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After further consideration (& your suggestions), here's a starter list for running any country properly:

PM: Paddington
Chancellor: The Count from Sesame Street
Transport Secretary: Ivor the Engine
Foreign Secretaries: The Clangers
Home Sec: Moominpapa
Head of MI5: Danger Mouse
Env Sec: Great Uncle Bulgaria (head Womble)
Justice: Grotbags?
Health & Social care: Cookie Monster, helped by Bert & Ernie
Transport: Ivor the Engine
Science & innovation: Gromit
Space: Mr Spoon from Button Moon
Polar science: Pingu
DCMS: Kermit
Emergency services: Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grubb

Civil Service: The mice from Bagpuss (we will fix it, we will fix it…)

Comments/modifications?

Trump has done the same damage to our health, environment and security as to our markets, it's just that there isn't a stock ticker that measures the impact so clearly

The worst part for me is that I have no words to help or even offer meaningful comfort. I can't imagine how stressful this is, for so many.

“Last month I was just worried about my classes. Now I’m worried that I’ll simply disappear.”

- From email from a talented student whose visa was just summarily cancelled because she’s from the wrong country.

God damn this.

not as dramatic as burning a library but just as effective

@Daojoan "Wake up... The trailer for the new Goldfinger reboot just dropped!"

These are not our brightest minds

@mcc Yeah, that's actually the case. But Rust doesn't have to be better here because most of the languages that ARE good about "here's what happens in your hardware" are niche as fuck, so there's no real pressure/competition on C, Rust, C++, etc. to actually provide materially better guarantees about what goes on in the hardware.

So it has sort of stagnated over the last 30 years. Unfortunately.

@mcc I'll probably never stop using C, but I'm convinced that most of today's software engineering challenges can be explained by the fact that the PDP-11 was basically a stack of squirrels in a trench-coat trying to do math on an Etch-a-Sketch.

This is before we get into the issue, which people in language design seem to call out frequently, that the "metal" C is "close to" is in fact a 1970s PDP-11, which the computer you will be running your actual C on differs from in several important ways

The power of Rust is not that it is "close to the metal" but rather that it is close to the compiler backend. Rust doesn't attempt to make you frame your code in a way that the hardware will execute well, but rather to frame it in a way that the LLVM optimizer will optimize well. This is the correct decision since your C code after all will be processed through that same optimizer before it touches anything resembling metal

new rule. .999... is no longer equal to 1. henceforth it is equal to 2, for sufficiently small values of 2.

vintage computer festival east photos

Look at this transgender seagull my employee oonagh made for the shop

I'm sure I'm not the only EU citizen wishing all Americans who are out on the streets today a better future. Fighting for not just your own democracy but for all of the rest of us too.

Thank you.
Stay safe!

#USpol #HandsOff #Democracy

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#uspol #HandsOff #Chicago #ilpol

Getting ahead of the market...

#uspol #HandsOff #Chicago #ilpol

Wow, had a lot of response to the mallard mother photo. I’m not a professional photographer and I don’t know how to sell anything. I just like birds and showing birds to people.