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New comment by chrisseaton in "New Zealand admits it has access to Facebook takedown portal to censor content"

chrisseaton — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 10:38:54 +0000

> 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.

New comment by chrisseaton in "Fire Them All; God Will Know His Own"

chrisseaton — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 23:32:46 +0000

> 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 outcomes for graduates.

Good professors, students, and networking makes a good education though, so yes it is really going to a better education.

New comment by chrisseaton in "Remotely unlock/start/locate any remotely connected Honda/Nissan [resolved]"

chrisseaton — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 23:01:33 +0000

Ever seen someone shift a gear in a movie?

New comment by chrisseaton in "Why is Booz Allen renting us back our own national parks?"

chrisseaton — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 22:19:39 +0000

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 like Bumblehive. Definitely something they’re doing differently than the rest of the civil service.

New comment by chrisseaton in "Why is Booz Allen renting us back our own national parks?"

chrisseaton — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 22:01:16 +0000

> 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 have innovated and led the industry in areas like crypto. How come they get it right but the rest of the civil service can’t?

New comment by chrisseaton in "Remotely unlock/start/locate any remotely connected Honda/Nissan [resolved]"

chrisseaton — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 21:14:24 +0000

That's what I said about pressing the clutch isn't it? Just like pressing the brake in many automatic cars.

New comment by chrisseaton in "Remotely unlock/start/locate any remotely connected Honda/Nissan [resolved]"

chrisseaton — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 21:05:20 +0000

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.

New comment by chrisseaton in "Remotely unlock/start/locate any remotely connected Honda/Nissan [resolved]"

chrisseaton — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 19:55:46 +0000

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 education do it all around the world every day - I'm sure an American can figure it out.

New comment by chrisseaton in "Remotely unlock/start/locate any remotely connected Honda/Nissan [resolved]"

chrisseaton — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 19:32:33 +0000

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.

New comment by chrisseaton in "Twitter engineer: I thought I’d been hacked. It turned out I’d been fired"

chrisseaton — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 19:02:58 +0000

> Corporate media produces nothing of intellectual value.

Never seen any intellectual value in a BBC drama, comedy, or nature documentary?

New comment by chrisseaton in "How to JIT – An Introduction"

chrisseaton — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 18:24:47 +0000

How to install some machine code bytes. What machine code bytes do you want to install though? That's the interesting bit!

New comment by chrisseaton in "BloomTech, previously Lambda School, cuts half of staff"

chrisseaton — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 13:54:39 +0000

I’m Senior Staff and still have to use Stack Overflow regularly!

New comment by chrisseaton in "Apple blocks Coinbase Wallet"

chrisseaton — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 06:23:08 +0000

> 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-market-share

https://hypebeast.com/2022/9/apple-iphone-overtakes-androids...

https://www.engadget.com/iphone-overtakes-android-us-market-...

See?

New comment by chrisseaton in "Apple blocks Coinbase Wallet"

chrisseaton — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 05:48:06 +0000

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.

The reality is most people with a phone use an iPhone. Any tech or academic conference I go to, most people are using MacBooks.

New comment by chrisseaton in "Apple blocks Coinbase Wallet"

chrisseaton — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 00:55:16 +0000

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 difference do you think that makes?

New comment by chrisseaton in "Apple blocks Coinbase Wallet"

chrisseaton — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 00:15:42 +0000

Majority of people in US who use a phone use an iPhone, that’s just a fact. Their comment isn’t credible.

New comment by chrisseaton in "Apple blocks Coinbase Wallet"

chrisseaton — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 23:44:15 +0000

> 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 services. Very very rarely see anyone using anything but macOS.

New comment by chrisseaton in "Gitlab Dedicated – our new single-tenant SaaS offering"

chrisseaton — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 21:08:24 +0000

Credit cards vs invoicing seems orthogonal - this is about seeing a price up front.

New comment by chrisseaton in "Spotify CEO renews attack on Apple after Musk's salvo"

chrisseaton — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 13:42:05 +0000

Most people would answer ‘I’m happy with what’s on the App Store thanks I have no desire to use anything else’.

New comment by chrisseaton in "Spotify CEO renews attack on Apple after Musk's salvo"

chrisseaton — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 13:40:50 +0000

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.