const int one = 65536;

This will be so that the can write:

fvar = var*one;
var = fvar/one;

and it's then clear that they aren't changing the magnitude.

MacOS works just fine with multiple buttons

Perhaps I should have said Apple. I believe they still supply a one-button mouse? Similarly a PC laptop will just have a 2-button touchpad. So I have a 3-button (well, 7 actually) mouse that I use with it so that I can be more productive. It would be more useful if people advertized what these features are, rather than turn them off.

As has been noted, cut&paste using just the mouse is a big productivity tool. But Windows doesn't have it (and MacOS doesn't even have the concept of multiple buttons) so lets all sink to the highest common factor so that everyone can suffer. Just like the KDE people removing shading (another extremely productive feature) just because it doesn't seem to be part of Wayland.

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56% vs 42% in America?

Misses the real point, which is that apparently there is another 12%.
Making a total of 110%.

Was this written by AI?

Guess what AI says: While high by UK historical standards, these levels are described as "middling" when compared to other advanced economies.

Then imagine getting coverage of your report in the Sun, Times, Daily Mail, Daily Express and Spectator. Sound impossible?

Not at all with that list of papers. They'll print anything that backs up their (right-wing) agenda. Their view on Net Zero is that it's not freedom to do whatever you want, so is wrong.

They need to call in The Bee Gees

This story has nothing to do with Brexit

Yes it does, as without Brexit the UK government couldn't have made this decision.

Mind you, I can see why they aren't thinking of implementing it. It will just happen anyway as manufacturers are unlikely to provide other connectors just for the UK.

In my experience the I/O in WSL is very slow.

if you are performing a task with lots of disk activity it may take something like 7 times as long as doing it in "real" Linux.

For the task I benchmarked this on it would have been quicker to install Linux from scratch on an external USB drive then run it there, rather than just run it on a pre-existing WSL instance.

Sounds like the story of aeroplanes during WWII.

People were looking at where the ones that got back had been shot and so decided to add more armour there.

Until someone pointed out that these had got back - so it was the ones that were shot elsewhere on the fuselage that had been shot down and hence the place to increase the armour was where those that returned had not been shot.

With the Windows Subsystem for Linux, developers no longer need to dual-boot a Windows and Linux system

They do if they want to get reasonable I/O throughput.

I have a script to produce a set of icons and it takes ~10 times longer to run under the Windows Subsystem for Linux than on "real" Linux (this is on the same physical hardware). The stats indicate the problem is all in the I/O subsystem.

Anyone who thinks that the Windows Subsystem for Linux is a good way to run Linux is missing a great deal on the actual power of Linux.

I disable the webcam on my laptop at startup by a script that poweris it off if it is on (this is on Linux, and it shows up as a USB camera).

I can get it back by using the keyboard switch (Fn+F10) and since it's appearing on USB it's automatically detected and enabled.

You don't defrag ram, so why the hell would you defrag an SSD ?!?!?!?!

As I recall, when you run "defrag" it actually performs a TRIM (and says that is what it is doing).

...Try opening a CSV file with a value of MAR1. Try reformatting it before it gets corrupted.
...
And it is merciless on leading zeros in CSV files. I have hated Excel's data arrogance since the dBase days. "Did you edit this DBF in Excel? The dates are all corrupted."

LibreOffice lets you mark all of the fields as Text on importing a *.csv file. This keeps leading zeroes (and MAR1 is left alone by default).