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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 entirely hands free. You just get in the car and it works. You don’t need to touch or handle it for navigation either.

iOS also switches into driving focus mode which turns all the other distractions off: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208090

The legislation is perfectly good.

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 truck blocking an entire junction while driver was on his phone. The driver in front of me who was blocked confronted him and he told her to fuck off and what was she going to do about it. She used her phone to take a photo of him on his. I hope something is done. Some people are so arrogant and thoughtless.

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 (anti aliasing ones) had 3 guys running the entire outfit. The guy writing the software was stuffing boxes in his lunch break and there were no managers. Even the case design companies were one man outfits with all the actionable stuff contracted out. It was remarkable.

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 Java

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. This was my ex wife for several years until I kicked her ass on the street. I’ve got three kids and they’re doing fine now she’s gone but the emotional damage of uncertainty is possibly worse than absolutes.

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 interesting http://js8call.com/

I wanted to write an iOS version of it. Just an iPad and a radio using the audio interface and you’re there. But I don’t have the time to do it.

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 your product on that isn’t ”cheaper than the usual guys”

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 give it back and make an excuse or try and sell you another hooky handset. Apple gave me a brand new untouched 6s handset instead.

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 suspect this was because everyone was chasing useless metrics or doesn’t want to challenge the timesheet in case the one apparent source of truth is discovered to be universe crushingly fallible.

I banked the experience and learnings and moved to a company which wasn’t in the fatal decline stage of development.

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 it and make do. This cultural approach came from a place I work which was airgapped so we had a local package mirror server which was loaded from Debian CDs.

Also no distracting internet or Google and you had only the man pages to work off.

I really don’t like the culture of ”download any old shit off the internet, ram it in a container and throw it into production”. It keeps me awake. One day the whole thing will come crashing down and instantly spawn a costly magic enterprise solution which will cost a fortune just to mitigate that risk which doesn’t actually mitigate it all just allow the box to be ticked on a compliance form.

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 our fintech business logic in there without arming a nuclear foot gun or ten. I would never sleep again without medication.

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 pushed into management. It’s sad really as it’s part of my life I really enjoyed.

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 windows move to the top left of the screen when it wakes up.

I’m not sure I want to get into a pocket logistics discussion. I have kids. There are never enough pockets.

Quite possibly. I don’t disagree with that.

But that doesn’t give me much confidence when it comes to finding out how to fix things that go wrong.

I have. With no problems. At Heathrow.

That’s basically why I went full Apple. I value my time.

Python is just as horrible. It’s ok for a bit of automation with system packages but the moment you end up with a venv it starts getting painful. I have seen much criminality rammed into AWS Lambda for example.

The c# language is now like an Indian train at rush hour. Busy and dangerous. Very easy to shoot yourself in the foot if you don’t know what you’re doing. LINQ and its contract breaking promises are a fun one for example. One interface returning IEnumerable<T> and you’re in big trouble when someone assumes the data is already materialised.