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ah, my apologies. I read more than you wrote. I think you and I are probably more in agreement than not. I read a book last year, "Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad Peo…

I too thought of Polanski (Roman, not Zac) while reading these threads. I’m not sure the comparison or perhaps, the parallel holds though. PO’b may have been a bad husband. Or he m…

I have to say I’m really enjoying the Eternal September of Software comments here. They make me wonder about the vintage of the authors. Was Windows 7 the first stable OS they used…

Not in any way being negative about what you’ve done, but… Mac only. Is this just because of inbuilt knowledge about file system shape or some more important Apple exclusive tool/e…

Can you provide some context for this? I’m aware of SBF’s EA links, and how empty those sentiments appear to have been, but I’m just some guy, and it isn’t clear to me that the who…

Ooof. €109.70 in paperback

I sort of agree, and sort of not. The decision to cheat on exhaust fumes was taken by senior executives. How many of them are being laid off?

I presume there’s a voting mechanism? Are you complaining because democracy hasn’t yielded your favourite outcome? FWIW I might align with you in not finding all that much that I w…

Betteridge’s law strikes again. (I came close to finishing that sentence with a question mark. Oh the irony) More seriously, I looked at the article you linked. It talks about lots…

There has got to be a pun in here somewhere about room temperature IQs.

Is there a car manufacturer that hasn’t taken advantage of such schemes? Should I pay more for my next car so that Volkswagen executives can get paid despite not facing serious con…

I think it’s true that declining to hand over a password in a criminal investigation is itself a criminal act in the UK. That said, I don’t know how often this actually occurs. As …

I have the bamboo desk with the curved front. I like: - the way the wood looks and feels. - it has been fairly tough. I managed to stain it with an overnight pen leak, but it's mos…

The truly excellent weavers will be fine?

Do I remember correctly that one of the major characters in what we would now call an influencer with always-on video glasses? I think his spectacles get slashdotted at one point. …

[I have lived in the UK. I do not live in the UK. I am not British] well, I guess you can always try moving there. It's my suspicion that more people move from China to the UK than…

Yes I did/do. He’s a top guy. I think he did some pretty spiffy work on multiprotocol routers in the 90s.

I unexpectedly found myself working for the UK subsidiary of AJ just before the .com bubble pop. Interesting times. Things I remember: I wrote something to do cluster analysis of t…

>Remember that 99.9% of people do not consider themselves to be the bad guy, yet more than 0.01% of people are bad guys. Almost no one identifies with evil, yet evil is a string th…

Imagine being a news paper/site editor and having this kind of headline potential drop in your lap.

I think I understand why this is true for plain IP forwarding. There isn’t much to break the cache and the lookups are few and fast. What’s the cheapest (new) computer that can dri…

I think you have the wrong end of this stick. See the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior for an example. There have been several iterations of this ship name since the first was bom…

Your argument ignores two things. First, the US constitution as it currently stands admits modifications. Amendments are version bumps. My understanding is that they’re harder to c…

> code for radiation hardened environments I’m aware of code that detects bit flips via unreasonable value detection (“this counter cannot be this high so quickly”). What else is t…