Fri, 12:27: RT @donasarkar: If you build #PowerApps and wish there was an easier way to collaborate on these with others AND manage the environment bet…
Fri, 12:28: RT @StatsRegulation: Today we have published our review: The public good of statistics; what we know so far. 📖 We have published this revi…
Fri, 12:30: RT @_brohrer_: Datacamp is demonstrating how to get away with sexual harassment. Go somewhere else. There are a lot of top-notch former-DC…
Fri, 12:30: RT @dakami: Some of us remember the last time Red Hat EOL’d a production OS early, for equipment that was literally deployed to customer si…
Fri, 12:33: RT @scattermoon: That Mail narrative arc from "any food concerns following brexit are project fear" to "you know, gruel has an unfairly mal…
Fri, 12:33: RT @techreview: AI researcher @rajiinio wrote a powerful essay for us about how data encodes systematic racism. We think it's so moving we…
Fri, 12:33: RT @DavidHenigUK: Ouch! from Mark Rutte, Netherlands PM. To be honest you'd hope our diplomats would be part of the process and be telling…
Fri, 12:34: RT @s1guza: Okay, hear me out: - Take Apple Silicon - Slap ARM Windows on it - Write drivers for Apple HW - Install the x86_64 emulation l…
Fri, 12:34: RT @cstross: This is anecdote/rumour but it *TOTALLY* nails how I'd expect Johnson to have behaved. Oh dear. (Translation into non-Britis…
Fri, 12:35: RT @MayorofLondon: The £500m Londoners pay in annual Vehicle Excise Duty is spent by Ministers on roads elsewhere, whilst TfL is left to ma…
Fri, 12:35: RT @SimonFRCox: Leavers beginning to realise EU states see EU *fundamentally* differently from how Leavers see it. THREAD 1/9 https://t.co/…
Fri, 12:35: RT @carophillips1: Microsoft's Inner Eye AI tool is helping to speed up cancer treatment and Addenbrooke’s will be the first hospital in th…
Fri, 12:36: RT @donasarkar: @Karuana When there’s no room at a table, I build my own. Nearby. With more fun, more effective people. And snacks.
Fri, 12:36: RT @MulreadyMolly: This is one of the most upsetting aspects of being mother to a trans child - an army of white, posh, loud, women, who ar…
Fri, 12:36: RT @smoothimpact: Unless you're FireEye, Microsoft, or the FBI and have first hand facts, do our industry a favour and avoid publicly specu…
Fri, 12:36: RT @billybragg: What the Tories actually wanted was their freedom AND tariff free trade with the EU. Stand by for more angry headlines in t…
Fri, 12:36: RT @hhesterm: Quick note. These are all trade continuity deals. The goal is to continue the deals the EU has unchanged to the extent possib…
Fri, 12:37: RT @sturdyAlex: Oliver Dowden tells @SkyNews on the prospect of No Deal: "It will be choppy, but we can survive." I don't remember this on…
Fri, 12:43: RT @Joannechocolat: This is just to say i have fucked up the deal that i said would be easy and which you probably assumed was the one…
Fri, 12:44: RT @georgialewis76: Absolute crap. Even if a job is much-coveted or a creative job or perceived as glamorous, it's still work and it still…
Fri, 12:44: RT @joncstone: Merkel says she is convinced of the need for a European health union, in light of Covid response
Fri, 12:45: RT @JulietEMcKenna: Writers uncertain about contracts can and should get free advice from The Society of Authors, Writers Guild of Great Br…
Fri, 12:46: RT @Bob_Wachter: 20/ We also need to be prepared to hear many tales of bad days after vaccinations (arm pain, fever, etc) – particularly in…
Fri, 12:46: RT @JulietEMcKenna: Anyone with real experience of contracts will tell you to walk away if the other side refuse to agree contingency claus…
Fri, 12:47: RT @katebevan: Extremely good thread on why we should not expect people - including the young just starting out - to work for free. https:/…
Fri, 12:47: RT @SylviaBautovic: We are excited to announce that Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on iOS is generally available. #MSFTAdvocate https://t.…
