This budget will be a tax on income, not big business, rightly or wrongly. The Treasury already learnt that lesson last time - they won’t repeat the mistake.

TalkTalk. They’re terrible. Was thinking of going to Virgin Fibre, honestly, but have been avoiding it.

Cats have the right to roam, whereas dogs don’t. The law treats cats in a weird way that doesn’t apply to dogs.

This, speaking as a dog owner. Also I get annoyed a lot at seeing dog shit everywhere, so I get it.

Cats are also annoying, in so far they’re held to a different standard, but what are you gonna do? 🤷‍♂️

Edit: tbh, as often the issue is inconsiderate people.

Can confirm. Just bought a gaming chair to replace an office chair that lost one of its arm rests.

Just buy an office chair.

I mean, it has Corbyn clusterfuck written all over it, really.

No, no, that can’t be right. Randy said the game was super optimal. 🤔

I guess that means I’ll buy it when the full story is finished and all the episodes released? 🤷 I just don’t have any interest in buying half a story.

Edit: okay, read the article. Kind of odd, in so far as they already have everything finished, but they’re doling out the game in pieces. Maybe as a kind of marketing strategy?

I don’t really get it, but at least they have the game done and are planning to release it at a reasonable price. 👍

I’m sure Silksong will be good - Shovel Knight was good. But I wonder if they’ve kept the price relatively low to move into the impulse buy territory, because even they know the amount of hype around the game is flash in the pan.

Speaking primarily as a Go developer, what I see is companies cutting costs, and Java is battle-tested and there’s a tonne of talent out there who know the language. If Java in your area already pays more, I’d say you’ve already got your answer.

Besides which, if Go truly does eat the Java world in the next couple of years (it won’t), the language is still young enough for you to pick it up fairly quickly. Especially with the help of AI.

Shades of this imo:

talks were going well until the BMA resident doctors’ committee told its co-chairs that it could not approve the government’s deal because it did not address the BMA’s demand that resident doctors receive a 29% pay rise over the next few years.

The BMA seem to be of the opinion that money is the deal breaker. As I understand it, negotiations were underway to improve conditions, but no dice.

I feel like they’ve misjudged the government or public sentiment, or both.

I’m struggling to understand how Sony could force it on a technical level when Microsoft controls the default PC OS. Could maybe try a legal route, but I’m not sure how they would argue it.

I haven’t gone through it thoroughly but the first thing that stuck out was the use of a default logger. I don’t think libraries should log by default. If you do allow a logger to be injected in I think it should be an interface.

I’ve switched to using Jerboa from Sync and it’s absolutely fine for my casual usage and it doesn’t have ads, which is a big plus point.

I’m glad that PS5 owners get to play Forza, but overall I don’t have a lot of confidence in Microsoft’s ability to stay in the hardware market, which is concerning for everyone as I think Sony will leverage that position to raise their prices on their hardware and on PSN.

Xbox has said it will be producing a new console next gen with powerful hardware, but I will probably stay away, despite owning a Series console this gen.

I mean, the optical fingerprint sensors they’ve been using on the Pixels are absolutely garbage, so I will never use this feature.

No no, it’s move fast and break things, silly. ☺️

I can imagine them carrying on making consoles this generation but long-term Microsoft is a services company and over successive generations they have failed to recapture the lead from Sony since the 360. Ultimately, they just want to make more money and struggling in the hardware business is not an exciting place for them to be in.

I say this as a Series S owner: the writing is on the wall. I will likely not be purchasing another Microsoft console after this, though I’m not sure they’d be interested in releasing one. I want to buy and own games I can play locally on a piece of hardware, which probably means I have to return to Sony or go back to the humble PC. For anyone currently on the fence seeing this news, I don’t know why they’d consider buying into the Xbox platform and tying in all their gaming purchases.

A lot of it has reinforced my understanding around distributed databases and transactions. In my day-to-day, I’ve not really had need to use this knowledge as pretty much all our data stores are hosted in cloud platforms and we’re operating on low datasets and traffic.

I hate the Tory party. I want Labour to get in.

Apart from this 28 billion pound investment, I cannot name one thing they actually stand for going into the election. This is a problem.