For clarity, this government has so far:
- cancelled HS2 north of Birmingham (previous government hadn't actually done that formally)
- cancelled electrification of the Midland Main Line
- cancelled West Yorkshire mass transit
- cancelled the trans-Pennine high speed line
But isn't that orders of magnitude more processing power and electricity use than going direct to the Met Office website yourself to get the weather forecast?
With a chance it could still get it wrong.
That seems like the inferior option, or is this take outdated now too?
Remember when HS2 to Leeds was cancelled by the NIC's shitty maths and fundamental lack of expertise, and Leeds was thrown the bone of "you'll get trams" and I said those would never be delivered?
Yeah, as I was saying...
It's so weird to me that one of the biggest kitchen/home appliance brands is called "SharkNinja", it has such teenage xbox gamertag vibes.
Who's in the market for a fridge freezer from *~420#killer#69~*
In 2014, Hackney Council sold a property under Right to Buy for £95,050
In 2021, they bought it back off the ex-tenant for £365k
In ~6 yrs, the council lost £269,950 on a single property
It's not an isolated example. @bigissue.com has uncovered 100+ 'Yo-yo Homes'
www.bigissue.com/news/housing...
in case you're not sure who dhh is, he's a danish counterstrike player and race car owner who writes essays like "i am smarter than you" and "foreigners bad"
rich enough not to worry about consequences but at the very same time, still desperate for status, a man two friends short of a podcast
"one in six private tenants in England now rents a former local authority home" - money that could have been helping councils fund services and build more affordable homes.
Right to buy was a policy disaster *if* you were aiming to have more affordable, quality homes for working people.
The three members of KAJ pose with a bouquet of herbs, a bucket, and a ladle.
"People are doing real work to bring Vöråcore to the masses, and they’re doing it for free, out of the love in their hearts for some guys from Finland."
@chiltonm.bsky.social explains what makes Finland-Swedish comedy group KAJ refreshing in her media: unwinnable.com/2025/07/31/w...
📢 Thanks to the generosity of local company @hiveit.co.uk and a few lovely individuals we are now able to offer a small number of diversity tickets for this year’s Front End North conference in Sheffield on 10th July.
See frontendnorth.com/blog/2025/06... for full details.
Thanks! The fisheye correction is next, also interested in texturing the walls.
I'm happy I don't have to deal with all the VGA limitations you described though, but I guess that's part of why what Carmack and Romero did is so impressive for 1992.
Inspired by @fabinou.bsky.social's great Wolfenstein 3D game engine book I decided to give a simple raycasting renderer a go.
Using plain C and Raylib for the draw calls, it is pretty rough, but was really satisfying to see the results as someone that never does any graphics programming.
Incase you missed the news, we have announced our full lineup of speakers!
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The mere suggestion that the United States could order its cloud firms to shut off foreign clients the Trump administration is feuding with is yet another reason to accelerate the creation of sovereign public cloud facilities.
Governments can’t give more contracts to Amazon, Microsoft, or Google.
I'm late to the new oklab/oklch colour syntax in CSS, but found this post by @ericportis.com to be a great explainer. With some interesting history of colour spaces too.
Even if you only occasionally touch CSS, I'd strongly recommend giving it a read.
ericportis.com/posts/2024/o...
I gave a talk at Handmade Seattle last year about why I think software gets complicated (spoiler: it's not laziness). www.youtube.com/watch?v=czzA...
This is something I've thought about for years and observed up close both in commercial and research contexts, so I hope you enjoy.
That's why I've never understood people who play games like this on emulators that smooth over all the original limitations.
"Fixing" the texture wobble/jitter, smoothing over the dithering, upscaling textures, etc.
Probably the same people that watch AI-colorized black & white films.
