Posts by dcsprior

Tesla asks customers to stop being wet blankets about chargers

> Sales rate is the rate of increase in the fleet

Nope. Sales rate is the rate of additions to the fleet.

As the later bits of your comment imply, the rate of increase in the fleet is based on sales and also retirements.

What happens when What3Words gets lost in translation?

To call 999, I need signal from any of the mobile networks.

To have a working data connection, I need signal from my mobile network.

There's a lot of places I'll have the former but not the latter.

The wild world of non-C operating systems

Re: What about Assembly Language?

Well, you could theoretically write the first compiler in C, and "run" it step by step (for the compilation of itself) with brain, pen and paper.

On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me... a coding puzzle and it's a doozy

"Advent is four weeks leading up to Christmas, not 25 days in December."

The traditional/religious definition maybe, the modern one no.

Whilst Christmas may have started as a religious festival it is now also a cultural festival for people of any religion and none. The same is true of some festivals in other religions.

What's CNAME of your game? This DNS-based tracking defies your browser privacy defenses

Re: DNS is broken

>> Honestly, if CNAMEs become restricted, they'll just end up using regular A/AAAA records.

> Or, indeed, a DNAME (giving the same flexibility as a CNAME, just with a less commonly known feature).

Or, indeed, a first-party proxy to a third-party site. Which you can't detect from the client end (whereas an A/AAAA record you could theoretically check it's within the same AS or something)

Re: DNS is broken

So what about a site that has domains CNAMEd to a CDN or similar? You may need quite a lot of eggs for this omelette.

ThinkPad T14s AMD Gen 1: Workhorse that does the business – and dares you to push that red button

Re: Red pointy thing

I had that for a short while. Hated it, really hated it