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In the UK dentists are mostly private, it hasn't increased the quality or availability in the least. Public transport is actually a fairly small part of the nation's transport, the…

I can't say for sure, but I think cryptos are actually behaving a bit more like precious metals, in that people use them as speculative store of value - so a bit like you say, comm…

.. serveral 'ours layter ... Thanks for that rabbit hole of nostalgia, just remembered how wild Mac OSX 10.1 in its first release was. It was a real game changer, and looked great …

>...and still, no one seems willing to answer if they or their kids should be among the dead/maimed Why don't you instead ask that of the Chinese? How many of them are willing to g…

Money flows out of equities and into bonds which yield a higher more dependable return when interest rates are high enough. The equities market was already running at artificially …

Really good article, and this made me laugh "Essentially, to juice its P&L in the short term, SVB ambled into 2023 almost completely unhedged".

Was it denazification, demilitarization, or de-satanization? I've lost track of the many stated goals. Or was it to help those poor souls in the DPR shoot down more civilian jets? …

"ChatGPT lied to me and then tried to deny it" It's getting more human every day!

I would the say the opposite is true, the western media is more than happy to discuss and (over) analyse every little detail of information that quite freely flows into our media m…

People are tribal and emotional about the invasion of Ukraine principally because they see that Russia is a bully, and people naturally revile bullying - even to the point that the…

Russia as it currently is, is a massive and diverse country with many talented and artistic people. It could take any number of courses, and act in many different ways to be a bett…

For the longest time I've written my own smart pointers to manage the lifetime of pretty much anything that needs a cleanup - database connections, query objects, file handles, thr…

And step 1 in marketing a new language is a cute mascot, obviously.

I think the fact that it eventually ended up as a server app language took everybody by surprise - Sun never saw it as anything like that at inception I'm sure. Adding JDBC and lat…

WaitForMultipleObjects (been in Win32 forever) is not really related to IO completion Ports, whose API came a lot later. My understanding is that condition variables were designed …

I'm surprised to say I feel the same. I'm Scottish and never really had much affection for the royal family, but I also feel quite sad and that it's the end of an era. She was the …

Doesn't matter, I read and enjoyed it anyway :)

Agreed, I can't see anything stopping it mutating further if the opportunity arises. I believe the understanding is that the omicron variant may have evolved further in an immuno-c…

Could somebody actually tell me which 'colonies' they're meaning when people talk of this? As far as I can tell they're either already trading as much with the UK as they want to b…

Well, that was all good up until the point that CDS's exposed the Ratings Agencies as corrupt, and LIBOR imploded, again due to corruption.

Motif is also a bit chunky, and the serif font looks a bit dated, but it is very consistent, and has well designed colour schemes so very easy on the eye. The dock was a really use…

Lol, I can just hear the politicians now. "Tough on bugs, and tough on the causes of bugs!" As they add even more time-sapping process to every release.

>I'm tempted to say that this story uses hindsight to maybe give Apple at least a bit too much credit. >When the iPod first came out it wasn't anything obviously special. Well, it …

Or if your menu bar has so many items it can't all fit to the left of the notch? Would probably have to straddle the notch, but would still look pretty weird.

>people lose things, and Apple conveniently forgot about this to push the dongle ecosystem. I think it's a bit unfair to say that Apple deliberately change interfaces in order to p…