Posts by Ashto5 366 publicly visible posts • joined 26 May 2016
I clicked my 1st ad link in a very long time
I did this in my phone
The same ad now appears on
My laptop
My phone
My works laptop
My VM on my works laptop
It is ridiculous as I now will NOT buy the t shirt on principal.
It’s not really optional to have a system that says we will spam you to death or make an account and we will spam you to death but the spam might be a bit more relevant.
160 bits per second, and signals take 20 hours and 33 minutes to reach the probe. Yes – that means round trip latency of 41 hours and six minutes.
Pretty sure some off the newest websites run at those speeds and only get away with it because they are relying on your phone etc to have mega powers.
COBOL is a brilliant language.
Very linear no “promises” that work would be done.
I worked on the National Insurance system back in the late 80’s.
The problems stemmed from Authur Anderson’s “droids” six weeks out of uni designing the architecture of the system and carrying out the analysis.
I was let go for correcting one of their specs that basically had an IF statement that was so wrong it would have taken a genius to find a way to get it wrong.
Back in the 80’s they charged £1,000 a day for these grads.
If you have all of that cant you just tell the kit to come home ?
Or even have if FUBAR the planting / harvesting process if it is not in the place it should be ?
Or you could take the pay to plant option
Please swipe your credit card to operate the tractor bit like the fairground rides
Loved it still have a place in my heart.
ZX Spectrum, friends had that for playing games.
Glad I had the ZX81 as I invented games which lead me to a career that is still going strong.
GOTO don’t knock it
GOSUB awesome
The combination key word keyboards
Man I could type fast on those faster than todays keyboards actually.
Funny that most modern IDE give you shortcuts to place a code snippet but you could do it naturally from the Sinclair keyboards
Enjoy your memories
Happy Birthday Speccy
You think the drop off is large now?
Once you put ads in there it will be a cliff edge fall off.
I hate YouTube’s ads they are irrelevant to me no I do not wish to holiday in Qatar and having it shoved at me while I am listening to some Cuban cafe music has me reaching to turn off the service.
I will be unsubscribing from Netflix as the cost of living crisis hits bye bye Netflix bye bye Disney Amazon is the hardest to lose because it is tied in to so many other features but hey I could save thousands without its convenience.
These big tech USA companies cannot continue just putting prices up.
My understanding is that Ukraine wanted to move closer to Europe and away from Moscow
They have not been offered NATO membership BECAUSE of this very issue.
Putin is a nut job and wants to rebuild the USSR, he is not going to stop and if the "Cancer" story is true I for one feel that the idiot would push the button and take everyone with him.
I worked at a place that employed a new manager.
When she walked in dragging a pull along suitcase she looked like one of the Hobbit dwarfs she just didn't have the axe at the time.
I pointed out to the permanent members of staff that trouble had arrived.
Over the next 8 weeks she slowly decapitated the staff numbers in the dept, followed by the number of servers allowed to run the company.
Finally she altered the terms of employment, notice period, redundancy payments & pension contributions.
The staff left were to scared to object and then she was gone.
It really felt like "walked with the devil in the pale moonlight" moment.
It is quite clear that he is talking about the move Putin played as genius, he is not saying it is the right thing.
Once again the left media try to spin DT as an idiot they are still smarting over the defeat of their choice last time round.
If they continue to just denigrate DT he will be elected again because you keep alienating his core support.
USA beware.
If Ukraine had kept the missiles at the breakup of the USSR they would not be threatened now.
Putin has to be boxed in now, use the same technique as used on N Korea and Iran
No use of the dollar or euro or pound
Stop imports of food from any country that has ties to the USA EU or UK
At that point Putin would be worried about an uprising and he can turn his attention back to suppressing his own people like all good dictators do
A freelancer earns a higher day rate and is allowed under the rules to maximise returns, no rules are broken.
Permie employees cannot be bothered to go out and be freelance so they avoid earning more and then they hide it in pensions, so really permies are the ones who cheat the exchequer by not paying tax now so they can dump it in pensions for later.
If ABC are being outright fits
Then I believe that there will be space for other offerings
Basically you need a random page selector routine that when you’re asleep or not using your machine just jumps around clicks links then closes the tab opens another and does the Same again
It will make their data pretty worthless
But idiot sellars will still pay to advertise
I have yet to click any advert link
This is why the west is in trouble technically
Big business wants subsidies or it won’t build
How about NO and if you decide to drop those types of bombs
How about we hit chips built outside the uk with a new FYou tax on importing them.
