An update on this... Public Health England picked the XLS file format when saving the spreadsheets rather than the more superior XLSX file format...

What the actual fuck

Full story if you wish to read

Excel: Why using Microsoft's tool caused Covid-19 results to be lost https://bbc.co.uk/news/...

@TheBeardedOne I would expect better solutions than an excel spreadsheet, like a database for example

@Demolishun unsure but it’s quite possible. All that was said is that the excel spreadsheet powered the government dashboard

it’s unknown, but it’s cited as “a technical issue in excel’s data load process”

@SortOfTested I've used angular in the past and I do like it, I may have to give it another go. Thanks for the suggestion

@guitargirl15 nice, 2 results, and both of them are actually relevant

Swapping the words around to “laravel scout meilisearch” worked, and I’ve just tried it again and it works on google now

But humans make mistakes every now and then

Same query on bing, bye bye google

@mElonMusk I should have seen that a mile off 🤣🤣🤣

I need sleep...

Best merge conflict is where it can’t merge blank, indented lines. I’ve had so many of those with readme’s. it’s like git can’t be fucked

@SortOfTested I’ll just add that it lighthouse can be integrated into a CI pipeline 😄, just wish I could add it to laravel dusk

@ScriptCoded thanks for the tip, I’ve just looked at the size at both and I think I’ll switch 😂

I’ve developed with both Angular and react and Angular’s router is very good as it handles basic navigation, plus you can intercept requests which is a handy feature

However react’s router is garbage and a nightmare to work with and honestly wouldn’t recommend it

@QuanticoCEO niiiice, I’m waiting until I can no longer get any macOS updates for my Mac and then I’ll upgrade my Mac to Apple Silicon. I can’t wait to see what performance they can deliver along with battery life.

@PlatinumFire I actually have to agree with @QuanticoCEO in terms of quality, I’ve had the same entry level MacBook Pro for 6 years, that can’t be said for some of the people I know who have gone through 2-3 windows laptops costing minimum £600 - £800 each in the same amount of time.

And yes, they may be inferior to other laptops in some areas, in terms of software development, I have to download very little to start developing, whereas on Windows it’s a massive headache that’s can waste so much time

@VaderNT I'm sorry I said "truth", I should of said "In my opinion". All I'm saying is that in my opinion Apple currently understand what a good UI needs to look and feel like. I use a Mac and an iPhone on a daily basis.

Microsoft knew what a good UI was from Windows 95 all the way up until Windows XP where I still consider XP to be the best Windows UI ever created. From Windows Vista onwards it's not been brilliant apart from Windows 7, albeit a reskin of vista, with the lowest point being Windows 8. There was a point where Microsoft did try and copy Apple, but that's a whole other debate

@VaderNT I'm just pointing out the truth, if you look at Apple's icons, they have been largely the same apart from the design language that has been used.

The only big change was macOS Yosemite when Apple aligned the design language in line with iOS, but that made switching between macOS and iOS easier as the icons were more or less the same on both platform which creates a seamless user experience.

Microsoft have always changed icon sets with pretty much every major upgrade and some of the core icons have had fundamental changes which can cause confusion amongst some users.

Some of Microsoft's icon changes are half baked as well as Microsoft will update half the icons in one update, or update icons online first 3 months before an OS update, etc... plus Microsoft design language is all over the place atm it seems they gave up with their "fluent design framework" some time ago.

Google and Android are probably the worst though, Gmail settings and the Play Store are good examples.

At least Apple have kept some of their original design with their icons to keep them recognizable, whereas Microsoft change the entire icon every time and almost always when they bring a major update to their office software.

We already have a better language than JS, it's called TypeScript. Browsers just need native support, and yes, I know TS is based on JS, but TS is more robust in terms of language design

Is that a bad thing though, they’ve demoed what shadow of the tomb raider and dirt rally can look like on an A12Z bionic chip, admittedly not looking great by PC gaming standards, but it opens up so much potential that with enough work, modern games can run on ARM chips or Apple Silicon anyway

@PlatinumFire Rosetta 2??? I know that will work for the meantime, but it’s a start.

Besides adobe and Microsoft have already got their software working natively on Apple silicon and a 2 year transition period is good enough for all the decent apps to move across anyway

@SortOfTested & @QuanticoCEO I do believe that Apple would have to pay Intel or AMD (can’t remember which) some sort of licensing fee to produce x86-64 processors and we all know Apple is not about that life.

The only software I am really concerned about is my JetBrains suite, Docker and the various packages I install from brew

I have to agree with @detrin, it does give Apple more control over their entire ecosystem.

At least they are doing something to be compatible with Apple silicon processors in regards to Rosetta 2, I don’t think Microsoft did anything like that when they announced the Surface Pro X.

@dontknowshit it's more file read performance with WSL2 I've got an issue with as I did a NodeJS build in a container and it took ~5mins to complete vs ~40sec in WSL/Legacy Hyper-V

@Jilano I've been able to try out WSL and WSL2 as I couldn't really use a preview build. The performance is no better if I'm honest, if anything I think Windows with virtualisation is poor in my opinion as I've been having issues with any VM I run in general

My daily driver is my iPhone XS Max, not had an issue with it. I guess you could jailbreak it, never tried myself

My dev phone is my OnePlus 5T, it’s fast, not had an issue with it. There should be some custom roms for the more recent models, the 5T isn’t that great for them

Yeah, raid 1 is redundancy. The best backup solution is to have a backup of your data in 3 locations minimum 120m apart from each other, but who has the time for that

@EmberQuill Yay, I also have ADHD so I’m glad It’s not just me

@kamen apparently so, there is also an option to auto close tabs older than 30 days in the settings as well I think

@IntrusionCM Lazyness?!?! Actually I can’t argue against that 🤣

I genuinely don’t do it on purpose, whenever I do a we search on my phone, i always open a new tab. All I wanted was my audible tab in that list which had some books in a cart