Posts by nijam

Re: One issue...

Megacorp and Twitter (and its like) will want to be sure that no-one ever hears anything from Dave. Just the same as 'old media' always did.

Re: Business Process Documentation?

> Director from foreign owner asserts that two computer systems are "fully integrated".....and is shocked to see evidence that this assertion is completely false.

No.

Director from foreign owner asserts that two computer systems are "fully integrated".....and refuses to see evidence that this assertion is completely false.

Re: re: people who irritate Musk's fragile ego

To quote (approximately) from a UK current affairs program a few weeks back, in respose to the Florida Man's shitshow:

We should just sit back and enjoy this election, because there won't be any more of them.

> This is lining up to be the Windows Phone 7 debacle all over again.

If only...

Re: Some use cases

> Doesn't Windows itself change some of the UI behaviour between each major version?

i.e. Doesn't Windows itself change lots of the UI behaviour between each version?

Re: Got the daughter a Lenovo "Copilot+ PC"

> "... and she does not use it"

She'll soon be forced to, I suspect.

Re: "security is our top priority,"

> I do wonder how many 'top priorities' there are, and how swiftly they get replaced by the one next in line

There can be only one (as somebody once said). It lasts only until the end of that PR presentation.

Re: But but but

> Good luck with that - "speaking to Microshite directly".

To paraphrase Shakespeare (in The Tempest): You can speak to Microshite, and so can anyone - but do they listen?

Re: Tiktok ban

Not least the commentards on IT news websites ;)

Et tu Brute!

Re: The issue with rust

> ...rust is memory safe...

Rust is mostly memory-safe. But not entirely, of course.

Re: Leave the clocks alone

We used it to go round the house changing all the clocks.

Re: 10k lines of code?

> ... if you forego flexibility, systems can be MUCH smaller ...

if you forego functionality, systems can be MUCH smaller.

Re: Does it matter?

> ...but oddly the tabbed indents aligned but the spaced indents didn't.

Surely that's exactly what you'd expect.

Re: Surely the Unix desktop is alive and well

> purely and simply because desktop/PC hardware always ships with Windows

Purely and simply because MS "encourages" suppliers to always ship hardware with Windows, I believe you'll find.

> Is that bullshitspeak for "use"?

Either that, or "here, pass me that crowbar".

Re: Or less gov is better

> Governments spending means taxpayers paying.

Tax credits means taxpayers paying.

> * none of this "tax efficient" approach from me

Liar. Unless you somehow managed to avoid claim your personal allowance, for example. But I doubt that.

Re: Dangerous needs To Be Stopped NOW !!

> ... not in the ... UK thankfully.

Dream on.

Re: Screw this, Let's Rewrite Everything in Cobol

> Nah, let's go for Forth.

Coward! APL is the answer.

Re: Other problems

> When something no longer has the means to evolve fast enough...

What claimed gains Rust produces seem to increase the effort of making incremental changes by an order of magnitude. It's less evolutionary, in other words. Or more constipationary, to provide another word.

> You can manually block sites in UBlock Origin, you know.

But it still leaves them cluttering up the original search-results page. If you're interested in more than one result for the search, that's relevant.

> ... real consequences other than a small fine against the high-level person ... who makes the decisions and is ultimately responsible for their product and any harms it causes

Wow... that covers every politician in the world! Excellent.

Re: No kidding

> Government guarantee that I will get my capital back.

Less a charge of several percent, aka "inflation".

> I hope that there is a way for both sides to lose.

There is. Lawyers.

Re: Should work....

> Obviously they're improving ...

So unusual to encounter an optimist here...