Posts by Andy Mac

Time Travel is Real!

Is it just me, or is Jobssy wearing an Apple Watch in that photo?

Can the extra chips be converted into Intel CPUs? I hear there’s a shortage.

#waitingsixweeksformylaptopandnotatallpissedoffaboutitohno

So Lazza lost $420M? The materials haven't yet been invented to make a violin small enough.

Anything that helps get rid of the foetid stench of Citrix from my life is most welcome.

"...it is also important to remember that NASA has history when it comes to racing to meet arbitrary deadlines."

To be fair they were good at it once "...before this decade is out...land a man on the moon".

But also, Apollo 1. So...yeah.

So if USB 3.0 is now 3.2 Gen 1, what is now considered 3.0?

And will USB4.\|~> be called SuperDuperSpeed?

So according to this paper, serverless is good for "this" but not for "that". Isn't that true of everything and the rest is just hype?

And if you're believing the hype... well, there probably wasn't much hope for you in the first place.

The talk surrounding Huawei has been going for years, even during the last presidency. To the best of my knowledge, I don't think anyone has actually produced any evidence at all Huawei has actually done anything wrong. However, sanction-breaking is a different beast to infrastructure-level espionage, so maybe they actually have some evidence this time.

This is good news. Microsoft's slow release cadence and insistence that each new browser version will not run on older versions of Windows has causes nothing but pain for us devs. I find it faintly ludicrous that MS was somehow unable to keep pace with Google and Mozilla.

Also, I'm not overly concerned about the reduction in competing browser engines as the companies with a vested interest in the Chromium project should keep it from stagnating into another IE6. I could be wrong though, and they might all become puppet states in the greater Googleocracy.

Azure(tm) is the new Windows(tm)

Just slap the name on everything and see what sticks. It worked for Windows RT, right?

Surely the logical follow on from that paper is one in five years saying how Millennials and Gen Z are innovative and open to ideas while Gen X is stuffy and stuck in their ways. And in another 15 years telling us how out of touch Millenials are.

Doubling down on stupid prices too

I was toying with the idea of upgrading. Now I’m not. Even I’m not idiot enough to pay that idiot-tax.

I can’t see the Xr doing well. Who wants to pay premium prices for a sub-premium phone? It’s the 5c all over again.

And they dare to call this “AI”.

Now they just need to develop a machine that can punch a hole all the way through the ballot paper.

To be honest, I’d think more of a politician’s technical chops if they *didn’t* have a Twitter account.

BTW, is it time for Paris to be replaced by a Kar****ian? Discuss. In your head preferably.

I thought I was reading Something For The Weekend for a minute there.

Thanks!

This is the kick I needed to finally ditch Google Maps.