Posts by Adrian 4 2289 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Jul 2009
And yet people insist on pushing their wretched apps for every little thing - concert tickets, parking payments, whatever.
I hate relying on a device that has to be charged and have signal to work but it's getting hard to avoid.
> The sailors previously admitted to making 400,000 copies BS Contact Geo, but it only had 597 unique unlicensed users.
Am I correct to read that as meaning they made 400,000 copies but only 597+38 users actually used it ?
Seems an unnecessary number of copies. Did they put it on some installation image that was distributed to people who didn't need the application ?
Or were the 597 users particularly promiscuous with their machines?
> [*] As opposed to a Republican. They aren't all Trumpers :-)
They are. Through inaction and tolerance, they empower him.
All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
Though I have no evidence of any good men anywhere in US politics, except perhaps Bernie.
> The other points you make your reply about nuclear/gas is just confirmation of the lack of an energy policy. We have too many lawyers as MPs and not enough engineers and scientists. As shown at the peak of the corona virus, the Tories could not even find a doctor to be Health Secretary.
Engineers and scientists aren't good enough liars to be politicians. And the government got rid of the perfectly good experts they had because they started to argue. Can't have experts who have better arguments than ministers.
No, unwanted popups are just as much a red flag as unexpected CLI text.
I do look a little more kindly on popups with a button 'never show this again' but even a few of those are too many.
Linux is free. It's not ad-supported. If a distro has that as it's business plan it needs to very carefully separate it from actual Linux. If it's the only way something can exist, consider whether it *should* exist.
I think you should re-read the article.
Yes, current RPCs often use TCP, but it's not a great fit.
However, I suspect that if HTTP changes to use a protocol that does out-of-order requests and responses, a fair few applications written to use HTTP will break. Asynchronous stuff often seems to need a mindset that doesn't come naturally to application programmers taught to program on local interactive in-order applications where response time is short and consistent.
With an automated car, the license could be far more active.
Instead of allowing free rein until found to be non-conformant, conformance with the rules could be imposed electronically. The car would be responsible for spotting pedsetrians, interacting with the owner etc. But on needing to access some shared resource such as a freeway or busy city street, the car would have to announce its intentions to the city traffic management system and obtain permission for literally everything it did in real time, such as making a turn, changing lane etc.
The owner still retains control of the car - they can change plans at any time - but the car has to achieve them in a way that meets not just the law but the instantaneous traffic management aims. No illegal turns, speeding, misparking or contributing to traffic jams. If you ask it to do something that overloads the system, you can't do it.
Similar to the road-train concept for freeways where you join a train of cars moving together, but applied to cities.
Now, be fair.
For months, the tories had been telling us that Johnson was the best possible leader they could elect to do the job. Nobody else in the party could do it better.
Now, finally, they had to admit he was utterly unsuited to the job and would be better off in jail.
So, forced to choose someone else, it's quite clear that since Johnson was the best, anybody else would be worse. And so, indeed, it has proved.
And if they get rid of her, it will be someone worse still. Because every one of them is totally crap. They did, after all,. choose 4 crap leaders in succession. QED.
Maybe if you're so horrified by the tasteless display of an organ 100% of humans own, you should reconsider your priorities.
It's good to have some taste, but the lack of it is probably not the worst threat our species - even the young members still in full-time education - is facing.
> At the other end of the scale orange juice was terminal.
As was beer.
Recollections of a calculator returned for repair from a brewery in Wolverhampton. A lovely machine with nixies all in a row and a hand-designed circuit board with swirly traces instead of modern straight lines.
And green stuff that shouldn't have been there.
Now we've abandoned the teraflop in favour of the raspberry pi as a unit of computing power, what will the units of electrical consumption and thermal output be in el reg articles?
In honour of the now-obsolete Watt, maybe it should be related to steam and kettles. Journalist cuppas-per hour could be used for both electrical usage and temperature increases, though both size-of-Wales (or whales) and Hiltons might be relevant. I guess the reg unit system needs some unification.
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