Posts by Glen 1 960 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Jun 2009
"...Tab width..."
Answer: Four (4)
Two is for people who sit too close to the screen, and who don't separate out any of their callbacks.
Eight is for writers, who tend to not have fixed width text.
Odd numbers are for summoning Cthulhu (all hail etc, but not before the client has paid)
I use tabs rather than spaces, but have succumbed to popular opinion, let the IDE do its autoconversion thing.
When used SPARINGLY. Not seamingly EVERY other WORD.
It starts to read LiKe A cHiLd oR DaIlY mAiL rEaDeR Is WrItInG
I personally use *asterisks*. Many chat apps format that as bold.
Or you could y'know do it properly
Sidenote: Stargate and Bob are apparently not the same person.
Yes, a "protectionist" act. Also a moral one, but hey this is capitalism we're talking about.
Our weakened position outside of the EU makes the NHS more vulnerable to this kind of cash grab.
The US being able to (potentially) dictate terms in such an imbalanced way has *everything* to do with us no longer being in the EU.
Maybe you think Brexit Boris will have the spine to say no? or do you think having more of the NHS's budget being hoovered up by American companies for little gain is perfectly Ok?
If there were massive benefits on the table, it might be worth it, but so far the only thing being reported is potentially cheaper food at the cost of lowering our food standards and screwing over British farming.
That too, but more like this stuff:
Sidenote: I think it is good thing. However decrying US protectionism, when we (UK) do stuff like this, is somewhat hypocritical.
If only we were part of a larger trading block so we had greater collective bargaining power...
The thing is you have two different kinds of commenters here.
You have people who live in places where coverage is so crappy that cell data is too unreliable and expensive to be useful. In those cases, what's the point of 5G? In many cases, a 3G connection would be enough if it was *reliable*
Then you have people who live in places where data is just *there* and not even thought about unless there is a problem... Which could be quite rarely.
Eg I pay £25 a month for unlimited minutes and texts with 20GB of data. I often find myself tethering my laptop to my phone because between the captive portal sign up shinanagens, and the crappy WiFi signal strength, not to mention inconsistent reliability when I'm just sat at a table... it's just more convenient to tether when I'm not at home.
There is a reason that many people's primary internet device is their phone.
Explaining to management that the senior engineer needs to spend time writing documentation... Is a harder problem. We have heard time and a again the tails in these halls of retired engineers being called back at £$€¥ cost.
Having both the PFY(s) and the BOFH out of action for training (cus y'know... together) is, if not unsurmountable, going to be like pulling teeth.
Its not the adverts that are the problem, its the click baity lies that pander to our preconceived prejudices. Probably attached to a no-name domain or spoofing a more reputable news site.
If they are transmitting stuff that resonates with your personal echo chamber, you take them in unchallenged. Further entrenching your opinion with the fantasy that *your* echo chamber is devoid of faults.
Then we all criticise the *other* side(s) for *their* lack of critical thinking.
"For big vendors, all their hardware gets extensively tested and certified as compatible with all the major software out there"
How naive.
It's more like
"Big vendors deliberately limit the hardware combinations to minimize the chance of weird driver issues, and are *big enough to shout at the suppliers* until they fix most problems"
Ok, not *that* cheap. Sounds like a problem with your setup.
Sidenote: Non NVMe M2 is only a change in form factor. Unless the thin profile is a requirement, you're better off sticking with SATAIII for the cheaper drives.
I went from old spinning disk to NVMe. ~100MB/s sequential to ~1500MB/s. Never looked back.
An OS *is* a hugely complex system, but when it only exists to launch a web browser, why make it more complicated than it needs to be? Saying we support X browser at versions Y-Z is much more flexible than supporting a specific OS. The thin client way is valid.
That said, support contracts tend to be for the whole stack, not just the top bit. Reducing the number of systems supported reduces costs and support headaches. Older OSs that are known quantities, that are locked down without internet and the hardware being relatively physically secure makes for an easier life than say, having to know that SVGs don't display correctly in safari.
"restaurant chain...SCO Unix"
Pizza Hut? I know when I was a PFY, the Pizza Hut I worked at had 386s running SCO as Point of Sale. This store opened in 2001/2 I don't know they got a hold of hardware that was ancient even back then.
Years later they eventually upgraded to touchscreen units running XPE.
"content must be at the same or a sub level, never anything above or outside it."
Bare in mind that this was how things used to be. What has happened is that the advertisers have effectively *become* the top level because websites like to get paid.
I don't think that's a good thing, but whining about a lack of a walled garden whilst presumably still wanting content for free is not realistic. Patreon exists for a reason.
"when there's no other choice."
There's the rub. There's *always* another choice. Even if that choice is not to use the site.
Given that the vast majority don't mess with the defaults, and even those techies that enable selectively would still cave and enable the bare minimum for the site to work (gawker). Those kanuts trying to hold back the tide are outliers within a group of outliers.
The rest of the world will move on without you. Which you may or may not be happy with.
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