Culture wars work when you can convince the target audience that they are under threat. They work less well when your target has other worries & you banging on about whatever culture war you’ve l… (View Post)

Modern computing hardware is in fact ridiculously fast. Most of us are unaware of it, because computers don’t seem to have got quicker to the end user but, for parallelisable tasks like password hash… (View Post)

Scale matters. It seems to me that in this case things worked out mostly OK: a democratically elected government made the best decisions they could under the uncertain information they had at the tim… (View Post)

My understanding is that it this tends to happen when you want/need to support multiple sign-in systems & you don’t know which to offer until the user has entered their username. Some users might… (View Post)

This is, of course, why the moneybags that back certain Tory MPs are very concerned about wfh: it is devaluing city centre real estate. I am familiar with a number of companies that have greeted the … (View Post)