Posts by Dan 55

Re: Initial language support is for...

CLion introduced remote C/C++ development a few months ago but I think it was the last of the IntelliJ-based IDEs to do so but makefiles aren't quite as well supported as CMakefiles and the project configuration menu is a maze of twisty passages, all alike.

So I guess C/C++ will be bringing up the rear for the Fleet IDEs as well.

In the end it all boils down to "this is my remote directory, this is my makefile, this is my build command" yet most IDEs manage to make remote projects more complicated than they need to be.

Re: Java Popularity

C/C++ has POSIX mutexes and the standard library in C++ has the mutex class.

C++ doesn't have strings?

Re: Java Popularity

RIAA and each thread type in its own class. Practically impossible to go wrong.

Re: @Dan 55

Are you a UK supremacist or do you realise brexit got vaccine to the UK while the EU screwed up?

So I have to choose between a nonsensical argument or a few months when the vaccine rollout went better for the UK than the EU. Makes sense.

Re: @Dan 55

None of these things you mentioned were in the Vote Leave manifesto so I guess you're looking for good news where you can find it, but let's have a look closer.

For example if you were in the UK you were probably offered vaccination before member countries abandoned the collective procurement. ROI only able to watch as NI (under UK law) had vaccine.

The UK could have shared with Ireland, but decided not to, nor will it, because it still doesn't have its whole adult population vaccinated.

The choice of collective procurement was up to each individual country, and the UK also had that choice. It decided not to take it. It funded the AZ vaccine, rolled it out, but is now is falling down the chart and not getting on with double vaccinating the whole population above 11.

And the covid bailout fund where the EU issues debt in the name of member countries directly at great expense that we are not part of.

If the ECB didn't do anything you'd be saying the EU doesn't take care of its own so... meh. Where's the UK Covid recovery fund BTW?

And the global financial centre of Europe which is only second in the world to New York is removing regulations designed to shackle it by the EU, while the EU has again backed down on trying to move Euro clearing out of the UK (for fear of going broke).

The plug was never going to be pulled on this overnight, but Amsterdam has overtaken London for stock trading and Euronext will ditch London for clearing by 2024. The EU also granted equivalence to the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

The EU started with the position that FoM is intrinsic to bring part of the single market. It still is.

The UK chose to leave the SM (May's Lancaster House red line speech), negotiated that, hence no FoM.

The EBA agreement never meant African states joining the SM, hence no FoM.

I fail to see what the problem is, other than you've confused FTAs with the SM.

Re: @Dan 55

Someone else who says they're happy with how things have turned out yet can't manage to say a single quantifiable good thing about what Brexit has achieved. The cat seems to have everyone's tongue today.

You're a bit confused, the EU has got a FTA with the UK without FoM. This is what it looks like. If you wanted an even freer trade agreement then that's called staying inside the EU.

The EBA agreement with Africa is in no way like trading inside the single market/customs union, there are still border formalities, just like there are with the EEA/Switzerland, with Canada, and with the UK.

I voted in full knowledge it risked an entire decade of economy harm, because I wasn't voting on economic grounds. The economic impact since has been broadly minimal, entirely swamped and overwhelmed by the pandemic.

Only the ONS estimated the damage by Brexit at twice the damage of the pandemic.

It's hilarious, you can say what the UK has lost and will continue to lose over the next decade, but you still can't say what the UK has gained, because it hasn't gained anything, nor will it.

Yes, it's also about international influence, soft power, and all that. So still a shitshow then.

So... you're saying there were people who weren't duped and willingly voted for this shitshow and are happy with the result?

Although if you're buying online you really should use a top-up virtual card.

Re: The Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)

It's supposed to stand for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport.

And chips are digital, innit?

Have a look at this article, including the embedded twitter thread for a few reasons as to why the UK's service stations are so poor.

Also, given the total shit show HGV drivers are forced to endure in the UK with the total lack of facilities, it could be a real winner here and will go some way to improve the working conditions of HGV drivers?

It's easy to improve the working conditions of HGV drivers, the British government just doesn't want to.

Re: Just don't use it in Europe!

In countries where the ban applies, the employer is obliged to provide drivers with a possibility to have their weekly rest in a convenient place of accommodation, in decent sanitary conditions.

Absolutely shocking.

Greenshot. You can thank me later.

Re: Forks are a sign of success.

I think the reasons for dropping XUL were Mozilla let it rot. Mozilla didn't produce much XUL documentation and barely any for XULRunner. In turn people had difficulty using XUL and XULRunner, and those small developer numbers self-justified Mozilla's lack of interest in promoting its own project.

Waterfox Classic is based on FF56, just before Quantum. They're updating it but it's having trouble with more websites now, e.g. IBMs. But I'm in no doubt that Mozilla could have kept XUL and XULRunner going as well if a small team, a one-man band during some periods, have kept Waterfox Classic going.

Mozilla spend time cutting features and futzing about with the UI in their flagship project and don't support other projects properly - FirefoxOS for phones has turned into KaiOS and FirefoxOS for TVs is being maintained by Panasonic, so they were viable projects. The fact that there are still features to cut in Firefox shows how powerful it was.