Microsoft are really sweating GitHub now aren't they? It wouldn't be so bad if it improving but there is certainly a perception that it is costing more for a poorer product, irrespective of the new features they're layering on.
Readit Newsed_blackburn commented on Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions resources.github.com/acti... · Posted by u/kevin-david
If you need an authoritative source, look no further than the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
https://www.jrf.org.uk/uk-poverty-2025-the-essential-guide-t...
A UK organisation with treasonous, multi-generational experience, that's cited in the article, that people refuse to read or believe? Thanks for re-sharing <3
After 2008, others pressed Keynesian stimulus. The UK chose Hayek. Austerity. Councils took the hit. Services vanished. Early-years centres. Youth work. Local welfare. The safety net thinned, then tore. Families slipped through.
Then Covid. Then Ukraine. Prices surged. Wages didn’t. A decade of inflation stacked up while pay stood still. For many, that was a silent pay cut.
Truss turned strain into crisis. Unfunded tax cuts. Markets panicked. Gilt yields spiked. Mortgage costs jumped overnight. Another blow to households already on the edge.
So we end up where CNN reports: record child poverty, even among full-time workers; parents unable to cover the basics as the social architecture collapses.
Into that anger steps Reform UK. They offer a protest vote. But their plan is the same old mix: deep cuts, a smaller state, and migration as the scapegoat. The very recipe that helped bring us here.
Send help :-(
ed_blackburn commented on Hypothesis: Property-Based Testing for Python hypothesis.readthedocs.io... · Posted by u/lwhsiao
I'm using sqlglot to parse hundreds of old mysql back up files to find diffs of schemas. The joys of legacy code. I've found hypothesis to be super helpful for tightening up my parser. I've identified properties (invariants) and built some strategies. I can now generate many more permutations of DDL than I'd thought of before. And I have absolutely confidence in what I'm running.
I started off TDD covered the basics. Learned what I needed to learn about the files I'm dealing with, edge cases, sqlglot and then I moved onto Hypothesis for extra confidence.
I'm curious to see if it'll help with commands for APIs. I nothing else it'll help me appreciate how liberal my API is when perhaps I don't want it to be?
ed_blackburn commented on Tauri binding for Python through Pyo3 github.com/pytauri/pytaur... · Posted by u/0x1997
For a lot of people the main advantage of electron was just being able to use the webdev stack for a desktop app. Tauri makes it less portable but is less bloated. Different tradeofs I guess.
Also: I think it’s kinda funny that Tauri is basically a very straightforward of example of trading developer comfort for benefit of the user, and you can’t imagine people using it.
Indeed. It's sacrifices engineering cost for customer experience.
> bat it's a useless cat
I can't see bat as a "useless cat" or a replacement for cat except for reading source code in the terminal. It's more a like a less with syntax highlight or a read-only vim.
I agree with this. cat is great for "cating" bat is great for throwing shit on the terminal in a fashion that makes it semantically easier to reason with, two different use cases.
I’m on a Mac, and some of the default tooling feels dated: GNU coreutils and friends are often stuck around mid-2000s versions. Rather than replace or fight against the system tools, I supplement them with a few extras. Honestly, most are marginal upgrades over what macOS ships with, except for fzf, which is a huge productivity boost. Fuzzy-finding through my shell history or using interactive autocompletion makes a noticeable difference day to day.
ed_blackburn commented on Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores browser.geekbench.com/v6/... · Posted by u/aurareturn
You're not the only one. I think there's 12.
:-)
ed_blackburn commented on Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores browser.geekbench.com/v6/... · Posted by u/aurareturn
The Snapdragon X Elite has tons of laptop models and a few mini PCs like:
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-IdeaCentre-Mini-x-debut...
The Elite X2 is near release and supposedly on par with these M5 numbers:
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-M5-9-Cores-Processor-Ben...
Thank you :-)
ed_blackburn commented on Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores browser.geekbench.com/v6/... · Posted by u/aurareturn
Not the same form factor but here you go: https://system76.com/desktops/thelio-astra-a1.1-n1/configure
Thank you :-)