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@Samaytwt MSSQL (Microsoft SQL Server)

Be honest As a developer, which database is better in the AI era?

@thomasforth ITS BI. Foundry is a data platform with a lot of no/low code features, integrations etc. They the have a FWD deployed SWE work with the business or government entity to help bring all their data together to improve operational efficiency and achieve their goals.

A year ago I was on team "I don't know what Palantir does or why people pay them so much" despite quite a lot of effort to figure it out. In the last year I've made much more effort and got a decent understanding. So now I'm in a position to [content deleted on legal advice].

@mdubowitz Real People in the UK don’t want to be dragged into another war by US and Israel, our allies understand that, stop warmongering

Jordan was “fucking furious,” a former minister with friends in Amman says. “The Emiratis, Kuwaitis, and even the Canadians are all asking, ‘What the fuck are you doing? Whose side are you on?’” The Emiratis pointed out that Britain was failing to help protect the 240,000 British citizens living in Dubai and Abu Dhabi….Instead, some military assets were withdrawn. “The Cypriots are incandescent.”

@Loriagne2 It’s from 2025 🤦🏻‍♂️

UK becomes fastest-growing G7 economy after surprising growth thelondoneconomic.com/politics/uk-be…

@tomhfh Eating ultra processed food is bad for you, even if you aren’t obese

GLP-1s have literally cured obesity and yet the state is still meddling in markets with insane regulations like this one. They’re going to ban strawberries and cream and hot dogs from being shown in television adverts just as they’re banned on the tube. The war is over. Disarm.

@nikicaga bait and switch

What do you even do with an electorate like this

‘The rise of base, reflexive racism in this country is disturbing.’ @Lewis_Goodall hits back at social media accounts stoking talk of ‘civil war’ after quoting an unnamed ‘academic’.

@maxtempers Isn’t it just that the median salary is so low? In terms of purchasing power, it won’t be anywhere near the highest

The Times are finally on it too! The minimum wage is just too high in Britain, and in a zero productivity growth environment we are just collapsing pay differentials and compressing wages.

@BarackObama Obama’s words at the United Nations in 2012 sound like they were spoken for this very moment in our country. Such a far departure from how our current president ranted his way through the United Nations this week.

Nothing snarky to say about this. Just unambiguously good. Entire thing is an economic nuke

@diracsdaemon @Dawar_R @UiSavior Right? No one with a sane mind would want this to be replaced by a black box AI, the chart is logical and represents the users preferences

@Dawar_R @UiSavior “Just replace it with ai bro” We are dangerously close to the top of the bubble.

"Design is easy" This is how Slack decides when to send notifications.

It’s a testament to both the incompetency & petty authoritarianism of @HMCTSgovuk that they destroyed one of the most valuable artworks they own, but they did it so badly that you can still see the shadow of the work, which conveys its message perhaps even more powerfully than the original piece.

This Banksy, which appeared overnight on the side of the Royal Courts of Justice building in London, is extremely powerful.

@BladeoftheS 2008 was the peak boom before the bust, I don’t think it’s fair to use it as a benchmark

My advice to people, take I'm angry at people not being paid as badly as me. And turn it into, I'm angry at being paid badly. Median wage 2008 - £24,769 Median wage 2025 - £29,600 Inflation from 2008-2025 - 70.51%, your wage should be £42,231 We should all be angry.

Thank you Britain, truly an incredible tax system. Definitely couldn't be improved. (This is what's so annoying about the UK. There's so much low hanging fruit that could be picked (development regulation, basic infrastructure, tax system) that politicians just don't act on.)

@0x45o salt

why are ai data centers not under the water?

