Interesting Links for 17-08-2021
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andrewducker- Scottish pubs are running out of beer
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- Software development culture done right
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- Internet revamp for the humble UK landline
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- Why does vaccine breakthrough happen? And why just in the throat?
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- Edinburgh's first fully electric double decker buses arrive
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- Retail giant Hobby Lobby loses dogged 11-year battle to ban trans woman from bathroom
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- MasterCard to start phasing out magnetic stripes in 2024
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- Apple are just awful (this time: keyboard apps)
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- Some transphobes just lost a court case against the EHRC - here's the judgement explained
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- The rabbi who was also a priest
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- microCOVID Project - estimating risk levels of various activities
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- UK To Increase Aid Spending On Afghanistan By 10% After Cutting It By 78%
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Date: 2021-08-17 05:13 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2021-08-17 05:21 pm (UTC)7. I just hope they don't phase out magnetic stripes entirely so long as my unemployment insurance benefit card has no chip.
10. Twitter wouldn't let me read more than 6 posts of "The rabbi who was also a priest" without signing up.
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Date: 2021-08-17 11:49 pm (UTC)Oh, ***hurray***! ^_^
Electric buses are great, running a bus on
solar power/wind power/wave power
is so much better than petrol buses,
both for local air pollution [asthma, heart disease]
and for climate change...
Are the electric double decker buses wheelchair accessible?
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Date: 2021-08-20 12:26 am (UTC)Software development culture done right
Date: 2021-08-24 04:57 pm (UTC)I dislike the way that the Twitter thread equates "sprint" with "deathmarch", which shows just how badly Agile has been corrupted. One of the absolute tenets of XP (where Agile came from in the first place) was 9 to 5 -- the one company I've worked at that really took Agile seriously absolutely forbade overtime. And not coincidentally, it was the most solidly successful, crisis-free, reliably productive team I've ever worked with.
But the main point of that thread: yeah, I feel it so much. As an IC in my mid-50s I'm downright unusual, and it's frustrating as hell...