Posts by sabroni

Re: 20% more than necessary . . .

That's not the case though. This is why you need management who understand how business works. CEO explains to the shareholders the findings from the article: productivity is up, expenses are down, work is all on time. Every one should really be getting a raise...

Re: Ha

It allows you to post html links, make those actually clickable.

re: But if you're a manager you want the ones who are desperate

But if you're a shit manager you want the ones who are desperate because you don't realise it's easier to let the capable ones do the hard work while you take the credit. There's also much less risk of it all going tits up and making you look crap in the process.

Re: Possibly, but I'd prefer to see them being delivered efficiently to start with.

Maybe privatise them? Worked great for Rail and Water, right?

Re: it would be nice to get a straight answer out of a news headline

It would be lovely if all the worlds news could be summarised in single headlines. However, the world is complex and if you want to understand it you need to read more than headlines, however well written.

You need to seek out good journalism, expecting the magic AI to make it simple for you isn't going to work.

Apart from anything else, studies show that AI summaries are often shit.

Re: in the web/browser world where network-level m-i-t-m snooping of https is normal business.

Is that just a feeling or can you link to some evidence?

Re: Needed?

https://www.unchartedblue.com/what-trump-is-stealing-from-you-part-2-2/

"If you're looking for real government efficiency, look no further than the 10-person team at the IRS that discovered $5 billion owed to the nation by wealthy tax cheats. That team is gone."

Oh yeah, this is all about efficiency. Efficiently routing tax money to a bunch of already wealthy but still incredibly greedy cunts.

One could say something similar about tonnes of shiny metal in FortKnox

From Wikipedia: The consumption of gold produced in the world is about 50% in jewelry, 40% in investments, and 10% in industry

Now, what are the figures for whatever crypto represents and how similar is it?

Could it be that your are talking bollocks?

Of course! It's fine to heckle "President" Biden during his speech to congress but what kind of a lunatic would heckle Queen Trump?

(Whoops, did I misgender her? Fuck her pronouns!)

Re: Hmm

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/05/trump-brings-back-free-speech-by-checks-notes-threatening-to-imprison-protestors-and-expose-journalist-sources/

"It is almost difficult to believe this is a real thing that happened with the President of the United States, but here’s what actually happened on Tuesday. In the morning, Donald Trump threatened to imprison protesters and defund any university that allows certain protests. Then, that same evening, he stood before Congress and declared — with apparently zero irony — that he had “stopped all government censorship and brought back free speech in America.”"

You don't have a fucking clue son.

Would you say that was illegal?

re: block all ads

Brave doesn't block all ads. It blocks other people's ads then promotes ones from it's own ad network.

from:

https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/

"Brave’s plan was to remove most of the third-party advertisements in a page, create its own ad units based on data collected by the web browser itself, and then split the revenue with publishers. "

re: phone companies should make it hard to swap your sim in the first place!

Yeah, like telecom companies aren't irritating enough.

Good suggestion, I see why you're AC. I wouldn't want people linking that "thought" to my handle either.

Re: Working as Designed?

What article did you read? This one is based on studies of 3 projects that changed their licenses and for 2 of them it made fuck all difference.

Where did you get "loss of reputation and efficiency" from?

Re: MLs also require declaration before use, and it's pretty much always a good thing.

It's never a good thing. Do two passes. One to get all the function definitions then another to do the compilation.

This behaviour (not allowing calls to stuff further down) is just a ball ache and doesn't actually help make your code better.

Having all the helper functions at the botton is perfectly sensible. Having them at the top, before the main functional code, is just getting in the way.

Can you explain why you think this is good?