kill, and I swear to god if you’re still there when I ps, I’m getting out the -9

In the UK, where I believe VDSL and G.Fast both are achieved by putting the equipment in your local “green cabinet” which is the sub distribution between you and your local telephone exchange.

My cabinet is about a 200m straight line from my house, so I was lucky enough that I always got pretty close to whatever speed the telco was selling me.

My parents’ place is about 500m or so from theirs and I think they typically got about 70-80% of the “up to” rate on VDSL before they switched to fibre. It used to be more like 50% on regular ADSL/2/2+

I think you have to be kinda rural before you’re much further than that from a green cabinet (which of course isn’t an insignificant number of people, but I believe per capita it’s not typical)

Satellite TV was much more popular compared to cable generally in European countries, so phone lines make up the bulk of wired networking in a lot of places, making DSL a pretty practical option without having to lay a whole network. I get the feeling in countries where cable is much more common, DSL is reserved for the last resort level of service, whereas in Europe many of the telecoms make sure to deploy the latest standards.

I finally swapped to 1gbps fibre a year or two ago, but before that I was on about 250mbps with G.Fast DSL that honestly wasn’t bad at all. I believe the theoretical limits go much higher than that too

Helps if you read past the headline

FOR. A. SINGLE. CHANGE. Yes. For a single change. Like having an editor with 2 minute save lag, pushing commit using program running on cassette tapes

Am I reading this bit correctly? Are they complaining about testing a CI change and it only taking a couple of minutes to verify?

And this person’s using a compiled language?

DONKkk vvvvvvvvvvrrrrrr click

The filling of the ravioli is the decider here

Magnets mostly messed with tapes, floppies and hard disks. I believe you could also mess up a CRT’s calibration with one.

None of those technologies are particularly commonplace these days, especially not in those glasses.

I mean an MRI level magnet could crush them, but you’re gonna struggle to move that around

Oh, I guess I’m a stoneager with a penchant for functional elitism then.

Though I will admit OOP is valid for involved data modelling, everything else should be functional though.

I’ve also trained myself out of most short variable names for maintainability reasons

The damage wasn’t really reversed, rather overcome.

If the world (not just the UK) didn’t see the massive increase in bond yields over the years following the mini budget, we would still very much be in the hole. The Bank of England had to intervene to buy an unprecedented number of bonds at not great prices, if they weren’t able to sell them for profit, we would still be directly facing the consequences.

If the bank didn’t have to intervene, we would be better off today because we’d have that growth without the hit. Most other developed countries got that, so in comparative terms we’re still behind.

I feel for you guys that didn’t get to live in the world pre-9/11 and pre-2008 financial crash. The world was just significantly worse in many ways after each, and never got to recover.

Though I will say the rate of these perma-shittening events does seem to be getting worse. Here’s what I consider to be the big ones with related shit in sub bullets (caveat I’m British so a couple of things are more specific to my country):

• 2001: 9/11 and all the pointless war and islamophobia that followed
• 2008: subprime mortgage crash
  • 2010: Murdoch successfully blames the above on Labour causing the Tories to get in on an austerity manifesto
• 2016: Trump & Brexit, leading up to this:
  • 2011: Alternative vote campaign fails thanks to the propaganda directed by the guy who does the same for the Brexit campaign. We didn’t realise at the time but this was the trial run.
  • 2014: Putin tests the water in Georgia
  • 2015: David Cameron changes the BBC charter to allow government appointments to the board. What follows is a defanging of the news department and the installation of a load of right wing editors. This is a big contributor to Brexit happening and everything else that follows.
• 2020: COVID
• 2021: failed Coup in the US
• 2022: Putin invades Ukraine
• 2022: Liz Truss gets in and delivers an actual real-deal right-libertarian budget and policy platform, despite everyone with a brain telling her it would tank the economy. She does it anyway and instantly wipes £30bn of our country’s wealth out of existence in a day.
• 2023: the current Israel-Gaza conflict kicks off, quickly turns into a genocide with the support of the western world leaders
• 2025: Trump gets in again and goes mask-off fascist
• 2026: Trump starts invading other countries in an effort to distract everyone from the mounting evidence he is a disgusting human trafficking pedo

Why does he always look like he has misjudged a fart

I mean… You can still technically use Eclipse if you’re a masochist… Android studio is head and shoulders above it despite all of the Jetbrains nonsense though

If you want to make a website, you still only need a text editor

If you want to make a C++/rust/go/python/Haskell/brainfuck application for something that isn’t a phone? You still only need a text editor and a compiler

On the flip side, what might be an unfathomable horror for a superior being, might not even register to us

Like us showing The Grudge to an ant

So Gaspar Noé, H.G. Wells, Charlie Brooker or Lovecraft get to write your afterlife?

Dopamine

It’s the same place the “made my life worse to own the libs” energy comes from.

They have fucked up reward systems and are seeking the brain chemicals they get from thinking they have succeeded in winding someone up

“Don’t feed the trolls” is because that’s literally what they want. They don’t care about winning anything, the goal is to get you to reply

All sorts of weird precedents are being set in the shameless kowtowing to the deluded traffic cone

Lawyers are going to be making any kind of weird argument based on some precedent set during this presidency for decades

I think it’s a mostly automated voice with me saying my first name at one point

That’s if it’s still even enabled, I should check that…

Why, it’s magnificent, that’s what the fuck it is