“His defeat will come as a blow to his close allies Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump” - BBC
Trump is so toxic that any international election he tries to meddle in, his candidate of choice has suffered a humiliating defeat.
The entire world figured out what American voters were too dumb to.
Congratulations Hungary! I couldn’t be more happy to see you reject the influence of Trump and Putin.
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🇭🇺✊ Good luck to these people tomorrow, in their hands is not only the fate of Hungary, but also a big opportunity for Europe and Ukraine
"Never attribute to malice or stupidity that which is adequately explained by culture and environment"
— Green's Razor
If you don't want GitHub Copilot trained on your code, you've been automatically opted in. You have until April 24th to opt out.
So it turns out the real scandal of the Gorton and Denton by-election was the willingness of media organisations to collude in Nigel Farage's attempt to undermine the result of a free and fair election
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-the-bb...
The thing about science is we set up hypotheses and then work to break, or disprove hypotheses.
In so much LLM refinement, we are working backwards and building systems that predict *what we want to believe*.
This is how nations go to war.
This is how we corrupt science.
There are better ways.
If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately*
Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code.
GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH
github.com/settings/cop...
Unbelievable, but also yet another Brexit parallel. Just as that epic failure was somehow the fault of ‘Remainers’, so Trump’s boundless depravity is somehow the fault of the people who saw & described it clearly.
Bravo. It also occurred to me that the bigoted idiot Nick Timothy is effectively calling for the prohibition of faith-based funerals. A thought prompted by a horrible story I will post as a reply to this one…
www.jewishnews.co.uk/voice-of-the...
Mueller was a decorated combat Marine who leaves behind a wife and two children.
There is no defending this. Trump is scum.
This is just evil.
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Let's see how this goes. My new Essential Code Craft live remote training, aimed at self-funding, self-improving developers starts with workshops on Test-Driven Development on April 7 & 11.
Details at www.tickettailor.com/events/codem...
Turns out mutation testing is effective for making sure LLM-written tests actually do something useful.
Europe spent years debating whether the energy transition was affordable.
Spain quietly answered the question: gas now sets its electricity price in only 7% of hours.
Strategic autonomy doesn’t arrive via summit communiqués. It’s built in advance — in wind farms, solar parks, and grid investment
"One FCA source said: 'Once Palantir understands how we detect money-laundering threats, how do we know that they are ethically reliable enough not to go to share that information?'"
We don't, of course, and only the gullible or corrupt would assume they won't.
Absolutely disgusting. The most powerful nation on earth killing the most vulnerable. And all to soften up an independent sovereign nation for a hostile military takeover, that will only happen to distract from a paedophile's crimes, and to put the latest version of the Mafia back in charge.
You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her.
Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day
Hi @theguardian.com. Very disappointed to see that the passing of one of the most influential people in computing history, Prof Sir Tony Hoare, doesn't seem to have been reported.
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
Interesting how quickly everyone is now becoming a lifelong TDD practitioner now it appears essential for GenAI assisted development.
The reality is that only a tiny fraction of the industry have genuinely been practicing TDD in the 20 plus years since Kent Beck first coined it.
Continuous Integration is not only about the code, but integrating the drifts in the mental model of the system across the team (making it shared) as often as possible.
It's also way better if the mental model is integrated even before the code on the main branch is (pair/mob programming).
My team measures speed, not velocity, because we have no idea what direction we're going in…
"AI has removed the developer bottleneck"
If developers really were your bottleneck, throwing developers at a problem would actually have worked in the past 20 years
I suspect many of those four million people are natives who vote for him.
If you want to know how to approach designing and building complex systems efficiently and effectively, then you should listen to my latest Software Engineering Radio interview: Murat Erder and Eoin Woods on Continuous Architecture. se-radio.net/2026/01/se-r...
But, compliance! Somehow, a welcome justification for all the superfluous gates in our software delivery process, and to embarrassingly uphold the unreasonable delays. (1/3)
Business people, if you think you're going to be handing vibe-coded prototypes to engineering teams and saying "Make it production-ready", think again.
We're not bricklayers, and you're not architects.
Come to us with business problems, not half-baked solutions.
For years, commentators would say far-right politicians were "just saying what we're all thinking".
But that "silent majority" was always a lie.
*This* is what most people are actually thinking, and - for the first time in a long time - a political leader is daring to say it out loud.
