Posts by werdsmith

Re: California Governor Noisome's Pipe Dream for the Loons

Noisome's pipe dream is just something the rest of the world is already doing, and on a much faster schedule than California is proposing.

I sound as if "being part of the Raspberry Pi community", like "being part of the crypto community", is just a way of saying "being gullible"

This is the problem with people, some cant accept that their personal preferences and requirements are not universal. When considering that some folk might enjoy a particular pastime, you might not be interested but it's important to remember that it's not all about you.

So you can be a person that enjoys a particular hobby, or you can be a sad basement dwelling undateable that consoles themselves by picking fault with the hobbies of others.

Pi-Top laptop kit having been sold off for £40, designed for Pi 3B but can be adapted for Pi4 is a way to go withoit splashing out too much cash. Keyboard isn't great but at least the trackpad is in the right place.

Re: Less than convinced.

It's for being part of the Raspberry Pi community with a tidy portable package, as explained in the article.

But thank you for apologising on the last line of your comment.

Re: The SQL boy error

DELETE FROM orders WHERE

You can still select only the first three words in a SSMS query window.

Re: Python--

I do quite a lot of Python stuff and I can confirm that all of it that I do is crap.

I have a colleague who is a first class developer and he does create some good stuff using Python and he does enjoy laughing at my efforts.

Re: Really?

Yes, Application Frameworks just makes work for DBAs, as it makes the most stupid performance decisions imaginable.

I dumped Faecebook in 2014 and I do miss the local history group I was involved in. My mother lets me know if anything interesting happens there.

I abandoned all forms of social media. Social media I define as anything where any random user can create the topics. If social media was unbalkanised then I would consider dipping in again. But while it involves corporations trying to own the web I remain in protest.

MySpace died because everybody left for Facebook, who would people be leaving Facebook for?

The afterlife.

Re: Do they build them like the used to?

A neighbour of mine has a pristine Mk3 Cortina still on the road. Congratulations Dagenham and Brentwood Ford.

Re: The d in £sd

Limited Slip Differential

Re: And don't work too fast either!

My timesheets are automated. =INT(RAND()*5)

Re: Bank Accounts

I've lived in this house since 1999 when we bought it from a retired couple.

I believe that he must have passed on because I still get mail for the wife, but not him.

Mortascreen blocks direct marketing mail for the deceased.

Re: Sharing documents

I write docs on Libre and more recently Pages.

I still have to fire up a Windows PC and load the doc up for a final formatting check before it gets sent off. It’s rare that a document doesn’t need at least some tidying up.

Re: MS does not care about Windows on ARM

Looking at how smooth and slick the process is for installing Windows on ARM Insider Preview in a Parallels VM on MacBook M1/M2 I can't believe that there isn't already some agreement in place for Apple Silicon in this fashion.

Re: Yawn

By truly habitable you mean habitable by humans without significant life support systems. A bit like some of the warmer parts of the Earth where modern humans enjoy life by occupying a small enclosed space protected from the UV and using copious amounts of energy to have the heat removed. Like Phoenix and Dubai. They don't grow potatoes in their own sewage in Phoenix though, at least I don't think they do. It's only Idaho where they do that.

Then some of the higher latitudes that have a permanent human presence, but people can't really go out of their heated building without considerable amounts of protective clothing.

Arizona for the win!

Re: Oh crap!

Keeping an animal has associated costs. Manual vacuum cleaners optimised for animal hair and pet dander are more expensive.

If you don’t have an animal then you don’t need to pay extra for shit detectors. Because any human offender will probably tell you it’s there.

Re: Nuke

I'd like less nukes. But more than that I'd like less emotionally immature adult infants in positions of power especially in super powers.

Re: If elements like oxygen and hydrogen can be found in lunar ice

Presumably from 100km the detection of ice is going to be spectral.

So they ought to be able to get a fairly sure estimation of composition and grain size if the target is fairly pure water ice. If it's very dirty then other signatures might mask and make it more uncertain especially as there is already hydrogen in the moon's tenuous atmosphere.

If the moon gets a lot of radiation, maybe during a solar event then radiolytic processing of ice can release oxygen molecules.

Re: Invisible

Some before the shortage and some since. All official resellers, RRP. I dont use scalpers, no need.

I also received a Google coral accelerator last week after having it on back order for 10 months. It’s not just Raspberry Pi affected.

Re: Invisible

They are available to buy, as I write this 4B is available in Spain and the Netherlands. Loads of CM4 in Germany. Last week 4B were available in Sweden, UK and US. And there are loads already in the hands of people who purchased them. I have half a dozen.

What's more pertinent is that Vulkan isn't really being used on anything Pi apart from one Lineage OS build. On linux it's strictly a developer thing at the moment. It will take a while.

Re: Naughty Timmy, naughty!

It might also be real compensation rather than a punishment.

I wonder what's going to happen to the new Tim Hortons in the UK once the novelty of buying stale dry donuts from a Canadian brand wears off.