It's The fucking Critic. What did you expect?

Brexellends

All corporate donations ought to be banned outright. And a strict limit placed on personal donations, set at an amount the average person could feasibly afford

Exactly what's happening on the BBC. They report on some outrageous news story involving Reform which gives them more publicity, so they rise in the polls, so the BBC justifies amplifying them further.
BBC doesn't seem to realise they're promoting a far-right org that will defund them if voted in.

It's true that Reform is polling well. Fortunately the next general election is about four years away. Reform gained control of several local councils in July and are making an embarrassing mess of running them, so hopefully people will see how bad they would be at running the country.

Every single attempt to optimize away the understanding part of writing code will introduce bugs that end up taking 10 times longer to find and fix.

The finding part requires first understanding what the code is supposed to be doing, and identifying that it is not doing that.

Yes, for one thing pages can't get mislaid or put out of order. Although there are tractor feed laser printers.

Because of multipart carbon stationary, presumably

*£200K+, obvs

Yes and even worse all costs of MP constituency offices (rent, staff salaries, supplies and all) have to go through the MP's expenses. Leading to people getting upset at headlines of £200+ annual expenses as if they spent it all on mars bars. Would be far better to have it administered centrally

And so many people don't realise that. I had a ridiculous twitter exchange with someone who was convinced the NHS was a money pit because - he thought - his bottom of the range health policy gave him cover for everything that could happen to him. ("Gold Plated" - his words 🤣)

That's why UK private health insurance policies cost a few thousand a year, and US policies are a few thousand a month. The UK ones don't cover the cost of putting you back together if you are in a crash, fall off a ladder, etc.

(Well, it's one of the reasons. That and rank profiteering obvs)

PEP 672 – Unicode-related Security Considerations for Python | peps.python.org share.google/jB4sAlsDo5W4...

Risk from Unicode support in source code has been known for some time... It's a shame that editors and code review tools like GitHub etc don't do *something* to alert the viewer

UTS #55: Unicode Source Code Handling share.google/8cUcbimZ40rs...

Probably mid 90s. Unfortunately the industry decided that advertising alone would be enough and so it never happened

In the early days of news media getting a web presence, there was talk of microbilling - pay a few pence to read an article, without needing an account with every news outlet. Never happened. I'm sure it would generate more revenue than paywalls because who subscribes to more than a few of those?