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That’s because big developers drip feed the houses onto the market…

Agreed, Thats why the planning system needs to change.

If you dump 100 new houses onto a small town you will cause a crash. My town has a population of 15000 people, ~250 houses are sold per year and there is a development with permiss…

They get away with drip feeding because there’s no competition, because it’s really hard to get permission. A simpler planning system would allow smaller developers to operate and …

Coming up with good French grammar quizzes. GPT5.6 is noticeably better. Older models usually pitch the difficulty too hard/easy and rely on me remembering the gender of words. I’v…

Agreed. All racism is wrong. Would you like to take back your “And rightfully so” comment, where you support explicitly racist laws?

There are lots of white South Africans. I believe musk is one. Starlink is majority owned by a South African. The law isn’t about foreign/doneatic. It’s about black/white. Increasi…

Good programmers write code that’s so simple and obvious it looks like anyone could have written it. Bad programmers make the simplest things really complicated.

Installing AC feels like admitting defeat. 30 years ago we thought we could stop this thing. Our world leaders came together, listened to scientists and agreed targets. Sadly we fa…

> Most people should have learned at a young age that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. I’m fairly sure that there are no lions in my house. Lions are quite large and…

Guidance in the UK is that you always attempt CPR with children and continue it until you get to hospital. This is mostly for the family. They have the knowledge that you did every…

I think there will be a 50%-80% reduction in social media use by teens. This is good enough. There will always be people who get round the ban.

If you are unable to empathise with people who support the ban and dismiss them (and me) as idiots then your political action is unlikely to be successful. Every dad I know who wor…

You’re taking my argument to it’s extreme and giving it the least charitable interpretation. I want it to not be normal to spend all day on TikTok. If something is illegal and unde…

Most parents will take that over letting HS Tikky Tokky have access to their 14 year old boy.

These laws exist because social media is extremely damaging to children, destroying their attention, exposing them to online bullying and extortion, and showing them horrific and t…

CPAP machines require a prescription in the UK. https://www.hope2sleep.co.uk/cpap-machines-sleep-apnoea.html Amazon is breaking the law by shipping one to you. I suspect there is v…

My experience with this is that contract is usually better paid than perm, so when it comes time to convert to perm I am not willing to take the pay cut so I go contract somewhere …

Because that would be a big pay cut for the friend. Contract day rates are higher than FTE day rates.

Solution for who? Everyone with power in this situation wants to keep the building valuations artificially inflated. If local people want shops on their high street then the only r…

Loan to Value (LTV) is a percentage that tells you how safe a loan is. You divide the amount of the loan by the value of the building. So if I buy a building for 10 million with a …

Cool idea, I tapped the vehicles / heavy equipment tabs expecting to be taken to listings. Nothing happened. Maybe these should all take you to a page that lets you sign up to see …

Genuine question, why is this a tell? It looks like good dramatic writing to me.

I like the Single responsibility part of SOLID. It makes the code much easier to reason about. The Liskov Substitution principle is also super important. Subclasses should fully re…