Posts by Tom 38

Re: Slipping differential?

Its the little things I miss, my old Oneplus2 running LineageOS had an option to turn on/off the flashlight by holding down the power button - super handy at night time. No such option in EMUI :/

Re: Maybe they should research.....

This isn't the Daily Mail, he didn't earn anything, the alleged value of his shares went up.

Re: Sure, USB-C is way more versatile

When I'm using a laptop on my lap, I don't need to plug things in to it. But yes, my laptop use is usually in 3 places, at a desk at work, at a desk at home, or in a meeting. The battery lasts 5 hours, so it doesn't need charging much. I do take the charger (which is not USB-C) with me if I'm travelling, or going to be in workshops all day. I find the i9, 64GB RAM and 1TB of nvme is sufficient for most things I've needed so far - certainly thrashes my personal desktop, which I haven't updated since 2014.

My main monitor is a 4k 43", which is a bit big for even my fat arse.

I do agree about the escape key, as a vim user its probably the 3rd most hit key; there is enough space around the keyboard on the laptop to have a real escape key rather than those pathetic half height keys. Same for the cursor keys on the laptop in TFA, why do that to the up/down?

Re: Time for a new "AA"

Oh boo-fucking-hoo. Yeah, lets go back to £8 for mail order delivery and wait 28 days, that was fucking awesome.

Amazon is a more efficient retailer than other retailers - in every stage of the process. Why should we give a monkey's rectum about whether this is putting Yodel/DPD out of business?

Not paying "enough" tax? Change the stupid tax rules. Don't hate the player, hate the game.

Ever worked in a warehouse? I have, Amazon's look like nirvana compared to some of the shitholes I've worked in. Automate that shit and replace it all with robots? - awesome, more efficient shopping, more jobs for robot technicians. No-one is crying that there are no jobs for chimney sweeps anymore.

Let the downvotes flow.

Re: Home visits

Bose sell very expensive things, and have to have good customer service or people wouldn't stick around and keep buying expensive things.

A while ago we bought some Bose sleep pods for a lot of money (~£250). When they worked, they were exceptional - alas, they rarely worked. We contacted Bose after about a month, and they provided a free return, and refunded us for them. A couple of months after that, they emailed to say that they just couldn't get the tech working on these sleep pods, and anyone who bought them at any point was free to return them for a full refund.

So - a little annoying that the tech didn't live up to expectations, but pretty amazed at that level of customer support. I bet we've all had tech that has disappointed, but I've rarely encountered a manufacturer that would care (after statutory periods have expired).

Re: Good articles... bad sites

C64 are hot, but not that hot. Cracking demos scene though, what they could do with 64 kilobytes and 0.985 MHz was insane.

Re: Methane Explosion

Going for an English

Re: They need to get Google back ASAP

HSBC's app is how you generate a HOTP MFA token in order to access your accounts, so without the app all I could do is look at the login page in my browser.

Re: "What of the company's controversial status today?"

Lots of people are saying that every Huawei phone exported is first sent to Wuhan, where 3 people cough on it and then a Pangolin licks it, I've heard.Smart people, the best people. You won't hear this in the Fake News.

Re: Lost post

So confused for a bit, I was thinking "Do RM (Research Machines) sell lamps now? Wow."

Some of us always have to walk to the shops, plus the amount of extra space in your typical London flat doesn't give much room for hoarding. We can get about 5 days worth of food (45 meal portions) of fresh food in our fridge + freezer, and got damn lucky about 2 weeks ago and got a delivery slot booked with Asda next week.

London top tips: corner stores have stock of the things that you need, its just damn expensive... and sometimes weird. Our current toilet paper has Raymond Brigg's The Snowman on it, every wipe has that (now literal) shit eating grin staring at you.

♫♫♫ We're wiping in the loo...

Sorry to say, your likeness is not copyrighted. The copyright of a photo is held by the person taking the photograph, unless that person is a Celebes crested macaque.

