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2008: "The UK-based IT department of the fifth largest bank continues to dwindle as more jobs go overseas... This round of cuts, starting in June and lasting 12 months, involves up to 250 permanent IT roles and 200 contractors from the bank's technical delivery division, responsible for software development and design." [1]

2018: "Timeline of trouble: how the TSB IT meltdown unfolded". [2]

It's probably more complicated than that, but perhaps not much more complicated.

[1] https://www.itpro.co.uk/197982/lloyds-tsb-cuts-more-uk-it-jo... [2] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jun/06/timeline-of...

> That said, I find the definition of conservatism quoted by the OP insightful: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

Insightful? I found it a straw man. I've long found left vs right to do more with personality traits. Tribalism is not reserved for either side.

On the right, people are more likely to be conservative as they prefer stability and what is known. Those on the left are not as conservative, as they prefer openness and unpredictability.

Both perspectives have merits.

Just a few days ago, he was hoping to "make people's money back". [1]

It's a bit sad, as he appears delusional. A less forgiving viewpoint would be that his background cultivated his sense of being untouchable; that it was just a case of having another go.

But not as sad as the people who lost money they couldn't afford to lose.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-63911363

I feel AWS ate Rackspace's lunch.

Rackspace were never part of the affordable hosting segment.

I think DigitalOcean ate the shared PHP hosters' lunch.

I've used DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr.

All have had OK ticket-based support.

There are horror stories out there for each one.

Something I recently missed emacs for, was being able to use it to transparent edit a file over SSH.

I couldn't find an easy way to do that with IntelliJ/phpstorm.

> The problem for me was JetBrains' privacy policy[0]. It is loosely-worded enough to forbid them practically nothing, and I find that especially appalling in a so-called "community edition".

What, specifically? Because I can see they are bound by the GDPR and it seems clear to me:

> If you install on-premises products such as IDEs or .NET & Visual Studio Tools, these products are located on your hardware. JetBrains does not provide hosting for these products and does not have access to any of your data processed with these tools, unless you actively decide to share this data with JetBrains.

They also have a good tutorial on installing it manually, for one of the cheaper droplets at $4 a month, or on Vultr at $3.50.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-inst...

Biscuit - "twice baked" in French.

> I still have a landline at home that I basically never use, "just in case".

I have a landline that I only use to call my mobile phone, when I lose it within the house.

In the English-speaking world it is a swastika.

I can understand the desire to reclaim the word swastika, but it might be an uphill battle.

> current government opinion

The current government opinion is actually often at odds with the police over this matter; they have been chastised openly on twitter by Braverman.

The police force are seemingly acting as a force unto themselves, captured by special interest groups.

Don't know if that is true.

https://www.bbc.com/academy-guides/music-copyright-in-tv-wha...

My point was criticising your underlying assumption that the lack of diversity is due to an unwelcoming environment, presumably as a result of intolerance to certain characteristics.

I don't know where you have got the "forced inclusion" part from. I only mentioned discrimination against people who may have wanted to be included.

Canada is quite far along too.

> I thought it would the the UK with the way they have literally arrested people for tweets...

There is an issue amongst all Western democracies, I think, of a victimhood culture, with certain characteristics forming a hierarchy.

If you have your house burgled, you will be given a crime number to send to your insurance company. If you are known to disagreement with people of a protected characteristic online, you will be asked to attend a police interview.

We have not yet grasped that abusers can, and do, use victimhood culture to abuse people.

Everyone being welcomed into contributing to the kernel can result in a natural lack of diversity, as it selects for people interested in technical programming.

It is the ham-fisted attempts to increase diversity for its own sake have ended up being discriminatory. [1]

If there are barriers stopping people contributing, these should be removed.

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2018/05/03/llvm_contributor_resi...

Mac seems to offer a more similar experience to Windows when it comes to corporate remote administration.

So Macs are what corporate provides to developers.

PHP's model is different, not a mistake.

It has proved successful so far. The shared-nothing, short-lived process avoids classes of issues such as with slow memory leaks, accidentally blocking event loops, and shared memory threading issues.

The language historically hasn't been that great, but its shared-nothing architecture has always been the good part.

PHP's unit of concurrency is the shared-nothing web request. [1]

It has proved a very successful model, combined with tools that cache PHP bytecode like opcache, and keep a pool of reusable PHP workers like php-fpm.

[1] https://slack.engineering/taking-php-seriously/

It proposes alternative measures for non-violent offences.

I see the title as a rhetorical device.

> If we can’t close down women’s prisons, we can at least slow down their expansion.

The headline is clickbait.

The article is mild proposals to rehabilitate, e.g. drug users.

postgres alpine is 90MB.

I can really recommend it, using a declarative docker-compose.yml file and then docker-compose command.

If employers offered the same working environment as a home office, it would be much more expensive.

Open plan is only cheap on the books. It costs a lot in decimating the focus of people working there.

No docker access? postgres images are available in seconds.

Why wouldn't you use ansible to manage one server?

It's a great tool with a low learning curve that just requires SSH.

I may have not used the right video, I can remember watching a documentary in the UK where things weren't separated properly, and they showed pieces of blue wrapping still in the feed.

> That history represents 400 years of colonialism. Latin represents classism and racism and denies the history of billions of marginalized peoples.

Bizarre.

It's apparently not economical to separate the plastic packaging from expired product. I've seen the same happen to old packets of biscuits being shredded.

I always think environmental charities should prepare an advert against the practice with a family eating breakfast, then one person picking some plastic packaging from their teeth.

You can see a Youtube video of it happening here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSse5hX4hI4

It's lost history. The Latin text on the old logo connects the present with the past. There would have been thousands of instances where people would have thought "what does that mean" and have a browse through history.

Airbrushed and homogenised in favour of a tire.

> I now prefer plain SQL

I prefer plain SQL using an ORM. Usually using the ORM for insertion, SQL for extraction.

The ones I have used are not mutually exclusive (doctrine, hibernate).