There's a lot of discussion among coders about comments, some say that good code shouldn't need commenting.
But the thing a lot of people fail to understand with comments is that you don't just want to say what th code is doing. But why. The why is often more important. I have a code base I've taken over maintenance of, and in the execution there's a 60 second delay in there. But there's no details of why. What breaks if I remove it? Do I want to find out the hardway?
More people need to realise that terrorism is a bullshit concept. The definitions are usually constructed to privilege states
Like the UN definition of: "Criminal acts intended or calculated to provoke a state of terror in the general public, a group of persons or particular persons for political purposes". Police use of tear gas is clearly intended to provoke fear, so it's OK because it's endorsed by the state
The FBI: "Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups to further ideological goals". If you're forcefully evicted to make space for a mine it ok because the state says its OK, but if the local community forcefully evicts the mine?
Terrorism is just political violence that the state commenting on it doesn't like. It's no different from any other political violence.
Slack have decided to start training AI on enterprise customer data, including DMs, private workspaces and files. You have to have admin opt out via email. HT @Quinnypig
Yeah, because you merged with Thalys - so, surprise surprise, you transported more people
Passenger numbers London - Paris/Bruxelles are still down on the last pre-pandemic year, not least because Eurostar now no longer serves Ebbsfleet and Ashford
@jimh@jon the limit is the border security staff. They stopped serving ebbsfleet and Ashford so as to move the staff to London. Then they complain they can't process a full train cos stp is too small...
@WellsiteGeo on a train. Domestically. Yeah. My friend carries some tools with them (mainly a really nice stethoscope and a manual bp thingy). But mostly they picked up their bag so they didn't leave the work laptop on a train...
@afewbugs i carry a katadyne befree water bottle when travelling. Works great and gives me reassurance about not needing to worry too much about water sources. Before that I used a Sawyer Mini.
Had to call paramedics and currently sat with them in our house is a weird experience, they’re like the most aggressively heterosexual people I’ve spent any time around for ages
Does anybody I know on here have experience cycle touring in England? I'm headed to EMF Camp at the end of the month and it sounds really fun to simply cycle there (from London). I have many questions.
From 22 May, SNCF in ticket offices or through SNCF Connect can no longer sell you tickets for at least these neighbouring railways (this list might not be complete)
@jon yes. But they do that by running a bare minimum of trains. There seems to be no drive to do more. To improve anything. It's a "this is what we do, this is what we have always done, we will do no more, we may do less".
In many ways it feels like their timetables are an exercise in malicious compliance. There's certainly no logic to them.
@jon i don't understand the total lack of aspiration. While all the other state operators are looking at expanding their international options. SNCF seem to just look blankly and ask "why would anyone ever want to leave France?"
Also given the french will happily riot over almost anything. Why is their not a mob with flaming torches at SNCF HQ?