Michel

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• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  Perl 6 never happens... Oh, wait....
• Commented on The Radiant Future! (Of 1995)
  But what passes for video on the internet today is 100% Macromedia Flash, so things could be worse. Realplabuffering...
• Commented on The impotence of the long-distance trillionaire
  The main edge that Tesla seems to have other than a bit of a name as the big mover in the field, is that special Tesla charging network. If I were in the market for an EV right now, as...
• Commented on Oh, 2022!
  enthusiasts hand My daily driver is a tool, barring catastrophic mishaps it will last me to 2030 and by then we'll have to see if there's still petrol available so it will likely be the last ICE car I...
• Commented on Oh, 2022!
  Note: Your Rabid Nazi Raccoons link points to the 2nd installment instead....
• Commented on Outage report
  [docker] But hours are saved if they do work. Yes. Initially it's all shiny and effortless, but unless you never upgrade anything at all ever, eventually it will break and you're left debugging something you know nothing about because it's...
• Commented on Invisible Sun: signed copies and author events
  Postage overseas (even the little one) has gotten rather stiff, indeed. Plus VAT/handling/stuff on arrival makes a UK paperback pretty much exactly twice the price it goes for at the canonical Dutch online bookshifter. Still. Said bookshifter hasn't exactly been...
• Commented on Placeholder? Placeholder!
  "Was tempted to make a joke about "pussy grabbing" as new TSA search method," Nothing new there. My sister confirms that that was already happening last year before Trump got elected. No pussyfooting about if you'll excuse the pun, a...
• Commented on Things Can Only Get Better! (Part 1)
  "Everything should be fluffy bunnies, unicorns and infinite mince pies by then, surely...?" The unicorns would definitely worry me, having read Charlie's take on those. shudder (For harmless little bunnies there's always Monty Python and mince pies, would that be...
• Commented on But it's not April 1st yet!
  "As for boot screens in kiosk systems I've seen my share of Linux-like command prompts blinking away on store displays and the like." Watching the inflight entertainment system on a Cathay 747 reboot was fun. Looking over the back of...
• Commented on Clickbait spasm: 14 gizmos I used in 2015
  Yup, same here. Went from iPhone 4S + iPad mini to iPhone 6 full stop. Part of that is the increased screen size making a lot more things bearable to do on the phone, another part of that was that...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Equoid
  "(elves, dragons, orcs, and the related underpinnings of Tolkein's matter of Britain)" I'm going to assume you did that on purpose, though the purpose isn't quite clear....