Just because you can make phones with an army of cheap Chinese labour doesn’t mean that’s the only or best way. With suitable “design for manufacture”, pick and place robots like those used in PCB design could relatively easily be adopted to screw screws in where needed. Use plugs instead of those flat cable things, then the whole lot could be easily automated. Remove any aspect of the design that needs fingers and the whole process can be automated.

Yes, but please remember the difference between “march through” and “invade”.

Funny I was just wondering the other day if companies that practice vibe programming also practice vibe management.

These are the lyrics Lennon rejected.

If Orbán gets “sanctioned” maybe Slovakia will start to think twice about biting the hand that feeds it. And if they also continue to push the Russian agenda then we’ll have an established protocol to deal with them.

Well it was only a matter of time. Keep voting in Poo-tin’s interests and the shit will inevitably hit the Orfán.

It’s an abbreviation for Command Line Interface To Objects Residing In System. A lot of male programmers can’t find it.

Very good but can someone please invent a 4TB drive that costs less than it did five years ago?

Actually I quite like it. You get daylight in the morning in winter, and longer evenings in the summer.

Without DST you have to choose between: in winter you go to work in the dark and come home in the dark, meaning you don’t see any daylight apart from at weekends, which is especially depressing if you work in a place short on windows; OR you waste a bunch of daylight in the summer mornings and have shorter evenings when the weather is warmer and it’s nicer to be outside.

I am a programmer. Not sure why this would be a problem. Just fix the computers to GMT+X and for the most part it won’t matter. It’s not as if I have to rewrite DST code every few months.

Any company that does that needs to be sent on a mandatory awareness training for failing an obvious fake phishing exercise. It’s far too easy to whitelist that and send it to an “ignore” folder.

Wait till you see what “yank” means in vi and emacs.

Oh no! Anyway…

I asked AI for an anime style circle and got this

Depends where you’re going. Anywhere first world with a robust democracy that invites opposition and criticism will be safe. Heck in the UK we’ve even got people who openly hate our way of life and want to destroy it.

But if you’re going to one of the less tolerant places where opposing the incumbent can get you in serious trouble, like Russia, North Korea, Iran, or the USA, probably best take a burner phone with some basic stuff on it that can’t possibly be interpreted as any kind of negativity towards the delicate leader and leave your main one switched off somewhere safe at home. In fact unless you enjoy risk it’s probably best to avoid places like that until they get some proper freedoms in place.

Not sure what the Martians have done to deserve that. Let’s drop them off in Russia instead, they think it’s so great there they can try living there.

Also Windows: “Ask your network administrator for access.”
Me: “Well I’m my own network administrator so what questions do you want me to ask myself”?
Windows: “Enter network username and password.”
Me: There is no network username or password. Sod it, I’ll bung them on an external disk.

Chrome is no longer available in my Start menu.