You do have "image rights", but that is more about your right to present your "image" or "brand" publicly. Since Clearview aren't doing that with the image, that wouldn't apply.

Stick with the GDPR claims, its much more solid.

If you need it, you spend the time and money on Laptops, of course. If you don't strictly need it, giving out Chromebooks and letting employees RDP into their desktops can be cheaper, more secure, and retain all the benefits of desktops (low cost, better security, better ergonomics, better performance, etc.)

Respectfully, that is a load of old bollocks. Don't give people laptops, but give them chromebooks? What? Anyone not equipping office staff with laptop and docks is insane. Laptops + docks give all the niceties of a desktop - big screen, nice keyboard and mouse, expansion - but you can pick up your computer and take it to a meeting. You can work from home with it. You can swap desks on a whim to work with the right colleague. Office moves become simpler and easier to manage. You can (recent news) switch to fully working from home without too much bother. Disk encryption? Automated. Since your staff don't need t o be in the office all the time, they won't be and suddenly you don't need 15% of your in-office seats. Do you know how much office space costs in London, New York or SF? Its a lot more than a few laptops.

The downsides of a laptop are cost (but laptops at the end of a cycle still have value, compare that with your landfill desktop), performance (but not so much anymore), upgrade ability (in 15 years, I can count on one hand the number of desktops that have been upgraded - if someone needs more, they get a new machine).

I think you would have to work in a very specialized niche to require a desktop these days. Sales people don't need it, data entry don't need it, accounts don't need it, IT don't need it, marketing don't need it.

My work laptop is currently plugged in to my home dock, I'm typing on a mechanical keyboard, I've got two 4k screens attached to it, i9 processor, 64 GB RAM, 1TB nvme. I don't do any ML work, but its got a CUDA capable GPU, and I could plug in a GPU enclosure for more CUDA cores if I needed it. Dell will spec this laptop with Xeon processors and up to 128GB ECC RAM. You've got to be a special kind of snowflake these days to say that a laptop won't cut it for your workload.

Likes desktops for the ergonomics but thinks the best way to WFH is to RDP in to your desktop machine... so when the office is shut due to power problems, nae problem, everyone gets a day off?

Re: Space Patrol

The Muppet's "Pigs in Space" made more sense..

Re: "filters were in place"

I'm not even sure how much panic buying went on, the problem in the cities is that they suddenly said to millions of people who have 2-3 days of food and supplies most of the time that they need 14 days worth of supplies.

Take the local supermarket in our neighbourhood, it has space for maybe 100 packs of toilet roll, 100kg of flour, etc but serves a neighbourhood of 20k people. Never going to work great.

Re: How about only votes from those who have dealt with all those health system..

Because socialized system never have any real surge capacity. You need a medical insurance supported system for that. As you will all discover the hard way in the UK in the next few weeks.

!remindme 1 year

I want to be reminded how wrong a person can be.In the amazing medical insurance supported system right now, nurses are sewing together their own PPE - sounds like perfection.

Re: Erm

That sounds like a waterfall approach in many ways

Yes, but with more meetings, standups and retrospectives and "games"!

Re: Why hasn't ...

Net neutrality says that a carrier cannot treat traffic differently depending on its source, whilst this is a provider reducing the traffic that they emit - its not even remotely similar.

It's like the loons who get suspended by twitter "But mah free speech!" - you have the right to free speech, but you don't have free platform.

Re: Let me get this straight

Its very infectious because of the long period where you are asymptomatic but still infectious. Even if the mortality rate actually was 1% (in Italy, its currently 7.9%), then if you have widespread infection - lets say to the base point where you start getting herd immunity to a disease, 60%), you'd be looking at roughly 2 million dead in the US.

Of course, if you did get to those levels - around 200 million infected - then the death rate would be astronomically higher, because there is absolutely no way to treat that many people. If the number of people requiring hospitalisation exceeds the number of ventilators/staff available, then the mortality rate of the excess is going to be more like 100% - the reason they are hospitalised is because they require ventilators to stay alive.

