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Some people would rather have a pen knife than a Swiss army knife.

C++ has many things, and that is why many programmers want to stick with C

They became so bad so quickly and now all that's happening is more and more people swearing never to vote Labour again. This is leaving the door open for Reform at the next election.

Apathy won the last UK election and we defaulted to a Labour government.

They now seem determined to introduce this digital ID system regardless of how unpopular it is.

False positives are easy to spot if you have to work with them.

False negatives are harder, but in small, close knit industries you sometimes hear of a person you rejected doing well

A CPU can be a bigot?

Try the Roc language https://www.roc-lang.org/

It's at a very early stage of development but looks promising

It's now derived from the word 'gone'

Yes, thankfully the Omarchy developers have ignored this and closed the ticket.

Hopefully the Ladybird browser will become a viable choice soon

Perhaps not the wisest comment to make in light of recent events

For a lot of people it's "anyone who I disagree with".

If academic performance is no longer the main criteria for admission then it's no surprise that Oxford's ranking has gone down.

When people try to create a better spoon, I always remind them, that such a better spoon already exists and it's named spork.

Weren't there also stories of people being afraid of stepping into elevators with Steve Jobs? He'd ask them about the work they were doing and if the answer didn't please Jobs he'd fire them

Thank you for posting the video and making your config public.

As a recent hyprland user it's really useful being able to pick out the features I like and incorporating them into my setup.

The linux developer community has quite a diverse set of opinions so it would be unfair to say that they despise hyprland. At most it's just a small number of developers who hold such an extreme position.

Sadly this is a common path for many people on Youtube. Once they reach a certain level of popularity the original topic of their channel becomes a vehicle for "content creation" which they try to maximize for "engagement". The quality of the original content always nosedives.

Yes! They had all those visualisations and you could see the problem areas from vertical slicing were at the bottom of the onion, a couple of horizontal slices down there would have given the best solution.

You're right probably nothing, just a far right conspiracy theory:

"I hunt phone thieves professionally – I was still targeted on Oxford Street Former detective turned private investigator warns some London areas have become ‘lawless’" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/15/phone-thieves-ox...

"Some 78,000 people had phones or bags snatched from them on the street in the year ending March 2024, according to the Crime Survey for England and Wales.

That is equivalent to 200 “snatch thefts” a day and is a 153 per cent increase on the number of incidents in the year ending March 2023.

London is seen as the “epicentre” of phone thefts with £50 million worth of handsets reported stolen in the capital in 2024.

In a blitz on the “scourge of mobile phone theft” in February, Met officers arrested 230 people in just a week and recovered 1,000 handsets by targeting hotspots such as Westminster and the West End."

"Says who?" Then we are living in separate universes because this is common knowledge.

Wearing a nice watch in Soho, Liverpool Street, Tower Bridge is super sketchy and you're likely to get comments about how 'brave' (stupid) you are. These are just the places I've been to, West London is meant to be much worse.

Edit: Here are some links I found

- "Machete-ban petition launched as London watch robberies rise" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-64991862

- Statistics for stolen watches from 2018 to 2023 https://www.met.police.uk/foi-ai/metropolitan-police/disclos...

Which areas are you familiar with?

I witnessed the aftermath of a murder last week in Stoke Newington! (Saw that the road had been closed off)

I've seen women publicly urinating into drains on a busy road (Hackney)

There are massive increases in the number of homeless people (Tooting, Clapton, Shadwell), several times I've seen a homeless looking person harass women passing by.

Seen needles lying around (Shadwell, Commercial Road)

The general advice now is never to wear a watch in Central London, this wasn't the case 10 years ago.

I've seen security guards restrain people trying to leave shops in Central London after they shoplifted.

So yeah, some areas might not look sketchy, and these gentrified places (e.g. Stoke Newington) might be ok if you stick to the bars, restaurants and then Uber home, but for a lot of people these remain dangerous if you're in the wrong place at the wrong time.

It's become a feedback loop of "crime", "erosion of trust", "polarisation of communities".

I live in London and I can tell you no, it isn't mostly made up.

The crime rates in other places is irrelevant if the city you've lived in for the last 20 years has become noticeably more dangerous.

This is not "a narrative that keeps being pushed without merit", in fact the people who dismiss such claims are often the ones who live very insulated lives.

Does this kind of woke scolding still work?

He used a video with great narration back in the day to showcase the original release of Ruby on Rails.

Nearly 20 years later and it's surprising that more people don't do this.

Tim Cook is a "Keep things ticking along" CEO, not a "Change course to a new destination" CEO. Initiatives like this will probably require different leadership to succeed.

Here is a great list of papers that was curated by Brett Victor: https://worrydream.com/refs/by-date.html

Because a lot of people believe that large government institutions are nothing more than job programs for voters of Democrats.

The image is that for every scientist at Nasa there are countless administrators, HR ladies and diversity hires

That aesthetic is how you know you're on a good astronomy site