If CIVO are in the UK then why the fuck are their prices in dollars!!!

(yeah probably for easier comparison with the US stuff but even so)

In fact why not just call it the America shell? Heck, why not drop all words and say USA instead? The bash shell is now known as “usa usa usa”. Hey, here’s an idea, let’s just replace all words with usa! Usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa usa. Usa usa? Usa, usa usa.

Plot twist: NHTSA are the only people that approve new designs, so Tesla can’t sell any more cars.

Well we can dream.

Just because you can make phones with an army of cheap Chinese labour doesn’t mean that’s the only or best way. With suitable “design for manufacture”, pick and place robots like those used in PCB design could relatively easily be adopted to screw screws in where needed. Use plugs instead of those flat cable things, then the whole lot could be easily automated. Remove any aspect of the design that needs fingers and the whole process can be automated.

Funny I was just wondering the other day if companies that practice vibe programming also practice vibe management.

These are the lyrics Lennon rejected.

I wiped it after I left my last job so there’s next to nothing on it anyway now. They did give me a laptop but due to a stupid conflict between the AV and VPN one of the processor threads was maxed out causing the fan to run on full noise mode all the time.

My laptop still works perfectly well so if Microsoft don’t want to support it any more then I’ll bung Linux on it. I’ve already got my Mint stick ready, just need to get round to it.

Very good but can someone please invent a 4TB drive that costs less than it did five years ago?

Any company that does that needs to be sent on a mandatory awareness training for failing an obvious fake phishing exercise. It’s far too easy to whitelist that and send it to an “ignore” folder.

Where presumably it will be perfectly OK, putting the boot on the other foot so to speak, to discuss making Scotland part of England.

Depends where you’re going. Anywhere first world with a robust democracy that invites opposition and criticism will be safe. Heck in the UK we’ve even got people who openly hate our way of life and want to destroy it.

But if you’re going to one of the less tolerant places where opposing the incumbent can get you in serious trouble, like Russia, North Korea, Iran, or the USA, probably best take a burner phone with some basic stuff on it that can’t possibly be interpreted as any kind of negativity towards the delicate leader and leave your main one switched off somewhere safe at home. In fact unless you enjoy risk it’s probably best to avoid places like that until they get some proper freedoms in place.

I find the easiest way to forget C++ is to try watching CppCon on YouTube.

I’ve been doing C++ professionally since 1991.

But when I watch CppCon, what the hell are they gabbling on about? It’s all complete gobbledegook! They may as well be speaking in an ancient Goa’uld dialect for all the sense it makes. These people are so far down a rabbithole I start to wonder if they’ve ever seen the surface.

I am therefore forced to the conclusion that despite 34 years of experience in C++ I don’t know C++.

When I used to work at Oracle every so often a customer would call and complain some function was throwing error “ORA-00000 normal successful completion” and they wanted it filing as a bug and for us to fix it.

I was never quite sure how we were supposed to fix stupid.

Most cli stuff is a lot easier than programming. If you can’t use cli then by definition you’re a shit programmer.

Of course if you simply don’t want to use cli that’s a different matter.

Git wasn’t the first version control software. I remember using sccs back in 1991 and apparently it was written all the way back in 1972 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_Code_Control_System

The uBlacklist extension brings it back

Chrome is no longer available in my Start menu.

Your requirements appear to be contradictory. You want to kill it, i.e. not see it any more, and you want to stop moderating it, but you don’t want anyone else to moderate it.

So stop moderating it, and block it. It’s not up to you to tell 200,000 people that they can’t continue to have a community; doing so makes you appear to be acting as some kind of landed gentry. Just walk away and don’t look back.

I hacked the Super Shotgun in Quake II to autorepeat quickly and take clips up to 999 large instead of 20 at a time.

Gibs the Makron in about five seconds. (No not that French geezer.)

Edit: oh yeah, I did the same with the rocket launcher too. I’m not sure which of those two is my favourite.