Fri, 12:48: RT @SkySports: Antoine Griezmann has cut commercial ties with Huawei Technologies Co Ltd over what he said was the treatment of Uighur Musl…
Fri, 12:48: RT @KojoKoram: Give a man a fish and he can eat for a day. But teach him about fishing quotas and he can use that issue to rewire the whole…
Fri, 12:48: RT @GossiTheDog: Observation from EternalPot - SMB bruteforce of domain passwords is still a thing. E.g. this morning 10k login attempts w…
Fri, 12:48: RT @tracyalloway: Chinese authorities have detained Haze Fan, who works for the Bloomberg News bureau in Beijing, on suspicion of endangeri…
Fri, 12:49: RT @alanbeattie: But at this rate, unless this whole stand-off is carefully choreographed (a real possibility btw) they're heading for fail…
Fri, 12:49: RT @alanbeattie: One of the things that struck me talking to experts about this was a lot of hedging about "this is what I think the EU mea…
Fri, 12:50: RT @KlyngeC: A milestone for the EU. The #MFF/#NGEU deal defines the gold standard globally for (rightly) combining digitalization🌐 & susta…
Fri, 12:50: RT @FinancialTimes: What are the consequences of a no-deal Brexit on nine sectors — from food to financial services and travel to medicines…
Fri, 12:50: RT @DrMatthewSweet: I asked Windsor what she’d say to the author if he walked into the room. She replied: “I’d say ‘fuck off’” https://t.co…
Fri, 12:51: RT @katie_martin_fx: BANK OF ENGLAND'S BAILEY SAYS THERE ARE LIMITS TO WHAT THE BOE CAN DO TO LIMIT MARKET DISRUPTION AFTER END OF BREXIT T…
Fri, 12:51: RT @katebevan: Students aren't paying off loans. Graduates earning over a threshold are paying a time-limited graduate tax. We really need…
Fri, 12:52: RT @DmitryOpines: It's possible British commentary may have somewhat overstated the terror of EU member States at the prospect of no deal.…
Fri, 12:53: RT @adamhamdy: 11. The weight of scientific opinion is against the way the UK government has reopened schools. SAGE proposed a rota system.…
Fri, 12:53: RT @adamhamdy: 8. We’ve slowly come to accept things that would have horrified us in January. Imagine if the WHO or government had said thi…
Fri, 12:54: RT @JolyonMaugham: Government has commissioned a review into the award of lucrative contracts to long time associates of Cummings and Gove…
Fri, 12:54: RT @QuinnyPig: For a technical product / company like GitHub, this talk is suspiciously focused on people.
Fri, 12:54: RT @RevRobDenton: Also, it grieves me that therapy is not more widely available, affordable or valued. So many of us need help seeing and l…
Fri, 12:55: RT @JulietEMcKenna: It's blindingly obvious Johnson, Gove et al have never actually negotiated a real-world, business contract, isn't it? O…
Fri, 12:55: RT @mrjamesob: I genuinely felt a shiver run down my spine the first time I heard Hannan use the word ‘Anglosphere’. Hadn’t really grasped…
Fri, 14:34: RT @nikeshshukla: The idea of a tolerant society over, I dunno, an inclusive one or an open one or a compassionate one, is British elitism…
Fri, 14:36: RT @socintuk: Just for info: If the British government is following the Cambridge Analytica storytelling model, we are at the stage where…
Fri, 14:38: RT @uhoelzle: Amazing graph from the NEJM paper on the Pfizer vaccine. For the first 10 days after getting the shot, vaccine and placebo pe…
Fri, 14:38: RT @kara_woo: How can it be so simultaneously appalling yet utterly unsurprising that DataCamp would reinstate the CEO who harassed me? htt…
Fri, 14:39: RT @brokenbottleboy: It says a great deal about the British media that we're meant to read, with a straight face, the thoughts of a journal…
Fri, 14:50: "oh the pettings and the boopings and the purrings of the cat..." I found myself singing this to the tune of The Holly and The Ivy - but I think every verse ends with "no, kitten, don't do that!"
