Posts by sabroni

re: I think music studios can get royalties from legit. videos on every play

For a given miniscule value of "royalties".....

Re: Fast charging vs wireless

It's too inefficient. I'm avoiding it until it's as good as plugging in.

The fact that you like wireless because it's easier, like plugging a phone charger cable in is an effort, amazes me.

Re: HTML5 is frankly quite disappointing

What specifically were you looking for?

Re: the user can't then run Chromebook software

Standardise on browser based software then. Picking another OS to lock yourself to seems pretty short sighted when the whole point of Chromebooks is "you just need a browser to run this".

It's not tricky.

They don't care who wins, they just want to destabalise America.

Re: What's "site data"?

A cookie belongs to a domain and is always sent when a browser sends a request to that domain.

localStorage belongs to a domain but isn't sent when the browser sends a request. It is available to code served from the domain so gives a site a way of accumulating state without bulking up the http requests.

re: That's a very odd form of bork

I thought it was implied in the article that it's crashed mid-transition. It was doing a fancy animation to slide the columns on and froze.

Re: punishment should be proportional to the crime

The purpose of the fine is to act as a detterent. If the figure is insignificant to the offender then it won't deter them at all. Besides which, if the fine is "A weeks money" that's perfectly proprotional.

Re: that in a few years cloud services could be using about 6% of global electricity production

You're comparing oranges with nothing.

If computing uses 10% of global electricity resources when everyone has their own racks and 6% when we all share cloud resources then cloud is more efficient. Without that comparison your point is pointless.

Re: Microsoft is partly at fault...

What do you mean 'partly'?

On this site MS are responsible for fucking everything up, whoever wrote the code.

Re: Not everyone is a webdev, some of us write serious programs

Could you contemplate getting over yourself for a second?

Re: Will it run Linux?

No, it's:

But can I wipe it and put a PROPER linux on there.

Re: Here's a radical idea...

I'm fine with the current system because it benefits me.

Not what I'd call radical.

Re: Can't imagine why anyone ever used an ISP email account.

You can't imagine a lazy person who just uses what they're given?

You have a shit imagination.

Re: Outage Notifications

So this 15 minute turn around will be helpful then.

What a bunch of bastards!

This!

"He decided to build a career on a 3rd-party platform he has no control over whose terms & conditions he agreed to in advance."

And he got the support he paid for.

Re: So how exactly does one check?

npm automatically checks dependent libraries for known vulnerabilities when it's installing. If it finds vulnerable packages it prompts you to examine them (with "npm audit") and suggests you try fixing them (with "npm audit fix").

The problem isn't that it's difficult to check for vulnerabilities, it's that it's easier not to.

Re: take a look at JUCE - written in C++

Great! Memory management is for wimps, I need something that hides lots of obscure buffer overflow vulnerabilities!

Re: you have to capacity manage memory at function level

Surprised there's no "auto inflate if I get into trouble" option on that, the cloud's ability to automtically scale stuff up is one of it's main selling points......

re: that “racism” brigade

Oh, the woke brigade. Those who don't like to watch police slowly suffocate black people to death.

Fucking liberals.

Re: Witchcraft, if you ask me.

There's two little ridges on the f and j keys, if you put your first finger of your left hand on f and the first finger of your right hand on j then you can reach all the keys without moving your hands. It's called touch typing. It's easy to get a computer to teach you, that's how I learnt (though I learnt on a dedicated word processor with an A4 sized green screen!)

Re: but I really wish it was developed by an actual C or C++ developer.

The people responsible for ALL the buffer overflow vulnerabilites in the past decade? Oh, yes please!

None of you fuckers can do a good enough job. At least the Go programmers realise there's a problem that needs addressing.