Satellite TV was much more popular compared to cable generally in European countries, so phone lines make up the bulk of wired networking in a lot of places, making DSL a pretty practical option without having to lay a whole network. I get the feeling in countries where cable is much more common, DSL is reserved for the last resort level of service, whereas in Europe many of the telecoms make sure to deploy the latest standards.

I finally swapped to 1gbps fibre a year or two ago, but before that I was on about 250mbps with G.Fast DSL that honestly wasn’t bad at all. I believe the theoretical limits go much higher than that too

Hm. Secret police. Where have I heard of that before

Helps if you read past the headline

FOR. A. SINGLE. CHANGE. Yes. For a single change. Like having an editor with 2 minute save lag, pushing commit using program running on cassette tapes

Am I reading this bit correctly? Are they complaining about testing a CI change and it only taking a couple of minutes to verify?

And this person’s using a compiled language?

Hmm this seems to be an exclusive with them as I can’t find a better source.

Reminder the Daily Mail is not in the business of reporting the news but rather keeping right wingers angry.

So archive link to avoid funding a paper that historically always sides with fascists: https://archive.ph/8JgX8

Oh, I guess I’m a stoneager with a penchant for functional elitism then.

Though I will admit OOP is valid for involved data modelling, everything else should be functional though.

I’ve also trained myself out of most short variable names for maintainability reasons

I mean… You can still technically use Eclipse if you’re a masochist… Android studio is head and shoulders above it despite all of the Jetbrains nonsense though

If you want to make a website, you still only need a text editor

If you want to make a C++/rust/go/python/Haskell/brainfuck application for something that isn’t a phone? You still only need a text editor and a compiler

The non-can-only-be-used-to-refill-a-bottle kind of water fountains being as ubiquitous as they seem to be, seems to be a uniquely American thing.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen one in the UK since I was in school

Nearly a century later, people still bring up how Hugo Boss designed the SS uniform, Fanta was made by coke to sell to the Nazis and Volkswagen was founded by Nazis and used slave labour to build military jeeps and prison transports.

Now, I’m not saying this is directly equivalent to those instances, but a lot of these American organisations think people are going to forget their capitulations quickly.

They don’t make their decisions based on that directly, the money pays for propaganda. Given the ultra rich are now pretty clearly the root of most modern day problems we’re facing, it’s in their interest to spend any amount they can to ensure people lay the blame on people less fortunate, rather than sharpening the guillotine blade.

A lot of people bought into Thatcher and Reagan’s neoliberal bootstraps bullshit, hook, line and sinker. Those people all believe success means you must have worked hard and been smart. The reality that everyone in the class of “successful” to them, is successful due to intentional or unintentional nepotism.

This is why they look to people like Musk and Trump as authority, they truly believe they actually did something virtuous to end up where they are and therefore have anything of value to say. This is rather than the reality where they simply won the birth lottery and decided to also be spiteful, unlikable assholes filled with contempt.

Laws aren’t being followed currently

Why aren’t you guys calling them concentration camps yet?

FWIW it’s kinda coming from the American far right

Elon paid for, fascist pipsqueak, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon’s legal fees when he got locked up for assaulting a pensioner.

There’s a shitload of dark money that arrived into our current far right party du jour via crypto, almost the exact same instant Elon publicly said something in support of them (funding of British political parties by foreign nationals is illegal)

Twitter is still used by a lot of people in this country for some godawful reason.

We also voted for Brexit remember, we have a lot of homegrown morons here too

The only thing it does outside their borders is burn through soft power.

Now given the motivation seems to be the increasingly boomeresque notion of oil = power, this is just another in a pretty catastrophically moronic combination of moves.

It must be so easy being one of the quislings in his ranks, you just need to tell him doing something abhorrent will lead him to power. He clearly hasn’t got the mental faculties to: A. Identify a lie or B. Rebuke those who do lie. I’d almost feel sorry for him if he wasn’t one of the worst examples of humanity to ever respire

Could be the other way, our brains nerfing the incredible flavour so we don’t all die of hyperhydration

You can’t just keep invading countries to distract from being a massive kiddy fiddler

All sorts of weird precedents are being set in the shameless kowtowing to the deluded traffic cone

Lawyers are going to be making any kind of weird argument based on some precedent set during this presidency for decades

Why, it’s magnificent, that’s what the fuck it is