Posts by Someone Else

Re: Let's get rid of this 1 GB = 1024 x 1024 x 1024 nonsense too then

Meanwhile, until you redefine the byte as having ten bits, what you want won't happen.

Clearly, you haven't worked on a DECSystem 20....

Re: If you wish to be a capitalist, you have to abide to capitalism rules

Isn't 'business genius' an oxymoron?

_{Right up there with 'marketing genius' and 'fair market....'}

Re: I'm appalled

...Or, go full-metal Italian Job and have several similar planes fly at the same time to several different locations, with the Muskrat being in only one of them. (Or perhaps even in none of them...psych!)

Three-card Monty at a level that is befitting a fatass billionaire.

Re: The False American Notion of Free Speech

And this acts as a "citation" how, again?

Re: Now Available

I suppose you could set the bookmarks bar to be on all the time...like I have since -- I dunno, for the last say 20 years or so?

Re: Completely Obsolete Boring Old Language

If you can write nice clear simple code, you can't really go wrong [...]

I believe you. But: You can still write FORTRAN in any language. Even COBOL.

Re: One of the rare times he escaped his own reality bubble recently

Have you read The Twitter Files (#4 I think?)

I'll read the Twatter Files when I'm allowed to read all of them, without redactions, editing, or certainly without the Muskrat filtering what is being released to Fox Noise.

_{And most certainly not after Fox Noise has put its haze of "alternate facts" on it.}

Re: Work from office

"Coathanger state".

Love. It.

@Eclectic Man -- Re: Confused

First off, totally agree for languages fit for purpose. I'd hate to try to write an embedded controller program in COBOL, although I do actually know of an instance where that was done.

As to your need for integers of 10000 digits, I do believe Python supports effectively unbounded numbers of digits in an int. Don't know if you'd want to multiply two 10000-digit ints, but it's supposed to support that. Might take a while, though....

Re: Appeals

...whichever is greater

Re: How will they determine what is "news"?

If/when this bill passes, it will be interesting to see what media outlets and stories they are willing to spend their money on.

Re: This regulator's no good, I'll get myself another

When asked for further comment, a Microsoft spokesperson said: "Microsoft 365 products meet the highest industry standards for the protection of privacy and data security. We respectfully disagree with the concerns raised by the Datenschutzkonferenz and have already implemented many suggested changes to our data protection terms. [emphasis added] "

As duly noted by the DSK, changing the terms and changing the actual practices are two separate things.

Re: Contract clauses

That said, the odd dose of overtime to hit a deadline or if there is a major disaster is another matter - but if it is "weeks of working late", the project manager needs to agree a new deadline that works, or get additional staff on board to cover the work that needs to be done to work elsewhere.

There. FTFY.

Re: Quick poll

Citation needed.

_{Back attcha...}

Re: Indeed clearly Google is doing it wrong

Since when has a hedge fund ever worried about "long term smart"?

Re: Crypto still has supporters? Why?

1) not everyone is clueless; there's some actual science behind it

Yes, and there is actual science behind a slot machine, too. And you know, the folks who tend to lose money on slot machines are generally clueless about that science.

Re: So many bugs in Windows 11 22H2

One could argue that Windows 11 is itself a bug...

Re: And.... "He's Fired"

Musk may take the prize for World's Worst Boss, unless there is one who publicly executes employees.

Compare and contrast: Elon Musk and Donald tRump. Really to determine who wins the World's Worst Boss award there...