Posts by werdsmith

Re: Water, water everywhere

Moment of inertia data suggests that it most likely has a differentiated metallic core and a silicate mantle.

Re: It's the brexiter anti-growth coalition at it again

It’s not just about Truss.

Re: Scaling?

Or canaries….

Re: Measuring a property does not set it...

Thanks so much AC. But if it’s OK I’ll stick to Susskind.

Re: Dame Sue Ion, former chair of the UK Nuclear Innovation Research Advisory Board

Just needs a bit of dediCATION and appliCATION.

Re: Our Ethical default? !Ethical

If that even made sense…

Re: Fan of foldable phone

My mother has the flip and really likes it, I've tried it out and I can see why - it is a very effective way of having more screen in a more portable device.

Just a shame it's Android or I might have gone for one.

Re: I'm always pleased when PostgreSQL gets some coverage

Clarify “use of cursors” ?

The link is in the article.

Re: This is an ex-drone!

Look at the photos on the Aussie news site. Drone just sitting there intact.

Re: The UK these days, and for decades

ARM is IP. It's a service industry.

Re: Let's see Microsoft take the lead

Disagree all you like, but the Russinovich tweet behind this discussion says:

it's time to halt starting any new projects in C/C++ and use Rust for those scenarios where a non-GC language is required.

So suggesting that MS rewrite their old projects in Rust because of what's going on in linux kernel discussions is a bit of a goalpost shift.

Re: "weeks after it slowed hiring in the US"

Generally speaking, a business does not exist for the purpose of employing people and paying their salary. It exists to enrich its owners, bosses both financially and for ambition/ego. If the business could function without employees then of course it would.

Re: Still Learning

Rust is more aligned with C than C++ or C#. It doesn't support inheritance in the way that OO languages can have a type hierarchy. Although it does have traits and can use interfaces, I wouldn't say it is a replacement for Object Oriented languages. And C# is more of a high level language with a C++ like style.

Re: Surely not ?

Your organisation is concerned about poachers and head hunters.

I absolutely resent that it has become a near de-facto requirement and virtually everyone expects it. I absolutely refuse to use it, I've beaten off Faecebook, I've avoided WhatsCrap and I'll avoid this. Although I have to admit I do have the advantage of not being interested in the job market.

Re: Wishful thinking

I'm having the heat pump done. It's not just the heat pump work, the house is going to have a thermal upgrade of all the insulation and new window glazing to make the heat pump efficient. And solar panels are going on the roof.

This all adds up to a tidy 5 figure sum that starts with a 2.

Re: If ARM were smart...

ARM started four years ago by making some Cortex M cores free for FPGA use. I’m sure more will appear soon.

Re: Beauty

Only someone who's handle is 'imanidiot' would suggest that panel gaps should be fixable via an OTA update.

I don’t believe you could have misunderstood the comment so badly, you must be being deliberately obtuse.

Re: What do you expect?

It’s not a song and dance though, it’s just the security team doing their job in the routine way. The article even includes a breakout panel with information released about another of MS own vulnerabilities.

The article is more of the same old stuff deliberately written to trigger the Rigsbys so they can write the same old whinges in the comments.

Re: I don't have this language in my "localization" settings.

To hear someone say “get shot of” something, or “wants shot of” takes me back to my childhood. One of those expressions that is less used nowadays. I am going to start using it again.

Re: Regarding touch testing

And if you only have one hand? Or one hand available due holding a coffee cup or something else?

Ahh, OK, I get it. My sarcasm detector almost failed there for a second.

Re: Hold your horses!

Cite your source please Gtdelerosa?

I’ve never heard anyone claim that Rust does save us from bad code.

Re: An $800 watch

I don’t think anyone really notices the battery life for most practical purposes. Just put it on charge while you are in the shower.

Alternatively, you could buy a watch that just displays the current time while you sit all day at a computer with the time in the corner, or drive a car with the time on the dashboard. Then with your new watch you get an extra time to look at. You can cross check the time against all your other clocks.

Re: Why

Pages is excellent. I have only recently been sent a MacBook and I’m really impressed with Pages. I’ve just done a big old documents saved the chapter files in .docx format.

The reason I save them as docx is because the formatting has to be checked in a real version of MS Word on Windows so the final document is done on word. I didn’t have to fix any formatting in 12600 words.

Re: Neat

The UK National Grid has published an article saying that they've got this. It's all in hand according to them.

It’s happened to Toyota and VW too. Put a foot wrong and be pilloried. But it’s OK for the domestics to take the piss.

Re: Jesus

There are only three nations that have demonstrated the capability to independently launch and then land and control a robotic vehicle on Mars. China is one of them.