Posts by jake

Re: Very.Big.Sigh

Actually, there was ... on a percentage of active participants level. But back then, the total number of participants was a couple of orders of magnitude smaller than the numbers for languages today.

I suspect there is a critical mass of participants which, when reached, guarantees that personnel issues eclipse the issue of the language itself. This is part of the reason we can't have nice things.

Re: Aaron Crane does seem to be a bit of a dick

Very disproportionate.

Re: Aaron Crane does seem to be a bit of a dick

He also goes on the state "I would stand in solidarity with someone describing private events of this sort, and I would expect other people to do likewise for me"

In other words, in his mind the mere accusation is enough to convict. There is a lot of that going around these days, not sure how it entered into the public mind-set ... but it's dangerous as hell, and needs to be pointed out and stomped on wherever it rears its ugly head.

Re: Life time bans....

"And with that many, coming up with a decision would be a feat in itself"

FTFY

And as we all know, the Law is an ass.

Jews are not a race. They are an ethnoreligious group.

Re: Banned from attending any Perl conferences or events

Many would say your experience is evidently insufficient.

Re: Life time bans....

Except that the so-called "oversight board" doesn't actually have the power to make decisions that affect anything at all at Facebook.

People have been gunning for mst for years. He's used to it (speaks his mind, and can back up his words with facts ... some people hate that), and has probably already forgiven the folks who have handed him a forced vacation.

I seriously doubt the other folks will ever forgive him. Sad, that, living with such a capacity for hate.

I asked that very question. The same friend answered "Quite possibly, in some cases and circumstances, but which ones exactly is angels on the head of a pin territory".

Re: Banned from attending any Perl conferences or events

Yes, you need training. Learn perl and you will understand.

I have a friend who describes philosemitic antisemitism as a Semite who dislikes the existence of the newly invented state of Israel.

Said friend is not only a Jew, he is a Rabbi ... and calls it "the terrorist state of Israel", and "one of the worst things that Europe has ever done to the Middle East".

_{Just reporting what I've heard, don't shoot the messenger.}

Re: What part of that so people have issues with?

That's your choice.

But don't try taking the Whaler's side if you work for Greenpeace.

Or the Islamic side if you work for the Westboro Baptist Church.

Common sense, innit.

Re: What part of that so people have issues with?

"There needs to be some semblance of agreement before anything gets done."

And the athletes sign that very agreement. It's called a contract. Don't weep for them too much. Most make more in a year than you will make in a lifetime.

Re: What part of that so people have issues with?

But they are not standing around doing nothing. They are standing around selling various products, the names of which are clearly visible in each and every camera angle. As soon as they put that uniform on, they are working.

Some are so well known, they are working even when they are not in uniform. Some even when their sport of choice is not in season. And their contracts and salaries reflect this.

Re: What part of that so people have issues with?

Their contracts certainly do specify it. They are in the uniform of their team, on the sidelines of the field/pitch, in front of tens of thousands of people (live) and tens of millions (television). By definition, they are at work, selling whatever advertising their employer is getting richer from.

Not all talking is vocal. Taking a knee is making a statement. On company time, in the company venue, on the company dime. And probably (in the American Footballers case) at odds with the company ownership group.

To say nothing with being at odds with many/most of their cow orkers/teammates, thus putting a pretty good dent in overall morale and cooperation, which kind of wrecks the esprit de corps necessary in professional team sports. (And Kaepernick, the dim wit, still doesn't understand why nobody would touch him with a ten foot pole ... Simply put, he's toxic to the concept of "team", putting his own needs above the common goals of the team.)

Re: Politics is a virus.

Re-setting the goalposts after the kick is cheating.

Re: What part of that so people have issues with?

One wonders what the 20 (at the moment) upvoters think of athletes in the US "taking a knee" during the National Anthem.

Those athletes are at work, Shirley they should leave politics out of it, right?

Re: Yea, possibly not just Dell

Might want to look into how sysfs works, AC.

Re: "repeatedly and falsely claiming"

He was known as the Liar In Chief for a reason, and it wasn't merely rhetoric.

Re: How the press works

To be fair, there is ordered and then there is ordered.

Facebook is perfectly capable of ignoring the so-called "oversight board", it's not like they are in charge of decision making at Facebook. or anything else even vaguely resembling that.

Auntie Beeb's headline was intentionally disingenuous no matter how you read it.

Came here ...

... to post pretty much the same thing.

Except I'll add a couple questions for Mr. Cruz ... Are you trying to put private companies under Government control, Mr. Cruz? Are you SERIOUSLY trying to tell them what they can and cannot do with their own resources? What are you, Mr. Cruz, some kind of Commie?

Re: This thread is doomed.

My Harley's forks were made in California ... Granted, that was back in 1976, but you can still get a set.

_{Barn find, basket, '46 Knucklehead, restoration project, not for sale.}

Re: Has he been banned from El Reg forums?

And IRC.

Both with end to end encryption, should he want that.

Re: Hidden launch of a second payload

"Easy way to place a satellite-killer, or a nuke into orbit with no-one realising"

Except for little things like ground-based radar watching from every country on earth with the capability.

Re: China appears to do things a little differently.

Who is "us", Kemosabe?

Re: Not uncommon

"(And avoiding commercial aircraft from crashing into it while it stands there.)"

I think you'll find that launch pads are no-fly zones.

Re: The sky is falling!

Why would they land it on commie sympathizer Trump's ugly shack?

Re: The SKY is falling!

"RMA says "did not perform as expected""

Actually, it is performing exactly as expected.

Unless it has some kind of attitude adjustment (vernier thrusters) that can nudge it into a slightly less than accidental path ... Cheating Monte Carlo simulations without raising concerns can be big business.

Re: I've never been so happy to be wrong

It doesn't matter. Really. It's not like milking a cow or harvesting corn. We don't need the telemetry right now, this instant. Mañana will do nicely. Relax, have a homebrew, take forty winks, the data will still be valid after lunch.

And no, Perseverance won't be slowed down by the chopper tagging along ... consider that the Curiosity rover has averaged a tick under 13 inches per day. I'll be shocked if Perseverance even doubles that. Pick an LZ, hop ahead, send two-three pics and a status report home, and then wait for further instructions. Lather, rinse, repeat ... until something interesting pops up that would benefit from air support.

Honestly, kids these days ... short attention span, and always in a hurry.

_{Space Available Mail for APO/FPO ... does it still exist? Does anybody care?}

Re: Why bother with 3D printing

What are you, French? Damn your ise!

Re: Ubuntu server networking

One of many reasons I use either one of the BSDs or Slackware for servers. Canonical has all the same problems as Redmond and Cupertino, and for all the same reasons.

Re: Pain transfer

What we have is way too many programmers who can't program(me), but can sure say"Me too!" to whatever language/tool/methodology is the fad of the day.

Re: "Where open source has taken over " " recreate new and better ways of working"

Wow. You've certainly bought into the general Marketing line of anti-FOSS bullshit.

Out of curiosity, what flavo(u)r was the coolaid?

_{bash: VI: command not found}

Re: Syntactic whitespace

"And yet the creators of Python walk the Earth unchastised!"

Really? I don't know what Earth you live on, but on mine professional programmers have been pointing out the obvious issues and pitfalls with Python for thirty years or so.