/buds allow you to switch it on or off. But really, people are paying far too much for this kind of gear.
Viral infections and the most recent research suggests this is true for corvid-19 (first 5 days) are most infectious before symptons are displayed, this is why they spread so quickly.
I get a flu jab every year and do try and avoid contact if I think I'm infectious. Without vaccination the seasonal flu would have a much higher mortality rate than corvid-19 but flu is boring so we don't see it on the news.
PHP is much easier to do something simply than Python and so is used by less skilled and less capable programmers.
This is nonsense, especially with Python's interactive mode and tools like Jupyter notebooks. In fact, Python's ease of use for non-programmers is one of the reasons why it's become so popular in areas like statistics and biology. The only thing it's easier to do in PHP is create a dynamic web page, though this is largely down to the implementation of mod_php than anything in the language itself.
Hopefully, this is a result of secure coding practices and not lax security research for Python projects
Some credit could also go to the design of the language and the conventions this encourages. The core language itself is small, which makes testing easier, while the standard library provides lots of key functionality with less of a need to reinvent the wheel – though this still happens of course. The focus on readability comes from an appreciation that code will probably have to be maintained by someone other than the author. Strong but dynamic typing means fewer gotchas due to automatic type-casting, though mutables still pose problems, whilst allowing short, expressive and flexible code.
But no resting on our laurels, though!
I really like that classic keyboard but boy was it a bugger to clean and very susceptible to liquids. Since the last mug of tea episod I've moved to a flat aluminium, notebook-style one, with a Cherry with nearly identical layout in reserve and if all alse fails I've got a Model M…
It will be required for things like CE conformity which you see on all kinds of stuff not just in Europe because, unless a company has a bloody good reason otherwise, it's usually too expensive to have different factory lines producing to different standards. Many countries also mandate CE or EN standards so that they don't have to do the work of making their own.
That's been tried and is generally not successful because of the inherent tensions over things like longer tea-breaks and higher profit margins. Nevertheless, some degree of worker participation on the supervisory board is common in larger European companies and is generally considered an efficient way to reduce conflicts between management and workers.
The biggest problem is that corporate boards are filled by all the same people so if you want a generous pay packet at your company, you'll vote for a good one for someone else who's likely to be on your board.
That said, given the returns to "shareholders" via the various buyback schemes, this seems fairly small in comparison with comparable companies. No, I don't agree with this massive pay packets but think about the WeWork guy who got paid off for failing so much more.
Google does it's own thing and will continue to untill legislation stops it.
This is the wrong way to see things. Legislation should work on providing an environment so that other companies can compete with Google in any particular field. This is the approach adopted by the European Commission so it goes after the services Google recommends rather than the search itself. Otherwise it is always going to be fighting "last century's battles".
If Trump fucks around too much over trade then China will switch to RISC-V for the mobile phones it makes for everyone, because they will have no choice. If that ever happens, they will become the leading chip designers on the planet. Architecturally there's not much in it between ARM and RISC-V (and even x86 which has shed some baggage in going 64-bit), except perhaps that you can reliably virtualise a RISC-V system and run all tests in software. But I'm sure the major ARM licensees can do this themselves or get ARM to do it for them, and even Intel has been letting "high net worth" customers request chip customisations.
Are these languages actually popular, or is this survey of forums a measure of just how unskilled younger code monkeys are, or how user hostile and illogical the 'top' languages are?
What's the difference? The answer is both, though RedMonk prides itself on the quality of its data sources. Newer languages that address specific domains tend to be more popular and attract more interest and questions.
COBOL is all over the place but I'm not sure how much training, questions, etc. it's producing.
svn commit like it's the year 2000: Apache celebrates 20 years of Subversion
I think of it as kind of electronic traveller's cheque: really useful but should not be considered indispensable. There's a lot of thought gone into the app, especially the granular security settings, but there should be more to a bank than that.
There's an increasing push here in Germany to go digital but the implementations I've seen are universally shit™, so I'm sticking with paper where I can until some of these people Get a Clue™
Niche products are almost always more expensive than mass market ones because volume generally does matter. Modern phone screens are difficult to produce and require very clean environments. But it helps if you can use the same production line for a wide range of devices.
With E-Ink you have smaller volumes and only a couple of products with slow replacement rates. OTOH you don't have to continually retool for the latest generation. Prices have plateaued around what the market (largely those who like E-Ink based devices) will bear.
Not quite sure if business people will be crying out for these but the foldable form factor does have a lot to recommend it. And lots of teething problems to overcome as well, no doubt. But I can easily imagine foldables becoming the norm in a couple of years.
No doubt the screen is very expensive, which is also why a decent eink ereader is up to x4 price of a more complex smartphone.
Here the screen and hinge is no doubt expensive because complex. E-ink screens aren't complex but they're produced in much lower volumes which means a higher marginal cost so you can't really use them for a comparison.
Go for something sllghtly better than cheapest cheapo. Obviously won't be cheapest if you want AMOLED but I thought there were some older Sammys around.
I have a kickstand for my S10 which I use for some stuff but to have the screen at comfortable vision-filling distance this wouldn't be an option, but fine for occasional viewing.
Much as I love AMOLED screens, the optics (in the physical sense) are still against using a phone for this. Much better getting a cheapo tablet so that you can keep the viewing angle while increasing the distance and, hence, increasing the focal point as you don't want to have to spend a lot of time looking at stuff close the focal point of your eyes, especially self-iluminating screens.
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