Posts by Dan 55

Re: "crunching 16-bit floating point numbers"

I don't think C even does a two byte float.

Edit: it's a thing in graphics cards, apparently. FP16. So the fail is for us crusty server-side programmers for not knowing.

Re: Web site encryption

I think it must be HTTPS Everywhere. I just tried going to the HTTP site in two other browsers (IE11 and Vivaldi) and it didn't switch to HTTPS.

Same with letters. If you make a will, you have to trust the executor (who is named by you, after all).

Re: But..

The exact same thing would happen in the UK now under RIPA... if there were any businesses with e2e encrypted IM products silly enough to base themselves in the UK.

Someone's managed it and he's licensed, but only by the CAA it seems.

Re: E2E encryption

If they're doing it right the protocol should be XMPP perhaps with a simple IMAP extension to let the mail client know that XMPP is available and how to configure the chat client on the client side. Thunderbird has XMPP chat built-in already.

If they're really doing it right, you should be able to use your own XMPP server if you like and flick a switch on Dovecot to get the IMAP extension.

There are a lot of XMPP clients about and it'd be a shame to waste them.

Re: How in the name of fuck can the YouTube Kids app get a free pass?

They could be scientologists for all I care, it still doesn't detract that from the fact that the videos actually exist and are discoverable in the way that the articles say.

Re: Commentards obviosly know more than mere mortals

Presumably if they still had the source they'd have managed to get someone in, recompile, and upload to the App Store.

They've only had about four years to do that.

The problem is that normal menus, as well as categorising options better than the ribbon can, continually remind you of keyboard shortcuts whereas the ribbon doesn't.

With Outlook 2003 I would probably have immediately remembered the advanced find shortcut as it's listed next to other more used menu options. Since the ribbon everything's hidden or buried and I've forgotten it.

Re: VS2017 Community Edition is a POS

What they mean is they can't be bothered to go through the code and check the types and the whole thing is so string-and-yoghurt-pots anyway that any slight change to the compile options means 1000 new bugs bloom.

Re: Craptastic

Perhaps you could try 17track.net?

Re: Let's see how it works...

If you trust APKMirror, here's the last version of Skype 7 which we were all complaining about until Skype 8 came along, but with hindsight it really is better.

You get both. A lot of games use AdMob.

Re: Missing poll answer

Firefox ESR will catch up with the stupid soon enough. June 2018, Firefox 52 ESR ends, and then you're stuck with 59, with all of the stupid changes they will add for three more versions. It's a stop-gap at best.

Not to worry, by then the planet will be a pile of smouldering rubble.

Re: I didn't understand the phone market, so I exited it.

Why is he still updating Windows 10 Mobile if he's pulled out of hardware? There's no point having an OS for hardware that doesn't exist.

If he is exiting the mobile business then he should exit it. If he isn't he should announce what he's doing with mobile devices before everyone writes MS off completely.

Re: Another awful reboot like Prometheus...

Ok, spoilers:

The whole Xenomorph race being the product of a demented robot? Engineers who might have perhaps travelled the galaxy seeding and destroying life being reduced to a bunch of villagers getting wiped out by a demented robot? It's bollocks and it ruins both films.

Isn't that HMRC's fail? People need to verify their ID, it's up to HMRC to join the dots between them or decide on their roles.

Re: Perhaps money will talk louder:

That was Ballmer's promise, not Satnad's.

In the brave new cloudy agile world, if it's older than last week then it's out of date.

Re: XcodeGhost again, cmon people!

There's a difference, Piriform was hacked and their official download was compromised and end users had no reason to suspect, XCodeGhost was an obviously unofficial version which end users (app developers) downloaded knowingly ignoring possible malware issues because it downloaded faster than from Apple's server.

Re: Good observation, wrong selection of facts

The great British Brexit robbery: how our democracy was hijacked

Re: This being Google, how much data does it send back to them?

It's a good question. After all, Google Voice was only made so Google could get voice recognition samples for later services. They don't give this stuff away for free.