Posts by Dan 55

Re: Another language?

XP and 7 are pretty set in stone. Not much of importance happened after that apart from UI craziness.

Re: Multithreaded Memory Safety in C++ ?

RAII is a useful design pattern, but how do you enforce a useful design pattern? It might not even be useful in your particular case.

At some point your programmers have to actually know stuff to program, as much as it pains project managers who think programmers are interchangeable cogs and as much as it pains people who think there are technical solutions to fix bad programmers.

Name me any other branch of engineering, architecture, or design where people expect tools to make up for lack of knowledge.

Re: Copilot?

Let's not forget that many of the worst and longest standing bugs in Windows were from the Unix code they adopted.

Don't remember seeing /c/windows/win.com in any UNIX directory tree.

Re: File metadata

So finding something called readme.txt is a better test? Anyone up to no good will just look through the source and avoid the filenames which pop up this dialog.

A poster above who expressed the idea better than I had the same idea. It's slowly getting more comprehensive on Windows.

Re: @Dan 55

Indeed. It seems the UK's enforcement body has moved from "light touch" to "allowing piss taking".

Re: @Dan 55

Similar sized developed economies with similar population sizes.

You can check each country here. The UK had a grand total of four GDPR enforcements while it was part of the EU. One would have thought it would have had something more in France or Germany's ballpark.

Re: Oh, right.

If the Australian government freely posts the quotas and tariffs in this deal and Australian farming and industry declares themselves happy with the agreement, and the British government give few details and British farming and declares itself unhappy with the agreement and British industry barely says anything, what does that tell you?

Food security was an obvious worry post-war. Why should it not be an obvious worry now, looking at the increasingly empty shelves in the UK and the concerns being raised by the supermarket and logistics sectors?

Re: This is unnecessary

If it's a PITA, they're doing it wrong.

French law allows the employees' available periods to be defined, and if the employee is working, say, 8 hours a day with flexible start and end periods then their email/IM availability could also be defined as those same hours.

So if you're a night owl and work late for 2-3 hours in the day and everyone knows it and is happy with it, you wouldn't be expected to reply when you're not working but other people are.

Re: "requiring online accounts" - the last straw for me

No need for whataboutism, just check the MS website:

Windows 11 requirements

Windows 11 Home edition requires an Internet connection and a Microsoft Account to complete device setup on first use.

Re: Windows

You might be able to turn on TPM 2.0 by flipping an option in the BIOS settings.

Re: If it's not on the side of a bus...

On fire in Northern Ireland.

Re: "Every compatible mobile phone or tablet in range of a mast ..."

Let us not debate that, rather let us debate why should they be excluded if emergency alerts use cell broadcast and cell broadcast is a standard since GSM started.