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There is a big poster at the end of my road, that is trying to recruit drivers, with a starting bonus, and reasonable hours and conditions. So all the drivers leaving the industry …

People working in labs today must be speeding up nature significantly on a daily basis. Perform lots of concurrent experiments, apply different environmental stresses, provide diff…

The other problem with "Public companies are inherently evil by default" is that saying that "the whole system is wrong", is just providing leaders with an excuse. Public Companies…

Waiting longer is ok, it is waiting a random time in a unplanned way with a missed date that is very annoying and becomes expensive, not keeping to schedule will make consumers loo…

We can clearly see that the current generation of tank the Russians have are useless. We will spend lots of money on very expensive equally redundant tanks. We can clearly see that…

Especially annoying when reams of nonsense also gets 'unexpectedly' sprayed into the web browser of some poor sod using an enterprise app, just because Java is having a bad day. Th…

Interestingly it is the base M1 that is still the most interesting device, lower cost, lower heat, good single core performance, capable of most tasks, and reasonable graphics for …

Reading is a great deal faster than watching videos. Presumably doubling the speed must also make the presenters sound like chipmunks or voles or something. Perhaps just fiddling w…

There is something different or odd about it though. I don't think anyone is arguing that the low number of Women in tech is not a problem, understanding the root cause is presumab…

I am not a rust fan, but `ever` is a long time, and if operating systems are re-written in rust (which is preferable by far than writing them in C), that is going to be a lot of ve…

Never thought of an MBA as technical, that is an interesting perspective to think about.

If you mainly use Linux that would be a reasonable point of view to take. However it runs in many environments so it is more like 'a cross platform framework' It is native code, so…

I think other operating systems could also benefit from this reverse engineering work as it shows how to create the drivers needed. If Apple had provided a bunch of binary blobs fo…

The 68k was certainly great fun after 8bit systems, and the x86 was almost just more of the same. ARM32 is also nice, apart from some corner cases. I think everything has corner ca…

Makes sense if Intel was planning on manufacturing the processors for a regional market rather than for global export.

Macron stamps his feet and this happens. You better watch out down there.

Makes sense, It is also easier to read and understand a book than it was for the author to write it. You can also think you understand something while you read it and later realize…

European settlers trashed an entire continent in a few hundred years; stop and imagine what it must have looked like when they first arrived. How this ends up filed under Camel art…

Boom Boom

If people were the same back then:- Most people hung out and watched the Camels being carved, many watched others `reacting` to the Camel carvings, and a few critiqued the Carvings…

Smalltalk famously let you code inside the debugger. You can run code with methods that don't exist yet and add them in the debugger when it notices they are missing.

I suspect you are right. Rebinding an inner function inside another function that contains variables probably will not work. But you could still alter and rebind the entire thing. …

Acorn (early ARM personal computers) had a hardware sprite mouse cursor; because moving the mouse in software was expensive. A fun thing is you can have a monochrome graphics mode …

Those would be our Europan visitors :) Explains why they care more about the sea as well.

We will be getting tasty Kangaroo steaks soon from Australia. Be jealous.