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.

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.

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 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.
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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).

Does no-one read Knuth any more?

except apparently, for some reason, one episode - but I can't track that now

Hmmm - it is actually mentioned on the Wikipedia page.

Because ya, for 50 years of television, networks have been using canned laughter for no reason at all.

In the UK MASH was broadcast with no laughter track (except apparently, for some reason, one episode - but I can't track that now...).

Any time I see it with a laughter track it feels wrong. It never needed it (and why would there be an audience in the wilderness of Korea - or California?).

But, this reported experiment was done with bad jokes, which might well be relevant.

The sad part is there's no mention of this on mozilla.org or firefox.com. Users are left completely in the dark.

When I saw that various extensions had been disabled I noticed that each had link to "find an alternative" (or similar). Clicking that link took me to a page which had a banner at the top describing the issue and providing a link to a thread which provided the solution.
That took about two minutes...

Proselytizing notwithstanding, studies feature isn't available for Linux-based versions.

That's odd, as using precisely this method fixed the problem for me on Kubuntu19.04 this morning.