Posts by teebie

Re: What is deemed harmful to kids ?

"I know it when I see it"

"Our product is less helpful for productivity than scribbling on paper. Or shouting. We should add AI"

Re: Worse than pointless

That's not true, try paying for something with a 6-pence coins

Some countries support all old money, the UK doesn't.

"If they were parasites nobody would use them"

That's...not how parasites work?

Re: If they cared about children...

Alfred the great did a lot of good in peacetime - at the time literacy rates in 'England' were terrible, he invited scholars from other parts of Europe, established a school to encourage reading, and had various works translated from latin to english.

Re: Better never than late

Half?

Greedy dog, go to your bed.

Re: Video on Ring's servers is the problem

Less secure against a burglar stealing the footage though.

Re: What a relief

American football is a game where most of the time time is spent not playing the sport (60 minutes spread over 3 and a bit hours), and the players have more padding than the Michelin Man.

They should have called it American Cricket,

Re: Mental

They do look warm

Re: IoS

"If you have regular working hours, probably programmable thermostats would be enough, they don't have to be connected ones."

And if you have irregular hours, take your coat off a bit later after you get home.

(And set the night time temperature to 5 degrees celsius so the pipes don't freeze)

I think it's pronounced 'Kyle'

The X at the starts of the name represents the greek letter χ (chi). And there are 2-3 other bits of bullshit that go into the name.

Re: Google has lost already

"Hi guys, welcome to my youtube channel. Today I'm going to tell you what to do if your stopcock shears off. There's a long introduction, but I'm not going to let you know how long"

"ffs, give me the info I need before I drown"

" It does everything I need a telephone in that location to do, except DTMF"

Urban dictionary tells me what DTF is. No idea what the M stands for.

"How is this different to all the "traditional" door locks out there which don't function if you've lost/left your keys somewhere"

Locksmiths?

Re: So what happens if...

"our competition watchdog hasn't been doing its job very well"

That depends on whether their job is to prevent monopolies (which they haven't done in this case), or to ensure that is there is a monopoly then it does no harm (which it is trying to do here - arguably too late)

Looking at https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/competition-and-markets-authority/about I'm not sure which they are supposed to focus on

Re: UI elements annoying Oi

For cookie selection its a dark pattern designed to make you go 'sod it, they can have my cookies'

You sound like you are in the market for a browser extension like consent-o-matic, which will fill in them forms for you.

Re: Live Printer

It was a gas

Wait, what are we doing here?

"I got a new site for the plant: [Jacob Reese-Mogg's] head; it's certainly empty enough!"

It's a Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production, not a Pencil-Shaped Tokamak for Energy Production

I prefer to just take this at face value and ask no further questions.

Re: Imagine; two centuries ago; when your mother bought a fine china bowl

"Some might say that it was generous to use an analogy of a fine china bowl against Sage 50 Accounts"

If it helps, you can switch the analogy to have Sage be the equivalent of a pre-filled chamber pot .

Memory sticks never slot into place unless you use enough force that it feels like something is going to break. I can see how someone could go from there to using enough force it's a miracle they didn't break anything.

Re: Huh..

That's maybe 10 times higher than the last fine. So the next one could be 5 days profit, which should be enough to stop them before they get caught again.

Re: Moving from one tool they don't understand to another they don't understand

I wondered what they were on about. I've used svn for years, but never had to deal with a ChangeLog.

When a company is flailing around not knowing what they are doing the last thing they need is git.

Re: Stack popped reading that procedure....

Step 1: throw the fox in the river. Nobody needs to carry a fox around with them...

Re: Technical question

It's "hostile environment" rather than "solution to some sort of problem"

Re: This isn't it, but something seems to be needed

"I wouldn't trust a single one of them to be able to navigate themselves through a sodden brown paper bag"

I wouldn't trust them to navigate themselves out of a small room that only had one door.