@meIisactu It’s funny people who voted for brexit complain about channel crossings, you get what you voted for, no more Dublin system

Genuinely think we’ve lost all sense of scale

@PolitlcsUK Why are we spending £9bn on carbon capture? Carbon capture does not meaningfully reduce CO2 emissions

🚨 SUMMARY: Rachel Reeves' Spending Review 🧑‍⚕️ NHS & Health – NHS spending will increase by 3% annually over the next 3 years, delivering an extra £29bn a year, including £10bn for digital and tech upgrades 🏠 Housing: – £39bn invested in social housing in England over 2026–2036, nearly doubling the current annual funding from £2.3bn to £3.9bn 🏫 Education: - Core schools budget in England to go up by £4.5bn a year by 2029, plus £2.3 bn/year for fixing classrooms and £2.4bn to rebuild 500 schools - £370m for school-based nurseries and £555m for children’s social care -£1.2 bn over three years for apprenticeships & post-school training - Free school meals will be extended to around 500,000 more children with parents on Universal Credit, costing £1bn out of the £4.5bn schools budget increase by 2029 - Extra £615m this year to partially fund a 4% pay rise for teachers in England, with schools expected to fund a quarter of the rise through "improved productivity" via AI - Universities and high-tech industries will get a boost in research and development, with it rising to £22bn per year during Spending Review 🤖 AI: - £2bn for AI action plan to support "home-grown AI" 🪖 Defence, Crime and Justice: - £11bn real-terms rise in defence spending - £15bn for nuclear warhead programme - £7bn for military housing and £6bn for munitions - £280m/year to tackle small boats and £400m/year for asylum system reforms, with a promise to end use of hotels by 2029 - Police spending to rise by an average of 2.3% per year in real terms - £7bn allocated until 2029 to help build 14,000 new prison places in England and Wales by 2031 - £700m/year for probation reforms 📈 Transport, Energy & Environment: - £15.6bn for local transport in English city regions for 2027 and 2031 - £2.3bn for other regional transport projects - £2.5bn for East-West Rail (Oxford–Cambridge) - Upgrades confirmed for Cardiff Central, TransPennine Route, and Midlands Rail Hub – Plans for Northern Powerhouse Rail to be set out in the coming weeks - £3 cap on single bus fares in England extended until March 2027 - Nuclear: £14.2bn for Sizewell C nuclear plant, £2.5bn for small modular reactors, and £9.4bn for Scottish carbon capture – Treasury to update the rules used to evaluate proposed infrastructure projects 🫂 Community: - Funding for up to 350 communities, prioritising deprived areas, to improve parks, youth facilities, and tackle graffiti/fly-tipping - no details yet - New Growth Mission Fund to back overlooked local projects like Southport Pier and Peterborough’s sports quarter 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Devolved Nations: - Scotland: £52bn (£2.9bn extra on average, with 20% higher per capita spend than England) - Wales: £23bn (£1.6bn extra on average, also 20% more per capita) - Northern Ireland: £20bn (£1.2bn extra on average, 24% more per capita) 📈 Budgets going up (real terms): - Science & Tech: +7.4% - NHS England: +3.0% / Health & Social Care: +2.8% – Defence: +0.7% / Intelligence Services: +3.7% – Justice: +1.8% / Law Officers: +1.4% – Local Government: +1.1% / Spending Power +2.6% – HMRC: +0.7% – Education: +0.7% / Core Schools: +0.4% – Energy & Net Zero: +0.5% – Police Core Spending: +1.7% - Aslyum: +0.4% – Work & Pensions: +0.4% 📉 Budgets going down (real terms): – Foreign Office (FCDO): –6.9% – Transport: -5% – Environment & Rural Affairs: -2.7% – Business & Trade: -1.8% – Home Office: –1.7% / Housing & Communities: –1.4% – Culture, Media & Sport: -1.2% Reeves says the Spending Review was "zero-based" - meaning departmental budgets were built from scratch, not existing levels, to ensure every pound delivered value for money The Spending review lifts total capital investment by +7.3%, while everyday spending rises ~0.7% per year

@Jase7768 @jdpoc @IsthatyouMick But base salary is different to bonuses. Bonuses incentivise short term wins for investors, such as rewards for giving massive dividends. Base salary provides more of a long term incentive for success.

@jdpoc @IsthatyouMick John they have got around it by giving massive rises in hourly pay, top dog south west water had a smashing pay rise on the sly whilst ‘turning down bonus as it wasn’t good look”

The Right Wing dominated media won't tell you this, but Labour have already delivered on 33 Manifesto Promises. Far from perfect, mistakes made, sure, but slowly getting it done, with no drama, Russian cash or vomit parties.