Posts by Piro 2335 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Nov 2008
Yeah that one is great, I remember we had info screens with calendar information for meeting rooms and it would just blast out the private title of the meeting on the screen even though the user thought it was secret.
Hasty fixes implemented.
Also smells of "redactions" in PDFs where an extra layer of black is on top of the words, completely unaffecting the text entirely when highlighted. Classic.
Oh come on, no synchros? No power steering? Look at how heavy cars are now and how fat the tyres are.
You'd have to have some serious strength or some seriously geared steering with tons of turns lock to lock to make it easy to park such a car without.
I've had cars without power steering. Tight parking is not exactly fun. I wouldn't say synchros and power steering are "nannies".
What's next? It's not a "real" car unless it has keep-fit windows, or even better, ones that pop out?
I would argue that ABS and ESC can be very useful, but I do agree that those are in "nanny" territory, and although I consider them worthwhile, I think it's important to understand how they work and how to control a car without. Fair.
"It is also pretty much useless because you can't run any streaming stuff on it like Netflix, Disney+ and so forth. I imagine now is where you climb on your high horse and claim "I will never rent media, only own it" but when pressed by "own it" you mean you've ripped your old DVD collection and now you pirate stuff, using the excuse that because they won't make recent content available on your "chosen platform" of a custom built media PC you have no alternate but piracy."
This but unironically and literally. I don't pay for any streaming services. I use a PC and ripped media. My streaming use amounts to some YouTube videos.
Problem solved. I have an LG TV, I patched it precisely once, I regretted that, it removed a bunch of features as I didn't agree with the new policy. So I disconnected it from the network.
I didn't use the smart features anyway, but it was undoubtedly a downgrade.
Forget it, don't patch, just don't have it online.
Always found the therac story fascinating, I don't know why. Some of the bugs were really basic and terrible, but it's the way the machine had the hardware interlocks costed away and the response of aecl that was especially bad.
Highly recommend going in to it for anyone who hasn't.
I do wish we had the source code.
I don't live in the US, and I wasn't going for particular analysis of Trump, I just find the idea that we should tell large groups of people 'that their voices will not be heard' a dangerous way to start going.
I find it all rather absurd. Surely if there were good opponents then nobody would still be talking about him.
It beggars belief that all these years on, the media still can't get away from Trump. Their constant coverage is surely feeding in to the hype, intentionally or otherwise.
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