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Comment Re:Will they occasionally switch to driving on the (Score 1) 20

Some is from London at least, because I ended up behind one of the training cars a while ago.

I'm sceptical, but I'm not on the "never" path. It was going through one of the most annoying parts of my drive - for those that know the area, just outside of St Pancras heading up to Pentonville Road. At that point you have a lane split, comically bad driving, buses overlapping the lane, psychotic cyclists ignoring lanes and red lights and pedestrians on a tiny sliver in the middle of the three lanes continually trying to kill themselves in ever more novel and entirely unexpected ways.

If they tested it there and they still want to launch - huh. I'll be very interested to see it.

Comment Re:Why not OpenDocument Format? (Score 3, Insightful) 144

Why not PDF - releasing archive documents in an editable format isn't the way forward either. Obviously in this case it's more of a statement than a technical choice, but...yep, archiveable read-only is the way forward for things like this. They shouldn't have been editable to start with.

Comment GCR (Score 2) 57

I'm reading a lot of "it's simple, just get a...". If you read the article, it says they're "associated with an early Mac computer". That almost certainly means these a GCR formatted disks, and need a drive that can do variable speed rotation.

It's not impossible obviously, but it's likely the best way to do this is with a vintage Mac itself. Which then implies hooking up a mass storage device of some kind to that Mac so that it can be transferred to something more modern. So not super rare and impossible, but definitely fiddly.

Comment Re:Universal fix (Score 1) 215

Hmm - that site mixes operating systems with SSL usage on the same graph. But the other thing is - it's stats about public facing internet accessible sites. The majority of Red Hat clients are RHEL are internal or data centre, non-public. I'm struggling to get a link that works, but the 2025 estimate is around around 43% market share, and I'm honestly surprised it's that low.

Comment Re:As if "leading" in frequent bugs to fix was goo (Score 4, Informative) 107

Updates aren't necessarily bug fixes - I had a lot of functionality upgrades on my cars from them as well. And also, you're fooling yourself if you think the other cars don't need bug fixes - it's just that they don't get them until the service. This is the "we never needed updates with cartridges" fallacy - yes we did, we just never got them. I can name 8 bit games for the Spectrum which flat out didn't work, and there were plenty of ROM or even EPROM revisions shipped on older computers before downloadable patches became the norm.

There's now a LeapMotor car in my family too. That LeapMoter also had a slick OTA update without any hassles whatsoever. They're not quite there though - registering the car with their app requires dealer action on order numbers or something, and that's still not sorted out. The OTA stuff though - couldn't fault it at all.a

Comment Good on the 2025 leadership (Score 1) 33

That's really not a good look. We're saying that until the 2025 leadership, an institution for information professionals didn't have information about its own professional organisation.

I don't know any of the background here, but well done to the 2025 crowd who dug in, found it and acted according to reality.

Comment Re:Can we get 64 bit for Linux? (Score 1) 39

It's mostly WINE though isn't it? Well, Proton but still. That has the 64bit-32bit thunking layer required. Native Linux builds would need to be 64 bit true, but that's where I was going with the "10-20%" bit.

I run 32bit Windows games on ARM via Rosetta/MacPortingToolkit. So long as the game itself is tricked into believing it's in a 32bit universe, it's happy.

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