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Personally I find this feature works 50% of the time, and I don’t understand why.

> 90% of our time should be spent thinking, and most of that reading I don’t know if that’s accurate for most of us, who are simply humble CRUD app developers.

> In my neck of the woods, Vancouver, Canada, nothing happened to radio. The last sports radio station in Vancouver literally closed this month!

About half of social housing in London is headed by people born outside of the country. Social housing is quite rare in the UK now after 1980s mass privatization started. It is pro…

Yes, I remember React Native being quite painful before Expo! Upgrading from one version to the next especially so. Expo seems to shield you from a lot of issues, without really ta…

Yes for any slightly non-standard web UI components I either tell the LLM to search the web and find examples or I provide them myself. Usually the ones I provide myself are better…

https://archive.is/pFoYO

You're right, I should! Main blocker is I am using apps like Conductor and have lots of plates spinning at once. But that's on, me and I should try and start completing the last pa…

One of the reasons they exhaust me, is that it's always "one more prompt" to get a UI correct. It's often just slightly off, but it can take 5-10 mins sometimes to rework something…

What would Firefox need to do to make a comeback as a web browser? Obviously this is not it, but what could really work? I am required to use Chrome at work. I enjoy using Safari p…

Immigrating to Canada was a breeze for decades until the last 2-3 years when they started to reduce immigration numbers in response to citizen concerns.

They campaigned on reducing the net figure to below 100,000 in the 2019 election. Instead they took it from 185,000 to 950,000. After that, they are now polling at all time lows (1…

There has never been a British election where the majority votes cast have been for parties that pledged to increase immigration. I take your FPTP point, but when has the winning p…

I didn’t suggest either of those things. Like I said I’m not voicing my personal opinion. But we can look at the polling data going back decades now on this issue. People were not …

A) people had an issue with immigration when it was mostly from the EU as well, one of the main drivers of Brexit B) leaving the EU did not mean that non-EU migration had to go up …

https://archive.is/8ATqS Had to change the title a little to make it fit the character length.

I don’t know if that’s true for most of us, who simply work in CRUD apps. Maybe I’m in a bubble though.

Only 5% of your time is spent writing code? That sounds like a low estimate for most software engineers I work with. May I ask if you could estimate how you spend the other 95% of …

I believe it’s tied to your earnings in the US though, which it isn’t in the UK. I also have a number of qualifying years in the UK when I didn’t work, and for decades you could bu…

There’s a reconciliation dimension that complicates that framing, at least in BC.

Yes, far better than how the UK runs its state pension system. The Australians seem to have the best model overall though. Mandatory payments in to private investments has made the…