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If you swap decentralized for personalized then the point about hyper-curated media bubbles do make sense. It feels backwards because it’s not how we use decentralized in the indus…

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

Isn't AI supposed to work for us rather than the other way around? If AI can't learn to code, it's not AI, and it's not going to make it.

It’s certainly a reason not to use it in production though.

Due to all the reports of mangled English (which is indeed a problem), a lot of people seem to have the false impression that real Scots is wildly different to English. The Scots f…

Probably better than Sweden. Estonia did a great job and influenced the UK but GOV.UK is a much bigger project due to the relative population size.

GDS don’t actually take over many services. It’s HMRC’s responsibility to update their services to meet GOV.UK standards.

It's definitely illegal to discriminate on those grounds in the UK ( https://www.gov.uk/guidance/equality-act-2010-guidance ). There are exceptions like modelling or acting where r…

Yes, if it happened today it'd be covered by the Data Protection Act 2018, which is the UK implementation of GDPR. The limit has increased to £17 million or 4% of annual global tur…

Without regulation like GDPR, Facebook aren't obliged to state what those stupid buttons actually do with regards to the information they store about you. Being open and honest wit…

Not just a site too. Almost every significant government service is being migrated to that domain, linked from that site and designed to the same standards.

WSL and sometimes Docker. If it belongs on the command line I keep it in the Ubuntu environment. I've been swinging between the Jetbrains IDEs, Atom and VS Code over the last year …

We call them semantic because they have extra technical meaning in HTML (built in WAI-ARIA roles for example). For example, browsers expose them as landmarks for screen readers. Th…

It's not after event, the "after" is for inserting a pseudo-element. That then sits inside the original link element and hits the tracking URL by trying to load a resource from it …

Worse than the Hackintosh users, Apple have just about lost me completely to Windows. Apple held my attention for years because I need Adobe software and prefer a Unix enviroment. …

I thought it was more that they were opening a connection for several queries but doing other blocking IO tasks in between the queries, rather than just computation.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In the 90s, when they introduced the Advanced Higher they changed the Higher Grade to remove a lot of the deeper computer science components. Having been in one of the last years t…

For the reasons we don't have one true server-side framework, (other than languages).

I think they're okay for mass communication (product updates, etc) but not in reply to a customers email.

Older versions of iOS had a bug where zoom levels would mess up when device orientation was changed. For a while disabling zoom was a reasonable alternative but it's not justifiabl…

They're just acknowledging that everything is moving forwards, I imagine that they're pleased to have influenced the other frameworks. Ember in particular seem to have learned a lo…