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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.

Everyone with a paid support contracts will of course still get full and appropriate service even during this period.

Another surprising security feature regarding docker is that it bypasses firewall rules.

https://oneuptime.com/blog/post/2026-03-02-ufw-docker-fix-by...

The ability to solve maths problems still doesn't mean it is intelligent.

It doesn't know what it is doing.

Its funny that the article uses Wikipedia as an example, given it is a tool that always needs a caveat: "anyone can edit it, always use the source, never trust it directly."

There are many instances where I have seen Wikipedia have bias, or be misinformation.

AI just needs the caveat that it is not really intelligent, but a very good predictive text machine, which you should always ask to provide citations.

The CoC reminds me a lot of this quote by Sowell:

"...if the answer to the problem is that people should just be virtuous, then there is no problem, because we have known that for thousands of years."

Why did they need the spectrogram?

I live in the UK and am citing an article based on Freedom of Information requests.

The UK has a problem with free speech at the moment. This is why the https://freespeechunion.org exists.

I don't think so. This is an interview with the German authorities: https://youtu.be/-bMzFDpfDwc

In the UK 30 people are arrested a day for social media posts online. Only about 10 percent resulting in convictions.

Police don't face criminal charges for this.

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/police-make-30-arr...

When I log into AWS there is a big graph saying "Cost savings" and offers all the different ways to save money.

The idea that AWS is abusive seems a bit much to me. There is Amazon Lightsail for people who prefer pay-monthly upfront costs.

I love using AI to code, as it saves me a lot of boring and repetitive typing.

I only commit code that is roughly the same as I would have written anyway.

It feels as good for developer ergonomics as the move away from CRT monitors.

I've used a dynamically typed language extensively. I don't think they are suited for anything but small scripts.

Refactoring is a nightmare, as as types don't exist, the compiler can't help you if you try to access a property that doesn't exist.

I think generally people have realised this, and there are attempts to retrofit types onto dynamically typed languages.

I used gtk2, it was ok, but I preferred Ubuntu's Unity interface when it came out.

Gnome 3 seems similar to Unity nowadays, and it is pretty good.

I find it much easier to use than Windows or Mac, which is credit to the engineers who work on it.

Do you run the models locally?

No local model for me manages to get function calling right.

Doubtful it is anything to do with simplicity.

Python's success is explained by it being the language of choice for AI.

"Turkey" is what most English people would use, which makes it the defacto official name, despite what the UN might say.

Most English people aren't even able to type ü on a keyboard.

FPTP forces coalitions to form before the vote, as otherwise they never get power.

In alternative systems, you vote and then coalitions jostle to form a majority afterwards.

Do you have any information e.g. blog posts on this pattern?

It reminds me of the proposal to shake hands at the end of Goldeneye:

Miyamoto, with a series of suggestions for the game. “One point was that there was too much close-up killing – he found it a bit too horrible. I don’t think I did anything with that input. The second point was, he felt the game was too tragic, with all the killing. He suggested that it might be nice if, at the end of the game, you got to shake hands with all your enemies in the hospital.”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/oct/26/goldeneye...

"Ireland also has relatively little money in politics, limits on donations..."

There are a crazy amount of NGOs in Ireland, 1 for every 155 people, many pushing forward their own political policies and views.

https://unherd.com/newsroom/in-ireland-its-progressives-who-...

With virtual threads it's difficult to see WebFlux being used in new projects.