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iRobot is now Chinese-owned.

Yet the current word list apparently doesn't include "Irish" (even though Welsh, Scots and Brits are all valid). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


> That's also a lesson on how a closed economy (and open ones too, to some extent) can collapse based on a single actor controlling the rules. That's fair to learn.

A timely lesson!


Exactly! If you think about it, every meteorite has passed through 36,000 feet at some point!


ISWYDT. :-)


Likely linked to other recent arrests in the UK: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/19/scattered_spider_teen...


We've had a serious problem with policy-making in this country for a loooooong time, stretching right back to when RIPA was drafted, nearly three decades ago.

With a few notable exceptions, the level of knowledge, expertise and understanding amongst government advisers and policy makers is abysmally low. c.f. https://jackgavigan.com/2015/11/23/how-well-advised-was-the-...


Apparently set to become a movie, starring Liam Neeson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Storage_(film)


Maybe it’s time to revert to Javascript’s original name: LiveScript.


Revert it to a Lisp too


What, "JavaThcript"?


JavaScript is not Lisp.


It was meant to be


I love the concept. I think the trick to being successful with a project like this is cracking the user experience in a way that makes it powerful enough to be truly useful, while keeping it simple enough that a child can build (scr)apps (c.f. Super Mario Maker).

Making it possible to lookup and store data in a spreadsheet (maybe using something like the Google Sheets API) could unlock a huge amount of use cases.

I'll be watching this project with interest!


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