The tories were self-destructing when Theresa May was in power (and then summarily removed). And yet somehow Labour was obliterated at the subsequent election

Maybe by investing in infrastructure when interest rates were at historic lows but the economy was on a cyclical downturn?

“a way to convert money into socio-economic outcomes for some kids over other kids” isn’t this applicable to pretty much every aspect of parenting?

Pretty ballsy move by Haringey Council. Stopping hundreds of kids from all over Tottenham/Wood Green etc from playing football. One for Aditya Chakrabortty to sink his teeth into?

This is a great cause! Good luck, Tim!

Apoplectic with rage now I’ve just found out that our *checks notes* king gets given stuff he *checks notes again* didn’t graft his fingers to the bone to obtain in a fair and equitable etc etc

Calling C# & gRPC aficionados! Can it be the case that in order to use a C# client in .NET Framework v4.8, to query a (Java-implemented, though this is irrelevant ofc) gRPC-over-TLS-exposing server, you need to be on Windows 11 (less than 18 months old) or Windows Server 2022?

If your API is only going to be useful in the presence of pagination, it should be impossible to use without, and simple to use with

Completely befuddled as to j.u.c.Future::resultNow behaviour if the future failed due to a thrown exception. Forces the same boilerplate to *every* user of the library

One for Katie Herzog

Very puzzled to dip in to the #scala 3.4 release notes and not understand how any of the "highlights of the release" would translate into improving my life as a (scala) programmer. Contrast that with the upcoming JDK22 release openjdk.org/projects/jdk/2…

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“I found a bug in the compiler” is not something I ever want to have to tell my boss, assuming I persuaded them to depend on the compiler in the first place

This was a very enjoyable film!

Room on the Broom, surely?

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Two things can simultaneously be true: #scala 3 is a fantastic language, and much better than #scala 2. #scala 3 was harmful to #scala and (not even in retrospect) was a bad idea