* Posts by werdsmith

7096 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Feb 2011

SAP hits brakes on Tesla company car deal

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Re: Billions off share price

Absolute total lack of understanding of automotive engineering on display here from just the drunk pub bore facts.

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I’m interested in buying a car from the Jetta brand. Where can I find one?

Apple Vision Pro is creating a new generation of glassholes

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Re: Tessholes

Madness! Madness I tell you!

Oh the humanity!

CERN seeks €20B to build a bigger, faster, particle accelerator

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Re: Black hole time!!!

With a tunnel that scale, the underground transport will be considered. To have road and or rail systems so EVs can move people around. Currently they use bicycles and little vehicles similar to those mobility cars for people who unable to walk far.

Google throws $1M at Rust Foundation to build C++ bridges

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Re: What happened to Carbon?

Carbon is in its embryonic stage. It’s GitHub says not ready for use.

Survey: Over half of undergrads in UK are using AI in university assignments

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Re: Being done in job applications now too

So true. The ability to make a job application is not necessarily the same thing as the ability to do a job.

I’ve been asked to jump through hoops when considering a role. Stupid presentations and such. Nothing to do with the jobs. I politely declined to do any of their shit. Got offered to me anyway.

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Re: Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

No, it isn't.

If I was a maths student and needed to demonstrate that I understood the material I was supposed to learn, then damn right I'd get failed for using a calculator

If you are solving maths problems then you would still need to understand the material in order to use your calculator. It’s a Labour saving device that, if anything, allows a student to go deeper and demonstrate even more understanding than if they had to waste time doing arithmetic longhand.

It’s not 9 year olds doing basic numeracy we are

talking about.

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Re: Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

So you’ve never used a CAS calculator.

Tesla power steering probe upgraded after thousands more incidents reported

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Re: Lucky for them...

The 2024 MINI 3 door is bigger than the MAXI in width and height.

The 2024 five door version is also bigger in length, but there never was a production five door real MINI.

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Re: Lucky for them...

Nothing to do with plastic trim, the old cars had plastic trim.

SIPS was introduced by Volvo in 1991 and now every manufacturer has to have a version of it. In addition we now have side airbag integration.

The point was that the exterior dimensions have increased a lot and the interior dimensions not by much. I am 6'2 (188cm) and can sit quite comfortably in a Fiesta drivers seat.

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Re: Lucky for them...

As a real sign of the times, the Fiesta was discontinued in 2023 and is no longer current.

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Re: Lucky for them...

The Maxi was indeed a really good spacious practical car.

Dell said to be preparing broad Return To Office order this Monday

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Re: Being remote is career limiting

The story seems to be saying that they were having trouble getting people in so they are resorting to strongarm. Doesn't sound like "like being in the office.

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Re: Being remote is career limiting

It will be the best people that they lose.

The useless people that find it harder to get another job will be the ones still there.

Shareholders eat that.

Web devs fear Apple's iOS shakeup for Europe will be a nightmare for support

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Re: Safari Is An Albatross Around The Necks Of Web Developers

Interesting to read this. I use Safari and never noticed a problem on any website.

Microsoft seeks Rust developers to rewrite core C# code

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Re: The End Of Dotnet?

Introducing Rust#

The basic idea will live on with Mono whatever MS decides. It’s in such things as Unity.

Raspberry Pi on IPO plans: 'We want to be ready when the markets are ready'

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Re: Stick / stuck with ARM

....and somebody is going to develop the cores and SoC and they will want paying.

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And hopefully start a new independent venture around RISC V.

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Re: Here's hoping the IPO doesn´t ruin the community and support

When it comes to profit it does not matter who they prioritised supply to they would still have sold all they could produce

In the short term during the pandemic. But when supply is back to normal, the continued support of the industrial users boosts volumes. RPi didn't want those companies going to the wall.

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Re: Here's hoping the IPO doesn´t ruin the community and support

Profit allows them to reinvest and create more toys for the tinkerers when the situation improves.

I still can’t believe people want to prioritise their play toys over people’s livelihoods.

I’m fucking sick of self entitlement and “all about me” whingers and whiners.

Thank fuck Rapsberry Pi ignored the brats and did the right thing.

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Re: Here's hoping the IPO doesn´t ruin the community and support

The problem about supplying industrial customers during the supply chain problems was explained and the explanation was totally reasonable.

The whingers generally put their own need to have a tinker toy above the need of companies to stay in business and employ people to pay their bills and eat.

The end of 2023 since Pi 5 launch, the vast majority of production of Pi 5 was reserved for one per person personal purchases and still got instantly sucked into the demand vacuum.

Seventy thousand Pi 5 per week.

Anyway, with all the best intentions, it wouldn't be a surprise to see the end of Raspberry Pi long term if it becomes a traded company. But in the short term the money raised from investment might allow some exciting new versions for a final flurry.

SparkyLinux harbors a flamboyant array of desktops

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Re: Why do people us this totally nonsense retort so often?

Because everyone has the time to do that.

FFS.

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Re: Diversity of design

I don’t think it’s whining when people are offering constructive suggestions that would promote the wider adoption of Linux.

The whiny ones are the people that are butthurt by these ideas and as exemplified above start crying about it.

Don’t criticise the sacred.

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Re: Diversity of design

Why do people us this totally nonsense retort so often?

Akira ransomware gang says it stole passport scans from Lush in 110 GB data heist

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Re: STOP SCRAPING AND KEEPING!

