I'm on a Mac you insensitive clod!

I suspect Steve Jobs refusing to let Flash on iPhones and iPad was a bigger stumbling block for most people than all the security concerns (although he too cited abysmal security). The loss of a huge chunk of the mobile market made Flash untenable.

Steve Jobs' thoughts on Flash:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

This is just the modern equivalent of those shitty "funny" emails that were forwarded around by at least one person in every office in the 90s. It's just become easier, more accessible and the tools more powerful.

You mean: Ukraine was defending itself in the Donbas after Russia supplied weapons and manpower to the separatist militias and agitated the situation? Asking for Russian peacekeepers to help was just part of the little man in the Kremlin's disinformation and subterfuge campaign.

Ukraine wasn't threatening their neighbours. Ukraine hadn't invaded or attacked their neighbours. Ukraine hasn't fought a 10 year war with one of its neighbours. Ukraine hasn't fired the equivalent of Scud missiles at an innocent third country like Iraq did with Israel. Ukraine hasn't used WMD against ethnic groups of its own population. Unlike Iraq, Ukraine wasn't developing WMD and in fact, voluntarily gave them up. Ukraine was on a peaceful path towards EU membership. The US lead invasion of Iraq was in a response to all of this and stop them threatening and attacking everybody, and then left, which is the opposite of Putin's aim which is genocide and the extinguishing of a separate culture and sovereign nation. You simply can't compare the two.

Yet the pain points that Linus raised over four years ago still exist today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Youâ(TM)ve just reminded me of a wonderful holiday I had to Peru nearly 20 years ago, thanks. Coffee at breakfast though seemed to be a constant trade-off between flavour and temperature: if you wanted it hot, it was going to taste watered down and shit like N. American coffee; wanted it to taste good, then it was going to be cold!

I like espresso, and as somebody who is caffeine free, I can put five or more shots in a mug with no consequences and enjoy a large coffee that tastes good!

I got this the other day trying to find out if Microsoft has maintained c/c++ ABI compatibility in Visual Studio 2026 with previous versions. The AI summary literally took the VS 2022 page on the topic and replaced 2022 with 2026, and then linked to the 2022 page. There was no page on the topic for VS 2026 on Microsoft's website.

The old Mag Safe and Mag Safe 2 power adapters that came with MacBook Pros did not have a detachable cable. Of course, it was always the cable that broke and that required replacing the whole lot. When Apple switched the MBPs to USB-C, they also switched the power supplies to detachable cables too.

Their cadence has been pretty predictable for a while now, ever since they switch to Arm. Some people might indeed hold out for a touch screen; some just might not give a shit.

Youâ(TM)re forgetting the Touch Bar. You canâ(TM)t accuse Apple of not trying to innovate, but it is a disaster. I canâ(TM)t type on my MBP without constantly triggering it. Thank goodness I use an external keyboard 90% of the time.

And given that most of my usage is with it on a stand as a secondary screen, Iâ(TM)d never find the use for it being a touch screen.

No malice and no impatience, even if the passenger didn't plan properly and is running late.

These are old now, but interesting reading. I bet things haven't improved in the US, especially with the administrative overheads.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/...
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a...

1.5m? That'd be nice.

Case-in-point: we have chicane going up a hill nearby to cross the rail tracks with a gap on either side with bike lanes. Cars often try to overtake through the chicane, but there's not enough (you can tell by the patched potholes in the bike on the exit.) This morning with my 8 year old son, I went, as usual, through the chicane rather than follow him through via the bike lane, yet the guy coming the other way against the priority signs slowed only a little and missed me by a small amount. It's because of arseholes like that that I go through the chicane: my job was done and he didn't come close to my son. I normally do it to stop dickheads trying to overtake us through the chicane, starting after I had to rap on the windows of a private taxi and yell at him to get away from us. Surely a Waymo will be tracking cyclists and know it doesn't have enough room to squeeze through safely in this situation.

There's also a surprising number of places where there simply isn't room for both directions and you have to negotiate with other drivers

Surprising number? These places are everywhere, all across the UK. Especially residential streets that are only one car wide once cars are parked on one or both sides of the road.

Actually, this is also why I stopped using Waze. Coming back from Heathrow once, I could have just taken the M4 and South Circular, but Waze claimed it would save me more than seven minutes on 25-35 minute journey, so I thought I'd give it a go. It took me through Hounslow and the back streets of Isleworth before crossing the A316 bridge in to Richmond. It ended up taking at least 15 minutes longer than the easy route and a vast amount more effort, in the dark. Much of that extra time was either reversing in to a gap between parked cars to let somebody by, or waiting for an oncoming car to do the same for me.

The good thing about Waymo is I'm sure they'll stick to the 20 mph speed limit and won't run amber and red traffic lights. A lot of people in the UK won't drive in London because it's so much harder than anywhere else in the country. It remains to be seen how well they cope with pedestrians randomly appearing in the road without looking in places like the West End or the City, or with cyclists working their way through the traffic.