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I've just realised that Community Fibre, my ISP, offers 5 Gb/s packages in some London addresses! I'm struggling to imagine a use case for such a high residential bandwidth. When I switched to 1 Gb/s I needed to upgrade my wifi router to actually take advantage.

Some excellent safety improvements in C++26: hardening the standard library against out-of-bounds bugs, and a safer semantics for uninitialised local variables:

In 2005 I was thinking about a career in tech. There was a best selling book called The World Is Flat that argued that you'd be competing with the entire world, including places with much lower living costs. I make a living writing code in London. What happened?