Posts by sebacoustic 311 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Sep 2010
OK "first computer model" has the IT angle... but really, we have known about this _much_longer: in fact https://xkcd.com/2889
Good on El Reg to weigh in on this.. not so many years ago they were happy enough to publish "climate sceptic" Lewis Page's infuriating nonsense so they have some making up to do.
my work PC runs Fedora... and my "work" browser is Edge (because.. Teams PWA). So I have the pleasure of Copilot albeit on Microsoft's cloud not the company's/my home's electricity bill.
EDIT: errm no. Just checked... it's now broken in MS's latest Edge package.. and nothing of value was lost.
I work for a US company with significant operations in Taiwan.. many of my Taiwanese colleagues speak excellent English. I don't really have contact with anybody else there unless someone can translate for me... as I don't speak Mandarin, or any of the other languages spoken there.
I doubt if anyone would get a promotion into management tier there unless they had a decent command of the English language.
I use gnome on Fedora for work day after day and it helps me stay focussed and productive, (as much as a DE can do such things which isn't a lot).
Is it pretty: yes, think so. I don't customise anything other than a background image, and an extension that keeps dock& top bar off the screen unitl I presss <super>.
Are there things that suck? Yeah, totally. But about a factor of 10 fewer than on the windows desktops I use via RDP. Oh yes, and the RDP client on Windows is basic to the point of being practically useless... wot? No hotkey for switching key sequences like <alt-tab> form local to remote and back? This sucks!!!!
I so use KDEs editor Kate for text editing though, since it has lots of useful nicknacks akin to notepad++ that I use. Ugly: yes. Do I care... not really.
The rationale goes like this:
developer of service xyz (systemd unit), which needs "a directory and a named pipe in it" uses its own way to create temp dir like xyz_<currenttimestamp>/ but that may not work in some obscure context, maybe in a container or whatever.
The missive from systemd HQ is to rely on systemd-tmpfile instead where systemd guarantees it works for you. The consumer of tempfiles does not have to deal with edge cases any more. Overzealous --purge notwithstanding.
now there's something that would *really* worry me: a VPN under control company beholden to please the CCP rulers.
As an aside: accessing TikTok via VPN isn't really an option as the *app* will be banned from Apple's and Google's stores. On Android you _can_ still install stuff from other app stores but it's likely not enough to wean american teens off their iAddiction.
I added a "I'm feeling lucky" checkbox in a dialog for ourt internal software which can speed up your workflow a lot by performing checks giving only a pass/fail but not persisting any detail as to why. Works great because 90% of the time people already know it's going to pass.
This was supoposed to get a "proper" name before it went into production but of course did pop up before users' eyes. We were informed that is "unfprofessional", and the checkbox is now called "Quick mode" and nobody understand what it does.
You're going to need a need a bigger envelope for doing calculations on the back of.
Is little Timmy somehow fixed in space and manages to stop dead a 500kg bot doing a runner's pace while squishing just 25.4mm?
If Timmy _is_ fixed in space by having his back against a wall, there'd be little chance of survival.
In a more realistic "inelastic collision" crash, 15km/h is typically survivable, the deadly threshold being somewhere in between speeds being considered in heated welsh debates.
You're going to need a need a bigger envelope for doing calculations on the back of.
Is little Timmy somehow fixed in space and manages to stop dead a 500kg bot doing a runner's pace while squishing just 25.4mm?
If Timmy _is_ fixed in space by having his back against a wall, there'd be little chance of survival.
In a more realistic "inelastic collision" crash, 15km/h is typically survivable, the deadly threshold being somewhere in between speeds being considered in heated welsh debates.
actual quarterly sales: $12.45 billion, up nine percent year-on-year.
Analysts' expected sales $12.47 billion.
difference: 20 million
Stock market reaction:
9 percent share price slide, wiping around $30 billion
Note: I hate Oracle just as much as the next guy, no tears shed.
It will show a unix text file with line feeds correctly, whereas notepad shows a useless single line (that may not be the case in recent versions but I'm talking about the ancient stuff that lives on our "production" machines, computers that came wired up to expensive tools & equipment which is still n 27/7 use and can't be replaced without risk)
That's about the only reason it's being used here, but beware, it might decide to write a funny invisible first byte to designate a character set, an evil Windows hack that has buggered up automated workflows here in a not immediately obvious way.
I have met people who swear by it as the "Word Processor that does all I ever need", and that's a fair point really. Not that these will likely upgrade from W7 or W2k or whatever they're using
Thing is, it's quite hard to find and get to those defunct satellites in orbit.
May I quote the venerable D Adams:
“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
It might have much more payload capacity than a swallow but it can't complete in other ways: travelling over 300km a day for weeks at a time to migrate over 6000km, literally never landing while feeding and sleeping airborne, and being powered by little insects. Drone tech has catching up to do in some respects.
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