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I liked the book, so did my colleagues, and we even had a meetup to discuss the book on how to improve the legacy codebase we had inherited.

Don't you think it is odd that the BBC led with this feature, for what would have been a critical failure of infrastructure for a Western nation?

Losing electricity causes significant disruption, emergency generators have to turn on for hospitals, the transport system stops.

The BBC is not what it once was, so assume it is no better than any other outlet in wanting to create a narrative.

The actual reality on the ground for many people would have been far from the whimsical event the BBC portrays.

Context:

> We have also seen a series of problems involving misuse and exploitation of student visas, where visas are used as an entry point for living and working in the UK without any intention to complete the course, and increasing numbers of asylum claims from students at the end of their course, even though nothing substantive has changed in their home country while they have been in the UK.

> In 2021, international students at UK universities generated an estimated £20.65 billion in exports through living expenditure and tuition fees, but it is right that these benefits are shared.[footnote 48] The Government will explore introducing a levy on higher education provider income from international students, to be reinvested into the higher education and skills system. Further details will be set out in the Autumn Budget.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/restoring-control...

Kindles are great

> Adding the pungency of ginger is a good way to resist the taste-masking effects of 80 to 85 decibels of cabin noise

I think they meant to say "cinnamon", biscoff do not contain ginger

> "It's raining outside" is the most famous example. This sentence has no subject at all, and yet native English speakers feel a strong need to place "it's" at the beginning.

German: es regnet French: Il pluet

I don't see why English is special here.

If you are interested in Mario 64 have a look at Kaze Emanuar's YouTube channel.

https://youtube.com/channel/UCuvSqzfO_LV_QzHdmEj84SQ

From Wikipedia:

> Starting from 2022, Emanuar would begin uploading videos discussing Nintendo 64 technical details and optimization techniques,[15] along with outlining Super Mario 64's bugs, technical shortcomings and poorly optimized features, fixing them in the process.[16][17][18][19] He would heavily rework the game's source code in 2024 and use it as a base for his collaborative ROM hack Return to Yoshi's Island, which resulted in increased frame rate and improved graphical fidelity compared to the original game, even when running on the original Nintendo 64.

What is the tl;dr of this article.

I thought this was going to be Microsoft's version of docker.

It has happened a few times in history, e.g. the French revolution and the Bolshevik revolution.

However once they killed the "elite" or "oppressor" they couldn't stop the killing, and kept redefining who the "oppressor" was, until it was anyone who had one more cow than the rest.

I love that that the literal English translation of the German word for logistics leader "Nachschubfuerhrer" is "shove towards leader".

I think that is far to harsh actually.

It has some interesting ideas and architecture.

OLMo

Read the small book by O'Reilly "Java the legend".

I wish X would allow browsing threads, which is the only reason I use xcancel.

I wouldn't even mind seeing advertisements.

I just don't want to have an X account.

> If it's not your job, then just ignore the reports.

If you have a highly conscientious personality, this is easier said than done.

Don't be silly, just because there are three right-wing parties, it doesn't mean they map onto that range.

The label "far right" is just used to smear people, rather than something that represents a real group in Britain.

Counterpoint:

> Our conclusion is deliberately modest: under the conditions Prisma Compute cares about, the Rust rewrite behaved better than the stable release we had been testing. That was enough to change what we shipped.

https://www.prisma.io/blog/bun-rust-rewrite-prisma-compute

There is no "far right" in the UK -- it's a label that is used to smear people to excuse state failure.

> Same exact device, different software depending on when it was bought.

Can't you update it to the latest firmware?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...

Keir Starmer said that the levers of power aren't connected to anything. And he was right.

In particular, the Human Rights Act means that the UK cannot control its border, despite the population repeatedly voting for decreased immigration and stronger borders.

So far, politicians have not wanted to change these structural issues, so they keep on getting removed, as the population becomes ever more enraged, by instances such as this:

"Ahmadi and Alshafe met on a small boat from France arriving in the UK in June 2025, while Alshafe and Al-Danasurt, who arrived in the UK in October 2024, were roommates at the hotel.

The evening before the attack the three got ready at the hotel before getting a bus into Brighton."

"Three men who raped woman on Brighton beach jailed" - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyv0vqp04pgo

For forty-eight minutes on the evening of Monday 23 June — a 33°C midsummer Monday — the frequency of Great Britain's electricity grid sat below 49.8 Hz, the boundary of normal operation.

That reminds me a lot of this xkcd comic where a user depends on an application overheating when the space-bar is pressed.

https://xkcd.com/1172

It looks like quite a lot of analysis went into the rewrite

https://bun.com/bun-unsafe-audit

If the tests pass, then why not accept the rewrite?

An interesting article of Prisma using the rewrite:

https://www.prisma.io/blog/bun-rust-rewrite-prisma-compute

Is Google really a critical dependency for android? I've installed Lineage OS before which worked.

> But arbitrary cancellations and delayed disbursements are unprecedented. And justifying them on the basis of politics—prohibiting, for instance, grants that include language referencing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)—was unheard of until now.

It is odd how removal of DEI is framed as being political, when it is the other way round. DEI schemes were deeply political, and depended on who can claim to be the biggest victim.

> The Commission ... spent virtually all of their time with ... industry lobby groups.

This is how the European Union works.

It is the fact that this tool would only be providing minors with these "banned books" that shows a lack of social awareness.

It is the choice of the individual to base their project around these "banned books", which invites this discourse.

As expected, the book examples given were not "banned".

They're usually school libraries that are removing books from their collection that contain explicit material, usually at the request of parents.