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Canadian software engineer living in Europe.

  • "Sir David Attenborough, 100 years old today" would have be a lot better.

  • I've had Gentoo (and later, Arch) on my Surface Pro 3 for a decade. It's fully supported, touch screen and all.

  • Good point. I've added a link for intergenerational context ;-)

  • "Dystopian" is a great word for this.

  • What do you think this is, Frogger?

  • I don't see Cambridge on the list. Whew!

  • It's a bit of a long read, but this was our experience.

    TL;DR: The NHS has doubled down on midwifery, which has resulted in two classes of care:

    • Battle-hardened nurses who switched to maternity
    • People with little formal education, who think that "hypnobirthing" and nice music is a reasonable replacement for actual medicine.

    It's a roll of the dice as to which one you get.

  • I suspect that anyone who's had to deal with childbirth in this country would say: "duh".

  • As this is a new project, have you considered hosting your code somewhere other than GitHub? Codeberg and GitLab are similarly user-friendly platforms without the many downsides of supporting Microsoft.

  • I've never tried it, but I haven't heard that it was thwarted yet.

  • Given that there's no one driving the car, there little disincentive to smash a tail light or window of one of these things pull in front of you.

    You can also disable them nonviolently.

  • A platform that's down 10% of the time and that now has a reputation of locking people out of their accounts without reason for weeks at a time cannot, under any definition of the word, be considered "stable".

    I just.... don't get it. This whole community, we're supposed to be building stuff for ourselves and each other, and for some reason people keep going to bat for a company that demonstrably holds every one of us in contempt.

    Just.... stop using their shitty tools already.

  • Why hasn't he migrated to something more stable?

  • This has got to be the dumbest take on this sorry one could possibly have. Shame on the Guardian for publishing it so uncritically.

    There are zero downsides to the public for a healthy school lunch mandate. Pointing out that some kids would rather eat garbage for lunch does not mean that the government should pay for that.

    If the government is paying to feed kids, then it should be paying for healthy food. If some parents would rather feed their kids deep fried crap well... you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink.

    I'd wager that the "concern" these companies (why do we have private companies in charge of feeding school kids again?) is really based on the fact that these meals are more expensive and so it cuts into their margin.

  • Those are reasons why it's not being addressed effectively, not why the problem exists in the first place.

    • Are these homes bought for investment that can't sell for the amounts the owners want?
    • Were they inherited and being held unsold due to being tied up legally?
    • Are they unsuitable for human habitation, either because of neglect or changing regulation?
    • Are they simply temporarily empty due to "housing purchase chain" problems?
    • Is the market undervalued?
    • Has some rich supervillain bought up a few million homes just because he hates poor people that much?

    The article proposes a question and then fails to answer it.

  • An article titled "why are homes left empty..." doesn't answer the question.

  • Don't be that guy.

  • While he's right in this case, calling him a "prominent American journalist" is as inaccurate as his usual "reporting".

  • Solarpunk @slrpnk.net

    I like the idea of solarpunk...

  • Star Trek Social Club @startrek.website

    How to find the "Star Trek Logs"

    www.imdb.com /title/tt13526150/