Posts by Dan 55

Re: Big credit

We had GEM which made it into Amstrad's early PC range and Atari rom'd it on the ST but again it was basic and still needed enough CPU and graphics. Once a program needs to run AND have the GUI running, that's a lot of horsepower and without multi-threaded CPU tech it's a lot of slicing in the operations to make it usable.

Depends on the OS. The Amiga which launched at the same time had a slower CPU than the ST and managed preemptive multitasking and a multithreaded GUI which didn't lock up when a program's event loop did. Ok, so the OS was a bit wobbly until 1.3.

Re: Intelligence

Which country out of the not-so-extensive list would you pick?

Those who don't understand Eclipse are condemned to reinvent it, even more poorly. In Electron.

Re: A rose by any other name...

If a country is in the customs union it has to be in the single market, the reverse is not necessarily true.

The four EFTA countries are in the Single Market but not in the Customs Union.

Turkey, Monaco, San Marino, and Andorra are in the Customs Union but not in the Single Market.

The UK didn't not even want to be part of the Single Market due to free movement, hence the compete and total divorce from its neighbours. The UK could have enacted free movement controls like other EU countries at any time since 2004, but did not.

The European Community was a good thing, when there was only the single market. It's a great pity that empire-building politicians bent on control ruined it by turning it into a political & monetary union.

The EEC/EC/EU never has been a non-politcal project. If you ever believed otherwise you bought a lie. See here (linked to the middle of the thread as this is where the lie began).

Re: A rose by any other name...

So that'll be just what I said then. The two are seperate things, you can have countries outside the Single Market but inside the Customs Union and vice-versa.

Re: A rose by any other name...

Since when did the EU belong to Macron?

The UK is definitely England's plaything though.

Re: A rose by any other name...

The EFTA is part of the Single Market and the Tories didn't want to be part of the Single Market as that means they couldn't have their vote-winning policy of being nasty to the EU forrins. See Theresa May's red lines speech in January 2017.

And why would any country in the EFTA want to be lumbered with dealing with the UK's dysfunctional politics and sense of unbridled entitled exceptionalism?

Re: I see no ships

Not just the Customs paperwork wall, there's also UKCA which duplicates standards testing costs for products sold in GB and that's before we even start talking about getting products into NI which is crazier still.

Re: Browser Profiles

Bless you for believing a second Chrome or Edge profile actually means anything as far as privacy is concerned.

Re: 37 year old interface standard?

We know a song about the RS232 interface lead, don't we children?

Re: Another language?

XP and 7 are pretty set in stone. Not much of importance happened after that apart from UI craziness.

Re: Multithreaded Memory Safety in C++ ?

RAII is a useful design pattern, but how do you enforce a useful design pattern? It might not even be useful in your particular case.

At some point your programmers have to actually know stuff to program, as much as it pains project managers who think programmers are interchangeable cogs and as much as it pains people who think there are technical solutions to fix bad programmers.

Name me any other branch of engineering, architecture, or design where people expect tools to make up for lack of knowledge.

Re: Copilot?

Let's not forget that many of the worst and longest standing bugs in Windows were from the Unix code they adopted.

Don't remember seeing /c/windows/win.com in any UNIX directory tree.

Re: File metadata

So finding something called readme.txt is a better test? Anyone up to no good will just look through the source and avoid the filenames which pop up this dialog.

A poster above who expressed the idea better than I had the same idea. It's slowly getting more comprehensive on Windows.

Re: @Dan 55

Indeed. It seems the UK's enforcement body has moved from "light touch" to "allowing piss taking".

Re: This is unnecessary

If it's a PITA, they're doing it wrong.

French law allows the employees' available periods to be defined, and if the employee is working, say, 8 hours a day with flexible start and end periods then their email/IM availability could also be defined as those same hours.

So if you're a night owl and work late for 2-3 hours in the day and everyone knows it and is happy with it, you wouldn't be expected to reply when you're not working but other people are.