Posts by JDX

the MAC Ultra is nice - but sorry, there's nothing "new" - it's just more of the same but faster,

So that's basically the last 30 years of computing, huge increases in performance are quite exciting to some.

However the M1 IS pretty innovative in the sense that it is SUCH an increase in performance and decrease in power consumption. Look at the benchmarks of intel/M1 Macs online, this isn't an up-tick it's a huge change.

Re: The State changed its tune

>Name me a religion that is not based on unsound and unproven belief in an entity or action that cannot be observed or even proven to exist by scientific methods

Why? What gives you the right to claim your belief system (scientific methods) is a judge of the validity of others'?

By its very nature, the scientific method can only be used to measure things which are measurable by the scientific method. It makes no claims about the existence of anything outside that. If you think nothing else exists, that's your belief speaking.

One doubts your decision to live by the scientific method is based on an analysis of scientific data showing this will be better (define 'better'), but rather a gut reaction or emotional reaction. Science DOES show that's a bad way to make optimal decisions.

Everyone should read a little philosophy, and understand what science really is.

Re: thank you

This article and the BBC one are virtually identical.

Although El Reg say it's Nasa's most complex observatory... is that qualification necessary, has someone else got a better one?

Escaping the apostrophe is weird. I don't know if it even works in C# but it's not normal.

Using braces is quite normal IMO. It's so easy to screw up one-line if/else statements I certainly wouldn't pick fault with it. Without even reading the code, braces stick out like a sore thumb that there is a logic block there.

Re: We know it has no future

It's clearly not going anywhere anytime soon. It's only just gaining mass popularity, look at the huge increase in sponsorship of major events.

I'm pretty skeptical but to state it's got no future simply seems to be spreading the same kind of unsubstantiated nonsense as all the rabid BTC fanbois "200k by Tuesday", just the other side of the coin.

Regulation does not imply collapse, in fact regulation seems a good idea. Crypto is still very much in Wild West territory. The actual Wild West was a free for all where lots of people made a lot of money, lots of people worked very hard but never made much, and lots of people made their money through crime and scams... doesn't mean there was nothing there worth having though.

The article just seems to be written by a middle-age Guardian reader who wants it to collapse. There's a lot of people out there who would cream their pants to see BTC destroyed. Probably because they're bitter they never invested - it's been "a silly fad" since day 1 but if every time you told someone that you'd put a few bucks in over the years, you wouldn't need to be a journalist anymore :) I imagine most of us techy types are kicking ourselves we didn't take a punt on £100 back in the early days, I sure am, but we shouldn't let that skew our objectiveness.

but those vibrations have been tested for. the vibrations of dropping it have not.

Re: Windows 11

Thing is by the time those PCs reach EOL, a PC which can run W11 will be standard. We've been through this before, companies simply delay mass adoption of the new Windows version.

Re: Why use VS over VSCode? Some experience...

I just find all the stuff I don't use, I don't use. We're still developing C++ & C# desktop software and it's no more complicated than it ever was for that stuff.

Re: I can't think of any Android app that I want running on my computer

>>I can't think of any Android app that I want running on my computer. Most apps either have better versions for desktop which work natively or benefit from the features of a phone

It'll vary from person to person but lots of games and apps are mobile only, and in fact I'm seeing some platforms ditch their websites in favour of app-first development (WeSwap being the most recent).

I don't really like running apps on my phone when I'm sat at my PC with a big monitor so I can see it being handy if it works smoothly (IF)

Re: Cleansing datasets

I don't think the AI telling you to "go fudge yourself" is really that much better. And it's surely only going to confuse things when people actually use these replacement words... "Skynet tell me about the best fudge you ever had"

Re: But they're so special!!

In a purely numeric sense, yes Apple are special. They account for something like a third of all phones/tablets sold IIRC, from a single company. It's not the same as 50 companies each with 2% of the market being required to standardise, it's a hugely significant market share.

I'd still be pro standardisation but they are by far the single biggest player.

"at least one" means you have excluded precisely one option from the set of possibilities.

Re: The invention itself is irrelevant

>"Test Case" = "How can we manipulate the system today?"

No. The clue is in the words. It's a test. To find out the asnwer.

Re: Sadly, there were divorces and broken families and bad things

In a team of a few hundred people, you'd probably expect a couple of divorces in a normal year.

In fact historically as the average working week has got shorter and workers get more rights/holiday/etc, divorce rates have gone up. Of course it's easier to blame your boss for your divorce than yourself.

Re: Stackoverflow search

What do developers do when they get stuck? This is of course a Stack Overflow survey; but we learn that Google is their first thought (89.69 per cent) versus Stack Overflow itself at 79.96 per cent. These figures are similar whether or not developers are professionals.

Indeed. 95% of the time if I FIND a useful result in Google, it IS a StackOverflow link. The rest are from MS' own Q&A, you know the one where the question gets repeated every couple of posts and you're not really sure what order posts are in.

Re: Teams doesn't work in IE 11, Safari or Firefox

Safari is annoying but why should it work on those other niche browsers? There's a perfectly decent Mac app so why not use that?

If you even half believe Elon, he is genuinely motivated by commercialising space travel - towards eventual colonisation - rather than purely his own profits. Of course he's happy to profit too.

Multiple competing companies is surely a benefit to the industry anyway. Increases credibility and so on.