Posts by werdsmith

Re: Waiting for Teams

What did they use in the USSR?

Re: Commonality

He was not smart enough to realise that the message he sent to discredit somebody else claiming his work was encrypted beyond the capability of the law enforcement at the time. He most likely expected it to be cracked but wanted to make them work hard for it.

Re: Auguste Kerckhoffs

Bletchley.

I can’t imagine how Bletchley Park coped in the early 40s with their mechanical logic and flying tape readers.

Re: "Not so good at spelling"

John Milton in 1667 didn’t use a C in Parasdise even.

How strange that someone should write a long post based on this false idea.

Re: EVs = bad for planet, bad for poor people, bad for practicality

The alarmist conversations about the capacity of the grid are also propaganda.

Depends which side suits your cognitive bias, decides which one you believe.

AFAIK it’s not all about the UK and that date merely brings us into line with other nations. Some countries are going for 2025.

Re: F-150 engine

The AA and other recovery companies have a charger pack on some of their vans.

Re: Funny headline

Most pigs are fed on vegetable food waste, so bacon is vegan friendly.

Re: EVs = bad for planet, bad for poor people, bad for practicality

Kettle on!

Re: Charging

Far, far cheaper to have hardened valve seats installed. Increases the resale value of the car, too, unlike an electric conversion. While you're doing the head(s), look into installing new fuel system bits & bobs that will make conversion to alcohol easier.

Far far cheaper to keep using additive. This car won’t do enough hard miles to cause significant valve seat wear even if I didn’t use the additive. It’s not a money matter anyway, I don’t foresee ever getting rid of It and I fancy the torque of electric power, is far more fun than petrol.

Check out the series Vintage Voltage on the freeview channels.

Re: EVs = bad for planet, bad for poor people, bad for practicality

This “I read it on Faecebook” crap about the national grid and EVs is actually very tiresome.

Read more here: https://www.nationalgrid.com/stories/journey-to-net-zero/5-myths-about-electric-vehicles-busted

Re: If it was me...

Which model of white Tesla?

Re: Charging

There are a lot of problems with batteries. Present tense.

But 2030 is in the future, and alternative power is lucrative enough to drive development, so who know what the problems with batteries or whatever fuel cells appear will be in the future? Who knows how the world will be adapted for charging or what range the new generations of cars will have.

And if there are no vehicles for sale in 2030 that suit your lifestyle, then keep driving ICE vehicles. I have a weekend car in my garage that has soft iron valve seats so it doesn’t even like unleaded fuel. I’m considering having that converted to EV, but I’ll wait and see what developments happen over the next few years. Wouldn’t want to be laden with old tech like these early adopter domestic solar roofs.

Re: real website is showing £75.

Supposedly a user can’t change an iPhone battery, but it’s trivially easy.

Re: Typo is fixed

Probably nothing went wrong. A placeholder for a price that wasn’t available for a service that isn’t available for a product that isn’t available yet.

A bore and his cliche.

This was some bizarre number posted arbitrarily for a product that you can’t even buy and the real website is showing £75.

Re: How's that #Brexit going?

Probably stop buying expensive imports, but yes Brexit is turning out to be the shitshow that anyone with a working brain expected. Still no expected benefit beyond some nebulous perception of sovereignty that we always had anyway.

It’s £75 on the UK site. Must have been a temporary number.

Re: Twitter next please

Yes. Toxic. Like chavbook and many other popular social media channels.

I would say that it might make WhatsApp acceptable to use if it weren’t part of chavbook. But I’m sick of all the fragmentation - Telegram for this. Discord for that, WhatsApp for something else, Messenger for... etc.

A core set of functionality should be exposed as an api so these comms can be consolidated into a single channel .

“ QC35IIs cost $329,95. Not sure which school of math(s) you studied at to figure you can buy 2 sets plus AirPods and still get change out of $549.

I was quoting the article, didn’t you read it?

Re: "If you’ve got money to burn,.."

I suspect that most of them will be used in the home, in private for quiet time music listening and will never be seen by anyone else. Advertising them to muggers isn't a great idea.

@Dave 126, please don't be objective and rational. People are entitled to be judgemental without you spoiling it for them.

There are plenty enough people who have the disposable income to buy these to add to the the Bose, Sony and other high spec headphones they already own and not notice because £500 is like small change. It’s a sector of the market.

Re: Multiple iPhones here, no problems.

I have an 8. I have noticed that if I have an app in use, the last 20% can appear to drop to around 3% very quickly, but then stay on 3% for about the time it would take 20% to use up. Looks like a problem reporting the state of charge rather than the actual state of charge.

Chuck didn't like the idea of being fired up into orbit as a propaganda payload, not being the pilot in command. He observed that chimpanzees did it first.

Re: Office 365 is worse than LibreOffice

I’ve never heard a single person outside Microsoft Marketing crow about “how great Office 365 is”