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William P retweeted
29 Jun 2019
Welsh Affairs Select Committee
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William P retweeted
15 Jun 2019
#OnThisDay in 1215 #MagnaCarta was agreed to by King John. As part of our 800th anniversary work in 2015 we used #microscopy to assess the ink's condition britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk…
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openjdk11 not working on @travisci, apparently because of a TLS cert issue. stackoverflow.com/questions/… @OpenJDK
William P retweeted
10 Apr 2019
really good days are when an astronomical discovery is made. the BEST days are when a woman is behind that discovery—and getting her due credit.
this is Katie Bouman, and she created the algorithm that produced the first ever image of a black hole.
#EHTBlackHole
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William P retweeted
27 Mar 2019
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William P retweeted
26 Mar 2019
A massive problem for the government appears to be that there has been a shit in opinion since 2016.
26 Mar 2019
British Social Attitudes Survey author Prof John Curtice: its results, corroborated by polls “is enough to raise doubts about whether, two and half years after the original ballot, leaving the EU necessarily continues to represent the view of a majority of the British public”
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William P retweeted
21 Mar 2019
For those who might, for a moment, think to complain about the Petitions site having a moment, consider this, the two next most popular petitions have 784 and 583 signatures per hour (normal load). The Article 50 revocation one had 92,688 in the last hour (abnormal load).
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William P retweeted
15 Mar 2019
This is how to respond to such an unspeakable act. Reaffirm the values that the terrorists hate. Tell them their victims are the heart of what is best in your country & communities, & the haters will never be. #TheyAreUs
"You may have chosen us but we utterly reject and condemn you."
New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Arden is giving a press conference after shootings at two mosques in Christchurch.
Follow live updates on this breaking story here: po.st/8PIXQr
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William P retweeted
No Deal equals no EU orphan works directive equals withdrawal of Spare Rib digital archive. Thanks to @PollyRussell1 for teasing this out. So many of our rules/processes around data rely on EU legislation. I expect to see more of these stories as the precipice nears.
19 Feb 2019
My goodness - even open access to the digitized Spare Rib Archive is imperilled by No Deal: Social Science blog shar.es/ampH2V
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Maisie and I blogged about opening up the Verify source code - gdstechnology.blog.gov.uk/20…
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William P retweeted
7 Feb 2019
Shout out to all ID-KAARTS worldwide! Dutch identity card, Belgian identity card, and Estonian identity card.
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William P retweeted
7 Feb 2019
We've open sourced ClusterFuzz, the software behind OSS-Fuzz, a continuous fuzzing service we offer for free to open source projects.
OSS-Fuzz has uncovered 11,000 bugs in over 160 projects so far. Now anyone can integrate fuzzing into their workflow! opensource.googleblog.com/20…
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