Today I went to Iona Abbey, founded by St Columba c560. The current building is C12, built by the Benedictines. It was left to ruin after the Reformation but restored in the C20 by an ecumenical group now called the Iona Community, who stand for diversity, peace and justice. P
“Flutter apps can work on Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, and Mac OS, and the Flutter UI and rendering engine, included with every app, translates everything to the OS layer.”
The Oxford comma before “and Mac OS” means that one can’t easily discern the end of the list. If, instead, it read “…Windows, Linux and Mac OS, and the Flutter UI and rendering engine,“ one would know that the Flutter UI and rendering engine were not part of the list but a separate clause.
@billbennett@leighelse@ThisCJ I dunno. The coder in me, for whom lists with clear relationships between elements are very important, thinks that an Oxford comma is always right. I haven't yet seen an instance where it's inappropriate, although I'm open to examples.
I remember when Stuff (the NZ news site) used to serve content as HTML. Those were good days. Since Stuff's latest "upgrade" I haven't been able to load it on any of my devices.
No, I don't fancy turning off my security settings or ad-blockers. If the price of that is not reading Stuff any more, I'll pay that. I wonder how many others are in the same situation?
@zeborah
> It's getting worse all the time too. A few days ago it started loading a Google login option
One of the fascinating things about running #NoScript in all my browsers is that I can see at a glance which third-party domains a website is loading scripts from, to run in my browser. I've been doing this for at least 7 years now, and what I see when browsing NZ news sites is often horrifying.
I suspect web workers cut corners with copypasta scripts they don't read.
Brisbane is the same size as Auckland. This is how you get to the airport in Brisbane. In NZ we can’t even get political consensus to build a few km of line from Manukau to AKL.