Did you read the article ?

Elon Musk's brain-computer interface outfit Neuralink tests its tech on a human

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Re: This could be a really big deal

Duncan Sandys, the UK Defence Minister in 1957 presented a white paper suggesting that manned aircraft were obsolete.

67 Years later BAe System Tempest is being developed with a nice seat for the driver and brain signal interface in the helmet.

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/uk-fighter-mind-reading-helmet

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Re: Hmmm

He isn’t claiming a world first, it’s already

known it’s been done.

But it is a first human for Neuralink having previously been working with Simians.

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Re: Why don't people see the bigger picture?

Neuralink are not the first to try this, there has been a few previous experiments. A bit more fuss being made because Musk is involved in backing the work.

I couldn’t sit here in selfish rude health and deny opportunities for people who are not because of where the technology could potentially be abused.

Amazon calls off $1.7 billion iRobot buy, blames regulators

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In this case, and many others, the cheap knockoffs offer better value for money.

But avoiding Amazon as much as I can is something I’m trying to like cutting down waste.

The Land Before Linux: Let's talk about the Unix desktops

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Re: Proprietary

Proprietary in this context is different from real proprietary. It's one of those words that's been hijecked for a new purpose.

We put salt in our tea so you don't have to

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Re: Tea?

(Different anon BTW) I stopped drinking tea after thinking "if it stains the cups that much, what does it do to my guts?"

Yes, it's important to keep your guts looking clean and fresh in case you ever meet "the one".

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Re: Pointless if potless

Definitely locally purchased. KMart have a selection.

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Re: Pointless if potless

Starbucks is dogshit sugared coffee.

And those diners in the US that give out free coffee fill ups from those filter jugs that stand around all days are repulsive.

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Re: Pointless if potless

The British have both overbuilt sockets and fused appliances and protection from RCDs, RCCDs, RCBOs and other stuff now in the regulations.

The ring system replaced the pre-war radial system because of copper shortage and can carry more current over thinner cable.

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Re: Tea?

You were right to apologise.

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Re: Pointless if potless

I had a working kettle in the Orlando holiday house that I had for two weeks. It was British owned and used mostly for British tourists so it was a given.

I noticed it performed very badly compared to my Blighty kettles but I had just assumed it was a cheapo one.

I should know but but I can’t be bothered to think it through but power is power. Less voltage more amps and vice versa.

The pen is mightier than the keyboard for turbocharging your noggin

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Why aren't you taking notes?

As a life long obsessive learner and chronic procrastinator I have worked out what works for me, and I don't believe there is a one size fits all for everyone.

Notes, handwritten or otherwise, are virtually useless to me, in fact trying to take notes as am being instructed makes thing far worse. I have to exercise and practice many times to get things to stick.

Amazon Ring sounds death knell for surveillance as a service

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Re: meet a 'need'

Working daily in a office studio that is 40 metres behind the house, I really only want to do that sprint if it's really necessary.

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Re: meet a 'need'

You can talk through a Ring Doorbell in Winnipeg Canada from your phone whilst strolling round Sydney, Australia.

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Re: Are these pervy doorbells mandatory?

Yeah, who needs one when all the neighbours have them anyway.

Like the householder who complained about neighbours ring doorbells point at their house, then suffered a break in and went round the same neighbours asking if their doorbells recorded anything.

Top Linux distros drop fresh beats

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Re: Preparing for October 2025

It doesn't really matter. The average user doesn't read Register. They buy a new laptop or whatever, start the thing up, log on to their broadband and their social media apps, read their emails, pay their bill, buy coffee pods from Amazon and watch their cat videos. They don't care about ideologies.

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Re: Style is optional

I really don't care about the aesthetics of the UI. I use it to get into the application. Minimal is perfectly good enough.

Virgin Media comes top of the flops for customer complaints

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The problem is Virgin's customer contact process. It's built to a cost.

And long phone waits to speak less than able phone reps does not mix well with the average karen and complaints are going to happen.

Macy's and Sunglass Hut sued for $10M over face-recog arrest and 'sexual assault'

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This is the anecdote that contradicts the "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" mantra.

Apple's on-device gen AI for the iPhone should surprise no-one. The way it does it might

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I have one that speaks French to me, for the purposes of maintaining my B2 level. It's really getting there.

United Airlines’ patience with Boeing is maxed out after repeated safety issues

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Re: How will nationalization help ?

There's much more to Boeing than just manufacturing commercial passenger aircraft. If anything bad happens then it's likely that just this division would spin off and leave the behemoth to make C17s and Super Hornets and all the other weaponry.

Japan's lunar lander is dying before our eyes after setting down on Moon

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They reached an area in the vicinity of Truckee that is part of California.

It was called Alta California before.

Users now keep cellphones for 40+ months and it's hurting the secondhand market

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Re: iPhone 7+ here

I buy old iPhones for peanuts. I have Xs currently. I know its camera isn't as good as a new one but otherwise I need nothing from a 14 or 15.

Burnout epidemic proves there's too much Rust on the gears of open source

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Re: "Burnout"

A charity doesn’t have a place in this discussion. This is about corporation profit making.

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Re: "Burnout"

My compensation is the joy of doing the work and knowing that others benefit from it. I'm sorry that you don't seem to understand that.

I'm so pleased for you that you are in a position to do that. Not everybody is, I'm sorry that you don't seem to understand that.