Fri, 16:17: RT @flying_rodent: I know most of you can’t see the horrors behind the paywall - I only get sent the occasional excerpt myself - so you’ll…
Fri, 16:17: RT @flying_rodent: The trick here is to not get caught up asking which dog is going to each which individual piece of homework, since they…
Fri, 16:26: RT @gavinesler: It's not an insult to Britain. It's a recognition that talking to a shambolic, badly prepared, arrogant and bloviating Brit…
Fri, 16:34: So Oddbox rescues fruit and veg the UK supermarkets don't want and the list of where your food come from each time is a useful proxy for where UK supermarket suppliers are https://t.co/LxSSTobYVW
Fri, 16:36: RT @JenMsft: Something little we're working on in the Insider builds - if a folder in Start menu's app list only contains a single item, we…
Fri, 16:36: RT @WolfieChristl: In 2019, the UK data protection authority stated that most of today's online advertising in the EU is illegal at a "gene…
Fri, 16:36: RT @monkchips: but not wine. drink whisky with your lobster. "and even tea and coffee could be slow to enter the country". https://t.co/X…
Fri, 16:49: RT @HardwareUnboxed: Nvidia have officially decided to ban us from receiving GeForce Founders Edition GPU review samples Their reasoning i…
Fri, 16:49: RT @HardwareUnboxed: @Artur_B91 This is a quote from the email they sent today "It is very clear from your community commentary that you do…
Fri, 16:53: Azure Functions fills in the gaps in servers used for customer VMs to get the utilisation up, which helps with sustainability; I've always assumed AWS Lambda does the same though @QuinnyPig told me he couldn't get AWS to tell him if that's what they do� https://t.co/HyU5G89xsF
Fri, 16:53: RT @SwiftOnSecurity: Just wrote my first job description. It fucking took three hours this shit is hard. Deleted the one they sent me and…
Fri, 16:54: RT @timnitGebru: Asking anyone contacting me about talks I committed to to tell me the date and time because this was booked on my work cal…
Fri, 16:54: RT @mmitchell_ai: @timnitGebru Nothing says "we value you" like treating you like your priorities and commitments have no value.
Fri, 16:55: RT @caro_milanesi: This is what I started telling myself a couple of years ago when I get asked to be on a panel. The first time they might…
Fri, 16:55: RT @le_roux_nicolas: .@renireni talks about how white feminism struggles with the concept of whiteness. And nearly all French people I tal…
Fri, 16:57: RT @rozina_ali: Today, the Supreme Court ruled 8-0 in Tanzin v Tanvir case, finding that Muslims who were put on the No-Fly list after they…
Fri, 17:02: some of this is that APIs go to a developer audience for whom adopting any new thing, API or not, usually means extra work even if it solves a problem for them; some of it is because it's just harder to 'see' API features until you do that work� https://t.co/YduhSgGZbB
Fri, 17:05: RT @briankardell: "the maximum number of stylesheets per page is an incredible 26,777 <style> elements and 1,379 remote ones!" From the st…
Fri, 17:06: RT @WindowsDocs: Two great pioneers of computer science had birthdays this week: Grace Hopper, Dec 9th, one of the first programmers of th…
Fri, 17:07: RT @ram_ssk: Hurdles for ML systems - economic inequality - bias - transparency - AI safety (manufacturing, autonomous vehicles) - basic g…
Fri, 17:07: RT @EricaJoy: being comfortable with admitting you were wrong is a muscle you have to build over time. if the world has told you for years…
Fri, 17:08: RT @LauraKalbag: 1. Accessibility: The government site for requesting coronavirus tests is using a third-party service (Google reCAPTCHA) t…
Fri, 17:08: RT @LauraKalbag: 2. Accessibility: A US service (Google reCAPTCHA) to shut out bots is asking visitors to the UK government website to iden…
