Posts by John Gamble

Seriously? You're referencing a "documentary" that was debunked within a week of it's release?

Re: Suggestion

Was looking to see if anyone had mentioned this. Thank you. Grenon is, of course, the fellow who is famous for his miracle product, MMS.

Sadly, The Register no longer carries the tombstone icon.

Re: Can it do orange?

Interesting that you should mention that. I'm looking at the "Interactive Wide-Gamut Comparisons" page that El Reg linked to, and the only picture where I can detect any difference with my old screen on my old Lenovo is the sunset one, where the orange is notably more vivid.

All the other pictures look the same, but then again I am using an laptop that dates from around 2011.

Re: Köln-Paris? Thalys train....

"Exemplary compared to some" is a pretty low bar, and yes, I live in the U.S.

Re: Very worthy

Huh. It turns out my laptop is capable (albeit in 'light' folding power). Here we go.

I'll hate myself for up-voting this, but I'm up-voting this.

Re: iLLinois

Yeah, but that's because Wisconsinites don't know how to drive.

(Should I add a "Joke alert" icon? Nah. I'm sure this will be taken in the spirit of friendly rivalry.)

Re: Yep... been there done that

I tried to add TECO to my skill set many years ago. Never quite got it.

My roommate on the other hand wrote a higher-level text editor in TECO, which I did wind up using, so I guess I technically understood it after all?

Re: AKA Libertarians

True, and I wish some other outfit were doing this task. But the basic facts don't seem to be in dispute.

Oh, and the reason hairdressers were regulated back in the day (1920s - 30s) was because they were often a front for prostitution. Times have changed a little since then, but in many states the laws are still on the books.

Upvoted. Seriously though, ++ historically came from a need to make an efficient PDP-11 instruction, and while it was cool for pointer arithmetic, I found more than a few times that it was a source of bugs in regular arithmetic. Post- and pre-increment confusion popped up more often than I liked.

Given that '+= 1' worked just fine as a post-increment ++ replacement, and pre-increment ++ could usually be easily refactored out, I started using '+= 1' everywhere.

And guess what Rust has? (Along with the other op= operators, of course.)

So it may be disrespectful, but I'll take it with pleasure.

Re: Note to Self

Likewise. Good luck with your new job!

Re: Identity theft is a bummer

I've only ever had the canned variety, but it was quite good in the drink that was made in the Vietnamese restaurant I went to (non-alcoholic, although I'm sure someone can come up with a spiked version). It was jackfruit, sweetened condensed milk, and ice, all put into a blender.

Hmm. I need to get to the store.

Re: Yes, No bypass

... when (I assume) a bill passed in the House should have more chance of being "taken seriously" in the Senate?

It doesn't work that way. Both House and Senate are independent of each other, and although sponsoring congressmen and senators may coordinate efforts, and introduce identical bills, by the time individual legislators in both houses have introduced their amendments and resolved their objections, the bills will be different from each other.

Then comes the negotiating between House and Senate to resolve those differences. Often the White House is consulted as well, as it would be a waste of time to resolve a bill into a form that will get vetoed by the President (assuming a veto could not be overridden).

So there's no ease-into-law path to follow when it comes to introducing a bill. While it would have been nice to get even one of these bills passed, at this point showing the fecklessness of the the vetoing senators is useful too.

Re: If there is a way to revolutionize the commercial real estate business...

It's my understanding that they locked themselves into a lot of long-term leases (assuming they hadn't bought a building outright) with an optimistic expectation of high use by teams of startups.

The business model itself isn't bad, but it still has to be run as a business, and they're stumbling over basic management errors.

I walk by a WeWork once or twice a week on my way to a coffee shop with WiFi, but then my "team" -- when I have one -- isn't local, and we rarely number more than four.

If anyone had bought the story, it would have delayed the outcome a few months (as you noted), and given him time to come up with some other excuse, scheme, or trip to a non-extradition country.

Re: Some research is indicated

Never owned a hoodie, I'm afraid.

I had, a few decades ago, a pair of mountain climbing boots. I think that counts for something.

Real Programmers Don't Write Specs.

Re: Lookin' good

Yeah, I'm in the market for a new desktop, and the 3700X is looking good (the power use drop was one of the selling points for me).

Haven't decided which OS I'm installing on it, though. I'd want to see what the BSDs and Linuxes are doing with it first.

Re: Same old, same old

"... or someone wrote it for him, ..."

Donald Trump's Ghostwriter Tells All.

Re: Pompeo has lost it ...

"You'll note the word CITIZEN in that sentence."

You'll note the word "assist" in that sentence. You'll also note that further in the article it discuss what that assistance is, and no, it doesn't involve active spying, although opening up databases and revealing user lists (among other things) to authorities is still very bad.

Re: And now for something completely different

There's no forum or social network that's free of it.

Stanford boffin is first woman to bag 'math Nobel Prize'.

One of the attackers (posts since deleted) simply couldn't get his head around a successful woman mathematician.

Re: I only hope he never bursts into flames

I actually expected to see that in the article, but apparently not. It was a simple, 'legitimate' business operation, which I expect was why they got away with it for so long. They may have even convinced themselves that they weren't criminals because they didn't install malware.

Re: Power unchecked

"And there are defendable reasons for that."

Mmm, semi-defendable. There were contradictory motives (and some political maneuvers) in creating the Electoral College, and the evidence that it's a mishmash is, for example, demonstrated by the 12th Amendment to the Constitution.

Not that this excuses the Trump victory.

(Note, I'm not in favor of a strictly popular vote, but the Electoral College is a set of compromises that were unsatisfactory in the 18th century, never mind the 21st.)

Re: "this ought to be labelled an editorial."

No, "Editorial" is generally reserved for the editorial page. Again, not hard to figure out.

I currently live in Chicago, and have read over the years the Detroit Free Press, Detroit News, Cincinnati Enquirer, Indianapolis Star, Lafayette Journal and Courier, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, and the New York Times. I await your ad hominem attack.

Seriously though, insisting that everyone else must share the same lack of knowledge as you is just strange.

It occurs to me that they could release an album. There's got to be Terabytes of data from Mars missions just waiting to be put to musical use.

Re: Choice

It wasn't at first. I, a previously happy customer, dropped them immediately when they got bought by Amazon.

Re: State machines are hard?

"With examples like this, how can someone say in 2018 that this type of programming is HARD?"

In part because Cortesi was a genius at producing spare, yet robust, code. There weren't many people who could match him for analysis of code or algorithms.

It's great that he had examples that you could adapt for your own use, but not everyone has his books or columns instantly available to them.

Re: Note to self

Fly through Gatwick

I see the Queen Mary 2 is still crossing the Atlantic. If you're starting from North America, it's a scant seven days to Southampton. Simplicity itself, and you can get lots of work done. Then an easy 2 1/2 hour train ride to London.

Humour aside, I do wonder about internet connectivity aboard ship. Hmm. Time to make travel plans...

Re: Reall?

"Well, Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein employed a Chinese spy as a chauffeur for 20 years, up until a short time ago."

...or possibly not.

Re: Pity it was Posted on Twitter

"Am I just a miserable git?"

Yeah, a little.

Twitter can be awful if you let anyone follow you. Always assume the worst, and block immediately. Your experience becomes much more pleasurable then.