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> they can't tell defence what to do The Prime Minister can only exercise control over the military by policy? They have no input to operations at all? Seems extraordinary. Wikiped…

> The money you pay for tuition really isn't going into a better education, it's maintaining the illusion that draws big names as both students and professors, and all the networki…

Ever seen someone shift a gear in a movie?

The rest of the civil service seems almost entirely unable to get anything done in computing though. Signals intelligence in the UK and US seem to ship quite a lot of success, from…

> So the broader question would be: what makes governments apparently unable to get big IT projects done right? Signals intelligence people must be building some of the most powerf…

That's what I said about pressing the clutch isn't it? Just like pressing the brake in many automatic cars.

You just turn the ignition. You may have to push the clutch in for some cars, just like you have to push the break in for some automatic cars. Manual cars aren't as different as yo…

There's really no magic to it - there's an extra pedal you depress when changing gear, and you bring up to re-engage the engine. Anyone can figure it out when presented with the pe…

I don't get why people thinking driving a manual gearbox is such a mystery - it's not much different to automatic driving I've never met anyone who wasn't able to do it well enough…

> Corporate media produces nothing of intellectual value. Never seen any intellectual value in a BBC drama, comedy, or nature documentary?

How to install some machine code bytes. What machine code bytes do you want to install though? That's the interesting bit!

I’m Senior Staff and still have to use Stack Overflow regularly!

> Are you sure you aren't just confusing all the milled aluminum laptops with Macs, and all the black glass slabs with iPhones? No it’s literally over 50% iPhone. https://www.oberl…

The proportion nationally is literally over 50%. They can't all be older people - that just doesn't factually add up, does it? You must be living in a very strange bubble, complete…

If like 50% of people use iPhones, which they do, how can it be possible to not know anyone young who uses one? Just doesn’t pass a common sense test to be true. How does that chan…

Majority of people in US who use a phone use an iPhone, that’s just a fact. Their comment isn’t credible.

> The only people I know that own iPhones IRL are older people who aren't tech savvy Where do you live? Overwhelming majority of tech people I know in the US and UK use MacBooks an…

Credit cards vs invoicing seems orthogonal - this is about seeing a price up front.

Most people would answer ‘I’m happy with what’s on the App Store thanks I have no desire to use anything else’.

Apple developing a more secure platform is an innovation and advancement. If the iPhone isn’t the right choice for you buy one of the other thousand phones on the market, and leave…

> The idea that you can influence companies by not buying is an illusion. People didn’t buy New Coke so it went away. If people didn’t buy the iPhone you can be certain Apple would…