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bufio··on Where Have All the Websites Gone?
Which variety of wojak spam do you find most insightful?
bufio··on Ex Post Office CEO hands back award after IT failures lead to false convictions
The UK is pretty much a failed state.
bufio··on Ex Post Office CEO hands back award after IT failures lead to false convictions
Well, then. All is forgiven.
bufio··on IT employment grew by just 700 jobs in 2023
Yet the industry moans about a supposed shortage of tech workers.
bufio··on Gnome Mess Is Not an Accident
Come on, we all know the GNOME project does not work that way.
bufio··on NHS to investigate Palantir influencer campaign as possible contract breach
The UK government's phobia of doing anything in-house almost certainly stems from the enormous amount of money that the political class makes from government contracts.

The NHS could be as slow and bloated as a whale corpse, but doing everything in-house would probably still be more successful than contracting fraudster companies.

bufio··on NHS to investigate Palantir influencer campaign as possible contract breach
>NHS... Palantir influencer campaign

A combination of terms you'd never, ever want to see together in a sentence.

bufio··on iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to Mail
Low LUCK attribute.
bufio··on NetSurf Web Browser
I can't see the downsides to a lack of JS or syntax highlighting.
bufio··on Show HN: Possibly the most comprehensive design system collection
It's fitting that a showcase of busted corporate webshit breaks the browser's back function.
bufio··on Reasons to grow and keep big muscles
It's all in your head.
bufio··on Britain's got some of Europe's toughest surveillance laws. Now it wants more
I wouldn't call human trafficking a bogeyman.
bufio··on Britain's got some of Europe's toughest surveillance laws. Now it wants more
Probably means they're shitholes, because that's what they are.
bufio··on Britain's got some of Europe's toughest surveillance laws. Now it wants more
Britain feels simultaneously strict and lawless. It's strange, but it's hard to imagine things turning out any other way in this country.
bufio··on GDScript – Custom scripting language to be used with the Godot game engine
Because games have real-time constraints.
bufio··on Pitfalls of object oriented programming (2009) [pdf]
Where's the lie?
bufio··on New U.S. immigration rules spur more visa approvals for STEM workers
I'm not comfortable with this idea that we have to exploit immigrants to fund boomers' retirements.
bufio··on New U.S. immigration rules spur more visa approvals for STEM workers
I can see how it is an asset to businessowners. I cannot see how it is an asset to, say, qualified engineers who consequently cannot find a job in their field.
bufio··on Using Make – writing less Makefile
"Make actively blocks you from Getting Things Done." --Quote from someone suggesting CMake.
bufio··on Using Make – writing less Makefile
autoconf's principal purpose is to waste time.
bufio··on Using Make – writing less Makefile
http://9p.io/sources/plan9/sys/src/mkfile
bufio··on Challenging projects every programmer should try (2019)
Gentlemen, you can't hack in here; this is Hacker News.
bufio··on People aren't posting on social media as much
Doing away with chronological, non-curated feeds (by default) has disincentivised posting. Social interaction is no longer a concern for the few big social media companies. To a large extent, it has been optimised out.
bufio··on Labs.Google
Grim.
bufio··on New UK record for wind power set today – 21.81 GW between 0900-0930 GMT
Lovely. Can we have lower bills yet?
bufio··on Wayland vs. X – Overview
Has Wayland fixed the fact that compositing sucks by definition?
bufio··on Firefox 121 defaults to Wayland on Linux
You could wait a century and compositing would still suck.
bufio··on To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use
Correlation, causation, etc.
bufio··on PysimpleGUI
No.
bufio··on Python Is Easy. Go Is Simple. Simple != Easy
Maybe you could educate them.
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