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“Hey siri navigate home” Pretty simple.

I don’t use it when I’m actually driving. Before to set the destination.

No it’s absolutely fine. I have an iPhone with a basic Bluetooth connection to the car. I have a stalk for audio control and I use Siri to tell it to do stuff. The audio is entirel…

Very good point. My mother in law totalled her car when she dropped a cigarette on the floor when she was driving. Fortunately no one else involved.

Ah yes I remember that. It’s horrible. Every day I see people still doing it though here in London. There is no excuse. Not one. Actually two weeks ago there was a huge Jewsons tru…

My father used to import clone PC stuff from Taiwan. The guys running these ops were surprisingly small usually. Some of the original ISA graphics cards including the weird CEG (an…

I think they should offset all of these things against the probability that the IDE you have to use has its own ozone hole. That stab is mostly aimed in the direction of C# and Jav…

Runtime footprint and CPU is pretty tiny for Go. It’s shockingly low cost to run it. I am frequently surprised.

I suspect it’s easier knowing that they aren’t coming back than having to explain that you don’t know when they will come back and what mood they will be in when they do get back. …

That’s a sure way of ending up with several old men yielding yagis like swords descend upon your house.

Nailed it. It wasn’t and still isn’t useful or interesting because of the technical overhead of APRS reporting. Much prefer delving into the weak signal modes. JS8Call is interesti…

It’s dangerous to compare any cost to trust. The two concepts are independent and do not overlap from experience. But at least do yourself a favour and find another merit to sell y…

It’s really cheap when you add the risks. Apple replaced the battery in my 6s about three years back and it didn’t work afterwards. If this was an independent phone shop they’d giv…

This is the joy of working for a large company. I was there a number of years ago. I just started ignoring people and doing what I think is right. No one appeared to notice. I susp…

I wonder if this is why my bank (Santander) is switching everyone to Mastercard.

I call Microsoft’s implementation improper. Will block them from my purchasing in future.

Got to be honest I tended to use the distribution packages for Perl back in the day. That would have been Debian or FreeBSD ports back then. If the module was missing I would shrug…

Genuine question as I quite frankly stay the hell away from it: Can malicious NPM packages compromise your build infrastructure?

Unfortunately that left them with the motivation to write their own bus sized holes instead!

Your cynicism is justified and clearly based on the same experience I have :)

I think the assertion (sorry for the pun) is that JavaScript is a completely unholy creation and should be chucked off the edge of the disc. I can’t imagine trying to get some of o…

I suspect it’s dying slowly. All the functional sysadmin stuff is being rolled into devops and cloud operations these days and all the old school folk, me included, are being pushe…

Yes exactly that. Usually resulting in me having to scrape the gore out of the inside of the washing machine! :)

Just that it represents a roll of the dice and hardware configuration.

I did the same. I disagree. It required two rounds of reboots even though it was the latest iso and the Ethernet didn’t work (i219). Then whenever the thing goes to sleep all the w…