America has recently done a huge amount to undermine faith in its own democracy, and that has been gleefully spread around the world. Absent any evidence. It's gross.

You know, I don't give a shit about that, that's fine. Recommend me some stuff to watch, I'm here to watch stuff, I might even like what you're punting and give it a go. I might have forgotten there's a new season of whatever it is. I even quite like some of the inline recommendation stuff.

What made me switch to App-only mode was that ads started appearing for general consumer products. So this writeup is interesting, if/when they make app-only mode advertise shampoo at me I'll probably have a go with that launcher.

Yeah, for five minutes you needed to use a specific style, very specific language patterns and what have you, in order to get results that were a cut above. But then the models and the harnesses got better and that moment passed.

Congrats on the weight loss (genuinely), but it’s very unlikely seed oils are any sort of factor in themselves.

Oh dear, someone gets their health advice from streamers and podcasters rather than actual health professionals.

The seed oil thing is nonsense.

> Eating clean proper ruminant meat will not be bad for you

Eating too much beef is bad for you in a variety of ways, it's associated with high blood pressure and high cholesterol, cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.

It's frickin' delicious, but it's not some panacea superfood, quite the opposite.

I first read it a long time ago, and it's looking more and more prescient. Not the specific tech, in fact it probably feels prescient because it doesn't talk about any particular tech, but the direction of travel feels very familiar.

Incidentally I now live in Australia...

If one doesn't have to watch ones spouse, friends and family grow old and die, because it is available widely, that removes some of your objections.

Personally I don't subscribe to the idea that things lose meaning in a longer life, I find it a 'just so' story of self comfort in the face of the inevitable.

Programmers are a mixed bag, some hate it, some love it. Even those that hate it see that they're going to be outcompeted if they don't embrace it.

Programming can be art, I truly agree. But we're not being paid to create art, we're being paid to produce a result. If someone else can do it faster or better using AI, they'll get the contract.

We can still create art in our own time.

> Slop is slop, no matter the medium.

Claude produces better code than my juniors used to (actually a non-trivial number of alleged 'seniors' too), now their contributions are better because they use claude. How we ensure they understand what they're doing and grow is an open question, but 'slop' it unfortunately is not.

It’s not free for the business either. Businesses doing cash discounts are quite likely not reporting all of their sales IMHO, so it’s better for them because they can dodge taxes.

Would have taken permanent BST in a heartbeat. There's little so depressing as getting out of work into the dark for months at a time, IMHO.

I remember being vaguely on board with the a radical proposal that did the rounds about 20 years ago there - Single winter, Double summer. Keep changing the clocks but shift the whole thing an hour later so we got lighter evenings.

Obviously there would be some retraining and a period as an apprentice, and honestly I’m not sure I could afford that, but if we downsized the house maybe.

But mostly I’m posting here because this article is a pile of crap.

It uses pre-AI figures to try to assure us that post-AI the trades will still pay less than jobs for college graduates. That’s the whole point, duh, that things are changing.

Massive protectionism.

Maybe it was just something about the South of England though eh?

I get great review results (as good or better than colleagues using superpowers or even adversarial review skills) just by asking Claude to review a PR and spit out results in order of severity.

It's a bit old-web now (on flickr! ancient history!) but they have a lot of good ones - https://www.flickr.com/groups/facesinplaces/pool/

And even put out a book a while back.

I like this horrified house - https://www.flickr.com/photos/chelsea_steve/55448046101/in/p...

Only if they travel to ICC jurisdiction countries will anything actually occur.

Bush, Obama and Biden wanted to keep the US out of it. Trump wants to destroy it.

The US isn't subject to it, as it didn't sign up, but he's probably also worried that Americans who are accused of war crimes and then travel to countries which are signatories may find themselves arrested and tried.