Fri, 17:08: RT @LauraKalbag: 3. Privacy: A US-based third-party service (Google reCAPTCHA) is being embedded on the UK government’s website, sharing al…
Fri, 17:08: RT @LauraKalbag: 4. Privacy: A US-based third-party service (Google reCAPTCHA) is being embedded on the UK government’s website where peopl…
Fri, 17:09: RT @radiomorillo: 100%. It's a good reminder to all that possessing "technical" skills (and by technical many refer to coding skills/softwa…
Fri, 17:11: RT @EmporersNewC: @NJ_Timothy Ah yes, the food shortages caused by dock strikes. Let's hope we've not done something that is going to cause…
Fri, 17:12: RT @garius: In two months time we're all going to be spending 20% more money for our daily food and Gove/Mogg will be on TV saying: "See!…
Fri, 17:15: RT @martingund: NEW: Slovak data protection authority opens investigation into data flow from mobile apps to Venntel, a U.S. contractor of…
Fri, 17:15: RT @martingund: Also a questions abt resources: "If we were to catch everyone we suspected of breaking the rules, Europe's data protection…
Fri, 17:15: RT @martingund: US companies are also trying to slow down enforcement. Judin at the Norwegian DPA gives an example where they ask a US comp…
Fri, 17:16: RT @jasoncwarner: Very good dive into open source metrics and commercial success Not everything in open source is about commercialization…
Fri, 17:16: RT @_changxu: 2/ To understand adoption, Issues❗️growth is the most important, signaling much deeper engagement than Stars ⭐️. Growth stage…
Fri, 17:17: RT @_changxu: 4/ To understand contribution, Contributors growth is the most important—especially Serious Contributors (who have made >2 co…
Fri, 17:18: RT @MSFTResearch: The Algorithms group at MSR Redmond is hiring researchers who are passionate about advancing the state of the art in theo…
Fri, 17:18: RT @EssexBarrister: 🤯 @HMCTSgovuk it’s still happening. Why hasn’t every single employee been briefed that all they need to do is *ASK*…
Fri, 17:19: RT @dotnetfdn: Announcing a new working group looking at ways the Foundation can grow the .NET ecosystem. Details are here: https://t.co/N…
Fri, 17:20: RT @alex: what is great about this deal, if it bears out, is how contrarian it feels to me to bet this much on China rn as the country turn…
Fri, 17:20: RT @TheKaterTot: Have you told folks at work you appreciate them? Have you told the Slack lurker, the tech archivist, the idea cheerleader,…
Fri, 17:20: RT @john_lichfield: For instance….I’ve failed to notice this before myself (slap in face with wet cod) but the stats often quoted convenien…
Fri, 17:20: RT @john_lichfield: THUS…Taking all of the £1.7n worth of fish caught in the UK 200 miles zone in 2018…. UK boats caught 48% by value and 2…
Fri, 17:21: RT @john_lichfield: The weight/value discrepancy is because EU boats take big tonnages of low value fish we don’t bother with: horse macke…
Fri, 17:21: RT @john_lichfield: Hang on, you say, didn’t we read that the French get 92% of the cod and our brave boys and girls only 8%? Those figures…
Fri, 17:21: RT @john_lichfield: Elsewhere our boats do much better (although all cod are now in short supply). The relative UK-EU overall shares of cat…
Fri, 17:21: RT @john_lichfield: One more important figure to chew on….More than a third of the UK fishing industry by value is now shellfish (38% of to…
Fri, 19:39: I've been thinking about Excel as a programming language ever since Simon Peyton-Jones blogged about it in 2019; I kept the tab open for *months*. With LAMBDA arriving, I talked to @jones206 about making Excel a better programming language experience https://t.co/YdMuDZda1b
Fri, 21:00: RT @jones206: was great getting a chance to chat with @marypcbuk about all the improvements we’ve made to the @msexcel platform. -Arrays -…
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