Posts by MyffyW

Re: Up with this sort of thing!

I'd be happy to have a bash at asteroid smashing. But CLIs are my comfort zone.

Re: Sad news everyone

...alt-right no better than Jaws (IV, 1987)

Re: Welcome to the new column

Your new column is a welcome addition to the toy draw and may well help in my quest to find ever more tangential ways to waste my time.

Re: Why not?

Sounds like a terrible idea, but in the unlikely event of weaning my daughters off their Apple addiction I'll give it one-and-a-half cheers.

Re: Our special role.

And one reason we handed it over was we could barely muster enough medium-range bombers to inconvenience Moscow, never mind long-range ones to bother the Middle East.

Plus Ca Change....

"Dear Ms W, Good luck and God's providence has lead me to you, my friend. But first let me introduce myself. I am Dr Emmanuel Abba. I need your help in repatriating SIX MILLION Martian Credits ........"

Re: Advancements in AI

You had me at "C-shaped" ....

Re: Oh My!

On the basis of every reaction having an equal and opposite reaction, I suspect the resulting deltaV will somewhat modest from the ESA-faeco-ejection-engine.

Re: Wine writers have an overactive imagination

Happily betrothed in any event, hope the keyboard recovers, Rich.

They do sound middling roles but I think they can reasonably be said to be "workers by hand or by brain". They're unlikely to have significant personal wealth or old boys networks to fall back on, so they have a stake in making this work.

More companies should do this, over time it might break the isolated bubble that most boards seem to inhabit.

Re: A waste of good breath?

I'm very glad I live in a world where Amnesty International are free to waste their breath.

Surprising how far a haughty indifference to customer satisfaction and a firm hand on the tiller can get you...

Re: Good and Bad News

Fortunately my associate, Mr Milo Minderbinder, has already initiated such a trade. We are also in a position to sub-contract bombing missions for the opposition upon ourselves for the right price. What's good for the consortium is good for all of us.

Re: Blakes 7

Whilst I always wanted to be Jenna or Cally, I have to admit Servalan is something of an eminence gris to me

Legal status

... glad we cleared that up.

I wonder if he's more ashamed of those antics than the brexit chaos he bequeathed us?

Re: An Orlowski article? With comments enabled???

One never really appreciates El Reg talent until it's flown the nest. Best of luck Andrew.

Being able to articulate your ideas in peer forums on the Internet is probably one of the better skills :-)

Re: He's actually got a point.

Pete Buttigieg has my (non-enfranchised) vote, if only because I can't wait for the first "First Husband" to be Chasten Buttigieg.

Re: Framework + Core = .NET 5

...and certainly nothing to do with quadropenia

Re: Culture

As ringleader, tom-boy and chum to the weak I do appreciate old lights for new chancels.

Re: Isle of Man moon mission stamps

serious chutzpah? - Well the Apollo 11 lunar plaque did say they came for all Mankind.

Agile

If you are going to fail, you might as well fail fast.

[though note, NASA / Roscosmos / et al, this isn't a brilliant idea with astronauts on board]

All this has happened before...

"The directors of such joint-stock companies, however, being the managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected, that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private company frequently watch over their own.... Negligence and profusion, therefore, must always prevail, more or less, in the management of the affairs of such a company."

- Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, 1776

Re: Non-Binary thinking

Welcome to the spectrum Brown Dwarf, shine* you fabulous anomaly!

[*well glow a sort of lukewarm umber colour]

HMS Dreadnought

Operation Journeyman was a Royal Navy operation in which a naval taskforce was sent to the Falkland Islands in November 1977 to prevent an Argentine invasion.

HMS Dreadnought provided the role of hunter-killer submarine, although it didn't have to sink anything.

Re: Lack of detail?

@'s water music - so true - I really wish I could upvote you repeatedly until my fingers got sore

"all job centres had free Wi-Fi."

Cool. Just need to offer artisan-crafted granola bars and flat whites and they'll be indistinguishable from any franchised coffee house.

Re: WTF is a Slow Ring???

Maybe I've had a sheltered life, but I found myself asking WTF is the acronym LMGTFY.

So I turned to Google. And now I'm stuck in a causation loop.

- MyffyW, proudly on the spectrum, whether it be ASD, EM or LGBTQI+

Re: So ...

.. for some reason when searching for more than 4 base pairs my phone will display nothing other than the message "a suffusion of yellow"

Re: Red shirt guy goes first

Ensign Cannonfodder, please accompany these three permanent members of the cast down to the planet. Will it put you in any danger? Some, but you should be able to handle it.

Re: Wouldn't it be ironic

"It's rayeeee-ain on your wedding day....." or sand particles in your chardonnay

Re: Viagra is a "back-to-back bonking drug"?

The Uncle Hank scene from "Requiem for a Dream" comes to mind for some reason.

[shudder]

Re: The reasons for the iPhone sales slump were threefold

You missed proper rounded corners. Very important requirement in our household ... well worth a thousand quid {cough}

Jacob Rees-Mogg has already moved his company addresses to Dublin, so he's alright Jack. Or Jake.