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It's time for Microsoft to have another XPSP2 moment. No more AI, no more features. Just fixes.
When I was working on Windows XP, Blaster hit. It was a big enough deal that we set aside all feature work.
For the next several months, all we did was improve security. We didn't add "security features"; we fixed bugs. Lots of bugs. Until there weren't security bugs to fix anymore.
Then we fixed the ones we didn't know about yet.
Put more simply, we stopped trying to "add value" to the product through features that PMs thought users would like, and instead we focused on the things that had been important for a long time, but overlooked.
Like performance and configurability today.
Rather than trying to improve and add value to the system through new AI features -now-, I argue it's time for Microsoft to stabilize, improve, and make the system more performant. And more usable for power users.
Just for one release. Just till it doesn't suck.
Jordan retweeted
NEW: we don’t reflect enough on how severe the housing crisis is, and how it has completely broken the promise society made to young adults.
The situation is especially severe in the UK, where the last time house prices were this unaffordable was in ... 1876.
Jordan retweeted
Does Global Britain have a runway?
Or why the UK’s growth performance is being undermined by not being able to physically land new investment and jobs.
Aka Swindon – a cautionary tale.
A🧵on @pmdfoster latest in the FT 1/x
ft.com/content/1d24743e-3ea3…
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Incredible footage. That UFO suddenly went into invisibility mode just as the wiper sweeps across, almost as though it knew the camera perspective would fool the cynics into believing it was just a speck of crud on the windscreen.
This is how confusing perspective mess with your mind.
First you see a falling rock or even a car, and then
teapawt.net/ConfusedImage/status/1…
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NIMBY Britain in one infuriating sentence.
From @s8mb’s excellent piece on the fundamental problems Britain must fix if it is to become a serious country and return to growth
thetimes.co.uk/article/why-h…
Jordan retweeted
Great thread.
Every local and state level politician, planner, and candidate in America needs to visit Japan.
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Jordan retweeted
Are UK firms using the cover of inflation to increase profit margins? This Bank of England chart implies that may be happening. It shows that inflation in goods prices normally tracks changes in input prices (PPI), with a two month lag. Recently however that relationship has broken down. Goods price inflation is still rising while input price inflation is falling. Later today we will here from the chancellor what he has asked regulators to do about this
Jordan retweeted
It's fine to have some quirky ceremonial national customs. But no modern country should have hereditary offices have anything to do with government.
Bookshelf by @vitalsource has to be the worst web software I’ve ever used.
-constant (& I mean CONSTANT) signing out & having to log back in
-randomly jumps to wrong page
-copying text often wont’t work
-no offline option
-pages slow to load
A web reader should’t be this bad!
Jordan retweeted
NEW:
Britain’s grim winter of strikes, falling incomes and a worsening NHS crisis is not some unfortunate series of events
It’s the inevitable result of a decade of Tory austerity that steadily weakened the state’s capacity to respond to shocks
enterprise-sharing.ft.com/re…
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NEW: income inequality in US & UK is so wide that while the richest are very well off, the poorest have a worse standard of living than the poorest in countries like Slovenia ft.com/content/ef265420-45e8…
Essentially, US & UK are poor societies with some very rich people.
A thread:
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Great British Rail Sale, aiming to sell a million train tickets at half price, turned into a Great British Rail... FAIL, as the website crashed.
cityam.com/great-british-rai…
Jordan retweeted
Angry at Boris?
Politics at the top is morally bankrupt, a collection of those who take votes for granted and us for fools.
We're promising new politics.
Join us here yorkshireparty.org.uk/member…
Jordan retweeted
Average household size in the UK is 2.4. So in other words we haven't built close to enough homes *anywhere* to account for population growth, *let alone* accounting for rising demand for space. Shocking.
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Very symbolic of the British state.
Years of refusal to spend moderate amounts which leads to spending a fortune for a second rate outcome.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-5…
Jordan retweeted
There is no engineer shortage.
Management and investors are gobbling the compensation needed to attrract engineers while attempting to flood markets from abroad by printing visas.
Interesting that this error in logic is impossible to remove. So simple, so wrong & so lucrative.
Jordan retweeted
It's completely beyond me why government thinks a levelling up speech where the main news line is "we won't stuff the south" is good politics. Most of the south had no idea the Tories might want to stuff them over. This morning's headlines totally counterproductive