Posts by lotus123

Re: The felon has friends?

Can you explain what makes "whataboutery" worse than hypocrisy? In my book if person A commits crime X and person B commits the same crime, both must be punished. Saying that it was ok for person A to walk away free and insisting on going after B is plain wrong. People see it and take it for what it is. It is not too late to go back and nail predecessors. If you refuse you are just covering crime and have no moral authority to be the judge.

Re: "requires remote controls to allow voice control"

Your phone is already spying on you. Alexa, Smart TV and what not. "Smart remote" will not change a thing.

Re: An article of two halves

The US and actually any other country that matters and is in their right mind do support their most vitally important companies as well. Nothing to be ashamed of. What matters is the end result. And it looks like the game of "choking" the competitor by way of sanctions and tariffs might end up serving just the opposite side in the end.

>"Who wants a Linux front end that looks like Win 11?"

People who like Linux but find Win UI more usable.

>"Never mind one written by the Chinese."

This attitude will surely get you far in life. Sounds like a racist slob.

>"I'll fetch the 11 foot bargepole, the one that I keep for the things I wouldn't touch with a 10' bargepole."

We live in a "free" world. Nobody forces you to touch anything.

Re: Oops!

And what if it did not? Right now it looks like a shitstorm is being provoked

Re: with 49,500 employees, all of whom are applicable

I use "modern" C++ for coding high performance backend applications. With a couple of libs it is a breathe to work with actually.

Re: hehehehe

Not sure what kind of lunatics are there on that "no basis" baloney. Did they really think that China would just swallow attempts to destroy Huawei and the US openly declaring that it is their goal to cripple China's ability to compete in high tech? Of course they would try to pay in kind.

Re: Good to see the US is keeping the pressure on ....

They do not need to retaliate by disrupting trade for example. Their best retaliation would be to use all available means to acquire "legally", steal, develop, etc. few key missing technologies. If they succeed this would be it. They're already manufacturing king. The US cutting off China's access will slow it down but I am not sure if it is possible to make that state permanent. They may actually accelerate China's into being self sufficient in Hi-Tech area. If this happens China would have the rest of the world to play with and use Russia as the energy, grains, metals and whatever else they're missing supplier. Maybe add Africa for some stuff.

I think the worst mistake the US did was to loose manufacturing to a large degree. It drives everything else. It has to be restored and be competitive.

Re: American trade protection

>"...but more to ensure the Chinese people are treated as human beings"

Please do not feed my inner skeptic. I do not think the US cares about this particular aspect otherwise it would not be dealing with the countries like SA. National Security - yes, for the US loosing its numero uno position as a world leading superpower is a National Security issue.

Re: Bad Methodology

>"And the most used languages are: Python, Rust, Javascript. C#, Java."

You had me until I saw Rust in your list. There are some specific areas (blockchain for example) where you might find employment that requires Rust but in the rest of the industry Rust's jobs are nowhere on radar. It could go either way in the future. The rest of the languages you've mentioned including C++ will guarantee being employed for a looong time.

Re: Wrong!!

>"suck it up, work hard so your employer can afford the next pay rise"

Or new yacht. Save your corporate propaganda for somebody else.

Re: It's not enough

>"Surprise to you, but some of us are so mortally exhausted of this crap that watching it all burn and dying in the conflagration doesn't seem that bad."

"Some of you (tm)" can do the world a favor and go straight to a "dying" part. Privately. No need to involve the rest of us. We'll figure out what to do without your guidance.

Re: Putin, got one name for you mate....linux

You think Russia would give a flying hoot about the patents under the circumstances?

Re: Sans The Snark

>"The brightest and best have no worries about such things."

Yeah, whole 2 of them. The rest live in a real world and the real world happen to have various rules that the bureaucracy does not want to be broken.

Re: Fab plants?

I've worked with the Ukrainian, Belorussian and Russian programmers. They're all excellent. Hard to make any difference between.

Re: This is about Ukraine

I do not think it matters to him. The US is not going to attack Russia or the other way around (hopefully, keeping fingers crossed). And if that happens then ICBMs and subs will do the talking and all becomes irrelevant.

Re: Don't write those Russkies off just yet...

Holy smoke. This is indeed awesome. This interpretation was definitely made while everyone involved was on shroom diet.

Re: Not quite

>"I'll take April 24th as the over/under for when Putin is dead, killed by his own "trusted" people"

I am all for it the sooner the better. Assuming that his "trusted circle" has the way out. It starting to look increasingly similar to a cornered rat situation.

Re: Skid mark

It is so nice to see such a pure hatred towards republicans. With this attitude Russia just have to sit and wait till two parties along with the followers are busy fighting each other while forgetting that they're one country.

Your concern is about space debris for which every major participating country carries the blame or you are doing a preventive therapy in regards to "whatabouts"?

Re: @AC - Amen

Did you check under your bed this morning? I am sure couple of those are hiding there.

Re: On the Ocean Blue

There is no legal framework today that prohibits privateering. It is legal.

Re: Red Hat turns to running the company by spreadsheet

>"I utterly dispise people who make themselves invaluable, it's selfish to hold a company to ransome like that."

The company that allows employee to be in such position definitely deserves it. It is their responsibility to organize process in such a way that it can not be held hostage by a single person's "engineering". If owner lets all vital knowledge stay in single person that owner deserves Darwin's award

Re: Ermm...

That is what I do. I rent bare metal servers. Fsck that cloudy rip-off

Re: It's 2021 ...

Contrary to what Delphi has they do not have anything that takes data from the external source. For example to display the list they have code for each element of that list. So yeah. Do not hold your breath yet.

Re: Ban it

Is there anything in between?

Re: Who are they addressing?

>"EVERY time you buy a made in China product you are supporting this regime"

That's upside down. Here, lemme fix it - every time Government lets imports from China it is supporting this regime. It is not a job of a working to figure out what the are to buy in stores. They are not being paid for this.

Re: Shoddy Russian product?

This is one classy way to describe human achievements.