Comment Re: Charles Poon (Score 4, Insightful) 97
Just like every other CEO that thinks AI is a magic bullet.
Comment And water (Score 3, Insightful) 328
makes things wet!
Comment Re: C (and here are somemore chars to satisfy the (Score 3, Interesting) 40
Never say never. "I have a lump of bytes that end in a NUL always -- this function works perfectly!"
Comment Re: C (and here are somemore chars to satisfy the (Score 1) 40
It's also one of the things I love about C -- that you can do that.
I rarely use C. I generally use Typescript or Python these days.
But it is a genuine love I have of C, that it's so close to the hardware, and so powerful because of that, second only to raw assembler. (I tend to "visualise" how computers work through C).
But it's also so dangerous and easy to use wrong.
I rarely use C. I generally use Typescript or Python these days.
But it is a genuine love I have of C, that it's so close to the hardware, and so powerful because of that, second only to raw assembler. (I tend to "visualise" how computers work through C).
But it's also so dangerous and easy to use wrong.
Comment Re: Isn't Robert X. Cringely a pseudonym? (Score 2) 56
"To err is human, ..." from the original "to err is human, to forgive, devine", which also gives us "to err is human, to moo, bovine", and "... to bleat (or 'baaa'), ovine".
Comment Re: "Progressive" is a euphemism (Score 1) 39
Yep. 40 hour weeks are still the norm here. And 20 days statuary holiday/vacation days (on top on national holidays).
Comment Re: Other nations will follow (Score 4, Informative) 39
AWS us-east-1 had an issue last year. us-east-1 is also the "Global" region, so this affected IAM Roles (among other "global" services) across the entire world. Everyone was affected until the issue was resolved.
Comment Re: For what? (Score 1) 67
I use opencode, with GitHub CoPilot/Claude Sonnet 4.6. Works great for me.
I much prefer it to using CoPilot in VSCode, which is pretty much useless (I can only access the one file that's open in your editor, or the extra file(s) you give me one just one query and then you have to add them all again to all a follow up question -- such bollox).
I much prefer it to using CoPilot in VSCode, which is pretty much useless (I can only access the one file that's open in your editor, or the extra file(s) you give me one just one query and then you have to add them all again to all a follow up question -- such bollox).
Comment Re: With xAI and Cursor (Score 1) 67
$60bn in stocks can be sold.
Comment So you really think (Score 2) 66
that most organisations are even using a somewhat up-to-date release of those LTS versions? Or will be bothered to upgrade for any legacy apps?
We still have code running on Java 6!
We still have code running on Java 6!
Comment Will the screen fold back flat? (Score 2) 80
If I can use it in "tablet mode" then this would be an amazing feature. I would seriously consider buying one.
If not, it's pretty much useless.
Comment Re: Yikes! (Score 1) 34
That's the joke...
Comment Re: Is there really point? (Score 5, Insightful) 180
Yeah, but it's nice to have the data to be able to measure just how fucked we are.
But climate-change-denying people can't be having data like that messing up their beliefs, now, can they?
Comment 90 days (Score 4, Funny) 74
Here's 23,000 vulnerabilities that we found, and we're giving you 90 days to fix them.
And....go!
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Yes, it's an average of 23 per project. But still.
And....go!
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Yes, it's an average of 23 per project. But still.
Comment Jellyfin (Score 1) 89
I switched to Jellyfin last year and haven't looked back.
