Posts by Jason Hindle

Re: The reason I lost so much weight in short order?

No different to beef chilli. Depends on the chillis you use (mercurial little buggers at the best of times). Choose badly and the world will fall out of your bottom.

Re: A perfectly cautionary tale

I think it was the last Labour government that effectively stuffed it for the firemen when they banned work on the side. Apparently, someone who can climb up and down ladders all day, and can carry someone heavier than himself, makes a great roofer and scaffolder. Who'd have thunk that?

Re: Who's the audience?

"No "Cancel culture" is a bullying tactic that is used in order to ensure that other points of view are not heard."

I think that depends on who/what is being cancelled. I'm a bit rusty on my history, but the last time the kind of people who say "The Jews will not replace us" were given a platform, it didn't end well?

Re: Farewell then

“ nope, sorry that was New Zealand. ”

When Kiwis were moving to Australia for (largely manual) work, in the 80s, Prime Minister Rob Muldoon quipped it would raise the IQ of both countries.

Re: Can only trust myself

Unfortunately, a lot of children are burdened with normals* for parents.

* Defined as someone who has never heard of The Register.

Re: UNIX 03 certified

Not having a native package manager is a surprising omission from Apple. Brew is alright but not fully supported on M1 (yet).

Re: "it violates our policies"

I think it’s the same with Apple. The end user’s relationship ends up being with Apple; the app producer is effectively cut out.

Re: 5G is fine with the plebs

“ I suggest with 5G we can expect similar and in fact this is exactly what EE are saying, implying that they will be capping 'normal' 5G download speeds at 100Mbps.”

Ookla’s best download result was 397Mbps for me. Best upload speed I’ve had is just short of 40. That doesn’t mean you’re not bang on the money thought. Popular speed test services may well be whitelisted.

I would hope it supports Dex.

Re: Everyone of these moves

"backs the hardened Trumpists and friends (MAGA, Q-anon etc) even more into a corner.

What's all this about 'cornered rats'?

They won't give up easily."

If the US wishes to remain a democracy (and the popular vote suggests this is the case), these people will simply have to be dealt with. There may well be blood.

Re: @AVR Not quite

“ Biden aka China Joe is a puppet.”

As the shit flinging gibbon was Putin’s puppet?

Re: Masks WERE/ARE science

"Too true. Masks ARE established science"

Masks are just used as things that get in the way of other things. In this case, we are hoping they get in the way of an airborne virus. Masks are porous. Otherwise the wearer would have a worse problem than the virus itself. The more porous a mask is, the less COVID it blocks. To mitigate this, a mask made using multiple layers can be used, providing a better aggregate probability of effectiveness. Masks do not in themselves guarantee to stop the spread of the disease. Rather, different masks provide different degrees of protection, typically expressed as probabilities. Numerically illiterate people seriously lose their shit over this, as evidenced by some of the comments above.

See: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31142-9/fulltext

"These data also suggest that wearing face masks protects people (both health-care workers and the general public) against infection by these coronaviruses, and that eye protection could confer additional benefit. However, none of these interventions afforded complete protection from infection, and their optimum role might need risk assessment and several contextual considerations."

Re: I wonder when it will land for Linux?

I've no idea what Microsoft's plans for Linux* are (other than possibly slowly morphing Windows into a kind of Linux). The main attractions of Mac, for me, is that it is i) Unix, ii) mainstream on the desktop and iii) capable of doing everything I would want to do in either Linux or Windows in one box.

* Though pretty stupid not to have Office - they're missing out on a subscription revenue stream.

Re: The three or so people

“ And they could potentially be the vast majority of Windows on Arm customers.”

Given the number experimenting with qemu (and finding Windows runs faster than current native ARM Window on the bare metal on offer...).

Re: What's old can be made new again...

Well I do know the owner the Trigger's PC. The only thing that hasn't changed in over 20 years is the tower.

Re: From a developer perspective, it's going to be a very mixed bag.

Probably not. Worst issue I had with Big Sur was that it didn't like executables downloaded via a web browser. That is easy enough to sort out:

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine <name-of-executable>

I would hope anything build on the box would run absolutely fine without issues. I do Ja little ava (so none of those binary executable Shenanigans) but would be happy to give helloworld.c a quick try (thirty years, but I think I can manage hell world in c) to prove either way.

Re: It is more than a trade war

"You can say things in front of the White House that would have you removed if you said similar in Tiananmen Square."

Let's hope that still hold true come January.

Re: no homebrew?

Both are coming, as is native OpenJDK. Everyone who uses a Mac in any kind of technical/engineering capacity will have a checklist of things that need to work before they buy one of these boxes.

Re: The power of open-source

“ I would just leave the code lying around somewhere. Someone is bound to pick it up in the future and restart development.”

I think MSFT perhaps already did. It’s how they provide enhanced mode access to Hyper-V hosted Ubuntu (complete pain in the arse to get working with 20.04, btw, but rather nice once working).

Re: Top tip for a Lion browser

I have one of those... Haven't switched it on in years. Thanks for the browser tip. As for Office, it still has a perfectly usable copy of MS Office, from that period, installed.

Re: I still get BB envy

Well Amazon still sells the Key2.... I'm not convinced I'll be able to type on it as quickly as I could with the (T-Mobile UK) Blueberry I used for a few years (it still charges up and switches on, but I doubt it will be very useful even if I could get a SIM to work with it).