Once it uneconomical to import the UK WILL start to expand its own Capabilities
AWS & Azure have been built to make setting this up like walking through an old style installation wizard.
For me the big thing is AWS & Azure are NOT your friends
They have their hand in your pocket so yes you can spin up and scale and auto deploy
But YOUr going to pay for it big time.
Why do these companies believe they have a god given right to be awarded these contracts.
The truth is they are all in it for the money not the security of the nation just the plain old dollar bill.
Watch whoever wins it outsource it to another company or country.
The military should nit need to BUY these services these companies should be falling over themselves to offer it for their nations security.
Do you think for 1 second that Chinese companies are suing the CCP?
USA heading to 3rd world status at a rate of knots, end of empire, here in the UK we have been in this path for 100 years.
If google and Apple throw things under a bus every time an autocratic regime says do this now
Then democracy is dead, or is it only open to westerners ?
Stop chasing the $$$ and grow some morals
Remember do no evil ?
When you capitulate like this then it reminds me of the PM chamberlain and the Nazis
Thank you
Your ZX81 had me understanding programming before I started my City & Guilds
And when the 1st interview came I finished the 100 logic questions in 20
Minutes while many were still on the 1st page.
When I failed my A levels, the imagination triggered by the ZX81 kept me in a job that insisted on A level passes.
The life I have is TOTALLY down to the amazing ZX81 and it’s brilliant inventor.
Thank you Clive
You can press “stop” on the tape player now … the programs over
The keyboard hade built In shortcuts you only really type variable names.
Some of the games written that fitted in to 1k were amazing.
1K think about it
I need an SSD & 16gig of memory to do the same stuff.
THANK YOU SIR CLIVE
LIVED A VERY GOOD LIFE THANKS TO THE ZX81
RIP Bro
Why should a product contain a list of banned (by whom) words.
Does a hammer have a safety system to test if you hitting a nail ?
I am happy for it to highlight but it sounds like “cancel” culture to me
If you don’t type what I want you to type then it stops working, that’s basically rubbish.
Imagine the uproar if VS2020 auto corrected any AWS ref to Azure or refused to load a competitor package no more Nuget (actually hmm)
You get the point
Security is a massive issue.
Criminalise the failure to adhere to basic standards, these standards should be set by the nations elite spy agencies.
Until then don’t turn around, I am watching you.
I’m the one in the jeans and top can you spot me ?
Not to worry I know exactly where you are, see you soon x
At least this person had the cahoonas to tell it straight, of course it will fall on deaf ears as no manager can ever be wrong.
Worked with a guy in the UK NHS who quit, he was asked to give an exit interview, it went along these lines.
Speaking to the manager
“It is obvious you have read a book on managing IT written by Steve Jobs, you are ill equipped to run an IT dept and your man management is not even at the basic level.
I have spent the last 3 weeks designing various UI and each time you say it is not good enough, I then presented you with the first one again and you said why could you not have done that in the first place.
You should go back to the accounts department where you came from, making an excel spreadsheet is not IT.”
The colleague told us this over farewell drinks.
Monday morning the manager spoke to staff explaining that out friend had left due to ill health.
The moral of the story is make sure your bosses boss is in the room when you throw the grenade.
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I was called in to look at why the warehouse was not running and all of the warehouse computers were showing a critical system error dialogue.
Traced it to the existence of a critical error file in a directory, deleted the file the warehouse came back online.
{takes hero stance}
I had to do it because the usual guy was away on holiday.
Looking further into the issue I found a little program running on a timer that created said file at randomised times good few days between creations.
Turns out you get paid extra for being on call and being called and mucho gravitas by getting the warehouse back up and running, so El Sid had written a batch program that sat there and created the “incident”.
Now that’s mortgage driven development.
Overtime is the personification of bad managers.
I was asked to not bill for hours over 8 as it was part of a professional day, I replied I am here to clean up your mess, you did not start out being professional so why should I lose time or money to correct your mistake.
I remained for many renewals getting the company back on its feet, the mangers slowly left.
Overtime === BAD MANAGER
Oh Covid may hurt us
You must work from home
Oh we can’t see you and micromanage you
You must come back in the office it’s impossible to work from home
Oh if you do work from home we will need to reduce your pay
American tech companies really are the pits to much power in the hands of greedy people.
It’s like some Netflix series
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