It's where my head went too and I'd be in favour of the headline being updated, but I don't think diabetes owns the association between a letter and number.
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I mean, it's someone else's code, your engineers are going to say it's rubbish, it needs a full rewrite and throwing away, warn us up front before you even think about acquiring such terrible code, etc. But if it's a built a company to the point of raising sufficient revenue/profit it's surely good enough.
I can't say I'm a Maven cheerleader but I find nodejs, sorry npm, with webpack, or yarn, babel, gulp, or... to be a confusing soup of incompatibility. Most of which moves on so quickly that whatever works this week is dead next week.
Then over the next two hours I get 30 notifications about people liking my comment and nothing for anything actually useful, like calls. It doesn't even pretend to let me turn off notifications for reactions without losing the whole channel's notifications.
As far as the keyboard's concerned I think it's three buttons - something like cmd-shift-m where on Slack it's just m. Drives me mad.
The whole point of calling is to reduce the pain of having to type out a load of stuff that's easier to say and comes with the extra nuances of verbal communication. I can't imagine they'd prefer the repeated flashings of your manager is typing... over minutes.
Just sending "hello" is annoying though, I'll give them that.
The keyboard swiping is off the charts awful compared to Android. It has no idea what word I want unless I'm incredibly specific, it recommends words I'm highly unlikely to use, adds punctuation almost randomly in its word suggestions, gives me multiple choices from the same stem.
You can't just press the cursor into the middle of a word, you have to do the hold and swipe thing.
You can't record your own calls. WTF, it's my phone?! I guess I'm supposed to just buy another iphone to record the audio onto from via its microphone.
As far as I can work out, Facebook messenger links don't open, full stop. Unless your default browser is Safari.
Want to choose how many icons you have on your screen? Nope. Smaller font size? Nope. Long press on an image to do a Google image search? Nope, not even to open in a new tab.
In Liz Truss' first PMQs yesterday one of the questions was on pushing for a return of the online safety bill for further "regulation" of the internet, which Truss said is going to come back, for the under 18s of course.
But I can see a difference between memorising the stripes on street furniture or which countries streetview has visited for the sake of playing such games and just knowing which direction the sun is to narrow down the hemisphere or having a little understanding of how the environment varies with latitude.
Whether that has any practical difference given the nature of politicians and politics in general, well, at best your mileage may vary.
Must have driven some people mad.
> no one with agency.
That's killer isn't it, absolutely killer.
Bah! Simon Bolton doesn't want my email. I'm reluctant to publicly tweet him a link to this, largely because my twitter account has followers and this is tangentially about my mum's own health.
I'm trying Cancer Research UK too, though their policy team's email address on the website bounces as it's for whitelisted recipients and the generic email response to tell them about it says to expect them to get back in a week.
IME of NHS IT, simple technically is not necessarily simple politically. I'm more than open to the idea that I'm missing something, I definitely will be even some things aren't insurmountable, but until someone can tell me explicitly what that blocking issue is I'm reluctant to make that assumption.
I've also tried taking systems through NHS innovation programmes in more recent years. That's been a whole other level beyond what I experienced with the RIS, all the same issues plus fighting for funding from people who told me they wanted off the shelf and not anything new (or, it seemed, innovative). And I don't need funding so I'm loathe to go that route but I can't dismiss it, it's an option.
It's not the same, I'm not suggesting it is, but I do see parallels with Saudi Arabia (I bring it up because I've lived there). And while the guy at the top is as unsavoury as it gets I do think the presence of Westerners has been a positive influence and the few steps we've seen to let women drive, cinemas open, etc. I'd put down in small part to that presence influencing the general population. And in another perhaps not so small part down to the internet. And that's a country we sell proper weapons to, not just machine learning classes.
I get that there's a fairly direct line that can be drawn to negative consequences in engaging with such states, but these things are inherently messy and there's a long game to play here.
Do you really need Postgres?