One positive effect of climate change is that these shitty dying resort towns will be reclaimed by the sea and their local population can return to the Deep Ones of Y'ha-nthlei.
What a reckless article by The Guardian’s Europe correspondent which betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the Far Right.
Meloni being cozy with von der Leyen doesn’t mean Meloni isn’t as far right anymore. The piece itself documents her fascist politics against LGBTQ+ rights, the free press and immigration.
What it does mean is von der Leyen being fine with the Far Right under some conditions. It means the EU as a whole is fine with the Far Right. 1/2
@carnage4life it would have been a great twist in an Agatha Christie novel: "I know you murdered your poor Aunt Beatrice in order to inherit Counter Strike 2 and Fallout 76, but what you didn't know, Messieur, was that her Steam account died the moment you struck her with the candlestick!"
I am very very close to starting an instagram account in which I deride people's stupid "requirements" in SW industry job ads. It seems like almost everyone involved is incompetent.
@szakib HR get told "we need people who know Glork and Qwibble".
HR has no idea what Glork or Qwibble are. They reply, "senior or junior". Tech replies "senior", so HR goes with "Must have 5+ years in Glork and Qwibble".
The sane way to do it would be that tech writes the job ad and HR just double-checks it to make sure there are no stupid mistakes that could get the company sued.
@szakib the other reasons are that they intend to outsource the job anyway or give it to someone they know but need to go through the legal procedure of advertising the job, or it's done to give the appearance the company is growing (the stock market awards growth, while at the same time awarding lay-offs).
@szakib in a really small startup, where everyone has to wear lots of hats, then having a manager who can also do some coding is understandable. It might also help if the company is selling, say, JS-related tooling, so you want management who can sell the product to clients/investors convincingly.
> It's been well over a year since I started serving 429s to clients which are hitting the feed too often. Since then, much has happened, and most of it is generally good news.
Like I’ve said too many times: most software projects fail outright, those that don’t are largely broken, and those that aren’t outright broken are buggy as hell. Much of dev is repair and salvage.
@baldur one problem is that a lot of feeds do a poor job of using Etag and If-Modified properly, and "average polling" doesn't work if their scheduling is all over the place (podcasts are often bad at this).
So readers should do their jobs properly as the article points out, but publishers need to be better too (and while we are at it, Websub being embraced and extinguished by Google didn't help).
@baldur the RSS spec also provides TTL but I have yet to see a feed in the wild (my focus was on podcasts) that didn't just go with something like 15 mins, even though they came out with a new episode every week.
a Conservative candidate endorses her Reform UK rival, and then steps down immediately, forcing the Conservative party to replace her in a scramble
One Conservative MP declines to return back to the UK to start campaigning
a senior cabinet minister disowns the National Service plan and decides to go on holiday himself
Central Conservative HQ accidentally sends an email to all candidates to blame them all for the poor start to the election campaign
It was accidentally leaked from the SAME EMAIL that the Conservative party has not got enough cash to spend on it’s target seats
It turns out that at the beginning of last week, CCHQ told workers, staffers, and MPs that they can book time off, before being taken by surprise by Sunak’s calling the election, therefore there are multiple staffers who just aren’t in the country right now
The Conservatives have fielded no candidates in ~150 of the ~600 seats in England, Scotland, and Wales and have only until the end of the week to submit them to the Electoral Commission. This means that there is a risk that there will be entire portions of the country without a Conservative candidate because the party didn’t file the correct paperwork in time
Tories putting "national service" at the heart of their agenda.
Of all the PMs since 2010, perhaps the only one who had any sense of duty to the country - even though she was a horrible authoritarian and useless at her job - was Theresa May.
The others -and their hangers-on -were in it for a lark, an ego-trip or self-enrichment. The opposite of whatever "national service" is supposed to mean.
It's obvious the policy was thought up by some horrible little bug-eyed Tufton St Spad during Sunak's Saturday brainstorming session. Ministers were caught wrong-footed and had to make all kinds of contradictory reassurances on Sunday talk shows.
But, if you are going to introduce a concept of "national service" to the young 'uns, you really, really need to have a strong moral authority to do so.
@BackFromTheDud it's nonsense, they know nobody under 60 is going to vote for them anyway and its might get a few votes from the GB News watching lobsters