happymellon

Indeed. Marketing ruins all definitions.

AWD is an automatic 4 wheel drive when required.

Think of it more like it's going to be 2WD most of the time, but when there is low traction (such as ice) the 4WD will engage as power is always going to all wheels.

4WD is a permanent thing, or at least always on when you engage it. The system locks all the wheels to the same spin speed.

The code was MIT, I don't get why people write code use the most permissive licences and then get grumpy that folks use it as offered.

It's literally why GPL was invented.

Not sure about the others but here is information on the SpaceX investigation.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2026/11/05/what-de...

Yes there are clear differences in skills. So if I'm hiring to fill a certain need, why would I consider someone who isn't skilled in that area?

Have you tried being more racist? I understand that's the solution.

Rather than taking an introverted look at political power, money and devolving English power from Westminster, in a similar manner as the NI, Scott and Welsh nations to fund investments outside of London.

Perhaps looking at national infrastructure, and agreeing what we want to see in towns and cities then using tax incentives to encourage desired behaviour.

Or we could just blame Europeans for British political decisions. That's been working well.

This sounds like you don't know what the fuck your hiring for.

If you want juniors to fill out your team, why are you getting a bunch of seniors?

Then the DC should surely help fund it, and its existence should be dependent in its completion? Otherwise it will be like every other large scale development that offers this without being on the hook.

The nuclear will get delayed. Always does.

They are building gas turbines to power it.

You aren't getting a good deal.

90% of the time Texas flips?

I don't think I said that.

The tank violates the rule and it is why it isn't allowed.

However there is a scenario (such as the war memorial,or an ambulance) where you may want the vehicle to have access.

I was just relating it to people who claim to want to "cut red tape/remove regulations" because most of the time the red tape scenarios are these where we want to be able to carve out exceptions for particular scenarios. But we still don't want it to be the default position.

> Is a justified violation of the rules still to be considered a violation

I think this is key. Having a tank, even if it is nonfunctional and being used as a war memorial is still a vehicle and should be banned unless an exception granted.

Otherwise you'll end up with a hundred "tanks" in the park because they are "allowed". This is one of the things that people who want to slash red tape don't seem to get. Just because it was difficult to get one going doesn't mean that we should cut the red tape. Perhaps we don't actually want/need 27 instances of it.

I quoted you, and you didn't quote me.

Not really the same.

It was never unpopular.

You had some tryhards pulling some insane class name from the bowels of a library [1] and using that as an example that Java will always have a problem with naming and is therefore doomed. Or an alternative language claiming that they will eat Javas lunch, forgetting that it is used in a lot of Enterprise and its going nowhere [2].

I have had a few gig that have needed me to work in Python, JavaScript or Typescript, but there was always a pairing with Java.

[1] See Aspectj - HasThisTypePatternTriedToSneakInSomeGenericOrParameterizedTypePatternMatchingStuffAnywhereVisitor.java

[2] https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2024/07/is-java-still-releva...

Here is a copy of an Oracle RDBMS.

> Gives you a licence washed MySQL

I think it is probably either:

1. Companies wanting to go cloud, and depend on something like RAC that Oracle refuses to licence to other scalers.

2. Companies beliving in "multi-cloud", and some corrupt exec deciding that Oracle should be one of the options.

I know that a few gigs ago I had to deal with them as part of the multi-cloud enterprise strategy for these reasons.

> You shouldn't purge corrupt politicians and bureaucrats because they increase the cost of doing business

That wasn't anything like what I said.

They didn't.

> We should be castrating them and limiting their size and power as much as possible, everywhere.

You may have different intent but that is what your wrote. These representatives are the voice of the people, if you limit their power then Google can build datacenters without even needing to ask.

The "AI fears" are fears that AI is going to gut Google.

I think that Google did it to themselves by making their search so bad that it encouraged everyone to switch.

They would have had a longer runway as the folks who stuck to Internet Explorer, the folks who stuck with AOL, and all the other businesses that had better options but rode out that friction to switch could have kept them solvent.

Instead, they spent far too much time making Google search difficult to use or to find anything and pushed them off the platform.

NT was criminally underrated by Microsoft.

Far too many features required 3rd party tooling to access, or were buried within menus of menus. Then were slowly either duplicated or replaced with half baked solutions.

I have mixed feelings about this.

Sure it has replaced Google for a lot of people. But was that driven more by Google breaking search and actively ranking down good results and putting blocks in the way of seeing even the bad results?

Google had (have?) people using their service out of habit but built a hostile enough environment. We have this "contradiction" where non-tech folks are supposed to be difficult to move off "what they know" yet here we are where they are using ChatGPT to search and be a doctor.

Having a special Gemini button everywhere is "a new feature", but it isn't a useful feature, so the productivity needle doesn't budge.

Wasn't that just a literal copy of Photopea?

Doesn't AWS stack rank? So having good ratings has a low relationship with your delivery.

The citations are from companies passing the blame so they don't look bad.

I have yet to see a big corp using AI to reduce work and therefore not need the employees. It's an endless pit of work generation!

However it's now an excuse to cut head count because of executive poor decisions, and a poor economy due to having bad leadership.

I don't use the page up/down much, but I do use the arrow keys so the split up/down is a pain.

> some say they are not reliable.

The problem here is that too many people have a vested interest to be unreliable, so we are never sure one way or another.

IIRC, my Blackberry had a dial on the side, in addition to the keyboard and roller ball.

I've been on Emby for a long time, just waiting for them to make the system abrasive enough to switch to Jellyfin.

Breaking the usability of the Android TV app and requiring us to switch to the mobile app on the TV was pretty bad. But since the last update I get delays of "connecting to the server". I think we are there now, I just need a free weekend to get everything set up.

My documentation for events from 2018 at this point are limited, and trying to go back through the lists of events demonstrates the limited reporting for some things deemed "non-critical" such as the early 2019 connectivity issues with EU West 2 when the London fibres were cut and services such as Workspaces experienced an outage.

I will do better at saving exact details for internet strangers in future.