Australis13 @ Australis13 @fedia.io

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Disagree. I have used the online chat function (am in Australia) and chatted with a rep a couple of times. In both cases they quickly solved my problem. I would prefer to buy elsewhere, but in some cases Amazon is the only way to get items from overseas and not have a massive hassle if they get damaged en route.

I think it's just that we're possessive/protective of "our" code, even more so if one is passionate about programming. We've put a lot of effort into it, then somebody else comes along and "ruins" our "perfect" (to our eyes) formatting/styling!

Some linters can do both. Getting one set up as an automated job whenever code is pushed to the repo is on my TODO list...

I felt that. I have a colleague whose coding style is different to mine and whenever they work on code that I originally wrote, I have to resist the temptation to modify things to camelCase.

Yeah, that's what concerns me. It definitely sounds plausible and I'm not an expert in the legalities of this, so from my outside (Australian) perspective this very much looks like a viable path for the GOP to take power. I haven't followed much of Johnson's activities either, but from what I've seen of him he strikes me as very dodgy.... much like our ex PM Scott Morrison.

Somebody please tell me that this guy is wrong.

Very likely to be the physical force applied by the headphones, depending on how they are worn. I cannot use certain designs because they become uncomfortable even if only worn for short periods.

This is utterly disgusting and I hope the officers involved in this appalling abuse of power lose their positions.

It serves as yet another example of why the neurodiverse community should never trust law enforcement.

Thanks for that. A very interesting read; I am inclined to believe the author, given how they describe the failure of processes.

The thing is, though, I think most (or at least enough) voters actually do want this. Trump is clearly the preferred Republican candidate and that's been obvious for some time. On the Democrats side, Biden is the lead candidate and likewise, it has been obvious that he was likely to be it for months. Ergo, it's a Biden-Trump rematch.

Obviously nobody is happy about this, but it's hardly surprising.

Well, I guess they had to come up with something to explain the fallout from COVID since they simultaneously claim that either (a) it's not real or (b) it's just a mild flu.

Indeed. I'd hardly classify this as going "rogue"; rather, inadequate guard rails in place for this application.

The browser addon "AdNauseum" can help with that, although it's not a complete solution.

Ugh. If I need to collaborate with my colleagues, I'll visit their office; I don't need (or want) to hear every phone call they make or their music escaping their headphones.

I cannot stress enough how much I hate open plan offices and am so glad I do not work in one.

I really hope you're right about him losing the general election.

That is better than a fuselage failure, but still disturbing if you're correct - surely there are checks for exit door plugs since it would be at higher risk of failure.

Multiple news articles are reporting that this aircraft had its post-production certification only two months ago. For a problem of this magnitude to develop in such a short time is very disconcerting.

I doubt that they ever will.

Huh? What does how a drive size is measured affect the available address space used at all? Drives are broken up into blocks, and each block is addressable.

Sorry, I probably wasn't clear. You're right that the units don't affect how the address space is used. My peeve is that because of marketing targeting nice round numbers, you end up with (for example) a 250GB drive that does not use the full address space available (since you necessarily have to address to up 256GiB). If the units had been consistent from the get-go, then I suspect the average drive would have just a bit more usable space available by default.

My comment re wear-levelling was more to suggest that I didn't think the unused address space (in my example of 250GB vs 256GiB) could be excused by saying it was taken up by spare sectors.

Of course. The thing is, though, that if the units had been consistent to begin with, there wouldn't be anywhere near as much confusion. Most people would just accept MiB, GiB, etc. as the units on their storage devices. People already accept weird values for DVDs (~4.37GiB / 4.7GB), so if we had to use SI units then a 256GiB drive could be marketed as a ~275GB drive (obviously with the non-rounded value in the fine print, e.g. "Usable space approx. 274.8GB").