Re: Great work so far
And Apple have never ever broken a promise...
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It is great to know that I am not the only one who cannot get Teams to work on Linux properly - it simply will not open links to meetings here.
I can, if forced, run it in a browser, but it's crap there.
The Android version at least gets me into meetings, even if it doesn't work well for messages at the same time.
It's my third from them.
Mi Band 2 (about £18 from China, Dec 2017) was bought because you can, with a third party app, use it with Sleep on Android.
Mi Band 3 (£19.99 on offer from Amazon, Nov 2018) was clearly better - colour screen, more readable, waterproof rather than water resistant, more accurate step count, and now that app would send me text messages, vibrate on incoming calls / alarms, find my phone and more.
Mi Band 4 (about £18 from China, Nov 2019) had a better screen again, easier to use.
I get about a month between charging it, but I am only rarely measuring my heart rate.
Mi Band 5 didn't seem to add anything worthwhile, ditto thus one. It will do blood oxygen level, but I have a £5 finger thing to do that.
I get the 'only the best will do' attitude, but when I talked with some one who has a £100+ fitness tracker, they spent a chunk of time worrying if it would break / get snatched.
Here, it was under £20 and if it breaks, I will simply go back to the 3 unless the 7 or 8 offers something I actually want.
It gets worn all the time (and having a watch to tell the time is easier than dragging a phone out of my pocket) and I have never needed another wrist band for any of them...
A fully intelligent self-driving car in NZ would know when to stop to look at the view!
The closest I came to an accident was on Coromandel - not the gravel roads at the top, but on the main coastal road, where some road works had left some gravel on the tarmac on a corner. I was in a hurry (all those viewing stops) and came close to going off a 10m drop into the sea. No barrier to even slightly reduce the chance of that happening, obs.
Of course it is: not only does WordPress STILL not do anything to prevent or even slow bruteforce attacks because "people don't want to be locked out of their own site", they also provide a way to try hundreds of username/password combinations at once.
They also default to allowing comments on posts without enforcing the use of an anti-spam service because "people like comments".
"I think you are confusing how PHP is developed."
No-one who remembers the classic code in the source for PHP that came down to..
int size;
size = EXPR;
if (size > INT_MAX || size <= 0) {
return NULL;
}
.. could be confused as to how PHP is developed.
PHP is the equivalent of running Flash on the server.
As a founder of the free software movement, RMS's contribution has been immense.
As a human being, he actively puts other people off from being involved.
Thank you, RMS, but it was way past the right time to go and there will be no good time to return without a fuck of a lot of learning.
It's not a "something", it's a number in a database.
Unlike, say, a number in a bank's record of people's balances, you can't actually do anything with it except masturbate over owning it, sell it to a bigger fool, and possibly feel guilty about how much unnecessary CO2 was generated in creating that bit of the database.
Mine - and it wasn't GoDaddy for the reasons that should be obvious to anyone who's used them - doesn't seem to have signed up to vote in favour of the resolution.
Apart from the initial joining fee, it would make sense to become a member given how *.uk domains I have. Please can the new board reduce that £400 cost?
Yeah yeah, but you can melt down jewellery or find someone who thinks the craft in making it makes it more valuable than the raw gold / silver / gems / whatever.
The only possible way to get your money back from Bitcoin et al is find a bigger fool to pay real money for it.
Even if 74% of the energy comes from renewable sources, that's GigaWatts of electricity that's not being used for something actually worthwhile.
Your $100 in 2009 would have been hacked from some exchange, probably Mt Gox, or you'd have lost the private key.
One word for anyone believing the price is sustainable: Tether.
Tesla is so screamingly obviously overvalued (the car maker most likely to be the biggest in the world? Come on, especially with that idiot in charge..) that there are so many companies shorting its shares, it's likely that there aren't enough available for them all to buy them back without pushing the price still higher.
Certainly, if I had any, I'd be selling. Over a billion on something that's not literally a ponzi, but just acts like one?
I wonder if this is another case of some boss getting his company to buy his bitcoin. They get loads of money they can actually use, so who cares about what happens to the company?
While a native version is lovely, working on Proton is enough for me to be happy.
Ah, Ryan. My story is the port of Dear Esther, where it didn't work as well as running the Windows version under WINE. I have a memory of looking at the Linux version and it being, from what I could see, the Windows version bundled with WINE... The producers said they'd fix it but never did.
Having a multi-platform game isn't particularly difficult if you use the right libraries. I beta-tested a new version of a favourite game - the author was astonished to be told that it Just Worked, probably because they'd used Unity to build it.
If a game doesn't work under Proton, it's almost as if the authors have gone out of their way to stop it doing so.
One sign of how fucked we are is that the designers of Football Manager did vastly more research and planning around the implications of Brexit than the sodding Brexiteers and the Brexiteer governments ever did.
The FM team weren't afraid to let people know of the trade-offs - "You want that French / German / Italian / Spanish / etc player? Tough, there are no work permits available..." - either, whereas the governments have been in full-on "There are no downsides to Brexit, only a considerable upside" for over four years.
Oh, and the other issue with the MX Ergo is that they've made the hole you use to push the ball out for cleaning smaller for some unknown reason. The blunt end of a pencil / rubber will no longer fit through the hole, so I've had to get something else for its weekly clean.
.. the plural is because the sodding cheapskates at Logitech put rubbish switches for the main buttons in the M570, so after a while, you end up double-clicking every time.
Given how long it's been a known issue, it's disgraceful that they continued to use them,
The MX Ergo is the alternative. Even if the marketing is a bit misleading in terms of their adjustable angle: you can have 0 degree tilt or 20 degrees tilt, nothing in the middle.
Why they've never done a left-handed version of either is beyond me.
Then we could see how many times there were things like
if intvar > maxint then ..
and
// if InputOutOfRange() then Reject() ; // removing this made the routine 0.001% faster!
in the code.
I always wondered if the authors were responsible for Microsoft's Stacker clone, which wrote to the real disk and then just assumed the write had been successful because that saved a microsecond over actually checking that it had.