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Brendon Boshell retweeted
Let me get this straight. Work all your life building a business. Sell that business to a rando - charged at 24%. Try to pass it on to your family - charged at 45%. Genuinely insane telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
The number of drivers stopping at a repeater traffic light, with no stop line, is becoming epidemic. Then they look at you like everyone else is in the wrong.
Brendon Boshell retweeted
It's crazy that there's a tool out there that's become vital to they way I do my job, parent my kids, and make major life decisions; and yet we barely spend more on it than AI
Brendon Boshell retweeted
A lot of things that Britain treats as sacrosanct are actually just Blairite inventions that haven't been around for very long.
Ofcom has only existed since 2003. The Supreme Court has only existed since 2009. The OBR has only existed since 2010.
Brendon Boshell retweeted
One of my favourite quotes, from when a British MP learnt that no other country in the world has a scheme like ours.
This @WSJ piece on the UK's runaway disability benefits is something else. Great color from @MaximColch & @davidluhnow
So apparently live streaming an execution is abhorrent, but posting videos of an autistic teenager being mauled to death by a tiger is fair game. What is wrong with this platform!?
Brendon Boshell retweeted
We are already seeing the effects of AI powered software development hit the economy
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Apple is really serious about iPhone Duo.
Starting April 2027, any apps or games submitted will need to include screenshots for iPhone Duo!!!
developer.apple.com/news/?id…
Brendon Boshell retweeted
Scoop: I have heard from a source familiar with the RAF Fairford story that the US feared a drone a attack similar to Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb last year which destroyed 10 Russian aircraft. They fear Iran might copy the tactics and that drones might even already be in UK, hence abrupt departure of B1s.
Brendon Boshell retweeted
They were surprised to learn that there was no life saving equipment in the… EXECUTION ROOM
There was no medical oxygen or mask in the execution chamber where Tennessee tried and failed to kill convicted murderer Christa Pike, which meant staff had to go and get it when things went wrong, according to a source who witnessed what happened. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/-me…
Brendon Boshell retweeted
that's a typo, right?
or what usecase am I missing where this can work?
I'm genuinely curious
we have this crazy key-value store at Cloudflare called Quicksilver
instantly updates keys across our whole network. microsecond reads from every location. stupid fast
our customers have asked us for years to make it available
we finally did – in a way we think is quite simple - as a new mode for Workers KV
Workers KV Instant
blog.cloudflare.com/workers-…
Brendon Boshell retweeted
Oh my god, Firebase’s SDK started to crash ALL iOS apps that were using it, for ALL sessions, just like that, no way for any of these apps to do anything…
How amateur is all of this from any SDK, but especially one from a company with as high of an engineering bar like Google…
github.com/firebase/firebase…
incase anyone has been wondering why their iOS apps are intermittently crashing since today morning 🙃
reminds me of the Facebook swizzling crash incident.
@Firebase pls help
RT @Express_Knowles: Well well well... I've just spoken to one of the owners of Fuel2U... They say that both of their vans are present in t…
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Brendon Boshell retweeted
A few observations from a week in London:
1/ The startup energy here is completely different than 10y ago. The level of risk taking, ambition, and talent has changed dramatically
2/ There remains a huge fintech opportunity here. Revolut, GoCardless, and many others were built on the incredible finance talent in London
3/ Their vision in building public transit infrastructure is peerless in the west
4/ London in good weather is probably the best city in the world
Brendon Boshell retweeted
I will say this: London + UK not being part of the EU (and thus not being as bound by regulation that slows down innovation) is a reason the UK's tech industry can pull away from the rest of Europe
Even if Europe decided to deregulate today, the opportunity cost is gone w eg AI
A few observations from a week in London:
1/ The startup energy here is completely different than 10y ago. The level of risk taking, ambition, and talent has changed dramatically
2/ There remains a huge fintech opportunity here. Revolut, GoCardless, and many others were built on the incredible finance talent in London
3/ Their vision in building public transit infrastructure is peerless in the west
4/ London in good weather is probably the best city in the world