Posts by Tanaka

Reclassification is making US tech job losses look worse than they are

Re: Waiting for AI

Or my partner. I need an AI that knows when to give me a mug of tea.

How Windows got to version 3 – an illustrated history

I remember when ipx/spx was bundled with Doom so that you could get networking up in DOS with a BNC terminated ring circuit. Mis-spent youth!

Google thinks AI can Google better than you can

DuckDuckGo finds it okay...

Smartphone is already many folks' only computer – say hi to optional desktop mode in Android 15 beta

Well, in my case its to use xreal AR glasses as a portable 120" monitor to give my eyes a rest (myopia), and only certain chipsets support dp out. But mileage varies.

Although:

item/1005005802533086.html

On aliexpress gets you the ability to dp out AND charge your phone... for a fiver.

Or:

item/1005005429428796.html

Which lets you plug your phone straight into hdmi on a telly...

I mean, if you pay a few grand for a fondleslab, you shouldn't be quaking on a few quid for the right cables.

Microsoft introduces Places to make flexible working less fraught

Re: Just wondering

Friday? I wish the roads were empty.

There's always some pleb who managed to park their mobile shed in a tree on the A31 out of Bournemouth :(

By the time I get as far as 'a31 bo' in Google its suggesting at least 10 articles about today's crashes. Fridays are worse :(

Chinese chap charged with stealing Google’s AI datacenter secrets

I'm impressed...

The FBI needed a warrant for Google to look at files in the Google Cloud about Google exfiltrated from Google.

Would be funny if the lawyer tried to make a case that the files never left Google.

Meta says risk of account theft after phone number recycling isn't its problem to solve

Re: Well if Meta are going to get roasted for this one

Use Authy. It syncs between your devices.

Irony alert: Lawsuit alleging Chrome’s Incognito Mode isn’t will settle on unknown terms

Re: I'm shocked!

"If you don’t want Google Chrome"

And Google Chrome does not.

Google does.

Dump C++ and in Rust you should trust, Five Eyes agencies urge

Re: Bull

Or I could look at the Git Commit History:

https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/commits/main/src/coreclr/gc/gc.cpp

That shows it excellently maintained.

Bull

Feel free to point out the 'rot' in C# 12. Your comment is about 20 years out of date. Its like people who advocate writing in raw sockets vs pipelines/channels, or who think they need to write their own threading because... reasons. There are some very smart guys (e.g. David Fowler, see "System.IO.Pipelines: High performance IO in .NET") who spend their days polishing code until it shines. They deserve better than asinine commentardry!

Microsoft says VBScript will be ripped from Windows in future release

Re: Thin end of wedge.

Powershell isn't a browser language. All of MS DevOps runs on Powershell. Azure runs on Powershell. All those weird Task Scheduler bits n bobs run on Powershell. Powershell has execution policies that vbScript doesn't. I take a different logic path to you.

Lawyer's Microsoft email snafu goes from $1.75M lawsuit to Ctrl+Alt+Settle

A little confused...

... why he didn't transfer his work email over to another provider after a few days until the issue was resolved. Did he not own his own domain? Business continuity lesson here.