Posts by werdsmith 7135 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Feb 2011
No political party of any substance is standing with restoring manufacturing of essential products as a proposed policy.
So it probably isn’t a voter priority. Don’t know how it is possible to change that.
Maybe people know more about it than we do and it isn’t that important.
Dunno. It’s a mystery to me.
Two comments that illustrate the massive improvement in education since then.
My own two are fortunate that they went to a modern school that suffered nowhere near the levels of disruption, violence and abuse that happened in my time and before.
Thank goodness they have technology now to boost the learning. There was nothing good about poorly equipped dumps of yesteryear with their bullying maggot teachers.
I don’t hate it either, I am an OS agnostic and I actively use Linux, Windows and Mac daily.
There are genuine flaws with Linux, windows and Mac but here is little objectivity about this here.
Many of the things people on here whine about Windows on here are simply not true, or I don’t suffer the same problems. Some problems I can see with Linux are vehemently denied by Linux zealots.
I use Windows for Visual Studio (not Code). It’s pretty damn good. There are other IDEs, I’ve tried many, but VS is a hard act to follow.
Adverts, shrug. I’ll find a way to avoid,
But having said all that, my 97 year old grandmother was having such trouble with Windows, she was ready to quit her laptop altogether, she could barely work out how to open a website or reply to an email.
So I wiped off windows and installed Linux mint. 2 weeks later she got a new developing implementing Vulkan api for GPU makers. True story….. Jackanory.
Infinitely preferable until they’ve been in power a few years. UK desperately needs a credible opposition. Instead we’ve got the Labour Party.
Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. Don’t get fooled again.
Long term indeed. This mission proposal goes back to before 2010, it got the nod in 2012 and 11 years later it has launched. Another 11+ years to start its primary mission science and the analysis of data will continue for years after. Some people involved in this mission are retired already, many people who will be involved in the goal science haven’t started University yet.
Politicians should learn from science.
The twats with their sanctimonious crap about ageism need to get real. It’s not about people dying for a political aim, it’s just life as it has always been. Nature. We are all going the same way.
And it is well known that the leave vote was very weighted to the older generation. The ones that are not going to have to live long and with the consequences and felt economically insulated not having to worry about working. They actually didn’t give a shit about their own families or the wishes of the young - who are going to have to live with it. And if you ask for their reasoning, the best they can come up with is it was an emotional decision. Because anything else is admitting being a gullible mug. Their grandchildren say thanks for nothing.
If you are old and did vote remain, great. You are a minority and this is not all about you. I did feel the young were more important in this decision because they are the ones who are going to have to live with it the longest. Personally I am not elderly but I am economically safe, I don’t really have to worry about the economy. But my kids do, my vote was for them and reflected their wishes.
Surprised CodeJunky isn’t here having another conniption.
I'm looking forwards to the day when we develop a way to get to space/around space without using the brute force method
I look forward to that day too, in one of my future incarnations as a member of a climate adapted human species. Though gravity "slingshot" manoeuvres are already a thing, and maintaining orbit doesn't require much boost.
I travelled to Florida for a shuttle launch, stayed for 2 weeks, with the scheduled shuttle launch on day 2. Left Florida with the shuttle still not launched. Still had a great time though.
Some years later I got to see one when the mission went off without delay and got the sonic boom-boom later when it returned.
I always think of the disappointed crowds on Cocoa Beach when there is cancelled launch, they are usually having a great time with BBQs etc. I wonder if it is as busy these days with the routine launches? Anybody been recently?
I understand American English at C2 level. I could hardly not as we are all unavoidably exposed to it so regularly.
However, I’ve never investigated what a “cup” is when measuring ingredients. If I see it in a recipe then I just move on to another one.
I don’t know how to interpret school “grades” to age, so when the password is check question appears “what was the name of the school you attended at nth grade” then “what the fuck is nth grade” is my preferred answer.
And I still don’t get “could be bothered” but I can’t be bothered to worry about it, nor cups and grades.
Maybe I’m just too lazy to make the effort. AI would do a much better job.
A model something like PRS which supports music creators might have some merit. If I knew where to pay money then I would be happy to pay.
I’ve lately spoken to a developer who put 100s of hours into a developing a library for no reward and has since had to purchase software that was developed using his own library.
Can’t keep expecting people to work hard for nothing whilst others parasite off their efforts to get rich.
Imagine a farmer growing a crop of corn and a giant corporate bakery taking the harvest and turning it into doughnuts for sale.
It's akin to thr entire music industry pulling all albums and singles, and instead forcing everyone into a subscription model with no ability whatsoever to own music anymore.
It’s not about the diehard old techies holding out. A generation will emerge believing that the subscription model is the only way, normal way. My daughter uses Spotify and doesn’t understand why I have my own collection of music on physical media. It just doesn’t make sense to her. It doesn’t make sense to me to pay repeatedly for the same music, especially as I have already purchased the right to listen to it. So the music industry is already going down the road you describe.
I had a night out in The Mission in the 1990s.
Felt very safe and comfortable.
Compared to Las Vegas in the same year when I just couldn’t wait to get out.
I guess times have changed.
We lived in a shared house in an affluent part of Walnut Creek in the East Bay. We didn’t have enough door keys for everyone so the front door was never locked. Never saw any crime at all in 2 years other than what we did ourselves.
Oxford Street is just London's high street. It doesn't claim anything else. It always was where the the chains are. It used to have some of the signature stores, like HMV and Virgin etc, but I would never have thought of going there for any benefit other than having them all together.
Now there are the Westfields, or Battersea etc which can exclude the the rain. And London has New Bond Street, Knightsbridge and the little specialist quarters like that.
I regularly emerge from the tube at Oxford Circus, as recently as last week. I normally head west towards JL and Selfridge, then double back and head down Regent Street towards Piccadilly Circus. This takes me twice past that big armoured vehicle in the window. Yes there are a few of those crappy shops dotted about but the selective photography in the doom monger rags and the description above is absolutely not what I see.
I can no longer think of a reason not to dump them and move everything to an online-only bank.
Yes, this is what the bank is hoping you will do. Times have changed, counter services are not necessary any more. Just like coal merchants.
The traditional High Street names all offer their service online too.
Cash! I remember cash, long time since I dealt with any. My daughter has no need of it and when her grandfather gave her some on a milestone birthday, she didn’t know what to do with it. She passed it to us, and we banked it though an ATM and transferred the amount to her account.
So, her grandfather got it out of an ATM, passed it to her, she passed it to us, we put it back in the ATM.
What was the point of that?
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