Posts by Dan 55

Re: @Hubert Cumberdale

An effect who's existence is disputed.

By people who failed GCSE Geography.

For a country to domestically follow the laws of all trade partners it would.

If the UK allows food produced according to another country's standards to be imported, it's permitting those standards. This is unlike the EU's approach which is only to allow food produced to single market standards to be imported.

What is wrong with it?

British, Australian food standard differences causing angst in free trade deal

We can dream.

They walk among us.

I see your complaining I just dont see at what.

None so blind as those who don't want to see.

Re: Tech probably does widen the educational divide

Shouldn't that be just Sweden? Denmark sent children home in 2020 like many places because nobody knew what they were dealing with, then started opening up in 2021.

Sweden meanwhile did a split 50/50 home/school teaching in 2020 but didn't keep any useful data about what happened.

Re: A program without objectives

Covid-19: NHS Test and Trace 'no clear impact' despite £37bn budget

Re: Cesspit of criminals, despots & the downright untrustworthy

That would be a variety of members of parliament & their advisors, lackies & hangers on.

Sorry, that cannot be proven, due to a freak IT problem, the phone wiped itself and was replaced and the Google Drive backup disappeared.

If your aim is to get bought out by FAAMG and you get VC funding until you get bought out, why bother charging for anything?

I know it's distributed, but even when it's not really (i.e. I know only I'm using the branch and I'm up to date), and I want to do something like delete a few files, rename a few others, and add new files in the same revision, it does things like deciding some deleted files have been renamed to a new file because their content is similar. Apparently the most reliable way is committing the deleted files in one revision, then committing the renamed files in another revision, then committing new files in a third revision. So much for Linus' nice clean commit history.

Even reverting one single file becomes an odyssey in itself which could take other files with it.

If really have to read git's source code to understand how it works then that's a failure. It should have a handful of understandable commands with predictable outcomes.

And as for git's supposed raison d'etre, didn't Linus just say GitHub merges were useless garbage anyway? What task does GitHub call to perform the merge?

Re: No "I" in this AI

ML programmed by brogrammers is biased. No QA to speak of. Just another day at Facebook.

Re: Automation Issue

There are those who argue France wouldn't let Airbus be blamed.

At that point I think all optical mice had to be on a shiny metal pad with a grid on it due to the kind of sensor used.

There was a siren network in the UK until 1992 (end of cold war), then most got decommissioned as maintaining them costs money. Some were kept in flood areas, however it seems residents don't find out they don't work until it's too late as maintaining them costs money.

Don't forget governments moving to cloud either.

Re: Apparently Microsoft software has gotten so complex that

That happened at about Windows XP.

The battle is already lost. It's absolutely impossible to place restrictions on your kids regarding the Internet unless you're hovering over their shoulder 24 hours a day. If you somehow manage to find half-decent parental controls that work with all the computers, tablets, smart TV, etc... in the home and on their mobile, they'll just play on a friend's device or their school will make you buy a Chromebook which is admin'd by themselves so you can't change a thing yet has the world's most ineffectual content blocker.

And that's before we get onto the bullying and other more unsavoury aspects of social media/IM/online gaming. It's not the 80s any more when parental controls meant taking the portable TV out of the kid's bedroom, if they were lucky enough to have one in the first place. So, yeah, some joined-up thinking at government level would be nice. Perhaps some happy medium in between you on your own trying to hold back the whole of the Internet and what China's done.

Re: 404 error - windows edition not found

Unsurprisingly, it seems a redirect page too complicated for the corporation that brought you Azure.

Re: Hackathon

Seems odd because isn't the taxpayer paying OS to do this kind of thing already... or are they paid to just sit on the data and publish maps?

Re: Gnome 3 is shit

It seems mobile/tablet GUI designers responsible for that amazing idea never had to read anything more than a couple of swipes depth because they never thought that knowing where you were in the text was useful.

Re: Border Bureaucracy?

The "EU drivers paid per km" thing is an urban legend:

FACT CHECK: Are Eastern European truck drivers paid per km driven?