Self-driving car in India. "In the 6-minute long clip, a sensor-laden SUV weaves through narrow unmarked streets, dodging pedestrians, dogs, cows, slow-moving tractors, and a constant stream of scooters overtaking, cutting across, and even driving on the wrong side of the road." https://spectrum.ieee.org/india-self-driving-car
Gmail changed the web platform in 2004 — are we about to see a similar shift in web development thanks to Microsoft Edge and its new 'HTML-first/JavaScript-second' approach? Less React, more Web Components — what's not to like! Hat-tips @slightlyoff & @brucelawson for the explanations on Mastodon (but note that I'm the only one to blame for the Gmail comparison). https://thenewstack.io/from-react-to-html-first-microsoft-edge-debuts-webui-2-0/
@ricmac Thank @slightlyoff, not me; I just spread the word because I want people to default to an HTML-first approach rather than reflexly fire up create-react-crapp the moment there's something interactive to be done. React has its place, like everything else, but I get tired of people who only know how to use the React polluting the whole web with it.
I was watching Australian Masterchef, and the audience applauded when someone made a meringue. It took me by surprise; usually Australians boo meringue.
@toxy I passed a bakery and saw a sign in the window "Today! All cakes £1". I pointed to a particularly tempting one and said "that one please". "That's £2, please" said the Baker. "But the sign said they're all £1!" I protested. She replied, "Ah, that's Madeira cake".
WHAT?! Vennells has been shown a doc that she saw in 2011 which says Fujitsu staff have unrestricted access to the Oracle database. She now says she didn't realise that it meant that the system wasn't 100% secure from remote transactions not done by the subpostmasters. FFS. She wasn't fit to run a fucking village post office let alone the whole operation.
Vennells HAS to go to Strangeways. The culture of CEOs & SLTs fucking up people's lives through incompetence, (or worse) and then waltzing into their next directorship has to end.
So farewell, horrible reactionary god-botherer, scion of the Death Committee and enthusiastic torturer, maimer, rapist and murderer of women who wanted human rights.
A nice stroll around the old town and a tasty stop at a Turkish home-cooking cafe in a residential area for some tea and a delicious gözleme (a thin savoury pancake folded, stuffed with feta cheese and then grilled).
@Meyerweb it's the Mediterranean temperament. There's a good reason we brits surround ourselves with cold seas, fog and rain refuse to speak daft "romance" languages.