tonyedgecombe

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1. 61.▲
   by tonyedgecombe 1mo ago

   I wonder how much rope Apple gave these people to hang themselves with.
2. 62.▲
   by tonyedgecombe 1mo ago

   My guess is they will do their best to maliciously comply. This is why the legislation is fairly open ended.
3. 63.▲
   by tonyedgecombe 1mo ago

   Are you sure about that?
4. 64.▲
   by tonyedgecombe 1mo ago

   I think Jobs was quite sceptical about courting enterprises. Personally this is one of the reasons I choose Apple over Microsoft.
5. 65.▲
   by tonyedgecombe 1mo ago

   I remember reading somewhere that the one thing burglars are terrified of is finding someone home. They will spend a lot of effort to avoid that.
6. 66.▲
   by tonyedgecombe 1mo ago

   GP is clearly a maximiser rather than satisficer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisficing
7. 67.▲
   by tonyedgecombe 1mo ago

   You will have to explain what a page is to the younger readers.
8. 68.▲
   by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago

   I’ve just put an IKEA kitchen in. I had to do a very similar modification to fit the plumbing in.
9. 69.▲
   by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago

   The winners are still whining anyway.
10. 70.▲
    by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago

    The problem is if you let your debts run too high then you can’t print your way out the problem. Very few countries seem to have the fiscal discipline to make joining the euro a sensible option.
11. 71.▲
    by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago

    Some arseholes would like that. Look at me, look at me.
12. 72.▲
    by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago

    But they would stutter, take ten minutes to launch and be a 25gb download.
13. 73.▲
    by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago

    Expect more populist politicians promising things they can’t deliver and blaming whatever out group they dislike.
14. 74.▲
    by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago

    I think it was called Spycatcher. It was on a commercial channel, possibly Yorkshire TV.
15. 75.▲
    by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago

    There was a British program as well. Sadly my copy got mangled by our VCR and I haven’t found it anywhere online.
16. 76.▲
    by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago

    I suppose it makes a change from complaining that the post was written by an LLM.
17. 77.▲
    by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago

    No, Fleet was written in Kotlin running on the JVM. I seem to remember it used Skia for the UI.
18. 78.▲
    by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago

    A commercial TV channel attempting to attract attention and viewers by courting controversy. What a surprise.
19. 79.▲
    by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago

    For a brief second I thought JetBrains were rewriting their tools in Rust and we were going to get some performance improvements.
20. 80.▲
    by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago

    The social thing is interesting, you will inevitably drift away from friends who don't have kids. Even for the ones who do you will be so busy with your own life that you won't get to see them much. You will probably end up with m
21. 81.▲
    by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago

    What I found and I think this is quite common for men is my attitude to kids in general completely changed once I had my own.
22. 82.▲
    by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago

    The trouble with that is it's always someone else's decision whether you keep your job.
23. 83.▲
    by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago

    Japan has been dealing with demographic problems for years now. If it tells us anything it is that and aging population needn’t be catastrophic.
24. 84.▲
    by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago

    They could have rolled over, if the majority wanted that then there isn’t much the Ukrainian government could do about it.
25. 85.▲
    by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago

    The situation with construction is fascinating, it’s similar in the UK.
26. 86.▲
    by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago

    They needed more memory and a faster processor as well which bumped the price up. In the mid eighties I worked for a company distributing QMS printers in the UK. A basic laser was selling for £2,000 and the PostScript equivalent was £4,000.
27. 87.▲
    by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago

    I can't think of a time where using reflection for serialisation hasn't come back to bite me.
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    by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago

    > “We must minimize the need to change existing code. For adoption in existing code, decades of experience has consistently shown that most customers with large code bases cannot and will not change even 1% of their lines of code in orde
29. 89.▲
    by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago

    To train on the data from a company that went bankrupt?
30. 90.▲
    by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago

    I thought the same about Russia when they invaded Ukraine. It turned out I was wrong.