Speare - Slashdot User

Comment Is the NYT fluent in English? (Score -1, Offtopic) 34

by Speare on Saturday September 23, 2023 @02:42PM (#63871731) Attached to: India's Moon Lander Has Not Replied to Its First Wake-Up Call

There is a whole world of difference between
"The lander, as expected, did not reply." and
"The lander did not reply as expected."

Comment "Moron in a Hurry" (Score 1) 282

by Speare on Thursday September 21, 2023 @11:41PM (#63867579) Attached to: Google Sued Over Fatal Google Maps Error After Man Drove Off Broken Bridge

The "Moron in a Hurry" doctrine is a legal phrase used in trademark disputes. Guess now it can be used in a liability case.

Comment Re: Misinformation (Score 2) 34

by Speare on Sunday September 03, 2023 @04:58PM (#63820272) Attached to: Mission Accomplished, India Puts Moon Rover to 'Sleep' for 14 Days

All this pedantry and nobody pointed out the original summary says "sleep for the 655 hour night" when the 655 hours is the full diurnal cycle, or 27.3 Earth days.

Comment What's the right MacOS path for Unity? (Score 1) 41

by Speare on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @07:34PM (#63810552) Attached to: Microsoft Is Discontinuing Visual Studio For Mac After Major Overhaul

Unity deprecated their VS Code support a year ago. Vanishingly few hobby developers use the debugger and single-step through Unity C# code, but lots of professional developers do.

Comment Arrrr, matey. (Score 3, Informative) 84

by grub on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @07:08PM (#63754624) Attached to: Disney Raises Prices For Streaming Services By As Much As 27%

That is all.

Comment Re:What's the story here? (Score 1) 105

by Speare on Sunday July 30, 2023 @08:23PM (#63726402) Attached to: Libreboot Creator Says After Coding a Fork for 'GNU Boot Project', FSF Sent a Cease-and-Desist Letter Over Its Name

Watch out, now Muskelon will issue a Cease and Desist against you for using his trademark.

Comment Happens for flooding in England, too (Score 1) 226

by evilandi on Thursday June 01, 2023 @09:41AM (#63567037) Attached to: Climate Crisis Makes It Impossible For Some US Residents To Get Home Insurance

There are several big-name insurers who won't insure homes in my hometown of Tewkesbury, England due to repeated flooding. That's only 12k people, mind you. There are plenty of competitors in the market who WILL offer cover, you just have to shop around more and accept slightly higher prices.

Comment But I bought a $10K Linux license from SCO. (Score 2) 52

by grub on Saturday January 28, 2023 @02:19PM (#63247127) Attached to: Canonical Announces General Availability of Ubuntu Pro, Free for Up to 5 PCs

I bought a $10,000 Linux license from SCO in 2002. Shouldn't I get this for free?

Comment TikTards are a cancer on society. (Score 3, Informative) 161

by grub on Sunday January 08, 2023 @05:07PM (#63190244) Attached to: 'Please Don't Film Me in 2023'

That actually applies to most social media, but TikTok is especially nauseating.

Comment Re:Why didnt they just package memory too? (Score 4, Insightful) 74

by grub on Thursday January 05, 2023 @07:21PM (#63183336) Attached to: AMD Claims New Laptop Chip Is 30% Faster Than M1 Pro, Promises Up To 30 Hours of Battery Life

My Framework laptop has replacable memory.

Comment Can't stop the older stuff from getting out. (Score 5, Informative) 91

by grub on Thursday January 05, 2023 @04:10PM (#63182858) Attached to: Iranian Attack Drone Found To Contain Parts From More Than a Dozen US Firms

People were freaking out about FPGAs, microcontrollers, etc. that were in some of these drones. Fact is most (all?) of it was older & EOL things that you can find on Ali Express and other sites for peanuts.

There's no way to stop the recyclers from selling the parts off.

Comment Re:Ghostship (Score 1) 3

by grub on Thursday January 05, 2023 @03:54PM (#63182810) Attached to: 2023 and slashdot is still kicking.

"I'm not dead!" -Monty Python
I'm still around, but spend most of my time on reddit.

Comment Re:moo (Score 1) 9

by grub on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @07:39PM (#63178032) Attached to: Farewell, part II :-(

Ah shoot. I guess we're all getting up there in age. :(

Comment Re:moo (Score 1) 9

by grub on Monday January 02, 2023 @05:47PM (#63174798) Attached to: Farewell, part II :-(

Farewell as in leaving slashdot or dying?

Comment Re:moo (Score 1) 9

by grub on Monday January 02, 2023 @05:17PM (#63174708) Attached to: Farewell, part II :-(

I am so confused.

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