Posts by werdsmith 7120 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Feb 2011
It's OK. You mentioning 25 years in Linux doesn't impress us either. Anyway we're glad that Microsoft bowed to your pressure and gave you WSL for the 1% of your time that can't tolerate virtualization overhead.
Thanks. I didn't want to impress. I'm an OS agnostic is all, and I laugh at OS bigots.
And I don't use WSL, I just use another computer. I'm glad that you got that off your chest, the old mirror does hurt a bit sometimes, when someone holds it up to you eh?
I'm impressed that somebody converted to linux 10 years ago. I tihnk I first encountered Slackware 25 years ago. I still use all current OSes where appropriate and I don't have a preference.
I have a preference for some applications that work only on one of the OSes and I don't need the overhead of a VM. It's really no big deal, I spend 1% of my time on a computer using an OS, to get to the application that I use for the other 99%. Being sanctimonious about which OS you use just makes me laugh. I'm not impressed.
It's commercial imperatives vs. idealism, and guess who usually wins.
Regulation. Make them do it. They only have themselves to blame if the big governments need to step in. The day is getting closer. They can compete to make their environment the better one to attract the users to be with them, but those of us who want to keep our hands clean can go elsewhere.
For this reason we can only have one single big actor at any time, instead of several competing ones.
Not if they used a common api. We can use any mail client with smtp or imap. We can write our own. We can use any browser with a number of different web servers. There are a number of different search providers.
It is not beyond human capability to devise a standard by which a user of any social media platform could choose to share their content with a user of any other, without having to insist on having an account on both. So a chav who insists on using the sewers of faecebook or whatscrap could share their posts with someone using any other social media, and vice versa for the fundamental communication. Much like SMS works across any phone on any network. This is much more in tune with what the internet was like before scum started trying to fence off as much as possible for their corporate greed and before the likes of chavbook attempted to become the de facto internet.
I've found that I have to use my own unique approach to learning, and one size does not fit all. Once I find it, I go up a gear.
Of course, schools cannot tailor courses to individuals, they have to use an approach that works well for the most people.
The problem with maths education in the UK is that it's not cool. A student can feel peer pressure to be apathetic or hostile to learning,
And the highest achievers learn most outside the school gates.
" The UK follows the American model for the most part"
When a company I was working for started an office in Pa, the local recruits there were extended the same working conditions as our UK company. They couldn't believe it and repeatedly asked about it to check it was true. Having worked in the US and UK, I can tell you that the UK is nothing like the US one.
I now work for a Swiss corporation with EU offices, Asian offices and US offices. We are all different but UK is much closer to the european model.
Jobs, supply chains, skills and knowledge, University partnerships, spin offs, supply chain independence and much more.
Look beyond a simple trade, this is no place for blinkered thought process. A nation needs to be doing the hard stuff, it's the spearhead and it drags the rest of the economy along behind it.
Do chip development, do fabbing, do space exploration, do extreme science, do modern economy stuff. Or have an insular island mentality and stew in your own shit.
This is the way Henry, the ideal. Decentralised social media, I can choose to use my own provider but accept feeds from selected other social media, where it has been shared with me and without requiring me to have an account. All of them open this way. I would be back in the game, and it would prevent zuck from becoming the new de facto internet. It would encourage innovation.
During the early covid spread there was a global lockdown, for a short time the pollution haze cleared in many cities and the world breathed again.
I’d like to think the same thing happened for people’s souls for the brief time the world was rid of the sewer that is Faecebook and it’s associated slime channels.
Most interesting that the BBC receive roughly the same number of complaints accusing them of being either left or right.
For many, the definition of bias in news is “anything I don’t like to hear” or “anything that doesn’t align with my opinion”.
There is also a faction of anti BBC people who are of the same calibre as flat earthers.
The next flight, when it becomes scheduled for Virgin is an Italian air force research flight.
Science has been sending up sub-orbital rockets for research for decades. The UK has launched over 400 Skylark sounding rockets way up there. This is like a sounding rocket capable of carrying half a dozen humans.
I would assume if your drunk and driving your insurance is going to be cancelled.
In the UK the insurance is not void for a drunk driver and will still pay out the 3rd party claims promptly, however the insurance company can pursue the guilty driver to recover that money at a later date.
Nissan call theirs "ProPilot". Does Nissan suffer the same problems?
I am having trouble believing that anybody is stupid enough to think their car will drive itself in all situations it may encounter. Especially when their car warns them repeatedly that it can't do that.
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