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Isn't the metric that you've used "bugs per commit ~ per new line of code" going to miss the issue? All code is technical debt. If rsync releases used to have 500 lines changed and…

The UK spends a lower fraction of its GDP on health than the US (the US is an outlier because of its system). The UK's NHS is not why it's not taking part in this mess.

Yes maths is singular, just like physics. We would say in the UK "maths is hard, physics is also hard"

Only Hamas could do that but this article is pointing out that all of Gaza (not just Hamas members) are being starved.

For those (like me) who didn't understand what MINASWAN means, it stands for Matz Is Nice And So We Are Nice: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/MINASWAN

It's the only social media I still use. I don't notice "disjointed communities" I just look at the posts from people I follow without knowing which server they are on. I'm aware yo…

I'm not a hardware tinkerer - but if there was a production version of this, I would buy it. But I guess I'm a niche market.

This seems to be a mischaractisation of what she was saying: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/05/08/n...

I made a Google calendar program for the Inkpad 6color eInk display. Because of the small number of displays I doubt there is anyone else using my code and that's ok. It's Arduino …

It might be region specific (I'm in the UK) - but I don't "see" the new model anywhere e.g. if I go to: https://platform.openai.com/playground/chat?models=gpt-4o The model the page…

The Wayland leg works fine for me on gnome+wayland.

I agree there are cases where Kafka and MQTT are often used together. If you have lots of MQTT clients producing messages fanned-in to a small number of backend apps (or consuming …

MQTT.org can't answer that as it's a web page for for a protocol. I've worked on platforms that do have a historian feature but it will vary from broker to broker. (disclosure, I w…

This comment seems backwards to me. If you're funnelling incoming messages in to hundreds of topics (or less) Kafka is a great "fat pipe" if you need millions (or tens of millions)…

FAANG isn't a very good acronym if Microsoft is in it. GAMMAN would would better.

There is an argument that the larger the company, the less human - the more admin and beholdenness to anonymous shareholders after short term profits and therefore it correlates to…

Not really in the same way. The Standard Model is built out of quantum field theories that take as a given our experiment results that matter on quantum scales is unlike the "large…

GAMMAN

There are lots of brokers and Eclipse Amlen is coming soon: https://www.eclipse.org/amlen/ (disclosure: I work on Amlen)

It seems to be illegal in the EU+UK because it contains E222: citation: https://www.hot-headz.com/huy-fong-sriracha-chilli-sauce I'm not saying you can't buy it on Amazon and I don…

Have you ever come across the game "Guess Who?" Do they have grey hair? Yes, they do. Sounds entirely natural to me.

See the section about "Down with skool" here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_Latin

"Essentially it was set up as a Canadian entity for people who wanted to work on SCL projects who didn’t want to move to London. That’s how AIQ got started: originally to service S…