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Comment Until... (Score -1, Flamebait) 115

The GQP/MAGA loonies get back in and revert to

"Good Clean Coal"
and
"Drill baby drill"

They'll pass dubious laws (dubious thanks to the GQP/Federalist Society packed courts) to outlaw all Wind and Solar across 30+ states starting with Florida and Texas.

Welcome to nationwide power outages and chaos.
USA No 1 country to go from the 1st world to the 3rd world.

Comment someone please tell Representative MTG (Score 1, Troll) 102

as in Marjorie Tayloe Green. Hopefully, she'll keel over on the spot.
She loves to make fun of everything electric (windmills, cars, solar, and the rest) while being totally ignorant about the whole subject.
She recently made a lot of jokes about the passengers having to pedal like mad on stationary cycles in order to keep the plane in the air. Yes, she is a moron.

Comment Re:And as usual (Score 4, Insightful) 158

Trump is set to pocked $200Million if the deal goes through. However, the SPAC part of the deal is having second thoughts because of the failure of Truth Social to lure in the gullible on a regular basis.
They have asked the SEC for another year to close the deal. If the site (Truth Social) was a monumental success wouldn't the parties want the deal closed ASAP? Then they can all run for the hills with their pockets overflowing with cash. But... they aren't.

Trump has yet to operate a business outside of real estate that 1) lasts for 5 years and 2) turns a profit in all years. And people still want him to be POTUS?
I pity you all, I really do.

Comment Yep... been there, got the 'T' shirt (Score 4, Insightful) 203

and found them to be a total POS when it came to actually making their code word in the real world which in my case happened to be a $4B chemical plant.
It sure looked pretty but failed miserably when it came to handling errors.
I even caught one person emailing the problem to his 'friend' in India and then pasting the result into the code.
After that, I tested prospective hires on how they handle errors in a graceful way. Many simply had no idea about using error handling frameworks, data logging and all the other nasty stuff that you need to make a system that runs 24/7 and if it fails the costs can run into $2M per day.

Comment Re:stick weight and measures on an CAP and then go (Score 1) 32

There are caps on mobile (cell) data in most places. Sure, you can opt for an unlimited plan but for most of us, that is total overkill. I use on average less than 500MB of mobile data a month. My plan gives me 2Gb.
There again, I don't stream anything on my phone so what do I know eh?

Comment Re:vaccum tubes (Score 2) 58

If you go to the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park you can see an awful lot of valves in use on their Colussus rebuild.
It is a work of art. To have built it in the way that they did and with so little information to go on.
There are a number of videos on the machine as well as the BOMBE. The work that Tommy Flowers did in wartime is pure genius.

Comment Re:How did this fail?!? (Score 1) 45

They advertised this heavily during the COVID lockdown here in the UK. They did it again last Christmas.
I guess that it didn't really dent sales of iPads etc.
Personally, I would never buy anything that FB had a hand in. As I don't use FB then that isn't surprising.
The sooner FB... sorry Meta files for Chapter 7 the better.

Comment Re:Surprised Tom Tom is still alive (Score 1) 62

I use a Tomtom Rider on my Motorcycle and in my Car.
I plan the routes in 'MyRoute-app" and import them to the TomTom. In the car, I use the car SatNav for side trips on longer journeys.

That way, I can have my phone turned off while riding/driving as it is illegal to even pick up a phone while in control of a motor vehicle.

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