rlamacraft @rlamacraft@qoto.org

Yes, because he’s clearly incapable of representing his constituents without a piece of cloth tied around his neck. How absurd and demeaning to people of other cultures

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/09/maori-mp-rawiri-waititi-ejected-from-new-zealand-parliament-in-necktie-row

@trysdyn yeah, it’s much more efficient to just give everyone the money and than take it back from people who don’t need it with progressive taxes. That’s why I don’t have a problem with UBI, we just need a tax regime that forces those that don’t need it to pay it back. Local regions could then work out for themselves what the threshold is for not needing the money in their area

Tesco.com: there are 50 results for this search, you can view them in pages of 24 or 48, because reasons… #badsoftware

@trinsec That’s a fair point, maybe some of them are best described as a list of digits, but they’re certainly not natural numbers

Here’s a thing surprisingly few programmers seem to get: there’s a difference between a number and a string that happens to only contain digits. If it doesn’t make sense to add two such things together then it’s the latter and not the former; think ID numbers, ISBNs, credit card numbers, and the like

In attendance of the funeral of the unknown soldier there were 100 women who had lost their husband and all their sons to the First World War — just a stunning fact https://youtu.be/AE3dY0tNdjg

Nutmeg deserves better than “that Christmas spice”. It goes well in everything from mac-and-cheese to rice pudding to quiche. It’s an all-year all-round delicious addition to any dish and has simply become unfashionable. It was beloved by people around the world for centuries, and then mostly forgotten about; relegated to the time of year when we look to the past for recipes. I say it’s time to bring it back! I challenge all ye doubters to find me a dish it does not suit.

@hund It would be unethical for him to buy stocks in the companies whose products he’s reviewing, I agree, but through index funds or something that would be just fine. I also agree that making money from the stock market isn’t contributing much of value to the world but that doesn’t make it immoral to do nor mean he can’t continue to do what he does. Just seems like a bit of a weird opinion for him to hold in my opinion.

I always think it’s so humbling when someone says “I was a cook, I was never a chef”. The culinary industry is known for being toxic, but one thing I think they do quite right is stratifying their workforce. Meanwhile, in tech we have people selling themselves as senior devs after just a few years working. What’s more, we have the terminology to do so: programming, developer, software engineer…

@trinsec yeah, I’m pretty sure they could have used ZZ or something to exit, and any serious vimer has already rebound caps lock, but it’s funny all the same. It’s like how IoT devices are removing physical buttons and requiring an app to do anything…

@trinsec @marathon That’s right, this was a screenshot of the page for their Card component. Although I don’t think the homepage is much better. There are 2 links and a whole lot of white and black space. 90% of the time you go to the docs to navigate through the homepage to a specific page — the nav links should be top and center

Having to restarting your computer because the esc key disappeared, that's hilarious…!! 😂https://twitter.com/DudeWhoCode/status/1349626179976716289

material.io is such a badly designed website. You load it up, and all you see is a heading and lots and lots of whitespace. Function before form, people!

material.io is such a badly designed website. You load it up, and all you see is a heading and lots and lots of whitespace. Function before form, people!

@freemo Yep, nothing but peaceful protestors here https://youtu.be/ibWJO02nNsY?t=650 — just your friendly picketers engaging in their right to destroy federal property, thwart police barricades, and hunt down evacuating legislators. Just your everyday in the States, right?

=> https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jan/23/what-are-my-options-if-google-shuts-down-search-in-australia

> But shutting down Google search could be highly disruptive not just to consumers. Google’s search algorithm, combined with other products like Google Maps, enable it to provide contextual answers such as a local plumber, shop opening times and directions. Google also powers the search functions on many websites, including the Guardian.

Maybe the problem isn’t with the Australian law (of which I have no opinion) that would ”force” Google to close their search there, but rather the fact that so much of modern infrastructure is dependent on a single company

> They might have to ensure their services are compliant with a number of different search engines, and advertise across them.

Oh no! How terrible it would be to operate in a market that isn’t dominated by a monopoly

Local police station closed on a Thursday afternoon #scotland

The New York Times describing a 404 error as ““Not Found” in plain font” (ignoring the use of “font” when they meant “typeface”) is just hilarious, and very telling of how much the Web has changed, that it’s users don’t recognise the terminology that was once so common because of the frequency of its occurrence. Also, for all ye bounty hunters, the White Houses uses Wordpress, just sayin’

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/technology/biden-white-house-twitter-account.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage