Posts by David_Woodhead

The UK is running on empty when it comes to electric vehicle charging points

Re: its not just the public charging

@AC: The Guardian claims that two thirds of adults from 20-34 still live with their parents, which sounds about right.

No it doesn't. It claims that two thirds of single childless adults from 20-34 do this.

Alan Turing Institute to spend UK.gov grants on AI for air traffic control and banking

How much?

<i>The UK government will, to the tune of £60m, bankroll two major research projects ...</i>

If these really are MAJOR research projects, from which conclusions would be drawn that change the way we run air traffic control and banking, then £60m is chump change compared to what would be needed for a meaningful in-depth analysis of:

a) how they work (this is AI remember)

b) whether they work

c) how we check that they work and against what criteria

d) what could be the side effects: expected and unexpected

e) how we back out if it's a disaster

f) the costs at every stage: design; implementation; running; disaster recovery

This is just two minutes off the top of my head. £60m is meaningless in this context.

BT to phase out 3G in UK by 2023 for EE, Plusnet, BT Mobile subscribers

23G? 79G?

2G - 3G - 4G - 5G ...

For that vast majority of the population:

- How would I know?

- Why should I care?

- Do I now have to buy yet another phone and throw this one in the bin?

What is GitOps? This is the technical introduction you've been looking for

re:If you need to get your head around the concept of configuration-as-code, start here

I have to say that this hasn't helped. WTF is <i>configuration-as-code</i> ? Could you please explain more simply for bears of little brain such as I am ...

... oh no: I'm losing the will to live now .. I can feel my live forces drifting away. And you're responsible, El Reg. I hope you can live with yourselves ... aaargh!

Lenovo says it’s crammed a workstation into a litre of space – less than three cans of beer

Re: The tiny sounds neat...

No, we call them tinnies ...

Well, fuck me. I can just flush my collection of very rare stubby holders down the dunny now can I? I have NEVER heard anyone in Oz asking for a tinnie holder.

<i>Although I haven't been back for 23 years, so things may have changed, in which case I apologise wholeheartedly and unreservedly.</i>

Galaxy quest: Yet another sub-£500 phone comes to trouble mobile big dogs in the form of Realme GT 5G

Size? Battery? SD card? Forget it ...

Everything has gone downhill since my Galaxy S4, which I still struggle to keep going as it's the best phone I've ever found.

I shall now return to shaking my fist at clouds.