chrisseaton

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by chrisseaton 4y ago
> they can't tell defence what to do The Prime Minister can only exercise control over the military by policy? They have no input to operations at all? Seems extraordinary. Wikipedia says that ministers exercise authority.
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
> The money you pay for tuition really isn't going into a better education, it's maintaining the illusion that draws big names as both students and professors, and all the networking opportunities that then manifest as better o
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
Ever seen someone shift a gear in a movie?
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
The rest of the civil service seems almost entirely unable to get anything done in computing though. Signals intelligence in the UK and US seem to ship quite a lot of success, from all the history, leaks, and things you can physically see
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
> So the broader question would be: what makes governments apparently unable to get big IT projects done right? Signals intelligence people must be building some of the most powerful computer systems in the world. They also historically
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
That's what I said about pressing the clutch isn't it? Just like pressing the brake in many automatic cars.
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
You just turn the ignition. You may have to push the clutch in for some cars, just like you have to push the break in for some automatic cars. Manual cars aren't as different as you think they are.
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
There's really no magic to it - there's an extra pedal you depress when changing gear, and you bring up to re-engage the engine. Anyone can figure it out when presented with the pedal and the gear lever. People with no no educatio
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
I don't get why people thinking driving a manual gearbox is such a mystery - it's not much different to automatic driving I've never met anyone who wasn't able to do it well enough.
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
> Corporate media produces nothing of intellectual value. Never seen any intellectual value in a BBC drama, comedy, or nature documentary?
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
How to install some machine code bytes. What machine code bytes do you want to install though? That's the interesting bit!
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
I’m Senior Staff and still have to use Stack Overflow regularly!
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
> Are you sure you aren't just confusing all the milled aluminum laptops with Macs, and all the black glass slabs with iPhones? No it’s literally over 50% iPhone. https://www.oberlo.com/statistics/us-smartphone-
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
The proportion nationally is literally over 50%. They can't all be older people - that just doesn't factually add up, does it? You must be living in a very strange bubble, completely unrepresentative of the rest of the country. Th
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
If like 50% of people use iPhones, which they do, how can it be possible to not know anyone young who uses one? Just doesn’t pass a common sense test to be true. How does that change if the majority is small or large? Like 1% or 10% what di
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
Majority of people in US who use a phone use an iPhone, that’s just a fact. Their comment isn’t credible.
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
> The only people I know that own iPhones IRL are older people who aren't tech savvy Where do you live? Overwhelming majority of tech people I know in the US and UK use MacBooks and iPhones. That’s academia, systems programming, web
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
Credit cards vs invoicing seems orthogonal - this is about seeing a price up front.
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
Most people would answer ‘I’m happy with what’s on the App Store thanks I have no desire to use anything else’.
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
Apple developing a more secure platform is an innovation and advancement. If the iPhone isn’t the right choice for you buy one of the other thousand phones on the market, and leave other people alone.
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
> The idea that you can influence companies by not buying is an illusion. People didn’t buy New Coke so it went away. If people didn’t buy the iPhone you can be certain Apple would change.
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
> I suspect you support at least some level of collective restriction Locked mobile phones don’t hurt people other than the people who choose to use them. That’s different to for example a gun. The only reason to ban iPhones is because y
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
Why do you need to ban other people from buying them? You can already just opt to not buy them yourself. Why do you care if others still want to? Clearly not signed everyone - I don’t sign it.
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
> I want the option to control my devices. So don’t buy an iPhone. You know that’s not the offer.
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
I don't get what's 'in it' for people to have overly complicated forms. Like they have to store all the data and in some cases manually input it (like customs forms.) What's the benefit? Ideally people would have a
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
> Time wasted filling in forms and talking to service staff should really be tracked and associated with the business or government agency Isn't there a US law on this? The Paperwork Reduction Act?
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
> offered by inquiry only which i can only assume means we have serious reservations regarding the salability of this 'new' product Much B2B is done on price by inquiry. The three columns and 'best value!' is a very m
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
> But definitely could be worded much better than NoMethodError. But that is the root cause - there is no such method. The thing about 'Did you mean? name' is just a guess to help you.
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
> (including health insurance!) I think they’re European?
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by chrisseaton 4y ago
Presumably by hiring different skills then they’re firing.

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