Re: Waxy build-up

When I had this complaint a few years ago I called up the GP to ask for an appointment to be "syringed", and got told that if I hadn't been putting olive oil drops in my ear twice daily for a month then I could get lost.

Re: Real low cost electric cars

Now there's a car

It's considered as a "Heavy Quadricycle", which actually has to follow the same regulations as a trike moped. So maybe not a car :)

Re: What makes you think it's Windows 7 ?

Because its the same class of machine as in the original story, linked in the article, which were putting up screens saying "Your Windows 7 PC is out of support"

Re: Just an FYI

The majority of infections are mild and go unreported - only those actually tested get into the headline figure. Ignoring this increases the headline mortality rate.

This argument does not fill me with joy. The argument goes like this: "Only the serious cases get reported, so the actual death rate is lower than N(deaths)/N(cases), this isn't much worse than flu". It's specious, because people with flu, in general, do not go to the doctor and get reported as "having flu" either - because there is naff all they can do for you.

Most people have immune systems with experience of flu, meaning that a lot of the people exposed to flu do not catch flu. People have no such experience of covid-19, so we can expect to see a higher proportion of people who are exposed to it actually catching it, compared to the flu.

I saw some terrible right wing memes today, worst was "I eat my sandwiches with dirty hands from working, do you think I'm scared of some flu?"...

Re: My wishlist

All laptop computer power supplies may not use the USB-C port for charging.

Need to change that to "must".

Re: Alternative universe?

Not really a company, it doesn't sell anything and is a non profit run by ISRG for the betterment of the internet, relying on sponsors for income.

Re: Bog Roll/TP Shortage?

The logic goes like this:

I'm safe at home

I can catch disease from the people outside

If I've already got the disease, I can't go outside

What if no-one delivers more toilet paper to shops because they're all sick

I don't like wiping my butt with my hand

I'm going to buy 3 months of toilet roll

Do like the Romans I say, have a nice sponge and give it a good wash afterwards.

Re: Target market

The camera on on Huawei 9 lite is crap even when compared to an old galaxy S7. The 10 lite is much better but still not as good as the ancient by comparison Samsung.

P9 lite - Launched April 2016, $200

S7 - Launched March 2016, $670

Why are you talking about these old phones? This is about the P40 lite.

I had emergency surgery last year and wasn't able to work for a month.

That sort of risk.

Then your boss (you) sucks for not paying you sick pay. You can't just take the pros and complain about the cons, your contracting rate should include cover for when you're unable to work, holidays etc. If you think permies have a better deal, then why be a contractor?

Re: Self driving car image training

Recaptcha is a google project for using humans to train AIs. They used it to improve their OCR for google books, street signs for google maps streetview, and now they use it to train waymo for autonomous driving.

Re: Grand Jury...

Why not just have an independent judiciary and let a judge decide whether a case is without merit and should be dismissed?

Re: Why 99 smartphones and not, say, a round 100?

"99 with a flake in it" is a kind of ice cream.

Sexist is still sexiest, even if it's coming from a woman dictating that they "step it up".

This is for a sales team. They all need to step it up, and be at their most attractive, because that's how sales works. The people they will be talking to that evening need to be persuaded that life would be so much better if you were riding their CI pipeline rather than that frumpy old Jenkins'.

This is how companies get money to pay coders to wear sweatshirts to work and not shave and still be paid good money.

Re: did not watch

I watched it on the BBC, which did it the entire game with no ad breaks (well, it is the BBC...) Every time that the host network (Fox?) would cut to commercial, we'd have a few minutes of analysis and exposition.

I quite enjoyed it. I'd tried to watch one of the championship games on Sky, which have ad breaks whenever the US have ad breaks, and found it just boring, more ads than sport.

Re: Answers below

they'll be on Double Secret Probation

Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son

Re: Pop music

Stop. Hammer Time

See this power button? You Cant Touch This.